Word: virtualization
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...TIME.com Q&A, TIME Silicon Valley correspondent Chris Taylor takes a look at the latest phase in the battle for virtual tunes...
...brother ridding his real estate of ghosts with the aid of a flashlight and vacuum cleaner; great game play aside, it's an excuse to show off the GameCube's spectacularly realistic lighting effects. Similarly, the hugely entertaining jet-ski game Wave Race has made an art form of virtual H2O; its foam and raindrops on the camera lens will have you reaching for a towel...
...Squadron II. Replicating the climactic canyon-run sequence in Star Wars, designers created a Death Star that looked embarrassingly more realistic than the 1977 movie model. "I thought, 'My God, I hope Lucasfilm doesn't get mad at us,'" says director Brett Tosti. To save George Lucas' blushes, the virtual version has been fixed to look as plastic as the original...
...knew a man - short, bald, of undetectable charm - who was a virtual bigamist. He had a wife and family in the suburbs and something of the same arrangement, though without benefit of clergy, in town. He lived a complex double life - a secret agent in his own existence, half of him a stranger to the other half. Which was perhaps his way of keeping himself amused. He often had to eat two dinners: once, in early evening after work, with his in-town woman, and a few hours later - after "working late at the office" - with his wife. No wonder...
...just as overrun by Quadlings for lunch as Adams ever was, but no one sees us starting a war. Why? Perhaps it is because Adams and Pforzheimer Houses have open e-mail lists, which served as the staging ground in the all-out fight for dining hall rights. Virtual community builds real community; more Houses should take up the cue, either with e-mail or Web-based House forums...