The concept was overstated in the 1990s when Phillip Swann " wrote in TV. com: How Television is Shaping Our Future: ‘ Few viewers today can sit through an entire program without picking up the remote and checking out another channel.

The first applies to the concept of barbarians, a periodic foe that all players must work together to defend against.

Tweet does not plan any expansions for the game, although it received a warm reception from Gamma World fans and players new to the concept alike.

" Another important feature of Doom was that it allowed players to create their own modifications, maps, and software for the game, thus expanding the concept of game authorship.

Some take this concept further by creating E-feds ( electronic federations ), where a user can create their own fictional wrestling character, and roleplaying storylines with other users, leading to scheduled " shows " where match results are determined by the organizers, usually based on a combination of the characters ' statistics and the players ' roleplaying aptitude, sometimes with audience voting.

The memory buffer concept introduced by MiniDisc was soon incorporated into portable CD players as well, and in hard drive based digital audio players.

In game theory, the Nash equilibrium ( named after John Forbes Nash, who proposed it ) is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only his own strategy unilaterally.

The modern game-theoretic concept of Nash Equilibrium is instead defined in terms of mixed strategies, where players choose a probability distribution over possible actions.

The concept is obviously present in xiangqi ( Chinese chess ), where an " X " is drawn on the game board, in front of both players ' general and advisors.

He introduced the concept of the shootaround, where players would arrive at the arena early in the morning before a game to practice shots.

In 2008, Borders opened 14 concept stores nationwide, which included a Digital Center, offering select electronic devices such as MP3 players, digital photo frames, and the Sony Reader.

The hidden immunity idol has been a source of debate between fans, as some feel it adds a layer of excitement to the game and allows alliances to flip by taking out power players, while others feel it interferes with the game's core concept and allows for cheap eliminations, especially if the next highest vote-getter only received 1 or 2 votes.

What made Silent Hunter II into a revolutionary concept was that it was not only playable on-line with or against other U-boats, but also against destroyers that were controlled by players of Destroyer Command, a title also released by Ubisoft.

The concept is also mentioned as a strategy for market action in economics to get the most out of the players in a competitive market.

' Additionally, in a variant of the same concept, the term " dodgeball " is sometimes used to describe a situation in which an individual is caught between two untenable positions, in a reference to the version of the game in which players from the same team can surround opposing players from two opposite sides.

The concept of zugzwang ( as distinguished from the word ) must have been known to players many centuries earlier, since it is necessary to win the elementary king and rook versus king endgame, among others.

Andy Soltis notes that many players do not appreciate zugzwang, thinking that it is an obscure concept that never occurs in their games.

The concept of zugzwang, if not the term, must have been known to players for many centuries.

Because of the one-sidedness of the game, many fans and hockey insiders considered options on how to make the All-Star Game more balanced, including one where the All-Star Game was eliminated altogether in favour of a best-of-nine Stanley Cup Final with the proceeds of two of the games going to the players ' pension fund, and one which saw a Canadian Teams vs. American Teams format ( a somewhat-flawed concept in that nearly all NHL players of the era, whether playing for teams representing U. S. or Canadian cities, were Canadians ).

The games interacted with each other: players could begin with any of the three titles and have the actions of the first game affect the story of the other two, a concept conceived by Okamoto.

It was also arguably the first racing game to implement " rubber banding " to ensure that less talented players were never too far behind the leader, a concept that would be taken much further by the Mario Kart series.

Stratford was preferred to the alternative, which would have involved street running trams and was at variance with the concept of a fully automated railway.

The Reason for Antisemitism, and radio commentator, has published an on-going 19-part series explaining and promoting the concept of Judeo-Christian culture, running for three years from 2005 to 2008, reflecting the interest of this concept to his listeners.

Instead of DPS's concept of allowing PS to interact with C programs, NeWS instead extended PS into a language suitable for running the entire GUI of a computer.

Known for penning concept suites and songs inspired by literature, music fan opinions of his writing have varied greatly, running the gamut from cerebral and insightful to pretentious and preachy.

" Many contemporary men's journals ( e. g., The Days ' Doings ) published sexualized images of the pair running their firm ( although they did not participate in the day-to-day business of the firm ), linking the concept of publicly minded, un-chaperoned women with ideas of " sexual immorality " and prostitution.

When the MSO was initially formed in 1997, the board running it included David Levy, Tony Buzan, and Raymond Keene, David Levy being the original founder of the MSO concept.

The concept of a wrestling supercard was nothing new in North America ; the NWA had been running Starrcade a few years prior to WrestleMania, and even the elder McMahon had marketed large Shea Stadium cards viewable in closed-circuit locations.

This was the birth of a new concept, a group of separate numbers — regardless of their running time — put together in a single presentation.

These starters also worked as generators once the engine was running, a concept that is now being revived in hybrid vehicles.

Drawbars were appropriate to the dawn of mechanization, because they were very simple in concept and because as the tractor replaced the horse, existing horse-drawn implements usually already had running gear.

Published in 1738 by Woodfall and running for 258 pages, the second edition of de Moivre's book introduced the concept of normal distributions as approximations to binomial distributions.

Another concept explored in science fiction is the idea of more than one running " copy " of a human mind existing at once.

One interesting side-effect of the twistor concept was noticed in production ; under certain conditions, passing a current through one of the electrical wires running beside the tape would cause the magnetic fields on the tape to move in the direction of the current.

The initial concept behind Newi originated in 1989 when Oliver Sims, then working for IBM, saw the need for an infrastructure whereby a given real-world business concept ( process or entity ) could be implemented as a software module that could be plugged into a running system.

While Beast Machines was still running in Canada, Japan's Takara made a bid to return to the familiar vehicle-transforming robots concept.

The store consciousness concept developed along with the Buddha nature doctrine and resolved into the concept of mindstream or the " consciousness-continuity " ( Sanskrit: citta-santāna ) to avoid being denounced as running counter to the doctrine of emptiness ( śūnyatā ) and the tenets of selflessness ( anātman ).

The concept of an international date line is first mentioned in a 12th-century Talmudic commentary which seems to indicate that the day changes in an area where the time is six hours ahead of Jerusalem ( 90 degrees east of Jerusalem, a line running through the Philippines ).

Serero ’ s team developed a strategy to landscape and urbanize the 530 hectares of the Hellenikon site by using natural running water patterns on the site as a concept to design the largest sustainable park in Europe.

) What's worse, in Thompson's proof of concept implementation, the subverted compiler also subverted the analysis program ( the disassembler ), so that anyone who examined the binaries in the usual way would not actually see the real code that was running, but something else instead.

Among the minor parties, the Christian Heritage Party, running its first election candidates, supported the concept of free trade but had serious reservations about the negotiated agreement ; the Communist Party fully opposed NAFTA, seeing it as a serious threat to Canadian economic sovereignty, and as seriously harmful to the labour rights of the middle class.

Hayworth said he was considering running against McCain because he has " a profound disagreement with Senator John McCain over the concept of amnesty, whether he wants to call it comprehensive immigration reform or a pathway for guest workers to remain.