Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

Wires whined as a cold November blast rocked the silver wings, but the engine roar was reassuring to the pilot bundled in the open cockpit.

The heads were bundled together in a gruesome package and sent to the Abbasid caliph who was on pilgrimage at Mecca.

The most notable exception was the XG-1 lightgun, which came bundled with the Atari XE Game System.

Until that time, software was bundled with the hardware by Original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) such as Data General, Digital Equipment and IBM.

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

When Counter-Strike was published by Sierra Entertainment / Vivendi Universal Games, it was bundled with Team Fortress Classic, Opposing Force multiplayer, and the Wanted, Half-Life: Absolute Redemption and Firearms mods.

By the early 1970s, the picture changed: software costs were dramatically increasing, a growing software industry was competing with the hardware manufacturer's bundled software products ( free in that the cost was included in the hardware cost ), leased machines required software support while providing no revenue for software, and some customers able to better meet their own needs did not want the costs of " free " software bundled with hardware product costs.

In United States vs. IBM, filed January 17, 1969, the government charged that bundled software was anticompetitive.

It was bundled with MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PC compatibles by Microsoft.

The Kazaa Media Desktop client could be downloaded free of charge ; however, it was bundled with adware and for a period there were " No spyware " warnings found on Kazaa's website.

The more accessible traditional video format broadened Quad Gods viewership, and the work was distributed on CDs bundled with magazines.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

One of the first " clone " versions of MultiMate was bundled with an early portable PC made by Corona.

It was proficient at making graphs and charts and was often bundled with some Macs.

" Later, the " Gold System " was bundled with Magician Lord and Fatal Fury.

The Neo Geo CD was bundled with a control pad instead of a joystick like the AES version.

Much of its success was because Windows 3. 0 ( along with MS-DOS ) was bundled with most new computers.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.

Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.

AMOS was mostly used to make multimedia software, video games ( platformers and graphical adventures ) and educational software.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

Marker created a 19-minute multimedia piece in 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City titled Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men which was influenced by T. S. Eliot's poem.

Common wisdom was that even though the AGA clearly improved upon the original chipset ( OCS ), it never returned to Amiga the clear dominance of multimedia computing that it once promised.

The most notable competitor of the Britannica among CD / DVD-ROM digital encyclopaedias was Encarta, now discontinued, a modern, multimedia encyclopaedia that incorporated three print encyclopaedias: Funk & Wagnalls, Collier's and the New Merit Scholar.

Encarta was the top-selling multimedia encyclopaedia, based on total US retail sales from January 2000 to February 2006.

A " multimedia " version, Windows 3. 0 with Multimedia Extensions 1. 0, was released in October 1991.

This version was the precursor to the multimedia features available in Windows 3. 1 and later, and was part of Microsoft's specification for the Multimedia PC.

IEEE 802. 15. 3a was an attempt to provide a higher speed UWB PHY enhancement amendment to IEEE 802. 15. 3 for applications which involve imaging and multimedia.

USB was developed for use with peripherals such as mice and keyboards, which have no specific timing needs, but FireWire was created for use with multimedia applications.

Initially, MPEG-4 was aimed primarily at low bit-rate video communications ; however, its scope as a multimedia coding standard was later expanded.

MIPS V was complemented by the integer-only MIPS Digital Media Extensions ( MDMX ) multimedia extensions, which were announced on the same date as MIPS V.

In May 2010, the Subutai Corporation, of which Stephenson was named chairman, announced the production of an experimental multimedia fiction project called The Mongoliad, which centered around a narrative written by Stephenson and other speculative fiction authors.

It was sold as Pentium with MMX Technology ( usually just called Pentium MMX ); although it was based on the P5 core, it featured a new set of 57 " MMX " instructions intended to improve performance on multimedia tasks, such as encoding and decoding digital media data.

CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony ( not to be confused with MMCD, the pre-DVD format also co-developed by Philips and Sony ).

A popular use was multimedia sales presentations such as those used by pharmaceutical companies to provide product information to physicians, as the devices could be easily transported by sales representatives.

TeleCD-i was the world's first networked multimedia application at the time of its introduction.

One of the design considerations of RTP was to support a range of multimedia formats ( such as H. 264, MPEG-4, MJPEG, MPEG, etc.