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Imprisonment
Imprisonment PRISON SYSTEMS IN AMERICA AND ABROAD EFFECTS ON ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY BIBLIOGRAPHY Imprisonment is a political act. Until early-nineteenth-century reforms, lockups most often confined people awaiting trial. Earlier political elites, kings and queens for example, locked away... Read more |
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motif
motif , in literature, term that denotes the recurrent presence of certain character types, objects, settings, or situations in diverse genres and periods of folklore and literature. Examples of motifs include swords, money, food, jewels, forests, oceans, castles, dungeons, tests of skill or wisdom,... Read more |
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MAI Systems Corp
MAI Systems Corporation 9501 Jeronimo RoadIrvine, California 92718-2018U.S.A.(714) 580-0700Fax: (714) 580-2378 Wholly Owned Subsidiary of BGLS Inc. Incorporated: 1984 as MAI Basic Four, Inc.Employees: 800Sales: $115.29 millionSICs: 7373 Value-Added Resellers, Computer Systems MAI Systems... Read more |
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Data General Corp
Data General Corporation 4400 Computer DriveWestboro, Massachusetts 01580U.S.A.(508) 366-8911Fax: (508) 898-4003 Public Company Incorporated: 1968Employees: 6,900Sales: $1.12 billionStock Exchanges: New York LondonSICs: 3571 Electronic Computers; 3577 Computer Peripheral Equipment, not... Read more |
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Stapler
Stapler Background There are virtually as many types of staplers as there are uses for them. Staplers are produced for use in: the manufacture of furniture; medical fields; carpet tacking; electrical wire and insulation installation; picture frame manufacture and, of course,... Read more |
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computer
computer device capable of performing a series of arithmetic or logical operations. A computer is distinguished from a calculating machine, such as an electronic calculator , by being able to store a computer program (so that it can repeat its operations and make logical decisions), by the... Read more |
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Virtually sociable. (multiuser graphical environments) (Technology Information)
...social newsgroups. Then in 1979, multiuser dungeons (MUDs) hit the scene. Originally...Dragons. But while they allow multiuser interaction in an electronically...computing. The need for real-time multiuser programs is becoming more apparent... |
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Dungeons & Dragons, Microsoft Surface are a match made in...
...and Maokai Xiao are expert Dungeons & Dragons players. They certainly...with a proposal to create a Dungeons & Dragons interface for Microsoft Surface a giant communal, multiuser, multitouch computer screen...of the media to check out Dungeons & Dragons on a Surface table...had to have listened to ... |
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Coming to terms with on-line lingo. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
...a response minutes, days or even weeks later. _MUDs _ Multiuser dungeons. These are games, originally fashioned after ``Dungeons and Dragons'' but not always involving a dungeon setting, in which multiple players create alternate personas... |
 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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2 Texans pump out online hits
...people something beyond the never-ending worlds of dungeons and dragons found in such games as Sony Online Entertainment...the text-based adventures of older, so-called multiuser dungeons, with color graphics and sound in a persistent online... |
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Nurses' guide to the Internet - professional and personal benefits.
...software. Not all providers have IRC. Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): Originally used for online fantasy games...mail, newsgroups, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), MultiUser Dungeons (MUDs), and CuSeeme. Of these, the first three... |
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Shopper online. (News Briefs)
...their own design. The concept grew out of the Internet's multiuser dungeons (MUDs), applications that allow multiple players to enter...look like clerics and war-riors to interact in a virtual dungeon, where the objects move and the characters speak to one... |
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Showing Your Face in Cyberspace
...computer screens with up-to-date information. It also has generated elaborate role-playing games, the famous multiuser dungeons, known as MUDs. In these you essentially chat as someone else. You are a Venusian knight grappling textually... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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ON-LINE ADDICTION CAN DEVELOP INTO VIRTUAL EPIDEMIC
...sat at a terminal typing enthusiastically. He said he had been at the lab since about 6 p.m. playing MUDS, or multiuser dungeons, a fantasy game on the Internet. Goon said he really got into computers about a year ago and now spends about... |
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NO PARTY FOR THIS BIRTHDAY: SPAM'S 30 USERS CONDEMNED ANNOYANCE AT...
...messages into everyday life. His research also suggests that the term "spam" originated during the late 1980s when "multiuser dungeons," or MUDs, came into being as chat and role-playing programs. According to Templeton, the inspiration for... |
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No substitute for the real thing.(Opinion)
...efficient, but it's hard to describe these capitalist transactions as constituting community. Then I visited "multiuser dungeons" and online games such as "Ultima Online," where thousands of players take on virtual identities, live in virtual... |
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