TOKYO—Grappling with a sluggish debut for its new hand-held game system and petering demand for its flagship home console, Nintendo Co. swung to a loss for the first nine months of its fiscal year and scaled back sales forecasts for its 3DS portable system and Wii. The Kyoto-based videogame maker also offered an even bleaker outlook for its full-year earnings for the year to March, saying Thursday that net losses will be three times greater than its projections in October as valuation losses on
Words: 566 - Pages: 3
NAME: David Sauerbrei POS355 Week 5 Final Exam This is an open-book, open-notes exam. You may consult the textbook, lectures and PowerPoint slides, but no other source. This exam must be an individual effort. Each question is worth one-half point. The total point value of this exam is 20 points. Please post your completed exam in the Assignments area by 11:59 p.m. Monday, May 14. 1. The operating system serves as an intermediary between the user and the computer hardware. (True /
Words: 1596 - Pages: 7
I. Overview The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that will work with your computer. The Oculus Rift was invented by a VR enthusiast named Palmer Luckey. After showing a prototype at the E3 gaming convention in 2012 that garnered interest from gaming media, he founded the company with Brendan Iribe, who became CEO. They launched a Kickstarter project in August 2012 to sell prototype developer versions of the Oculus Rift so game studios could start making games, raising $2.4 million. In the
Words: 1801 - Pages: 8
Nokia Warns Consumers of Fare Handsets Sold Locally 1. How will the proliferation of fake Nokia handsets affect the operations of Nokia Philippines? * I think the proliferation of fake Nokia handsets have a huge effect on the operation of Nokia Philippines. The emerged of fake Nokia handsets may destroy the Nokia’s top position in the market. Nokia may lost the overall mobile phone market share in the Philippines and may suffer from declining profit margins due to fake Nokia handsets. 2
Words: 1197 - Pages: 5
Virtual Reality Close your eyes and imagine yourself to be on another planet fighting aliens or imagine flying over your favourite city on your personal tour. These situations might never materialise in your real life. But virtual reality provides you with an option to experience the thrill and excitement of something like this happening. While currently only in its infant state, virtual reality could exceedingly alter the future of the human race. Virtual reality can be defined as, “a technology
Words: 437 - Pages: 2
lives as well. Try to weigh the positives and negatives as you discuss the impact of FB on real and virtual communities. Then try to connect one idea to the next with clearer transitions between the different parts of the discussion. Please review MLA format for in-text citations and works cited pages in our handbook. I look forward to reading your final draft! –Heather More specific title? Virtual Communities Investigative Essay Introduction: You don’t need to center justify your text.
Words: 1139 - Pages: 5
INTRODUCTION: Shared memory is a memory that can be used by multiple programs to avoid redundant copies or to provide communication among them. In other words we can say that, it is a technique, in this exchanging of data in process of program is done more quickly than by reading and writing using the services of OS. It is the fastest form of IPC available. A number of basic issues in the design of shared memory system have to be taken into consideration. Once the memory is mapped into the address
Words: 431 - Pages: 2
enables better efficiency. An example of this would be through consolidation. If our company were to consolidate server workloads, instead of having 1000 servers in our datacenter, we would have 10 physical servers in one virtual machine server. This would come to a total of 100 virtual machine servers, instead of the 1000 that we currently run on. Even though the costs of these higher end servers are greater, we would still greatly benefit. To a provider, virtualization creates the flexibility to deliver
Words: 515 - Pages: 3
Anorexia Disorder Josephine Ingraham PSYCH/575 - PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY August 20, 2011 Nicole Jung Anorexia Disorder Anorexia is a serious disease that is defined as not having an appetite for fear of gaining weight. Most cases involving anorexia, start at the adolescent age of women and if not treated can advance to adulthood and even death. There is no cure for this disorder but there are many different treatments to help those learn to deal with this disorder and eventually find a way
Words: 2602 - Pages: 11
by the uniting of a group of individuals who cooperate with one another and share one or more of the same interests . Some might have the opinion that the invention of the internet has aided this unity, such as Howard Rheingold in his article The Virtual Community : “ …I found fellowship and comfort in this unlikely medium. “ (p. 148), while others might say the opposite. I however, after carefully thinking to the extent that my brain would allow , have come to a third conclusion that the internet
Words: 887 - Pages: 4
