Alexey Pajitnov

Alexey Pajitnov (Алексей Пажитнов, born 1956, Russia), whose last name is sometimes transliterated Pazhitnov, is a Russian computer engineer, who developed the popular game Tetris while working for the Computer Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D centre. Alexey Pajitnov - Biography. Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in ...

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Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in 1986. Pajitnov also created the lesser known sequel to Tetris, entitled Welltris, which has the same principle but in a three dimensional environment were you see the "board" from above. Screen shots are available here The Soviet bureaucracy licensed and managed Tetris, and advertised it with the slogan "From Russia with Love". Because he was employed by the Soviet government, Pajitnov did not receive royalties. Pajitnov moved to USA in 1991 and ...

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Alexey Pajitnov, Alexey Pajitnov - Biography, Alexey Pajitnov - Works

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The Xbox 360 is Microsoft's newest video game console, the successor to their original Xbox. It was released on November 22, 2005 in North America, December 2 in Europe, and December 10 in Japan. It will be released on February 2, 2006 in Mexico, February 24 in South Korea, and March 2, 2006 in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. The Xbox 360 will compete against the upcoming generation of consoles, including the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Revolution, and was officially unveiled on MTV on ...

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In Greek mythology, Pandora ("all gifted") was the first woman, fashioned by Zeus as part of his punishment of mankind for having stolen the secret of fire. Pandora - The legend. The titan Epimetheus ("hindsight") was responsible for giving a positive trait to each and every animal. However, when it was time to give man a positive trait, there was nothing left. Prometheus ("foresight"), his brother, felt that because man was superior to all other animals, man should have a gift no other animal possessed. So ...

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Tetris has been subject to many changes throughout releases since the 80s. It is difficult to place a standard on the game, as newer releases frequently progress it either to make the game better or to keep players interested. Newer Tetris games have made the trend of pace rather than endurance. Older releases such as Gameboy or NES Tetris offer records according to points. Since the meter for points is set to only a certain number of digits, these game's records can be maxed out by an experienced player. The next big Gameboy release ...

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Tetris, Tetris - The game, Tetris - Gravity, Tetris - History and legal issues, Tetris - Scoring formula, Tetris - Modes of Play and Feature Deviations, Tetris - Newest feature additions, Tetris - Tetris variants, Tetris - Is it possible to play forever?, Tetris - Music, Tetris - Notes

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Xbox 360 - Controller. The Xbox 360 has the ability to support up to four wireless controllers. Alternately it can support two wired controllers through the use of its USB ports at the front, the USB port on the back will support a third controller. Since the controller has a USB cable, it is also usable in Windows PCs. The wired controller has a nine foot (2.74 m) long cord with a break-away feature. The wireless controller has a battery life of up to 25 hours on the NiMH rechargeable battery pack (optional and recommended) and a recommended range of up to 30 feet (9.14 m), ...

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The titan Epimetheus ("hindsight") was responsible for giving a positive trait to each and every animal. However, when it was time to give man a positive trait, there was nothing left. Prometheus ("foresight"), his brother, felt that because man was superior to all other animals, man should have a gift no other animal possessed. So Prometheus set forth to steal fire from Zeus and handed it over to man. Zeus was enraged and decided to punish Prometheus and his creation: mankind. To punish Prometheus, Zeus chained him in unbreakable fet ...

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Seven randomly rendered tetrominoes or tetrads - shapes composed of four blocks each - fall down the playing field. The object of the game is to manipulate these tetrominoes with the aim of creating a horizontal line of blocks without gaps. When such a line is created, it disappears, and the blocks above (if any) fall. As the game progresses, the tetrominoes fall faster, and the game ends when the stack of Tetrominoes re ...

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Tetris, Tetris - The game, Tetris - Gravity, Tetris - History and legal issues, Tetris - Scoring formula, Tetris - Modes of Play and Feature Deviations, Tetris - Newest feature additions, Tetris - Tetris variants, Tetris - Is it possible to play forever?, Tetris - Music, Tetris - Notes

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When a row of blocks is cleared and removed, the stacks of blocks above it fall. Traditional versions of Tetris move the stacks of blocks down by a distance exactly equal to the height of the cleared rows below them. Unlike Newtonian gravity, blocks may be left floating above gaps. This behavior is known as "naive gravity." Some variants implement a different algorithm that uses a flood fill to segment the playfield into connected regions and then makes each region fall individually, in parallel, until it touches the region at ...

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Tetris, Tetris - The game, Tetris - Gravity, Tetris - History and legal issues, Tetris - Scoring formula, Tetris - Modes of Play and Feature Deviations, Tetris - Newest feature additions, Tetris - Tetris variants, Tetris - Is it possible to play forever?, Tetris - Music, Tetris - Notes

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Tetris has been embroiled in a strangely large number of legal battles since its inception. In June 1985, Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris on an Electronica 60 while working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He created it at their Computer Center, and Vadim Gerasimov ported it to the IBM PC. From there, the game exploded into popularity, and began spreading all around Moscow. (This version was available on Vadim Gerasimov's web site, but the Tetris Comp ...

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Tetris, Tetris - The game, Tetris - Gravity, Tetris - History and legal issues, Tetris - Scoring formula, Tetris - Modes of Play and Feature Deviations, Tetris - Newest feature additions, Tetris - Tetris variants, Tetris - Is it possible to play forever?, Tetris - Music, Tetris - Notes

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The scoring formula for the majority of implementations of Tetris is built on the belief that more difficult line clears should be awarded more points. In Nintendo's implementations on the NES, Game Boy, and SNES, the four possible line clears are as follows: Single = (level+1)*40 one line is cleared. Double = (level+1)*100 two lines are simultaneously cleared. Triple = (level+1)*300 three lines are simultaneously cleared. Tetris = (level+1)*1200 fou ...

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Tetris, Tetris - The game, Tetris - Gravity, Tetris - History and legal issues, Tetris - Scoring formula, Tetris - Modes of Play and Feature Deviations, Tetris - Newest feature additions, Tetris - Tetris variants, Tetris - Is it possible to play forever?, Tetris - Music, Tetris - Notes

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Normally, players lose for the following reasons: they can no longer keep up with the increasing speed, or a specific implementation of the game with not very responsive control fails to keep up with itself when the pieces' downward velocity exceeds the maximum lateral velocity the player can apply to a tetromino. In other words, the possibilities for tetrominoes movement are limited to the shape of a cone in the game arena on faster levels. Some players may consider this situation a design flaw; however, it may be reas ...

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Tetris, Tetris - The game, Tetris - Gravity, Tetris - History and legal issues, Tetris - Scoring formula, Tetris - Modes of Play and Feature Deviations, Tetris - Newest feature additions, Tetris - Tetris variants, Tetris - Is it possible to play forever?, Tetris - Music, Tetris - Notes

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The official unveiling of the system occurred on Thursday, May 12, 2005 on MTV in a program called MTV Presents: The Next Generation Xbox Revealed hosted by actor Elijah Wood with a musical performance by the band The Killers. The Xbox 360 was also featured on the cover of Time magazine's May 23, 2005 issue with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates holding up one of the units. In the article he says "It's perfect...The day Sony launches [the new PlayStation], and they walk right into Halo 3." [8] Read more at wikiquote. Microso ...

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The Xbox 360 has been released in North America, Europe, and Japan. Many stores sold out on the first day, and as of late December consumers had to hunt across many stores to find one in stock. In Japan, it was received far less enthusiastically, despite the low price and bonus features. For full details see Console Launch. Xbox 360 - Dates. The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, a week before E³. The first area to see the machine released was Brazil on November 21, 2005, at the Braz ...

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Microsoft's current retail strategy involves two different configurations of the Xbox 360 in most countries. In United Kingdom and Europe, the console is available in two versions: an Xbox 360 SKU, frequently referred to as the "Xbox 360 Premium Edition"; and an Xbox 360 Core System SKU. The Core System is not available in Japan, instead Microsoft offers a package identical to the Xbox 360 SKU for ¥37,900 ($323.90 as of 21 December 05 8:09 UTC, [1]). The Xbox 360 Premium Edition is being sold in America fo ...

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Xbox 360, Xbox 360 - Retail configurations and pricing, Xbox 360 - Launch details, Xbox 360 - Dates, Xbox 360 - Available titles, Xbox 360 - Components and accessories, Xbox 360 - Controller, Xbox 360 - Detachable hard drive, Xbox 360 - Faceplates, Xbox 360 - AV connection cables, Xbox 360 - Other, Xbox 360 - Hardware specifications, Xbox 360 - Central processing unit, Xbox 360 - Graphics processing unit, Xbox 360 - Memory, Xbox 360 - System bandwidth, Xbox 360 - Overall System Floating-Point Performance, Xbox 360 - Audio, Xbox 360 - Video, Xbox 360 - DVD drive, Xbox 360 - Physical characteristics, Xbox 360 - Miscellaneous, Xbox 360 - Dashboard, Xbox 360 - Software development, Xbox 360 - XNA, Xbox 360 - Procedural synthesis, Xbox 360 - Backward compatibility, Xbox 360 - Xbox Live on the Xbox 360, Xbox 360 - Xbox Gamer Guide, Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Marketplace and Arcade, Xbox 360 - Marketing, Xbox 360 - Viral advertising and alternate reality games, Xbox 360 - Console launch, Xbox 360 - United States and Canada, Xbox 360 - Europe, Xbox 360 - Japan, Xbox 360 - HD-DVD, Xbox 360 - Technical Issues, Xbox 360 - Xbox 360 Screen of Death, Xbox 360 - Crashing, Xbox 360 - Disc Scratching, Xbox 360 - Disc Playback Problems, Xbox 360 - Power Supply, Xbox 360 - Red Light Patterns, Xbox 360 - List of Solutions

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The story of Pandora's Box can be interpreted in more than one way, but one obvious moral is that of "curiosity killed the cat". Some scholars contend that Pandora's "box" may have been a mistranslation, and her "box" may have been a large jar or vase, forged from the earth. In fact, there is evidence that suggests Pandora herself was the jar. In Ancient Greece jars commonly bore images of women. The jar was said to have been in a jar form because of the similarit ...

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Specifications are also available at the official Xbox website. Xbox 360 - Central processing unit. The central processing unit (CPU), named Xenon, is a custom IBM triple-core PowerPC-based design. [3] 90 nm process, 165 million transistors Three symmetrical cores, each one SMT-capable and clocked at 3.2 GHz One VMX-128 (IBM's branding for AltiVec) SIMD unit per core 128×128 register file for each VMX unit< ...

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The Dashboard is the main interface to the Xbox 360, governed by a series of "blades" to subdivide categories. The Dashboard will launch automaticially at boot if no game disc is inserted into the console. The Dashboard can also be accessed via the Xbox Guide button on the controller at any time to open a player specific blade. From there, the full Dashboard can be run, exiting the current game. The main dashboard is divided into 4 main sections: Xbox Live/MarketPlace For downloading maps, patches etc. ...

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Xbox 360 - United States and Canada. Prelaunch reports assume that Microsoft intentionally restricted supply [12], although there is no evidence to support this and Microsoft has said they are releasing all units into supply chains as quickly as possible [13] [14]. Evidence indicates that Microsoft launched with all consoles available at the time, and operating at maximum production capability (i.e. they did not withhold produced consoles). They did not, however, build up a sufficient supply of consoles to satisfy the entire demand at launch. This allowed them to launch several months earlier than would otherw ...

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With the launch of the Xbox 360, Microsoft's online gaming service, Xbox Live will go through a major upgrade adding a basic non-subscription service (Silver) to its already established premium subscription-based service (Gold). Xbox Live Silver is free of charge and allows users to create a profile, join on message boards, access to Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade, and talk to other members. Silver members are not allowed to play any games online. Microsoft has also announced there will be trial weekends for Silver members to access the full f ...

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