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PC Master Race. The PC Master Race ( PCMR ), sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is an internet meme, subculture and a tongue-in-cheek term used within video game culture to describe the grandiosity and god complex associated with PC gamers when comparing themselves to console gamers.
Mandatory Integrity Control ( MIC) is a core security feature of Windows Vista and later that adds mandatory access control to running processes based on their Integrity Level (IL). The IL represents the level of trustworthiness of an object. This mechanism's goal is to restrict the access permissions for potentially less trustworthy contexts ...
The Domain Awareness System is the largest digital surveillance system in the world [2] as part of the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative in partnership between the New York Police Department and Microsoft to monitor New York City. [3] It allows the NYPD to track surveillance targets and gain detailed information about them, and is overseen by ...
Button 4 (B2 for joystick 2) Pin 15. +5V. +5 V DC (or MIDI in, sometimes unconnected) The game port is a device port that was found on IBM PC compatible and other computer systems throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It was the traditional connector for joystick input, and occasionally MIDI devices, until made obsolete by USB in the late 1990s.
HUD (video games) The Nuclear Dawn HUD (largely in yellow) displays the character's health, weapon ammunition, and compass heading, while also including a map of the area in the top-right corner, and a circular marker pointing to the player's destination. In video gaming, the HUD ( heads-up display) or status bar is the method by which ...
A gaming computer, also known as a gaming PC, is a specialized personal computer designed for playing PC games at high standards. They typically differ from mainstream personal computers by using high-performance graphics cards, a high core-count CPU with higher raw performance and higher-performance RAM. Gaming PCs are also used for other ...
A game controller, gaming controller, or simply controller, is an input device or input/output device used with video games or entertainment systems to provide input to a video game. Input devices that have been classified as game controllers include keyboards, mice, gamepads, and joysticks, as well as special purpose devices, such as steering ...
Track while scan. Track-while-scan ( TWS) is a mode of radar operation in which the radar allocates part of its power to tracking a target or targets (up to forty with modern radar) while part of its power is allocated to scanning. It is similar to but functions differently in comparison to its counterparts range-while-search (RWS), long range ...