In 1986 electronic systems were introduced to link numerous slot machines in different locations and thereby allow a fraction of each inserted coin to go into a shared "super jackpot," which may reach an extremely large size before it is won; for example, in 2003 a Las Vegas slot machine paid out nearly $40 million.
Williams is 24 and I'm only ever so slightly older, so it's not surprising that our first gaming passion is one that's shared: Super Mario World on the SNES.
That is beautifully noticed, and, if you follow it through, you come to the place where cats and people, despite the chasm between their genetic strands, do indeed knot and knit together: a shared, super-tangled string ball of pride, shame, avarice, lust, and less deadly stirrings — the mature decision to do nothing, or the sudden urge to go nuts.
The increasing interest among consumers in discussing and sharing Super Bowl spots on Web sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube is encouraging sponsors to speak up sooner.
Since the launch of Google+ last year, the company best known for its search engine has been rushing pell-mell to use its "social" element as a glue across its products; Larry Page, Google's chief executive, wrote last week that "Google+ makes sharing super easy by creating a social layer across all our products so users connect with the people who matter to them".
"It's not like these guys are regularly emailing, they're picking up the phone and sharing super critical information," says Kilaru.
Here's an interesting exchange highlighting one of the odd contours of the debate: there's been a lot of discussion about cryptography that seems to suggest that there's a difference between "breaking encryption," whatever that means (sharing super-secret prime numbers? Unclear). and weakening the passcode so that it can be brute forced, as Comey describes below, in less than half an hour.
While there's still no ubiquitous way to share super-short videos, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube are no paltry competitors.
I tend to hesitate when it comes to sharing super-personal experiences on my blog, since I like to keep some areas of my life private, but I decided this particular event was best to share, even though it made me feel like the worst mom in the world.
He praised executives at Anheuser-Busch and PepsiCo who shared their Super Bowl ad plans with his agency and Major League Baseball.
When Katy Perry shared her Super Bowl stage with Missy Elliott reporters across the county wrote about Perry allowing herself to be upstaged at her own show.
