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  2. Scalability - Wikipedia

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    Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work. One definition for software systems specifies that this may be done by adding resources to the system. [ 1] In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that a company can increase sales given increased resources. For example, a package delivery system is ...

  3. Privilege escalation - Wikipedia

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    Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, a design flaw, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user. The result is that an application or user with more privileges than intended by the application developer or ...

  4. Scalability testing - Wikipedia

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    Scalability testing is the testing of a software application to measure its capability to scale up or scale out in terms of any of its non-functional capability. Performance, scalability and reliability testing are usually grouped together by software quality analysts . The main goals of scalability testing are to determine the user limit for ...

  5. Field of view in video games - Wikipedia

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    A larger horizontal resolution directly increases the horizontal field of view, and a larger vertical resolution increases the vertical field of view. [11] Vert-(vertical minus) is a scaling method used by some games that support a wide variety of resolutions. In Vert- games, as the aspect ratio widens, the vertical component of the field of ...

  6. Video game crash of 1983 - Wikipedia

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    The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) [ 1] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985 in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality.

  7. Database scalability - Wikipedia

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    Database scalability has three basic dimensions: amount of data, volume of requests and size of requests. Requests come in many sizes: transactions generally affect small amounts of data, but may approach thousands per second; analytic queries are generally fewer, but may access more data. A related concept is elasticity, the ability of a ...

  8. Star Entertainment faces system issues, electronic gaming ...

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    July 14, 2024 at 7:44 PM. (Reuters) - Australia's Star Entertainment Group said on Monday its systems have been disrupted by performance issues, resulting in the shutdown of all electronic gaming ...

  9. Cloud gaming - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Cloud gaming, sometimes called gaming on demand or game streaming, is a type of online gaming that runs video games on remote servers and streams the game's output (video, sound, etc) directly to a user's device, or more colloquially, playing a game remotely from a cloud. It contrasts with traditional means of gaming, wherein a game is ...