Why do console game require pressing START button to go through a redundant splash screen?

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"Motorola WILDER provides on-the-go consumers with a touch screen experience that is splash and dust-resistant, offering a cost-conscious option that is still cool, " said Paolo Prearo, general manager for Motorola's Mobile Devices business, Motorola Mobility Italia.

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DVDs that they can carry an entire season's worth of sitcoms, or splash high-definition films across a huge screen.

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The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.

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Now, as moviegoer you may not be familiar with some of Feeney's contributions like software implementation of ultimate blue screen composting technology, but it made a big splash in the film "Terminator 2, " creating a new believability and wow factor for audiences.

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Matching its older sister's 10.1-inch Gorilla Glass screen, there's now an all-over splash resistant coating (inside and out), with those intriguing cut-off corners we've seen already there to aid the ergonomics of handling the slab.

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With integrated social media and a secondary notification screen, users can stay on top of what really matters to them, and being splash and dust-resistant, they can get into the action without worry.

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The water closet really makes a splash each has high-tech automated Toto toilets, extra-deep tubs, flat-screen televisions, towel warmers, heated floors and counters, de-fogging mirrors and, of course, a rain shower stocked with high-end toiletries.

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