Player

Player may mean:
- Player (game), a participant in a game
- Player (dating), slang term for a (usually male) individual skilled at sexual seduction.
- The Player (1992), a satirical film by Robert Altman about a cynical Hollywood film producer.
- Player (band), 1970s band best known for their one-hit wonder Baby, Come Back.
- Media player, a piece of software tailored for playing back different forms of multimedia file formats.
- Shorthand term for any of a number of technological objects. For example, DVD players and CD players are often simply called "players".
- Player was the Elizabethan term for an actor.

Player (game)

A player of a game is a participant therein. Normally, there are at least two players in a game, but one-player games exist and are collectively known as solitaire games.

Players in competition

In most games, one player (or team) is declared the winner, the player who performed the best. Some multi-player games can have multiple winners, but in Western societies, one player (or team) is normally considered to be the "1st place", or best, among them, and ensure the existence of tie-breaking structures to ensure a singular "1st place". This is not true universally; for example, in Japan ties are considered to be wins for both sides. Some games use multiple means of scoring or determining the conditions of victory; in these games, it may be possible for two or more players or teams to simultaneously win, which, depending on the game, may be counted as wins for both or simply a tie.

Number of players

There is a wide range to the number of players who may take part in a game. While most board games and card games have fewer than 10 players, for logistical reasons, tournaments, or meta-games consisting of many games, can have over 1000. Internet games may have thousands of players participating in a massive game simultaneously. Alternatively, John Horton Conway's game of Life is considered to be a zero-player game. The number of players that a game allows is an important factor in game design. Game designers aim to accommodate as wide a range of player numbers as possible, since, for example, a strictly four-player game will not happily accommodate three or five players who want to play. Some have argued that much of Poker's popularity derives from how readily the game adapts to as few as 2 or as many as 10 players. Games adapt themselves to varying numbers of players in a number of different ways:
- Gin rummy, which cannot easily be adapted for two players, uses a structure for three whereby two participate in a round, one sitting out. Specifically, the winner of the previous round remains in the next, while the loser sits out. (Four players would split into two games.)
- Hearts, for six or more players, is traditionally played double-deck, with a cancellation mechanism.
- Poker and other vying games easily adapt themselves to varying play number, as soon as there are enough cards. For example, seven-card stud poker clearly cannot accommodate eight or more players with one deck.
- Puerto Rico varies the number of game tokens and round structure to accommodate variations in player number.
- Role-playing games can be adapted easily according to player number, limited only by the willingness of the gamemaster. Four to six players is often claimed to be the "best" number of players, although this is quite contested. Category:Games

The Player

The Player (1992) is a movie that tells the story of Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), a Hollywood studio executive who believes he is being blackmailed by a screenwriter whose script he once rejected. It was directed by Robert Altman using a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel. The movie's best known feature is its 62 cameo performances by major Hollywood actors, producers and directors, all playing themselves. The movie can be enjoyed merely as an entertaining comedy/drama loaded with movie references and Hollywood insider jokes, but on a deeper level it is also a highly critical attack on the Hollywood movie business, which treats people poorly and sacrifices quality for commercial success. In that respect, it is surprising that so many big Hollywood names agreed to play themselves in the film.

Cast

- Vincent D'Onofrio (as David Kahane)
- Whoopi Goldberg (as policewoman detective Susan Avery)
- Lyle Lovett (as policeman detective DeLongpre)
- Tim Robbins (as Griffin Mill)
- Greta Scacchi (as June Gudmundsdottir)

Cameos

This is a list of the Hollywood people who play themselves in the movie:
- Steve Allen
- Richard Anderson
- René Auberjonois
- Harry Belafonte
- Shari Belafonte
- Karen Black
- Michael Bowen
- Gary Busey
- Robert Carradine
- Charles Champlin
- Cher
- James Coburn
- Cathy Lee Crosby
- John Cusack
- Brad Davis
- Paul Dooley
- Thereza Ellis
- Peter Falk
- Felicia Farr
- Katarzyna Figura
- Louise Fletcher
- Dennis Franz
- Teri Garr
- Leeza Gibbons
- Scott Glenn
- Jeff Goldblum
- Elliott Gould
- Joel Grey
- David Alan Grier
- Buck Henry
- Anjelica Huston
- Kathy Ireland
- Steve James
- Maxine John-James
- Sally Kellerman
- Sally Kirkland
- Jack Lemmon
- Marlee Matlin
- Andie MacDowell
- Malcolm McDowell
- Jayne Meadows
- Martin Mull
- Jennifer Nash
- Nick Nolte
- Alexandra Powers
- Bert Remsen
- Guy Remsen
- Patricia Resnick
- Burt Reynolds
- Jack Riley
- Julia Roberts
- Mimi Rogers
- Annie Ross
- Alan Rudolph
- Scott Shaw
- Jill St. John
- Susan Sarandon
- Adam Simon
- Rod Steiger
- Joan Tewkesbury
- Brian Tochi
- Lily Tomlin
- Robert Wagner
- Ray Walston
- Bruce Willis
- Marvin Young

Trivia

Few of the cameos were planned for in advance. Since the movie was shot in Hollywood and in so many locations that Hollywood figures frequent, most of the cameos were just coincidences and their lines were improvised. Most of the actors with cameos did their appearances for nothing.

External link

- Player, The Player, The Player, The

Media player

A media player is a piece of application software for playing back multimedia files. Most media players support an array of media formats, including both audio and video files. There are also some media players can only play audio or video, these are known as audio players and video players respectively. These players, however, may give better user experience as they are specifically tailored toward the media type. Some common media players include MPlayer, Apple QuickTime Player, and Microsoft Windows Media Player.

External links

- [http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=99 Multimedia @ sourceforge.net]
- [http://corecodec.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=99 Multimedia @ corecodec.org]
- [http://www.fileinfo.net/filetype/audio Audio File Types]
- [http://www.fileinfo.net/filetype/video Video File Types] Category:Application software Category:Multimedia Category:codecs

Cd player

A compact disc player or CD player is an electronic device to play audio from compact discs. CD players can be found in home stereo systems, car audio systems and personal computers, and are also available as portable devices. Some equipment that can play CDs can play other formats as well, such as DVD, CD-ROMs with audio files on them, and video CDs. DJs often use pitchable CD players that can change the beat frequency.

Justice and Equality Movement

De Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is een rebellengroep die een rol speelt in het Darfur conflict. Ze vecht samen met de SLA tegen de Janjaweed en de overheid. De JEM is Afrikaans (dit in tegenstelling tot Arabisch) islamitisch. Er zou ook sprake zijn van banden van de JEM met Hassan al-Turabi. Al-Turabi had veel invloed op de regering, in 1999 diende hij een voorstel bij het parlement in om de macht van de president te verkleinen, vervolgens ontbond de president het parlement en veel Afrikaanse moslims traden toen toe tot de JEM. Al-Turabi en de JEM ontkennen echter een directe link Khalil Ibrahim Muhammed is de leider van de JEM. Hij is waarschijnlijk de auteur van: "The Black Book: Imbalance of Power and Wealth in the Sudan", in het boek ageert hij tegen de overmacht van de arabieren in de Sudanese regering.

Link

- [http://www.sudanjem.com/english/books/blackbook_part1/20040422_bbone.htm het boek van Khalil Ibrahim] (Engelse vertaling) Categorie: Soedan

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