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Game changer?

The idea and subsequent introduction since the 1979-80 season of the 3-pointer, which credits a player with three points instead of the traditional two if he makes the shot behind the three-point line, was also a game changer. This allows teams to stretch the defense away from the packed middle, giving smaller guys an additional advantage.

Rule changes in general were, in ever sense of the word, game changers. For example, the hand-checking rule, which prohibits a defender from stopping an offensive player from moving past by hand, further created room for smaller players to dribble, drive and generally thrive on the hardwood.

Anyways, returning to iPad, you can view some of the more popular Apple products, including the iPod and iPhone, as game changers because they dramatically alter their existing markets. Significant inventions in general are game changing. Personal computers, say, enable everyone to write – and have consequently, I’m sorry to point out, put many traditional career typists, among others, out of work.

That shows how powerful a game changer is, for better or worse.

Now, let’s move on to media examples:

1. After eking out a living for decades with a beef cattle operation on the rugged border of Pennsylvania and New York state, Fran Westcott has hit the jackpot.

In the oil industry equivalent to a claims rush, energy companies have been flooding into this long-depressed patch of rural Appalachia to tie up land in the gas-rich Marcellus shale. Last year, Mrs. Westcott signed a lease with Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. that will allow the company to drill for gas on the 210-hectare parcel in northern Pennsylvania where she grew up and her daughter now raises horses.