I remember the day I played Columns on the genesis (ya, i know the system is not 'classic', but the concept of the game sure is) until I 'beat it'. It had no real ending, but I made it to Level 199 and the Jewel counter hit 9999 and wouldn't scroll any higher.
It was truly amazing to me and my friends who watch in complete awe. Best part is it was only my 4th or 5th time playing the game.
3rd-4th grade -- {insert elementary subject here} blaster 5th grade -- my first contact with a cdrom 6th grade -- taught LOGO by a knowledgable teacher (don't remember a damn thing) here is where I switched to a less technically inclined school district. 7-10 grade -- nothing but keyboarding, advanced keyboarding, word proccessing, advanced word proccessing, respectively (completely useless, Word Perfect 6 for DOS) 11th grade -- APPLE BASIC!!!! followed by Visual Basic 6 (ugh) 12th grade -- Pascal followed by C++ (Visual, again ugh)
Thats my schooling experience with computers, which incidently just ended 3 weeks ago:-)
I don't know about you but I delivered newspapers from the ages of 10-15 and that generated enough money to make "notable" purchases long before I was even 13. Oh and my parents are far from rich.
I am just lowly tech supp rep at a regional isp, but i do know that we will NOT release any information no matter what the circumstances. The most we will do is disconnect the user. I distincty rememeber a FBI agent calling to get user info, we even verified he was real by looking up his FBI office in the phone book and calling, we still would not give out the info, we just disconnected the account. I don't know about other ISP's but thats way it works here.
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I remember the day I played Columns on the genesis (ya, i know the system is not 'classic', but the concept of the game sure is) until I 'beat it'. It had no real ending, but I made it to Level 199 and the Jewel counter hit 9999 and wouldn't scroll any higher.
It was truly amazing to me and my friends who watch in complete awe. Best part is it was only my 4th or 5th time playing the game.
3rd-4th grade -- {insert elementary subject here} blaster
:-)
5th grade -- my first contact with a cdrom
6th grade -- taught LOGO by a knowledgable teacher (don't remember a damn thing)
here is where I switched to a less technically inclined school district.
7-10 grade -- nothing but keyboarding, advanced keyboarding, word proccessing, advanced word proccessing, respectively (completely useless, Word Perfect 6 for DOS)
11th grade -- APPLE BASIC!!!! followed by Visual Basic 6 (ugh)
12th grade -- Pascal followed by C++ (Visual, again ugh)
Thats my schooling experience with computers, which incidently just ended 3 weeks ago
(fast cable too, 100k up/300k down)
is that all?
i have 1 mb both ways, it rocks.
I don't know about you but I delivered newspapers from the ages of 10-15 and that generated enough money to make "notable" purchases long before I was even 13. Oh and my parents are far from rich.
I am just lowly tech supp rep at a regional isp, but i do know that we will NOT release any information no matter what the circumstances. The most we will do is disconnect the user. I distincty rememeber a FBI agent calling to get user info, we even verified he was real by looking up his FBI office in the phone book and calling, we still would not give out the info, we just disconnected the account. I don't know about other ISP's but thats way it works here.