I just got my TI-83+ for my math class and thats pretty much all we do. Top games for the freshmen class of 2000 are DopeWars (sell drugs, make money) and SuperPimp (sell women, make money).
It's great and all if you can hook your cable modem up to your XBox and play away, but will it support home networks? If this thing can't be hooked up to a hub and used through a firewall/ipmasq box then it's going to be useless in a lot of homes. If it does, then good for Microsoft, because I believe that home network appliances are the future of computing/embedded devices/smart devices/whatever.
Don't worry Mr. Moody, all those security holes are going to be fixed in the Linux Service Pack 1! Don't you worry! It'll be out Real Soon Right Now, just like MS's!
It's not about having an actual reason, Microsoft is trying to get rid of all the negative PR because the don't even run their own OS on their servers.
I can think of some "interesting" uses. Spying being one (super stealth teddy bear with camera for an eye!). Or of course, girls high school locker room:).
I think that most people forget that the "kids" playing these RPGs are not your impressionable 5 or 6 year old but teenagers and young adults. Seriously, do you think a young kid, even if he's a little older like 8-9, could get a handle on the complex AD&D rules? Or play even the simplier CRPGs? It's not very likely (or common). The little kids I know play Nascar and football games on their computer, the teenagers play Diablo II and Icewind Dale. For "real" RPGs, the little kids have never heard of AD&D or Magic The Gathering while the teenagers play them for fun. It doesn't go beyond that. I can see a little kid being influenced by their thief character in Diablo II (At the store: "I'll be just like Goron the Thief and steal this piece of candy!") but the teenagers know better. Teens are not as stupid/niave/impressionable or whatever as adults seem to think. Give us some credit, playing a stupid game on your computer or sitting around with friends playing AD&D does not make teens lie, steal, and cheat. It does let us have a little fun.
Anyone remember multi-character cheating in the MUD days? How exactly would you stop that? No matter how cheat-proof your online game is someone will be out there with three copies of it running around killing monsters they shouldn't be to give the gold/experience to their real character. It's more of a social problem than how cheat-proof you are.
I remember playing on a MUD where generally everyone just blew cheating off and looked down upon the people who did it (it wasn't that big of a MUD so there was a little community). No one wanted to cheat because then the other players wouldn't help them in their quests or give them a little gold or spellup when they needed it. Coincidentally, there was no cheating. On the other side, I played on another MUD where the players laughed cheating off as "harmless" as long as it didn't interfere with game balance. On that one, there were level 2 guys running around with The-Armor-of-Ultimate-Invincibility-You-Can't-Hit- Me-So-Ha which takes away any fun you might have while playing with these guys or as them.
Who the heck wants a cube? I'm lobbying for pyramid myself. I'm sure everyone else is sick of their box shaped computers too. It's so much more leet if your neighborhood script kiddy can say "Hey man, wanna check out my new pyramid?". What was Apple thinking?
This should be the choice of parents. The parents should decide what games their children play, not the arcades. One thing people forget is that it's not real! Just like movie ratings are a guideline for parents to know about what level of content is in a movie, so are game ratings. Even arcade ones have some sort of warning. "This game contains realistic violence." is usually printed on the game's cabinet. As for the sexual content, can someone give me an example? It's not like there's naked women running around in a lot of arcade games.
A woman with a cigerette is standing on a corner waiting for a bus. Another woman walks up. Her cell phone rings. Cigerette woman exclaims, "Don't answer that! Don't you know you can get cancer from the radiation!?".
ONe major problem with the war on drugs is that, although the war on drugs gives kids sociological facts, it does give them little scientific facts.
This is the reason why programs like DARE just don't work. "See Jane smoke pot. See Jane have massive allergic reaction (just like you will). See Jane go to hospital. See Jane die. See what happens to you when you use drugs!" is not an effective way to get teens to stay of drugs. One of the things I remember hearing in school was that all drugs are addictive, which is just not true. If they have to lie about basics facts to scare kids off, how are teens supposed to trust the rest of what they said?
I can see this law be taken advantage of, not just to censor sites about making drugs but sites containing real scientific information, which leaves us with the "drugs are bad" propaganda. Blatantly disregarding the 1st Admendment to "stop" drug use is morally and ethically wrong. Besides, someone will just put it up in a country with no such laws, totally defeating the purpose of the bill. When will politicians learn that they can't regulate the internet?
Actually, since it's running Linux I'm sure you can mount a drive over the network. I don't have much experience with this, but you could also start programs from a different machines hard drive? Ie. an MP3 player and then play the files on your network's MP3 server. For those with a home network, I can see the NIC being a very cheap way to add another computer to check email in your room or play MP3s or whatever. I may get one of these whenever I get around to networking my computers:). -Antipop
Everyone's got ICQ, AIM, or IRC. You're not cool unless you talk to your friends on the Internet.
I think you assume too much of the majority of teenagers. Communication pretty much sums up the total of their knowledge. My friends brother literally doesn't know anything about computers other than clicking the "AIM" icon on his desktop lets him talk to his friends. Kids do not want to learn about computers. Learning anything more than the bare basics is considered "not cool". If you know more than the average Joe User you're labeled a nerd, freak, hacker, etc. Now matter how much adults go on and on about how kids are growing up with technology and learning so much, the truth is that they're not because they don't want to.
If you know how to browse, you know how to cheat on research reports.
I've never seen/heard of this. If you're going to cheat, you copy someone else's report. I guess it's too much trouble to surf the net for it.
You don't want to be the only person in your circle of friends who doesn't know how to use computers. And you want to keep up with the latest trends.
I laughed when I read this. Computers will never replace "cooler" things like football or cheerleading. It's not a trend, it's a glorized phone. I've already said this: it's not cool to know anything about computers. Ditto for getting a job, I know kids who have flat out told me they'd rather work at McDonald's than read a few books and get a computer related job.
Hackers probably inspired more than a few wanna-be's to learn about computers.
Yeah it sure did, and I never thought the idiots would leave me alone or stop filling my Inbox with "H0w d0 i l34rn to h4x0r?" emails. Then they all downloaded AOL scripts and proceeded to kick eachother offline for about a week or so before it got old.
Are all kids computer illiterate? No, just most. There are the exceptions, like me and a few of my friends but to most people the computer is a way to talk to your friends without worrying about your parents picking up the other phone and listening in. They're not learning about computers, just becoming more comfortable with them, and a lot of adults confuse the two.
It's great and all that they're listening to our phone conversations, but do we get cool little telescreen things like in 1984? I bet it would look cool hanging in my room!
Where do you live man? For the machine you listed, I'm imagining at least $2000+. My P3 700, 128MB, DVD, SB Live, Geforce 256, 30GB HDD, and 19" monitor from Dell set me back $1700. Either you're on crack or I'm driving to where you live to get my next computer. -Antipop
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I don't.
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So every time I get the BSOD in Windows, can I sue for a faulty OS? After all, your OS should be stable.
-Antipop
I just got my TI-83+ for my math class and thats pretty much all we do. Top games for the freshmen class of 2000 are DopeWars (sell drugs, make money) and SuperPimp (sell women, make money).
-Antipop
It's great and all if you can hook your cable modem up to your XBox and play away, but will it support home networks? If this thing can't be hooked up to a hub and used through a firewall/ipmasq box then it's going to be useless in a lot of homes. If it does, then good for Microsoft, because I believe that home network appliances are the future of computing/embedded devices/smart devices/whatever.
-Antipop
Don't worry Mr. Moody, all those security holes are going to be fixed in the Linux Service Pack 1! Don't you worry! It'll be out Real Soon Right Now, just like MS's!
-Antipop
It's not about having an actual reason, Microsoft is trying to get rid of all the negative PR because the don't even run their own OS on their servers.
-Antipop
I thought our fearless leader CmdrTaco wouldn't put up links to Quicktime movies? If you wanna see it, get ready to reboot.
-Antipop
Man, if this means I get one of those cool telescreens things like Winston in 1984 then who the hell really cares if we're under surveillance?
-Antipop
I can think of some "interesting" uses. Spying being one (super stealth teddy bear with camera for an eye!). Or of course, girls high school locker room :).
-Antipop
I think that most people forget that the "kids" playing these RPGs are not your impressionable 5 or 6 year old but teenagers and young adults. Seriously, do you think a young kid, even if he's a little older like 8-9, could get a handle on the complex AD&D rules? Or play even the simplier CRPGs? It's not very likely (or common). The little kids I know play Nascar and football games on their computer, the teenagers play Diablo II and Icewind Dale. For "real" RPGs, the little kids have never heard of AD&D or Magic The Gathering while the teenagers play them for fun. It doesn't go beyond that. I can see a little kid being influenced by their thief character in Diablo II (At the store: "I'll be just like Goron the Thief and steal this piece of candy!") but the teenagers know better. Teens are not as stupid/niave/impressionable or whatever as adults seem to think. Give us some credit, playing a stupid game on your computer or sitting around with friends playing AD&D does not make teens lie, steal, and cheat. It does let us have a little fun.
-Antipop
Anyone remember multi-character cheating in the MUD days? How exactly would you stop that? No matter how cheat-proof your online game is someone will be out there with three copies of it running around killing monsters they shouldn't be to give the gold/experience to their real character. It's more of a social problem than how cheat-proof you are.
- Me-So-Ha which takes away any fun you might have while playing with these guys or as them.
I remember playing on a MUD where generally everyone just blew cheating off and looked down upon the people who did it (it wasn't that big of a MUD so there was a little community). No one wanted to cheat because then the other players wouldn't help them in their quests or give them a little gold or spellup when they needed it. Coincidentally, there was no cheating. On the other side, I played on another MUD where the players laughed cheating off as "harmless" as long as it didn't interfere with game balance. On that one, there were level 2 guys running around with The-Armor-of-Ultimate-Invincibility-You-Can't-Hit
-Antipop
Will the game use the AD&D rules like Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate, etc.? That would be extremely cool if it does. I want a +2 Lightsaber!
-Antipop
Who the heck wants a cube? I'm lobbying for pyramid myself. I'm sure everyone else is sick of their box shaped computers too. It's so much more leet if your neighborhood script kiddy can say "Hey man, wanna check out my new pyramid?". What was Apple thinking?
-Antipop
This should be the choice of parents. The parents should decide what games their children play, not the arcades. One thing people forget is that it's not real! Just like movie ratings are a guideline for parents to know about what level of content is in a movie, so are game ratings. Even arcade ones have some sort of warning. "This game contains realistic violence." is usually printed on the game's cabinet. As for the sexual content, can someone give me an example? It's not like there's naked women running around in a lot of arcade games.
-Antipop
A woman with a cigerette is standing on a corner waiting for a bus. Another woman walks up. Her cell phone rings. Cigerette woman exclaims, "Don't answer that! Don't you know you can get cancer from the radiation!?".
-Antipop
he comes back to find his home worth $2 million
..and the problem is??
-Antipop
Why do we still use gasoline? Easy question: you can sniff it. Try getting high off solar power, it's just not the same.
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amazing how little of it has been mined by the DJ/techno community
"Powerpill Pacman" by Aphex Twin. 'Nuff said.
-Antipop
Besides, Icewind Dale is better
-Antipop
ONe major problem with the war on drugs is that, although the war on drugs gives kids sociological facts, it does give them little scientific facts.
This is the reason why programs like DARE just don't work. "See Jane smoke pot. See Jane have massive allergic reaction (just like you will). See Jane go to hospital. See Jane die. See what happens to you when you use drugs!" is not an effective way to get teens to stay of drugs. One of the things I remember hearing in school was that all drugs are addictive, which is just not true. If they have to lie about basics facts to scare kids off, how are teens supposed to trust the rest of what they said?
I can see this law be taken advantage of, not just to censor sites about making drugs but sites containing real scientific information, which leaves us with the "drugs are bad" propaganda. Blatantly disregarding the 1st Admendment to "stop" drug use is morally and ethically wrong. Besides, someone will just put it up in a country with no such laws, totally defeating the purpose of the bill. When will politicians learn that they can't regulate the internet?
-Antipop
Actually, since it's running Linux I'm sure you can mount a drive over the network. I don't have much experience with this, but you could also start programs from a different machines hard drive? Ie. an MP3 player and then play the files on your network's MP3 server. For those with a home network, I can see the NIC being a very cheap way to add another computer to check email in your room or play MP3s or whatever. I may get one of these whenever I get around to networking my computers :).
-Antipop
Now all the M$ Junkies have proof that RMS is the evil Communist antichrist... ;)
-Antipop
Everyone's got ICQ, AIM, or IRC. You're not cool unless you talk to your friends on the Internet.
I think you assume too much of the majority of teenagers. Communication pretty much sums up the total of their knowledge. My friends brother literally doesn't know anything about computers other than clicking the "AIM" icon on his desktop lets him talk to his friends. Kids do not want to learn about computers. Learning anything more than the bare basics is considered "not cool". If you know more than the average Joe User you're labeled a nerd, freak, hacker, etc. Now matter how much adults go on and on about how kids are growing up with technology and learning so much, the truth is that they're not because they don't want to.
If you know how to browse, you know how to cheat on research reports.
I've never seen/heard of this. If you're going to cheat, you copy someone else's report. I guess it's too much trouble to surf the net for it.
You don't want to be the only person in your circle of friends who doesn't know how to use computers. And you want to keep up with the latest trends.
I laughed when I read this. Computers will never replace "cooler" things like football or cheerleading. It's not a trend, it's a glorized phone. I've already said this: it's not cool to know anything about computers. Ditto for getting a job, I know kids who have flat out told me they'd rather work at McDonald's than read a few books and get a computer related job.
Hackers probably inspired more than a few wanna-be's to learn about computers.
Yeah it sure did, and I never thought the idiots would leave me alone or stop filling my Inbox with "H0w d0 i l34rn to h4x0r?" emails. Then they all downloaded AOL scripts and proceeded to kick eachother offline for about a week or so before it got old.
Are all kids computer illiterate? No, just most. There are the exceptions, like me and a few of my friends but to most people the computer is a way to talk to your friends without worrying about your parents picking up the other phone and listening in. They're not learning about computers, just becoming more comfortable with them, and a lot of adults confuse the two.
-Antipop
It's great and all that they're listening to our phone conversations, but do we get cool little telescreen things like in 1984? I bet it would look cool hanging in my room!
-Antipop
Where do you live man? For the machine you listed, I'm imagining at least $2000+. My P3 700, 128MB, DVD, SB Live, Geforce 256, 30GB HDD, and 19" monitor from Dell set me back $1700. Either you're on crack or I'm driving to where you live to get my next computer.
-Antipop