Scotty commenting about an alien synthetic muscle compound in front of him: "It's a fancy name, but how will something that looks like a drop of jelly make this thing work?"
Henoch (The evil alien): It will have twice the strength and agility of your body. It will last 1,000 years.
Easy. The neighbor kid is a braggart. He's always wanting to tell everybody all the new stuff he got. My kids pass all that along, wishing they could have that stuff too (of course). It's almost like if I don't get the latest gossip on new games, then I should almost be worried.......
It's a strict reliance until I get a chance to review the game. She doesn't play the games so the rating is the only guideline. After I review them, then I make a decision if it's OK for my kids because I understand how they perceive things.
I didn't check, is DDR rated T? If so, maybe the rating takes complexity into account and there's a generalization on the amount of gameplay a teen would understand over a young child. Although I did see my kids play DDR in the arcade without missing a beat early in the game.
Besides, it sounds to me like HE's the one doing the parenting, and you're just letting the ESRB parent for you. Playing GTA is nothing more than a modern cowboys and indians. And kids know this.
I should get a second cup of coffee because maybe I missed something. You conclude that the other kid's father is doing the parenting by buying his kid whatever game he wants, regardless of voilence content, and letting the grandmother babysit while he's away all the time?
Please explain the logic underlying that conclusion.
We're talking seven year old kids here. The ESRB rating isn't perfect, but it's a guideline to use without needlessly restricting my kid's enjoyment of videogames. Since new games are always arriving at the neighbor kids house, I don't get a chance to learn what they are until after my kids played them. I'm certainly not going to demand that I see all games that come in. That's just plain rude. The grandmother respects my wishes to restrict the gameplay to something less than T rated games. When I hear of a new title that they got, I ask to borrow it or I go to Blockbuster to rent it and try it out myself. This way, I keep informed.
I grew up with shooting games myself. Remember Combat? Or maybe GunFight? Blocky graphics do little to desensitize a child. But today's near real graphics can be traumatic for a seven year old. It's just something I can't risk, becaue I AM PARENTING. There's a lot of pre-teens that cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. Who cares what anyone else thinks. That's my stand. I'd rather explain the concept of violence at a reasonable pace while their growing up instead of sorting it all out at once because they've been exposed to a large amount of it in a short time. Especially when it's still within my power to limit their exposure. As they build up more common sense and understanding, I can relax my restrictions. Besides, as soon as I feel like introducing him to Halo, he'll probably kick my ass in the game...
but heinous and sexual violence. If parents don't have the sense enough to not let their kids play games with that in them, then I wonder if the government should step in.
My son doesn't have any kids his age to play with in the neighborhood. I tend to relax my concerns when he does play with a neighbor kid who lives with his Grandmother when visiting his Father (divorced parents), who also lives at Grandmother's place. The father is never home, but buys his 7 year old kid any game for the PC or PS2, regardless of the ESRB rating.
It took me some time to explain to my son what it is he saw in the Grand Theft Auto game (knife weilding punks cutting off hands). The Grandmother understands my concern and doesn't allow T or up rated games to be played when my son is over there. The father couldn't care less. Eventually, the lack of parenting on his part will disturb the child mentally and I may find myself telling my son he can't play with the kid anymore.
Meanwhile, I try to learn more about what interests my son the most and have fun learning or trying new things with him to keep his mind off the other boy's actions. Things like real auto racing games that don't involve cutting throats.
I agree that some government intervention would work if it's not abused. The risk of abuse is still high, unfortunately. I can see someone turning in a parent out of spite on unfounded accusations.
As an aside, I recently bought a consumer PC package from Wal-Mart. I picked up an HP system. Got it home and found it had no S-Video output that I wanted for home movie work. No problem, I shouldn't have expected it. It has PCI-Express graphics, so I consider buying a PCI-Express card that has S-Video. Open the case, there's no PCI-Express slot!!! There's solder pads for the slot on the motherboard, but they never put in the slot. I guess HP will screw the consumer at any time to save $1.47 in parts.
So, I took it all back and got an eMachines system that runs remarkably well. No S-Video, but it at least had the PCI-Express slot....
With all of the data from Nasa's Rovers we should be able to get an IMAX 3D of the Martian Surface
I believe that we landed on the moon. With that said, why didn't we sent a NASA Rover to the moon first to test it? We could have also proved that we left hardware behind. Live video of looking at the junk left behind then pan to the Earthrise.
Of course, I guess that event could easily be faked, too. But, if you look at the Earth really close in that video, you can see me flicking the porch light on/off real fast. See it must be real:)
The most popular definition of the HAM acronym is based on the three scientists who's research led to the discovery of wireless radio.
Hertz, Armstrong and Marconi.
Although, to prove it wrong would most likely require an aging HAM operator which probably predates the the early 1x1 callsign configuration (if they had a callsign at all when they started). That person might still remember how HAM got started. Till one is found, it's HAM, not ham.
My son loves that show and he's only 7 years old. All I have left of Starcade stuff is a few episodes from an old videotape I used to catch the show during the day while I was at work. If I had known it'd be pulled, I'd have rotated tapes and not just the episodes on a single tape.
Mark Richards was a lousy wannabe host. He had an obnoxious voice and could never get any consistency with his dialog.
Geoff Edwards, as a seasoned host, really made Starcade a fun show to watch.
I worked for a small company he was President of a while back, NCSA (another confusing name as it was National Computer Security Association, not the other well known NCSA). It was the forerunner of Cybertrust. It was well known within the company that Peter Tippett was the primary developer of the early versions of Norton Anti-Virus. I never got around to asking him if he was the ONLY developer of the software at that time, but I'm pretty sure he was.
That was a cool show which I watched when I was younger. My kids keep asking me what shows I watched when I was a kid. Now I'll have to add it to my list of wanted video clips of my favorite TV shows of the past that are all but gone. I'll put that one up there with Ark II, Speed Buggy, Shazam, Isis, and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
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Hey, another VIC-20 fan!!!
The neural patterns get established in the basal ganglia, a brain region critical to habits, addiction and procedural learning.
So that's why it's always the heavy smoker that sits on their lazy backend and tells people to do it again until they get it right...
No, what you've got is a really, really expensive pencil and paper.
Not quite, the previous poster wants pressure sensitivity. You are describing this: http://www.howstuffworks.com/magna-doodle.htm
Anything related to white-out on e-paper instead of on the computer screen
Intense focus on small incremental changes for MS has turned them into a money making machine.
No. Their incremental changes have mosty been bug fixes.
The fact that they get away with charging for the bug fixes as a new release is what turns them into a money making machine.
"Return To Tommorrow"
Scotty commenting about an alien synthetic muscle compound in front of him:
"It's a fancy name, but how will something that looks like a drop of jelly
make this thing work?"
Henoch (The evil alien):
It will have twice the strength and agility of your body. It will last 1,000 years.
How do your kids submit a game to you for review?
Easy. The neighbor kid is a braggart. He's always wanting to tell everybody all the new stuff he got. My kids pass all that along, wishing they could have that stuff too (of course). It's almost like if I don't get the latest gossip on new games, then I should almost be worried.......
It's a strict reliance until I get a chance to review the game. She doesn't play the games so the rating is the only guideline. After I review them, then I make a decision if it's OK for my kids because I understand how they perceive things.
I didn't check, is DDR rated T? If so, maybe the rating takes complexity into account and there's a generalization on the amount of gameplay a teen would understand over a young child. Although I did see my kids play DDR in the arcade without missing a beat early in the game.
Besides, it sounds to me like HE's the one doing the parenting, and you're just letting the ESRB parent for you. Playing GTA is nothing more than a modern cowboys and indians. And kids know this.
I should get a second cup of coffee because maybe I missed something. You conclude that the other kid's father is doing the parenting by buying his kid whatever game he wants, regardless of voilence content, and letting the grandmother babysit while he's away all the time?
Please explain the logic underlying that conclusion.
We're talking seven year old kids here. The ESRB rating isn't perfect, but it's a guideline to use without needlessly restricting my kid's enjoyment of videogames. Since new games are always arriving at the neighbor kids house, I don't get a chance to learn what they are until after my kids played them. I'm certainly not going to demand that I see all games that come in. That's just plain rude. The grandmother respects my wishes to restrict the gameplay to something less than T rated games. When I hear of a new title that they got, I ask to borrow it or I go to Blockbuster to rent it and try it out myself. This way, I keep informed.
I grew up with shooting games myself. Remember Combat? Or maybe GunFight? Blocky graphics do little to desensitize a child. But today's near real graphics can be traumatic for a seven year old. It's just something I can't risk, becaue I AM PARENTING. There's a lot of pre-teens that cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. Who cares what anyone else thinks. That's my stand. I'd rather explain the concept of violence at a reasonable pace while their growing up instead of sorting it all out at once because they've been exposed to a large amount of it in a short time. Especially when it's still within my power to limit their exposure. As they build up more common sense and understanding, I can relax my restrictions. Besides, as soon as I feel like introducing him to Halo, he'll probably kick my ass in the game...
but heinous and sexual violence. If parents don't have the sense enough to not let their kids play games with that in them, then I wonder if the government should step in.
My son doesn't have any kids his age to play with in the neighborhood. I tend to relax my concerns when he does play with a neighbor kid who lives with his Grandmother when visiting his Father (divorced parents), who also lives at Grandmother's place. The father is never home, but buys his 7 year old kid any game for the PC or PS2, regardless of the ESRB rating.
It took me some time to explain to my son what it is he saw in the Grand Theft Auto game (knife weilding punks cutting off hands). The Grandmother understands my concern and doesn't allow T or up rated games to be played when my son is over there. The father couldn't care less. Eventually, the lack of parenting on his part will disturb the child mentally and I may find myself telling my son he can't play with the kid anymore.
Meanwhile, I try to learn more about what interests my son the most and have fun learning or trying new things with him to keep his mind off the other boy's actions. Things like real auto racing games that don't involve cutting throats.
I agree that some government intervention would work if it's not abused. The risk of abuse is still high, unfortunately. I can see someone turning in a parent out of spite on unfounded accusations.
Ad-free magazines simply do not exist anymore. There aren't any. Not one single one. Prove me wrong.
Consumer Reports Magazine???
And how can I deck out my house in mid-century modern MySQL? I'd like to see that.
There's a large supply of tables to choose from. You even put them together yourself. Just name them Coffee, Kitchen, End, etc.
perhaps with the ads targetted to the content of your document.
Yes, typing up love letters will get you ads for eHarmony or Viagra.
Because God forbid the President be allow to send individual parts of the bill back to congress and tell them to grow the hell up.
Maybe it was my donut eating binge at work. Why, when I read that statement, it reads in the voice of Cleveland from The Family Guy?
their consumer product line sucks and breaks
As an aside, I recently bought a consumer PC package from Wal-Mart. I picked up an HP system. Got it home and found it had no S-Video output that I wanted for home movie work. No problem, I shouldn't have expected it. It has PCI-Express graphics, so I consider buying a PCI-Express card that has S-Video. Open the case, there's no PCI-Express slot!!! There's solder pads for the slot on the motherboard, but they never put in the slot. I guess HP will screw the consumer at any time to save $1.47 in parts.
So, I took it all back and got an eMachines system that runs remarkably well. No S-Video, but it at least had the PCI-Express slot....
With all of the data from Nasa's Rovers we should be able to get an IMAX 3D of the Martian Surface
:)
I believe that we landed on the moon. With that said, why didn't we sent a NASA Rover to the moon first to test it? We could have also proved that we left hardware behind. Live video of looking at the junk left behind then pan to the Earthrise.
Of course, I guess that event could easily be faked, too. But, if you look at the Earth really close in that video, you can see me flicking the porch light on/off real fast. See it must be real
The most popular definition of the HAM acronym is based on the three scientists who's research led to the discovery of wireless radio.
Hertz, Armstrong and Marconi.
Although, to prove it wrong would most likely require an aging HAM operator which probably predates the the early 1x1 callsign configuration (if they had a callsign at all when they started). That person might still remember how HAM got started. Till one is found, it's HAM, not ham.
Just try getting past the HR monkey without at least a BS, I dare ya
Simple, you just BS your way past the HR Manager.
I would think this is a major detraction from my libraries largest source of income, me and late fees.
Nah, keep the books for years and return them during the library's amnesty period.
My son loves that show and he's only 7 years old. All I have left of Starcade stuff is a few episodes from an old videotape I used to catch the show during the day while I was at work. If I had known it'd be pulled, I'd have rotated tapes and not just the episodes on a single tape.
Mark Richards was a lousy wannabe host. He had an obnoxious voice and could never get any consistency with his dialog.
Geoff Edwards, as a seasoned host, really made Starcade a fun show to watch.
the fellow who talks without moving his lips
Was he always like that or did he get tetanus from working around all that rusted metal?
Ahhh... gotta reply to my own posting to clear something up.
I don't believe Peter Tippett was working for Symantec at the time while developing his first AV software. The software was aquired by Symantec.
I worked for a small company he was President of a while back, NCSA (another confusing name as it was National Computer Security Association, not the other well known NCSA). It was the forerunner of Cybertrust. It was well known within the company that Peter Tippett was the primary developer of the early versions of Norton Anti-Virus. I never got around to asking him if he was the ONLY developer of the software at that time, but I'm pretty sure he was.
Perhaps he was inspired by the show Small Wonder
That was a cool show which I watched when I was younger. My kids keep asking me what shows I watched when I was a kid. Now I'll have to add it to my list of wanted video clips of my favorite TV shows of the past that are all but gone. I'll put that one up there with Ark II, Speed Buggy, Shazam, Isis, and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
Ha... I remember the reference...
"I would say you have a plethora of PSP hacks, El Guapo"