Many kids today are not into computer programming, especially languages like C++. What tends to work out well (What I've seen teachers do, I have worked in school computer labs) is making web pages, teaching how to use Word, etc.
If you do want to do programing stuff like JAVA applets tend to work well...
Also another idea is if you can find some old computers, many companies might have some, you can have the kids take them apart to learn how they work, and how to put the together.
Ratings are simply another form of censorship, another crutch for parents to use to help them escape the responsibilities of being a parent. Instead of actually taking the time to see what the material is, many parents prefer to simply take the rating instead to taking the time to view the material themselves.
And for you information the constitution says *nothing* about constitutional rights (If you actually went to a decent school you might have read the Constitution) having a age requirement, and furthermore what about the rights of the rational parent who sees that the "violent" games aren't actually causing children to be more violent. This is simply an attempt to control *other people's* children. Here's a newsflash for you, just because they don't believe the same things as you doesn't make them a bad parent.
I'm turning 16 in one month, and I have numerous "mature" games. Not to mention that I have several "R" rated movies in my DVD collection (Matrix, Monty Python, etc...) My parents know I have these things, but nothing is something that they did not approve. So what right do you have to say what I can and can not watch?
Notice that for Video game ratings it says "mature", I've seen twelve year olds that act more mature then twenty-one-year-olds. And to this date I have yet to see someone try to copy a move they saw in Unreal Tournament or Quake, yet I've seen kids copy stuff they've seen on WWF. The simple fact is that those who play video games know that they are just that, games, they don't even look real. Yet I've seen more fingers being pointed towards video games then WWF.
Perhaps its that there are so many bad parents out there that do not understand their children. They have no sense of logic or reason.
The *minimum* requirements for the game are:
Win95/98/2000, Pentium II 400 MHz, 700 MB hard drive space, 64MB RAM, 16MB video RAM, 4X CD-ROM drive, Direct Sound-compliant sound card, 3D hardware acceleration required
Given the fact that it requires 3D-Acceleration I doubt it will work on a laptop (however the Geforce2go could be promising), much less NT4. Looking at the requirements though, you might not want to consider playing this game on anything less then 600 MHZ with 192 MB of RAM, (Win2k will take something around 70-90 MB of RAM for the System. Win98 will usually use about 48 MB on startup, but keeps ballooning after that because of memory leaks.)
To preorder the game will cost you $45 + shipping @ ebworld.com So my guess is that once it hits shelves it might set you back 30-40 dollars, depending on where you buy it (I usually suggest Fry's).
Just to give you a vague idea, 10 MB would be considered *small* for a windows registry, most are 15-20 MB. I would have a real hard time believing that they could possibly send your registry over the internet (especially any of you poor souls who are still using 56k)
If you are real paranoid about what is in your registry you can always look at it at using regedit (I don't suggest changing anything unless you actually know what you are doing, so don't blame me if you hose your system). I doubt that you'll find anything regarding what items you have in Diablo II. Odds are the reports of Diablo II v1.06 being spyware are purely rumors, because the person who wrote them obviously knows very little about the windows registry.
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Many kids today are not into computer programming, especially languages like C++. What tends to work out well (What I've seen teachers do, I have worked in school computer labs) is making web pages, teaching how to use Word, etc.
If you do want to do programing stuff like JAVA applets tend to work well...
Also another idea is if you can find some old computers, many companies might have some, you can have the kids take them apart to learn how they work, and how to put the together.
Ratings are simply another form of censorship, another crutch for parents to use to help them escape the responsibilities of being a parent. Instead of actually taking the time to see what the material is, many parents prefer to simply take the rating instead to taking the time to view the material themselves.
And for you information the constitution says *nothing* about constitutional rights (If you actually went to a decent school you might have read the Constitution) having a age requirement, and furthermore what about the rights of the rational parent who sees that the "violent" games aren't actually causing children to be more violent. This is simply an attempt to control *other people's* children. Here's a newsflash for you, just because they don't believe the same things as you doesn't make them a bad parent.
I'm turning 16 in one month, and I have numerous "mature" games. Not to mention that I have several "R" rated movies in my DVD collection (Matrix, Monty Python, etc...) My parents know I have these things, but nothing is something that they did not approve. So what right do you have to say what I can and can not watch?
Notice that for Video game ratings it says "mature", I've seen twelve year olds that act more mature then twenty-one-year-olds. And to this date I have yet to see someone try to copy a move they saw in Unreal Tournament or Quake, yet I've seen kids copy stuff they've seen on WWF. The simple fact is that those who play video games know that they are just that, games, they don't even look real. Yet I've seen more fingers being pointed towards video games then WWF.
Perhaps its that there are so many bad parents out there that do not understand their children. They have no sense of logic or reason.
Given the fact that it requires 3D-Acceleration I doubt it will work on a laptop (however the Geforce2go could be promising), much less NT4. Looking at the requirements though, you might not want to consider playing this game on anything less then 600 MHZ with 192 MB of RAM, (Win2k will take something around 70-90 MB of RAM for the System. Win98 will usually use about 48 MB on startup, but keeps ballooning after that because of memory leaks.)
To preorder the game will cost you $45 + shipping @ ebworld.com So my guess is that once it hits shelves it might set you back 30-40 dollars, depending on where you buy it (I usually suggest Fry's).
Just to give you a vague idea, 10 MB would be considered *small* for a windows registry, most are 15-20 MB. I would have a real hard time believing that they could possibly send your registry over the internet (especially any of you poor souls who are still using 56k)
If you are real paranoid about what is in your registry you can always look at it at using regedit (I don't suggest changing anything unless you actually know what you are doing, so don't blame me if you hose your system). I doubt that you'll find anything regarding what items you have in Diablo II. Odds are the reports of Diablo II v1.06 being spyware are purely rumors, because the person who wrote them obviously knows very little about the windows registry.