After seeing children this age these days makes me sad. My three year old cousin can't comprehend a simple logic game (Bounce victims from a burning building to an ambilance,) and when we are doing nothing at all he stops gets a crazed look in his eyes and does that Power Rangers crap to me. And just about every other child I see is the same way. This article gave me new hope in the children, the people who will care for me when I play Quake XXXVI in a retired home. I sure as heck hope more children are like this, or else we would lapse back into barbaric apes. At 6 I was able to turn on my dads system and play games by my self. Before that I used an old C64 to program BASIC and play those wonderful games (ohh...memories) At 10 I mastered Pascal and wrote my own game (Card Sharks, you get a card and guess if the next is higher or lower. Uses ASCII graphics. Started to add VGA graphics then I grew up.) One things for sure, when I raise a kid, I'll be sure he get's his own system very early like I did (I must be dreaming, unless I find a geek-girl that ain't gonna happen.)
Microsoft really isn't that bad, but MAN are they sore loosers. I think that they've realized that Linux is a threat to their business...and whant the banchmarks to keep the comercial developers. Games are coming to linux, and soon 'real world' apps such a Lotus Notes and AutoCAD will be linux apps (cause even linux betas don't crash half as much a windows final releases so, they just segfault.)
I say this should be a bet...If MS looses, they have to integrate an Xserver to Windows (so if you're at uncle bob's over in alaska and he runs Windows, you can always login to your server and play quake3,) and release a driver interpreter so Linux users can properly use their nifty new hardware without waiting a couple of months for some beta drivers. If linux looses, then...well I don't know what bill gates would want? THE WHOLE FREAKING THING IS FREE!!! hmmm...
It will cost money to adjust hardware to the new companies...but WHY NOT MAKE THE HARDWARE INDEPENDENT!!! LIKE IT USED TO!!! Make Microsoft's little divisions make their software change, not make the hardware change to the OS.
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After seeing children this age these days makes me sad. My three year old cousin can't comprehend a simple logic game (Bounce victims from a burning building to an ambilance,) and when we are doing nothing at all he stops gets a crazed look in his eyes and does that Power Rangers crap to me. And just about every other child I see is the same way. This article gave me new hope in the children, the people who will care for me when I play Quake XXXVI in a retired home. I sure as heck hope more children are like this, or else we would lapse back into barbaric apes.
At 6 I was able to turn on my dads system and play games by my self. Before that I used an old C64 to program BASIC and play those wonderful games (ohh...memories) At 10 I mastered Pascal and wrote my own game (Card Sharks, you get a card and guess if the next is higher or lower. Uses ASCII graphics. Started to add VGA graphics then I grew up.)
One things for sure, when I raise a kid, I'll be sure he get's his own system very early like I did (I must be dreaming, unless I find a geek-girl that ain't gonna happen.)
Microsoft really isn't that bad, but MAN are they sore loosers. I think that they've realized that Linux is a threat to their business...and whant the banchmarks to keep the comercial developers. Games are coming to linux, and soon 'real world' apps such a Lotus Notes and AutoCAD will be linux apps (cause even linux betas don't crash half as much a windows final releases so, they just segfault.)
I say this should be a bet...If MS looses, they have to integrate an Xserver to Windows (so if you're at uncle bob's over in alaska and he runs Windows, you can always login to your server and play quake3,) and release a driver interpreter so Linux users can properly use their nifty new hardware without waiting a couple of months for some beta drivers.
If linux looses, then...well I don't know what bill gates would want? THE WHOLE FREAKING THING IS FREE!!! hmmm...
It will cost money to adjust hardware to the new companies...but WHY NOT MAKE THE HARDWARE INDEPENDENT!!! LIKE IT USED TO!!! Make Microsoft's little divisions make their software change, not make the hardware change to the OS.