According to the Gamespot article, Blizzard is going to drop their standard free battle.net support. Instead they will charge approximately the standard $10 charge of the industry.
Gamespot says that it makes sense since they plan on having 10-15 people continuing to work on the game after release increasing the story and such. But basically the answer is it will cost money.
a mobile phone internet service that works. Now all I have to figure out is how to tell the person next to me at the movies that playing Yahoo! games in the seat next to me in not surfing the Internet...
I am a Michigan resident. This law has been debated many times over in my state by the papers, politicians, and families. In the end I am happy that the law has been overturned.
This however does not mean much will change. In the Grand Rapids Public Library System (Grand Rapids is the second largest city in Michigan on the opposite side of the state to Detroit) the software blocking software was never installed. The library system said that it was censorship that they did not support.
What they did do is restrict anyone under 16 to use computers that were in view of a librarian or have a parent sign out the time.
In the end this overturned law is not going to help my life. The law itself had done nothing to change how I lived or surf in the library at all.
But what is proposed is the most boring idea I have heard for school children. You will quickly have to learn discipline and forget teaching them about computers. Instead, do some games as has been proposed and show them how to use a computer. They don't care how it works, just that it works.
What you should teach them depends on the age of the children. I would help lower elementary children first how to use a computer with simple games and maybe even a couple songs. As they get older add some lecture and give them more freedom in what they can do.
The thing not to do is assume that they are children and do not know how to use a computer. At my high school we had this required computer class, it became the most pointless worst class anyone had to take. All the class consisted of was a semester of MS Word (all of the different tools) a few weeks of PowerPoint, Excel, Acces, and if you were lucky how to answer the telephone. Oh and unless I forget, the ever popular create a website using Word.
Please be creative, they might be children but the last thing you want to do is turnoff the future of computing because you were boring and taught them nothing new. Good luck and I think you will find working with youngsters a lot of fun.
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That article is from the 1970s from a dead author. So how about moding it down.
Gamespot says that it makes sense since they plan on having 10-15 people continuing to work on the game after release increasing the story and such. But basically the answer is it will cost money.
Because if you read his post, he has already bought the computers. He is not in the market for a new one.
Tell me how he is going to put Mac OS on a Windows PC? The choice for an existing machine really is between Linux and Windows.
a mobile phone internet service that works. Now all I have to figure out is how to tell the person next to me at the movies that playing Yahoo! games in the seat next to me in not surfing the Internet...
This however does not mean much will change. In the Grand Rapids Public Library System (Grand Rapids is the second largest city in Michigan on the opposite side of the state to Detroit) the software blocking software was never installed. The library system said that it was censorship that they did not support.
What they did do is restrict anyone under 16 to use computers that were in view of a librarian or have a parent sign out the time.
In the end this overturned law is not going to help my life. The law itself had done nothing to change how I lived or surf in the library at all.
But what is proposed is the most boring idea I have heard for school children. You will quickly have to learn discipline and forget teaching them about computers. Instead, do some games as has been proposed and show them how to use a computer. They don't care how it works, just that it works.
What you should teach them depends on the age of the children. I would help lower elementary children first how to use a computer with simple games and maybe even a couple songs. As they get older add some lecture and give them more freedom in what they can do. The thing not to do is assume that they are children and do not know how to use a computer. At my high school we had this required computer class, it became the most pointless worst class anyone had to take. All the class consisted of was a semester of MS Word (all of the different tools) a few weeks of PowerPoint, Excel, Acces, and if you were lucky how to answer the telephone. Oh and unless I forget, the ever popular create a website using Word. Please be creative, they might be children but the last thing you want to do is turnoff the future of computing because you were boring and taught them nothing new. Good luck and I think you will find working with youngsters a lot of fun.