No way would this work in our house, kids are 6 and 22 months.
I've already found items waiting for me in my Amazon cart after my daughter has played with apps like the Easy Bake Oven - which is a cute app, but includes links to add related supplies to your shopping cart...
When I was living in my grandfather's house after he moved to an old folks' home, and before we sold it I used to toy with these assholes. They'd ask for "Mr. wikthemighty" (which I was) and I'd go along with their schemes and ask them all sorts of odd questions, and eventually they'd run in to "oh, I'm not that Mr. wikthemighty - he doesn't live here anymore" or "he's dead, you need to update your records" or whatever I felt like saying at the time...
My mom died in 2007 and my dad still gets mail and calls for her.
My 6 year old daughter does pretty good with YouTube, but there have been plenty of incidents like going from Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse to kids playing "Bobbie & Ricky" where Ricky has been kidnapped and tied up "because that's my kind of love!" which crosses the border a bit. I'll definitely be giving this app a shot.
Really, the only thing my SLR does better than my phone is Optics, which makes distance & low-light photos possible.
Taking a snap of what you had for lunch? My phone does that just as well as the SLR.
Robo Rally would be a great place to start teaching programming basics (i.e. programming steps and timing.)
Earliest computer/electronic experiment that really struck me as a kid (1st or 2nd grade) was 'decoding' circuits with a logic probe: we had rectangles of construction paper, half of which had two rows of hole-punched holes on opposite ends, and we taped tin foil paths between them, including bogus foil under the 'dead' holes. After making a half dozen of these each, we traded and logic probed someone else's circuits. Lots of fun!
While I'm not so thrilled with their Capsule DRM system, Green Man Gaming has had a system in place to trade in digital games for some time now. I believe the developer gets to set whether or not a game can be traded in.
Agreed.
Think of what good it would do if everyone got a small electric vehicle for commuting - speeds might be a little slower, but you could have more/smaller commuter lanes, and collisions would be less drastic. (Unless you get confettied by a semi truck!)
SpaceChem is a fantastic game, and is the first game in a long while to remind me of the old The Learning Comany games like Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.
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I had some of these too.
I also had some Marvel Superhero 'Computer Fun' books, but couldn't find a link to them anywhere.
Thank you for this link! I still have several stacks of Compute's Gazette in a box somewhere... :)
Robo Rally is like a multiplayer boardgame version of LOGO...
Robot Turtles is even better for younger players
Micro Adventures were some of the books that I started with as a kid
My wife uses Facebook Religiously - does that count?
Seriously though - I've got no Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. and I've managed just fine. :)
No way would this work in our house, kids are 6 and 22 months.
I've already found items waiting for me in my Amazon cart after my daughter has played with apps like the Easy Bake Oven - which is a cute app, but includes links to add related supplies to your shopping cart...
I long for a reprint of my trusty old Trackman Marble FX, which someone will probably have to be pried out of my hand when I'm dead. ;)
GMOD FacePoser in addition to GMOD w/Kinect would be a blast!
A solid gold casing would be too soft to be practical.
Here you go...
Minecraft: Pocket Edition is already re-written in C++.
How Lego Came Back From The Brink Of Bankruptcy
Jews In Spaaaaaaace!
When I was living in my grandfather's house after he moved to an old folks' home, and before we sold it I used to toy with these assholes. They'd ask for "Mr. wikthemighty" (which I was) and I'd go along with their schemes and ask them all sorts of odd questions, and eventually they'd run in to "oh, I'm not that Mr. wikthemighty - he doesn't live here anymore" or "he's dead, you need to update your records" or whatever I felt like saying at the time... My mom died in 2007 and my dad still gets mail and calls for her.
At least Advanced Squad Leader is still alive, published by Multiman Publishing, thanks in part to Curt Schilling...
My 6 year old daughter does pretty good with YouTube, but there have been plenty of incidents like going from Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse to kids playing "Bobbie & Ricky" where Ricky has been kidnapped and tied up "because that's my kind of love!" which crosses the border a bit. I'll definitely be giving this app a shot.
Of course - kid friendly ones! ;)
Really, the only thing my SLR does better than my phone is Optics, which makes distance & low-light photos possible. Taking a snap of what you had for lunch? My phone does that just as well as the SLR.
Robo Rally would be a great place to start teaching programming basics (i.e. programming steps and timing.)
Earliest computer/electronic experiment that really struck me as a kid (1st or 2nd grade) was 'decoding' circuits with a logic probe: we had rectangles of construction paper, half of which had two rows of hole-punched holes on opposite ends, and we taped tin foil paths between them, including bogus foil under the 'dead' holes. After making a half dozen of these each, we traded and logic probed someone else's circuits. Lots of fun!
Well, if you ever do feel like playing games again, please check out GoodOldGames' great selection of titles!
While I'm not so thrilled with their Capsule DRM system, Green Man Gaming has had a system in place to trade in digital games for some time now. I believe the developer gets to set whether or not a game can be traded in.
Agreed. Think of what good it would do if everyone got a small electric vehicle for commuting - speeds might be a little slower, but you could have more/smaller commuter lanes, and collisions would be less drastic. (Unless you get confettied by a semi truck!)
SpaceChem is a fantastic game, and is the first game in a long while to remind me of the old The Learning Comany games like Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.
Evochron Mercenary
Space Combat (by Laminar Research, makers of X-Plane)
Plenty of great "couch co-op" games on PC.
Recently I've played:
A Virus Named Tom
Trine 2
Rayman Origins
Portal 2
Magicka
Dungeon Defenders
Disney Universe (we've got a 3yo in the house!)
Its not like they can take Mario and make a FPS, although that could be hilarious. Super Mario Bros meets GoldenEye.
Dunno about that, but I thought the Paper Mario games were terrific!