a few years ago, i had the joy of watching an Iowa metal band's album made by digital audio professionals. a ProTools rig that the dude controlled with (among other things)....a Kensington trackball! the thing had a bunch of buttons on it that you could program. he had routed them to perform special functions within ProTools. i was in love. still haven't gotten around to getting one for my modest home studio, tho...
I had a C-64 for YEARS, but some of my earliest games (late-1985) were those two. Man, my brother and I stayed home from school, playing sick, to play Jumpman all. day. long.
When I want to sit down and play a game for five minutes and stop, I turn on my Xbox and play some SSX or Sega Soccer Slam.
When I want a game that immerses me, I open my laptop and play NwN for hours and hours.
There are exceptions to this on Xbox, like Morrowind (also on PC) and the upcoming Fable; and vice versa on PC, with Flash games and the venerable Solitare. But I think for the most part, they offer different experiences, and can and will continue to co-exist...
while, it isn't programming, it can be a very good first step for people who have no exposure to making computers do neat things.
seeing the look of glee on the face of someone who just put <b> tags around "Hello, World!" is pretty fun. it's how i got my start, and seven years later, i'm a Java web developer. joy.
I actually used Webmonkey back in the day when I started doing web design. I think they stil have good stuff on their site...
Will it disappear as well?
I was highly inspired by "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom". It led me to rethink the aim of the site I maintain and gave me enough pie-in-the-sky ideas to last me years!
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a few years ago, i had the joy of watching an Iowa metal band's album made by digital audio professionals. a ProTools rig that the dude controlled with (among other things)....a Kensington trackball! the thing had a bunch of buttons on it that you could program. he had routed them to perform special functions within ProTools. i was in love. still haven't gotten around to getting one for my modest home studio, tho...
All your space are belong to U.S.
I transferred my domain from NetSol to GoDaddy a few months ago and their form validation in the checkout process was IE-specific. Ew!
I wish I could see the virtual tidal wave of traffic hurtling toward that site. It would be a terrifying sight to behold...
Priceless.
I guess the Llama got sick of getting it's ass whipped.
only Halo...2.
(my account of last night's release)
I'm still playing Morrowind, and I'll probably be playing it until Oblivion comes out...
(hint: they're actually innovating)
I left college and became a Java developer, learning most of it on my own.
I just started taking college classes again this spring, and Java has replaced C++ as the "instructional" language.
Oh yeah, and I'm still a Java web developer at work. So for me, Java has never left. It's a great language, platform, solution. Fun times...
When I want to sit down and play a game for five minutes and stop, I turn on my Xbox and play some SSX or Sega Soccer Slam.
When I want a game that immerses me, I open my laptop and play NwN for hours and hours.
There are exceptions to this on Xbox, like Morrowind (also on PC) and the upcoming Fable; and vice versa on PC, with Flash games and the venerable Solitare. But I think for the most part, they offer different experiences, and can and will continue to co-exist...
while, it isn't programming, it can be a very good first step for people who have no exposure to making computers do neat things.
seeing the look of glee on the face of someone who just put <b> tags around "Hello, World!" is pretty fun. it's how i got my start, and seven years later, i'm a Java web developer. joy.
I actually used Webmonkey back in the day when I started doing web design. I think they stil have good stuff on their site... Will it disappear as well?
It's bad enough we have people out there named "Sunray" and "Moonbeam". Now our children have to contend with this?!
Bobby [to Br4d]: Nice name...g33k.
Br4d: [plotting father's demise]
I was highly inspired by "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom". It led me to rethink the aim of the site I maintain and gave me enough pie-in-the-sky ideas to last me years!