My wife and I have different views on this - she doesn't want my son using the computer at all. I'm sure I am going to win that one because in this day and age, you NEED to be able to use a computer to get by in life. As for the content, well I am going to forbid him from playing anything TOO violent until I am sure he understands that a game is NOT real life. And just because in GTA he can go steal a car, he cannot do that in real life because there are consequences. Forbidding him to play games at all will not work because he'll just go over to a friends place where those parents perhaps aren't as vigilant as to what they are doing on the computer. It is OUR responsibility to make sure that our children understand what is going on in the world around us. And while some people do bad things, it doesn't make it right, and there are consequences to doing those bad things. Parents need to be a part of their children's lives and to be there to explain the world around them. I am also a firm believer that children need to be children as long as they can - but hiding them in a closet from the rest of the world will not benefit them in the long run (and if you ACTUALLY put them in a closet - well, that's against the LAW!)
In several MMORPGs I've played in the past, none of them really had a point. There was no over-arching reason to kill that 9999999th rat to get to the next level, other than to get to that next level. Will this game just be a grind to gain levels to be able to defeat the next stronger version of the last creature you just killed? Will the quests/tasks be engaging? So often games just give out tasks (kill x of y or gather z of a) rather than actual adventures (ie tasks with a meaningful storey behind them).
I can go on and on here... But I'll leave it at that for now.
PS Make sure you QA EVERYTHING you release prior to releasing it. Nothing irks me more than having a patch break stuff that WAS working.
So far, I've been called by every credit card company and several telemarking survey thingy people... Each and every one of them, I've told them to take me off their call list or add me to their do not call list.
I have been working in I.T. since 1998, after graduating from three years in a community college taking Computer Service Technician (2 year diploma) and Computer Network Technology (advanced diploma).
I had the chance to get my A+, CNA, to join SCETTINS, and several other things through my course, but of course you had to pay for it.
As a struggling just out of college young person, I didn't have the $$$ to get those certs.
Having them may or may not have helped me in the job hunt, but my first job was a Network Administrator. I didn't meet their "qualifications" but I aced the interview and got the job.
Once you get a job, and get some experience under your belt, I think certs become less and less important, as long as you can show you have a working knowledge of the subject at hand during your interview.
So to sum up this rambling... Certs without experience give you an edge in the job hunt, but once you get some practical experience, those certs become less important. (IMHO)
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My wife and I have different views on this - she doesn't want my son using the computer at all. I'm sure I am going to win that one because in this day and age, you NEED to be able to use a computer to get by in life.
As for the content, well I am going to forbid him from playing anything TOO violent until I am sure he understands that a game is NOT real life. And just because in GTA he can go steal a car, he cannot do that in real life because there are consequences. Forbidding him to play games at all will not work because he'll just go over to a friends place where those parents perhaps aren't as vigilant as to what they are doing on the computer.
It is OUR responsibility to make sure that our children understand what is going on in the world around us. And while some people do bad things, it doesn't make it right, and there are consequences to doing those bad things. Parents need to be a part of their children's lives and to be there to explain the world around them.
I am also a firm believer that children need to be children as long as they can - but hiding them in a closet from the rest of the world will not benefit them in the long run (and if you ACTUALLY put them in a closet - well, that's against the LAW!)
In several MMORPGs I've played in the past, none of them really had a point. There was no over-arching reason to kill that 9999999th rat to get to the next level, other than to get to that next level.
Will this game just be a grind to gain levels to be able to defeat the next stronger version of the last creature you just killed?
Will the quests/tasks be engaging? So often games just give out tasks (kill x of y or gather z of a) rather than actual adventures (ie tasks with a meaningful storey behind them).
I can go on and on here... But I'll leave it at that for now.
PS Make sure you QA EVERYTHING you release prior to releasing it. Nothing irks me more than having a patch break stuff that WAS working.
And how long do you think before some marvelous hacker comes along with a nice little hack that removes all the ads?
;)
Sign me up for the "free" Windows.
So far, I've been called by every credit card company and several telemarking survey thingy people... Each and every one of them, I've told them to take me off their call list or add me to their do not call list.
I've never heard from them again.
I have glasses and I have tried everything to keep the darned things from fogging up in the winter when I am outside.
:)
It's ANNOYING.
I'd like to beta test this stuff... I wonder if they'd send me a batch.
I have been working in I.T. since 1998, after graduating from three years in a community college taking Computer Service Technician (2 year diploma) and Computer Network Technology (advanced diploma).
I had the chance to get my A+, CNA, to join SCETTINS, and several other things through my course, but of course you had to pay for it.
As a struggling just out of college young person, I didn't have the $$$ to get those certs.
Having them may or may not have helped me in the job hunt, but my first job was a Network Administrator. I didn't meet their "qualifications" but I aced the interview and got the job.
Once you get a job, and get some experience under your belt, I think certs become less and less important, as long as you can show you have a working knowledge of the subject at hand during your interview.
So to sum up this rambling... Certs without experience give you an edge in the job hunt, but once you get some practical experience, those certs become less important. (IMHO)