You can use a laptop as a mapping display if you have an attached GPS. Go buy a pcmcia card for under 300 dollars and you get a screen thats a lot bigger than the screen that comes with the in-dash or standalone GPS units.
Well, when you start up the media players they access their homepages and all that to bring the user the most up to date ads and content... I would have guessed that Real Player would have been worse than Windows Media Player in that department since it has so many ads and crap. It does make one wonder what Windows Media Player really is using all that bandwidth for...
GTA is labelled as Mature and the kids can't buy it in the store just like rated R movies. However, the kids can play the games and watch the movies if they have an adult actually go buy it for them (or if they download it). Either way, the rating systems don't work as the should so why are they making such a fuss about GTA and games like that and not about all the movies out there. A couple of years ago they were talking about movies as being the bad thing that influence kids to go and kill each other and now its the video games. The interest groups are just going after the group that seems the easiest to get to, the video game industry might be easier to get to than the movie industry.
Another thing, why is that kids shows like Power Rangers or some cartoon like that show people getting killed or "eliminated" in droves and the interest groups don't have a problem with that. GTA is not all that realistic looking if you think about it... at least it isn't live action!
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You can use a laptop as a mapping display if you have an attached GPS. Go buy a pcmcia card for under 300 dollars and you get a screen thats a lot bigger than the screen that comes with the in-dash or standalone GPS units.
Well, when you start up the media players they access their homepages and all that to bring the user the most up to date ads and content... I would have guessed that Real Player would have been worse than Windows Media Player in that department since it has so many ads and crap. It does make one wonder what Windows Media Player really is using all that bandwidth for...
GTA is labelled as Mature and the kids can't buy it in the store just like rated R movies. However, the kids can play the games and watch the movies if they have an adult actually go buy it for them (or if they download it). Either way, the rating systems don't work as the should so why are they making such a fuss about GTA and games like that and not about all the movies out there. A couple of years ago they were talking about movies as being the bad thing that influence kids to go and kill each other and now its the video games. The interest groups are just going after the group that seems the easiest to get to, the video game industry might be easier to get to than the movie industry.
... at least it isn't live action!
Another thing, why is that kids shows like Power Rangers or some cartoon like that show people getting killed or "eliminated" in droves and the interest groups don't have a problem with that. GTA is not all that realistic looking if you think about it