I have a 3-year-old boy who has been playing games on Noggin.com and fischer-price.com for about a year now. I stay nearby, and make sure he's not doing anything inappropriate. Sometimes, I have to help him drag the little duckies to their Mama duck.
Several months ago, we got him a game called "Candy Land Adventures" or something like that. I helped him play through it once -- so that I was aware of the game contents. Its about 6 puzzles that are extremely easy and takes about 20 minutes for an adult to complete a game. The 3 year old can work on it for over an hour without finishing.
What's my point? Any sane adult would go bonkers trying to spend any sizable amount of time playing these toddler games. The child, however, has a blast playing them over and over. So, for very young children, at least, its not surprising that msot parents dont spend much time playing the games with the kids.
More recently, I've been introducing my son to some XBox games. We play Burnout Revenge in racing mode. I complete the race in 2 minutes and he's still cutting donuts near the starting line. I get up and walk away and 10 minutes later he finally finds the finish line. We tried playing "Bust A Move" and he would shoot the balls in the wrong place, ending the match in under 15 seconds....over and over and over. So, I let him play single player and I go play WoW on my PC nearby.
"Teach your son to play" you are saying. I am, and he's improving. But his goals are different than mine. "Winning" is not what he's after. Making pretty balls sparkle and seeing cars crash entertain him way more than crossing a finish line or completing a board.
I'm wondering if I can utilize his tolerance for repetitive gaming actions. I really need to get my Troll Shaman's fishing skill up.
I played the beta for a week or so. I didn't like the UI. I found it harder to read and interact with the text. My system was on the low end of the hardware requirements. My Radeon 9600 could barely handle it, and it looked like poopie. If I cranked up the graphics it looked quite nice, but my framerate was so low, I couldn't play it.
As the other posters have said, the "FPS" aspects of it are all smoke & mirrors. However, these are fairly high-quality smoke & mirrors. I did feel a little more urgency / adrenaline when fighting than I do in WoW.
Its actually more comparable to City of Heroes -- which makes sense, because thats NCSoft as well.
I may be misunderstanding your terms (elastic vs. inelastic) -- but I thought that a major point was to work on the energy demand-side which you are saying is "inelastic". Does "inelastic" mean that we can't change it as easily? There are many ways to work on energy demand. Reducing consumption with the use of more efficient technologies, as well as simply reducing use are both options.
Also, carbon emission does not equal energy consumption. Solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric all have much smaller if any carbon emission.
Thats strange...the last few times I rode on a plane, they wouldn't let me past security with even one lighter. I forgot one in my backpack, and the guard found it and made me toss it out.
By your logic all of humanity should live in one giant megalopolis.
The problem is that economies of scale don't always apply...there is also the law of diminishing returns. As a city gets larger, it needs more raw materials. Growing food usually requires land. Requiring more food means requiring more land. So, the food must come from further and further away. If everyone lives in the city, the food producers must travel a long ways to get to work. Same for the coal-miners whoa re integral to our power grid. And the tree-farmers who produce wood for our homes, furniture and paper. And the Cotton-farmers who produce the materials our clothes are made of.
So, you think all of these people should quit their "inefficient" jobs and move to the city -- where everyone will be cold, naked, hungry and living in caves.
No, these jobs are necessary for our civilization. For efficiency, these people need to be near their work. And they need to be near enough to population centers to provide their products to the rest of us. So, our population centers must be more numerous and spread out.
I now have email, phone number, home address and name of more than 2000 people
Except for the email, I have all that too. Its called a phone-book. Most people won't think twice about this because its publicly available information.
I am Nugget Sec. Together with Nugget Thay, Nugget Jast and Nugget Caan, we make up the Cult of Mayo.
All of Humanity will kneel before the might of the New Nugget Empire. You will comply! Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!
As a parent, I take issue with people telling other people how to raise their kids.
So you think that you know how to raise a kid better than anyone else just because you couldn't read the instructions for a condom?
1) Thats not what I said. I said I didn't like people telling other people how to raise their kids -- myself included.
2) I know how to raise MY kid best because my wife and I are the people who have dedicated the last 3 years of our lives to feeding, cleaning, teaching and otherwise caring for him. Noone else on the planet has spent more time observing and interacting with this person than we have.
3) My wife and I spent 3 years undergoing tests, visiting doctors, regulating our diets, monitoring our body-temperatures, trying various pharmaceuticals (legal) and adjusting our "techniques" in order to finally be blessed a single child. Hell, we even tried having sex. Your assertion that we did it by mistake is unspeakably offensive.
I didn't assume that children only learn at school. I said that *most* children don't learn to read until they get to school. I was 4 when I started kindergarten. I could read words like "cat" and "dog", but not "Playstation". My son is 3. He knows his alphabet and he can read a couple of short words. But expecting him to be able to read the stylized labels on a video game box is a bit much. The OP's son is 2.5. How many two-year-olds can read the word "Nintendo" or "Playstation"?
I commend you on your dedication and talent as a parent.
As a parent, I take issue with people telling other people how to raise their kids. Thats why I made the harshly worded reply to the AC who seemed to be doing jsut that.
Either this AC doesn't know how to read either, or is just a frikkin moron. How many PRESCHOOLERS have you ever met that could read? Most kids don't learn that until they get to school.
Maybe they should think about having more actual product on the shelves. Perhaps even games for PCs!
I understand that these guys have limited floor-space. You can double that if you count the nearby EBGames that's owned by the same corporation, resides in the same shopping center/mall and has the exact same crap in stock.
I am primarily a PC gamer, and I am frustrated every time I go into one of these stores by the three giant walls of empty game-boxes labeled "Coming Soon!", and the tiny half-rack 3-year-old PC games (still at full price). I take a short walk to the other store, and find that they have the exact same selection.
Well if they were all that then people would be using them instead of Winzip in the first place?
They are all that. People aren't using them in the first place because of the 'MindShare' aspect that you mentioned.
Spending money on a free version? Perish the thought.
The GP was right. I've now worked at two large corporations and one small one that all had site licenses to WinZip. They install them on all desktop systems automatically. Most large corporations have policies in place such that pre-installed software must be licensed. This is for audit reasons and so they can claim support if they need to.
I, of course, promptly uninstall it from my machines and replace it with 7-Zip. Last time I checked, Winzip still didn't handle several major file-types (like RAR).
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80 million users?
Why have I never heard of this?
It was my understanding that WoW was the biggest MMO with the most subscribers at around 8 million.
I have a 3-year-old boy who has been playing games on Noggin.com and fischer-price.com for about a year now. I stay nearby, and make sure he's not doing anything inappropriate. Sometimes, I have to help him drag the little duckies to their Mama duck.
Several months ago, we got him a game called "Candy Land Adventures" or something like that. I helped him play through it once -- so that I was aware of the game contents. Its about 6 puzzles that are extremely easy and takes about 20 minutes for an adult to complete a game. The 3 year old can work on it for over an hour without finishing.
What's my point? Any sane adult would go bonkers trying to spend any sizable amount of time playing these toddler games. The child, however, has a blast playing them over and over. So, for very young children, at least, its not surprising that msot parents dont spend much time playing the games with the kids.
More recently, I've been introducing my son to some XBox games. We play Burnout Revenge in racing mode. I complete the race in 2 minutes and he's still cutting donuts near the starting line. I get up and walk away and 10 minutes later he finally finds the finish line. We tried playing "Bust A Move" and he would shoot the balls in the wrong place, ending the match in under 15 seconds....over and over and over. So, I let him play single player and I go play WoW on my PC nearby.
"Teach your son to play" you are saying. I am, and he's improving. But his goals are different than mine. "Winning" is not what he's after. Making pretty balls sparkle and seeing cars crash entertain him way more than crossing a finish line or completing a board.
I'm wondering if I can utilize his tolerance for repetitive gaming actions. I really need to get my Troll Shaman's fishing skill up.
- July 24, 2004 -- Tashkent -- Islamic Jihad Group of Uzbekistan suicide bomber attacks Embassy
- December 6, 2004 -- Jeddah -- al-Qaeda gunmen attack U.S. consulate
- March 2, 2006 -- Karachi -- Car bomb explodes outside Embassy
- March 3, 2006 -- Chapel Hill, NC -- Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drives an SUV onto a crowded part of UNC campus.
- September 12, 2006 -- Damascus -- Gunmen raid US Embassy
- August 30, 2006 -- San Fancisco Bay Area -- An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV.
US Embassies are considered US territory.Who modded this guy down? If you know anything about Warhammer, this is funny!
I played the beta for a week or so. I didn't like the UI. I found it harder to read and interact with the text. My system was on the low end of the hardware requirements. My Radeon 9600 could barely handle it, and it looked like poopie. If I cranked up the graphics it looked quite nice, but my framerate was so low, I couldn't play it.
As the other posters have said, the "FPS" aspects of it are all smoke & mirrors. However, these are fairly high-quality smoke & mirrors. I did feel a little more urgency / adrenaline when fighting than I do in WoW.
Its actually more comparable to City of Heroes -- which makes sense, because thats NCSoft as well.
Your example, "http://en.wikipedia.org/some random search term" works for me...after a 5 second redirect.
I may be misunderstanding your terms (elastic vs. inelastic) -- but I thought that a major point was to work on the energy demand-side which you are saying is "inelastic". Does "inelastic" mean that we can't change it as easily? There are many ways to work on energy demand. Reducing consumption with the use of more efficient technologies, as well as simply reducing use are both options. Also, carbon emission does not equal energy consumption. Solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric all have much smaller if any carbon emission.
You can't be serial.
Thats strange...the last few times I rode on a plane, they wouldn't let me past security with even one lighter. I forgot one in my backpack, and the guard found it and made me toss it out.
I was nauseated by most of the smells that could be found in my high school cafeteria.
Don't forget that Dungeons and Dragons was causing teens in the 1980s to commit suicide or kill their parents in occult rituals.
Typical. I just hit 61 last night and now they're doing that....
By your logic all of humanity should live in one giant megalopolis.
The problem is that economies of scale don't always apply...there is also the law of diminishing returns. As a city gets larger, it needs more raw materials. Growing food usually requires land. Requiring more food means requiring more land. So, the food must come from further and further away. If everyone lives in the city, the food producers must travel a long ways to get to work. Same for the coal-miners whoa re integral to our power grid. And the tree-farmers who produce wood for our homes, furniture and paper. And the Cotton-farmers who produce the materials our clothes are made of.
So, you think all of these people should quit their "inefficient" jobs and move to the city -- where everyone will be cold, naked, hungry and living in caves.
No, these jobs are necessary for our civilization. For efficiency, these people need to be near their work. And they need to be near enough to population centers to provide their products to the rest of us. So, our population centers must be more numerous and spread out.
Unfortunately, the facts don't back up your statements. American workers are the most productive in the world.
Except for the email, I have all that too. Its called a phone-book. Most people won't think twice about this because its publicly available information.
It sounds like you're implying that WoW was a mis-use of an existing franchise. I think there are around 8 million people who would disagree.
If you RTFA, you'll see that Kerry was actually asking the cops to leave the kid alone.
I'd mod you up if I had the points. That was very well-written.
I am Nugget Sec. Together with Nugget Thay, Nugget Jast and Nugget Caan, we make up the Cult of Mayo. All of Humanity will kneel before the might of the New Nugget Empire. You will comply! Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!
1) Thats not what I said. I said I didn't like people telling other people how to raise their kids -- myself included.
2) I know how to raise MY kid best because my wife and I are the people who have dedicated the last 3 years of our lives to feeding, cleaning, teaching and otherwise caring for him. Noone else on the planet has spent more time observing and interacting with this person than we have.
3) My wife and I spent 3 years undergoing tests, visiting doctors, regulating our diets, monitoring our body-temperatures, trying various pharmaceuticals (legal) and adjusting our "techniques" in order to finally be blessed a single child. Hell, we even tried having sex. Your assertion that we did it by mistake is unspeakably offensive.
I didn't assume that children only learn at school. I said that *most* children don't learn to read until they get to school. I was 4 when I started kindergarten. I could read words like "cat" and "dog", but not "Playstation". My son is 3. He knows his alphabet and he can read a couple of short words. But expecting him to be able to read the stylized labels on a video game box is a bit much. The OP's son is 2.5. How many two-year-olds can read the word "Nintendo" or "Playstation"?
I commend you on your dedication and talent as a parent.
As a parent, I take issue with people telling other people how to raise their kids. Thats why I made the harshly worded reply to the AC who seemed to be doing jsut that.
Why don't you log in and say that, you AC Troll. When you do it, be sure and let us know how many children you've raised.
Either this AC doesn't know how to read either, or is just a frikkin moron. How many PRESCHOOLERS have you ever met that could read? Most kids don't learn that until they get to school.
Maybe they should think about having more actual product on the shelves. Perhaps even games for PCs!
I understand that these guys have limited floor-space. You can double that if you count the nearby EBGames that's owned by the same corporation, resides in the same shopping center/mall and has the exact same crap in stock.
I am primarily a PC gamer, and I am frustrated every time I go into one of these stores by the three giant walls of empty game-boxes labeled "Coming Soon!", and the tiny half-rack 3-year-old PC games (still at full price). I take a short walk to the other store, and find that they have the exact same selection.
They are all that. People aren't using them in the first place because of the 'MindShare' aspect that you mentioned.
Spending money on a free version? Perish the thought.The GP was right. I've now worked at two large corporations and one small one that all had site licenses to WinZip. They install them on all desktop systems automatically. Most large corporations have policies in place such that pre-installed software must be licensed. This is for audit reasons and so they can claim support if they need to.
I, of course, promptly uninstall it from my machines and replace it with 7-Zip. Last time I checked, Winzip still didn't handle several major file-types (like RAR).