I'd say my first experience gaming was banana toss or nibbles that shipped with Windows 3.1 on my dads 386. My first truly enjoyable gaming experience had to be Commander Keen on that very same computer 3 or 4 years later. I still remember the day i finished it, buried in the basement hiding from thanksgiving day relatives.
Simply collect as much information remotely from your parents as you can over the coarse of a month, print it all off, and give it to them along with a letter outlining what you could have done with that information. Also try filling their My Documents folder with hardcore porn when your not around for a few days. I have been in the same boat as you in the past, I chose Ubuntu as my solution, although my parents (at least my father) may be more willing to learn a new OS. I have seen posts suggesting the use of a alternate browser, and i will agree that is a good first step, with little or no impact on ease of use. You may even be able to do this without them noticing by being diligent about installing all plug ins and transferring bookmarks and settings (along with changing the desktop icon to the blue "e" and naming it "Internet Explorer"). Spybot S&D with TeaTimer running, or Zone Alarm, can be a tad intrusive, and even cause more damage than good if not properly configured, they may be a second step taken only when the first is accepted and used. You can show them how a firewall works by simply pinging their computer over the network, and be sure they are sitting at the computer with you the first time you run an anti-spyware program, you want them to see the hundreds of pieces of malware that already reside on their computer collecting personal info. Whatever you do be sure to lay on the FUD campaign real thick, don't just tell them what can happen, SHOW them what can happen, then try to teach them how to stop it.
where have i heard somthing like that before... oh right: "oh your gonna hit me are ya". . . SMACK!
I'm sorry, but to be so ridiculously arrogant about such a serious issue is American to the core. your government has led you to believe, through propaganda and 40 years of cock wavering, that everything will always be wok, that the united states has Terra ferma firmly wrapped around it's finger, that they are the dominant force. what I heard when I read your post: chattering boot rubber. H think its about time that the US (and all other "superpowers") realize that it's your arrogance and overbearing confidence that show your weakness and make you a target.
I think Googlepages target market is anyone under 17 and over 45 that want to create a webpage for a school project, scout troop, pictures of thier 45 cats and whatnot. But it is not limited to that, yeah its not the best for eye candy or originality, but it offers some nice little features that make it super easy to use, and very flexible. For example: i set up a gmail acct and a googlepage for all my friends (who live everywhere in North America) and gave them all the password. Now all of us can edit the page, adding pictures, videos, stories and stuff. Sure you can do this with other services but this way others not in our groop can at least view the page withoit a password or signing up for an account. Also most of my friends are not the most tech savvy people and they all find this service easy enough to use that they actually use it. I think this is a good show for google, once again createing a service that just makes useing a computer a little easier for average joes.
Lots of new cars have active volume limiting depending on engine noise, wind noise(directly related to speed), tire noise. Now... if they can only adapt that for thoes of us not IN the cars.... i mean it wouldn't be hard, cars are a major source of unwanted ambient noise.
I agree compleatly. The headphones make all the difference. The crappy ones that come with most players have so much impedence that they need incredable volome to sound better than a tin can phone. I use Sennheiser HD280 pro's at home and they also make more portable versions. If you dont want to spend a fortune check out Sony MDRQ66. If you want to loose your hearing keep useing the white peices of crap you are now.
If you dont belive me just try it.... if you know someone with a media player that counts the number of plays for particular song, put a song in their library twice, one version at a moderate 256kbps MP3, and one at WAV. check back in a month and see which version has more hits on the counter. It will be the WAV. I know it sounds foolsih, i didn't belive it either untill i tried it on my sister. This works best on people that dont read/. or know what file extension even means. Also works good on "MP3" players that don't show the file extension. Just try it and get back to me.
I still buy CD's for one reason: Sound quality. The average song downloaded from a online retailor is of terrible quality, usually 192kbps or less, and i'll admit a lot of people can't tell the difference between a CD and a MP3(or other losy compression audio format) but i can and thats an issue for me. My MP3 player supports a wide range of file formats, but i usually end up useing FLAC, it eats space but it sounds much better, no digital garble, no washed out cymbols, no muffeled vocals. I guess i have to blame the crappy headphones that come with the iPod for the general publics ignorance to the way compressed audio sounds as compared to 1440kbps CD quality audio. Just give it a try, get a friend listen to the same song, on the same set of high end headphones or studio monitors, in both MP3(even 320kbps) and CD format and ask witch one sounds better. Even if it is subconcuois they will allways choose the CD audio.
The CD (or other high bandwith) physical media will allways be around because the people who make the music and true audiophiles will want the high quality sound.
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I'd say my first experience gaming was banana toss or nibbles that shipped with Windows 3.1 on my dads 386. My first truly enjoyable gaming experience had to be Commander Keen on that very same computer 3 or 4 years later. I still remember the day i finished it, buried in the basement hiding from thanksgiving day relatives.
Make unusable water usable by using unusable water. Who wouldda figured.
Simply collect as much information remotely from your parents as you can over the coarse of a month, print it all off, and give it to them along with a letter outlining what you could have done with that information. Also try filling their My Documents folder with hardcore porn when your not around for a few days. I have been in the same boat as you in the past, I chose Ubuntu as my solution, although my parents (at least my father) may be more willing to learn a new OS. I have seen posts suggesting the use of a alternate browser, and i will agree that is a good first step, with little or no impact on ease of use. You may even be able to do this without them noticing by being diligent about installing all plug ins and transferring bookmarks and settings (along with changing the desktop icon to the blue "e" and naming it "Internet Explorer"). Spybot S&D with TeaTimer running, or Zone Alarm, can be a tad intrusive, and even cause more damage than good if not properly configured, they may be a second step taken only when the first is accepted and used. You can show them how a firewall works by simply pinging their computer over the network, and be sure they are sitting at the computer with you the first time you run an anti-spyware program, you want them to see the hundreds of pieces of malware that already reside on their computer collecting personal info. Whatever you do be sure to lay on the FUD campaign real thick, don't just tell them what can happen, SHOW them what can happen, then try to teach them how to stop it.
where have i heard somthing like that before... oh right: "oh your gonna hit me are ya". . . SMACK! I'm sorry, but to be so ridiculously arrogant about such a serious issue is American to the core. your government has led you to believe, through propaganda and 40 years of cock wavering, that everything will always be wok, that the united states has Terra ferma firmly wrapped around it's finger, that they are the dominant force. what I heard when I read your post: chattering boot rubber. H think its about time that the US (and all other "superpowers") realize that it's your arrogance and overbearing confidence that show your weakness and make you a target.
That link seems to have been slashdotted, i can't load it.
I think Googlepages target market is anyone under 17 and over 45 that want to create a webpage for a school project, scout troop, pictures of thier 45 cats and whatnot. But it is not limited to that, yeah its not the best for eye candy or originality, but it offers some nice little features that make it super easy to use, and very flexible. For example: i set up a gmail acct and a googlepage for all my friends (who live everywhere in North America) and gave them all the password. Now all of us can edit the page, adding pictures, videos, stories and stuff. Sure you can do this with other services but this way others not in our groop can at least view the page withoit a password or signing up for an account. Also most of my friends are not the most tech savvy people and they all find this service easy enough to use that they actually use it. I think this is a good show for google, once again createing a service that just makes useing a computer a little easier for average joes.
Lots of new cars have active volume limiting depending on engine noise, wind noise(directly related to speed), tire noise. Now... if they can only adapt that for thoes of us not IN the cars.... i mean it wouldn't be hard, cars are a major source of unwanted ambient noise.
I agree compleatly. The headphones make all the difference. The crappy ones that come with most players have so much impedence that they need incredable volome to sound better than a tin can phone. I use Sennheiser HD280 pro's at home and they also make more portable versions. If you dont want to spend a fortune check out Sony MDRQ66. If you want to loose your hearing keep useing the white peices of crap you are now.
If you dont belive me just try it.... if you know someone with a media player that counts the number of plays for particular song, put a song in their library twice, one version at a moderate 256kbps MP3, and one at WAV. check back in a month and see which version has more hits on the counter. It will be the WAV. I know it sounds foolsih, i didn't belive it either untill i tried it on my sister. This works best on people that dont read /. or know what file extension even means. Also works good on "MP3" players that don't show the file extension. Just try it and get back to me.
I still buy CD's for one reason: Sound quality. The average song downloaded from a online retailor is of terrible quality, usually 192kbps or less, and i'll admit a lot of people can't tell the difference between a CD and a MP3(or other losy compression audio format) but i can and thats an issue for me. My MP3 player supports a wide range of file formats, but i usually end up useing FLAC, it eats space but it sounds much better, no digital garble, no washed out cymbols, no muffeled vocals. I guess i have to blame the crappy headphones that come with the iPod for the general publics ignorance to the way compressed audio sounds as compared to 1440kbps CD quality audio. Just give it a try, get a friend listen to the same song, on the same set of high end headphones or studio monitors, in both MP3(even 320kbps) and CD format and ask witch one sounds better. Even if it is subconcuois they will allways choose the CD audio. The CD (or other high bandwith) physical media will allways be around because the people who make the music and true audiophiles will want the high quality sound.