The show was uniformly good, with all kinds of tangents for in-depth conversations possible. All the hosts had very good "radio" voices; very listenable and pleasant.
Does gaming make you smarter? Anecdotally, all you have to do is read the posts on the gaming forums (particularly this one) and see evidence of highly intelligent gamers. :-)
The introduction of "Basic" into personal computing was an important milestone, and was very well covered on the show. It's a shame that Basic has largely fallen out of favor, and is no longer a basis (or even a "front-end") for general computing.
Mark's rant on the various licensing restrictions in Europe was intriguing. I wonder if it's not just the major distributors of the games (i.e. XBox Live), but the wishes of the individual game producers to control their individual products that increase the maze of distribution contributions, which makes the overall effort to be a major distributor of games too complicated to be worth it.
I've never heard of "Webkins (sp?)" before, so the concept was very intriguing and well covered. Using such toys to promote computer literacy in children is excellent.
The MT-32 card sounds awesome, better than my current sound card with MIDI stuff! The Ad-Lib and MT-32 comparison was mind-blowing! Good job, Chris.
Overall, the show was very well done for a first effort. Matt, Mark, and Bill have honed their speaking voices on their various videos, and we know their content is going to be up to snuff. So the real surprise is that both Christina Loguidice and Chris Kennedy came off so well.
The show was uniformly good, with all kinds of tangents for in-depth conversations possible. All the hosts had very good "radio" voices; very listenable and pleasant.
Does gaming make you smarter? Anecdotally, all you have to do is read the posts on the gaming forums (particularly this one) and see evidence of highly intelligent gamers. :-)
The introduction of "Basic" into personal computing was an important milestone, and was very well covered on the show. It's a shame that Basic has largely fallen out of favor, and is no longer a basis (or even a "front-end") for general computing.
Mark's rant on the various licensing restrictions in Europe was intriguing. I wonder if it's not just the major distributors of the games (i.e. XBox Live), but the wishes of the individual game producers to control their individual products that increase the maze of distribution contributions, which makes the overall effort to be a major distributor of games too complicated to be worth it.
I've never heard of "Webkins (sp?)" before, so the concept was very intriguing and well covered. Using such toys to promote computer literacy in children is excellent.
The MT-32 card sounds awesome, better than my current sound card with MIDI stuff! The Ad-Lib and MT-32 comparison was mind-blowing! Good job, Chris.
Overall, the show was very well done for a first effort. Matt, Mark, and Bill have honed their speaking voices on their various videos, and we know their content is going to be up to snuff. So the real surprise is that both Christina Loguidice and Chris Kennedy came off so well.