Challenging Minds with Games by Sandy B
Do you have a favorite thinking game? As a child growing up, I used to love to play games that were puzzles, something to challenge me not physically but challenge my mind. We used to do simple things like create objects out of clouds or find out what would happen when too much water was added... You can offer them computer games that are more mind challenging rather than time fillers. ... Can playing computer games that encourage problem solving skills really help? ... What you can do is provide games like puzzles, word, math and even card games that children can play on the web or...

Computer Communication with Humans and Future Interactive Challenges by Lance Winslow
Humans often communicate with each other via email and computer communication correspondence. They take thoughts and turn them into the words of a limited human language and put them onto another medium in this case a computer. Surely that is a very archaic way to communicate and in the future... Words only set the mind in motion on a concept and keep the mind somewhat focused temporarily on that line of thought or reasoning. ... Although humans collaborate in words, the mind doesn't and one would believe that intelligent people communicate past the words themselves.

Did You Know Video Games Can Heal the Sick? by Aaron Brooks
Games both video and computer have been for years looked down on as evil and a negative influence on society. However, recent research indicates that games play a significant role in healing. Studies indicate that playing games helps divert a patient’s mind from pain and for many patients, games... A conference on gaming showcased the fact that computer and video games promoted awareness in nutrition, lifestyle choices, and medical skills. ... For example a patient who needs to be motivated to complete therapy sessions can be induced by connecting the bicycle to a video game that engages...

Computer Games Through the Ages by Steve Miers
Do you remember the old movie where the two boys hack into a government computer and it asks them if they would like to play a game? Back when I first saw it I was amazed at how much computers could do, now it seems so outdated that it makes the movie void in my mind. ... The average computer that sits in a child's room has thousands of times the memory of the computer that was used to send the astronauts to the moon, and they just keep on getting more sophisticated. ... I have played some games on my computer that were a lot of fun, but the graphics were so realistic and with all the...

The Great Underutilized Computer by Tony Papajohn
I am not a geek. So I was not surprised to hear a tech expert speak about how we underutilize our computers. I plead guilty. Not only do I underutilize it, but I regularly end up places that leave me wondering how I got there. I’m a poet, a philosopher, but not a geek. ... How much more can be realized by fully utilizing the mind, the greatest computer of them all? ... However, I did gain a renewed appreciation for the greatest underutilized computer of them all, the mind. ... However, unlike the computer, the mind is, at least in your editor’s decidedly non-technical viewpoint, easier to...

Computers Cannot Duplicate the Human Mind by Lance Winslow
Many say that man cannot build computers, which can duplicate the human brain, because the thoughts, memories and images in the brain are spiritual. Since God made man’s brain this way, there is no way that scientists, researchers or artificial intelligence gurus in academia can recreate that. ... One recent think tanker, a biblical scholar and devout Christian wished to make a point on this issue and he stated: “Imagine something in your mind, imagine… say, a chair, this chair that you’re a visualizing is not physical, it is your thought, it is spiritual.” This was met with skepticism...

On Latest Release of Subversion 1,4 by John - Paul Gillespie
Subversion 1.4, the popular open-source version control system, was released today. For the technically minded, Subversion can be described as a compelling replacement for CVS released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license. For the not so technically-minded, it is simply a tool allowing... Many years ago now mind you, and only a single paper, in which I was the student who had the distinction of being one of the very few not to miserably fail or pass with stunning grades. ... There was a running joke in the computer science department about the bell-curve formed by the first-year...

Un-Connecting the Connected and How Technology Has Changed Our Lives by Lance Winslow
The high-tech world of personal technology is causing a bit of my problem for many humans. Some of the new technology is so feature-rich that it is causing feature fatigue. Too many choices in your personal technology toys seems to be counterintuitive to how the human mind works, even though the... The human mind defaults to what it is use to through its experience in thinking and people who have cell phones with many features learn a few of them and use them to their best advantage and often never use the other features.

What's The Benefit To Building Your Own Computer by Robert Emler
There are a few benefits to building your own personal computer. I know you ask yourself why I want to build my own personal computer. After all the entire computer market is full of computers that carry a pretty reasonable price tag. Bear in mind that the computers on the market today that are... I’ve been in computer tech shops picking up parts, and personally witnessed people paying as much for service as it would of coast those to buy a new computer. ... If you have ever taken you computer to a computer tech, you know how costly that can be.

Data Security - Having Piece of Mind by Bart Samuri
Data security is a very important part of a successful computer involved business. It is essential to keep vital data secured in order to have piece of mind. Backing up data and having dedicated computers running just to store data are great ways to maintain data security. ... Mind you, this process is not easy, and a regular computer chump probably couldn’t do it, this is why data recovery is often left to professionals, and often costs you big bucks. ... Another problem with data security is malicious computer viruses.