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Does Google = God?
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Amazingly also, a large number of Americans can't speak English. This also isn't mentioned in the article... I'd be curious to know how many Americans search in non-English languages. It's also possible that Americans know more than one language and wish to search in other languages.
In my computer graphics class I had with this situation, our professor clearly stated that anyone who touches their computer when it's not time to use the computers will get an automatic zero quiz grade for that class and will be asked to leave the classroom. That tactic worked quite well!
Some of you may not have noticed that a lot of sites have a lot of misinformation on them that the casual observer would probably not notice. Often it's also impossible to write them to tell them about it or even if you do, they just ignore it.
This is why I like Wikipedia, because it's a general information site where everyone has the right to reply. Everyone has a chance to have a say and we all strive to present each others views fairly. I'd love for everything I was reading to have the right to reply and it's one of the reasons why I love blogs so much!
This could also be restated as the requirement not to censor the opinions of others. If you see an article that has false information, do you want the owner of that to be able to censor your reply? Even if you publish it somewhere else, most of the original readers won't see it. This is not what I consider free speech.
Hey, just like the real world. "Everything seems to be about meeting minimum quantity of busy work and very little about learning anything new." Sounds like my experience working for corporations...
A few years ago I was playing computer games like a madman with my 386, but then when I got a new computer, I got NHL 97 and that was fun for a bit, but I never ended up buying games, and until now I never really saw why. The point is, after C&C, I never really saw anything that great. I mean, I bought Starcraft, but it felt too much like C&C and I lost interest quickly. If I'm going to play a game, I want to play one that seems like it's actually a piece of art. Something new, creative. I want to admire the author's genius when I play it. When you can place all the games on the market today into categories of sim, 3D shoot 'em up, or sport, there's a problem.
So, a few years ago, I had to search elsewhere for creativity. The video games were suffering from the same kind of creative lack, so I turned to board games. The American market was lame, because it's all controlled by Hasbro. So, I turned to the German market and I was shocked to find that they still create amazing board games which adults can play (and I'm not talking about porn or RPG's here). I got into Settlers of Catan which is one hell of a game and isn't even comparable with the crap the computer game industry was putting out.
Later, I found that most hobby stores sell these German games (in English translations) instead of the Hasbro games. Also, on every German game, you'll find the designer's name on the cover... kinda like buying a book. After all, if you liked one game by an author, you're likely to like the next product. The reviews are always based on how innovative these games are instead of just how well they sell. Now if there's this kind of room for creative innovation in the board games market which is thousands of years old, there has to be room in the computer game market of a half century, isn't there?
I agree. I think I bought the most CD's when I used Napster. When they shut down Napster, I don't think I bought any more CD's that were produced in the US anymore. I just started buying European music. Oh well, their loss.
I also tend to listen to European Internet radio stations, since they put that new US law into place practically banning US stations from having Internet radio programs, because they're so expensive to run now...
When companies make their products too expensive, people will just look elsewhere for cheaper products of about the same quality. Corporations don't have to rule our lives.
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Amazingly also, a large number of Americans can't speak English. This also isn't mentioned in the article... I'd be curious to know how many Americans search in non-English languages. It's also possible that Americans know more than one language and wish to search in other languages.
Yeah, but it's still not as serious as the benchmark of 'Grandmother Test'.
In my computer graphics class I had with this situation, our professor clearly stated that anyone who touches their computer when it's not time to use the computers will get an automatic zero quiz grade for that class and will be asked to leave the classroom. That tactic worked quite well!
This is why I like Wikipedia, because it's a general information site where everyone has the right to reply. Everyone has a chance to have a say and we all strive to present each others views fairly. I'd love for everything I was reading to have the right to reply and it's one of the reasons why I love blogs so much!
This could also be restated as the requirement not to censor the opinions of others. If you see an article that has false information, do you want the owner of that to be able to censor your reply? Even if you publish it somewhere else, most of the original readers won't see it. This is not what I consider free speech.
Do Christian publications need to regularly publish replies from atheists by law now?
No, but it would be a good idea. =)
Hey, just like the real world. "Everything seems to be about meeting minimum quantity of busy work and very little about learning anything new." Sounds like my experience working for corporations...
A few years ago I was playing computer games like a madman with my 386, but then when I got a new computer, I got NHL 97 and that was fun for a bit, but I never ended up buying games, and until now I never really saw why. The point is, after C&C, I never really saw anything that great. I mean, I bought Starcraft, but it felt too much like C&C and I lost interest quickly. If I'm going to play a game, I want to play one that seems like it's actually a piece of art. Something new, creative. I want to admire the author's genius when I play it. When you can place all the games on the market today into categories of sim, 3D shoot 'em up, or sport, there's a problem.
So, a few years ago, I had to search elsewhere for creativity. The video games were suffering from the same kind of creative lack, so I turned to board games. The American market was lame, because it's all controlled by Hasbro. So, I turned to the German market and I was shocked to find that they still create amazing board games which adults can play (and I'm not talking about porn or RPG's here). I got into Settlers of Catan which is one hell of a game and isn't even comparable with the crap the computer game industry was putting out.
Later, I found that most hobby stores sell these German games (in English translations) instead of the Hasbro games. Also, on every German game, you'll find the designer's name on the cover... kinda like buying a book. After all, if you liked one game by an author, you're likely to like the next product. The reviews are always based on how innovative these games are instead of just how well they sell. Now if there's this kind of room for creative innovation in the board games market which is thousands of years old, there has to be room in the computer game market of a half century, isn't there?
I agree. I think I bought the most CD's when I used Napster. When they shut down Napster, I don't think I bought any more CD's that were produced in the US anymore. I just started buying European music. Oh well, their loss. I also tend to listen to European Internet radio stations, since they put that new US law into place practically banning US stations from having Internet radio programs, because they're so expensive to run now... When companies make their products too expensive, people will just look elsewhere for cheaper products of about the same quality. Corporations don't have to rule our lives.
Now try to explain why the Esperanto Wikipedia has 4469 articles making it the fourth largest language edition of the Wikipedia.