thinkingisfun

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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
> "Imagine Google's landing page being chokeful of "content" including, most notably, the featured articles of random nature." In the case of Google that is easy, since they have no content. Wikipedia does, and displays it (and yes, con
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Disagree? Feel free to put your arguments where your vote button is ;)
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
new rule: it's not a game unless you can loose. also, "social"? either it's multiplayer or it's not.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
because I think it's silly to require email addresses to leave comments.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Exactly. Now compare to this: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That is the perfect antithesis to Microsoft, Apple, Google, Faceboo
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"That said, the "For now." is fearmongering." > I'd say saying it's FUD is playing for time.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"Discussions online should be as fluid as if face-to-face." IMHO, (or maybe "for my purposes") discussions online have been plenty fluid ever since the forum was invented. Beyond that, the quality of discussion depends on the people in it.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I thought I'd just leave this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQ8rKGTVlg#t=25m03s
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"I'm sure Cory would have given a talk in 1970 on "The Coming War on General Purpose Hardware" where he bemoans the rise of the integrated circuit" Well, Erich Fromm criticized the death of rationality and the rise of the purely manipulativ
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
and here is the same thing for websites, and has a client-side application for download, too: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
How is gmail or hotmail the email protocol? That's your FUBAR right there. Also, what's so complicated about (a decent) email (client)? And what's so great about being a "[insert company here] bitch" [1] ? An open protocol is something to b
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no. just no. protocols "continue to remain to be the future". not individual "players".
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Then why can't they simply respond?
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you say that as if you have a link to a mirror of the video, if not many.. ?
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"Where's your outrage over Syrian and Iranian Intelligence and their tactics?" Even though this isn't addressed at me, my response would be: Where it belongs, in conversations with Syrian and Iranian intelligence officials. For all we know,