It does suck that any idiot can prove me wrong with just a few seconds playing with their toy.
Damn google! My vast store of useless knowledge has been rendered even more useless.
To those that mock you with "Why couldn't you Googles that"?
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Yes. People saying "just google it" are being confrontational and unhelpful. It's the equvialent of saying "talk to the hand." When an immigrant struggles with a common English phrase and asks you what the proper words are, these people just scoff and say "look it up yourself, you dimwit foreigner!"
Such is neither helpful nor nice.
Apr 4, 2014
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trysts wrote:
Fact: What year did "Gone with the Wind" premiere? Google it.
Opinion: What's a good red wine? Discuss.
Excellent! That should have ended the discussion, but I see there were 9 pages to follow.
SmyslovFan wrote:
trysts wrote:
Fact: What year did "Gone with the Wind" premiere? Google it.
Opinion: What's a good red wine? Discuss.
Excellent! That should have ended the discussion, but I see there were 9 pages to follow.
No, because nobody has demonstrated even one plausible reason why asking someone when Gone with the Wind premiered rather than "google botting" it is undesireable. Most everyone knows that GWTW came out in 1939 anyway. Asking a group of people will easily get you the answer on that.
trysts wrote:
Timothy_P wrote:
What I meant was, most of the content there shouldn't be affected by political bias. The content that is, is obvious - see what is challenged and what the edits were.
Thanks for clarifying:)
@Johnmusascha: Good article. Were you a fan of The Golden Girls?
Yes, very much so. It is wellnigh impossible to have grown up in Miami of that era and not be a fan of Scarface, Miami Vice, and The Golden Girls. I also think it really enhances your attitude and outlook growing up to see your hometown positively depicted in films and television -- you just know that you're growing up "somewhere."
Apr 4, 2014
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So long as someone doesn't ask questions constantly. In other words, I knew someone who when you were around him he was asking questions. I got so that I didn't want to be near him because I knew I was going to have to answer questions. It got old. I'm sure there were many others who felt the same way. Because of that experience, when I see someone unwilling to Google anything and expecting everyone around him to answer his questions I can't help but wonder if that person is similar to the person I knew. It's rather annoying to be around.
I knew that guy. He had questions, his sister had the answers. It was a crazy family. Don't be like THAT guy.
bigpoison wrote:
It does suck that any idiot can prove me wrong with just a few seconds playing with their toy.
Damn google! My vast store of useless knowledge has been rendered even more useless.
Once or twice a year you're still golden.
Y0_Bro wrote:
If someones going to take the time to tell you to google something they should take the time to figure out what youre asking.
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johnmusacha wrote:
Yes. People saying "just google it" are being confrontational and unhelpful.
Means we're really on to something here.
Google can be useful, but doesn't always deliver the goods.
I was looking for my pencil and tried googling "lost pencil".
Got some good advice too:
1 Think of the place you last had the pencil. If it is not there look around the area, maybe that wasn't really the last place.
2 Determine if your pencil could be somewhere nearby. Ask yourself some questions. Were you using it to do homework? Work for your job? Or something else? Knowing this will help because you can go to the place your other items were put.
3 Look in random places that you may or may not think your pencil could possibly be.
4 Ask someone who saw you using the pencil, maybe when you set it down, that person borrowed it.
5 Don't forget to look in obvious places that you would usually walk by, not thinking about the pencil being in obvious sight.
All good advice, but the one i needed was "try looking in the mirror, it could be in your nostril".
Apr 5, 2014
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Apr 5, 2014
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I still remember the first time somebody gave me the advice to try google as a search engine. I was IT director and it was one of my guys that gave me this info. It was 1997.
johnmusacha a écrit :
I don't have any books on that at home, and I am a historian actually. Then again, you are the one asking about Tirana in 1357, not me. Find it out yourself.
Are you telling him to google it?
No, I'm telling him to find out. Whatever it takes brah. He's in Paris. Good town for libraries, from what I know.
Y0_Bro a écrit :
Ivandh, if you stopped trolling it would be appreciated.
This whole thread is a troll. You should know, since you're the OP.
I'm just having a good time until this thing hits bottom.
ivandh nicely spotted a Floydian slip of the brah.
LongIslandMark wrote:
There was an article recently, maybe in Scientific America, where google/the-internet is replacing what we used to use our network of friends, relatives, and aquaintances for. Uncle Joe knew plumbing, friend Alice worked at a veternarians, Grandma Maude knew baking, Grampa Lee knew carpentry.
As I recall, the other point of the article was we are also becoming less likely to remember anything ourselves and starting to rely on the global net - sort of like how some folks depend on calculators rather than doing the multiplication in their heads.
This all sounds familiar - did I post this already or was I just thinking about it? If so, sorry for the repeat - maybe I'm getting converted, depending on the global group memory.
Hogwash. The internet isn't going to come over and help you install a dishwasher.
LongIslandMark a écrit :
There was an article recently, maybe in Scientific America, where google/the-internet is replacing what we used to use our network of friends, relatives, and aquaintances for. Uncle Joe knew plumbing, friend Alice worked at a veternarians, Grandma Maude knew baking, Grampa Lee knew carpentry.
That's due to industrial specialization, not the internet, and it's been going on for hundreds of years. Adam Smith wrote about it in the 1700's. As there is more and more specialization you are less likely to personally know someone who is specialized in the thing you need, so you have to go to the internet to find them.
It comes down to perceived intent. People don't like answering lazy users that could not be bothered to Google something but want someone else to spend time writing up an explanation. If it is apparent they have spent time looking for the answer themselves before asking, most people don't have a problem with explaining.
I appreciate your answer, but what about those people (like me) that do not use google/hotbot/altavista and the like? Other people are better. My brothers are like "Super google-altavista-yahoo!" A multi-conscious hybrid of human intelligence and the internets.