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Gmail is the best e-mail service provider.
I rate the Amazon Kindle 2 as a portable reading device "Satisfactory."
The FCC should allow companies to provide free, ad-supported, national wireless Internet access.
I would not prefer a laptop with a touchscreen interface. I do far too much real typing/keying for a touchscreen to be of substantive value.
I would not switch cell phone carriers for wireless phone charging. Got to go with @Ninja Cat on this one--now when you can offer me wireless power to my laptop!!!!!!!!!
"Bing" will not increase Microsoft's search engine market share. This is another of those questions--actually, most are of this category--which cannot be properly answered with a "Yes" or "No." Bing will indeed probably increase Microsoft's Live Search revenue, but Google is not going to sit idle, and merely observe. It is going to be quite a while before anyone overtakes Google, the lead is too great.
Google is the best search engine. Having used perhaps every search engine ever developed, from pre-Web Internet days and following (to wit, Archie, Gopher, et alia), to Aliweb, Lycos, AltaVista, and all the rest--including omnibus search gleaners such as DogPile--for me the best, hands-down, is Google. That may or may not change with "Bing," but I have a feeling that Google will trump everything else for quite some time to come. Why? Because they leap-frogged the competition in the late 90s, before the anyone even knew it, and have not yet twiddled their thumbs. Just as it is going to take something in the form of a virtual asteroid collision with Earth to dethrone Windows as the dominant desktop OS, a similar techno-cataclysm will be required to overthrow Google.
News agencies should limit the content bloggers can excerpt from their articles. The seeming ascendence of the Internet, as the news source of choice for more and more people around the world, does not annul the laws of copywrite which are based on what most societies view as a basic, even inherent, right. "Bloggers" (a puerile term if ever there was one, on a par with Twitter, UTube, Facebook, et alia, but in keeping with the "newspeak" trend in language--ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce George Orwell!) must learn that the current license which they enjoy in the realm of journalism will ultimately demand an accounting, at least the modicum of responsibility adhered to by professional print journalists. If "bloggers" wish to be taken seriously, they are going to have to shed their rebel-without-a-cause guise, and begin to behave like something resembling mature adults. What?! What a concept!!
Wikipedia is not more reliable than a traditional encyclopedia. Impossible. Contributions can and do come from many disparate (not the same as desperate, for those not aware of it) sources, not a few, less-than-knowledgeable. A given article may be quite accurate and scholarly, but that is not by any means a pervasive reality. Truth be told, to get the best, most factual information about anything, person, place, thing, or event, one must consult more than one source.
I would read books on a portable electronic device. ...but only if the paper version were not around, and I were really, truly, absolutely, for sure hard-up. Books, particularly hardback, have an aesthetical and traditional value that cannot be matched by the little electronic gizmo held in one's hand--the same reason people who prefer antique furniture to new; vintage clothing, to current fads; Aladdin lamps, to electric; and so on, ad infinitum.
God is infallible. Otherwise He would not be God. Come on, what do "omnipotent," "omniscient," and "omnipresent" mean? Could one who created EVERYTHING not have control over EVERYTHING? Infallible means incapable of error. The One Who created the very concepts of truth and error, cannot make a mistake. Those who have never truly studied logic will perhaps not be able to grasp this basic, logical conclusion, but that does not alter it, or negate it. One can deny the existence of God, and one can believe in A god, or many gods; however, if the question refers to God--Jehovah, Yahweh, Elohim--as revealed in the Bible, then there is, uh, no question.
The Kindle DX will help reverse the newspaper industry's decline. Probably, since a reader, particularly a commuter in a big city, could have two or more "newspapers" with him or her, whereas carrying more than one real paper version would be cumbersome. However, the notion that real paper is going away is a fallacy anyway; historically, people have retained things, mediums, which for a time were thought to be headed toward obsolescence. Do not forget that what determines whether or not a thing is obsolete is not merely whether or not it is new or old, or even whether or not it is more or less convenient. In the last five years there has been a resurgence in the use of fountain pens!
I'm a PC. I have used both for well over 15 years, and Mac is not only highly overrated, PCs and MS get all the flack BECAUSE they are number one. It happens every time. It is the same reason why people, including Americans themselves, enjoy blasting the U. s. so much.
Facebook's upgrade to a real-time home page is better than the previous design.
Public figure opinions are more interesting to read than member opinions on whereIstand.com. Few members possess concrete facts to support their opinions--not that a majority of PFs do either, but PF opinions are what shape events far more than the general citizenry (contrary to what we all like to think, and wish).
Mark Zuckerberg should not be replaced as CEO of Facebook.
Can whereIstand.org be successful? Yes Absolutely!
Employers should have the right to fire workers for content posted on social networking sites. If a posting goes against pre-established company policy, to which the employee agreed upon hire, absolutely.
Internet Explorer is the most secure Internet browser. IE8 has it hands-down.
whereIstand is an effective forum for influencing people's opinions.
There should be a permanent moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access.
Computer literacy is not an important qualification for the presidency.
A significant percentage of consumers will not replace all of their personal electronic devices with an iPhone.
Artificial Intelligence eventually will become a danger to humanity.
Violent video games contribute to violent behavior.
The Internet has had a negative impact on the film industry.
Technological advancements tend to degrade human life.
Google is the best search engine. Having used perhaps every search engine ever developed, from pre-Web Internet days and following (to wit, Archie, Gopher, et alia), to Aliweb, Lycos, AltaVista, and all the rest--including omnibus search gleaners such as DogPile--for me the best, hands-down, is Google. That may or may not change with "Bing," but I have a feeling that Google will trump everything else for quite some time to come. Why? Because they leap-frogged the competition in the late 90s, before the anyone even knew it, and have not yet twiddled their thumbs. Just as it is going to take something in the form of a virtual asteroid collision with Earth to dethrone Windows as the dominant desktop OS, a similar techno-cataclysm will be required to overthrow Google.
UNKNOWN: What was the deciding factor in your most recent purchase of a portable media player?
I would not prefer a laptop with a touchscreen interface. I do far too much real typing/keying for a touchscreen to be of substantive value.
Internet Explorer is the most secure Internet browser. IE8 has it hands-down.
UNKNOWN: Is whereIstand an effective forum for conveying complex opinions?
whereIstand is an effective forum for influencing people's opinions.
Public figure opinions are more interesting to read than member opinions on whereIstand.com. Few members possess concrete facts to support their opinions--not that a majority of PFs do either, but PF opinions are what shape events far more than the general citizenry (contrary to what we all like to think, and wish).
Employers should have the right to fire workers for content posted on social networking sites. If a posting goes against pre-established company policy, to which the employee agreed upon hire, absolutely.
Mark Zuckerberg should not be replaced as CEO of Facebook.
I would read books on a portable electronic device. ...but only if the paper version were not around, and I were really, truly, absolutely, for sure hard-up. Books, particularly hardback, have an aesthetical and traditional value that cannot be matched by the little electronic gizmo held in one's hand--the same reason people who prefer antique furniture to new; vintage clothing, to current fads; Aladdin lamps, to electric; and so on, ad infinitum.
The Kindle DX will help reverse the newspaper industry's decline. Probably, since a reader, particularly a commuter in a big city, could have two or more "newspapers" with him or her, whereas carrying more than one real paper version would be cumbersome. However, the notion that real paper is going away is a fallacy anyway; historically, people have retained things, mediums, which for a time were thought to be headed toward obsolescence. Do not forget that what determines whether or not a thing is obsolete is not merely whether or not it is new or old, or even whether or not it is more or less convenient. In the last five years there has been a resurgence in the use of fountain pens!
"Bing" will not increase Microsoft's search engine market share. This is another of those questions--actually, most are of this category--which cannot be properly answered with a "Yes" or "No." Bing will indeed probably increase Microsoft's Live Search revenue, but Google is not going to sit idle, and merely observe. It is going to be quite a while before anyone overtakes Google, the lead is too great.
UNKNOWN: If a nuclear weapons program is discovered in Iran, would you support a preemptive military strike?