Dirkjan
May 14th 2005, 2:45 am
Post because of http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=45597
I can only say; "keep up such good ideas" to something like libraries uniting. I dont know why its reason to make fun of the French. After all, French ruled for 1000 years, Persians (Iraq people) for maybe even more, Americans only do it a year or 50. Why do Americans feel so superiour? Perhaps in a year or 50 Chinese rule the world and in history books Google and America only get a note because of the Internet, but thats it? Who knows.
As a dutchman, who visited the US a few times, and is familiar with the internet, I have to say I think its a very good idea to start combining the libraries. In the past, victories were made by the person that wrote it down, not necessarily by the person that won the fight. I think thats a quote of Napoleon? And he was right.
Let me get an example that not much people will flame me on (if I use any history of the US, with my point of view, Id probably just be flamed at and not making any point :P)
For example, take the golden age of The Netherlands
Dutch started the VOC, have conquered the world, have moved a zillion of people (ya I know we did lots of slavery and didnt payed much attention to human rights, but times were like that). Dutch ruled the world, except of a few Spanish ships that made some trouble. However when I see a great movie about those times, its often enough about an English ship.
If Google decides what happened in the history, it wouldnt surprise me if they wrote it in a way favorable for the US.
French are nationalistic, but Americans probably even more. Why would someone blame that 40% on the radio is in French, if Americans blame a country for just having oil or the same weapons as they do?
We (internet people) just wait until Russians or Asians wake up.. As soon as the Chinese find out that they could rule something as big as the internet, instead of trying to shut it down, they probably rule it within a year or two. Still its always good when countries or organisations combine when they are small, to fight something bigger.
I have always been a fan of Yahoo, of open source, of Europe, just because I think that as soon as something has competition, they only make eachother better. Google should have more competition, America should get more competition from someone fair (no terrorism please) economicly as Europe, and Open Source should have more stable background from companies like Sun, to be a real competitor to Microsoft.
It makes it better. Still the world is currently the greatest it has ever been though. I use Microsoft, and Yahoo, and Google, and hate French (but am learning Spanish! :P Does that count?)
I can only say; "keep up such good ideas" to something like libraries uniting. I dont know why its reason to make fun of the French. After all, French ruled for 1000 years, Persians (Iraq people) for maybe even more, Americans only do it a year or 50. Why do Americans feel so superiour? Perhaps in a year or 50 Chinese rule the world and in history books Google and America only get a note because of the Internet, but thats it? Who knows.
As a dutchman, who visited the US a few times, and is familiar with the internet, I have to say I think its a very good idea to start combining the libraries. In the past, victories were made by the person that wrote it down, not necessarily by the person that won the fight. I think thats a quote of Napoleon? And he was right.
Let me get an example that not much people will flame me on (if I use any history of the US, with my point of view, Id probably just be flamed at and not making any point :P)
For example, take the golden age of The Netherlands
Dutch started the VOC, have conquered the world, have moved a zillion of people (ya I know we did lots of slavery and didnt payed much attention to human rights, but times were like that). Dutch ruled the world, except of a few Spanish ships that made some trouble. However when I see a great movie about those times, its often enough about an English ship.
If Google decides what happened in the history, it wouldnt surprise me if they wrote it in a way favorable for the US.
French are nationalistic, but Americans probably even more. Why would someone blame that 40% on the radio is in French, if Americans blame a country for just having oil or the same weapons as they do?
We (internet people) just wait until Russians or Asians wake up.. As soon as the Chinese find out that they could rule something as big as the internet, instead of trying to shut it down, they probably rule it within a year or two. Still its always good when countries or organisations combine when they are small, to fight something bigger.
I have always been a fan of Yahoo, of open source, of Europe, just because I think that as soon as something has competition, they only make eachother better. Google should have more competition, America should get more competition from someone fair (no terrorism please) economicly as Europe, and Open Source should have more stable background from companies like Sun, to be a real competitor to Microsoft.
It makes it better. Still the world is currently the greatest it has ever been though. I use Microsoft, and Yahoo, and Google, and hate French (but am learning Spanish! :P Does that count?)