Monday, October 11, 2010

Man or Machine?

Facebook and Google are working on making the internet have no launguage barriers. They want it so Spanish speaking people can read French websites. How is this going to happen? Either with humans, or machines. Facebook has real people translating things which makes it more accurate where as Google is having pages translated at the same time by using technology. Because of that it is not always completely accurate.
What do I think? I say whatever floats your boat. If all you need is the "jest" of something go with Google. I personally would go with things being accurate. I hope it works though, I would love to chat with person from China! :)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Texting vs. Sleep!

Cellphones...texting...computers...facebook...it all comes down to socializing. These days teenagers are getting less and less sleep when we really need more then ever. The reason behind this is technology. A lot of people (not just teens) are texting and on the computer all night long. They sleep with their phone by their head so they always have access to it. Kids always want to be "in the loop" and be able to know what is going on all the time. Resulting is a loss of sleep.
I think this is just stupid! I don't have a phone yet (I have mean parents and have to wait until I am 16) so it doesn't really make sense to me. Why would you waste sleep over something that can wait until the morning? Sleep is one thing I am always craving and never seem to have enough, and I would not give that up to text. Just wait for the morning!!