23rd January 2006, 7:22 PM
What is a video vs computer game was one of the classic dumb ones. That was nothing but an argument on semantics, truly the worst of debates. And by the way, I took part making a single argument, in the form of posting the definition OB1 did NOT post but surely saw when he went to Dictionary.com, and when he refused to even acknowledge my post, well, I knew then it wasn't really a debate. It just seemed to me it would have been a lot easier to just define the terms simply and cleanly the way they are normally used, which is ALMOST interchangebly and getting closer to that all the time.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)