Last year, UMass had suddenly cited compliance to refuse graduate students form Iran.
http://college.usatoday.com/20...
It's bizarre when civic and corporate entities enforce laws that even the government doesn't ask them too
You genuinely cannot see that this language is actually not neutral either. Of course the machine doesn't care but keeping politically saturated terms puts them on life support too. I am not necessarily in favor of this move but it has merit.
I remember that motto from years ago and I think it will likely apply here. I imagine that there will be a lot of executive and bureaucratic decisions to go around this vote.
I acknowledge that there's room for more explanation. I have no interest in points, however.
My dilemma is that I also don't believe that matters of social complexity can be discussed here at all. While I can readily ignore the seemingly deep debates around here to just get some news about tech stuff, the racist and sexiste remarks are sometimes more difficult to ignore.
I will happily discuss this via a more suitable medium if you wish and I can better explain my initial shorthand response for Sartrean bad faith
Its ease of use is second to none and that does matter.
It also makes sense, sadly, that its plugin repo is now full of freemium. There's clearly a large market but I hope that the genuinely free and quality plugins will remain. Without them, this number wouldn't be.
I find it even more painful that much of Africa is not using that much water. That's only because the corruption and the lack of infrastructure. Richer countries, though with some exceptions all around, find it affordable to use a lot
I do watch Netflix but whenever I need to take a movie seriously (I write about films for part of my work) I do have to watch the other non Netflix versions just in case
http://whatnetflixdoes.tumblr....
No affiliation with the site by the way
It's been a painfully helpful thing, like an ice bath for a fever (maybe?) to See my beloved Android system (software and hardware) lose its aura that you can trust stuff because it's free and open source. I still prefer it to alternatives. But I confess that I was naive and went along with the worship of open source.
I just don't think I control my phone anymore
It's just the app for w8 and frankly since many people use the windows 7 hidden under 8, and not w8 proper apps,where normal FF would work, it sounds like a reasonable decision.
I have been a prime member since the start and I would pay even more than that for it. However, I think they are making a mistake by thinking about cases like mine.
The increase in cost of shipping is a terrible excuse. No doubt that the cost has gone up but I suspect the prime membership cannot even come close to breaking even. Those who do NOT sign up for it are the ones who are making that exact calculation. I did too at first because I used to shop for books and other stuff almost on most major sites. Once you have prime, you just keep using Amazon because of free and FAST shipping. Sure other sites have sometimes free shipping but the cheapest and slowest ones.
Everyone who has prime in my experience buys more from Amazon. The more you buy the more they "lose" on shipping but they win in the end.
I would have lowered it to get more people hooked...
In order of importance for my work
1. Adobe Acrobat Pro
(repeat the above line eight more times)
10. MS Word
I can almost do all MS Word stuff with freeware alternatives, but almost. Acrobat alternatives? For pdf power users there is no alternative. None. I don't do graphics much but I can see that GIMP is no photoshop. It *seems* to me that Acrobat vs alternatives' gap is even bigger. But may just be because I don't do graphic works.
MS Word
Given the originality of the name, you know some heavy duty expensive marketing team worked on it. I would not be surprised if that didn't cost them more than EU litigation. Lawyers are cheaper in Europe in my experience
I don't have all that much experience with 8, but on 7 I hit start and type and the program appears quickly too. Maybe it's faster on 8 but I find 7 at least suitable
I see this perspective - 'no one forced you to publish with them' etc - voiced in some comments here. I appreciate that many of us need such fantasies of individual sovereignty to even get out of bed in the morning, this doesn't apply to academia.
Most people have no choice practically of where the top journals in their fields are. They could theoretically publish elsewhere, only not to be read the very few peers there are to begin with, or lose a chance at tenure, placement, etc.
It's true that some carriers, in some countries allow you to port your number (though that's hardly everywhere, making the 'worldwide claim of this database the same be just an empty claim). So some 'things' have changed, just a little.
But, most importantly, 'Things' such as phone numbers, are still, to my knowledge, incapable of autonomous intentionality and even of having enough singular qualities for this company's mission to make any sense.
A phone number neither intends to do good or evil, nor does it have material components or specs to fail to carry out the user's intention and deserve a bad reputation.
Without these, the concept of reputation is simply inapplicable.
Until some number phone numbers started willingly or typically call the wrong place or person by intentional design or by poor design, this company shouldn't bother calling me. I suspect they should put their own number first on their own list of numbers being associated with *people* misusing numbers
For our business, we have been using Square only because of that pricing model. Their customer service is one of the worst I have ever encountered (they think Twitter is a good place for businesses to discuss credit card processing publicly), they make a lot of decisions that are cute but either useless or in fact make things worse and less productive. I have been so frustrated with them for months but couldn't go elsewhere because of the rates. This change sucks but at least now I can walk away without any problems.
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Last year, UMass had suddenly cited compliance to refuse graduate students form Iran. http://college.usatoday.com/20... It's bizarre when civic and corporate entities enforce laws that even the government doesn't ask them too
You genuinely cannot see that this language is actually not neutral either. Of course the machine doesn't care but keeping politically saturated terms puts them on life support too. I am not necessarily in favor of this move but it has merit.
I remember that motto from years ago and I think it will likely apply here. I imagine that there will be a lot of executive and bureaucratic decisions to go around this vote.
I acknowledge that there's room for more explanation. I have no interest in points, however. My dilemma is that I also don't believe that matters of social complexity can be discussed here at all. While I can readily ignore the seemingly deep debates around here to just get some news about tech stuff, the racist and sexiste remarks are sometimes more difficult to ignore. I will happily discuss this via a more suitable medium if you wish and I can better explain my initial shorthand response for Sartrean bad faith
Blaming others not to face yourself is cowardice.
What pathetic life you have to get off passing as a racist on a tech site. Real racists are cowards but hardly anonymous.
There are actual companies and people under 80 that fell for it??? I always thought that these Nigerian emails were completely useless...
Absolutely love this metaphor! Very much my experience as well
Its ease of use is second to none and that does matter. It also makes sense, sadly, that its plugin repo is now full of freemium. There's clearly a large market but I hope that the genuinely free and quality plugins will remain. Without them, this number wouldn't be.
I find it even more painful that much of Africa is not using that much water. That's only because the corruption and the lack of infrastructure. Richer countries, though with some exceptions all around, find it affordable to use a lot
As in, 'you seem sad: here, take a look at your Amazon wishlist. Remember, shopping makes you happy. Believe me, I know. '
I do watch Netflix but whenever I need to take a movie seriously (I write about films for part of my work) I do have to watch the other non Netflix versions just in case http://whatnetflixdoes.tumblr.... No affiliation with the site by the way
It's been a painfully helpful thing, like an ice bath for a fever (maybe?) to See my beloved Android system (software and hardware) lose its aura that you can trust stuff because it's free and open source. I still prefer it to alternatives. But I confess that I was naive and went along with the worship of open source. I just don't think I control my phone anymore
It's just the app for w8 and frankly since many people use the windows 7 hidden under 8, and not w8 proper apps,where normal FF would work, it sounds like a reasonable decision.
I have been a prime member since the start and I would pay even more than that for it. However, I think they are making a mistake by thinking about cases like mine. The increase in cost of shipping is a terrible excuse. No doubt that the cost has gone up but I suspect the prime membership cannot even come close to breaking even. Those who do NOT sign up for it are the ones who are making that exact calculation. I did too at first because I used to shop for books and other stuff almost on most major sites. Once you have prime, you just keep using Amazon because of free and FAST shipping. Sure other sites have sometimes free shipping but the cheapest and slowest ones. Everyone who has prime in my experience buys more from Amazon. The more you buy the more they "lose" on shipping but they win in the end. I would have lowered it to get more people hooked...
In order of importance for my work 1. Adobe Acrobat Pro (repeat the above line eight more times) 10. MS Word I can almost do all MS Word stuff with freeware alternatives, but almost. Acrobat alternatives? For pdf power users there is no alternative. None. I don't do graphics much but I can see that GIMP is no photoshop. It *seems* to me that Acrobat vs alternatives' gap is even bigger. But may just be because I don't do graphic works. MS Word
Given the originality of the name, you know some heavy duty expensive marketing team worked on it. I would not be surprised if that didn't cost them more than EU litigation. Lawyers are cheaper in Europe in my experience
I don't have all that much experience with 8, but on 7 I hit start and type and the program appears quickly too. Maybe it's faster on 8 but I find 7 at least suitable
I find this a good case when I'm intrigued just to see a dev's talent showcased but can't imagine staying on ie beyond that though
I see this perspective - 'no one forced you to publish with them' etc - voiced in some comments here. I appreciate that many of us need such fantasies of individual sovereignty to even get out of bed in the morning, this doesn't apply to academia. Most people have no choice practically of where the top journals in their fields are. They could theoretically publish elsewhere, only not to be read the very few peers there are to begin with, or lose a chance at tenure, placement, etc.
It's true that some carriers, in some countries allow you to port your number (though that's hardly everywhere, making the 'worldwide claim of this database the same be just an empty claim). So some 'things' have changed, just a little. But, most importantly, 'Things' such as phone numbers, are still, to my knowledge, incapable of autonomous intentionality and even of having enough singular qualities for this company's mission to make any sense. A phone number neither intends to do good or evil, nor does it have material components or specs to fail to carry out the user's intention and deserve a bad reputation. Without these, the concept of reputation is simply inapplicable. Until some number phone numbers started willingly or typically call the wrong place or person by intentional design or by poor design, this company shouldn't bother calling me. I suspect they should put their own number first on their own list of numbers being associated with *people* misusing numbers
For our business, we have been using Square only because of that pricing model. Their customer service is one of the worst I have ever encountered (they think Twitter is a good place for businesses to discuss credit card processing publicly), they make a lot of decisions that are cute but either useless or in fact make things worse and less productive. I have been so frustrated with them for months but couldn't go elsewhere because of the rates. This change sucks but at least now I can walk away without any problems.