The manufacturer has the right not to give access to the code. The patient has the right to refuse that particular offering.
Having said that, I think the manufacturer is an a*hole for not allowing it. I hope there are alternatives.
I suggest that for that type of device the manufacturer ought to open the source code. Opening the source code does not mean distributing it freely. It would be very easy for them to identify "plagiarism" and sue any company doing so.
I, for one, would be much, much more comfortable with code able to be reviewed and my bet would be that bugs would be found. I would nearly stake my life on it.
The expertise of the patient is irrelevant, there are many experts out there that would love to demonstrate their skills and gain the kudos associated with improving a marvelous invention.
It may not be hard for Google to flag a word that should NEVER come up during a search, but I, for one, would like to know that some people think that Lyonnaise de Guarantie are crooks or escrocs. I reserve my right to decide whether they are or not, and to say so on the internet, and to have my post showing up on searches.
This is interesting. I used to really be into movies and by attending film festivals would see a couple of hundred movies a year.
I have not been to a movie for a decade now, but that is another story.
When I went to movies, I always tended to sit in the front rows precisely because of this. To me, it seems that having to move my head to catch all of the action also did engage me more fully in the movie. In fact that was the only reason why a video of a movie never had the appeal or impact of a cinema, with this lack of engagement viewing a much smaller screen.
Ah well, I guess we are all a bit different at least, but I suspect that great directors/cinematographers would be fully cognizant of this and direct/frame the movie with this in mind.
Learn to speak with another accent with practice!?
Maybe, but you can't get rid of your accent, if you learned a new language past a certain age (teens?). I know. I moved to an english speaking country at nineteen, and now, 40+ odd years later, I still have a french accent that I can't get rid of, except for brief periods and with a lot of efforts (and then, it is me saying I have no accent:) ).
A better solution would be stricter and more limited communications between sections of the net demonstrated to have high sources of malware.
But that would mean I could not access rthe US internet anymore as the US is one of the largest, if not the largest, source of spam, and therefore malware(?).
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The manufacturer has the right not to give access to the code. The patient has the right to refuse that particular offering.
Having said that, I think the manufacturer is an a*hole for not allowing it. I hope there are alternatives.
I suggest that for that type of device the manufacturer ought to open the source code. Opening the source code does not mean distributing it freely. It would be very easy for them to identify "plagiarism" and sue any company doing so.
I, for one, would be much, much more comfortable with code able to be reviewed and my bet would be that bugs would be found. I would nearly stake my life on it.
The expertise of the patient is irrelevant, there are many experts out there that would love to demonstrate their skills and gain the kudos associated with improving a marvelous invention.
It may not be hard for Google to flag a word that should NEVER come up during a search, but I, for one, would like to know that some people think that Lyonnaise de Guarantie are crooks or escrocs. I reserve my right to decide whether they are or not, and to say so on the internet, and to have my post showing up on searches.
This is interesting. I used to really be into movies and by attending film festivals would see a couple of hundred movies a year.
I have not been to a movie for a decade now, but that is another story.
When I went to movies, I always tended to sit in the front rows precisely because of this. To me, it seems that having to move my head to catch all of the action also did engage me more fully in the movie. In fact that was the only reason why a video of a movie never had the appeal or impact of a cinema, with this lack of engagement viewing a much smaller screen.
Ah well, I guess we are all a bit different at least, but I suspect that great directors/cinematographers would be fully cognizant of this and direct/frame the movie with this in mind.
Any director, cinematographer able to comment?
I think it is not only the brain, but the morphology of the voice apparatus has been irreversibly changed too.
... but this is still a phone we're talking about, not quite a computer)...
But it is a phone trying to BE a computer, no?
Learn to speak with another accent with practice!?
Maybe, but you can't get rid of your accent, if you learned a new language past a certain age (teens?). I know. I moved to an english speaking country at nineteen, and now, 40+ odd years later, I still have a french accent that I can't get rid of, except for brief periods and with a lot of efforts (and then, it is me saying I have no accent :) ).
A better solution would be stricter and more limited communications between sections of the net demonstrated to have high sources of malware.
But that would mean I could not access rthe US internet anymore as the US is one of the largest, if not the largest, source of spam, and therefore malware(?).