Ah, I see. Well, I never used WFWG, and I only use Windows for gaming and the occasional Word document for work. If the behavior you describe is what you were referring to, then yes, Windows is to blame as far as Outlook and all that emulate its behavior are concerned. I never thought of the email-client as something provided by the OS vendor, but you are right that for many Windows users that is the reality.
So, if I have 1 class of personality (all in there) and 1 class of brain structure (again, all in there) and can show a correlation (Yes! I can! These two are maximally correlated!), I have found something of merit? I rather think that I just found your argument has no merit at all, as it already falls completely on its face on the most simple example possible.
Your comments cannot be literal as they do not reference concrete objects. Seriously. Also, maybe you have noticed that not all science is statistical studies?
The philosophical discussion is nice, but I take it that you have not reviewed lots of papers that actually were complete bullshit because of too simple models. The problem is that "scientists" (often just PhD students) are pulling simplistic models out of their behinds left and right and then build great constructs on top of them. That is not a philosophical problem, that is a very real-world one.
Incidentally, in modern science, without understanding you will not discover anything, because the combinatoric explosion kills you. All the simple things have been discovered. Sure, there is a difference between "we have always done it this way" (which is not understanding at all) and "we believe it works like this, so if we do A, B should happen. Lets try it." Understanding lets you do thought-experiments which are vastly faster and cheaper than real ones. Of course, you then need to follow up with real experiments, but without the pruning at the start, forget about ever getting anywhere.
These are the type of researchers I admire. Incidentally, do you know "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"? Deeply insightful and funny as well in a somewhat similar venue.
Wrong. You may well be able to only measure secondary effects and not the thing itself. That makes the cause extra-physical and the effect physical. In fact, most of modern physical research deals with things that are not directly observable, i.e. it is unclear whether what gets "observed" actually exists or whether something else is at work.
Also, one core principle in Physics is repeatability of experiments. If you have free will in there, Physics does not really apply anymore. (Which is why physicalists claim that there is no free will. Their illusion collapses otherwise.)
You can, for example, very well have p-zombie variants that only have specific personality traits and have a very small number of real people with the same. You could then still not identify the p-zombies, but if, say all but one of the entities having that profile are p-zombies, the research would still be meaningless.
Sorry, but if you feed emails automatically to the shell in Mutt on Linux, no such protection happens. Of course you would need to configure this yourself, but it is entirely possible to do. And for sure any mail-program can make a file executable after writing it to disk.
I do agree that the _mindset_ at work here is that of Windows though, but for once it is not directly the OS that is at fault. Which is rare under Windows. Indirectly, with Windows promoting stupidity and insecurity in general and hence promoting making email-clients in stupid and insecure ways (for example, giving emails to a web-browser for display...) Windows is very much at fault.
Simplistic models allow you to publish a lot because you do not need to actually understand anything. Neuro-"science" is pretty non-scientific already, just read "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon" where some actually competent neuroscientists explain how many of the great results other have are basically meaningless.
We are not at all sure. But for the members of the fundamentalist quasi-religion "physicalism" it is obvious, because people must be purely physical beings in their view. That view is not based on scientific fact though, because science makes no such claim.
Incidentally, both personality and brains-structure could be caused by a third factor, making the correlation between both a secondary effect.
What they have is a correlation. It can be that personality causes brain structure, brain structure cause personality and that both are caused by a third factor. It is also possible that the people were this correlation is high are P-zombies and that the whole research is meaningless.
Incidentally, the 5-trait model is overly simplistic and only captures stereotypical people well.
Incidentally, you are wrong. The problem is the mail-client and that is not necessarily a part of windows. Execution of mail attachments cannot be made secure and should hence never be the default.
Because most software developers do not understand security at all and are under the mistaken impression that more functionality is always better. Or in other words, because incompetent idiots implemented it.
Not at all. Somebody with money can do a lot of damage when losing contact with reality. Somebody broke will only load the social system to a small degree.
Trump is not bananas. Trump is a reasonably intelligent, uncultivated narcissist. In fact, Trump is basically a text-book example of Narcissistic personality disorder. If he hadn't inherited big, he would probably be the prototypical dishonest used-car salesman. But he is not bananas. He just says whatever he needs to tell people in order to get them to do what he wants. I very much think he does know that he is mostly lying, but because he is the great leader, that is acceptable because his vision is so superior to all others that the end justifies the means.
You have no idea how laws work. If MS were to do that, they would cease to exist and its executives would be sitting in prison for computer sabotage. If you sell something to somebody, you cannot unilaterally cancel the trade afterwards. But yes, you are stupid, so I cannot really expect you to even know the basics.
Come to think of, "alternate fact" needs to be made term of the year. Fascinating how these people utterly disgrace themselves right on the first day. Let's see how long Trump manages before he gets impeached.
I find it to be no problem at all to install Debian without systemd. Sure, if you want the last bit of inert systemd cruft to be removed, it takes a bit more effort, but even that is hardly "impossible". On the other hand, there are enough morons that do not see that systemd is really a power-grab to the detriment of Linux.
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Ah, I see. Well, I never used WFWG, and I only use Windows for gaming and the occasional Word document for work. If the behavior you describe is what you were referring to, then yes, Windows is to blame as far as Outlook and all that emulate its behavior are concerned. I never thought of the email-client as something provided by the OS vendor, but you are right that for many Windows users that is the reality.
So, if I have 1 class of personality (all in there) and 1 class of brain structure (again, all in there) and can show a correlation (Yes! I can! These two are maximally correlated!), I have found something of merit? I rather think that I just found your argument has no merit at all, as it already falls completely on its face on the most simple example possible.
Your comments cannot be literal as they do not reference concrete objects. Seriously. Also, maybe you have noticed that not all science is statistical studies?
The philosophical discussion is nice, but I take it that you have not reviewed lots of papers that actually were complete bullshit because of too simple models. The problem is that "scientists" (often just PhD students) are pulling simplistic models out of their behinds left and right and then build great constructs on top of them. That is not a philosophical problem, that is a very real-world one.
Incidentally, in modern science, without understanding you will not discover anything, because the combinatoric explosion kills you. All the simple things have been discovered. Sure, there is a difference between "we have always done it this way" (which is not understanding at all) and "we believe it works like this, so if we do A, B should happen. Lets try it." Understanding lets you do thought-experiments which are vastly faster and cheaper than real ones. Of course, you then need to follow up with real experiments, but without the pruning at the start, forget about ever getting anywhere.
It does. If you do not mind that the core of your study is nonsense. May still get you a PhD though.
These are the type of researchers I admire. Incidentally, do you know "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"? Deeply insightful and funny as well in a somewhat similar venue.
Wrong. You may well be able to only measure secondary effects and not the thing itself. That makes the cause extra-physical and the effect physical. In fact, most of modern physical research deals with things that are not directly observable, i.e. it is unclear whether what gets "observed" actually exists or whether something else is at work.
Also, one core principle in Physics is repeatability of experiments. If you have free will in there, Physics does not really apply anymore. (Which is why physicalists claim that there is no free will. Their illusion collapses otherwise.)
You can, for example, very well have p-zombie variants that only have specific personality traits and have a very small number of real people with the same. You could then still not identify the p-zombies, but if, say all but one of the entities having that profile are p-zombies, the research would still be meaningless.
Sorry, but if you feed emails automatically to the shell in Mutt on Linux, no such protection happens. Of course you would need to configure this yourself, but it is entirely possible to do. And for sure any mail-program can make a file executable after writing it to disk.
I do agree that the _mindset_ at work here is that of Windows though, but for once it is not directly the OS that is at fault. Which is rare under Windows. Indirectly, with Windows promoting stupidity and insecurity in general and hence promoting making email-clients in stupid and insecure ways (for example, giving emails to a web-browser for display...) Windows is very much at fault.
Simplistic models allow you to publish a lot because you do not need to actually understand anything. Neuro-"science" is pretty non-scientific already, just read "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon" where some actually competent neuroscientists explain how many of the great results other have are basically meaningless.
We are not at all sure. But for the members of the fundamentalist quasi-religion "physicalism" it is obvious, because people must be purely physical beings in their view. That view is not based on scientific fact though, because science makes no such claim.
Incidentally, both personality and brains-structure could be caused by a third factor, making the correlation between both a secondary effect.
What they have is a correlation. It can be that personality causes brain structure, brain structure cause personality and that both are caused by a third factor. It is also possible that the people were this correlation is high are P-zombies and that the whole research is meaningless.
Incidentally, the 5-trait model is overly simplistic and only captures stereotypical people well.
And windows is not made by "software developers"?
Incidentally, you are wrong. The problem is the mail-client and that is not necessarily a part of windows. Execution of mail attachments cannot be made secure and should hence never be the default.
Because most software developers do not understand security at all and are under the mistaken impression that more functionality is always better. Or in other words, because incompetent idiots implemented it.
Not at all. Somebody with money can do a lot of damage when losing contact with reality. Somebody broke will only load the social system to a small degree.
Trump is not bananas. Trump is a reasonably intelligent, uncultivated narcissist. In fact, Trump is basically a text-book example of Narcissistic personality disorder. If he hadn't inherited big, he would probably be the prototypical dishonest used-car salesman. But he is not bananas. He just says whatever he needs to tell people in order to get them to do what he wants. I very much think he does know that he is mostly lying, but because he is the great leader, that is acceptable because his vision is so superior to all others that the end justifies the means.
Loss of contact with reality and too much money. A bad combination.
Why "mistaken"? And it could well be Theresa May buying them as well...
You have no idea how laws work. If MS were to do that, they would cease to exist and its executives would be sitting in prison for computer sabotage. If you sell something to somebody, you cannot unilaterally cancel the trade afterwards. But yes, you are stupid, so I cannot really expect you to even know the basics.
My impression is that MS is not even trying anymore. Win 10 becomes less and less ready for the desktop.
Sounds like criminal anti-competitive practices to me. Well, they will do it until they get slapped down. Would not be the first time.
I think MS needs to be threatened with a 500M fine again by the EU...
Come to think of, "alternate fact" needs to be made term of the year. Fascinating how these people utterly disgrace themselves right on the first day. Let's see how long Trump manages before he gets impeached.
I find it to be no problem at all to install Debian without systemd. Sure, if you want the last bit of inert systemd cruft to be removed, it takes a bit more effort, but even that is hardly "impossible". On the other hand, there are enough morons that do not see that systemd is really a power-grab to the detriment of Linux.
Ireland is not a country? News to me...