Not an Apple hater. But I still won't buy their devices for my own use. Apple offer me a guaranteed "experience" that they control. In other words, they offer safety in exchange for liberty, which is not a bargain that I'm willing to make.
They're allowed to have an opinion, too, and they are scientists, after all, which means we might actually want at least to consider what they have to say. We're free to disagree with them, but we really should have some good reasons for that.
Those who aspire to become nuclear physics do not study a "nuclear scientific method"; they learn how to apply the scientific method to the field of nuclear physics. Folks who want to become climate scientists do not study a "climate-scientific method"; they learn how to apply the scientific method to the field of climate science.
Do you see where I'm going with this? Would I pay attention to a similar group of medical doctors, or chemists? Sure, why not?
The bit about Skype is also not quite true. MS have done horrid/idiotic things with the UI, especially in the mobile versions, but I use the Linux desktop version almost daily and it works just fine for its intended purpose.
They can sell it, but they can't sell it out from under you.
Who can't sell what out from under me? Sole copyright owners can sell their code at any time out from under anyone. It's their legal right.
You cannot change the license after the fact.
You can take your GPL project closed, but anyone who obtained your code under GPL license prior to that can continue to use, modify, and redistribute that code under terms of said license.
Yes, and the other AC pointed out that XE7 coverage skips a huge number of major platforms, which pretty much trashes someone's breathy "JUST about *every* platform".
That's a cute but transparent attempt to sidestep the issue.
Apple says if I buy a computer from them, they'll place arbitrary restrictions on what I can do with it. This means that it might not do things that I tell it to do. This also means that it might do other arbitrary things that I don't tell it to do, or even that I tell it not to do.
You might consider these acceptable terms for the use of your general-purpose computer. I do not consider them such for mine.
You're making it sound like he's some sort of psychopath or something.
We're talking about someone who's demonstrated repeated success in identifying and starting unsavoury online relationships with female students who have difficulties asserting themselves.
Whatever random noise you wish to employ as a label for that is fine by me.
After talking to a psychiatrist in September 2014 about what she described as a “breakdown,” Harbi decided to collect evidence of Lewin’s behavior to take to MIT. Within five days of searching, Harbi said, she found 10 other women whom Lewin had befriended and contacted on Facebook with inappropriate, sometimes identical messages. Lewin then blocked her from seeing his Facebook friends, she said.
Generally speaking, Harbi said, the women live in countries where speaking out about sexual harassment is taboo -- countries “where the culture is that it is better to actually not speak at all, because you’ll be a disgrace to your family.” Lewin confessed his love for several of them, chat logs show, but often denied those feelings to women who asked about the others.
Just because she's creeped-out by it, doesn't necessarily mean it's inappropriate.
Of course it's completely inappropriate for her to be creeped out by it.
She was (IMO appropriately) creeped out because someone in whom she'd placed trust initiated private contact with her. As it later emerged, this someone has a history of preying on females whom he's apparently tagged as "vulnerable", just as he tried to take advantage of it in this case.
Maybe my problem with what you said is that we don't agree on definitions, so here's a couple of mine:
"Maybe you'd like to have dinner with me sometime?" from someone you don't want to hear that from. <-- Unwelcome advance.
"Would you send me nudies of yourself?" from someone who is working with you in a professional setting, is 3 or 4 decades your senior, AND contacts you outside of official channels just to ask you this question. <-- "Creepout" territory.
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Okay, here's my anecdote:
I know nine people who own MacBooks.
Seven of them run Linux on them full-time. They're all programmers.
The two who don't are both retirees, neither of whom has much experience with computers.
Not an Apple hater. But I still won't buy their devices for my own use. Apple offer me a guaranteed "experience" that they control. In other words, they offer safety in exchange for liberty, which is not a bargain that I'm willing to make.
"TRUST NO ONE"
I get 100/100 fibre for about 40 bucks a month in Stockholm. No caps or throttling, either.
Then for you, as it is for me, it's Year Ten of the Linux Desktop.
Et voilà! How To Encrypt Everything.
Once they fill up the last page, all of them are executed.
Such delightful ambiguity. Would "they" happen to be the laws, or the government?
The US government is not supposed to take care ofits citizens.
Then what the fuck do we even have it for?
They're allowed to have an opinion, too, and they are scientists, after all, which means we might actually want at least to consider what they have to say. We're free to disagree with them, but we really should have some good reasons for that.
Those who aspire to become nuclear physics do not study a "nuclear scientific method"; they learn how to apply the scientific method to the field of nuclear physics. Folks who want to become climate scientists do not study a "climate-scientific method"; they learn how to apply the scientific method to the field of climate science.
Do you see where I'm going with this? Would I pay attention to a similar group of medical doctors, or chemists? Sure, why not?
The bit about Skype is also not quite true. MS have done horrid/idiotic things with the UI, especially in the mobile versions, but I use the Linux desktop version almost daily and it works just fine for its intended purpose.
That's nice.
Isn't Oracle's table/column names still limited to 30 characters? I would think a modern, enterprise-worthy database could handle a bit more.
Even MySQL supports 64-character identifiers for databases and tables.
They can sell it, but they can't sell it out from under you.
Who can't sell what out from under me? Sole copyright owners can sell their code at any time out from under anyone. It's their legal right.
You cannot change the license after the fact.
You can take your GPL project closed, but anyone who obtained your code under GPL license prior to that can continue to use, modify, and redistribute that code under terms of said license.
Most politicians who are up to date on their PR/Marketing consider branding to be a key part of their campaign strategy.
As a native son of the Great State of Kentucky, it is my solemn duty to inform you that the squirrel is already our state bird.
If a browser crashes because of a site, it's the browser's developers fault.
You must have been deprived of Last Measure as a child.
Yes, and the other AC pointed out that XE7 coverage skips a huge number of major platforms, which pretty much trashes someone's breathy "JUST about *every* platform".
I see that udachny modded you Insightful, how nice for you.
Tell us, roman_mir, how *does* it feel to be a complete stooge of the megacorporations?
I'm going to ring my brother and ask him to ship me my old C-64.
That's a cute but transparent attempt to sidestep the issue.
Apple says if I buy a computer from them, they'll place arbitrary restrictions on what I can do with it. This means that it might not do things that I tell it to do. This also means that it might do other arbitrary things that I don't tell it to do, or even that I tell it not to do.
You might consider these acceptable terms for the use of your general-purpose computer. I do not consider them such for mine.
I can tell you're a big hit at parties.
(There's this thing called "compassion". You should give it a try sometime.)
You're making it sound like he's some sort of psychopath or something.
We're talking about someone who's demonstrated repeated success in identifying and starting unsavoury online relationships with female students who have difficulties asserting themselves.
Whatever random noise you wish to employ as a label for that is fine by me.
It was not. Quoth TFA,
After talking to a psychiatrist in September 2014 about what she described as a “breakdown,” Harbi decided to collect evidence of Lewin’s behavior to take to MIT. Within five days of searching, Harbi said, she found 10 other women whom Lewin had befriended and contacted on Facebook with inappropriate, sometimes identical messages. Lewin then blocked her from seeing his Facebook friends, she said.
Generally speaking, Harbi said, the women live in countries where speaking out about sexual harassment is taboo -- countries “where the culture is that it is better to actually not speak at all, because you’ll be a disgrace to your family.” Lewin confessed his love for several of them, chat logs show, but often denied those feelings to women who asked about the others.
Just because she's creeped-out by it, doesn't necessarily mean it's inappropriate.
Of course it's completely inappropriate for her to be creeped out by it.
She was (IMO appropriately) creeped out because someone in whom she'd placed trust initiated private contact with her. As it later emerged, this someone has a history of preying on females whom he's apparently tagged as "vulnerable", just as he tried to take advantage of it in this case.
Maybe my problem with what you said is that we don't agree on definitions, so here's a couple of mine:
"Maybe you'd like to have dinner with me sometime?" from someone you don't want to hear that from. <-- Unwelcome advance.
"Would you send me nudies of yourself?" from someone who is working with you in a professional setting, is 3 or 4 decades your senior, AND contacts you outside of official channels just to ask you this question. <-- "Creepout" territory.
Just a quick note-- she wasn't a "college-aged girl"-- she was 32.
And this matters, because...?
She was a student [but]...
No, just No. "She was a student." End of story.
She wasn't raped. She was not raped .
And no-one said that she was. She had her trust and confidence betrayed, which is what is at issue here. So who raised the strawman, again?
It's also very important to know whether the AC is female and single.