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by gress 11y ago
If you don't want this to happen, just don't answer the questions about what you are using the computer for. Just say something like "I don't want to get into that - I know this is what I want to buy." I've nev
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by gress 11y ago
Sounds like you're advocating a return to strict behaviorism.
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by gress 11y ago
What stops the cheat from accusing the original author of being the thief as a preemptive move?
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by gress 11y ago
It's entirely possible that a mouse can have a noncompliant implementation and happen to work with a relaxed implementation of the host. Perhaps Apple made their stack more compliant. If your logic were correct then all Bluetooth mice
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by gress 11y ago
So you were flat out wrong about the reductio. I was correctly identifying that you were making the GPL debate into a moral issue. We could have avoided this if you'd just been honest about having a moral problem with most proprietary
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by gress 11y ago
Almost all Bluetooth mice are compatible with current versions of OS X. Apple does support the human interface device standards. You have found a mouse that doesn't implement the Bluetooth spec properly. That is contempt for the en
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by gress 11y ago
All software has bugs. Apple software has a giant audience and the Internet can magnify an issue that affects a small number of users to make it seem as though it's a giant problem. If a problem affects 5,000 users it's easy for
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by gress 11y ago
Photos works exactly the way you seem to want it to on my devices. I take a photo and it appears on all devices. I delete a photo and it's deleted everywhere. Likewise for edits. You sound like you're talking about iPhoto. If
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by gress 11y ago
If the computer crashes all the time and Safari has stopped working then it is faulty and you should schedule a Genius Bar appointment.
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by gress 11y ago
Swift is moving fast as you say, and is clearly receiving Apple's favor and attention. Any app that you start with objective-c today will end up with a legacy codebase in the next couple of years.
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by gress 11y ago
What does that even mean?
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The Revolving Door Between Google and the DoD(pando.com)
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by gress 11y ago
Watches designed for heavy manual labor are a niche, not a consumer item.
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by gress 11y ago
The reviews are not poor, and the Apple Watch has outsold the iPhone and iPad over the same period in its lifecycle. This is just a failure of journalism, or possibly an angle that pleases a major advertiser.
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by gress 11y ago
Honestly, if you bought a fancy watch and don't want to wear it because you do manual work, that's a poor choice on your part and zero to do with the product.
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by gress 11y ago
Sorry, you have no idea how reductio-ad-absurdism works. Reductio ad absurdum requires that the absurd conclusion is a consequence of the argument that you are trying to disprove when taken to extremes. You haven't done that. You&#x
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by gress 11y ago
You are acting as though 'being racist' is a massive crime that people need to be protected from even thinking that they might be complicit in. The evidence shows that almost all of us, including members of minorities, are conditi
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by gress 11y ago
Unfortunately 'giving people the benefit of the doubt' is likely to perpetuate whatever bias exists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_Association_Test
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by gress 11y ago
You haven't addressed the fallacy which you are in fact making.
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by gress 11y ago
Why are you trying so hard to deny that people could be responding to her based on a stereotype? Also, how do you know how your African-American classmates were treated?
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by gress 11y ago
The statement that someone else's argument is weak, is not an argument at all, let alone a weak one.
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by gress 11y ago
You seem to be perpetuating the fallacy that because some software developers can make a living under GPL, all software developers can do so. Perhaps the market has already chosen the correct balance of GPL vs permissive licenses.
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by gress 11y ago
That's a perfect reference - it illustrates how ludicrous it is that GPL advocates elevate the choice of license to the level of harming children.
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by gress 11y ago
If you don't want to generate a return on the investment of your time, it means you have an alternate source of wealth. Most of us do not have that luxury, and therefore cannot share in the vision of Free Software.
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by gress 11y ago
An agenda such as putting food on the table.
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by gress 11y ago
This makes the usual false dichotomy between 'users' and 'developers' and positions GPL advocates as freedom fighters. Also as usual, there is no mention of how a GPL based economy can work. The reason the GPL is not lo
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by gress 11y ago
Why is this called "self-control" when what it actually tests is giving up one's own agency to an authority? When framed that way it seems less puzzling why it might not be healthy. (Just to clarify: the experiment involves t
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by gress 11y ago
What if you change your mind?
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by gress 11y ago
None of this contradicts my point - Android doesn't make money for google. It just protects the advertising business.
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by gress 11y ago
You're right about Android being important as a way of blocking competition, but it's false to say they are making billions on Android. It's just like all the other free stuff they offer - it raises the bar for competitors, b

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