[OT] Mac App Store

[Peter Brigham MD]

On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Richmond wrote:

> On 10/21/2010 05:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Richmond wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>>>> So the problem society has with Apple is not whether it will  
>>>> close down OSX,
>>>> I think Chipp is right, it will just as soon as it thinks it can.
>>>
>>> I think they will end up shooting themselves in the bottom if they  
>>> do this;
>>> sooner or later end-users will work out that a PC for half the  
>>> price,
>>> running some sort of easily installable desktop Linux (Mint?) at  
>>> no price
>>> at all looks better than an OS tied to hardware tied to  
>>> dictatorial control
>>> about what you can and cannot do with the thing!
>>
>> Maybe.   The research of Nils Bejerot, Stanley Milgram, and others  
>> portray a complexity in human nature that may be too  
>> multidimensional for such rational optimism.
>>
>> ;)
>>
> Aah . . . Stanley Milgram; what a guy! I did a year's basic  
> Psychology at university too;
> several of my firends thought it would be fun to wire the Prof. up  
> to a Milgram device
> and do things for real . . .  :)

A little-known factoid, even further off-topic: one of Milgram's  
youngest and most vulnerable undergraduate research subjects was  
extremely damaged by Milgram's emotionally abusive experiments. He  
grew up to become...

... the Unibomber.

Karma.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig