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"but it's a lot cooler"

Are you referring to the work or Perl? Most programmers I know working in a scientific area switched to Python years ago and run away screaming when they hear the work "Perl".

People still building software in Perl ought to be arrested.

If your looking for a powerful canvas feature, qt is really your only choice. That's what swung me away from gtk and wx.

Well I guess it is "unnecessary" to the extent it is unnecessary to be able to Control-C your programs. Personally I like my programs to respond to signals.

Or just write the fast bits in C, call it from Python via ctypes and get the GIL unlocked and parallelism for free.

Same here. As a nice side effect, QThread somehow makes signals work again, so you can Ctrl-C a MT Python program (you still have to set a handler for SIGINT but at least it works).

For this reason, I actually use QThread in console apps aswell.

So if mass and charge are both just attributes of particles, what is the "charge equivalent" of the Higgs boson? And if there isn't one, then why is it assumed the HB exists? Why cant particles have a innate "mass charge" in the same way they have an "electric charge"?

If it were simple why aren't these lawsuits being thrown out the front door? Why isn't FRAND turning out to be the watertight defence it ought to be? (serious question I would love to know the answer to, as these FRAND related lawsuits seem to keep coming up over and over again).

Legal in what country?

>Google's is worse because it takes all rights to use your work however it likes, and then states in its Privacy Ppolicy that it won't use it for anything other than to provide the service.

Please point to the part of the Privacy Policy that deal with "my works" or "works that I create and own". I think if you look closely, the PP only deal with information Google collects about your usage of the service, which is quite different to works you upload to Drive.

> Well, first off, Google has a privacy policy [1] where they commit to not publishing my entire works without my consent.

It doesn't say that anywhere. The Privacy Policy covers "What information we collect and why we collect it.". In other words, the PP is about information they collect about you using the service, not stuff you upload to Drive. Think IP addresses, cookies, log-on times etc.

> Even without that, though -- what do you think would happen if they did what you're suggesting? I think the public punishment would be worse than any legal repercussions.

So your saying that TOS don't matter and we shouldn't read or analyse them because we trust Google wont do anything untoward? So we are we even having this discussion in the first place then?

>Google specifically enumerates the rights that you're granting them

They sure do. It just turns out one of these rights is that they can use your content for promotional purposes (advertising?).

Dropbox may not have such a detailed TOS, but they are clear on one thing: whatever rights you do grant them are solely for the provision of the service to you.