Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Duh … 95% plus of all PC’s are … not Mac’s. What other result could you possibly expect?
There’s lots of stuff to smack Mr. Softie for. You on vacation ?-)
Cheers,
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You’ve added reason number 258 to my reasons of why I use iMacs and an iBook.
But…since the majority of workplaces used Windows, it makes sense that malicious attacks would be focused on Windows…
Flame-bait – taken!
Now: Set the hook!
I say again, you give me the money to buy a laptop that costs four times the one I just bought and I’ll happily use a Mac.
Strange, I don’t visit strange sites, don’t allow strange downloads, run firefox (etc, etc) and don’t have a problem…
I saw an article that toyed with an idea of where Apple may be headed with the Intel chip based Mac’s.
The author mentioned the “Boot Camp” beta version that allows users to choose which system to boot up, either WIndows or Mac OSX.
He suggested the next step would be to boot up Windows within OSX. This would be similar to the current option of opening OS 9 as an application within OSX to use older applications that are only OS 9 compatible.
Windows would operate as an application within the OSX system architecture and current Windows applications would operate within that. But the system, would be OSX and would thus be protected from 99% of existing malware, viruses, etc. If Windows or a Windows app, like Internet Explorer (IE), got infected, it could be thrown away and reloaded without the system, as in OSX, being affected. No more complete hard disk wipes and reloading all applications for hours.
On the hardware cost side, the Mac mini is an inexpensive alternative “desktop” replacement that can integrate with the existing PC peripherals including montiors, keyboard/mouse and printer hardware.
Perhaps a Mac mini laptop is in the works. Either way, the system vs. virus battle mirror’s the history of offensive vs. defensive weaponry advancements. A Windows within OSX operation would provide protection for only a limited time.
On the other hand, Vista has been delayed time and again and must be updated each time a vulnerability to the existing Windows system is discovered if it would also affect the new version. IE looks like it may never be repairable without starting over completely. Perhaps Windows is in a similar spot.
Isn’t it interesting timing to see Bill Gates leaving Microsoft to run his charity?
Back in the early days….(I got my first Mac in 86…a 512K Mac)…there was a time when all the coolest games were out on the Mac (Falcon was on the Mac years before the PC) and the best apps, too (it took until Excel v. 5 on the PC to exceed the Mac versions). While I was using 256 colors and 8 bit sound in the 87-88 time frame, PC people spent less money and got a single toned “beep!” and 4 colors…unless…they spent as much on add in stuff to equal the cost of a Mac.
The very first PC virus was the “Scores” virus, and my buddies and I, who split up downloading of new stuff from GEnie (a “bulletin board system”), all got it on our Macs. It was easily fixed with ResEdit, but…we had it.
Then one day, all the new games and apps were coming out for the PC market. We complained, but the economics said Apple had 13% of the market (and that was Macs and the vast Apple II series in many school system), and the rest were essentially PC. Same issue here. The hackers and bored high school kids can affect so many more by exploiting the bugs in Windows based paltforms for the same effort….
Which, has made the Macs a “safe haven” for the time being.
Everything old is new again….
Sim…. you’re here aren’t you? This can be a pretty strange site from time to time.
Ah.. “Vista”. We couldn’t, of course, just have a download that fixes the problems. No. No. And.. no. We have to get those upgrades in the new version of the OS which we have to
…purchase.
Come on Lex, Mac is DONE. I use Opera and Norton and never have a %^&**&*&*%$#%$^%&*(&*)&)*(*()_)+_
Gee, FbL, You got a laptop for $250? That is pretty good… (ducking)
Oh, and Capt Lex, re running Windows on a Mac if necessary Parallels (www.parallels.com) is looking promising for running virtual Windows (or Linux) in a Mac window so you don’t have to dual boot it.
I’m with Sim (post 6 above). Apple sure is proud ($$$) of their O/S and hardware. Then again, almost all of the specialized software I use only runs on Windows ™. Anyone want to bring the penguin crowd in on the flame war? How about the IBM mainframe vs any other crowd?
Ford vs Chevy? General Practitioner vs Homeopathic practitioner? Come on people, PCs are just t-o-o-l-s. And this endless debate about my dick is bigger that yours errrrrrrrrrr my MAC is better than your PC is just tiresome. (snapon vs craftsman anyone?)