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Why Does Windows Still Suck?
RatBastard writes "SF Gate's Mark Morford asks: Why Does Windows Still Suck? After wtaching his significant other's Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection, Mark Morford wonders why the masses have not stormed Redmond waving torches and scythes in anger over the never-ending security flaws in Windows. Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?"
Waa waa. I pointed out that Windows is just fine unless you're clueless and I'm a troll. Boo hoo.
His copy of Windows doesn't suck anymore than the idiot that's using it. If his SO knew what he/she was doing it wouldn't have been a problem, and they'd break anything else just as badly if they didn't bother to take any time to figure out what they were doing.
Cars don't suck because they crash when people drive drunk, the drivers do. Windows doesn't suck when idiots connect it to a high speed network unprotected, the moron using it does.
Get over it.
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From TFA:
(By the way, yes, I own a tiny handful of Apple stock. Do I need to advocate for Mac? Hardly. I'm already happy as can be thanks to the success of the brilliant, world-altering iPod.)
Do any of you get the feeling that this article should have been published on MacWorld?
For the most part and for all intents and purposes, Macs are immune. Period.
And we've all been through this argument before. Perfect security only comes when you unplug the network cable (and that's when it's not an insider job). Talking like this will just make people complacent. Although I personally use Fedora, Windows PCs can be pretty good to use, provided you are behind NAT or a firewall and you don't use IE or Outlook Express...
One good turn - gets all the covers.
Mac users view Windows like Fox news watchers view the world, this guy included. He just knows Windows boxes are horrible and Macs are God's gift to luddites because he read it in a Mac-oriented rag and it's true.
He's not talking about "Native Americans", the people descended from the bloodthirsty savages who roamed these lands and fought battles against settlers where they killed men, women, and children indiscriminately. He's talking about people from India, the south Asian subcontinent, home to more than 1 billion people. India was home to Ghandi, the famous "passive resistance" leader who, after having been trained as a lawyer in England. helped win independence for India from Britain. Now, among other things, India is an emerging nuclear power involved in a long-standing dispute over the territory of Kasmir with neighboring Pakistan. English is a primary language of India due to its long history as a British colony. This fact combined with inexpensive communications technologies and lower wage prices in India has allowed U.S. companies to save money by hiring Indian companies or contractors to do things like customer service, tech support, and engineering. Some Americans, notably ones who lose their jobs to overseas "outsourcing", object to this practice. Often, however, they do not blame the Indians, who are merely being opportunistic, but rather they blame the American companies who do the outsourcing for being unfair to their own people.
My other first post is car post.
Get a job writing code, then maybe YOU may have a clue. Then thank your stars that Windows breaks, or you wouldn't have a job fixing computers. Then try to write something better than Windows. Then study Linux, realize that statistically there are just as many security bugs. Then shut up.
(Score: -1, Fucking Redundant) Enough said, you just repeated your post, asshole. Dude, you just repeated the same thing you said in an earlier post. Thank you come again. your friendly neighborhood troller general
You state that Apple bought out Be, and you were modded up as both insightful and informative?
If you can't get basic facts straight (Palm bought BeOS, Apple bought NeXT), then why should we trust your revision of history? Next you'll be telling us that MS was never found by the court to be a monopoly, and some ijit will mod you up as informative.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Using OSX, probably. Using any other OS, supposing he did manage to set the IP, it would have worked. None of this shit where it works when it wants, then fails to work otherwise. Sure it was easy and straightforward, and it FAILED. I speak to many customers that would likely say they'd rather have slightly difficult and working, than easy and "it's a gamble whether it will work".
Next time log in, AC lamer.
People will spent hundreds of dollars for a few more FPS and game designers optimize like HELL!
If Valve and more importantly id's respective games run like crap on linux then guess what. It's a crappy OS for gaming, that's it.
The damn thing needs a rewrite.
I know win98 runs games faster than XP but I can accept winXP performance, I can't accept Linux performance, especially when I have an ATI card.
When the developers port their games to linux they see whatever drivers are available and optimize for them, they don't care about existing packages they just dump everything you need on there.
Windows was supposed to release a stripped down version designed for gaming, people were excited it turned into longhorn the blowtomatic.
Linux is still trying to balance stability features and security. Performance isn't even a consideration (but happens occasionally more from lack of bloat then actual optimization).
Just 2c.