Yikes, ok, thanks for the not-so-thoughtful discussion. My bad for being so dumb. I guess I'll take my people skills where they are better understood (and welcomed, and not flamed as troll, when no trolling was intended). Have a nice day!
In Windows you have to carefully "uninstall" an application, so as not to break other parts. How can there be no deep/deeper/deepest dependencies if Windows requires you to uninstall to preserve these dependencies, and there is no such requirement in OSX? You just delete the app. This alone would suggest that the Windows OS has far more dependencies on shared components.
Again, I'm a layman, so I'm sure somebody else can explain it better.
Oh lighten up. Ann Coulter? Seriously? Perhaps we have a new Godwin--whoever evokes Ann Coulter first immediately loses the argument!
Of course, there are people who like to "save money," who go out and buy $700 PCs and then spend thousands of dollars putting GPU cards in them every six months to play the latest PC game.
That's one of the funniest things I've ever read on slashdot, regardless of OS preference. Hell, I have four Macs at home, but I too have built a $400 Fry's parts-bin computer (to save money), only to sink a $500 video card into it (and three power supplies in four years). Priceless!
Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it ISN'T happening to the masses. I mean, isn't this the ultimate "since I can't see it, it doesn't exist" argument? Considering there's an entire row of anti-virus software at Fry's, and everyone I know with a PC and every place I've worked that uses PCs have gotten a virus or seven over the years, I'd say your anecdote is less valid than my anecdote.
Wow. This is one of the worst posts I've seen in a long time--grammar AND content. When the most valid part of a post is the juvenile sig, you know it's a crappy post.
I can give you a layman's understanding. With Windows, if I don't properly uninstall something, it breaks a bunch of other stuff. Remove the wrong.dll or screw with the registry, and your stuff breaks.
With OSX, there are no.dlls (but I'm sure there are probably shared files that break each other, just not as deeply inbedded as the.dll dependencies in Windows) and there is no registry to screw up. For these two reasons alone, 99% of the hackers out there are out of luck when hacking a Mac, because none of their tricks work.
On a Mac I can just chuck stuff in the trash with (relatively) no worries. At this most basic level, it should be easy to imagine how much havoc one could unleash on a Windows OS compared to OSX.
The market share argument might be a partial explanation, but it really cannot explain the entirety of the vacuum in the Mac OS X malware marketplace. It's been five years, and still no malware plague. How many versions, and how many years must pass, before the industry realizes that perhaps there is something to this Mac OS X thing?
Mod waaaay up, especially after visiting your homepage.
If it were so trivial, it wouldn't take a "malware developer" to develop an exploit. There enough Mac bigots in the world that have trivial development skills for at least SOME exploits to garner traction, yet exploits are still (20 years running) a non-issue for the general public using Macs.
When I was a teen, I took pictures of my buddy wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt flipping the bird (an obvious knock-off product). Security not only confiscated the shirt (and replaced it with an authentic Mickey T for free), they confiscated my film (which they replaced for free). Of course, they gave me the option of keeping my film, because legally they couldn't take it, but at the expense of waiting around for the Anaheim PD to show up to handle the case. Unlike the douche in this story, I gave them my film and went on my way.
I love the hypocrisy of slashdot. The ATM is in plain sight so it's fair game. BUT...your driveway and front yard (also in plain sight) filmed by Google Street View is somehow an overt violation of your privacy rights!!!
Uh, that "rent-a-cop" is clearly packing. Go ahead and pick that fight if you want. I'll take on any middle-aged, overweight mall cop packing pepper spray and a stick, but I'm not taking a dude packing a 9mm on his hip.
So what is family man with fake uniform supposed to do? He can't go up and say "I understand that it is within your rights to photograph this machine, but I'd prefer that you didn't" without risking his own job.
That's exactly what the mall cop said to me when I snapped a picture of the ridiculously long lines at the Apple store on iPhone launch day. I kindly obliged. End of story. I guess I could have been an ahole like the guy in this article, but I actually had things to do that day and din't feel like wasting half of my day arguing with authorities over my right to take a picture.
That's the answer for the guy asking how does this guy qualify as being a smart-ass? I guess some people read what they want, and ignore the important details, because telling a security guard they are a fake cop that gets to play at being a real cop is especially smart-assy. My guess, though, is this dork didn't actually have the balls to say any of the stuff he said he did.
Back in the day, you couldn't even take for granted that you could
boot off of a CD.
It was easy for Macs (hold down the c key), but unreliable (at best) for Windows. Thus it was much easier for Apple to drop floppy drives, and it took years for PCs to adopt the same (still a lot of new models with them though).
Cripes, people. I can say, without doubt, that a rocket scientist doesn't know the first thing about writing instructional objectives. I know this, because I have a job with a bunch of rocket scientists to make their training plans and evaluations...not because they don't have time, because they don't know the first thing about it. Trust me, they tried to wing it, but their product was so unprofessional, and so flawed from and educational stand-point that they had to hire somebody skilled in that area. Thankfully that was me.
That doesn't mean that I, a curriculum specialist, am smarter than a rocket scientist, only that we have different skill sets. A rocket scientist is most likely much smarter than me....at making rockets.
Well you can't have it both ways. Either education is a real academic field, or it's not.
Sure there are brilliant teachers...
You cannot limit the entire field of education to "teacher". I have an MAEd and I'm not even qualified to teach!
You cannot pick and choose ONE discipline of Education (secondary, elementary, curriculum, special, other, whatever) and then say the field of education lags in GRE scores, when I showed you that secondary teachers are one point lower than chemists. My point isn't that I'm picking the one best education category--only that there are several disciplines within the field of education. For crying out loud, we can all understand that it doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to teach third graders, can't we!? Get rid of those outliers, and I think you'd find that education degrees aren't as watered-down as you like to think.
Playing hunches IS the whole purpose of qualitative research! That's why you start with your hypothesis and spend the rest of your degree plan trying to validate them...oh wait, that wasn't right?;-)
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Yikes, ok, thanks for the not-so-thoughtful discussion. My bad for being so dumb. I guess I'll take my people skills where they are better understood (and welcomed, and not flamed as troll, when no trolling was intended). Have a nice day!
There's no deep/deeper/deepest dependency
In Windows you have to carefully "uninstall" an application, so as not to break other parts. How can there be no deep/deeper/deepest dependencies if Windows requires you to uninstall to preserve these dependencies, and there is no such requirement in OSX? You just delete the app. This alone would suggest that the Windows OS has far more dependencies on shared components.
Again, I'm a layman, so I'm sure somebody else can explain it better.
Of course, there are people who like to "save money," who go out and buy $700 PCs and then spend thousands of dollars putting GPU cards in them every six months to play the latest PC game.
That's one of the funniest things I've ever read on slashdot, regardless of OS preference. Hell, I have four Macs at home, but I too have built a $400 Fry's parts-bin computer (to save money), only to sink a $500 video card into it (and three power supplies in four years). Priceless!
-1 redundant (how many times in this thread???), -1 not convincing, -1 perpetuating dubious myths. There, I got your score back down to zero.
Honest question, why are Apple releasing security updates if there are no security exploits in their software?
Preemption.
Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it ISN'T happening to the masses. I mean, isn't this the ultimate "since I can't see it, it doesn't exist" argument? Considering there's an entire row of anti-virus software at Fry's, and everyone I know with a PC and every place I've worked that uses PCs have gotten a virus or seven over the years, I'd say your anecdote is less valid than my anecdote.
Wow. This is one of the worst posts I've seen in a long time--grammar AND content. When the most valid part of a post is the juvenile sig, you know it's a crappy post.
I can give you a layman's understanding. With Windows, if I don't properly uninstall something, it breaks a bunch of other stuff. Remove the wrong .dll or screw with the registry, and your stuff breaks.
With OSX, there are no .dlls (but I'm sure there are probably shared files that break each other, just not as deeply inbedded as the .dll dependencies in Windows) and there is no registry to screw up. For these two reasons alone, 99% of the hackers out there are out of luck when hacking a Mac, because none of their tricks work.
On a Mac I can just chuck stuff in the trash with (relatively) no worries. At this most basic level, it should be easy to imagine how much havoc one could unleash on a Windows OS compared to OSX.
The market share argument might be a partial explanation, but it really cannot explain the entirety of the vacuum in the Mac OS X malware marketplace. It's been five years, and still no malware plague. How many versions, and how many years must pass, before the industry realizes that perhaps there is something to this Mac OS X thing?
Mod waaaay up, especially after visiting your homepage.
If it were so trivial, it wouldn't take a "malware developer" to develop an exploit. There enough Mac bigots in the world that have trivial development skills for at least SOME exploits to garner traction, yet exploits are still (20 years running) a non-issue for the general public using Macs.
Maybe he was arrested for wearing his, "No Gods, no fucking masters" T-shirt. Certainly there are laws that forbid obscenity in public places, no?
If you read his description...
More importantly, if his description is accurate, which, as we see every day here on slashdot, probably isn't the entire story.
When I was a teen, I took pictures of my buddy wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt flipping the bird (an obvious knock-off product). Security not only confiscated the shirt (and replaced it with an authentic Mickey T for free), they confiscated my film (which they replaced for free). Of course, they gave me the option of keeping my film, because legally they couldn't take it, but at the expense of waiting around for the Anaheim PD to show up to handle the case. Unlike the douche in this story, I gave them my film and went on my way.
+5 funny? How about -5 Pedant?
I love the hypocrisy of slashdot. The ATM is in plain sight so it's fair game. BUT...your driveway and front yard (also in plain sight) filmed by Google Street View is somehow an overt violation of your privacy rights!!!
Uh, that "rent-a-cop" is clearly packing. Go ahead and pick that fight if you want. I'll take on any middle-aged, overweight mall cop packing pepper spray and a stick, but I'm not taking a dude packing a 9mm on his hip.
Of course we aren't getting the entire story...stories like this NEVER show both sides.
So what is family man with fake uniform supposed to do? He can't go up and say "I understand that it is within your rights to photograph this machine, but I'd prefer that you didn't" without risking his own job.
That's exactly what the mall cop said to me when I snapped a picture of the ridiculously long lines at the Apple store on iPhone launch day. I kindly obliged. End of story. I guess I could have been an ahole like the guy in this article, but I actually had things to do that day and din't feel like wasting half of my day arguing with authorities over my right to take a picture.
That's the answer for the guy asking how does this guy qualify as being a smart-ass? I guess some people read what they want, and ignore the important details, because telling a security guard they are a fake cop that gets to play at being a real cop is especially smart-assy. My guess, though, is this dork didn't actually have the balls to say any of the stuff he said he did.
Back in the day, you couldn't even take for granted that you could boot off of a CD.
It was easy for Macs (hold down the c key), but unreliable (at best) for Windows. Thus it was much easier for Apple to drop floppy drives, and it took years for PCs to adopt the same (still a lot of new models with them though).
Yeah, I wonder how all those Macbook Air owners are going to upgrade to Snow Leopard since they don't have optical drives!!??
Cripes, people. I can say, without doubt, that a rocket scientist doesn't know the first thing about writing instructional objectives. I know this, because I have a job with a bunch of rocket scientists to make their training plans and evaluations...not because they don't have time, because they don't know the first thing about it. Trust me, they tried to wing it, but their product was so unprofessional, and so flawed from and educational stand-point that they had to hire somebody skilled in that area. Thankfully that was me.
That doesn't mean that I, a curriculum specialist, am smarter than a rocket scientist, only that we have different skill sets. A rocket scientist is most likely much smarter than me....at making rockets.
Well you can't have it both ways. Either education is a real academic field, or it's not.
Sure there are brilliant teachers...
You cannot limit the entire field of education to "teacher". I have an MAEd and I'm not even qualified to teach! You cannot pick and choose ONE discipline of Education (secondary, elementary, curriculum, special, other, whatever) and then say the field of education lags in GRE scores, when I showed you that secondary teachers are one point lower than chemists. My point isn't that I'm picking the one best education category--only that there are several disciplines within the field of education. For crying out loud, we can all understand that it doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to teach third graders, can't we!? Get rid of those outliers, and I think you'd find that education degrees aren't as watered-down as you like to think.
According to the National Science Foundation, an EdD is academically equivalent to a PhD in rigor.
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-structure-us.html
Playing hunches IS the whole purpose of qualitative research! That's why you start with your hypothesis and spend the rest of your degree plan trying to validate them...oh wait, that wasn't right? ;-)
...disappointing content. Am I missing a link somewhere? Is there something of substance in that story anywhere?