You'll be eating those words soon. Xbox360 and Playstation3 hardly use cutting edge video technology, yet their games look pretty sweet (minus the $800 video cards). Only the foolish 18-24 year-old gamer crowd will continue this stupid 10 year trend of chasing the next video card. It will be such a niche market that the industry will implode, as most slim-factor and many notebook computers easily run 95% of the 3d games on the market. The rest of the 5% are better off just buying a console. I for one appreciate the crazy rush for the best card, because it allows consumer level computers, like an iMac, to have a good enough 256mb video card to play every game I've tried, at full resolution with mostly maxed settings and still get >30 fps (Half Life 2, being the most demanding that I own).
To each his own. The gamers can spend their money on crazy cards all they want. There just aren't enough of them to carry the market forward. And just for the record, I used to chase video cards since back in the Voodoo II days, but I gave up about 5 years ago with the miniscule updates and ridiculous model naming scheme all targeted at making you THINK you need a new card.
Have you looked at a high-end laptop lately? Specifically, a MacBook Pro, or equivalent PC with Core2Duo? Not quite sure how the parts are "harder to come by" either, especially if in 5 years, more laptops are sold than pcs.
I'll find another line of work as soon as you and your ilk show me any proof that the only reason OS X isn't hacked is because there is no market share. The truth is, it irks you that OS X is relatively invulnerable to your amatuer hacking attempts, so your only recourse is to bad-mouth it and spout lame claims of "no market share". In reality all you need to mutter is "too sophisticated for dude living in his parents' basement to hack", and you get to the root of why OS X has less than five documented credible security issues in SEVEN years.
And I'm supposed to take your link, which claims the first Mac has been "owned", seriously? Speaking of naive. And of course, in the same "article" they claim they still haven't taken over root yet. Would you like to post something a little more substantial now...you know, something more persuasive than a random blurb about how somebody somewhere kinda exploited a long-ago patched Safari bug? More importantly, something that states just exactly how seriously a Mac has been "owned". Since I kinda do this for a living, I would just mention I'm not maybe as naive as you think.
Source? It also took everyone, well NEVER to hack the Mac in the $1Million Hack-a-Mac contest. If you are talking about those idiots who (self-servingly) "pwned" the MacBook after installing a third party wireless adapter and sitting in the same room with the computer (as opposed to creating a realistic physical barrier) , then I have to suggest you take a research class and then rethink who the moron really is here.
An "exploit" is something 2 idiots "discover" (cough, invent, cough) when they are trying to make money for their infosecurity firm. Thus, I'm not concerned with these fools "pwning" my Macs.
Windows malware may indeed be a BILLION dollar industry, but I never knew an industry that would turn its back on a chance to add 5% to the bottom line. Since it is very difficult to exploit OS X, these unsophisticated fools stay in their comfort zone. A billion new Macs on the market would spark interest, but most of these malware people lack the sophistication needed to equal the same amount of havok they now bring to the Windows market.
I think the answer is because you have to go out of your way to use Linux (or even find it), but PCs are everywhere, and certainly everyone knows at least a few die-hard Mac people. You can't avoid PCs (or Macs, for that matter), but you have to try really hard to encounter Linux. Non-techies don't have that kind of time or interest.
Forget all that junk. I shouldn't have to study to get my service to work properly. The key is to take your money elsewhere. Unfortunately, it seems like Comcast has monopolized many markets in the US.
People keep posting work-arounds and tricks to get Comcast to work, to which I say: screw that, I've got better things to do with my time. If a company as big as Comcast can't see the benefit of OS and broswer agnosticism, then they don't deserve my money.
Apple has roughly a 2.5% worldwide market share--wake me when they have anywhere close to 2.5% as many viruses as Windows and I'll start being overly concerned.
I've had at least 2 Macs hooked up to the Internet everyday for the past 16 years. I will start worrying if I ever hear about ONE virus for Mac in my circle of work associates and friends. But since it hasn't happened in 16 years, and I've never made one account setting other than "default", I'm satisfied that I've been using the correct platform. I've never used spyware or anti-virus software. I don't use Windows because I don't think it should be the user's responsibility to secure a highly technical piece of equipment, when other companies to the left and right of Microsoft have been doing it for their users for 20+ years now. Other people may get off on tweaking their security settings, but most people just like to get work done, and have fun while doing it, instead of wasting their time configuring settings and running system sweeps.
I think 3 questionable malware claims in 7 years is a pretty good track record. Scrutiny isn't the right term you are looking for. Sharpshooting, perhaps? Apple does hold themselves to a higher standard, as evident by the better product. I do believe their corporate culture not only welcomes it, but demands it. PC people will never understand this, just like Chevy lovers will never understand why BMWs are so far superior in every way (required car analogy, sorry).
Well when you try to illicit a response by baiting your words as such: Nobody uses a Mac (or something to that matter), then it is flamebait. He could have said that in his opinion, there isn't a statistically significantly large enough pool of Macintosh computer to interest a hacker. Still not correct, but less flamey.
as Apple really grown large enough for Virus makers to start targeting Apple
Not this old ass myth again. Considering how much hate is out there in the anti-mac crowd, it would only be obvious for some anti-socialite hacker to try and "totally pwn" a "Macintrash". They simply haven't been able to. Not for lack of trying, though. More like they lack the sophistication to be able to hack OS X.
Or maybe again, it IS Duke's fault, unless somehow I'm missing all the stories about how one of the leading wireless access campuses in the country (University of Texas, in Austin) is falling apart due to iPhones. UT has a much broader coverage, in terms of geography, and serves something like 50,000 students.
Since when has Microsoft ever created anything "essential" for the user? I'd cite references, but all you have to do is have been alive for the past 15 years to notice Microsoft's "screw-the-people-because-we-make-money-by-forcing -companies-to-use-our-software".
My balls are bigger than my paycheck;-) I agree with what you've posted too. What I originally meant is that the low-man that THINKS they know everything is the problem, but not that all low-men are that way. Of course a bad manager who doesn't know what the hell is going on is even worse.
But a project manager (in smaller organizations) is right in there with the sleeves rolled up. Higher management are the clueless jerks, and I think the author pointed that out pretty well in just the short interview.
That is a pretty good assessment. The problem is almost always with the personnel involved, whether it be managers, or the workers.
As for not wanting to hang out with your co-workers...that is indicative of the quality of our coworkers (i.e., they probably suck). I would love to hang out with my coworkers. As soon as my company hires a few competent human beings, I'll be all over it!
Good point. But you have to admit, some of these replies are because the people are replying are guilty of nearly everything wrong with what the article talks about. Deep down, I think they know it too, thus they lash out against an otherwise interesting article. I'll be looking into the book for sure.
Why am I not surprised that a bunch of slashdot nerds are on the defensive just because a project manager points out a couple of common project problems? One of the main problems in any project is when the low-man-on-the-totem-pole thinks he knows better than the manager. That's exactly what this discussion thread has turned into so far.
My father-in-law is named Thomas Black. Evidently there is a bad-guy out there with the same name, because he is always held at the airport. It's pretty stupid, if you ask me, given the rather common ring to his name. Certainly there would be a better way of tracking bad-guys, other than their names?
Of course it is the province of the FBI. The entire article lost all credibility with its simple ignorance of the duties of federal agencies. It amazes me at how little fact-checking people do.
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To each his own. The gamers can spend their money on crazy cards all they want. There just aren't enough of them to carry the market forward. And just for the record, I used to chase video cards since back in the Voodoo II days, but I gave up about 5 years ago with the miniscule updates and ridiculous model naming scheme all targeted at making you THINK you need a new card.
Have you looked at a high-end laptop lately? Specifically, a MacBook Pro, or equivalent PC with Core2Duo? Not quite sure how the parts are "harder to come by" either, especially if in 5 years, more laptops are sold than pcs.
I'll find another line of work as soon as you and your ilk show me any proof that the only reason OS X isn't hacked is because there is no market share. The truth is, it irks you that OS X is relatively invulnerable to your amatuer hacking attempts, so your only recourse is to bad-mouth it and spout lame claims of "no market share". In reality all you need to mutter is "too sophisticated for dude living in his parents' basement to hack", and you get to the root of why OS X has less than five documented credible security issues in SEVEN years.
And I'm supposed to take your link, which claims the first Mac has been "owned", seriously? Speaking of naive. And of course, in the same "article" they claim they still haven't taken over root yet. Would you like to post something a little more substantial now...you know, something more persuasive than a random blurb about how somebody somewhere kinda exploited a long-ago patched Safari bug? More importantly, something that states just exactly how seriously a Mac has been "owned". Since I kinda do this for a living, I would just mention I'm not maybe as naive as you think.
An "exploit" is something 2 idiots "discover" (cough, invent, cough) when they are trying to make money for their infosecurity firm. Thus, I'm not concerned with these fools "pwning" my Macs.
Windows malware may indeed be a BILLION dollar industry, but I never knew an industry that would turn its back on a chance to add 5% to the bottom line. Since it is very difficult to exploit OS X, these unsophisticated fools stay in their comfort zone. A billion new Macs on the market would spark interest, but most of these malware people lack the sophistication needed to equal the same amount of havok they now bring to the Windows market.
I think the answer is because you have to go out of your way to use Linux (or even find it), but PCs are everywhere, and certainly everyone knows at least a few die-hard Mac people. You can't avoid PCs (or Macs, for that matter), but you have to try really hard to encounter Linux. Non-techies don't have that kind of time or interest.
Forget all that junk. I shouldn't have to study to get my service to work properly. The key is to take your money elsewhere. Unfortunately, it seems like Comcast has monopolized many markets in the US.
People keep posting work-arounds and tricks to get Comcast to work, to which I say: screw that, I've got better things to do with my time. If a company as big as Comcast can't see the benefit of OS and broswer agnosticism, then they don't deserve my money.
Well stated. I would rather live in your house. I could care less why it doesn't get burgled, only that it doesn't.
I think 3 questionable malware claims in 7 years is a pretty good track record. Scrutiny isn't the right term you are looking for. Sharpshooting, perhaps? Apple does hold themselves to a higher standard, as evident by the better product. I do believe their corporate culture not only welcomes it, but demands it. PC people will never understand this, just like Chevy lovers will never understand why BMWs are so far superior in every way (required car analogy, sorry).
Well when you try to illicit a response by baiting your words as such: Nobody uses a Mac (or something to that matter), then it is flamebait. He could have said that in his opinion, there isn't a statistically significantly large enough pool of Macintosh computer to interest a hacker. Still not correct, but less flamey.
Or maybe again, it IS Duke's fault, unless somehow I'm missing all the stories about how one of the leading wireless access campuses in the country (University of Texas, in Austin) is falling apart due to iPhones. UT has a much broader coverage, in terms of geography, and serves something like 50,000 students.
Since when has Microsoft ever created anything "essential" for the user? I'd cite references, but all you have to do is have been alive for the past 15 years to notice Microsoft's "screw-the-people-because-we-make-money-by-forcing -companies-to-use-our-software".
My balls are bigger than my paycheck ;-) I agree with what you've posted too. What I originally meant is that the low-man that THINKS they know everything is the problem, but not that all low-men are that way. Of course a bad manager who doesn't know what the hell is going on is even worse.
But a project manager (in smaller organizations) is right in there with the sleeves rolled up. Higher management are the clueless jerks, and I think the author pointed that out pretty well in just the short interview.
As for not wanting to hang out with your co-workers...that is indicative of the quality of our coworkers (i.e., they probably suck). I would love to hang out with my coworkers. As soon as my company hires a few competent human beings, I'll be all over it!
Good point. But you have to admit, some of these replies are because the people are replying are guilty of nearly everything wrong with what the article talks about. Deep down, I think they know it too, thus they lash out against an otherwise interesting article. I'll be looking into the book for sure.
Why am I not surprised that a bunch of slashdot nerds are on the defensive just because a project manager points out a couple of common project problems? One of the main problems in any project is when the low-man-on-the-totem-pole thinks he knows better than the manager. That's exactly what this discussion thread has turned into so far.
My father-in-law is named Thomas Black. Evidently there is a bad-guy out there with the same name, because he is always held at the airport. It's pretty stupid, if you ask me, given the rather common ring to his name. Certainly there would be a better way of tracking bad-guys, other than their names?
Or, how about this: don't be a criminal and you'll never be in the position to have to lie about NOT committing a crime.
Of course it is the province of the FBI. The entire article lost all credibility with its simple ignorance of the duties of federal agencies. It amazes me at how little fact-checking people do.