The first named virus was Elk Cloner for the Apple II. The Apple II was not a Mac.
It's not like it's hard to look up the facts and get them right. http://apple2history.org/history/ah23/
Roundabout = traffic circle, fair enough. But roundabout != rotary.
In Halifax, there was a huge rotary, conveniently called The Rotary. They turned it from a rotary into a roundabout. Completely different animal. The key component of a roundabout is that once you're in the circle, you don't yield to anyone. Whereas the key component of a rotary is that it infuriate everyone who comes within 5 city blocks of the wretched thing.
Even given the headaches caused by lifelong rotary users, it was still a good thing to change the Halifax Rotary from a rotary to a roundabout. I sometimes fear that 50% of the reason there's pushback against roundabouts, which are frequently wonderful, is that people think they're pushing back against rotaries, which are invariably a tool of the devil.
I realize that this is just a single data point, but I'm far more concerned that the App Store wouldn't instal Opera.
I asked that it install, confirmed that I was over 17, and watched as the App Store drew the Opera icon in my Dock with a loading thermometer across it. Then the Opera icon disappeared from the Dock, and I was miffed that Apple decided I didn't want the icon all that much. But it turned out that I didn't get to keep the icon because the App Store didn't install Opera.
So I went to the purchases page, and saw that Opera was listed, but that the Install button was active. (Which I see for other applications; those I have downloaded but since deleted.) I clicked the Install button, and tried to install Opera a second time. After a few moments, the App Store happily changed the Install button into an Installed icon.
Except that it's still not installed. Spotlight has no idea what the heck I'm talking about.
So I downloaded it from Opera's own website, and when I copied Opera.app to my Applications folder, it did so. It did not warn me about overwriting an existing application, which is hardly surprising, since the App Store clearly didn't actually do anything even after I asked it twice to install it.
Quite apart from the fallout to Google's reputation, there are still the complaint filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center with the American FCC, and the preliminary investigation begun by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner. (To say nothing of Google Canada's snotty response to the latter.) Do these somehow fall outside a "business perspective," or have I misunderstood what you meant by that term?
Sure, if by "done something similar," you mean "the exact opposite."
Poland 'shopped a black guy out of the picture. Toronto 'shopped a black guy INTO the picture.
It doesn't work like that ANYWHERE else? Dude, have you even heard of Canada?
I have a sneaking suspicion people from other countries are thinking the same thing, but I haven't lived in them my whole life, so I'll let those people speak for themselves.
Others have already pointed out that this is just spreading FUD.
I haven't had the "Automatically restart" check box selected for 11 months. I haven't had a single BSOD. Yes, I used to have scads of them. XP has in fact gotten better.
I'm no Microsoft apologist. I use XP when my employers make me, and so far, those decisions have made complete sense. At home, I don't use Windows (except in emulation, sometimes).
Right. Because all the women were totally into it from the money. I hope my wife, who just got her PhD in computer science, is reading this.
Once you've closed your mind, you can find or invent pretty much any evidence to support your theory... and you will, because it's easier than opening your mind again.
I have a lucky anti-terrorist rock that keeps all of Canada safe if I pat it. The only problem is, it only works if you keep patting your rock that keeps all of the US safe.
No, no. Don't worry about it. To view the lecture video, you have to install Microsoft Silverlight.
So in other words, the asking price is too high for many.
What is it with HR people on leave, anyway? When I joined a small IT firm, the HR person was efficient and personable. She cared about the employees, she protected her employer, she did a terrific job all around. When the person on leave returned, she shifted to protecting the employer exclusively, ticked off virtually everyone including the managers, then left the firm and lied about it. She was actually leaving because the CEO left and she was loyal to him, not the firm. If she had just said that, we all would have understood. But she lied.
Which paled into insignificance when the company did not replace her. "We don't need a full-time HR manager." That should have been the cue for a mass exodus, but instead, 85% of us got laid off five months later.
It's actually broken. I searched on a string. Its image result was nothing to do with the string, which is bad. The text was directly related to the string, which is basic. The link led to the image and not to the string, which is pretty much as bad as it can be.
And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store.
Unless, of course, you live in Canada. If you do, the Apple online store will attempt to load your existing customer record, and then balk because your "ZIP" code has letters in it.
(No, I'm not ordering it yet. But I've gotten so used to testing, I tested it pretty much on autopilot.)
I'm sorry to see it go, but maybe now I can recover from my own ineptitude. I wrote the user manual for the last Apple II version of AppleWorks, and made the mistake of listing it on my resume. At a few job interviews, employers who found out that I hadn't worked on the Macintosh version seemed to consider that I had deliberately misled them.
My resume has long since changed, and my love for AppleWorks has NOT, but it means that every time I think of the AppleWorks 5 "delta" manual, I squirm uncomfortably.
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And the first bug was Elk Cloner for mac...and?
The first named virus was Elk Cloner for the Apple II. The Apple II was not a Mac. It's not like it's hard to look up the facts and get them right. http://apple2history.org/history/ah23/
Roundabout = traffic circle, fair enough. But roundabout != rotary. In Halifax, there was a huge rotary, conveniently called The Rotary. They turned it from a rotary into a roundabout. Completely different animal. The key component of a roundabout is that once you're in the circle, you don't yield to anyone. Whereas the key component of a rotary is that it infuriate everyone who comes within 5 city blocks of the wretched thing. Even given the headaches caused by lifelong rotary users, it was still a good thing to change the Halifax Rotary from a rotary to a roundabout. I sometimes fear that 50% of the reason there's pushback against roundabouts, which are frequently wonderful, is that people think they're pushing back against rotaries, which are invariably a tool of the devil.
I realize that this is just a single data point, but I'm far more concerned that the App Store wouldn't instal Opera. I asked that it install, confirmed that I was over 17, and watched as the App Store drew the Opera icon in my Dock with a loading thermometer across it. Then the Opera icon disappeared from the Dock, and I was miffed that Apple decided I didn't want the icon all that much. But it turned out that I didn't get to keep the icon because the App Store didn't install Opera. So I went to the purchases page, and saw that Opera was listed, but that the Install button was active. (Which I see for other applications; those I have downloaded but since deleted.) I clicked the Install button, and tried to install Opera a second time. After a few moments, the App Store happily changed the Install button into an Installed icon. Except that it's still not installed. Spotlight has no idea what the heck I'm talking about. So I downloaded it from Opera's own website, and when I copied Opera.app to my Applications folder, it did so. It did not warn me about overwriting an existing application, which is hardly surprising, since the App Store clearly didn't actually do anything even after I asked it twice to install it.
Quite apart from the fallout to Google's reputation, there are still the complaint filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center with the American FCC, and the preliminary investigation begun by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner. (To say nothing of Google Canada's snotty response to the latter.) Do these somehow fall outside a "business perspective," or have I misunderstood what you meant by that term?
Sure, if by "done something similar," you mean "the exact opposite." Poland 'shopped a black guy out of the picture. Toronto 'shopped a black guy INTO the picture.
It doesn't work like that ANYWHERE else? Dude, have you even heard of Canada? I have a sneaking suspicion people from other countries are thinking the same thing, but I haven't lived in them my whole life, so I'll let those people speak for themselves.
Others have already pointed out that this is just spreading FUD. I haven't had the "Automatically restart" check box selected for 11 months. I haven't had a single BSOD. Yes, I used to have scads of them. XP has in fact gotten better. I'm no Microsoft apologist. I use XP when my employers make me, and so far, those decisions have made complete sense. At home, I don't use Windows (except in emulation, sometimes).
Right. Because all the women were totally into it from the money. I hope my wife, who just got her PhD in computer science, is reading this. Once you've closed your mind, you can find or invent pretty much any evidence to support your theory... and you will, because it's easier than opening your mind again.
I have a lucky anti-terrorist rock that keeps all of Canada safe if I pat it. The only problem is, it only works if you keep patting your rock that keeps all of the US safe.
No, no. Don't worry about it. To view the lecture video, you have to install Microsoft Silverlight. So in other words, the asking price is too high for many.
> Not bad, if you have Windows and IE. And live in the U.S.A.
What is it with HR people on leave, anyway? When I joined a small IT firm, the HR person was efficient and personable. She cared about the employees, she protected her employer, she did a terrific job all around. When the person on leave returned, she shifted to protecting the employer exclusively, ticked off virtually everyone including the managers, then left the firm and lied about it. She was actually leaving because the CEO left and she was loyal to him, not the firm. If she had just said that, we all would have understood. But she lied. Which paled into insignificance when the company did not replace her. "We don't need a full-time HR manager." That should have been the cue for a mass exodus, but instead, 85% of us got laid off five months later.
It's actually broken. I searched on a string. Its image result was nothing to do with the string, which is bad. The text was directly related to the string, which is basic. The link led to the image and not to the string, which is pretty much as bad as it can be.
I'm sorry to see it go, but maybe now I can recover from my own ineptitude. I wrote the user manual for the last Apple II version of AppleWorks, and made the mistake of listing it on my resume. At a few job interviews, employers who found out that I hadn't worked on the Macintosh version seemed to consider that I had deliberately misled them. My resume has long since changed, and my love for AppleWorks has NOT, but it means that every time I think of the AppleWorks 5 "delta" manual, I squirm uncomfortably.