Agreed. WITH Bittorrent currently running, I am averaging about 100ms of latency on Charter. At 150ms, I start having issues. While a couple of my hops did hit that, once again, I am running Bittorrent. At 300ms, with nothing else running, I would be looking for a new ISP. That is the type of latency I would excpect on satelite - I got friends on Hughes Net, and that is about what they average on a clear day. If your third hop has those high latency, then my thought is that your ISP doesn't have a fiber line to their provider, but are rather using either microwave or satelite. If they have fiber ran, and they are claiming that 300ms is average, then they need to fire their networking team and bring in some guys who know what the heck they are doing.
I have found the most annoying language to program in to be Python. And I couldn't see the point of it. I had to do some debugging because, at my last job, some wise guy thought it would be a good idea to design our own database, and to program the entire thing in Python, then, right before it was finished, he left the company. There was nothing I saw that we couldn't have done in C or Java, the language was almost identical to C and Java, if you updated Python, suddenly your program broke, and as it wasn't a compiled language, the software ran pretty slow. Who the heck came up with that language? And really, what was the point? Sorry, but this experience just gave me an extreamely bad taste in my mouth for Python and these "new" languages
They threw out decades of experience, knowledge and convention, for absolutely no gains whatsoever.
Decades? What time-warp did you fall in from? Mozilla was founded in 1998, and Firefox 1 was released in 2004. And on all my computers and every computer I have ever installed Firefox on, it has a menu bar. Chrome doesn't by default, and neither does IE, but Firefox still has a menu bar. Don't see it? Right click in the address bar area and turn it on. Any other UI changes can be turned on or off.
Seriously, this is the dumbest comment I have ever seen. Someone please mod this troll down!
Not necissarially, IE major releases REALLY HAVE been major releases. They have been around for, what, 18 years now? IE 4 was significantly better than 3, IE5 significantly better than 4, IE6 significantly better than 5, and so forth and so on. Firefox had their first major public release in, what, 2004ish (I know betas and builds had been around for years before then, but I am thinking 2004 was the first major release). So, yeah, truthfully, I haven't understand Firefox's milestone releases since Firefox 2, other than some tweaks to the rendering engine, and adding support for HTML5.
It was really Google Chrome that changed the way browser version numbers were done. That being said, Google Chrome is a GREAT browser. They may be "lying about how advanced they were", but its a great browser
The issue shouldn't be if a 10 year old computer is still operatable. Chances are, it runs just fine. I got a Commodore 64 that still runs like it did the day I bought it. The computer should be fine for running 10 year old software. However, if you are trying to run modern software on it, you need a modern computer. And if you are trying to go to websites that are in HTML5 and CSS and Flash, you need a modern webbrowser. And that seems to be the issue - I bet there is nothing wrong with his decade-old computer, he is just trying to run modern stuff on it. If you want to run modern software, than freakin' upgrade your computer already!
I got you beat - I am running Chrome, Firefox, Outlook, Steam, Peerblock, Eraser, and have tons of files being copied over the wireless network to this computer on a Win7 Pro laptop with 2 gig of ram, and the laptop is encrypted. Chrome is using a whole 80 meg of ram.
Yeah, seriously, I agree with everyone else. Upgrade your webbrowser already. Are you on like a dialup connection which will take hours to download an updated browser or something? Or are you on a first generation Pentium with like 16 meg of ram? Seriously, upgrade your browser, and if your system resources are really so low that it cannot handle a browser that takes less than 100 meg of your Ram, its time to do a system upgrade as well.
All I can say is, big deal. So what, they lost a few laptops. The laptops were most likely encrypted - seriously, every govenrment agency and contractor for years has been encrypting laptops. Even if they used a weak encryption scheme, when the thief realized they were encrypted, he probably just formatted the harddrive, installed a bootlegged OS, and sold it on ebay. I think the bigger issue is here that NASA needs to teach their employees to take better care of their laptops - this probably cost NASA a whole $1,000!:-)
Agreed. Imagine you arrive at your destination at 9PM, and you think you are going to get a few hours of sleep in, just to find out that the sun is just coming up and you have an hour to get to said meeting.
I mean, do you really think there is going to be an issue with a person pulling into your parking lot, trying to use your WiFi? You may get a few of these, but so what? I doubt it will be of any significance - they can go across the street to McDonald's and get Free WiFi. And, hate to break it to people, but WiFi really does not travel THAT far. IF it penetrates the building material of the hotel, it very likely will not pass the parking lot. Shoot, at a McDonald's, I can be across the street at Walgreens and SEE the access point, but I cannot really connect until I get into the parking lot of the McDonalds, and cannot really get a decent signal unless I get right up to the building or go inside (even then, sometimes you do not get a usabel signal). Let's face it - WiFi is just not strong enough for that.
I say, screw the password-protected WiFi. Its really not needed at a place like a Hotel where they are giving it away.
What the HECK are you drawing your conclusions for? I have worked in IT for 14 years, with different companies, all Fortune 500, and have yet to see a single thing you have predicted. The worst I have seen is having to tell a bunch of Mac Laptop users the reason their network is so slow isn't because there is something wrong with the network, but because they insist on having 30 people connect to a single wireless access point rather than using the gigabit ethernet at their desk. Wi-Fi creates all sorts of headaches for IT departments, and you can't have WiFi without having a hard-wired network to plug it into. This means that you need to have someone who understands all the old stuff such as Firewalls, switches, routers, load balancing, etc, in addition to understand how wireless works.
And what companies are you seeing who is moving their e-mail to the cloud? Corporate security in most companies would prevent e-mail from being housed outside of the company. You may see something small like a couple of city council politicians in a small town using Gmail to communicate, but I can guarentee that you won't be seeing a defense contractor do this! Exchange isn't going anywhere!
And quite frankly, IT hasn't changed all THAT much within the past ten years. I mean, you have to keep up with the software and operating systems. You went from Cat3 to Cat 5 to Cat6. You deployed a few wireless access points in your network. You started issuing laptops with encryption software. But when it comes down to it, not a whole lot has changed. You still support the user, make sure your network and data is secure, and battle the occasional virus outbreak. You still use Ghost or some similar product to image or reimage a machine. SMS and SCCM and similar products have certainly helped us in deploying patches and software, but this has turned from a high-school grad going out and blindly installing software on a customer's machine to having a team of people to script, package, test, and deploy packages, and to detect and correct broken clients.
New technologies will come along that you will have to pick up and learn, but the IT department isn't going anywhere, and anyone who thinks this is deluded.
StatCounter tracks total surfing, not the number of users
Why would you track total number of users instead of total surfing? By that reasoning, I am an IE user - I have it installed, and pull it up, oh, maybe once every few days, but I use Firefox 95% of the time. So by StarCounter's track, I would be a Firefox user, yet by this other way of reasoning, I am an IE user. Shoot, by that reasoning, you can really skew the amount of Safari users - how many people unwittingly installed Safari when they installed iTunes? Just because its installed doesn't mean its being used for surfing.
Our soldiers are over there fighting for not just our freedom, but for the liberation of these people, in 120+ degree temperatures, in full gear, and we are complaining about the cost of air conditioning? Sounds like someone needs to sort out their priorities!
So we sent six drivers on a cross-country road trip in Ford cars with lots of mobile phones and custom software designed by network testing firm Sensorly to see just how fast these 4G Internet connections really are.
Because Fords obviously affect our data rate? Or is product placement so rampet in today's society, that we name-drop in a tech article that is not even remotely related to cars?
Look, I am one of those people myself who think they have to constantly update their status. Went to Disney World last year, and killed my iphone battery in 2 hours uploading pictures (and even at 3G, took a while, and kind of missed out on a few things that day). You are gone a week! Take a camera with a large memory card, and a laptop. Use a text editor to "blog" or "journal" or whatever. Upload when you get back.
if you were going to be gone for like 2 weeks or more, then I would look into this, but seriously, its a week. Make a phone call to the church when you get there, and have them update parents that you made it safely. Shoot video, take pictures, do video interviews with people, and use your laptop to edit the video. When you get back, you have a nice montage to show the church and put on your church website.
Being unplugged for a week is not going to kill you, and if you NEED to contact people in the US for something, make a phone call. It shouldn't be that much to make a landline call from Canada to the US for an emergancy.
Same issue here. I would try to make simple changes, like change a birthdate on a page. Some obviously had issues, I cannot remember the celebrity off the top of my head, but in the article, her birthdate was stated 10 years later than what was stated in the summery in the side column. A simple visit to numerous fan sites showed that the date in the article was wrong, so I would change it, and provide links to support the change. It would be reverted back usually within a few minutes.
I had a similar issue with our city page. I love in a very small town, and the page on Wikipedia was pretty much full of racial slurs and misinformation, not a single piece of which was linked to. Made several complaints and tried to change the page, but it kept getting reverted, and the responses I got were that the information on the page was accurate.
Agree 100%. Get them an emulator if you need to. Then you can build on top of that with Visual Basic.
If you want to teach students structured programing languages, Pascal is still good. I hear too many people say that we should forget Pascal as no one uses it anymore. I just can't believe people are seriously suggesting stuff like Java and Python as a first language. These languages may be simple for us to pick up, with our backgrounds, but you REALLY need to tech kids fundamentals such as working out logic before dropping them into languages where they are probably going to struggle with syntax and object-oriented stuff.
No, I say continue to start kids off with Basic, to teach logic, then go to Pascal, to teach structured programing languages, then go to Visual Basic as an easy way to get familer with GUI programming, then go to C. Only after they learn C should you then start with Java and Python and Ruby.
This would kind of depend how long you have been doing MP3s. When I started, around 13 years ago, hard drive space was still at a premium. Most of my early MP3s that I ripped myself are at 128k. I moved to 256 about two years later, then started using VBRs about a year later. About 5 years ago I went to ripping in OGG, but in the past year, I have moved to FLAC.
i would gladly go back and re-rip all my old MP3s, but many of my CDs were stolen about 5 years ago, and I have been on the itunes / Amazon MP3 craze since, only buying a few CDs here and there. The iTunes iCloud thingy coming out in a few months looks to be a great option for me.
I've been using Dreamweaver for about 12 years, great piece of software - for static websites, and if you want to maintain it yourself.
However, from some of the previous pieces of software the author has used, it sounds like his best solution is a content management system. Sadly, for most of these, it does mean a rewrite of the site, but it sounds like he is doing that anyways every couple of years.
Go with something like Wordpress http://wordpress.org/ or Joomla http://www.joomla.org/ . You just do not know the relief it is when clients have their own ability to change content - both for stress on your end and to get stuff done in a timely fashion on their end. Both (especially Wordpress, not as familer with Joomla) have been around for years, and are pretty well established. And many hosting providers will install these on your site free of charge, so all you really have to do is set it up. I would look into some themes though - the default layouts for Wordpress kind of irritate me - maybe because I have seen so many sites using that default template that its gotten old. But there are TONS of themes and plugins out there for both systems.
She may be a bit bored with these games being as dated as they are now, but I suggest the King's Quest series. In fact, many now have remakes by fans that bring them up to VGA graphics and have voice packs, and Kings Quest 6 now has a fanmade sequel that I believe is 3D rendered (while keeping true to the original artwork). What is great about the King's Quest series is she is right inside of their target age-range.
Another great series, and more recent, is the Fable series. This is a great segway between adventure and RPGs, and may get her interested in the still-popular RPG games.
If she enjoys Fable, I suggest then introducing her to more RPGish games. Try Eternal Sonatra, Tales of Vesperia, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross.
If she enjoys King's Quest, and wants to stick with that style of game, you could try her on the Monkey Island Series, which is currently getting a makeover, or something like Day of the Tentical. And if she wants to get into something spooky without being overly scary, she may like Gabriel Knight - although that may be a year or two away if she is 10.
Strange, the fanmade film Star Wars Revelations was made for under $20,000, and has those exotic locations and special effects that you speak of. Maybe that's the difference between fans doing something for free (labor wise) and the industry charging out the Whazoo for them.
Maybe part of the issue is that many mac users blindly install stuff because they have been told that Macs can't get viruses. So they haven't got it ingrained in their minds yet like Windows users (well, not all windows users - Stupid Windows users are how I make my living) that their are malicious programs out there. I am sure the thought process goes, "What, I got a virus? I thought Macs can't get viruses. Let me click this screen to remove the virus. Wait a second! Uh oh!"
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Agreed. WITH Bittorrent currently running, I am averaging about 100ms of latency on Charter. At 150ms, I start having issues. While a couple of my hops did hit that, once again, I am running Bittorrent. At 300ms, with nothing else running, I would be looking for a new ISP. That is the type of latency I would excpect on satelite - I got friends on Hughes Net, and that is about what they average on a clear day. If your third hop has those high latency, then my thought is that your ISP doesn't have a fiber line to their provider, but are rather using either microwave or satelite. If they have fiber ran, and they are claiming that 300ms is average, then they need to fire their networking team and bring in some guys who know what the heck they are doing.
I have found the most annoying language to program in to be Python. And I couldn't see the point of it. I had to do some debugging because, at my last job, some wise guy thought it would be a good idea to design our own database, and to program the entire thing in Python, then, right before it was finished, he left the company. There was nothing I saw that we couldn't have done in C or Java, the language was almost identical to C and Java, if you updated Python, suddenly your program broke, and as it wasn't a compiled language, the software ran pretty slow. Who the heck came up with that language? And really, what was the point? Sorry, but this experience just gave me an extreamely bad taste in my mouth for Python and these "new" languages
If you hover over the button, it says you can right-click to show your history. It works pretty dad-gum well. OH NO, that's a UI change!
They threw out decades of experience, knowledge and convention, for absolutely no gains whatsoever.
Decades? What time-warp did you fall in from? Mozilla was founded in 1998, and Firefox 1 was released in 2004. And on all my computers and every computer I have ever installed Firefox on, it has a menu bar. Chrome doesn't by default, and neither does IE, but Firefox still has a menu bar. Don't see it? Right click in the address bar area and turn it on. Any other UI changes can be turned on or off.
Seriously, this is the dumbest comment I have ever seen. Someone please mod this troll down!
Not necissarially, IE major releases REALLY HAVE been major releases. They have been around for, what, 18 years now? IE 4 was significantly better than 3, IE5 significantly better than 4, IE6 significantly better than 5, and so forth and so on. Firefox had their first major public release in, what, 2004ish (I know betas and builds had been around for years before then, but I am thinking 2004 was the first major release). So, yeah, truthfully, I haven't understand Firefox's milestone releases since Firefox 2, other than some tweaks to the rendering engine, and adding support for HTML5.
It was really Google Chrome that changed the way browser version numbers were done. That being said, Google Chrome is a GREAT browser. They may be "lying about how advanced they were", but its a great browser
The issue shouldn't be if a 10 year old computer is still operatable. Chances are, it runs just fine. I got a Commodore 64 that still runs like it did the day I bought it. The computer should be fine for running 10 year old software. However, if you are trying to run modern software on it, you need a modern computer. And if you are trying to go to websites that are in HTML5 and CSS and Flash, you need a modern webbrowser. And that seems to be the issue - I bet there is nothing wrong with his decade-old computer, he is just trying to run modern stuff on it. If you want to run modern software, than freakin' upgrade your computer already!
I got you beat - I am running Chrome, Firefox, Outlook, Steam, Peerblock, Eraser, and have tons of files being copied over the wireless network to this computer on a Win7 Pro laptop with 2 gig of ram, and the laptop is encrypted. Chrome is using a whole 80 meg of ram.
Yeah, seriously, I agree with everyone else. Upgrade your webbrowser already. Are you on like a dialup connection which will take hours to download an updated browser or something? Or are you on a first generation Pentium with like 16 meg of ram? Seriously, upgrade your browser, and if your system resources are really so low that it cannot handle a browser that takes less than 100 meg of your Ram, its time to do a system upgrade as well.
All I can say is, big deal. So what, they lost a few laptops. The laptops were most likely encrypted - seriously, every govenrment agency and contractor for years has been encrypting laptops. Even if they used a weak encryption scheme, when the thief realized they were encrypted, he probably just formatted the harddrive, installed a bootlegged OS, and sold it on ebay. I think the bigger issue is here that NASA needs to teach their employees to take better care of their laptops - this probably cost NASA a whole $1,000! :-)
Agreed. Imagine you arrive at your destination at 9PM, and you think you are going to get a few hours of sleep in, just to find out that the sun is just coming up and you have an hour to get to said meeting.
I mean, do you really think there is going to be an issue with a person pulling into your parking lot, trying to use your WiFi? You may get a few of these, but so what? I doubt it will be of any significance - they can go across the street to McDonald's and get Free WiFi. And, hate to break it to people, but WiFi really does not travel THAT far. IF it penetrates the building material of the hotel, it very likely will not pass the parking lot. Shoot, at a McDonald's, I can be across the street at Walgreens and SEE the access point, but I cannot really connect until I get into the parking lot of the McDonalds, and cannot really get a decent signal unless I get right up to the building or go inside (even then, sometimes you do not get a usabel signal). Let's face it - WiFi is just not strong enough for that.
I say, screw the password-protected WiFi. Its really not needed at a place like a Hotel where they are giving it away.
What the HECK are you drawing your conclusions for? I have worked in IT for 14 years, with different companies, all Fortune 500, and have yet to see a single thing you have predicted. The worst I have seen is having to tell a bunch of Mac Laptop users the reason their network is so slow isn't because there is something wrong with the network, but because they insist on having 30 people connect to a single wireless access point rather than using the gigabit ethernet at their desk. Wi-Fi creates all sorts of headaches for IT departments, and you can't have WiFi without having a hard-wired network to plug it into. This means that you need to have someone who understands all the old stuff such as Firewalls, switches, routers, load balancing, etc, in addition to understand how wireless works.
And what companies are you seeing who is moving their e-mail to the cloud? Corporate security in most companies would prevent e-mail from being housed outside of the company. You may see something small like a couple of city council politicians in a small town using Gmail to communicate, but I can guarentee that you won't be seeing a defense contractor do this! Exchange isn't going anywhere!
And quite frankly, IT hasn't changed all THAT much within the past ten years. I mean, you have to keep up with the software and operating systems. You went from Cat3 to Cat 5 to Cat6. You deployed a few wireless access points in your network. You started issuing laptops with encryption software. But when it comes down to it, not a whole lot has changed. You still support the user, make sure your network and data is secure, and battle the occasional virus outbreak. You still use Ghost or some similar product to image or reimage a machine. SMS and SCCM and similar products have certainly helped us in deploying patches and software, but this has turned from a high-school grad going out and blindly installing software on a customer's machine to having a team of people to script, package, test, and deploy packages, and to detect and correct broken clients.
New technologies will come along that you will have to pick up and learn, but the IT department isn't going anywhere, and anyone who thinks this is deluded.
StatCounter tracks total surfing, not the number of users
Why would you track total number of users instead of total surfing? By that reasoning, I am an IE user - I have it installed, and pull it up, oh, maybe once every few days, but I use Firefox 95% of the time. So by StarCounter's track, I would be a Firefox user, yet by this other way of reasoning, I am an IE user. Shoot, by that reasoning, you can really skew the amount of Safari users - how many people unwittingly installed Safari when they installed iTunes? Just because its installed doesn't mean its being used for surfing.
Our soldiers are over there fighting for not just our freedom, but for the liberation of these people, in 120+ degree temperatures, in full gear, and we are complaining about the cost of air conditioning? Sounds like someone needs to sort out their priorities!
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So we sent six drivers on a cross-country road trip in Ford cars with lots of mobile phones and custom software designed by network testing firm Sensorly to see just how fast these 4G Internet connections really are.
Because Fords obviously affect our data rate? Or is product placement so rampet in today's society, that we name-drop in a tech article that is not even remotely related to cars?
Look, I am one of those people myself who think they have to constantly update their status. Went to Disney World last year, and killed my iphone battery in 2 hours uploading pictures (and even at 3G, took a while, and kind of missed out on a few things that day). You are gone a week! Take a camera with a large memory card, and a laptop. Use a text editor to "blog" or "journal" or whatever. Upload when you get back.
if you were going to be gone for like 2 weeks or more, then I would look into this, but seriously, its a week. Make a phone call to the church when you get there, and have them update parents that you made it safely. Shoot video, take pictures, do video interviews with people, and use your laptop to edit the video. When you get back, you have a nice montage to show the church and put on your church website.
Being unplugged for a week is not going to kill you, and if you NEED to contact people in the US for something, make a phone call. It shouldn't be that much to make a landline call from Canada to the US for an emergancy.
Same issue here. I would try to make simple changes, like change a birthdate on a page. Some obviously had issues, I cannot remember the celebrity off the top of my head, but in the article, her birthdate was stated 10 years later than what was stated in the summery in the side column. A simple visit to numerous fan sites showed that the date in the article was wrong, so I would change it, and provide links to support the change. It would be reverted back usually within a few minutes.
I had a similar issue with our city page. I love in a very small town, and the page on Wikipedia was pretty much full of racial slurs and misinformation, not a single piece of which was linked to. Made several complaints and tried to change the page, but it kept getting reverted, and the responses I got were that the information on the page was accurate.
Agree 100%. Get them an emulator if you need to. Then you can build on top of that with Visual Basic.
If you want to teach students structured programing languages, Pascal is still good. I hear too many people say that we should forget Pascal as no one uses it anymore. I just can't believe people are seriously suggesting stuff like Java and Python as a first language. These languages may be simple for us to pick up, with our backgrounds, but you REALLY need to tech kids fundamentals such as working out logic before dropping them into languages where they are probably going to struggle with syntax and object-oriented stuff.
No, I say continue to start kids off with Basic, to teach logic, then go to Pascal, to teach structured programing languages, then go to Visual Basic as an easy way to get familer with GUI programming, then go to C. Only after they learn C should you then start with Java and Python and Ruby.
This would kind of depend how long you have been doing MP3s. When I started, around 13 years ago, hard drive space was still at a premium. Most of my early MP3s that I ripped myself are at 128k. I moved to 256 about two years later, then started using VBRs about a year later. About 5 years ago I went to ripping in OGG, but in the past year, I have moved to FLAC.
i would gladly go back and re-rip all my old MP3s, but many of my CDs were stolen about 5 years ago, and I have been on the itunes / Amazon MP3 craze since, only buying a few CDs here and there. The iTunes iCloud thingy coming out in a few months looks to be a great option for me.
I find it quite fun, with plenty of humor in it. I had fun, and that is what counts.
I've been using Dreamweaver for about 12 years, great piece of software - for static websites, and if you want to maintain it yourself.
However, from some of the previous pieces of software the author has used, it sounds like his best solution is a content management system. Sadly, for most of these, it does mean a rewrite of the site, but it sounds like he is doing that anyways every couple of years.
Go with something like Wordpress http://wordpress.org/ or Joomla http://www.joomla.org/ . You just do not know the relief it is when clients have their own ability to change content - both for stress on your end and to get stuff done in a timely fashion on their end. Both (especially Wordpress, not as familer with Joomla) have been around for years, and are pretty well established. And many hosting providers will install these on your site free of charge, so all you really have to do is set it up. I would look into some themes though - the default layouts for Wordpress kind of irritate me - maybe because I have seen so many sites using that default template that its gotten old. But there are TONS of themes and plugins out there for both systems.
Also, this post was published a few months back - https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=432670242130
Once again, Facebook makes very clear what it is they are rolling out. If you don't follow what they are doing, you can't say you were not warned.
without giving users any notice
Um, http://www.facebook.com/facebook If you don't follow what they are doing, you can't say that they gave you no notice. In particular - https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=467145887130
Its clearly posted so anyone can see what's up
She may be a bit bored with these games being as dated as they are now, but I suggest the King's Quest series. In fact, many now have remakes by fans that bring them up to VGA graphics and have voice packs, and Kings Quest 6 now has a fanmade sequel that I believe is 3D rendered (while keeping true to the original artwork). What is great about the King's Quest series is she is right inside of their target age-range.
Another great series, and more recent, is the Fable series. This is a great segway between adventure and RPGs, and may get her interested in the still-popular RPG games.
If she enjoys Fable, I suggest then introducing her to more RPGish games. Try Eternal Sonatra, Tales of Vesperia, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross.
If she enjoys King's Quest, and wants to stick with that style of game, you could try her on the Monkey Island Series, which is currently getting a makeover, or something like Day of the Tentical. And if she wants to get into something spooky without being overly scary, she may like Gabriel Knight - although that may be a year or two away if she is 10.
Strange, the fanmade film Star Wars Revelations was made for under $20,000, and has those exotic locations and special effects that you speak of. Maybe that's the difference between fans doing something for free (labor wise) and the industry charging out the Whazoo for them.
Maybe part of the issue is that many mac users blindly install stuff because they have been told that Macs can't get viruses. So they haven't got it ingrained in their minds yet like Windows users (well, not all windows users - Stupid Windows users are how I make my living) that their are malicious programs out there. I am sure the thought process goes, "What, I got a virus? I thought Macs can't get viruses. Let me click this screen to remove the virus. Wait a second! Uh oh!"