Surely I'm not the first to get my dander up every time I come across the smugness that can only come from owning a mac. I can't tell you how many times I've been talking to computer nincompoops who don't know their hard drive from their microwave, who pompously declare that THEY have a Mac and therefore no hacker shall molest them due to the ingenious engineering skills of Lord Jobs. Several times mac users have literally looked down their noses at me when I say I'm running Windows/*nix/not-a-MacOS.
Isn't it time to admit that this is merely and ONLY class nonsense? Macs are/used-to-be more expensive. Therefore, fewer & more well-off people owned them. The well-off always think that they know everything (after all, they knew enough to be rich, right?) and that everything they want must Midas-wise be better that something they don't.
So macs haven't had a big virus-jacking yet. Sooner or later someone will be annoyed & talented enough to pull a real destructive one. And yes, then it'll be time for the poor, beleaguered Circuit City-bargain-bin-shopping Windows proletariat to have its day.
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Surely I'm not the first to get my dander up every time I come across the smugness that can only come from owning a mac. I can't tell you how many times I've been talking to computer nincompoops who don't know their hard drive from their microwave, who pompously declare that THEY have a Mac and therefore no hacker shall molest them due to the ingenious engineering skills of Lord Jobs. Several times mac users have literally looked down their noses at me when I say I'm running Windows/*nix/not-a-MacOS.
Isn't it time to admit that this is merely and ONLY class nonsense? Macs are/used-to-be more expensive. Therefore, fewer & more well-off people owned them. The well-off always think that they know everything (after all, they knew enough to be rich, right?) and that everything they want must Midas-wise be better that something they don't.
So macs haven't had a big virus-jacking yet. Sooner or later someone will be annoyed & talented enough to pull a real destructive one. And yes, then it'll be time for the poor, beleaguered Circuit City-bargain-bin-shopping Windows proletariat to have its day.