It's a clue for you to stop using a platform where you must run anti-virus software and to finally switch to something better and come to the 21 century of computing.
I went from loving the country, admiring the people and culture, to completely hating the damn place and its stupid people. I wish the country would just sink to the bottom of the ocean and drown the morons living there.
And hopefully someday people will realize they are Just Plain Wrong about the existence of God, but unfortunately that's not as easily proven beyond a reasonable doubt as evolution.
These are not in the same category. One is an observable process (and it has been observed at work in the lab), the other is a poorly defined non-observable concept and sometimes even outside of the realm of logic.
It has been shown that one can either prove nor disprove the existence of god. So, it will not go away.
More education of the population will not make him go away either. Not as long as we are spiritual beings and as long as we have this need to be fulfilled by our spiritual experiences.
And I know you were probably talking about Biblical God, but the concept is much wider than that.
If you use vi key bindings (set -o vi), then ESC v will launch vi (or whatever your EDITOR variable is set to) to edit you current command line. This is useful if the command line gets really long. Navigating single long line in VIM (with gj and gk) is much faster.
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and has been for a long time now. It's an OS that caters to the high end of the technical skill bell curve.
Do you even know what eco system is in software context?
It is the operating system together with development tools, software developer guidelines for developing for the platform (way of doing things), and all applications from the OS vendor and independent software developers.
Because OS X is a relatively small, and not widely used platform, this eco system remains relatively uniform, and applications from various vendors look and feel and behave like they are all developed by one vendor. Things get installed in trivial manner. Applications in general do not install services, daemons, they do not launch themself on startup, they do not screw with the user.
Once the platform becomes popular this can no longer remain like this. Inevitably, you will get vendors who want to rule the world and getting sneaky. Look at the example of Google earth on OS X discussed here recently. I'm sure others will try as well.
This is not funny, this is insightful. If Mac were more popular, you would start seeing more crapware and horrible UIs for it as well.
OS X echo system is healthy exactly because the culture and values of the platform are shared and well known by adherents. If you break past the critical mass, all bets are off.
This is why Mac needs to remain relatively marginal to be successful:D. It's a fine line and balancing act.
Well, even if the theory was right, it would still not imply that ALL cases are caused by ultra sound. No one is claiming that only one thing causes it. Important distinction.
Obviously, something in our environment is making autism rates climb. But it doesn't look like it's the thimerosol. Even if it is from mercury (which I don't know of any data showing that it is), it seems to be mercury from some other source, not from thimerosol.
Well, there are some people in the medical community claiming that fetal diagnostic ultra sounds, whose usage has increased significantly in recent years, may in fact account for increased incidence of autism in children.
The theory is based on thermal effects of ultra sounds. Presumably heating neural tissue in early development phases by even 1 degree is quite bad. This is actually confirmed on mice studies.
However, on the other hand, there are other people in the medical community who do not buy this argument and claim that ultra sounds are 100% safe, and that human fetuses (unlike mice) are well protected by inches of mother's tissue, and larger amount of amniotic fluid, and that ultra sounds are not focused narrowly enough to actually heat the fetus (or embryo).
I guess Google search on the topic could be interesting but inconclusive.
It is actually questionable if the updater app is secure. It certainly does not use SSL or encrypted traffic to the update servers. I wonder how hard would it be to spoof it and make it download other stuff from somewhere else. Probably not that hard if someone really tried.
Another issue is that this is just poor form. Imagine if every application wanted to do that. You would have hundreds of daemons or update apps running all the time (and not too long ago people actually really did have dozens of things running in their notification area on Windows). This is just unacceptable in 2009.
I would say that unless you're having problems with Sparkle, you probably wouldn't want to move away from it. We did not build Update Engine to steal Sparkle usersâ"we really like Sparkle! We built Update Engine to do a few things that Sparkle doesn't do (or at least didn't do at the time we designed Update Engine). We needed something that could update non-bundle-based apps in addition to regular Cocoa apps. We needed something that could update root-owned products and things with, for example, kernel extensions . And we needed something that could update multiple products all at once. We also needed something that was flexible and could be extended in a number of different ways to support future products. Our intent was not to build competition for Sparkle. We focused on different problems than those that Sparkle solves. Update Engine is a lower-level solution than Sparkle. For updating an ordinary Cocoa application, I don't see anything wrong with using Sparkle.
I'd be weary of any software update agent that is capable of installing kernel extensions and updating root owned files and that does not use SSL or encrypted traffic to the server.
All malware has to do is take control of the Google update agent and install what ever else they need. Why bother re-inventing the wheel?
No it's not true. Not on OS X. Apple windows software is notoriously stupid and aggressive towards the user. If I were Windows user I would absolutely never ever use Apple software (and I'm a Mac user).
Listen, I'm a software developer and I work on Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX and Windows on a daily basis, but at home I use OS X.
What control do you assume you have on Windows that you presumably don't on OS X? I can see how you can customize Linux beyond what is provided by default (modify and customize the kernel etc, but how many people do that?), but Windows?
Yes, OS X is usable out of the box, and as a matter of fact of all the OSes I mentioned above it is the most usable OS, and a pure joy to use. Perhaps you should try one before you whine about it?
When I said "can not be simply removed" I meant for average user. If average user even managed to figure out where the lauchd config file is and removed it, they would find out it got put back by google earth again.
Of course any proficient user can remove or disable it. I opted to remove not only the agent but also any trace of google apps or google on my machines as a matter of principle.
Yes indeed. It just strikes me that Google is beginning to show it's true face of an advertising empire that it is, with a technology front to keep our minds from thinking about it too much.
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Mac OS X already has 10% market share, but still there is not a single one virus for it.
Malware that requires social engineering to get deployed does not really count. No platform is immune from stupid user.
It's a clue for you to stop using a platform where you must run anti-virus software and to finally switch to something better and come to the 21 century of computing.
I went from loving the country, admiring the people and culture, to completely hating the damn place and its stupid people. I wish the country would just sink to the bottom of the ocean and drown the morons living there.
I'm serious. WTF?
nutritional information on water bottles. Or labels on honey saying it is fat free, which is a good thing, but only in America is it a surprise.
And hopefully someday people will realize they are Just Plain Wrong about the existence of God, but unfortunately that's not as easily proven beyond a reasonable doubt as evolution.
These are not in the same category. One is an observable process (and it has been observed at work in the lab), the other is a poorly defined non-observable concept and sometimes even outside of the realm of logic.
It has been shown that one can either prove nor disprove the existence of god. So, it will not go away.
More education of the population will not make him go away either. Not as long as we are spiritual beings and as long as we have this need to be fulfilled by our spiritual experiences.
And I know you were probably talking about Biblical God, but the concept is much wider than that.
At least people can get US citizenship, they only need to live and work in the states 3 years.
Compare that with say Germany where you have to live 8 years and you may never get citizenship.
Or Switzerland, where people in your community vote on you and if you should be allowed to get citizenship. So don't piss your neighbors off ever.
If you use vi key bindings (set -o vi), then ESC v will launch vi (or whatever your EDITOR variable is set to) to edit you current command line. This is useful if the command line gets really long. Navigating single long line in VIM (with gj and gk) is much faster.
and has been for a long time now. It's an OS that caters to the high end of the technical skill bell curve.
Yeah, well, I live in the terminal. My fingers automatically type echo :D. Muscle memory I guess.
Do you even know what eco system is in software context?
It is the operating system together with development tools, software developer guidelines for developing for the platform (way of doing things), and all applications from the OS vendor and independent software developers.
Because OS X is a relatively small, and not widely used platform, this eco system remains relatively uniform, and applications from various vendors look and feel and behave like they are all developed by one vendor. Things get installed in trivial manner. Applications in general do not install services, daemons, they do not launch themself on startup, they do not screw with the user.
Once the platform becomes popular this can no longer remain like this. Inevitably, you will get vendors who want to rule the world and getting sneaky. Look at the example of Google earth on OS X discussed here recently. I'm sure others will try as well.
This is not funny, this is insightful. If Mac were more popular, you would start seeing more crapware and horrible UIs for it as well.
OS X echo system is healthy exactly because the culture and values of the platform are shared and well known by adherents. If you break past the critical mass, all bets are off.
This is why Mac needs to remain relatively marginal to be successful :D. It's a fine line and balancing act.
Well, even if the theory was right, it would still not imply that ALL cases are caused by ultra sound. No one is claiming that only one thing causes it. Important distinction.
Obviously, something in our environment is making autism rates climb. But it doesn't look like it's the thimerosol. Even if it is from mercury (which I don't know of any data showing that it is), it seems to be mercury from some other source, not from thimerosol.
Well, there are some people in the medical community claiming that fetal diagnostic ultra sounds, whose usage has increased significantly in recent years, may in fact account for increased incidence of autism in children.
The theory is based on thermal effects of ultra sounds. Presumably heating neural tissue in early development phases by even 1 degree is quite bad. This is actually confirmed on mice studies.
However, on the other hand, there are other people in the medical community who do not buy this argument and claim that ultra sounds are 100% safe, and that human fetuses (unlike mice) are well protected by inches of mother's tissue, and larger amount of amniotic fluid, and that ultra sounds are not focused narrowly enough to actually heat the fetus (or embryo).
I guess Google search on the topic could be interesting but inconclusive.
Get out there and do something postive.
I did. I bought a Mac.
would help you in your life immensely.
This was meant to be funny I'm sure :D.
It is actually questionable if the updater app is secure. It certainly does not use SSL or encrypted traffic to the update servers. I wonder how hard would it be to spoof it and make it download other stuff from somewhere else. Probably not that hard if someone really tried.
Another issue is that this is just poor form. Imagine if every application wanted to do that. You would have hundreds of daemons or update apps running all the time (and not too long ago people actually really did have dozens of things running in their notification area on Windows). This is just unacceptable in 2009.
Most of us Apple fans also use Windows at work, and we know how much Apple's software for Windows sucks. It sucks so much that I refuse to use it.
From that link you posted:
I would say that unless you're having problems with Sparkle, you probably
wouldn't want to move away from it. We did not build Update Engine to steal
Sparkle usersâ"we really like Sparkle! We built Update Engine to do a few
things that Sparkle doesn't do (or at least didn't do at the time we
designed Update Engine). We needed something that could update
non-bundle-based apps in addition to regular Cocoa apps. We needed something
that could update root-owned products and things with, for example, kernel
extensions . And we needed something that could update multiple products all
at once. We also needed something that was flexible and could be extended in
a number of different ways to support future products.
Our intent was not to build competition for Sparkle. We focused on different
problems than those that Sparkle solves. Update Engine is a lower-level
solution than Sparkle. For updating an ordinary Cocoa application, I don't
see anything wrong with using Sparkle.
I'd be weary of any software update agent that is capable of installing kernel extensions and updating root owned files and that does not use SSL or encrypted traffic to the server.
All malware has to do is take control of the Google update agent and install what ever else they need. Why bother re-inventing the wheel?
No it's not true. Not on OS X. Apple windows software is notoriously stupid and aggressive towards the user. If I were Windows user I would absolutely never ever use Apple software (and I'm a Mac user).
Listen, I'm a software developer and I work on Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX and Windows on a daily basis, but at home I use OS X.
What control do you assume you have on Windows that you presumably don't on OS X? I can see how you can customize Linux beyond what is provided by default (modify and customize the kernel etc, but how many people do that?), but Windows?
Yes, OS X is usable out of the box, and as a matter of fact of all the OSes I mentioned above it is the most usable OS, and a pure joy to use. Perhaps you should try one before you whine about it?
When I said "can not be simply removed" I meant for average user. If average user even managed to figure out where the lauchd config file is and removed it, they would find out it got put back by google earth again.
Of course any proficient user can remove or disable it. I opted to remove not only the agent but also any trace of google apps or google on my machines as a matter of principle.
Yes indeed. It just strikes me that Google is beginning to show it's true face of an advertising empire that it is, with a technology front to keep our minds from thinking about it too much.
he unleashed bugs on unsuspecting public.