The/. editors just sit around, rolling in their "dotcom millions" (probably decimated to more like 100s of thousands, unless they were very careful), masturbating, and smoking pot.
In fact, I rarely go to/. anymore. If you visit wired.com and nytimes.com (to read tech news) you'll get 99% of the same stories, but PROFESSIONALLY edited!
You made me spit out my coffee! Thanks for the funniest posting in a long time. (I wonder why the NYT photographer told that boy to take his shirt off. Makes ya wonder, doesn't it?)
I used to work at Apple. I remember last year when watching Job's MacWorld speech on closed-circuit projection in Cupertino (which, by the way, resembled the set-up in the 1984 ads), fellow Apple employees were sitting with their wireless Powerbooks and posting refutations to/. about rigged G5 benchmarks! All this WHILE JOBS was still giving his presentation about the G5 (which wouldn't ship for another few months.)
I lasted at Apple all of 4 months. I couldn't take the dishonesty there.
A user-level program with no special "root" access can easily scan through YOUR mailbox and
Maybe you are just a little crazy! You can read your OWN mailbox! And send out lots of emails. Another trick some viruses do is to scan through the web cache and email everything that looks like an email address. Again, something that can be done on a properly configured Un*x system.
...that sends "back" (though I never sent it in the first place) the actual VIRUS!
If I had spare time, I'd SUE the AV companies! They're commiting LIBEL and they KNOWINGLY SENT ME A VIRUS!
Anyway, I'd also like to add that I've run Microsoft Windows since the days of Windows 1.03 and I have NEVER had a virus. I don't take unusual precautions, either. I have a virus scanner that I keep updated and run MANUALLY every time I hear about a new one, and it never finds anything (except when I've purposely saved one off for analysis!). I've never been tempted to click on an.SCR.PIF or.EXE file, and since I run my PC behind a "linksys" box that blocks all incoming ports, I've never had Code Red or anything like that.
One of the companies I'm working for just locks down the network harder and harder each time there's a new virus. For example, they did some tweak so when you log into the domain, some thing runs that prevents you from making a share (though only from the UI--you can still do it from the NET command-line.) I hope someone realizes that they've NEVER actually stopped a virus, even though each time one happens they run around in circles and restrict the network and PCs even more. You just can't prevent against people receiving an EXE in email and running it!
Now I know the argument you get from Mac-crazies--that if the PC had better account management this wouldn't happen. NONSENSE! A user-level program with no special "root" access can easily scan through YOUR mailbox and pick of email addresses and send out email. ON ANY OPERATING SYSTEM, even a properly adminstered Un*x system.
There's one thing about the iPod MINI that's very important to many Macintosh users: it's easier to insert (and remove) from one's rectum.
Don't forget that the Macintosh's primary audience is homosexual computer enthusiasts, and others with a 'persecution complex.' The entire Apple mystique comes from having a computer that's clearly inferior (price/performance). People who have spent more than they should have for a computer and defend it to the death (to the point of sending out virus attacks for Windows machines) are psychologically damaged.
You can't always be lucky enough to be born into a real minority, so people who sexually experiment with so-called "bi-sexuality", polyamorism, and nonsense religions like "Wiccan" do so so that they can feel persecuted. Shoving objects up one's anus for sexual arousal is part of this. Believe me (as a former Apple Employee), many Apple accessories are carefully designed for just such a reason!
For example Macintosh users have long had erotic feelings toward their Macintosh loudspeakers. And Apple certainly knows what they're doing when they design speakers like this.
It's all about revenue. Apple found a small population that keeps them in business. Just like people will buy lottery tickets and gamble in on-line casinos. Apple's exploiting a weakness in human nature (sexual perversion, and "persecution complex") to their advantage. Bravo for Apple! It's the American way!
Wrong. The only way to compare the hardware is to use the best compiler for each: intel on x86 and IBM's compiler on G5
Close! The way to compart the hardware is to use the compiler recommended by the Manufacturer for each product. Intel, for performance, would reccomend their own compiler while IBM, who contributed the G5 code generator to the GCC project, would recommend theirs (in this case, GCC.)
Using "GCC" for both isn't fair because the code generators and optimizers are completely different. The only fair thing is to use what the Manufacturer suggests for optimum performance.
Apple's initial benchmarks were weird, too, because they compared a machine that would not ship for FOUR months (and I'm being generous here) to a 6-month old DELL unit. Fair would be to ask Dell for a sample of a machine to be released next quarter and test against that.
As it is, the P4, even crippled with HT turned off, BEAT the G5 with its faster bus in all the integer tests. By Apple's own admission.
What kind of "Apple developer" proceeds to price out flamebait comparisons
I have owned Apple computers ever since the Apple ][. I've owned Apple Stock, and I've worked for Apple Computer! If I'm not qualified to critique Apple, then who is? Some foaming-at-the-mouth Web Designer or Flash-Kiddie who buys a Mac from peer pressure, and then tries to convince himself that his slow, limited, expensive computer is "better?"
As a Penn State Student and a Mac geek, I did my part to write in complaints to the administration and the school paper about how this isolates people using other platforms.
It's people like you who give the Mac platform a reputation as "zealots". If you don't run Windows how does the fact that Windows users get a specific service affect you in any way? You're no better or worse off for it.
If you feel isolated, it's because of your persecution complex (manifiested in the fact that you chose to be a "victim" of your own making by using a Mac and whining about it.)
Why don't you find another cause, like rallying against Date Rape or Drunk Driving?
One of the things Microsoft is adding (for processors that support it) is explicitly marking executable code with hardware-implemented "execution permission".
This would prevent most buffer overflow attacks.
I think it's correct to assume that you'll never--on a box where many companies can write software--have 100% perfect code. Having hardware at the processor and network level to add security is a fine idea.
Microsoft does make great keyboards and mice. I just got one of their bluetooth wireless mice and it's great! And nobody ever complained about the hardware in an X-box.
Microsoft really does have credibility in this area.
Without any way to make sure minority opinions can get heard (like, for instance, the US Constitution), this is simple "mob rule", not necessarily freedom.
And judging from the "additions" to the faq, a little editing may be called for!
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I was so impressed by a "preview" I saw a week ago, that I sold my iPod on ebay (for $200 total after I unbundled the unopened earbud and remote and sold them separately)!
I was disappointed with the iPod because:
It would konk out on a cross-pacific trip
People would think I was some sort of Mac freak and ask me questions
It had no record capability
Windows was an afterthought. (And iTunes windows is pretty poor)
Dell tells me my "dPod" will be here by Monday, just in time for my next overseas trip. Whoo-pee!
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The /. editors just sit around, rolling in their "dotcom millions" (probably decimated to more like 100s of thousands, unless they were very careful), masturbating, and smoking pot.
/. anymore. If you visit wired.com and nytimes.com (to read tech news) you'll get 99% of the same stories, but PROFESSIONALLY edited!
In fact, I rarely go to
What about Apple and "Objective-C"? Isn't that a similar (but failed) attempt at a proprietary language?
You can get a 50 spindle for $100. And when he's used up the disks, and he's not around, you can pleasure yourself with it.
You made me spit out my coffee! Thanks for the funniest posting in a long time. (I wonder why the NYT photographer told that boy to take his shirt off. Makes ya wonder, doesn't it?)
This kid would make a great poster boy for birth control.
I used to work at Apple. I remember last year when watching Job's MacWorld speech on closed-circuit projection in Cupertino (which, by the way, resembled the set-up in the 1984 ads), fellow Apple employees were sitting with their wireless Powerbooks and posting refutations to /. about rigged G5 benchmarks! All this WHILE JOBS was still giving his presentation about the G5 (which wouldn't ship for another few months.)
I lasted at Apple all of 4 months. I couldn't take the dishonesty there.
Just to clarify to the respondents---I can't stand Apple and I wish they would go under! It's one of the most dishonest companiies around.
You have to admit, no matter what side you're on...it's amazing the Mac has lasted this long after being pronounced dead several times.
A user-level program with no special "root" access can easily scan through YOUR mailbox and
Maybe you are just a little crazy! You can read your OWN mailbox! And send out lots of emails. Another trick some viruses do is to scan through the web cache and email everything that looks like an email address. Again, something that can be done on a properly configured Un*x system.
...that sends "back" (though I never sent it in the first place) the actual VIRUS!
.SCR .PIF or .EXE file, and since I run my PC behind a "linksys" box that blocks all incoming ports, I've never had Code Red or anything like that.
If I had spare time, I'd SUE the AV companies! They're commiting LIBEL and they KNOWINGLY SENT ME A VIRUS!
Anyway, I'd also like to add that I've run Microsoft Windows since the days of Windows 1.03 and I have NEVER had a virus. I don't take unusual precautions, either. I have a virus scanner that I keep updated and run MANUALLY every time I hear about a new one, and it never finds anything (except when I've purposely saved one off for analysis!). I've never been tempted to click on an
One of the companies I'm working for just locks down the network harder and harder each time there's a new virus. For example, they did some tweak so when you log into the domain, some thing runs that prevents you from making a share (though only from the UI--you can still do it from the NET command-line.) I hope someone realizes that they've NEVER actually stopped a virus, even though each time one happens they run around in circles and restrict the network and PCs even more. You just can't prevent against people receiving an EXE in email and running it!
Now I know the argument you get from Mac-crazies--that if the PC had better account management this wouldn't happen. NONSENSE! A user-level program with no special "root" access can easily scan through YOUR mailbox and pick of email addresses and send out email. ON ANY OPERATING SYSTEM, even a properly adminstered Un*x system.
There's one thing about the iPod MINI that's very important to many Macintosh users: it's easier to insert (and remove) from one's rectum.
Don't forget that the Macintosh's primary audience is homosexual computer enthusiasts, and others with a 'persecution complex.' The entire Apple mystique comes from having a computer that's clearly inferior (price/performance). People who have spent more than they should have for a computer and defend it to the death (to the point of sending out virus attacks for Windows machines) are psychologically damaged.
You can't always be lucky enough to be born into a real minority, so people who sexually experiment with so-called "bi-sexuality", polyamorism, and nonsense religions like "Wiccan" do so so that they can feel persecuted. Shoving objects up one's anus for sexual arousal is part of this. Believe me (as a former Apple Employee), many Apple accessories are carefully designed for just such a reason!
For example Macintosh users have long had erotic feelings toward their Macintosh loudspeakers. And Apple certainly knows what they're doing when they design speakers like this.
It's all about revenue. Apple found a small population that keeps them in business. Just like people will buy lottery tickets and gamble in on-line casinos. Apple's exploiting a weakness in human nature (sexual perversion, and "persecution complex") to their advantage. Bravo for Apple! It's the American way!
I have in my hand a copy of Premiere 7 Pro. It's certainly not a discontinued and unoptomized product, and it's FAST on my Hyperthreaded 3.2 P4!
Close! The way to compart the hardware is to use the compiler recommended by the Manufacturer for each product. Intel, for performance, would reccomend their own compiler while IBM, who contributed the G5 code generator to the GCC project, would recommend theirs (in this case, GCC.)
Using "GCC" for both isn't fair because the code generators and optimizers are completely different. The only fair thing is to use what the Manufacturer suggests for optimum performance.
Apple's initial benchmarks were weird, too, because they compared a machine that would not ship for FOUR months (and I'm being generous here) to a 6-month old DELL unit. Fair would be to ask Dell for a sample of a machine to be released next quarter and test against that.
As it is, the P4, even crippled with HT turned off, BEAT the G5 with its faster bus in all the integer tests. By Apple's own admission.
I was an Apple employee, in fact, and I quit in disgust not too long ago when I woke up and realized that the company was 100% bullshit!
I have owned Apple computers ever since the Apple ][. I've owned Apple Stock, and I've worked for Apple Computer! If I'm not qualified to critique Apple, then who is? Some foaming-at-the-mouth Web Designer or Flash-Kiddie who buys a Mac from peer pressure, and then tries to convince himself that his slow, limited, expensive computer is "better?"
It's people like you who give the Mac platform a reputation as "zealots". If you don't run Windows how does the fact that Windows users get a specific service affect you in any way? You're no better or worse off for it.
If you feel isolated, it's because of your persecution complex (manifiested in the fact that you chose to be a "victim" of your own making by using a Mac and whining about it.)
Why don't you find another cause, like rallying against Date Rape or Drunk Driving?
Speaking as a Mac developer, I can tell you that Quartz is CRAP compared to Microsoft's GDI+.
Apple, as usual wasn't first, or even better.
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I sold my iPod on eBay to get a dellPod! The best choice I ever made.
No it didn't. It's BETTER. You're not thinking different.
This would prevent most buffer overflow attacks.
I think it's correct to assume that you'll never--on a box where many companies can write software--have 100% perfect code. Having hardware at the processor and network level to add security is a fine idea.
Microsoft isn't too far off the mark.
Thanks for confirming that this was just one big publicity stunt, which is true of 99% of what Apple does.
Microsoft does make great keyboards and mice. I just got one of their bluetooth wireless mice and it's great! And nobody ever complained about the hardware in an X-box.
Microsoft really does have credibility in this area.
And judging from the "additions" to the faq, a little editing may be called for! p
I was disappointed with the iPod because:
- It would konk out on a cross-pacific trip
- People would think I was some sort of Mac freak and ask me questions
- It had no record capability
- Windows was an afterthought. (And iTunes windows is pretty poor)
Dell tells me my "dPod" will be here by Monday, just in time for my next overseas trip. Whoo-pee!