If I set up a security company in Bhutan, I'll instantly be one of the leading security companies (in Bhutan).
I've been in the industry for 30 years, too many of those involving PCs, and I'd never heard of Dr. Web until this story. Norton, Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, Microsft etc. But not Dr. Web.
Clearly Apple have not ignored the problem. The fixed version of Java was pushed out a week ago, and there's an advisory saying there's an update that cleans infections coming soon. Dr. Web may not have been the first to report it to Apple.
That's exactly what I did. I did nothing. And a week ago OSX Software Update installed an updated version of Java that is not susceptible to this malware.
Soon there will be another automatic software update that will clean the malware from any Mac that did get infected.
Apple's approach to malware is that they deal with them in the OS itself. They don't leave it to third parties as Microsoft used to do. And they don't package their anti-virus into a user facing AV application as Microsoft do now.
Technically, it does. PC stands for Personal Computer, not Windows machine.
Note that you used capitals for Personal Computer. That's because they are proper nouns. IBM Personal Computer, not the generic adjective/noun personal computer. And PC has followed the evolutionary line from clones through all the subsequent machines that have been created to run Microsoft's operating systems.
Some people include Macs when they say PC. Most people don't.
If you ask for nuts, peanuts will be one of the things expects. If you ask for fruit, you're probably not after a tomato.
PC stands for Personal Computer not personal computer. As in IBM PC stands for IBM Personal Computer, not IBM personal computer. Proper noun versus adjective/noun.
When people say PC, they don't mean Mac. Unless they are dumb slashdotters who think misinformed pedantry is clever.
How could it be a copy? It's got a bigger display, thinner, with a different body design which is thinner by a bit.
There must be multiple revisions of the Zenbook then because the comparative test that I looked at had them within a couple of milli-meters in every dimension, with the Zen Book being the one that was slightly bigger. And the shape pretty much identical, without about the only difference being which side the ports are on, the lack of Magsafe and Thunderbolt, and the colour of the keyboard keys.
I tell you what, provide a link to the exact model you're referring to.
I understand there's one everybody in the US uses, and another not used.
Now you're beginning to get a clue.
OK, there are 2 ways of pronouncing the word tomato. To-may-to (US) To-mar-to (The rest of the English speaking world) They wrote a song about it.
Now, how ignorant would it be for someone who says "To-mar-to" to call someone who says "to-may-to" stupid, because they mis-pronouced the word?
Thats's how ignorant you are being.
It seems that you live in a small world where you only speak to people who talk like you do. Get a passport, see the world. Al Gore has. And clearly he's spoken to technologists from around the world, and has picked up the more common of the 2 correct pronunciations of router.
Those surveys tend to be done by liberals as an attack on Fox.
Ah, I see you are using the Fox News definition of a liberal: Anyone who criticises Fox News.
They were also about specific subjects dear to the hearts of the liberals who ordered or took them.
What, like where Iraq is? Fox News voters are the mostly likely group to not know. And yet it's a topic close to their hearts. Call me old fashioned but if you are pro-war in a foreign country, you ought to know where that country is.
Get this through your thick skull. You can't threaten people not to moderate you on the basis that otherwise you'll post yet more trollish posts about Apple. You're impotent. You have no power.
Yes, Daniel Phillips is the biggest fucking moron on Slashdot. He thinks that somehow talking obvious untruths about Apple somehow serves the best interests of Linux. Instead it just reflects badly on the moron himself.
I read your first source. If you read all the way it ends up disproving your claim. Here is the guy who designed the first router
What the fuck is it you don't understand about there being 2 acceptable pronunciations of router?
Again, by resisting the fact because it's contrary to your original post, you're showing yourself every bit as dishonest as the news media you criticise.
You accuse Fox News of the latter, but you don't want to admit your own news does it just as much if not more
I don't own or have allegiance with any news media. Especially US media. But the fact is that Fox news is barely real news at all. In a number of studies Fox News viewers have been shown to be the most misinformed group on indisputable matters of current affairs fact in the US.
Not in one advertisement, not by one Cisco or NetGear rep among the parade that goes through here every year, not by one network engineer. Gore was obviously given some talking points by his handlers and flubbed one of the words.
I'm afraid you're just persisting in your small-world ignorance. Have you ever heard of Time Berners-Lee? Given that he invented the World Wide Web, I think he qualifies as someone who knows what he's talking about. He pronounces it "root-ers" not "rowt-ers".
Given that I have corrected you already on this and you're continuing to deny it, you're now firmly in the camp of liar. Even more so than the journalists who aren't familiar with firearm taxonomy. At least they can claim ignorance, you've now lost that defense.
You seem to have confused "source code" with "a description". And a massively out of date one at that.
For sure Google has their reasons for not releasing the source code for most of their projects. As does Apple.
The truth is that both companies keep most of their code closed, and open some of their code. And they do so according to which provides most benefit to the company. And sometimes there will also be benefits to the public in either case, but that's incidental.
But I don't think they would have been first had they waited much longer. I don't think they would have been first had another company let geeks and nerds make product decisions.
Nokia did exactly that, with the result that they had "Maemo" based on Linux on their tablet. And it was a flop.
iPad was a success because it was designed by designers, not gooks and nerds.
nokia 770 existed. it's friggin subtitle name is internet tablet. pepperpad existed, it's name includes "pad". htc advantage existed.
All failures. One of Apple's major approaches to innovation is to take a market that has been poorly served by bad products, and create a product that people actually want.
The Zenbook is a copy of the Macbook Air. Close but not quite as good as the Macbook Air, is the conclusion of most comparative reviews of the hardware. Cheaper though.
Of course the decision of which to buy will come down to whether you want OSX or Windows.
Expanded the market, perhaps. There were tablets on the market long before the iPad was under development. They just kinda sucked, so there wasn't much demand.
Well duh! Taking existing but poorly served markets and making a product that people actually want is exactly the type of innovation that Apple excels at.
Virtually everyone that says that Apple isn't a good innovator don't understand the difference between innovation and invention. They think it's the same thing.
We're both "wasting our time" writing stuff for free here. I guess we do it because we find it rewarding in some other way. There's no reason another person won't find such rewards writing reviews, be it on Amazon or anywhere else.
As to being paid to write nice things, I always check out the reviews on Amazon before I buy something, whether a book or some other product. With the exception of political stuff, which is heavily trolled, the reviews are very useful. It's not just saying nice things. If theres a bad side to a product, some reviewer will have pointed it out. Taking the reviews as a whole you can generally tell the good products from the bad.
This is not true of many other e-commerce sites though, which lack the quantity of reviewers that Amazon has, and so will be more stacked up with shill reviews. And on many cases they delete the bad reviews too. Just because you work for one of the e-commerce sites with worthless reviews doesn't mean Amazons reviews are also worthless.
I expect this to go away. This sort of perfection was the result of a giant cock up top who could say, "X is not acceptable, fix it, no alternative." Your average exec is an mba, who all about cost vs reward. Not the engineering mindset of X or nothing.
The only exec change was from Steve Jobs to Time Cook as CEO. And whilst Tim Cook does have an MBA, his first degree is in industrial engineering.
Of course you're right that Jobs loss is great and a primary reason for that was his refusal to accept anything that wasn't right. But Johnny Ives has the same attribute, although in a less aggressive way. And when it comes to design, there is no one at Apple to overrule him.
So I'm not worried about the quality of hardware design or hardware innovation getting worse. Software is slightly more of a concern though.
You're welcome to your opinion, but your post is riddled with factual errors. As it was such a long post I'll just list the errors you made.
We have osX which is... removing functionality in leaps and bounds... butchering the cups project?
That is not reducing functionality for OSX. They only removed old obsolete stuff which is no longer in use by OSX. Michael Sweet who wrote CUPS in the first place works for Apple and was responsible for the change, so it certainly wasn't butchering.
map navigation which is rivaled by a 7 year old in-car Garmin
Apple doesn't have any map navigation built in. they have a map, with a facility to mark your current location. That's not navigation. Like most app categories Apple have left navigation for third party apps. And as a result there is a good choice of excellent navigation apps available. With either streaming or offline maps. From free to premium. Including, since you mention it, up to date Garmin navigation.
Just because Android have have implemented a poor streaming navigation app into the default build, doesn't mean that's what Apple should do.
killing downloads if you switch to something else
iOS does not kill downloads if you switch to something else. Continuing downloads in the background is supported by iOS multitasking APIs.
iTunes is now a fractured by platform as well, with tablets not being able to re-download games and apps someone has already paid for on their phones. The hell?
The hell indeed, this is more nonsense. When I bought an iPad, pre iCloud days, when I did my first iTunes sync, it loaded all my iPhone apps onto my iPad. You can also do it with iCloud.
?"We have jiggapixel retina displays!" Yes; yes you do - you also pay for that with horrendous battery life, despite the meager 3.5" display on the phones.
Again, not true. The retina displays were introduced with the iPhone 4. Compared with the previous 3GS model, for every measure of battery life, the iPhone 4 was either the same or greater battery life.
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Other than a bit more fame, what does dr web gain from this, it's not like they are extorting apple.
Publicity for their OSX antivirus product.
Yeah, just let the trojan spread unacknowledged. Ignore it and it will eventually go away, right?
Unacknowledged? What's this, Scotch mist?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5244?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
If I set up a security company in Bhutan, I'll instantly be one of the leading security companies (in Bhutan).
I've been in the industry for 30 years, too many of those involving PCs, and I'd never heard of Dr. Web until this story. Norton, Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, Microsft etc. But not Dr. Web.
Clearly Apple have not ignored the problem. The fixed version of Java was pushed out a week ago, and there's an advisory saying there's an update that cleans infections coming soon. Dr. Web may not have been the first to report it to Apple.
That's exactly what I did. I did nothing. And a week ago OSX Software Update installed an updated version of Java that is not susceptible to this malware.
Soon there will be another automatic software update that will clean the malware from any Mac that did get infected.
Apple's approach to malware is that they deal with them in the OS itself. They don't leave it to third parties as Microsoft used to do. And they don't package their anti-virus into a user facing AV application as Microsoft do now.
So yes. Do nothing.
Macs ARE PCs; PC stands for "personal computer".
No it stands for Personal Computer as in IBM Personal Computer. And PC has been retained for the evolutionary line descended from them.
Fact is some people include Macs when they say PC, others don't, still others vary, depending on context.
In the statement "Macs don't get PC viruses", clearly the PC intended is a set not including Macs. And there is nothing incorrect about that usage.
Anyone who wants to be clear should call them, Windows PCs. And then ignore the protests from the Linux crowd.
What rounding? The square root of 4 is 2. There's no fractional part. Subtract to and the answer is 0. Again, no fractional part.
I haven't tried it in C, but if a particular implementation also returns something other than zero, then it is also defective.
OSX's calculator gets it right even in scientific calculator mode. There's no excuses for getting it wrong as Windows does.
How does Linux fare?
Technically, it does. PC stands for Personal Computer, not Windows machine.
Note that you used capitals for Personal Computer. That's because they are proper nouns. IBM Personal Computer, not the generic adjective/noun personal computer. And PC has followed the evolutionary line from clones through all the subsequent machines that have been created to run Microsoft's operating systems.
Some people include Macs when they say PC. Most people don't.
Really? Are we still doing this dumb claim?
Is a peanut a nut? No.
Is a tomato a fruit? Yes.
If you ask for nuts, peanuts will be one of the things expects.
If you ask for fruit, you're probably not after a tomato.
PC stands for Personal Computer not personal computer. As in IBM PC stands for IBM Personal Computer, not IBM personal computer. Proper noun versus adjective/noun.
When people say PC, they don't mean Mac. Unless they are dumb slashdotters who think misinformed pedantry is clever.
Troll.
Apple (both OSX and iOS) use amongst developers is growing not shrinking.
Troll.
For iOS users get a new major version each year, and 2 or 3 point revisions in between. Typically Android phones get no updates.
Likewise OSX gets plenty of updates delivered via Software Update.
How could it be a copy? It's got a bigger display, thinner, with a different body design which is thinner by a bit.
There must be multiple revisions of the Zenbook then because the comparative test that I looked at had them within a couple of milli-meters in every dimension, with the Zen Book being the one that was slightly bigger. And the shape pretty much identical, without about the only difference being which side the ports are on, the lack of Magsafe and Thunderbolt, and the colour of the keyboard keys.
I tell you what, provide a link to the exact model you're referring to.
I understand there's one everybody in the US uses, and another not used.
Now you're beginning to get a clue.
OK, there are 2 ways of pronouncing the word tomato.
To-may-to (US)
To-mar-to (The rest of the English speaking world)
They wrote a song about it.
Now, how ignorant would it be for someone who says "To-mar-to" to call someone who says "to-may-to" stupid, because they mis-pronouced the word?
Thats's how ignorant you are being.
It seems that you live in a small world where you only speak to people who talk like you do. Get a passport, see the world. Al Gore has. And clearly he's spoken to technologists from around the world, and has picked up the more common of the 2 correct pronunciations of router.
Those surveys tend to be done by liberals as an attack on Fox.
Ah, I see you are using the Fox News definition of a liberal: Anyone who criticises Fox News.
They were also about specific subjects dear to the hearts of the liberals who ordered or took them.
What, like where Iraq is? Fox News voters are the mostly likely group to not know. And yet it's a topic close to their hearts. Call me old fashioned but if you are pro-war in a foreign country, you ought to know where that country is.
Get this through your thick skull. You can't threaten people not to moderate you on the basis that otherwise you'll post yet more trollish posts about Apple. You're impotent. You have no power.
Yes, Daniel Phillips is the biggest fucking moron on Slashdot. He thinks that somehow talking obvious untruths about Apple somehow serves the best interests of Linux. Instead it just reflects badly on the moron himself.
I read your first source. If you read all the way it ends up disproving your claim.
Here is the guy who designed the first router
What the fuck is it you don't understand about there being 2 acceptable pronunciations of router?
Again, by resisting the fact because it's contrary to your original post, you're showing yourself every bit as dishonest as the news media you criticise.
You accuse Fox News of the latter, but you don't want to admit your own news does it just as much if not more
I don't own or have allegiance with any news media. Especially US media. But the fact is that Fox news is barely real news at all. In a number of studies Fox News viewers have been shown to be the most misinformed group on indisputable matters of current affairs fact in the US.
Not in one advertisement, not by one Cisco or NetGear rep among the parade that goes through here every year, not by one network engineer. Gore was obviously given some talking points by his handlers and flubbed one of the words.
I'm afraid you're just persisting in your small-world ignorance. Have you ever heard of Time Berners-Lee? Given that he invented the World Wide Web, I think he qualifies as someone who knows what he's talking about. He pronounces it "root-ers" not "rowt-ers".
Maybe you need to see it confirmed elsewhere?
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2389/what-is-the-correct-way-to-pronounce-router
http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic39874.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbGAOroACGc
Given that I have corrected you already on this and you're continuing to deny it, you're now firmly in the camp of liar. Even more so than the journalists who aren't familiar with firearm taxonomy. At least they can claim ignorance, you've now lost that defense.
You seem to have confused "source code" with "a description". And a massively out of date one at that.
For sure Google has their reasons for not releasing the source code for most of their projects. As does Apple.
The truth is that both companies keep most of their code closed, and open some of their code. And they do so according to which provides most benefit to the company. And sometimes there will also be benefits to the public in either case, but that's incidental.
But I don't think they would have been first had they waited much longer. I don't think they would have been first had another company let geeks and nerds make product decisions.
Nokia did exactly that, with the result that they had "Maemo" based on Linux on their tablet. And it was a flop.
iPad was a success because it was designed by designers, not gooks and nerds.
nokia 770 existed. it's friggin subtitle name is internet tablet. pepperpad existed, it's name includes "pad". htc advantage existed.
All failures. One of Apple's major approaches to innovation is to take a market that has been poorly served by bad products, and create a product that people actually want.
The Zenbook is a copy of the Macbook Air. Close but not quite as good as the Macbook Air, is the conclusion of most comparative reviews of the hardware. Cheaper though.
Of course the decision of which to buy will come down to whether you want OSX or Windows.
Expanded the market, perhaps. There were tablets on the market long before the iPad was under development. They just kinda sucked, so there wasn't much demand.
Well duh! Taking existing but poorly served markets and making a product that people actually want is exactly the type of innovation that Apple excels at.
Virtually everyone that says that Apple isn't a good innovator don't understand the difference between innovation and invention. They think it's the same thing.
We're both "wasting our time" writing stuff for free here. I guess we do it because we find it rewarding in some other way. There's no reason another person won't find such rewards writing reviews, be it on Amazon or anywhere else.
As to being paid to write nice things, I always check out the reviews on Amazon before I buy something, whether a book or some other product. With the exception of political stuff, which is heavily trolled, the reviews are very useful. It's not just saying nice things. If theres a bad side to a product, some reviewer will have pointed it out. Taking the reviews as a whole you can generally tell the good products from the bad.
This is not true of many other e-commerce sites though, which lack the quantity of reviewers that Amazon has, and so will be more stacked up with shill reviews. And on many cases they delete the bad reviews too. Just because you work for one of the e-commerce sites with worthless reviews doesn't mean Amazons reviews are also worthless.
I expect this to go away. This sort of perfection was the result of a giant cock up top who could say, "X is not acceptable, fix it, no alternative." Your average exec is an mba, who all about cost vs reward. Not the engineering mindset of X or nothing.
The only exec change was from Steve Jobs to Time Cook as CEO. And whilst Tim Cook does have an MBA, his first degree is in industrial engineering.
Of course you're right that Jobs loss is great and a primary reason for that was his refusal to accept anything that wasn't right. But Johnny Ives has the same attribute, although in a less aggressive way. And when it comes to design, there is no one at Apple to overrule him.
So I'm not worried about the quality of hardware design or hardware innovation getting worse. Software is slightly more of a concern though.
You're welcome to your opinion, but your post is riddled with factual errors. As it was such a long post I'll just list the errors you made.
We have osX which is... removing functionality in leaps and bounds... butchering the cups project?
That is not reducing functionality for OSX. They only removed old obsolete stuff which is no longer in use by OSX. Michael Sweet who wrote CUPS in the first place works for Apple and was responsible for the change, so it certainly wasn't butchering.
map navigation which is rivaled by a 7 year old in-car Garmin
Apple doesn't have any map navigation built in. they have a map, with a facility to mark your current location. That's not navigation. Like most app categories Apple have left navigation for third party apps. And as a result there is a good choice of excellent navigation apps available. With either streaming or offline maps. From free to premium. Including, since you mention it, up to date Garmin navigation.
Just because Android have have implemented a poor streaming navigation app into the default build, doesn't mean that's what Apple should do.
killing downloads if you switch to something else
iOS does not kill downloads if you switch to something else. Continuing downloads in the background is supported by iOS multitasking APIs.
iTunes is now a fractured by platform as well, with tablets not being able to re-download games and apps someone has already paid for on their phones. The hell?
The hell indeed, this is more nonsense. When I bought an iPad, pre iCloud days, when I did my first iTunes sync, it loaded all my iPhone apps onto my iPad. You can also do it with iCloud.
?"We have jiggapixel retina displays!" Yes; yes you do - you also pay for that with horrendous battery life, despite the meager 3.5" display on the phones.
Again, not true. The retina displays were introduced with the iPhone 4. Compared with the previous 3GS model, for every measure of battery life, the iPhone 4 was either the same or greater battery life.