...with The Rolling Stones charging Billy G so many millions to use "Start Me Up."
And who would of though that the lyrics to that song were so strangley prophetic...
"You make a grown man cry"
Certainly done that because of Windows. Though not the last line...
"You, you make a dead man cum"
Yes it was only an opinion piece but unfortunately opinion pieces have far more influence than they deserve. Opinion columns are often the most read articles in a magazine and they can heavily influence the opinion of others. The average reader of the article would conclude that OS X = bad security.
Any formal discussion of this particular OS X security lapse involves talk about subnets, networking protocols, etc etc. Now I know what they are but to be honest I find the ins and outs of networking to be rather boring. I suspect many PC magazines readers do as well. So rather than an article that many people won't read, especially as it applies to only a few percent of the audience using OS X anyway, we get an opinion piece.
Now this OK, the magazine does need to sell. However in this case the opinion piece was a particularly bad example of one. A few minutes web searching shows that the article was full of misconceptions and half truths. It sort of implied that this was a major breach that applied to all OS X users. In reality it only applies to a few people with hostile servers on their own subnet. In which case they have far bigger things to be worrying about! It seems then that the author was deliberately attempting to misinform.
While every one is entitled to an opinion such poor examples of journalism really do deserve a rebuttal.
Word processing programs are still far to stuck on the typewriter way of doing things. They will never improve until they ditch that metaphor. Page layout programs have a much better approach. If you want to put that text box 10.123mm from the top of the page that is just fine in a page layout program. If you want to overlap you text boxes fine as well.
Many Word users seem to be spending far too much time wrestling with the word way of doing things rather than getting on a producing the document.
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...with The Rolling Stones charging Billy G so many millions to use "Start Me Up."
And who would of though that the lyrics to that song were so strangley prophetic...
"You make a grown man cry"
Certainly done that because of Windows. Though not the last line...
"You, you make a dead man cum"
One is a huge epic with a billion setpieces, thousands of extras, and a weaving storyline
Thats hundreds of extras. Most of the '"extras" are digitally generated.
Yes it was only an opinion piece but unfortunately opinion pieces have far more influence than they deserve. Opinion columns are often the most read articles in a magazine and they can heavily influence the opinion of others. The average reader of the article would conclude that OS X = bad security.
Any formal discussion of this particular OS X security lapse involves talk about subnets, networking protocols, etc etc. Now I know what they are but to be honest I find the ins and outs of networking to be rather boring. I suspect many PC magazines readers do as well. So rather than an article that many people won't read, especially as it applies to only a few percent of the audience using OS X anyway, we get an opinion piece.
Now this OK, the magazine does need to sell. However in this case the opinion piece was a particularly bad example of one. A few minutes web searching shows that the article was full of misconceptions and half truths. It sort of implied that this was a major breach that applied to all OS X users. In reality it only applies to a few people with hostile servers on their own subnet. In which case they have far bigger things to be worrying about! It seems then that the author was deliberately attempting to misinform.
While every one is entitled to an opinion such poor examples of journalism really do deserve a rebuttal.
Err.. How about: This Try doing that with html and in under 32 K
Word processing programs are still far to stuck on the typewriter way of doing things. They will never improve until they ditch that metaphor. Page layout programs have a much better approach. If you want to put that text box 10.123mm from the top of the page that is just fine in a page layout program. If you want to overlap you text boxes fine as well. Many Word users seem to be spending far too much time wrestling with the word way of doing things rather than getting on a producing the document.