.....Apple aggressively attacks anyone who hacks the OS to run on whitebox hardware........
Actually, they are not all that aggressive about some talented hackers getting OSX to run on whatever box they happen to own. I suspect though that any attempt of hackers to commercialize their hacks for the masses would activate Apple's lawyers.
The biggest reason why OSX will not install or run on ordinary PC hardware is the booting system. PC still use the ancient BIOS booting. Macs use the modern EFI system. To make OSX install and boot on other hardware, hackers have to supply extra software.
Mostly number 3 by having Macs use the new modern EFI booting I/O system rather than the ancient, 20+ year old BIOS that all Windows systems are still stuck with. The Installer also looks for specific Apple hardware, before it will do its thing.
.......what Apple wants and what Apple's customers want........
Apple customers want to support Apple by buying their hardware. Only hackers and thieves want to use the fruits of Apple's research and development for little or nothing. Of course Apple need not worry too much because the alien hardware will never work well unless the hackers also write the thousands of drivers for all that diverse hardware in all those non-Apple computers.
.....if you have tons of content like some users, and then the CPU usage drops down to nothing........
It took days for me to become suspicious about VISTA, mainly because the battery power disappeared significantly faster when VISTA was running all by itself, than any other program. As far as the Mac is concerned, VISTA as well as the other flavors of Windows, is just another application. It was this very dramatic decrease in battery run time, as well as a noticeably warmer computer, that prompted the checkup with Activity Monitor. All that was in VISTA was the OS by itself, with NONE of my data nor programs yet installed, to be indexed.
(......Vista vs OSX with Adobe CS3 applications........)
Adobe began as a Mac only developer. When Apple was at death's door, and Adobe switched to Windows, they optimized their programs for Intel and Windows. If these Adobe programs are slower on OSX than on Windows, that would be why, not that either OS is faster or slower.
In the case of VISTA being slow, as I reported, it is still all Windows being compared to Windows, all running on the exact same hardware. It may be that VISTA gives up doing whatever busy work it is doing during idle time, when asked to do real work, thus not impacting whatever the user wants to do. I have not tested this theory.
Win2K with SP4 was and still is the best OS MS ever made. With XP, users got activation and the colorful toy like UI and nothing much more. With VISTA, users get more fragile activation, DRM, admittedly nice transparent eye candy and many more "cancel or allow" screen pop-ups. Since most Windows installations come with he hardware, I really can't see how the activation hassle is so advantageous to MS. It is really not worth the annoyance it causes to honest customer. I had to re-activate VISTA after installing a second virtual hard drive in the VISTA machine.
Not only is VISTA slower than either XP or Win2K, but it brings nothing of real value to any computer, that Mac OSX10.4 did not already have. Maybe, hopefully, by the time VISTA SP4 comes out MS will have caught up to present day Macs.
Exactly! It is well known that as people get older, they tend to mellow, lose energy, whatever reasons and don't commit as much crime. Could it be that the US now has an older population and therefore has less crime? This is also true of most of Europe. Did they stop the sale of leaded gas sooner or later that the USA? Do they also have a drop in crime? Their population is also older now on average. Maybe lead has nothing to do with it, but simply age.
......declaring the truth that they are a pro-environmental publicity company.......
And a largely irrelevant publicity seeker who should be ignored by everybody, especially the community here on/. They and their ilk would like nothing better than to empty this planet of people and turn it over to (insert just about anything OTHER than a human being). Why can we not wisely use ALL the resources on Earth rather than abstaining from using any of them at all?
.......And as for Vista having 'poor performance........
After getting Parallels Virtual for my Macbook, I decided to experiment with Win2K, XP and VISTA on three VMs. VISTA is decidedly slower, even with 1.5GB of the 2Gb RAM of the Mac allocated to it. Also, the activity monitor show VISTA to create about 30-35% CPU use, with no other programs running on VISTA or OSX. On XP and Win2k, the corresponding number is 9-12%. XP is quite happy with 768Mb and Win2K at 512Mb of RAM. Also, the boot time of a non-saved VISTA VM is almost 3 times as long for XP and 5 times as long for Win2K.
The "myth" of VISTA being a resource hog is no myth. With OSX, there is decent performance even on older hardware. VISTA is S-L-O-W on anything older and with limited RAM. There are more malwares out there live on the Internet for VISTA already than have been produced for all Macs of all time. I am a Mac user, but also use Windows. I was really sincerely hoping that VISTA would finally give Windows users a great OS. I am so sad and disappointed. Also it is not good for Apple to get too much of a swelled head over their so much better OS.
...as well as most mainstream games won't play on their system......
BS, Any modern Windows game will run on a modern Mac just fine under Boot Camp or in many cases, Parallels Virtual Desktop. Also, the best, or at least the most popular games on Windows are often ported (eventually anyway) to OSX. Under Parallels, the OS disappears and only the Windows application themselves show up on the OSX desktop, like every other OSX native program. To the user, the OS becomes irrelevant. All that matters in the end that the computer does what the owner bought it for in the first place.
It's hard to beat the price-performance of a console for games. Also, unlike the/. crowd, many of the mom and pop consumers are not interested in resource hungry 3D shoot-em ups, but prefer board, card and puzzle games. Many of these are free or available as shareware for cheap, running on OSX. These freebies aren't infested with trojans and spyware, as their Windows counterparts often are. Most programs available for both Windows and Mac OSX are pretty much equal.
.....Leopard "Just Works" while everyone else complains that SP1 doesn't fix all their problems.......
Tiger is right now about where VISTA will be after VISTA SP2 comes out. What does VISTA have that Tiger has not had since it came out? Search? Security?, Transparency? DRM? Oh yea, the joy of DRM! Activation and Genuine advantage?, Oh wait, only Windows has these "call the mother-ship" features that presume every customer to be a criminal.
I have VISTA installed on a Macbook, along with XP and Win2k. VISTA is by far the slowest, most resource hungry piece of software that MS has ever released. I hope that Leopard works as advertised and Apple advertises it well. It has the potential to really clean MS clock.
Tiger is an upgrade from VISTA as well. What does VISTA have, really useful to most users, that Tiger doesn't have? Search? Transparency effects? Security? Useful programs available? Maybe VISTA still has more games?
For any consumer of content, VISTA and Tiger are about equivalent, except VISTA is DRM infested. For content creators, even non-professional creators, Macs are still light years ahead, like they have always been.
....some companies might consider blocking all text in email as a matter of course........
We can all go back to hand written letters and slide rules--- well maybe adding machines are OK. Who needs all this new fangled computer stuff. The plain old phones work well for those who can't wait for the mailman. We get lots of paper junk mail also, but at least we get a little heat from that when it is consumed in our wood stove.
......but I don't place much faith in rating an OS by its recency,or lack thereof.......
That is certainly a valid stance. Why does Windows STILL use this lame thing called a Registry, other than for allowing dinosaur software that needs it to run? Malware writers have become very adept at using this as a powerful method to enable the malware to dig itself deeply into the innards of the OS and make it next to impossible to remove, without endangering the whole OS and hosing the system. Malware has to 1) be in the system and 2) ensure that it runs, 3) number 1 and 2 must survive straightforward user deletion attempts. The registry, more than anything else about Windows helps malware to survive. As long as MS insists on keeping that abortion in the name of backward compatibility, malware authors will always have a powerful insider to help their cause.
On the Mac, a quick search for recently installed startup items in two folders will give even a semi-knowledgeable user an idea if some recent download put something there. A quick deletion of these startup items will keep the malware from ever starting again.
......I have become so sick of being treated like a pirate by Microsoft when installing LEGALLY PURCHASED SOFTWARE......
I have given up on my regular PCs entirely, but I still have some Windows programs I like to use. So, to get around MS onerous anti-piracy measures, I installed my legally purchased, duly activated, Billy G. blessed Windows OS in a virtual machine with Parallels on my new Macbook. It works great. Since I have a backup copy of the clean, activated, updated HDD file, I was able to recover from some problems easily by just copying the backup HDD file onto the Mac. The MS anti-piracy system doesn't get triggered, since it has no way of determining any changes. If I wanted to, I could copy the backup to any number of Macs, but that would be dishonest. I have also turned off Internet access to the VM, since it is not needed for what I want to still do with Windows. That means no malware can get in and no regular updates or anti-malware software is needed.
.....Do you honestly believe that there are no major holes in OS X, or for that matter, Linux?.......
There is of course no flawless OS or flawless of anything people make. However, Windows has more holes that a pound of Swiss cheese, some big enough for a semi-truck to drive through. In the end it doesn't really matter WHY my house doesn't get broken into. All that matters is my Mac is not being broken into either and I don't have to buy and subscribe to expensive, performance robbing anti-malware programs.
A lot of burglary tools exist for Windows houses and they are also easier to break into than Macs or Linux. Macs are Linux are based on UNIX, which was designed and built from the ground up as a more secure multi-user system. Windows was born as a single user OS, just like the old Mac OS9 and those before. MS cobbled onto that single user foundation, multi-user and other security protections. That's why it is still possible to run some ancient DOS programs on modern Windows systems. Apple decided to make a clean break with the Dinosaur age of computers. PCs still even use the prehistoric BIOS, rather than Intel's modern EFI replacement, which like USB, Apple adopted. Apple is not the only company with good ideas, but they tend to make them available to the rest of us, before the big herd of PC makers does.
Maybe, when Macs and Linux get to be about 50% or more, hackers will work very hard to break into these. However, if crooks REALLY wanted to work hard, like most of us honest people, they would get well paying jobs in the first place. Since it is a lot of work to break in and the stuff in these systems isn't inherently more valuable than what can be stolen out of Windows boxes, there will still be way more Windows break-ins proportionately.
.....Microsoft releases big fixes on a monthly basis......
That's because they have to. Does even as much as a month go by, that some security vendor doesn't discover a major hole in some part of a Windows PC or Application? Although we don't hear of huge numbers of hosed MS computers any more, there is still plenty of malware for Windows, whereas there is essentially none for the Mac OS. Maybe, just maybe, Apple can spend more time making real improvements rather than just putting out fires?
They won't know, but your conscience (if you still have it) knows you are dishonest. It is because of people like you that MS is forced to make life difficult for all the honest folk of this world, It if were not for guys like you, Windows computers would not have to call the mother ship every ten CPU cycles to check whether the software is not a ripped off copy. I hope Apple doesn't get forced to resort to crap like that because of the likes of you.
But on OSX10.4 you can MAKE HD movies, such as you get on Blu-ray. All you add is one of the new HD camcorders to take the original footage. Then you get can edit and produce your great creative work in DRM free HD video. It all comes for free with your Mac. As soon as HD burner prices come within reason, burning HD disks, of whichever format finally wins, will be part of the iDVD program that comes with every Mac.
If all you want to do is PLAY commercial HD movies, just get a new player. It doesn't cost much more than just the VISTA software alone.
OSX can run Windows under Parallels along with all Windows programs, including VISTA and Office 2007. In something they call "coherence" mode, the Windows desktop disappears and all you see is the Windows program running in your OSX. Windows and all its apps is just like any other program running in OSX.
Some Mac vendors sell Parallels for $10 when you buy a new Mac. I bought an OEM copy of Windows VISTA Home Premium which had no problem installing on my Macbook.
......Now MACs are very powerful, very stylish and very elegant, but they cost about TWICE as much as a standard PC........
First you have to define a "standard" PC. If it is a laptop, then a Macbook is certainly no more expensive than an equivalent unit from a top manufacturer. Today, the Mac is as close as it is possible to get to a universal computer, one that will run any software presently available. Beside the OSX it comes with, it is possible to run any flavor of Windows or Linux and the programs that are associated with each OS. I have 3 versions of Windows and Linux on my Macbook, as well as the OSX 10.4 it came with. Of them all, VISTA is by far the slowest and most resource hungry, especially power from the battery.
The biggest advantage of Macs is that they are built and tested as a complete computer SYSTEM, hardware and software. That approach will ALWAYS have considerable advantage over the piecemeal way of doing things by the rest of the computer industry. What OTHER, especially technological consumer item, besides computers, comes in bits and pieces, for the user to figure out and get it all to work? When customer buys a car, he wants one with an engine, transmission and running gear, all matched, engineered and tested for performance, economy and safety.
Apple is the only computer company is a position to develop software and hardware together and sell the whole, complete computer at a good profit. Maybe MS should start building computers with a special version of Windows thereon that "just works". They could still make a separate version of Windows to sell, as they do now.
........creates in the foreknowledge that we're going to fail against his standards and then judges us as having failed and punishes us?........
He knew all along that we would fail to measure up to His standard of perfection. Yet to be just, the results for such failure had to be exacted. God is not a liar, like we. He said in the beginning; "The day you eat thereof you die." He could not violate his own word. It was truly a divine dilemma, be just yet also merciful. He knew that the debt was too much for anyone to pay, so He paid it Himself.
He who exists in eternity, entered time, became a man, who DID measure up to God's standard of perfection. His human name is Jesus. He took the penalty that you and I deserve. This way God could be just, yet not overlook sin, kind of sweep it under the cosmic carpet, but actually get rid of it forever.
If you got yourself impossibly deeply into debt, would you accept and be grateful if someone with means graciously offered to pay this debt? Your requirements are simply to accept, be thankful and endeavor to have a strong desire to remain out of debt in the future.
It is a very humbling thing to admit total failure and ask for help. There is something in our human nature that makes this one of the hardest things to do, especially toward God. God tells us He resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. It is not mean of God to tell us to put away our pride and humbly come to Him, so that He may forgive us, not on the basis of merit, but on mercy extended by grace.
.....person who wasn't wearing a helmet doesn't deserve medical treatment because it would raise your hospital bills......
Of course such a person should have the best treatment available regardless of cost. However, as a payer of the bill (taxpayer) I have a right to demand that people should be forced to minimize the possible cost in case there is an accident. A helmet, in the motorcycle case and seat-belts in cars have been shown to reduce death and injury and hence cost.
.....I guess all those millions they killed were bad people......
Probably our humans standards we would consider many of them, if not most of them innocent. St. Paul himself was executed by the Roman Government. However he and other writers of the Bible tell us that it isn't our human standards that apply, but God's justice standard of absolute perfection and holiness.
By that standard we come up short -- missing the mark. That's what the translated word "sin" means in Greek. One of its uses back in Paul's day was in archery, where the arrow completely missed the target, not just a little off.
As Creator, God has the right to govern His creation. He has the right to make physical and moral laws by which it operates and by which He may justly judge violators. He has the right to say that anyone who tells one lie, murders, covets, commits adultery, etc. is committing cosmic treason against His lawful government of the universe and decree the penalty of physical death now and eternal death finally, for such treason. We have this right over the things we make. A writer has every right to toss his manuscript into the fire.
The reason that you and I and billions of us are still allowed to breathe His air and walk upon His planet, is because of His GRACE. We are so used to this grace and mercy, that we have begun to feel we are deserving of them and have a right to live here.
You and I along with every other human that ever breathed, will one day appear before God for judgment. At that time, only justice will be available. Right now though, we may ask for mercy and forgiveness in the name of Jesus and it will be granted, now and forever. I have chosen mercy, how about you?
......As for why so many of us don't want a police state... here's a quote from Ayn Rand:.......
Here is a quote from St Paul why the those who do good don't have to fear a police state. The Roman Government in power at the time Paul wrote this was not democratic or without corruption by any stretch of the imagination. Romans 13:1-10:
"Every person must be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except by God's permission. The existing authorities have been established by God, so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For the authorities are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to live without being afraid of the authorities? Then do what is right, and you will receive their approval. For they are God's servants working for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for it is not without reason that they bear the sword. Indeed, they are God's servants to execute wrath on anyone who does wrong. Therefore, it is necessary for you to be subject, not only because of God's wrath but also because of your own conscience. This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work. Pay everyone whatever you owe them--taxes to whom taxes are due, tolls to whom tolls are due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due. Do not owe anyone anything--except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not covet," and every other commandment are summed up in this statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself." Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law."
It doesn't have to be sudden. In a computer controlled engine they can mess with mixture, timing etc. in such a way that the engine produces gradually less and less power over any number of minutes and finally stops. This would give a driver plenty of time to find a safe stopping place, such as the next freeway exit.
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.....Apple aggressively attacks anyone who hacks the OS to run on whitebox hardware........
Actually, they are not all that aggressive about some talented hackers getting OSX to run on whatever box they happen to own. I suspect though that any attempt of hackers to commercialize their hacks for the masses would activate Apple's lawyers.
The biggest reason why OSX will not install or run on ordinary PC hardware is the booting system. PC still use the ancient BIOS booting. Macs use the modern EFI system. To make OSX install and boot on other hardware, hackers have to supply extra software.
........Is Apple doing #2, or #3?.......
Mostly number 3 by having Macs use the new modern EFI booting I/O system rather than the ancient, 20+ year old BIOS that all Windows systems are still stuck with. The Installer also looks for specific Apple hardware, before it will do its thing.
.......what Apple wants and what Apple's customers want........
Apple customers want to support Apple by buying their hardware. Only hackers and thieves want to use the fruits of Apple's research and development for little or nothing. Of course Apple need not worry too much because the alien hardware will never work well unless the hackers also write the thousands of drivers for all that diverse hardware in all those non-Apple computers.
.....if you have tons of content like some users, and then the CPU usage drops down to nothing........
It took days for me to become suspicious about VISTA, mainly because the battery power disappeared significantly faster when VISTA was running all by itself, than any other program. As far as the Mac is concerned, VISTA as well as the other flavors of Windows, is just another application. It was this very dramatic decrease in battery run time, as well as a noticeably warmer computer, that prompted the checkup with Activity Monitor. All that was in VISTA was the OS by itself, with NONE of my data nor programs yet installed, to be indexed.
(......Vista vs OSX with Adobe CS3 applications........)
Adobe began as a Mac only developer. When Apple was at death's door, and Adobe switched to Windows, they optimized their programs for Intel and Windows. If these Adobe programs are slower on OSX than on Windows, that would be why, not that either OS is faster or slower.
In the case of VISTA being slow, as I reported, it is still all Windows being compared to Windows, all running on the exact same hardware. It may be that VISTA gives up doing whatever busy work it is doing during idle time, when asked to do real work, thus not impacting whatever the user wants to do. I have not tested this theory.
Win2K with SP4 was and still is the best OS MS ever made. With XP, users got activation and the colorful toy like UI and nothing much more. With VISTA, users get more fragile activation, DRM, admittedly nice transparent eye candy and many more "cancel or allow" screen pop-ups. Since most Windows installations come with he hardware, I really can't see how the activation hassle is so advantageous to MS. It is really not worth the annoyance it causes to honest customer. I had to re-activate VISTA after installing a second virtual hard drive in the VISTA machine.
Not only is VISTA slower than either XP or Win2K, but it brings nothing of real value to any computer, that Mac OSX10.4 did not already have. Maybe, hopefully, by the time VISTA SP4 comes out MS will have caught up to present day Macs.
.....Correlation does not prove causality........
Exactly! It is well known that as people get older, they tend to mellow, lose energy, whatever reasons and don't commit as much crime. Could it be that the US now has an older population and therefore has less crime? This is also true of most of Europe. Did they stop the sale of leaded gas sooner or later that the USA? Do they also have a drop in crime? Their population is also older now on average. Maybe lead has nothing to do with it, but simply age.
.....but we're talking about Greenpeace......
having nothing in common with either anything green, other than the color of money, nor peace
......declaring the truth that they are a pro-environmental publicity company.......
/. They and their ilk would like nothing better than to empty this planet of people and turn it over to (insert just about anything OTHER than a human being). Why can we not wisely use ALL the resources on Earth rather than abstaining from using any of them at all?
And a largely irrelevant publicity seeker who should be ignored by everybody, especially the community here on
.......And as for Vista having 'poor performance........
After getting Parallels Virtual for my Macbook, I decided to experiment with Win2K, XP and VISTA on three VMs. VISTA is decidedly slower, even with 1.5GB of the 2Gb RAM of the Mac allocated to it. Also, the activity monitor show VISTA to create about 30-35% CPU use, with no other programs running on VISTA or OSX. On XP and Win2k, the corresponding number is 9-12%. XP is quite happy with 768Mb and Win2K at 512Mb of RAM. Also, the boot time of a non-saved VISTA VM is almost 3 times as long for XP and 5 times as long for Win2K.
The "myth" of VISTA being a resource hog is no myth. With OSX, there is decent performance even on older hardware. VISTA is S-L-O-W on anything older and with limited RAM. There are more malwares out there live on the Internet for VISTA already than have been produced for all Macs of all time. I am a Mac user, but also use Windows. I was really sincerely hoping that VISTA would finally give Windows users a great OS. I am so sad and disappointed. Also it is not good for Apple to get too much of a swelled head over their so much better OS.
...as well as most mainstream games won't play on their system. .....
/. crowd, many of the mom and pop consumers are not interested in resource hungry 3D shoot-em ups, but prefer board, card and puzzle games. Many of these are free or available as shareware for cheap, running on OSX. These freebies aren't infested with trojans and spyware, as their Windows counterparts often are. Most programs available for both Windows and Mac OSX are pretty much equal.
BS, Any modern Windows game will run on a modern Mac just fine under Boot Camp or in many cases, Parallels Virtual Desktop. Also, the best, or at least the most popular games on Windows are often ported (eventually anyway) to OSX. Under Parallels, the OS disappears and only the Windows application themselves show up on the OSX desktop, like every other OSX native program. To the user, the OS becomes irrelevant. All that matters in the end that the computer does what the owner bought it for in the first place.
It's hard to beat the price-performance of a console for games. Also, unlike the
.....Leopard "Just Works" while everyone else complains that SP1 doesn't fix all their problems.......
Tiger is right now about where VISTA will be after VISTA SP2 comes out. What does VISTA have that Tiger has not had since it came out? Search? Security?, Transparency? DRM? Oh yea, the joy of DRM! Activation and Genuine advantage?, Oh wait, only Windows has these "call the mother-ship" features that presume every customer to be a criminal.
I have VISTA installed on a Macbook, along with XP and Win2k. VISTA is by far the slowest, most resource hungry piece of software that MS has ever released. I hope that Leopard works as advertised and Apple advertises it well. It has the potential to really clean MS clock.
..... Tiger is still a big upgrade from XP.......
Tiger is an upgrade from VISTA as well. What does VISTA have, really useful to most users, that Tiger doesn't have? Search? Transparency effects? Security? Useful programs available? Maybe VISTA still has more games?
For any consumer of content, VISTA and Tiger are about equivalent, except VISTA is DRM infested. For content creators, even non-professional creators, Macs are still light years ahead, like they have always been.
....Now, if there was a [I agree] button that you click on......
My computer has a virus that detects and automatically clicks on a "agree" buttons
....some companies might consider blocking all text in email as a matter of course........
We can all go back to hand written letters and slide rules--- well maybe adding machines are OK. Who needs all this new fangled computer stuff. The plain old phones work well for those who can't wait for the mailman. We get lots of paper junk mail also, but at least we get a little heat from that when it is consumed in our wood stove.
......but I don't place much faith in rating an OS by its recency,or lack thereof.......
That is certainly a valid stance. Why does Windows STILL use this lame thing called a Registry, other than for allowing dinosaur software that needs it to run? Malware writers have become very adept at using this as a powerful method to enable the malware to dig itself deeply into the innards of the OS and make it next to impossible to remove, without endangering the whole OS and hosing the system. Malware has to 1) be in the system and 2) ensure that it runs, 3) number 1 and 2 must survive straightforward user deletion attempts. The registry, more than anything else about Windows helps malware to survive. As long as MS insists on keeping that abortion in the name of backward compatibility, malware authors will always have a powerful insider to help their cause.
On the Mac, a quick search for recently installed startup items in two folders will give even a semi-knowledgeable user an idea if some recent download put something there. A quick deletion of these startup items will keep the malware from ever starting again.
......I have become so sick of being treated like a pirate by Microsoft when installing LEGALLY PURCHASED SOFTWARE......
I have given up on my regular PCs entirely, but I still have some Windows programs I like to use. So, to get around MS onerous anti-piracy measures, I installed my legally purchased, duly activated, Billy G. blessed Windows OS in a virtual machine with Parallels on my new Macbook. It works great. Since I have a backup copy of the clean, activated, updated HDD file, I was able to recover from some problems easily by just copying the backup HDD file onto the Mac. The MS anti-piracy system doesn't get triggered, since it has no way of determining any changes. If I wanted to, I could copy the backup to any number of Macs, but that would be dishonest. I have also turned off Internet access to the VM, since it is not needed for what I want to still do with Windows. That means no malware can get in and no regular updates or anti-malware software is needed.
.....Do you honestly believe that there are no major holes in OS X, or for that matter, Linux?.......
There is of course no flawless OS or flawless of anything people make. However, Windows has more holes that a pound of Swiss cheese, some big enough for a semi-truck to drive through. In the end it doesn't really matter WHY my house doesn't get broken into. All that matters is my Mac is not being broken into either and I don't have to buy and subscribe to expensive, performance robbing anti-malware programs.
A lot of burglary tools exist for Windows houses and they are also easier to break into than Macs or Linux. Macs are Linux are based on UNIX, which was designed and built from the ground up as a more secure multi-user system. Windows was born as a single user OS, just like the old Mac OS9 and those before. MS cobbled onto that single user foundation, multi-user and other security protections. That's why it is still possible to run some ancient DOS programs on modern Windows systems. Apple decided to make a clean break with the Dinosaur age of computers. PCs still even use the prehistoric BIOS, rather than Intel's modern EFI replacement, which like USB, Apple adopted. Apple is not the only company with good ideas, but they tend to make them available to the rest of us, before the big herd of PC makers does.
Maybe, when Macs and Linux get to be about 50% or more, hackers will work very hard to break into these. However, if crooks REALLY wanted to work hard, like most of us honest people, they would get well paying jobs in the first place. Since it is a lot of work to break in and the stuff in these systems isn't inherently more valuable than what can be stolen out of Windows boxes, there will still be way more Windows break-ins proportionately.
.....Microsoft releases big fixes on a monthly basis......
That's because they have to. Does even as much as a month go by, that some security vendor doesn't discover a major hole in some part of a Windows PC or Application? Although we don't hear of huge numbers of hosed MS computers any more, there is still plenty of malware for Windows, whereas there is essentially none for the Mac OS. Maybe, just maybe, Apple can spend more time making real improvements rather than just putting out fires?
.....So how would they know?......
They won't know, but your conscience (if you still have it) knows you are dishonest. It is because of people like you that MS is forced to make life difficult for all the honest folk of this world, It if were not for guys like you, Windows computers would not have to call the mother ship every ten CPU cycles to check whether the software is not a ripped off copy. I hope Apple doesn't get forced to resort to crap like that because of the likes of you.
.....Also, OS X cannot play Blu-ray movies.....
But on OSX10.4 you can MAKE HD movies, such as you get on Blu-ray. All you add is one of the new HD camcorders to take the original footage. Then you get can edit and produce your great creative work in DRM free HD video. It all comes for free with your Mac. As soon as HD burner prices come within reason, burning HD disks, of whichever format finally wins, will be part of the iDVD program that comes with every Mac.
If all you want to do is PLAY commercial HD movies, just get a new player. It doesn't cost much more than just the VISTA software alone.
OSX can run Windows under Parallels along with all Windows programs, including VISTA and Office 2007. In something they call "coherence" mode, the Windows desktop disappears and all you see is the Windows program running in your OSX. Windows and all its apps is just like any other program running in OSX.
Some Mac vendors sell Parallels for $10 when you buy a new Mac. I bought an OEM copy of Windows VISTA Home Premium which had no problem installing on my Macbook.
......Now MACs are very powerful, very stylish and very elegant, but they cost about TWICE as much as a standard PC........
First you have to define a "standard" PC. If it is a laptop, then a Macbook is certainly no more expensive than an equivalent unit from a top manufacturer. Today, the Mac is as close as it is possible to get to a universal computer, one that will run any software presently available. Beside the OSX it comes with, it is possible to run any flavor of Windows or Linux and the programs that are associated with each OS. I have 3 versions of Windows and Linux on my Macbook, as well as the OSX 10.4 it came with. Of them all, VISTA is by far the slowest and most resource hungry, especially power from the battery.
The biggest advantage of Macs is that they are built and tested as a complete computer SYSTEM, hardware and software. That approach will ALWAYS have considerable advantage over the piecemeal way of doing things by the rest of the computer industry. What OTHER, especially technological consumer item, besides computers, comes in bits and pieces, for the user to figure out and get it all to work? When customer buys a car, he wants one with an engine, transmission and running gear, all matched, engineered and tested for performance, economy and safety.
Apple is the only computer company is a position to develop software and hardware together and sell the whole, complete computer at a good profit. Maybe MS should start building computers with a special version of Windows thereon that "just works". They could still make a separate version of Windows to sell, as they do now.
........creates in the foreknowledge that we're going to fail against his standards and then judges us as having failed and punishes us? ........
He knew all along that we would fail to measure up to His standard of perfection. Yet to be just, the results for such failure had to be exacted. God is not a liar, like we. He said in the beginning; "The day you eat thereof you die." He could not violate his own word. It was truly a divine dilemma, be just yet also merciful. He knew that the debt was too much for anyone to pay, so He paid it Himself.
He who exists in eternity, entered time, became a man, who DID measure up to God's standard of perfection. His human name is Jesus. He took the penalty that you and I deserve. This way God could be just, yet not overlook sin, kind of sweep it under the cosmic carpet, but actually get rid of it forever.
If you got yourself impossibly deeply into debt, would you accept and be grateful if someone with means graciously offered to pay this debt? Your requirements are simply to accept, be thankful and endeavor to have a strong desire to remain out of debt in the future.
It is a very humbling thing to admit total failure and ask for help. There is something in our human nature that makes this one of the hardest things to do, especially toward God. God tells us He resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. It is not mean of God to tell us to put away our pride and humbly come to Him, so that He may forgive us, not on the basis of merit, but on mercy extended by grace.
.....person who wasn't wearing a helmet doesn't deserve medical treatment because it would raise your hospital bills......
Of course such a person should have the best treatment available regardless of cost. However, as a payer of the bill (taxpayer) I have a right to demand that people should be forced to minimize the possible cost in case there is an accident. A helmet, in the motorcycle case and seat-belts in cars have been shown to reduce death and injury and hence cost.
.....I guess all those millions they killed were bad people......
Probably our humans standards we would consider many of them, if not most of them innocent. St. Paul himself was executed by the Roman Government. However he and other writers of the Bible tell us that it isn't our human standards that apply, but God's justice standard of absolute perfection and holiness.
By that standard we come up short -- missing the mark. That's what the translated word "sin" means in Greek. One of its uses back in Paul's day was in archery, where the arrow completely missed the target, not just a little off.
As Creator, God has the right to govern His creation. He has the right to make physical and moral laws by which it operates and by which He may justly judge violators. He has the right to say that anyone who tells one lie, murders, covets, commits adultery, etc. is committing cosmic treason against His lawful government of the universe and decree the penalty of physical death now and eternal death finally, for such treason. We have this right over the things we make. A writer has every right to toss his manuscript into the fire.
The reason that you and I and billions of us are still allowed to breathe His air and walk upon His planet, is because of His GRACE. We are so used to this grace and mercy, that we have begun to feel we are deserving of them and have a right to live here.
You and I along with every other human that ever breathed, will one day appear before God for judgment. At that time, only justice will be available. Right now though, we may ask for mercy and forgiveness in the name of Jesus and it will be granted, now and forever. I have chosen mercy, how about you?
......As for why so many of us don't want a police state... here's a quote from Ayn Rand:.......
Here is a quote from St Paul why the those who do good don't have to fear a police state. The Roman Government in power at the time Paul wrote this was not democratic or without corruption by any stretch of the imagination. Romans 13:1-10:
"Every person must be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except by God's permission. The existing authorities have been established by God, so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For the authorities are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to live without being afraid of the authorities? Then do what is right, and you will receive their approval. For they are God's servants working for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for it is not without reason that they bear the sword. Indeed, they are God's servants to execute wrath on anyone who does wrong. Therefore, it is necessary for you to be subject, not only because of God's wrath but also because of your own conscience. This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work. Pay everyone whatever you owe them--taxes to whom taxes are due, tolls to whom tolls are due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due. Do not owe anyone anything--except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not covet," and every other commandment are summed up in this statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself." Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law."
......the sudden loss of engine power ......
It doesn't have to be sudden. In a computer controlled engine they can mess with mixture, timing etc. in such a way that the engine produces gradually less and less power over any number of minutes and finally stops. This would give a driver plenty of time to find a safe stopping place, such as the next freeway exit.