A user with a username macs4all with a rabid pro-Apple bias accuses another of fanboyism... Speaking of pot calling the kettle black?
Apple does in some ways worse crap than this. At least Android devices have custom ROMs that allow for hardware to live well beyond that of what carrier supports. OTOH, Apple has repeatedly shown propensity for artificially obsolescing their hardware, such as OS checking for motherboard serial numbers and preventing install of newer OS X on a hardware perfectly capable of tackling everything that particular revision throws at it...
...I would put a lot more trust in this development. Things like hangs and inability to standby (5+ year old problem) or more recently brightness control that worked until approx 14 months ago and since then was never (fully) fixed despite dozens of bug reports. I mean, this is a simple matter of comparing the code for brightness between the version 14+ months ago and the latest one to figure out what is the problem and then fixing it once and for all... Instead, they announce "fix" for it in two consecutive versions, neither of which address the problem in its entirety, and consider it fixed...
Yes, some will argue open-sourcing this may help fix things faster. My experience tells me otherwise whenever you have this level if incompetence involved, because after all it is that same incompetence that will drive the separation of open and closed components... Downvote or not, I would love to be proven wrong so that I can finally install a fglrx driver that actually works as it should.
This is what the last "great" deed of humanity will be once we decimate the food chain and our food sources wither away... I, for one, give the lobster species a honorary status of Nostradamus with pincers.
That is exactly what I did. All went to charity not only for the reasons stated above but also because I had a really bad experience with THQ support...
...because (according to what I was told when I contacted Nintendo HQ regarding a research project that greatly benefited from using Wiimotes) they were not the ones who invented Wiimotes but rather licensed them from another manufacturer (as was the case with apparently a number of other controllers). I expect them to simply forward this inquiry to the company they licensed Wiimotes from and by doing so wash their hands clean in no time.
Likewise, you fail to combine preexisting loans that have to be paid out for past wars/military missions.
I hope you'll agree diverting from the main point quickly becomes a statistical crapshoot. How much is unemployment worth to you, or outsourcing for that matter, both of which are arguably directly related to education?
I agree with you that statistics can be easily massaged to fit anyone's needs. Like like Benjamin Disraeli/Mark Twain said, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics:-)
Yet, the truth is while state schools do get sponsored through state budget, that support is quickly dwindling which in turn has resulted in prohibitively expensive higher education, which then in turn has limited a number of people who can get a decent education. It's a vicious circle in which everyone is getting frustrated. You are right in that state universities for instance get a good chunk of money. Yet, whereas they may have been funded 60-80% in the 90s, now a good chunk of them are below 30%, and it keeps getting worse. Look for instance at Virginia Tech (VA). It has had over $60 million in cuts from state funding just in last 3 years alone all the while cost of living/infrastructure maintenance kept going up...
This is not a flaw of the education but rather a direct result of politicians meddling with things they know nothing about for the purpose of personal gain. Everyone knows education is the big ticket item that is close to the hearts of a largest contingent of voters (parents). We have idiots who want to use education as their "publicity stunt." Basically, they push a poorly designed law because they have the power to do so and then use that to gloat at then next election how they've done something profound for "the nation." What they fail to do, however, is support such a law with adequate funding. It is simple folks, if you want a person do more things, eventually they'll have so much on their plate that everything they do will have to end-up being half-baked. This is not because they are poor teachers but rather because they are overstretched by the growing pile of new laws while their funding is being continually cut (thus making hiring of new staff who could help in the process of coping with this virtually impossible). So, what actually happens as a result of this kind of behavior is that there is a growing pile of poorly designed rules/regulations/laws that educators then have to deal with, that they do not have time to do anything other than stupidly designed tests, including recognizing advanced children and giving them a chance to truly shine.
So, if you think this is a problem (I certainly do), I would say go to your local congressman and/or representative and tell them to put their dollars where their mouths are and to back off from education agenda with stupid laws without consulting those who are actually supposed to enact those laws. Did you know that in US annual education budget is one twentieth of the military budget and one third of government operations, making it basically the smallest piece of the pie? (see following chart -- yes, it's that little tiny, barely visible chunk). Now ask yourself how many kids are enrolled in education every year vs. how many soldiers/personnel we have in military...
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What you mistakenly call "your right" is in actuality government-endorsed (or in this case for most intents and purposes ignored) corporate privilege to supply you with ridiculously cheap and utterly unhealthy, yet easy-to-get-hooked-on sugary water at the expense of the underdeveloped World where they employ terrorist-like tactics in order to obtain super-cheap water source and pollute the environment without having to ever be held accountable.
How do you think otherwise that these companies make any money by selling you 2 liters of soda drink that costs *less* than 2 liters of pure water? And don't forget, that pollution even if it is made on the other end of the Globe will eventually reach you one way or the other. This World or its resources are finite and as such it is only a matter of time...
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Non-caloric sweeteners often have questionable side-effects on human body in part because our bodies were never exposed to them before and therefore have no reliable way of dealing with them nor do we have any historical data on what their long-term exposure may do to us (e.g. corn syrup is one of the top reasons for obesity as human body has no way of dealing with this by-product of processing corn that does not exist in nature otherwise, so the body simply deposits it into body fat and wreaks havoc on our metabolism).
On the other hand, you mention fruit sugars (e.g. fructose). These have nowhere near the same side-effects like refined sugars because they metabolize slower and do not give us that sugar spike that is so dangerous to our bodies, particularly through prolonged exposure. Hence, fruit sugars are entirely different ballgame than the refined sugar and I would go as far as stating that their prolonged exposure (unlike refined sugars) bears practically no side-effects beyond potentially rotting your teeth (and that is arguably more of a matter of personal hygiene).
How about "how much is your health worth to you?" or "how would you like the Soda Inc. company buying a little piece of land near your house, drilling deep, and running your well dry leaving you without drinkable source of water? (obviously assuming you have well water)" or "how would you like Soda Inc. company hiring local thugs to chase you away from your local natural resources so that they can gobble it up, destroy the ecosystem, poison you and your family and then leave you in this impossible mess to die?" Health care in US is already ridiculously expensive. Couple that with ridiculous nutrition and between insurance companies and corporations selling you corn-syrup-infested water that makes you obese, diabetic, rots your teeth, etc. your hard-earned dollars are already spoken for an endless stream of health bills and life-long health conditions (so much so that US is the only "developed" country in which one of top reasons for bankrupcy is not money mismanagement or poor financial decisions, but rather costly health bills). So, indeed, where do you draw the line?
While a definite latecomer to this post, here's some info that may be of use to this topic:
linuxaudio.org and its subdomains are all hosted by DISIS/Music Dept. at Virginia Tech (http://disis.music.vt.edu). Likewise, at DISIS we support Linux, Mac, and Windows through curriculum as well as infrastructure. Finally, for the Linux enthusiasts, this spring we've started a new program titled L2Ork, or Linux Laptop Orchestra. For more info please visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu./
Cheers!
I think the very fact Apple responds to these kinds of seemingly silly kinds of claims and does so with minimal delay is very much telling of how thin of a line Apple treads with their business model.
Any number 3 plastic has phthalates that tend to bleed out of plastic when they come in contact with saliva. Often these are rubber toys (for the puberty-stricken Slashdot crowd, get a cold shower, I am not talking about condoms) for kids who commonly put them in their mouths. I've even seen some sipping cups and one-time use products (e.g. energy drinks) that use 3 or the other two problematic plastics 6 and 7. Basically, it is a known fact that phthalates are problematic. Couple that with the fact that they are pretty much everywhere and we got a real problem. As a result, autism is on tremendous rise, particularly in US...
Any generalization, such as the one stated in the above summary, is bad and goes against the very core of the argument it appears to be making.
I teach at a University and FOSS/Libre concepts are weaved through every relevant aspect of every single lecture I give. Sure, I am a Linux/FOSS enthusiast but I also use just about every other relevant platform under the Sun. As such I don't see myself as a Linux/FOSS evangelist. Rather, I see this form of education as part of sustainable outlook on the future where generations upon whose shoulders this mess of a society remains will have to make hard decisions to ensure that they don't end-up cornered in an Orwellian nightmare or worse yet counting last days on a dying planet.
I got a total of three different LCDs from AOC with the last one purchased approx. a year ago. Poor craftmaship (chipping paint, uneven edges around the screen), more dead pixels than other brands I commonly buy, and most importantly unbearable ground loop hum generated by poor grounding that affects all equipment on the same circuit make me believe they are not all that hot (they may have improved since--although you won't see me holding my breath)...
I don't think this is a fire sale just yet. Perhaps an overreaction to marketing FUD, but at least a good one for the end user at that. And here's why:
Let's do some math. Each top selling player also gets 7 freebie movies. How many movies do you think will fly off the shelves in the coming weeks to cover this demand?
On the flip side if all these new customers are getting 7 new movies, what is the likelihood of them immediately picking up another movie? This certainly could explain a sharp drop in HD-DVD purchases, no? Yes, Toshiba might be bleeding money, but in terms of hard numbers, it is very unlikely that the numbers reported for the week in question will hold any value whatsoever...
Also consider that an average consumer who has been exposed to benefits of HD (either Blu Ray or HD-DVD) will be much more likely a returning customer, thus again reinforcing the HD-DVD user base.
OK, so how do you explain that on the Amazon site best selling DVD players including traditional DVD players, HD-DVD, and Blu Ray the three versions of HD-DVD player hold 1st, 3rd, and 5th place and have been holding there ever since Toshiba slashed prices? Currently there is only one Blu Ray player in the top 10 list and it is on the 9th place and dropping. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself:
Now, you can either claim that there are a lot of dumb people out there buying a dying technology or look at it from the opposite perspective: that there is a growing number of people out there who do not believe the PR hype of media or the Internet any more, which would make them, well, quite smart, no? While second option sounds a lot more hopeful, I am not holding my breath. Yet, unless Toshiba has bribed Amazon to skew the stats (for which I currently have no reason to believe), figures in the link above sure paint a different image of the current situation.
Another thing that comes into mind based on my brief exploration of the Blu Ray and HD-DVD movie libraries (I haven't invested in either yet), I must say that apart from Pixar, currently HD-DVD has a lot more titles that are worth getting (HD or not).
Is this the same "efficient" computer that today uses over 1KW of power, which is likely more than most of the microwave ovens in a common household? I put a bunch of these in the lab this summer and I cannot place more than 2 on the same breaker without tripping the fuse. Right next them I got custom-built Linux boxes which offer practically the same amount of horse power (2.67GHz Core 2 duo) while using a highly-efficient 400W PSU (~90% efficiency).
While firewire is spec-wise superior to USB it is also a major CPU hog since majority of its translation is offloaded onto CPU. Case in point, try running external fw soundcard on lower latencies and you can say bye-bye to >=1/4 of your CPU cycles. USB does not have this problem.
Regarding powered USB, I think it is alive and well. Creative Zen players recharge that way. I also had purchased at one point laptop HD enclosure which offers both USB and fw. USB runs just fine off of USB power coming from my laptop.
Finally, powered firewire400 (6-pin) is lacking standards. Most laptops offer 7 Watts while desktop machines offer 15 Watts. This results in some devices still requiring external power when being powered by a laptop.
...there is also a cross-platform Buzz-port titled Aldrin which is actually comparable if not more mature than this software. It has already a majority of Buzz objects ported over and has gained some momentum among the Buzz community. And yes, it does run on Linux...
Disk space is cheap, but most countries (apart from U.S.) still have fast Internet connection fees assessed by the amount of downloaded/uploaded content. So, while DLLs have had their share of hits and misses (my experience tells me this is more of a hype these days than truth), I still prefer to download a 3MB version of Gimp for Win32/Linux, rather than a 82.6MB version of Gimp for OSX which still requires X11 (40+MB) and possibly Fink with its libs (another 8MB plus libs which I estimate at 20MB).
Well for all intents and purposes the Month of Apple Bugs was to Apple security claim pretty much what your MOAB is to those poor trees. Hate to break it to you ladies and gentlemen, but there is no such thing as bug-free/secure OS. Not Linux, not OS X, and definitely not Windows. The bottom line is that the system is only as secure as its user makes it. What in this case made Month of Apple Bugs so disrupting was not that Apple's OS is insecure (at least not any more than any other OS), but rather the fact that Apple's own hype has painted them in a corner, making this an inevitable "discovery" of something that has been known all along.
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A user with a username macs4all with a rabid pro-Apple bias accuses another of fanboyism... Speaking of pot calling the kettle black? Apple does in some ways worse crap than this. At least Android devices have custom ROMs that allow for hardware to live well beyond that of what carrier supports. OTOH, Apple has repeatedly shown propensity for artificially obsolescing their hardware, such as OS checking for motherboard serial numbers and preventing install of newer OS X on a hardware perfectly capable of tackling everything that particular revision throws at it...
...I would put a lot more trust in this development. Things like hangs and inability to standby (5+ year old problem) or more recently brightness control that worked until approx 14 months ago and since then was never (fully) fixed despite dozens of bug reports. I mean, this is a simple matter of comparing the code for brightness between the version 14+ months ago and the latest one to figure out what is the problem and then fixing it once and for all... Instead, they announce "fix" for it in two consecutive versions, neither of which address the problem in its entirety, and consider it fixed... Yes, some will argue open-sourcing this may help fix things faster. My experience tells me otherwise whenever you have this level if incompetence involved, because after all it is that same incompetence that will drive the separation of open and closed components... Downvote or not, I would love to be proven wrong so that I can finally install a fglrx driver that actually works as it should.
If I could donate you all my karma, I would... We need more people like you and less of the zealots on all sides of the fence...
This is what the last "great" deed of humanity will be once we decimate the food chain and our food sources wither away... I, for one, give the lobster species a honorary status of Nostradamus with pincers.
That is exactly what I did. All went to charity not only for the reasons stated above but also because I had a really bad experience with THQ support...
...because (according to what I was told when I contacted Nintendo HQ regarding a research project that greatly benefited from using Wiimotes) they were not the ones who invented Wiimotes but rather licensed them from another manufacturer (as was the case with apparently a number of other controllers). I expect them to simply forward this inquiry to the company they licensed Wiimotes from and by doing so wash their hands clean in no time.
Likewise, you fail to combine preexisting loans that have to be paid out for past wars/military missions. I hope you'll agree diverting from the main point quickly becomes a statistical crapshoot. How much is unemployment worth to you, or outsourcing for that matter, both of which are arguably directly related to education? I agree with you that statistics can be easily massaged to fit anyone's needs. Like like Benjamin Disraeli/Mark Twain said, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics :-)
Yet, the truth is while state schools do get sponsored through state budget, that support is quickly dwindling which in turn has resulted in prohibitively expensive higher education, which then in turn has limited a number of people who can get a decent education. It's a vicious circle in which everyone is getting frustrated. You are right in that state universities for instance get a good chunk of money. Yet, whereas they may have been funded 60-80% in the 90s, now a good chunk of them are below 30%, and it keeps getting worse. Look for instance at Virginia Tech (VA). It has had over $60 million in cuts from state funding just in last 3 years alone all the while cost of living/infrastructure maintenance kept going up...
This is not a flaw of the education but rather a direct result of politicians meddling with things they know nothing about for the purpose of personal gain. Everyone knows education is the big ticket item that is close to the hearts of a largest contingent of voters (parents). We have idiots who want to use education as their "publicity stunt." Basically, they push a poorly designed law because they have the power to do so and then use that to gloat at then next election how they've done something profound for "the nation." What they fail to do, however, is support such a law with adequate funding. It is simple folks, if you want a person do more things, eventually they'll have so much on their plate that everything they do will have to end-up being half-baked. This is not because they are poor teachers but rather because they are overstretched by the growing pile of new laws while their funding is being continually cut (thus making hiring of new staff who could help in the process of coping with this virtually impossible). So, what actually happens as a result of this kind of behavior is that there is a growing pile of poorly designed rules/regulations/laws that educators then have to deal with, that they do not have time to do anything other than stupidly designed tests, including recognizing advanced children and giving them a chance to truly shine.
So, if you think this is a problem (I certainly do), I would say go to your local congressman and/or representative and tell them to put their dollars where their mouths are and to back off from education agenda with stupid laws without consulting those who are actually supposed to enact those laws. Did you know that in US annual education budget is one twentieth of the military budget and one third of government operations, making it basically the smallest piece of the pie? (see following chart -- yes, it's that little tiny, barely visible chunk). Now ask yourself how many kids are enrolled in education every year vs. how many soldiers/personnel we have in military...
What you mistakenly call "your right" is in actuality government-endorsed (or in this case for most intents and purposes ignored) corporate privilege to supply you with ridiculously cheap and utterly unhealthy, yet easy-to-get-hooked-on sugary water at the expense of the underdeveloped World where they employ terrorist-like tactics in order to obtain super-cheap water source and pollute the environment without having to ever be held accountable. How do you think otherwise that these companies make any money by selling you 2 liters of soda drink that costs *less* than 2 liters of pure water? And don't forget, that pollution even if it is made on the other end of the Globe will eventually reach you one way or the other. This World or its resources are finite and as such it is only a matter of time...
Non-caloric sweeteners often have questionable side-effects on human body in part because our bodies were never exposed to them before and therefore have no reliable way of dealing with them nor do we have any historical data on what their long-term exposure may do to us (e.g. corn syrup is one of the top reasons for obesity as human body has no way of dealing with this by-product of processing corn that does not exist in nature otherwise, so the body simply deposits it into body fat and wreaks havoc on our metabolism). On the other hand, you mention fruit sugars (e.g. fructose). These have nowhere near the same side-effects like refined sugars because they metabolize slower and do not give us that sugar spike that is so dangerous to our bodies, particularly through prolonged exposure. Hence, fruit sugars are entirely different ballgame than the refined sugar and I would go as far as stating that their prolonged exposure (unlike refined sugars) bears practically no side-effects beyond potentially rotting your teeth (and that is arguably more of a matter of personal hygiene).
How about "how much is your health worth to you?" or "how would you like the Soda Inc. company buying a little piece of land near your house, drilling deep, and running your well dry leaving you without drinkable source of water? (obviously assuming you have well water)" or "how would you like Soda Inc. company hiring local thugs to chase you away from your local natural resources so that they can gobble it up, destroy the ecosystem, poison you and your family and then leave you in this impossible mess to die?" Health care in US is already ridiculously expensive. Couple that with ridiculous nutrition and between insurance companies and corporations selling you corn-syrup-infested water that makes you obese, diabetic, rots your teeth, etc. your hard-earned dollars are already spoken for an endless stream of health bills and life-long health conditions (so much so that US is the only "developed" country in which one of top reasons for bankrupcy is not money mismanagement or poor financial decisions, but rather costly health bills). So, indeed, where do you draw the line?
While a definite latecomer to this post, here's some info that may be of use to this topic: linuxaudio.org and its subdomains are all hosted by DISIS/Music Dept. at Virginia Tech (http://disis.music.vt.edu). Likewise, at DISIS we support Linux, Mac, and Windows through curriculum as well as infrastructure. Finally, for the Linux enthusiasts, this spring we've started a new program titled L2Ork, or Linux Laptop Orchestra. For more info please visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu./ Cheers!
I think the very fact Apple responds to these kinds of seemingly silly kinds of claims and does so with minimal delay is very much telling of how thin of a line Apple treads with their business model.
Any number 3 plastic has phthalates that tend to bleed out of plastic when they come in contact with saliva. Often these are rubber toys (for the puberty-stricken Slashdot crowd, get a cold shower, I am not talking about condoms) for kids who commonly put them in their mouths. I've even seen some sipping cups and one-time use products (e.g. energy drinks) that use 3 or the other two problematic plastics 6 and 7. Basically, it is a known fact that phthalates are problematic. Couple that with the fact that they are pretty much everywhere and we got a real problem. As a result, autism is on tremendous rise, particularly in US...
Any generalization, such as the one stated in the above summary, is bad and goes against the very core of the argument it appears to be making. I teach at a University and FOSS/Libre concepts are weaved through every relevant aspect of every single lecture I give. Sure, I am a Linux/FOSS enthusiast but I also use just about every other relevant platform under the Sun. As such I don't see myself as a Linux/FOSS evangelist. Rather, I see this form of education as part of sustainable outlook on the future where generations upon whose shoulders this mess of a society remains will have to make hard decisions to ensure that they don't end-up cornered in an Orwellian nightmare or worse yet counting last days on a dying planet.
I got a total of three different LCDs from AOC with the last one purchased approx. a year ago. Poor craftmaship (chipping paint, uneven edges around the screen), more dead pixels than other brands I commonly buy, and most importantly unbearable ground loop hum generated by poor grounding that affects all equipment on the same circuit make me believe they are not all that hot (they may have improved since--although you won't see me holding my breath)...
I don't think this is a fire sale just yet. Perhaps an overreaction to marketing FUD, but at least a good one for the end user at that. And here's why:
Let's do some math. Each top selling player also gets 7 freebie movies. How many movies do you think will fly off the shelves in the coming weeks to cover this demand?
On the flip side if all these new customers are getting 7 new movies, what is the likelihood of them immediately picking up another movie? This certainly could explain a sharp drop in HD-DVD purchases, no? Yes, Toshiba might be bleeding money, but in terms of hard numbers, it is very unlikely that the numbers reported for the week in question will hold any value whatsoever...
Also consider that an average consumer who has been exposed to benefits of HD (either Blu Ray or HD-DVD) will be much more likely a returning customer, thus again reinforcing the HD-DVD user base.
I don't think this war is over just yet.
OK, so how do you explain that on the Amazon site best selling DVD players including traditional DVD players, HD-DVD, and Blu Ray the three versions of HD-DVD player hold 1st, 3rd, and 5th place and have been holding there ever since Toshiba slashed prices? Currently there is only one Blu Ray player in the top 10 list and it is on the 9th place and dropping. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172514/ref=pd_ts_e_nav
Now, you can either claim that there are a lot of dumb people out there buying a dying technology or look at it from the opposite perspective: that there is a growing number of people out there who do not believe the PR hype of media or the Internet any more, which would make them, well, quite smart, no? While second option sounds a lot more hopeful, I am not holding my breath. Yet, unless Toshiba has bribed Amazon to skew the stats (for which I currently have no reason to believe), figures in the link above sure paint a different image of the current situation.
Another thing that comes into mind based on my brief exploration of the Blu Ray and HD-DVD movie libraries (I haven't invested in either yet), I must say that apart from Pixar, currently HD-DVD has a lot more titles that are worth getting (HD or not).
those would make for nice wallpapers/screensavers and for a few unlucky souls possibly even heart attacks :-)
Is this the same "efficient" computer that today uses over 1KW of power, which is likely more than most of the microwave ovens in a common household? I put a bunch of these in the lab this summer and I cannot place more than 2 on the same breaker without tripping the fuse. Right next them I got custom-built Linux boxes which offer practically the same amount of horse power (2.67GHz Core 2 duo) while using a highly-efficient 400W PSU (~90% efficiency).
While firewire is spec-wise superior to USB it is also a major CPU hog since majority of its translation is offloaded onto CPU. Case in point, try running external fw soundcard on lower latencies and you can say bye-bye to >=1/4 of your CPU cycles. USB does not have this problem.
Regarding powered USB, I think it is alive and well. Creative Zen players recharge that way. I also had purchased at one point laptop HD enclosure which offers both USB and fw. USB runs just fine off of USB power coming from my laptop.
Finally, powered firewire400 (6-pin) is lacking standards. Most laptops offer 7 Watts while desktop machines offer 15 Watts. This results in some devices still requiring external power when being powered by a laptop.
LOL! I almost fell off my chair reading your post :-D
...there is also a cross-platform Buzz-port titled Aldrin which is actually comparable if not more mature than this software. It has already a majority of Buzz objects ported over and has gained some momentum among the Buzz community. And yes, it does run on Linux...
Disk space is cheap, but most countries (apart from U.S.) still have fast Internet connection fees assessed by the amount of downloaded/uploaded content. So, while DLLs have had their share of hits and misses (my experience tells me this is more of a hype these days than truth), I still prefer to download a 3MB version of Gimp for Win32/Linux, rather than a 82.6MB version of Gimp for OSX which still requires X11 (40+MB) and possibly Fink with its libs (another 8MB plus libs which I estimate at 20MB).
Well for all intents and purposes the Month of Apple Bugs was to Apple security claim pretty much what your MOAB is to those poor trees. Hate to break it to you ladies and gentlemen, but there is no such thing as bug-free/secure OS. Not Linux, not OS X, and definitely not Windows. The bottom line is that the system is only as secure as its user makes it. What in this case made Month of Apple Bugs so disrupting was not that Apple's OS is insecure (at least not any more than any other OS), but rather the fact that Apple's own hype has painted them in a corner, making this an inevitable "discovery" of something that has been known all along.