Because it's there, and because no one else has.
Mac viruses used to exist, back when there were far less around. Didn't stop people then, back when it helped to know assembler if you wanted to fit a virus in the boot sector of a disk.
Amazingly they dried up with the migration from an O/S that like Windows had it's origins in a single-user, single-tasking, non-networked machine, to one that was based around protecting users and programs from each other.
It's Unix / BSD that deserves the credit rather than Apple per se. It IS better by design. It is more secure (not invulnerable) by design.
I'm still laughing at the idea of a $60000 house. The CHEAPEST property in the UK is, converted into $, about $130000 - and that is located in places where . . . well, let's just say they're the kind of places most kids want to escape from - I wouldn't want to bring a family up there. In most parts of the UK property is already unaffordable to people on the local average wage (i.e. it is only being traded amongst property owners).
My opinion : ownership of land and houses other than what you and your family require just means you're perpetuating the rat race you're escaping from - morally not a lot different from owning a sweatshop in China or being the CEO of a corporation - you're making money out of other people's work, and you need those other people working to keep you in your position.
I think the issue here is businesses telling universities what they need (when they only know what they want), and of course students choosing to go for courses that look commercially oriented (i.e. teach Java).
The course I did covered everything - from logic gates to how to build a register and simple micro-code controller from them right up through assembly, 'C', compiler design, through to OO and GUI. Do I use much of it on a day to day basis? I don't think so, other than switching between iteration and recursion. They didn't cover any of the languages or tools I use - but I do feel that I had a rigorous grounding in IT that's enabled me to pick up things easily since.
It will matter if the Indians and Chinese don't want the output of all our media studies students - or are we just encouraging people to build up a lot of debt doing useless degrees.
Well, actually, maybe it won't matter as the US can continue to run a massive export deficit - no one dares call bluff on the dollar.
Because it's about what happened when a group of record companies controlled the production, promotion and distribution of music - the situation you're asserting DRM will let them achieve.
The artists and the fans bypassed it and created their own structure. Artists put out records themselves, alternative distribution networks, pressing plants, printing presses and independent labels formed.
(The same also happened, rather more illegally, in the Soviet Union, where the State rather than monopolistic companies wanted to control the market).
I don't know. The HD screens I've seen (inc. the Cinema Display I'm using now) are the huge leap forward that is making me seriously think of replacing my CRT TV - they're the first things to actually offer a better picture. And they are coming down in price - something like 30% every 6-9 months.
Mind you, I'm thinking more about how great it will be to play Resident Evil -1 or Silent Hill 6 than getting a close up of soap actors skin pores. And while I'm not that bothered about most contemporary film, it will be fantastic to see old films at film quality resolutions - it will take some time before they start re-transferring them at a better resolution.
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Because it's there, and because no one else has. Mac viruses used to exist, back when there were far less around. Didn't stop people then, back when it helped to know assembler if you wanted to fit a virus in the boot sector of a disk. Amazingly they dried up with the migration from an O/S that like Windows had it's origins in a single-user, single-tasking, non-networked machine, to one that was based around protecting users and programs from each other. It's Unix / BSD that deserves the credit rather than Apple per se. It IS better by design. It is more secure (not invulnerable) by design.
I'm still laughing at the idea of a $60000 house. The CHEAPEST property in the UK is, converted into $, about $130000 - and that is located in places where . . . well, let's just say they're the kind of places most kids want to escape from - I wouldn't want to bring a family up there. In most parts of the UK property is already unaffordable to people on the local average wage (i.e. it is only being traded amongst property owners). My opinion : ownership of land and houses other than what you and your family require just means you're perpetuating the rat race you're escaping from - morally not a lot different from owning a sweatshop in China or being the CEO of a corporation - you're making money out of other people's work, and you need those other people working to keep you in your position.
Or, just forget the missile and take the plane out with a laser up it's black heat-absorbing non-reflective stealth coated fuel-tank.
I think the issue here is businesses telling universities what they need (when they only know what they want), and of course students choosing to go for courses that look commercially oriented (i.e. teach Java). The course I did covered everything - from logic gates to how to build a register and simple micro-code controller from them right up through assembly, 'C', compiler design, through to OO and GUI. Do I use much of it on a day to day basis? I don't think so, other than switching between iteration and recursion. They didn't cover any of the languages or tools I use - but I do feel that I had a rigorous grounding in IT that's enabled me to pick up things easily since.
It will matter if the Indians and Chinese don't want the output of all our media studies students - or are we just encouraging people to build up a lot of debt doing useless degrees. Well, actually, maybe it won't matter as the US can continue to run a massive export deficit - no one dares call bluff on the dollar.
Because it's about what happened when a group of record companies controlled the production, promotion and distribution of music - the situation you're asserting DRM will let them achieve. The artists and the fans bypassed it and created their own structure. Artists put out records themselves, alternative distribution networks, pressing plants, printing presses and independent labels formed. (The same also happened, rather more illegally, in the Soviet Union, where the State rather than monopolistic companies wanted to control the market).
I don't know. The HD screens I've seen (inc. the Cinema Display I'm using now) are the huge leap forward that is making me seriously think of replacing my CRT TV - they're the first things to actually offer a better picture. And they are coming down in price - something like 30% every 6-9 months. Mind you, I'm thinking more about how great it will be to play Resident Evil -1 or Silent Hill 6 than getting a close up of soap actors skin pores. And while I'm not that bothered about most contemporary film, it will be fantastic to see old films at film quality resolutions - it will take some time before they start re-transferring them at a better resolution.
Have you never heard of punk rock?