Yeah, it's mostly the hotels that kill you. $200 a night is enough to gas up and camp somewhere with electric and water hookups. I have taken a few RV vacations myself, but back when freedom cost less than $2 a gallon...
Yes the downfall of all those companies is Microsoft. What else? Oh wait - Fannie and Freddie - guess which OS was installed on most of their computers? Windows? There you go, MS causing another downfall. All of the auto makers were running Windows too, and look what happened to them! Most of the people who have had their houses foreclosed on, guess which OS they were running. Windows! Again the evil MS at work trying to destroy all of us!
But seriously, Microsoft does just fine screwing up on it's own merits. It doesn't need you attributing every single evil in the world back to it.
Yes, i do realize that. But even you state yourself that many of the first viruses written for the platform made their way around through use of the "sneakernet" - passing around on floppies that went from one system to the next and infecting every system. Back then that was a perfectly viable delivery method that was quite effective. You also have to keep in mind that most viruses back then were written for the "glory" of simply writing them - now the motivation is to make vast zombie networks for profit utilizing fast connections. And the fact that most viruses back in the early 90s were only several K of bytes in size, and a "crap-slow" modem would be just fine for transmitting them (even though it wasn't a common transport).
I know where it came from, I just think it is strange because IBM is no longer even relevant in the personal computing environment anymore, whereas when the term was coined they were bigger than Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Compaq, etc. combined. And it did make more sense when Macs were using Motorolla PowerPC chips and not Intel x86 chips. But now that Macs are using Intel chips, they too are now "IBM PC compatible" clones, just like all their brethren, but nobody is calling them "PCs".
Which is strange, considering IBM is now Lenovo for their home-computer market.And the fact their market share has fallen considerably in the home PC area.
Viruses and trojans are free of charge. Feel free to install all that you want!!!
Oh, and did you pay for your copy of OS X or is it an illegally installed version?
Much like the Apple argument now. Not many people were targeting Windows/DOS boxes back then - Unix was the big target because it was the most widely used. The difference is nobody was claiming that Windows was "more secure" then due to the amount of malware being written for it. When I started at my job back in 2000 virtually none of the Windows boxes at the University were running any AV software. Even then viruses/trojans were not so common that you needed to run AV software on every machine. Personally I foresee the same thing happening to Macs in the future, but not as fast. Although if everyone keeps thinking that an OS is secure "out of the box" with no extra precautions taken, it may be faster than even I predict.
I recall people saying just the opposite when DOS for PCs was starting to become popular. Back then, people were writing worms for Unix systems, and there wasn't much "in the wild" for DOS. But no need to change your strategy as things obviously never change in the technology realm...
Have you ever needed the police? Like knowing if your house is on fire someone will come to put it out? Like getting mail? Like eating food that won't kill you? Like driving on roads? And your electricity is probably subsidized by the government, even if they don't technically provide it.
And the government may not provide your job, but it is one of the biggest employers in the nation. (And it provides me a job directly.)
So I guess unless you are willing to contract your own police, firemen, road construction crew, private delivery service, etc. I would offer you the same advice as I offered the original poster.
One of my friend's grandparents did this. Didn't trust banks so they literally hid their entire life savings in the walls of their house. Then one day it burned to the ground, with their entire life savings. No way insurance would cover huge sums of cash left in the house. When is the last time you heard of a bank burning to the ground???
The possibility that one politician can be more or less corrupt than another has honestly not crossed your mind before? I wish I could lump large groups of people who have differences in to one big homogenized group like you are able to. Oh wait, no I don't.
Me neither. I guess the old iron rod I formed into the shape of the Apple logo can be pulled out of the fire now. And it was just starting to get white-hot....
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Yeah, it's mostly the hotels that kill you. $200 a night is enough to gas up and camp somewhere with electric and water hookups. I have taken a few RV vacations myself, but back when freedom cost less than $2 a gallon...
See also: Jello, Kleenex, Xerox, and more recently, Google. (Overheard in conversation - "Just Google it on Yahoo.")
It's just too bad freedom can cost up to $4 a gallon in the summer time...
Yes the downfall of all those companies is Microsoft. What else? Oh wait - Fannie and Freddie - guess which OS was installed on most of their computers? Windows? There you go, MS causing another downfall. All of the auto makers were running Windows too, and look what happened to them! Most of the people who have had their houses foreclosed on, guess which OS they were running. Windows! Again the evil MS at work trying to destroy all of us!
But seriously, Microsoft does just fine screwing up on it's own merits. It doesn't need you attributing every single evil in the world back to it.
Yes, i do realize that. But even you state yourself that many of the first viruses written for the platform made their way around through use of the "sneakernet" - passing around on floppies that went from one system to the next and infecting every system. Back then that was a perfectly viable delivery method that was quite effective. You also have to keep in mind that most viruses back then were written for the "glory" of simply writing them - now the motivation is to make vast zombie networks for profit utilizing fast connections. And the fact that most viruses back in the early 90s were only several K of bytes in size, and a "crap-slow" modem would be just fine for transmitting them (even though it wasn't a common transport).
I know where it came from, I just think it is strange because IBM is no longer even relevant in the personal computing environment anymore, whereas when the term was coined they were bigger than Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Compaq, etc. combined. And it did make more sense when Macs were using Motorolla PowerPC chips and not Intel x86 chips. But now that Macs are using Intel chips, they too are now "IBM PC compatible" clones, just like all their brethren, but nobody is calling them "PCs".
I don't see how my statement contradicts that, but thanks for the clarification.
Which is strange, considering IBM is now Lenovo for their home-computer market.And the fact their market share has fallen considerably in the home PC area.
Brilliant. I actually LOL.
And what about Gopher? Won't someone please think of the Gophers!
At least Apple employees get to drink Electric Kool-Aid
Best....video...ever!
Viruses and trojans are free of charge. Feel free to install all that you want!!!
Oh, and did you pay for your copy of OS X or is it an illegally installed version?
Much like the Apple argument now. Not many people were targeting Windows/DOS boxes back then - Unix was the big target because it was the most widely used. The difference is nobody was claiming that Windows was "more secure" then due to the amount of malware being written for it. When I started at my job back in 2000 virtually none of the Windows boxes at the University were running any AV software. Even then viruses/trojans were not so common that you needed to run AV software on every machine. Personally I foresee the same thing happening to Macs in the future, but not as fast. Although if everyone keeps thinking that an OS is secure "out of the box" with no extra precautions taken, it may be faster than even I predict.
I recall people saying just the opposite when DOS for PCs was starting to become popular. Back then, people were writing worms for Unix systems, and there wasn't much "in the wild" for DOS. But no need to change your strategy as things obviously never change in the technology realm...
Have you ever needed the police? Like knowing if your house is on fire someone will come to put it out? Like getting mail? Like eating food that won't kill you? Like driving on roads? And your electricity is probably subsidized by the government, even if they don't technically provide it.
And the government may not provide your job, but it is one of the biggest employers in the nation. (And it provides me a job directly.)
So I guess unless you are willing to contract your own police, firemen, road construction crew, private delivery service, etc. I would offer you the same advice as I offered the original poster.
This IS Slashdot. If you can't find a car analogy to fit ANY situation, you aren't looking hard enough.
One of my friend's grandparents did this. Didn't trust banks so they literally hid their entire life savings in the walls of their house. Then one day it burned to the ground, with their entire life savings. No way insurance would cover huge sums of cash left in the house. When is the last time you heard of a bank burning to the ground???
Don't like paying taxes? Quit your job. Grow your own food. Make your own electricity. Live off the grid.
Not willing to do all that? Then pay your taxes and quit complaining.
"How long before we see a patent on "a system of placing letters and numbers in sequential order in order to convey something meaningful"?
Well thank God Slashdot will be safe if this ever happens...
Slashdot posts aren't original?!
Symantec's goes to eleven.
SourceForge has the advantage of not only enforcing patents, but they can Slashdot effect companies as well...
The possibility that one politician can be more or less corrupt than another has honestly not crossed your mind before? I wish I could lump large groups of people who have differences in to one big homogenized group like you are able to. Oh wait, no I don't.
Me neither. I guess the old iron rod I formed into the shape of the Apple logo can be pulled out of the fire now. And it was just starting to get white-hot....