Steve Jobs has 6 Weeks to Live?
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Don't hate Steve Jobs, hate the 'journalists' that praise everything he does as the second coming.
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Also a good point.
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Not really.
It's not exactly the journalist to blame that people are purchasing their content. Either people want to hear about the product, or someone else wants you to hear about it.
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They all look like one-on-one bets. Is it possible to make a pool?
ed: guess not. http://www.longbets.org/faq
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Ive been surfing on the same mac every day for 5 years and never picked a single thing up,i did download an antivirus checker thing and it was clean.
Windows just isnt safe no matter how many anti virus programs you have,linux is where its at.
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The Apple I'm typing this on has been sitting on my desk since June of '06. I have never had a single virus or piece of spyware on my computer (I actually ran a scan a few months ago for the hell of it and came up with nothing)...I run no active "protection" software, I've never had a single catastrophic OS or hardware failure either.
Guess I'm just lucky huh?
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Point? Apple/OSX can get viruses, its nothing new. Fact is nobody gives a shit about Apple so actual viruses are quite rare compared to windows which like, almost everybody uses on this planet.
Apple just isn't interesting enough for hackers, crackers and other riff-raff.
Apple just isn't interesting enough for hackers, crackers and other riff-raff.
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You're lucky that you use a product that isn't worth the time to target when the cracker can write a virus or malware that can target 1000x more computers. It has nothing to do with the technology.
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And that is great. Who cares why?
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So tell me STK, what was it like working with the ENIAC back in the day? I guess the radiation made you immortal, kinda like the food in Fallout 3 that never goes bad.
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The Windows machine in the corner of my room has been ... well, a lot of places, as of sometime in 2005. I have never had a single virus or piece of spyware on my computer. I occasionally run Malware Bytes just to check - which is not a realtime scanner at all and never come up with anything. I run no active "protection" software, I've never had a single catastrophic OS or hardware failure.
By the way, it runs Vista upgraded from XP.
I guess that means Vista beats Apple (I've got one year over you) and upgrades from XP weren't as catastrophic as, I dunno... the entire world claimed. That must mean there was never any issues with the service packs, either.
All hail Vista in it's pseudo-real-world-exaggerated-example triumph over Apple!
.... the things you can prove definitively wrong in a quick 15 minute scan of the crap around an apartment. Who would've thunked it.
All i know is ive been using pcs since windows 3.11, and never had any issues until the last year or so, and suddenly ive been hit with tons of spyware. Im on my third installation of windows in the last year. Something is up, cause once the inital installation is done i dont put anything else on my computer. Just use it for the occasional game, irc, and web surfing (use opera). And im not clicking links that look suspicious, and check all my mail through yahoo mail. Im seriously not doing a single thing different, yet my machine has been hosed a bunch just recently. Im using win xp pro in case anyone wonders.
On top of that, every version of windows ive used thus far has issues with the installation slowing down over time even without being infected.
I was planning on getting a mac later this year due to that. Yeah ill be missing out on the occasional game i want (sacred 3, torchlight 2, dungeon seige 3Anyone have any comments?
Also, i was hoping the ipad 2 specs would be a bit better. I was hoping for more storage, a higher res, and more ram. ios is getting kind of bloaty plus as the os matures so do the aps and how much memory theyll use. Rumors are itll have 512mb, which is the bare minimum these days IMO. I was hooing for at least a gb.
Still though, its getting a version of garage band that looks absolutely stellar, and thats gonna be hard to pass up.
On top of that, every version of windows ive used thus far has issues with the installation slowing down over time even without being infected.
I was planning on getting a mac later this year due to that. Yeah ill be missing out on the occasional game i want (sacred 3, torchlight 2, dungeon seige 3Anyone have any comments?
Also, i was hoping the ipad 2 specs would be a bit better. I was hoping for more storage, a higher res, and more ram. ios is getting kind of bloaty plus as the os matures so do the aps and how much memory theyll use. Rumors are itll have 512mb, which is the bare minimum these days IMO. I was hooing for at least a gb.
Still though, its getting a version of garage band that looks absolutely stellar, and thats gonna be hard to pass up.
Security essentials eh? ill check it out in a few.
Id be tempted to go for win7 now, but i was waiting until i built something new. And if im switching to mac no sense in buying a $200 operating system antways.
This is how i look at it really. Buy a macpro, and if i hate it, sell it. MAcs seem to hold their value fairly well so i doubt id be losing much if i sold it within a few months. And if i like it, awesome.
What i fishing for really though is more info/opinions/experience with the myth that macs dont slow down over time.
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Have you done a clean install of the operating system yet? Windows computers come with so much shit trying to sell you stuff that you must reinstall the operating system just to get rid of them. As far as mail, you name is out there, get a new email address.
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I used to maintain quite a few crapples in a business office last year.
Like any OS, if the user decides to randomly install garbage or do stupid stuff.... ya, they slow down over time just like Windows.
And you know what...? Linux can have the same problems if someone goes nuts installing or mis-installing stuff.
It's usually less noticeable in Mac/Nix (I would mention it's the same kernel, but someone would have heart failure, so let's say same process accounting), but just like the "Macs don't get malware" gig..... it's not impossible.
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