Comment Re:Doesn't really matter beeing a geek (Score 1) 603
WTF did that have to do with cars?
I only worry this will catch on and we will have more bodies than the algae/brine/etc can handle. o.O
"simply because of his selfishness" shows what a complete lack of understanding of nicotine addiction you have.
Shows what a complete lack of compassion for anyone else other than you that you have. I was a smoker for 20 years and I tried my damned hardest to not smoke near anyone. It was my addiction and I dealt with it alone. I was so happy when I finally quit a few years ago but now I think I might start back up just to blow it in your face.
as OS X users do the same via
Only a few percent at top would probably be aware of the existence thereof.
I am familiar with rc.d on linux but this comment made me look on my OSX box and there is no rc.d. So I think you can change that comment from NOT F*CKING MANY to NONE.
(I was honestly curious if OSX had rc.d. There is something similar but not at all like the *nix version. Just leftovers from BSD I imagine.)
... an innocent user in, say, Germany would loose his email...
So it would be in the wild?
That story took some real digging btw. For a minute I thought I had dreamed it up.
There is one thing Apple has that few other consumer level companies give, and that is service. Apple Numbers has glitches? Call Apple or hit a Genius bar, and it doesn't matter if it is the hardware, the app, or the OS, they will at least try to fix it. They may not be perfect, but this is better for the nontechnical home user than the usual "call the hardware/OS/app/software guy, don't bother us" that is common in the PC world.
If Microsoft decides that if something is wrong with your computer and it was not caused by their own software tough shit then this will be a failure. It would be even worse if anything goes wrong with your hardware you are told to "contact the manufacturer".
Microsoft has always been able to deflect some of the blame for their bad consumer perception by blaming third parties. It will be interesting to see how they deal with this when confronted by Joe Public with his malware infested or faulty memory machine.
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