This is not directly at peshue, but at all of the posters here.
Before you go on saying how sucky Apple is, or how Microsoft sucks too, think about this.
Hacking with physical contact is only data mining. This can happen with any computer, not just Microsoft or Apple, or Linux even for that matter. It is when there are back doors in the software that allow for others of outside influence to get access to your data that is worrying. Computers do what they are told, implicitly.
Therefore, if the programmer programming the software is flawed in any way, the ending result will also be flawed. This is true with everything we try to create with human hands. While humans are flawed, the things we create will invariably be flawed as well.
Therefore, be kind on others; the programmers that worked long and hard on your precious software couldn't think of everything that might go wrong. They imposed their flawed view of the world and how things work onto their programs.
None of the failures of software you might encounter on a day to day basis is personal. The programmers aren't saying they hate you, they simply didn't account for every possible outcome.
That is the reason we have updates. Humans would be doomed without the ability to think on their feet. We simply can't plan out every aspect of a situation before doing it. The updates to a piece of software are the programmer's version of "thinking on their feet".
Just take all of this into consideration before posting a hateful comment. Be nice to people, because they might be nice to you in return. People who have different opinions with us are what makes the world so interesting.
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This is not directly at peshue, but at all of the posters here.
Before you go on saying how sucky Apple is, or how Microsoft sucks too, think about this.
Hacking with physical contact is only data mining. This can happen with any computer, not just Microsoft or Apple, or Linux even for that matter. It is when there are back doors in the software that allow for others of outside influence to get access to your data that is worrying.
Computers do what they are told, implicitly.
Therefore, if the programmer programming the software is flawed in any way, the ending result will also be flawed. This is true with everything we try to create with human hands. While humans are flawed, the things we create will invariably be flawed as well.
Therefore, be kind on others; the programmers that worked long and hard on your precious software couldn't think of everything that might go wrong. They imposed their flawed view of the world and how things work onto their programs.
None of the failures of software you might encounter on a day to day basis is personal. The programmers aren't saying they hate you, they simply didn't account for every possible outcome.
That is the reason we have updates. Humans would be doomed without the ability to think on their feet. We simply can't plan out every aspect of a situation before doing it. The updates to a piece of software are the programmer's version of "thinking on their feet".
Just take all of this into consideration before posting a hateful comment. Be nice to people, because they might be nice to you in return. People who have different opinions with us are what makes the world so interesting.
Thanks all, and thanks Engadget.