From: Thor Bols (thorbols@hotmail.com)
Date: 04/03/00-09:10:41 PM Z
Judy,
The Greenwich Village crack was silly. Sorry. But I doubt that you will
convince many people that NY is actually affordable on the basis of "look
how much you save not having a car".
I don't know why creative people spend their energies making viri. But it
DOES seem that Mac owners have better things to do. As for the price of
software, well, for PCs, there is currently available for download (from the
many "warez" or pirate channels) the following at these prices:
Windows 2000 Server or workstation $0.00
Office 2000 $0.00
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 $0.00
Adobe Illustrator, GoLive, etc, etc $0.00
Every Photoshop Plugin $0.00
Every game, utility and application you
can possibly imagine $0.00
So, there IS still a price advantage for those weak individuals that have no
moral problem with preying upon the owners of Microsoft, Adobe, etc.
My point is: Macs may be better, but PCs are much cheaper.
Sorry. I'll shut up now.
Thor
>From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: RE: Outlook Express users Virus Warning
>Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:48:43 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>
>On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Thor Bols wrote:
>
> > ...I wish I could AFFORD to live in
> > Greenwich village and have a MAC! But I can't, so I make do with a PC.
>
>Actually, a lot of "poor" people live in Greenwich Village -- they have a
>windfall known as rent controlled apartments, or at least they come in
>rags to hearings on the subject -- tho that's a bit offtopic. However, if
>you figure in all the money saved by not having to have a car or
>three....and pay for gas, auto insurance, and keep up with the Joneses,
>and drive 5 miles for a quart of milk, chauffeur your kids to afterschool
>everything, etc., you could buy a townhouse, or a politician or three.
>
> > Sure, Mac owners don't get too many viri. Know why? Well, for one
>thing,
> > the virus creators aren't targetting the Macs because: 1. they're a
>bunch of
> > kids that can't AFFORD a Mac, and 2. They don't WANT a MAC, preferring
>the
> > FAR GREATER selection of software and the FAR GREATER selection of
>hardware
> > options that the PC owners enjoy.
>
>Actually & seriously, it seems to me if they didn't feel the need to stack
>the cupboard with endless "software" (games?) much of which is
>duplicative, they'd have lots of money left over... And, except for
>scanners, which admittedly are the pits, I've never been aware of any
>"hardware" I couldn't get. But of course I'm more into end result than
>hardware. I mean my idea of nice hardware is a nail to hang the masking
>tape on.
>
> > So enjoy the safety of the Mac, and realize that that "safety" is a
>function
> > of the still releatively small number of Mac users, making virus
>creation a
> > less than efficient proposition.
>
>So shhhhhhhh ! Maybe the less said the better... But thinking back to
>1986, when I got 1st Mac, I don't think the numbers were so lopsided. But
>maybe there weren't so many viri then either?
>
>best,
>
>Judy
>
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