Posts by Scoot

Mega yawn

@Anonymous vulture: I have a Wii *and* an XBox 360, and both *aren't* gathering dust. Both are cool in their own ways. And, anyway, Metroid Prime 3 comes out next month, so I'll be playing that *and* Halo 3!

The Wii *is* next-gen. It does things in a way other consoles don't. If people want to think of next-gen as better graphics and sound, fair enough. But next-gen shouldn't be measured by raw processing power, but by popularity instead!

So what about people who do secure their wi-fi?!

@William: Do/would you leave your wireless network unsecured? Or even your front door open? If so, I'm popping round to watch your Debbie Does Dallas DVD! :-P

This is a stupid, poorly thought law - I worked in central government for a few years, and many of them (ie. usually the ones in power) have no clue about technology whatsoever. How anyone can advocate ignoring security functionality/features on a device which can be publicly visible must be a moron. It's just licence to be lazy and careless. Oh, and no wonder identity fraud and debit/credit card fraud is so high in the UK!!!

Even worse than an unsecured wireless router is an unsecured wireless router with the factory-default administrator username and password!!!

Macs are for stupid people, like the author of this article

The first thing the author comes up with as an alternative to the Dell he ordered is to get a Mac. Hello? There is more than one PC manufacturer/builder, whereas there's only one Apple.

OK, so Vista isn't perfect, but Microsoft (unlike Apple) have to contend with many varying combinations of hardware. I expected Vista to have problems when it was first released, but that's par for the course.

Here's my reasons for not wanting to get a Mac...

For starters, I don't see how Mac OS X is any better than Windows XP or Vista. To me, Mac OS seems dumbed down. I can't totally remember, but the right-click context menus are off by default, I think. Its standard web browser, Safari, doesn't have tabs enabled by default and its not very customisable - well, it doesn't make it apparent whether its easily customisable. The green "optimise" window button is somewhat misleading when I click it - to me a plus means "more" or "bigger", whereas optimising something can go both ways. And why can't I resize windows from any edge??? Oh, and don't get me started about the "it just works" cobblers - I've had a number of peripherals not work correctly with Mac OS X. I'm not saying Mac OS X is all bad, its just too dumbed down for me.

If anything, the author of this article has just proven to me he deserves a Mac... or a typewriter, or a pen and paper. Just anything that doesn't exceed his IQ!!!