It is caused by investing in the "perfect and macboxen-uber-alles" hysteria.
Real computers are rarely infested with such problems, and if some script-kiddie manages to find some weakness with any particular OS, it is usually the 'nix coders that rapidly respond and fix the problem.
Macophiles, on the other hand, prefer to think of these as merely a new "feature", rather than admit that their precious macinses can be hobbled in any way, shape, or form (my precious) because their macmachines are impossible to corrupt.
Oh, look, I need to print out another calendar -I had better call someone local that has a mac to beautify it and print it out. *snicker*
Then when I want to get some truly real work done instead of bloody cartooning, I will work on these Engineering projects on a real computer with a REAL and WORKING installed OS.
Then again, I do have some photos that need adjusting, so maybe the two or three people that are liberal and wealthy enough to play with macs can help out if I promise to say nice things about Hitlery -I mean, "Hillary" (*cough* "Mrs Bill" *cough*).
If I have to.
WELL ... I see another member of the APPLE-HATERS CULT on Free Republichas arrived here ... LOL ...
Y’all are as boring and idiotic as the next Apple-Haters Cult member, besides being outright LIARS. You know ... since you’re such a LIAR, that alone shows you’re not really a FReeper but a DU mole and/or “plant”, posing on Free Republic.
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NASA’s control room flooded with Macs during Mars Curiosity landing
By Slash Lane
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/06/nasas_control_room_flooded_with_macs_during_mars_curiosity_landing
Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words, like those that appeared over NASA’s live feed showing a control room riddled with Macs and other Apple products during the historical landing of the Curiosity rover on planet Mars last night.
The photos, captured from the live stream by Reddit users (via TMO), show nearly a dozen Macs — in addition to iPhones and even iPads — in use by the space agency’s Entry, Descent and Landing Operations (EDL Ops) team at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California Sunday evening.
NASA engineers can be seen fixated on their MacBook Pro screens and incoming data as the $2.6 billion Curiosity made a dramatic arrival on the Martian planet during what NASA scientists have dubbed “seven minutes of terror.”
One closeup photo confirms that these Macs were indeed running Mac OS X and not a flavor of Windows, while a second shows a lone IBM ThinkPad looking a bit out of place among the Apple-dominated lab.
The two thousand pound car-sized rover set off from earth on November 26th, equipped with 17 cameras and a laser that will help NASA engineers survey the planet and its terrain from the Jet Propulsion Lab in an effort to determine whether Mars ever had an environment that was able to support life forms.