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If you buy a car, it comes with seat belts. Safety is not optional - it's built in. If you buy a computer, safety of your data is seen as a luxury add-on, like
by harrybr 16y ago
If you buy a car, it comes with seat belts. Safety is not optional - it's built in.
If you buy a computer, safety of your data is seen as a luxury add-on, like leather seats.
It's crazy when you think about it.
- smallblacksun 16y agoBoth Windows and OSX come with built in backup software, but no one can force the user to use them.
- rogeriopvl 16y agoBut you still need to put the seat belt on! If you don't, your safety is compromised. So it's really up to the driver...
- redacted 16y agoIt was a Mac, which most likely came with Time Machine - all she had to do was connect a USB drive (as far as I remember, OS X even asks if you want to use the drive for backups) and she would have had automatic versioned backups. To be honest, I think most people need backing data up scared into them (e.g., I nearly lost a college project due a HD failure, and now I have multiple redundant backups).