I've never known anyone to LOVE Windows XP. They only dislike Mac OS X (or Linux, or whatever else), so they use XP. And even then, they only dislike Mac OS X because they have too much personal background and training invested in the Windows route, or they like to pirate a lot of software, or they play video games, or they are hackers. Tinkerers really dislike Mac OS X, but that doesn't mean they LOVE XP; it just means they can tinker more in XP, which gives them more satisfaction. Even my parents won't budge from Windows, even though neither of them know a damned thing about computers, even 10 years on. They don't want to switch to Macs, because they think they will have to relearn everything (which is nothing, since they know nothing about their PCs, other than they are replacing them every year and some 'friend' keeps building them new ones for a 'bargain').
People who supposedly love Windows are the same people that claim their car never breaks down, yet they have their car up on blocks and are replacing the transmission. Or, they are the old people who hang around the water cooler at work and complain about their back pain and arthritis. I hear people in the break rooms at work complaining about their recent Microsoft breakdown and they just love commiserating with each other. It is a sick, sad phenomena that is passed of as people "loving" Windows?!?!
It's a master plan by Microsoft! Make Vista really bad and hype it. Soon enough, people will forget they've spent the past 5 years bitching and complaining about how XP crashes and gets infected with viruses and malware and how peripherals don't work, because compared to Vista, XP "just works". Meanwhile they are forgetting they've had a perfectly legitimate and superior alternative in Mac OS X the entire time.
All of these fools who think it's is ok for possession could, I dunno, take a 9th grade writing class? If they can't make it all the way through a semester of high school, then perhaps they should just pick up a copy of the APA Writing Style (5th ed.). I'm in the middle of moving, otherwise I'd direct you to the exact page and paragraph.
Let's (short for let us) review: It's = it is, and its = belonging to it, used for objects that are neither male or female.
Any other uses are simply wrong and there is no justifying one's laziness or ignorance on this forum. With that said, just acknowledge that a simple mistake was made, and we could have cut this thread in half.
Lenevo is choosing to go with an older, well-established OS that's tried and tested for the "mission critical" stuff rather than a newer, less tested one. So what?
Is anybody surprised at that? Would you do things differently?
Why yes I would. I would start with looking at Linux/Mac OS X/Sun Microsystems and would never consider Microsoft at all for anything mission critical. Internet kiosks would be fine...throw some $300 eMachines in there with XP/Vista, does it really matter? Shit is shit. Then again, Lenovo is kinda partial towards Microsoft OSes though, so it is their call since they forked out the big bucks for the chance to muck everything up.
Actually, I was thinking more like Sandy Berger, since he actually broke a law regarding handling of classified documents. I'm not sure what your Cheney comment is referring to, but it can't be more egregious than the Berger incident.
But it's also wrong to say that data generated by a contractor cannot be top secret in the legal and statutory sense of the term.
I apologize for not being clear, but this is not what I meant. Contractors create Top Secret material all the time; it just isn't their call to say if it is Top Secret or not. They create data, then the US classification authority applies a classification. This goes for government employees as well. An individual working an intelligence mission as a government employee doesn't classify documents, even if they created the document. The classification authorities assign classifications to all information created, not the operators creating the information.
Of course the article is not about a US contractor, so that only adds to the confusing posts I've made. Thanks for hearing me out;-)
I can only speak for UK law a little bit, having only worked there for a short while, but I do believe that the UK has clear government classification guidelines that are pretty tightly integrated with US classification law. A phone number is not worthy of "Top Secret" classification. Especially since a phone number alone does not reveal means or methods, nor does the compromise of a list of phone numbers cause "grave damage" to national security, which is the basic tenet of "Top Secret" classification under US Law.
Now I suppose I should actually read TFA, since my initial post has inspired an entirely off topic sub-conversation;-)
True, all of what you said (except contractors are not the majority of classified handlers, especially in compartmentalized intel). I was a contractor and I handled classified all day long. My point is that companies are TOLD by government classification guidelines what is "Top Secret" and don't just make up their own classifications because they work with government classified data. Even if contractors CREATE the data, the company doesn't classify the content they created, the government does. I've said too much. The blacksuits are here. Nice knowing you all!
"Company name proprietary" is appropriate. What my gripe is, (in the US, at least) is that companies mark business data as "Top Secret", which is strictly reserved and regulated by US law, when the company just means "company proprietary" or "company sensitive" data. It is just an irritating sense of inflated self-importance that gets under my skin, is all.
Contractors working with US classified documents are bound to the same rules and regulation as government employees when handling classified data. My point is that companies can't just make up their own classification of something being "Top Secret". Boeing doesn't have the right to make something they created "Top Secret" just because Boeing thinks it is Top Secret. Only the government classification authority can designate a classification of: Unclassified, Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret. Anything else would be internal corporate policy, but any naming convention Boeing comes up with on their own is NOT provided the same protections under US Law that real government classifications are. (I may sound like a broken record, but I used to teach this stuff to government employees).
I was a contractor that handled real Top Secret data and that term is reserved for government classified data only. Contractor's own stuff is neither Top Secret, nor protected under the provisions provided to government Top Secret data. My point is that there are too many stories from JoeBlow, Inc. that report "Top Secret" information being stolen just to sensationalize the story. To working professionals in the Intel field, the notion that Top Secret data was stolen is a national security crisis, only to read in the story that some stupid company lost some data with private information in it.
True, that many countries share classification terminology. England, Canada, U.S. and Australia, for example, have all worked to synchronize their terms and laws. But the common thread is that these are all covered by government classification guidelines, not the private sector.
I suppose the info in the story could be "Top Secret" in the true sense of the word, but if this company was a contractor handling real Top Secret (ie, government classified) data, it would be a much bigger story than something buried in slashdot;-)
"Top Secret" is a term reserved for government classification schemes (in the US) and is clearly outlined by US laws. Using "Top Secret" for a business is just sensationalism. This business lost sensitive data, not "Top Secret" data.
I dunno, my iTunes version of Brubeck's "Time Out" sounds pretty much superior to my old cassette version, and is arguably nicer than the cd version (lacks the brash highs that cds are known for). I would say Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" is also better in AAC than CD. But then again, my iTunes versions of Stone Sour probably don't sound any different than a CD version because of the "wall of sound" you mentioned. In either case, AAC is better for me...
i have a friend who can't stand the way mp3's fuck up guitars and high hats
Good thing iTunes songs aren't MP3s then...
But seriously, I majored in Percussion Performance in College and have been playing part-time weekend gigs for 20+ years now. Maybe it's all those gigs, but I can't tell the difference between an iTunes song vs. a cd, even on my $5,000+ worth of home stereo gear. I can hear the difference between radio signals (and iPods using FM transmitters), though, so to me, digital files are a godsend, even at meager 128 sample rates.
Well, I'd agree on the 95% Windows part, but not the 4-5% OS X part. In otherwords, if the US tech industry is sooooo bad, then why does the entire world depend on it? I can't think of any other industry so dominated by one country. Other countries have thriving tech industries too, but they mostly stem from US-based companies. Other countries make better hardware for less money, but again, the hardware depends on US technologies to work.
I bought my kid a Wii...because he is EIGHT. The thing kinda sucks, actually, but I doubt that an EIGHT year old would appreciate the technical superiority of a PS3. I certainly don't want to spend $300 on an Xbox 360 with a 1-in-3 chance of it breaking either. Now I can play my PC games while my kids swing away at the TV screen for hours!
Depends where you live, but still off-topic anyway. The worst parts of my large US city have free wireless broadband to help the poor keep up (as if poor people have computers?). The worst parts of S. Korea use donkeys to pull their plows and don't have electricity within 100 miles. How is that "so far ahead"?
Americans are deliberately making inferior products. No wonder there are issues competing.
Yet, 99% of all the personal computers in the world run either Windows or Mac OS X, both from companies firmly planted on the West Coast of America. Just sayin'... Now if you would have been talking about cars or pretty much any other consumer product, I'd agree.
judging by the at-least 150 people at the San Antonio Apple store buying new iMacs last night, I would guess they are starting the migration away from Vista.
Not funny. Not even a chuckle. Flat out stupid. Would you find it funny if someone posted a mock article about your profession, then proceeded to get everything wrong based on perceptions and stereotypes, all in the name of humor? The first tenant of humor is that it is steeped in just a wee bit of truth, and this one falls flat because it shows the author is biased against "artsy fartsy" (my emphasis) people. He probably likes to mock wine-tasting and cigar afficianados too, since they seem to be the same disingenious types who care about seemingly unimportant minutiae.
I for one am quite tired of the lack of understanding people have of the importance of proper print standards. The Onion is only furthering stupid stereotypes with a low-brow attempt to be cute. The author most likely had a bad encounter with the typesetting shop one day and is taking it out on them;-)
I once read that the print/publishing industry (at the time, 10 years ago maybe) was the third largest industry in the world, yet people carry on as if it were a throwback. I also recall the printing press being one of the most important inventions of all time. Thank you, Windows 95, for letting everyone NOT in the industry think they are professional designers and that the print industry is dead.
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People who supposedly love Windows are the same people that claim their car never breaks down, yet they have their car up on blocks and are replacing the transmission. Or, they are the old people who hang around the water cooler at work and complain about their back pain and arthritis. I hear people in the break rooms at work complaining about their recent Microsoft breakdown and they just love commiserating with each other. It is a sick, sad phenomena that is passed of as people "loving" Windows?!?!
It's a master plan by Microsoft! Make Vista really bad and hype it. Soon enough, people will forget they've spent the past 5 years bitching and complaining about how XP crashes and gets infected with viruses and malware and how peripherals don't work, because compared to Vista, XP "just works". Meanwhile they are forgetting they've had a perfectly legitimate and superior alternative in Mac OS X the entire time.
Let's (short for let us) review: It's = it is, and its = belonging to it, used for objects that are neither male or female.
Any other uses are simply wrong and there is no justifying one's laziness or ignorance on this forum. With that said, just acknowledge that a simple mistake was made, and we could have cut this thread in half.
Sincerely,
Not-a-grammar-Nazi-but-hate-stupid-people
Deplane is a legit synonym for disembark, not a made-up word by the airline industry.
Of course the article is not about a US contractor, so that only adds to the confusing posts I've made. Thanks for hearing me out ;-)
Now I suppose I should actually read TFA, since my initial post has inspired an entirely off topic sub-conversation ;-)
True, all of what you said (except contractors are not the majority of classified handlers, especially in compartmentalized intel). I was a contractor and I handled classified all day long. My point is that companies are TOLD by government classification guidelines what is "Top Secret" and don't just make up their own classifications because they work with government classified data. Even if contractors CREATE the data, the company doesn't classify the content they created, the government does. I've said too much. The blacksuits are here. Nice knowing you all!
"Company name proprietary" is appropriate. What my gripe is, (in the US, at least) is that companies mark business data as "Top Secret", which is strictly reserved and regulated by US law, when the company just means "company proprietary" or "company sensitive" data. It is just an irritating sense of inflated self-importance that gets under my skin, is all.
A week ago I would have known (I just moved back to the States from the UK) ;-) Stupid narrow world-view of the US!
Contractors working with US classified documents are bound to the same rules and regulation as government employees when handling classified data. My point is that companies can't just make up their own classification of something being "Top Secret". Boeing doesn't have the right to make something they created "Top Secret" just because Boeing thinks it is Top Secret. Only the government classification authority can designate a classification of: Unclassified, Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret. Anything else would be internal corporate policy, but any naming convention Boeing comes up with on their own is NOT provided the same protections under US Law that real government classifications are. (I may sound like a broken record, but I used to teach this stuff to government employees).
True, that many countries share classification terminology. England, Canada, U.S. and Australia, for example, have all worked to synchronize their terms and laws. But the common thread is that these are all covered by government classification guidelines, not the private sector.
I suppose the info in the story could be "Top Secret" in the true sense of the word, but if this company was a contractor handling real Top Secret (ie, government classified) data, it would be a much bigger story than something buried in slashdot ;-)
"Top Secret" is a term reserved for government classification schemes (in the US) and is clearly outlined by US laws. Using "Top Secret" for a business is just sensationalism. This business lost sensitive data, not "Top Secret" data.
I dunno, my iTunes version of Brubeck's "Time Out" sounds pretty much superior to my old cassette version, and is arguably nicer than the cd version (lacks the brash highs that cds are known for). I would say Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" is also better in AAC than CD. But then again, my iTunes versions of Stone Sour probably don't sound any different than a CD version because of the "wall of sound" you mentioned. In either case, AAC is better for me...
Good thing iTunes songs aren't MP3s then...
But seriously, I majored in Percussion Performance in College and have been playing part-time weekend gigs for 20+ years now. Maybe it's all those gigs, but I can't tell the difference between an iTunes song vs. a cd, even on my $5,000+ worth of home stereo gear. I can hear the difference between radio signals (and iPods using FM transmitters), though, so to me, digital files are a godsend, even at meager 128 sample rates.
Well, I'd agree on the 95% Windows part, but not the 4-5% OS X part. In otherwords, if the US tech industry is sooooo bad, then why does the entire world depend on it? I can't think of any other industry so dominated by one country. Other countries have thriving tech industries too, but they mostly stem from US-based companies. Other countries make better hardware for less money, but again, the hardware depends on US technologies to work.
I bought my kid a Wii...because he is EIGHT. The thing kinda sucks, actually, but I doubt that an EIGHT year old would appreciate the technical superiority of a PS3. I certainly don't want to spend $300 on an Xbox 360 with a 1-in-3 chance of it breaking either. Now I can play my PC games while my kids swing away at the TV screen for hours!
Depends where you live, but still off-topic anyway. The worst parts of my large US city have free wireless broadband to help the poor keep up (as if poor people have computers?). The worst parts of S. Korea use donkeys to pull their plows and don't have electricity within 100 miles. How is that "so far ahead"?
a simple os x update
judging by the at-least 150 people at the San Antonio Apple store buying new iMacs last night, I would guess they are starting the migration away from Vista.
You'll be eating those words in 5 years, just like those 5-year old anti-iPod words you are eating now.
Isn't this why OS X gives the user the option to turn off font smoothing for fonts sized 12 and below?
I for one am quite tired of the lack of understanding people have of the importance of proper print standards. The Onion is only furthering stupid stereotypes with a low-brow attempt to be cute. The author most likely had a bad encounter with the typesetting shop one day and is taking it out on them ;-)
I once read that the print/publishing industry (at the time, 10 years ago maybe) was the third largest industry in the world, yet people carry on as if it were a throwback. I also recall the printing press being one of the most important inventions of all time. Thank you, Windows 95, for letting everyone NOT in the industry think they are professional designers and that the print industry is dead.