Probably the same reason I've got to keep a Win2k system around for a reporting system and a co-worker has Win98SE systems for data aquisition. The new versions are not actually fully backward compatible. Mostly is not good enough when your application is one of the few (or so the advertising says) that does not work on the new platform. WinXP to Vista/7/8 is an especially huge leap with a LOT of stuff that no longer works - think back to the days of Vista when it took well over a year for versions of some software to be developed that would install on Vista. Part of Vista's reputation is deserved but most is just because a lot of software just had not been updated to run on it until long after release.
Default encryption on USB sticks/drives may be a good thing for aim for before embarrassing leaks happen. That and easily stolen laptops are the only place where I see this as being of use.
it's more pertinent when shipping backup tapes between buildings
I very strongly disagree there. Adding an extra complication to backups is just asking for trouble when you really need them, especially since the person doing the restoration may effectively be somebody "grabbed off the street" when the normal staff are not available and time is pressing. Physical security is the best idea for backups and for data with a useful life of decades (eg. nobody is stupid enough to encrypt seismic data), because the details of how to decrypt something may not be available when the data is required as a matter of urgency. IMHO that's why tape drive level encryption has such little use despite being available for well over a decade. An intelligence agency with multiple people knowing the keys to decrypt the data is one thing, a commercial enterprise where everyone who knows how to read the tapes can be laid off in a single merger or reorganization is another - thus making it a disadvantage instead of an asset.
Makes you wonder what RH is doing behind the scenes and why.
Lennart frequently blogs about how he could have been a contender and had his own linux if he'd just been born a little earlier - plus his plans of what he's doing behind the scenes to make linux HIS. It's all out in the open, lots of detail and if we don't like it we can just use somebody else's stuff. I wish him good luck with his "world domination" but I also wish he was a bit more patient and would stop inflicting alpha level shit on us as part of the process. You'd think he would have learnt his lesson with PulseAudio and NetworkManager that crashing pre-alpha shit doesn't belong in a "stable" release and that people using the "stable" release shouldn't have to put up with three years of crashes until he finally gets his shit together. To Lennart the linux environment has the fatal flaw that it's not under the tight control of anyone. To me that's an advantage. Previous attempts at a one size fits all environment (eg. on the desktop, CDE, supposed to be imposed on all but only really liked by people at Sun) have just demonstrated that people really do not want to be forced into a one size fits all environment.
You'd think so but cities tend to be energy and resource consuming monsters compared with sprawling suburbia. That promised economy of scale is not being delivered.
Are you suggesting that pocket monsters are cocks? Now that I think about it, there's a reason they shortened the name a bit so that it's acceptable to play with your pocket monster in public.
The old start menu gives you a tree of all the major stuff that is installed. MS has spent years effectively training people to use that interface and now people have to remember what they want instead of looking in the tree for that application they used last year or even earlier. That's a bit of a step backwards with the interface IMHO. Not as batshit insane as putting controls offscreen, but it seems to annoy people just the same.
I'm sure I replied to this but must have failed to submit it properly or something. In short, hiring a set designer is a gross symptom of a mindset of appearance over function to such an extent that a security risk and PR failure if it leaks overwhelms any positive outcome. It's wandering into "heck of a job" horse judge territory in terms of demonstrating someone is way out of their depth.
Second, the Navy trek thing is backwards. The Navy found it interesting that Trek sets had been inspired by submarine and other operations rooms from WWII up until the 1960s. Those vertical transparent charts that look cool in Trek are descended from manual methods of finding vessels by sonar. From what's been declassified computers have been doing all that stuff on screens since the 1970s so subs don't look like that any more. The navy inspired Trek, the navy then said "that's cool", but they were not inspired by Trek themselves - such a thing is ridiculous bullshit spouted by fans who want to feel important.
The last thing - Snowden was an external contractor. The trust level should have been very very low in such a situation - massive fuckup. Such auditing is fairly pointless in such a situation where they should never have so much trust in the first place, because they just want the cash and not the core values of whatever org they are contracting to. Contractors will rip you off in a variety of ways so there should be structures in place to limit the damage, because no matter what an audit tells you one of them will fuck you around for their own benefit if you look the other way long enough.
G. Whitlam:
"the widespread support here for an internationally acceptable act of self-determination in Portuguese Timor, and the great sensitivity of Australian Parliamentary and public opinion to any suggestion of a possible resort to unilateral action. I should like, if I may, to impress this sensitivity upon you. I am sure you will understand that no Australian Government could allow it to be thought, whether beforehand or afterwards, that it supported such action. A primary concern of any Australian Government, and certainly of my own, is the preservation and promotion of the close and mutually advantageous relationship between our two countries which has been and will remain so important to succeeding Governments in this country."
I think they want to avoid 7 turning into another XP where a crapload of users stick with it so it is hard for them to ditch it, and they end up having to support it for 14 years
Too late. There is only one person in my workplace that wants the tile interface and that's a person that already has it on a home PC. With the change to tiles I suspect a lot of people are going to stay on Win7 just to have a desktop that they are used to (and not the fucking insane idea of invisible controls hidden off screen).
Here's the real thing; http://www.nimbaanvils.com/mak... The reason blacksmiths don't make their own apart from trivial items like one I and your relative made out of rails is that smithing is about forging metal and not casting steel. There is a difference of about 600C between the two and it means a completely different furnace that is getting into heavy industry territory. There is also a very different skillset with patternmaking and casting to forging. One thing that makes it non-trivial is the cast steel changes volume when cooling so your pattern is not going to have the same dimensions as the finished product. I could have made the real thing at some point, but it would have been a shitty first attempt and the boss would have had a few questions about using an expensive to run induction furnace for a hobby project.
Only if you think Hillary Clinton is the US. There was some pretty embarrassing stuff about her, such as asking agents to get blackmail material on diplomats of allied nations.
I lived through the fucking period child. You certainly haven't got as far as general knowlege on the topic in "half your life", so sorry, your little bluff has failed, comparing it to Mozambique is an epic failure on it's own, so whatever topic you've spent "half your life" on it's very clearly not this one. The commie angle didn't wash with the UN - hence the need for a veto - the only people that believe it are apologists like you that were indoctrinated after the fact grasping at straws with elaborate fantasies to try to find a justification for why Ford and Kissenger went to work for a foreign power. The answer was simple and not so elaborate - money. The US involvement created diplomatic problems with Portugal and Australia, the later sparking off a hare brained B-movie plot to remove the leader of Australia, a plot that was never going to work, was known of by Australian intelligence before it even started and was used as an excuse for a couple of disgruntled agents to make a bit of money selling secrets to the USSR (the movie "Falcon and the Snowman" was very loosely based on it). That stupid shit was due to the leader of Australia complaining and being seen to be slow to cave in on East Timor due to some prominent Australian deaths in the invasion. Once again - Ford working against US interests because he'd been bought and paid for. It was a massive fuckup which Ford and Kissenger went to great lengths to pretend they had no say in despite plenty of documentation that's come out over the years to show they were helping out Indonesia every step of the way. A President of the United States was bought, paid for and working for Indonesia and letting them break US law (the end use agreements for a few billion worth of military aid) as a consequence - taking the side of Indonesia instead of the side of the USA.
Since there were no commies and there was not enough to convince the UN, Australia and Portugal other than warnings to stay out of it, how do you explain Ford going to work for Indonesia? Did he do it for free? What is the answer? Actually think instead of regurgitating the Party line like a Good Comrade and maybe you'll be a bit less naive.
With respect, the commercial software does involve even MORE waiting for some neckbeard wizard to find time to solve my issue between his Stargate SG1 marathons and WoW raid because you have a choice of one or two in the entire fucking world allowed to work on the issue after it has spent a month going through a trouble ticket system. I had to wait six months for a single line of code to be changed in an application after I had reverse engineered what it had to be changed back to. For that six months an expensive laser printer plotter sat idle.
A blacksmith will typically create an anvil for personal use
I only did that because I was a cheap bastard and a bit of rail worked for the light stuff I was doing. I think the analogy you are looking for is carpenters with jigs, the blacksmith one is broken.
Yeah, it is weird how HR types have such a hard on for Office skills
Unfortunately not weird, it's what they have themselves so they see it as important. Twenty years programming C but no skills with MS Office - not much of an IT person they will say. It used to be worse when they demanded WordPerfect as well as MS Word experience for anything related to computers, one place even asked for a list of at least three word processing programs (I added ChiWriter to the list).
that means the agency that spies on everybody and keeps a file on everybody cannot keep the data is gathers secure
One of the things that came out of the Manning leak was that an oil company operating in Nigeria already had that opinion and was very reluctant to share confidential information with US agencies.
Since they got a Hollywood set designer to do their operations room there are probably a long list of stupid failures from these toy soldiers possibly up to and including public internet connectivity and laptop misuse. The mere fact that Snowden got so much and that there appears to be no records of how much he got shows some serious breakage.
For fucks sake child a lot of the people involved are still alive so just because the only information YOU can be bothered to find without cracking open a book is incomplete only demonstrates your own lack of understanding on a topic you appear to want to lecture me on for some illogical reason. Interesting revision on the lair thing - if that is actually true then I suggest in the future phrasing things so they look a lot less like "corrections" with an implied accusation of lying.
Your "commie" turned out not to be one by your own eventual admission and I'm sure you'll eventually find "the whole process was basically designed to give power to folks who didn't like the US Foreign policy stance" isn't true either since the US wasn't even considered in some of those situations until an interested US connected party turned up. Also with the Timor situation Kissenger was having internal disputes with the State department and getting them off Indonesia's back - the situation as run by Ford and Kissenger was contrary to US Foreign policy as it stood before the visit to Jakarta - Kissenger notably chastised his staff when one of them raised the issue of Indonesia violating the arms end-use agreement by using US supplied equipment for offence instead of defence. A large donation to the Republican party meant some laws could be ignored. Ford sold himself to a foreign power just for the sake of a Party donation. Thus I have given my example. If you are too naive to take on on board so be it.
No, I don't "think", I KNOW, as does everyone that was paying attention at the time, that the bailouts in Europe in 2008 left the cupboards bare for that later problems that hit really hard two years later in that second crisis. Thus "aftershocks" on top of a pretty shaky situation. I'm sure you noticed. Everyone else did.
what you're saying you were told just does not jive with the rest of what I know
Your lack of understanding is not my problem, my problem is you coming in, suggesting I'm a liar and giving lengthy lectures based on what you've attempted to pick up five minutes ago with the help of Google. To be frank I find that very insulting and I'm finding it very difficult to be polite. Suggesting that they are the same as the people in Mozambique and Angola is especially insulting to everyone, especially your own intelligence.
You can do better if you attempt to think for yourself and actually digest information instead of trying to use it as some sort of crowbar in an argument you've picked with someone like me that just popped in to deliver an example.
Every outsource disaster points up the fact that management really had no idea what contribution their employees were making
Dealing with layoffs personally is difficult on many levels so in many cases it gets delegated to junior HR types who really have no idea what contribution their employees were making and do not have time to find out before deadline. So that idiot playing farmville all day instead of working gets to decide your fate. Also there's the "modern" idea of hands-off management where a manager is apparently able to manage without having a clue what the core business of the org they are running does. Thus things like the CEO of an electricity generating company that gets driven all the way out to the power plant for meetings yet never sets foot in anything other than the admin building (has a chance to learn some basics about what the org does but does not bother to look). That idiot I'm using as an example made some choices that led to a city of one and a half million people being blacked out for a month, but there are plenty more that manage/mismanage with the same style.
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That opens up the can of worms of campaign finance money and lobbying.
Probably the same reason I've got to keep a Win2k system around for a reporting system and a co-worker has Win98SE systems for data aquisition. The new versions are not actually fully backward compatible. Mostly is not good enough when your application is one of the few (or so the advertising says) that does not work on the new platform. WinXP to Vista/7/8 is an especially huge leap with a LOT of stuff that no longer works - think back to the days of Vista when it took well over a year for versions of some software to be developed that would install on Vista. Part of Vista's reputation is deserved but most is just because a lot of software just had not been updated to run on it until long after release.
Nothing but the sound of crickets. You talk a big game but are really a cowardly bully Cold Fjord.
I very strongly disagree there. Adding an extra complication to backups is just asking for trouble when you really need them, especially since the person doing the restoration may effectively be somebody "grabbed off the street" when the normal staff are not available and time is pressing. Physical security is the best idea for backups and for data with a useful life of decades (eg. nobody is stupid enough to encrypt seismic data), because the details of how to decrypt something may not be available when the data is required as a matter of urgency. IMHO that's why tape drive level encryption has such little use despite being available for well over a decade. An intelligence agency with multiple people knowing the keys to decrypt the data is one thing, a commercial enterprise where everyone who knows how to read the tapes can be laid off in a single merger or reorganization is another - thus making it a disadvantage instead of an asset.
Lennart frequently blogs about how he could have been a contender and had his own linux if he'd just been born a little earlier - plus his plans of what he's doing behind the scenes to make linux HIS. It's all out in the open, lots of detail and if we don't like it we can just use somebody else's stuff.
I wish him good luck with his "world domination" but I also wish he was a bit more patient and would stop inflicting alpha level shit on us as part of the process. You'd think he would have learnt his lesson with PulseAudio and NetworkManager that crashing pre-alpha shit doesn't belong in a "stable" release and that people using the "stable" release shouldn't have to put up with three years of crashes until he finally gets his shit together.
To Lennart the linux environment has the fatal flaw that it's not under the tight control of anyone. To me that's an advantage. Previous attempts at a one size fits all environment (eg. on the desktop, CDE, supposed to be imposed on all but only really liked by people at Sun) have just demonstrated that people really do not want to be forced into a one size fits all environment.
You'd think so but cities tend to be energy and resource consuming monsters compared with sprawling suburbia. That promised economy of scale is not being delivered.
Are you suggesting that pocket monsters are cocks?
Now that I think about it, there's a reason they shortened the name a bit so that it's acceptable to play with your pocket monster in public.
The old start menu gives you a tree of all the major stuff that is installed.
MS has spent years effectively training people to use that interface and now people have to remember what they want instead of looking in the tree for that application they used last year or even earlier.
That's a bit of a step backwards with the interface IMHO. Not as batshit insane as putting controls offscreen, but it seems to annoy people just the same.
I'm sure I replied to this but must have failed to submit it properly or something.
In short, hiring a set designer is a gross symptom of a mindset of appearance over function to such an extent that a security risk and PR failure if it leaks overwhelms any positive outcome. It's wandering into "heck of a job" horse judge territory in terms of demonstrating someone is way out of their depth.
Second, the Navy trek thing is backwards. The Navy found it interesting that Trek sets had been inspired by submarine and other operations rooms from WWII up until the 1960s. Those vertical transparent charts that look cool in Trek are descended from manual methods of finding vessels by sonar. From what's been declassified computers have been doing all that stuff on screens since the 1970s so subs don't look like that any more. The navy inspired Trek, the navy then said "that's cool", but they were not inspired by Trek themselves - such a thing is ridiculous bullshit spouted by fans who want to feel important.
The last thing - Snowden was an external contractor. The trust level should have been very very low in such a situation - massive fuckup. Such auditing is fairly pointless in such a situation where they should never have so much trust in the first place, because they just want the cash and not the core values of whatever org they are contracting to. Contractors will rip you off in a variety of ways so there should be structures in place to limit the damage, because no matter what an audit tells you one of them will fuck you around for their own benefit if you look the other way long enough.
G. Whitlam:
"the widespread support here for an internationally acceptable act of self-determination in Portuguese Timor, and the great sensitivity of Australian Parliamentary and public opinion to any suggestion of a possible resort to unilateral action. I should like, if I may, to impress this sensitivity upon you. I am sure you will understand that no Australian Government could allow it to be thought, whether beforehand or afterwards, that it supported such action. A primary concern of any Australian Government, and certainly of my own, is the preservation and promotion of the close and mutually advantageous relationship between our two countries which has been and will remain so important to succeeding Governments in this country."
Too late. There is only one person in my workplace that wants the tile interface and that's a person that already has it on a home PC. With the change to tiles I suspect a lot of people are going to stay on Win7 just to have a desktop that they are used to (and not the fucking insane idea of invisible controls hidden off screen).
The pop-ups and even reboots in the middle of full screen games are finally explained!
In this situation that just means the capacitor is in backwards and not a new pope of a cult that doesn't exist.
Here's the real thing;
http://www.nimbaanvils.com/mak...
The reason blacksmiths don't make their own apart from trivial items like one I and your relative made out of rails is that smithing is about forging metal and not casting steel. There is a difference of about 600C between the two and it means a completely different furnace that is getting into heavy industry territory. There is also a very different skillset with patternmaking and casting to forging. One thing that makes it non-trivial is the cast steel changes volume when cooling so your pattern is not going to have the same dimensions as the finished product.
I could have made the real thing at some point, but it would have been a shitty first attempt and the boss would have had a few questions about using an expensive to run induction furnace for a hobby project.
Only if you think Hillary Clinton is the US. There was some pretty embarrassing stuff about her, such as asking agents to get blackmail material on diplomats of allied nations.
I lived through the fucking period child. You certainly haven't got as far as general knowlege on the topic in "half your life", so sorry, your little bluff has failed, comparing it to Mozambique is an epic failure on it's own, so whatever topic you've spent "half your life" on it's very clearly not this one.
The commie angle didn't wash with the UN - hence the need for a veto - the only people that believe it are apologists like you that were indoctrinated after the fact grasping at straws with elaborate fantasies to try to find a justification for why Ford and Kissenger went to work for a foreign power. The answer was simple and not so elaborate - money.
The US involvement created diplomatic problems with Portugal and Australia, the later sparking off a hare brained B-movie plot to remove the leader of Australia, a plot that was never going to work, was known of by Australian intelligence before it even started and was used as an excuse for a couple of disgruntled agents to make a bit of money selling secrets to the USSR (the movie "Falcon and the Snowman" was very loosely based on it). That stupid shit was due to the leader of Australia complaining and being seen to be slow to cave in on East Timor due to some prominent Australian deaths in the invasion. Once again - Ford working against US interests because he'd been bought and paid for.
It was a massive fuckup which Ford and Kissenger went to great lengths to pretend they had no say in despite plenty of documentation that's come out over the years to show they were helping out Indonesia every step of the way. A President of the United States was bought, paid for and working for Indonesia and letting them break US law (the end use agreements for a few billion worth of military aid) as a consequence - taking the side of Indonesia instead of the side of the USA.
Since there were no commies and there was not enough to convince the UN, Australia and Portugal other than warnings to stay out of it, how do you explain Ford going to work for Indonesia? Did he do it for free? What is the answer? Actually think instead of regurgitating the Party line like a Good Comrade and maybe you'll be a bit less naive.
With respect, the commercial software does involve even MORE waiting for some neckbeard wizard to find time to solve my issue between his Stargate SG1 marathons and WoW raid because you have a choice of one or two in the entire fucking world allowed to work on the issue after it has spent a month going through a trouble ticket system. I had to wait six months for a single line of code to be changed in an application after I had reverse engineered what it had to be changed back to. For that six months an expensive laser printer plotter sat idle.
I only did that because I was a cheap bastard and a bit of rail worked for the light stuff I was doing. I think the analogy you are looking for is carpenters with jigs, the blacksmith one is broken.
Unfortunately not weird, it's what they have themselves so they see it as important. Twenty years programming C but no skills with MS Office - not much of an IT person they will say.
It used to be worse when they demanded WordPerfect as well as MS Word experience for anything related to computers, one place even asked for a list of at least three word processing programs (I added ChiWriter to the list).
One of the things that came out of the Manning leak was that an oil company operating in Nigeria already had that opinion and was very reluctant to share confidential information with US agencies.
Since they got a Hollywood set designer to do their operations room there are probably a long list of stupid failures from these toy soldiers possibly up to and including public internet connectivity and laptop misuse.
The mere fact that Snowden got so much and that there appears to be no records of how much he got shows some serious breakage.
For fucks sake child a lot of the people involved are still alive so just because the only information YOU can be bothered to find without cracking open a book is incomplete only demonstrates your own lack of understanding on a topic you appear to want to lecture me on for some illogical reason. Interesting revision on the lair thing - if that is actually true then I suggest in the future phrasing things so they look a lot less like "corrections" with an implied accusation of lying.
Your "commie" turned out not to be one by your own eventual admission and I'm sure you'll eventually find "the whole process was basically designed to give power to folks who didn't like the US Foreign policy stance" isn't true either since the US wasn't even considered in some of those situations until an interested US connected party turned up. Also with the Timor situation Kissenger was having internal disputes with the State department and getting them off Indonesia's back - the situation as run by Ford and Kissenger was contrary to US Foreign policy as it stood before the visit to Jakarta - Kissenger notably chastised his staff when one of them raised the issue of Indonesia violating the arms end-use agreement by using US supplied equipment for offence instead of defence. A large donation to the Republican party meant some laws could be ignored. Ford sold himself to a foreign power just for the sake of a Party donation.
Thus I have given my example. If you are too naive to take on on board so be it.
No, I don't "think", I KNOW, as does everyone that was paying attention at the time, that the bailouts in Europe in 2008 left the cupboards bare for that later problems that hit really hard two years later in that second crisis. Thus "aftershocks" on top of a pretty shaky situation. I'm sure you noticed. Everyone else did.
Your lack of understanding is not my problem, my problem is you coming in, suggesting I'm a liar and giving lengthy lectures based on what you've attempted to pick up five minutes ago with the help of Google. To be frank I find that very insulting and I'm finding it very difficult to be polite.
Suggesting that they are the same as the people in Mozambique and Angola is especially insulting to everyone, especially your own intelligence.
You can do better if you attempt to think for yourself and actually digest information instead of trying to use it as some sort of crowbar in an argument you've picked with someone like me that just popped in to deliver an example.
Dealing with layoffs personally is difficult on many levels so in many cases it gets delegated to junior HR types who really have no idea what contribution their employees were making and do not have time to find out before deadline. So that idiot playing farmville all day instead of working gets to decide your fate.
Also there's the "modern" idea of hands-off management where a manager is apparently able to manage without having a clue what the core business of the org they are running does. Thus things like the CEO of an electricity generating company that gets driven all the way out to the power plant for meetings yet never sets foot in anything other than the admin building (has a chance to learn some basics about what the org does but does not bother to look). That idiot I'm using as an example made some choices that led to a city of one and a half million people being blacked out for a month, but there are plenty more that manage/mismanage with the same style.