Um, how do you figure? A vulnerability that hasn't been fixed when a product is released is still a vulnerability, and it still occurs pre-release, so that satisfies both criteria for being a zero day vulnerability.
Actually its not entirely wrong - in Jerusalem a vibrant Jewish population was protected and respected by Saladin, and later slaughtered by European knights when the city was taken.
Yes, when the siege of Jerusalem was broken, crusaders went on a rampage of raping, killing, and looting, like I said. The only reason eastern Christians weren't slaughtered was that they had been expelled from the city during the siege.
The crusades were a travesty, but they were all about a money grab more than they were about religious righteousness. Opportunists took the call to secure a route to the holy lands from Constantinople and decided they'd set up their own kingdoms instead. The land grab had a heck of a recruiting pitch for the common man, though.
Attenboroughs documentaries such as Life, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and also stuff like Human Planet etc.
They're still not common enough for my liking though, personally. If I had my way we'd have at least 2 BBC HD channels dedicated to those sorts of shows and they'd consume most of the BBC's budget rather than shit like The Voice, Strictly Come Bollocks, and Eastenders because it's the one thing the BBC genuinely leads in globally and seems to do better than anyone else by quite a margin.
BBC documentaries suck the life out of any subject. I'm a huge of fan of documentaries but I see the BBC ones and they're horrible. Not so much Attenboroughs stuff, though, but those could really use someone like Oprah Winfrey or Sigourney Weaver doing their voiceovers. That would really make them so much better...
Heh, that's my biggest beef with conspiracy theorists. Apparently none of them have ever worked for a government agency.
I think they'd be flattered that all these whack jobs think they've got they're shit together enough to fake a moon landing or hide evidence of an alien crash site.
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime. It's blasphemous! Crimes of blasphemy were invented by the religious to defend holy doctrines and dogmas of their religion that were incapable of standing up to scrutiny. Besides, you can't offend what doesn't exist
Yeah, because Chrstians aren't real! Good thinkin', brainiac.
The blasphemy is not the root cause of all this trouble, poverty is. People who don't have jobs have nothing to do but sit at home and stew about how the Jews/Americans/Whoever are keeping them down and shitting on what little they have left. There's a lot of pent up rage in the Muslim world because there's so much crippling poverty. Give people work and they become much more docile.
During the Crusades Muslims allowed Christians and Jews to practice their religions freely, paying only a small tax, while Christian crusaders generally enforced a convert or die approach.
This is patently false. Non-Muslims living under Muslim rule were required to pay a tax to show their subjugation. There are many accounts of Muslims living in the crusader kingdoms praising the feudal system of the crusaders which allowed them self-governance, something they didn't have living under Muslim rulers.
There were instances of slaughter during the crusades after sieges had been broken, but these were motivated more by greed than religious intolerance, as were most of the actions during the crusades.
Mythbusters is pseudoscience at best. It's entertaining, which is its designed intent, but it galls me when Internet people hold it up as a paragon of scientific thought.
If you can't make a proof of concept of any sort for your device, then you're blowing smoke up the butts of the potential backers and they should be able to figure that out by your lack of preparation.
12V charging isn't a function of the connector, so I don't even know what you're talking about there.
The 12-volt capability is part of the firewire support. There are two pins for 12V power, and two pins for 5V. Many car connectors and chargers used this for iPod and iPhone charging in the past, but Apple stopped supporting it in the iPhone as of the 3GS.
You forgot one item on the new connector "feature" list: 5. It's an all digital connector allowing Apple to add an authentication chip to the cable to restrict third party manufacturers from creating low cost compatible hardware, the same way that the iPod controls on the headsets work now.
Yep, the primary reason Apple is changing to this connector rather than a standard one is so that they can screw you into buying their cables and only accessories that they've licensed. If they went with Thunderbolt they wouldn't have complete control the way they want.
I have no problem embracing a change like this, if I'm getting something for my investment. Right now, I'd get less than what I have and I'd have to pay a premium for it. I'm not buying unicorn horns and pixie dust; if they want to sell me something, they are selling me what they have right now and not what they will have eventually. Seriously, they couldn't have made their flagship product compatible with Thunderbolt or USB 3 for launch?
They took pre-orders more than a year in advance and ran into a bunch of production issues. One thing they were able to do was refund my pre-order after a year and a half had gone by with nothing to show for it. Couldn't do that on Kickstarter.
By the time the product shipped, it's stellar specs had fallen to humdrum specs. Lately the project is focused on creating their sweet controllers for other devices and leaving the handheld creation to the big boys, the ones with engineering staffs, development budgets, and high capacity manufacturing capabilities.
If all you have to show for your work is 3D renderings, then your hardware project isn't ready to solicit for donations or funding of any sort, Kickstarter or otherwise. There's nothing wrong with Kickstarters model. These new rules simply bring it more in line with the rest of the funding world.
One of the biggest rookie mistakes (that I still make from time to time) is that in my estimate, I assume I'll actually be able to work on the project uninterrupted. Yes, simple things could be cranked out in a couple of days, if that were the only thing on my plate, but that ain't ever the case.
Then you have your more experienced coders take a look at everything that went wrong and redesign with those lessons in mind, as well as having the business end look at it and give feedback on anything they'd like to see added or changed.
Of course, that would be considered as too much wasted time for anyone to seriously consider it...
Sadly, rarely there are lessons to be gleaned from these kind of FUBARs. These are rookie mistakes that have been made from time immemorial that could have been avoided if greater care were taken in the beginning. Heck, the people who are driving these too fast projects are usually in too much of a hurry to be burdened with the process of writing a complete scope document, let alone suffer through comrehensive architechture review.
Personally, I'd rather spend a week researching the project with the principles than diving right into the code, but you'd be surprised (maybe not) at how unhelpful people can be when they want you to "just get started already" and "stop wasting time".
I've found that when a young buck cranks something out in a week, the project takes the same amount of time it's just that instead of that time being spent designing and implementing a worthwhile solution, it's spent kludging up workarounds for the lousy protoype. This is not how I prefer to spend my time as a programmer. So now, I just bow out and let the kid beat his head against the wall until they ask me to look at it, at which point I tell them it'll take my original estimate and start over. Sadly, I don't think a lot of people have this luxury.
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Yeah, and cruise control is stupid because you can't use it all the time, too.
If I have a hammer I have to use it for every single task I have, otherwise what's the point of owning a hammer?
Um, how do you figure? A vulnerability that hasn't been fixed when a product is released is still a vulnerability, and it still occurs pre-release, so that satisfies both criteria for being a zero day vulnerability.
Actually its not entirely wrong - in Jerusalem a vibrant Jewish population was protected and respected by Saladin, and later slaughtered by European knights when the city was taken.
Yes, when the siege of Jerusalem was broken, crusaders went on a rampage of raping, killing, and looting, like I said. The only reason eastern Christians weren't slaughtered was that they had been expelled from the city during the siege.
The crusades were a travesty, but they were all about a money grab more than they were about religious righteousness. Opportunists took the call to secure a route to the holy lands from Constantinople and decided they'd set up their own kingdoms instead. The land grab had a heck of a recruiting pitch for the common man, though.
People say it's a paragon of a science-oriented entertaining show/
Just like Ghost Hunters International. Not that snake oil Ghost Hunters, though.
Attenboroughs documentaries such as Life, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and also stuff like Human Planet etc.
They're still not common enough for my liking though, personally. If I had my way we'd have at least 2 BBC HD channels dedicated to those sorts of shows and they'd consume most of the BBC's budget rather than shit like The Voice, Strictly Come Bollocks, and Eastenders because it's the one thing the BBC genuinely leads in globally and seems to do better than anyone else by quite a margin.
BBC documentaries suck the life out of any subject. I'm a huge of fan of documentaries but I see the BBC ones and they're horrible. Not so much Attenboroughs stuff, though, but those could really use someone like Oprah Winfrey or Sigourney Weaver doing their voiceovers. That would really make them so much better...
Why are you so protective of ABP? I use it in conjunction with Ghostery.
Blasphemy! You are banished from the land!
Heh, that's my biggest beef with conspiracy theorists. Apparently none of them have ever worked for a government agency.
I think they'd be flattered that all these whack jobs think they've got they're shit together enough to fake a moon landing or hide evidence of an alien crash site.
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime. It's blasphemous! Crimes of blasphemy were invented by the religious to defend holy doctrines and dogmas of their religion that were incapable of standing up to scrutiny. Besides, you can't offend what doesn't exist
Yeah, because Chrstians aren't real! Good thinkin', brainiac.
Because where we have no money, we have no influence. Simple enough for you?
The blasphemy is not the root cause of all this trouble, poverty is. People who don't have jobs have nothing to do but sit at home and stew about how the Jews/Americans/Whoever are keeping them down and shitting on what little they have left. There's a lot of pent up rage in the Muslim world because there's so much crippling poverty. Give people work and they become much more docile.
or Athiests during WWII (Stalin), Cambodia (Pol Pot), China (Mao), etc.
Don't forget the French Revolution. The triumph of atheism and rational thought brought about The Terror.
During the Crusades Muslims allowed Christians and Jews to practice their religions freely, paying only a small tax, while Christian crusaders generally enforced a convert or die approach.
This is patently false. Non-Muslims living under Muslim rule were required to pay a tax to show their subjugation. There are many accounts of Muslims living in the crusader kingdoms praising the feudal system of the crusaders which allowed them self-governance, something they didn't have living under Muslim rulers.
There were instances of slaughter during the crusades after sieges had been broken, but these were motivated more by greed than religious intolerance, as were most of the actions during the crusades.
Just because it wasn't as good doesn't mean that it didn't exist.
Mythbusters is pseudoscience at best. It's entertaining, which is its designed intent, but it galls me when Internet people hold it up as a paragon of scientific thought.
But Ad-Block can replace all the ads with pictures of kittens. Does your precious Ghostery do this?
The design is already trademarked by the SBB. Did you not read the article? Oh yeah, this is Slashdot.
If you can't make a proof of concept of any sort for your device, then you're blowing smoke up the butts of the potential backers and they should be able to figure that out by your lack of preparation.
12V charging isn't a function of the connector, so I don't even know what you're talking about there.
The 12-volt capability is part of the firewire support. There are two pins for 12V power, and two pins for 5V. Many car connectors and chargers used this for iPod and iPhone charging in the past, but Apple stopped supporting it in the iPhone as of the 3GS.
You forgot one item on the new connector "feature" list:
5. It's an all digital connector allowing Apple to add an authentication chip to the cable to restrict third party manufacturers from creating low cost compatible hardware, the same way that the iPod controls on the headsets work now.
Yep, the primary reason Apple is changing to this connector rather than a standard one is so that they can screw you into buying their cables and only accessories that they've licensed. If they went with Thunderbolt they wouldn't have complete control the way they want.
I have no problem embracing a change like this, if I'm getting something for my investment. Right now, I'd get less than what I have and I'd have to pay a premium for it. I'm not buying unicorn horns and pixie dust; if they want to sell me something, they are selling me what they have right now and not what they will have eventually. Seriously, they couldn't have made their flagship product compatible with Thunderbolt or USB 3 for launch?
(It's not that sordid, I'm being too harsh)
They took pre-orders more than a year in advance and ran into a bunch of production issues. One thing they were able to do was refund my pre-order after a year and a half had gone by with nothing to show for it. Couldn't do that on Kickstarter.
By the time the product shipped, it's stellar specs had fallen to humdrum specs. Lately the project is focused on creating their sweet controllers for other devices and leaving the handheld creation to the big boys, the ones with engineering staffs, development budgets, and high capacity manufacturing capabilities.
Or look at the sordid tale of Open Pandora. Too bad Kickstarter wasn't around when they got started.
If all you have to show for your work is 3D renderings, then your hardware project isn't ready to solicit for donations or funding of any sort, Kickstarter or otherwise. There's nothing wrong with Kickstarters model. These new rules simply bring it more in line with the rest of the funding world.
I use the rule on the individual milestones for a large project and it works pretty well for estimating the entire project:
foreach(milestone myMilestone in project.milestones)
{
totalEstimate += ((initialEstimate*2) + 1 week);
}
One of the biggest rookie mistakes (that I still make from time to time) is that in my estimate, I assume I'll actually be able to work on the project uninterrupted. Yes, simple things could be cranked out in a couple of days, if that were the only thing on my plate, but that ain't ever the case.
Then you have your more experienced coders take a look at everything that went wrong and redesign with those lessons in mind, as well as having the business end look at it and give feedback on anything they'd like to see added or changed.
Of course, that would be considered as too much wasted time for anyone to seriously consider it...
Sadly, rarely there are lessons to be gleaned from these kind of FUBARs. These are rookie mistakes that have been made from time immemorial that could have been avoided if greater care were taken in the beginning. Heck, the people who are driving these too fast projects are usually in too much of a hurry to be burdened with the process of writing a complete scope document, let alone suffer through comrehensive architechture review.
Personally, I'd rather spend a week researching the project with the principles than diving right into the code, but you'd be surprised (maybe not) at how unhelpful people can be when they want you to "just get started already" and "stop wasting time".
I've found that when a young buck cranks something out in a week, the project takes the same amount of time it's just that instead of that time being spent designing and implementing a worthwhile solution, it's spent kludging up workarounds for the lousy protoype. This is not how I prefer to spend my time as a programmer. So now, I just bow out and let the kid beat his head against the wall until they ask me to look at it, at which point I tell them it'll take my original estimate and start over. Sadly, I don't think a lot of people have this luxury.