of course they cant guarantee third parties, how can they? they've no way to stop the distributer from mixing in fake chips with the real ones. I mean i doubt that someone like farnell or digikey would do that, but there's no way for FTDI to stop them if they did.
I'm fairly sure you can self sign drivers as you need to.
I started looking making custom winUSB driver for one of my little cypress fx2lp micro controller boards and it wouldnt install on windows 10 due to signing. So I self signed it and stuck the cert into the store and it worked fine. This process should work ok for open source drivers too. I'm currently creating a self signed variant of the Altera USB-Blaster driver since they cheaped out and just took the FTDI driver and edited the inf file, thus rendering the original signing invalid.
Yes and no. My wife is self employed, with her place of business being our home. She can claim all sorts of deductions on her tax so while her income is more than mine, by the time the deductions are taken off I'm earning more.
Some of the deductions seem to me to be stupid; for instance she can claim depreciation on her car as well as portions of our electricity and home heating bills. All of which we would be paying if she were employed.it probably amounts to about 20% of her income all told.
you just need to craft the tariffs to offset the cost saving of using cheap labour in countries with worse employment and environmental laws. It makes sense to have free trade between equals, such as the US and the EU (so long as they stop letting in the poor eastern European countries) but when you open it up to goods manufactured in countries where the prevailing wage is so low that companies can afford to hire 20 people to replace 1 then every manufactured pretty much has to source their production there or else they just can't compete.
Now it is partially our fault. We, as consumers, will often seek out the cheapest price for our purchases. We will skip the locally owned shop to buy things in the nearby MegaMart. This, like outsourcing everything to the developing world, is short term thinking and it's that that is going to come back and bite us in the arse.
but of course apples should all be fermented into proper cider tho. (propery cider means not magners or bulmers but proper tart cider with a hint of after sweetness. kinda like myself.)
you obviously dont watch too many Youtube videos. Most of the regular ones i watch are constantly begging for me to donate using patreon. none of them are worth it.
you were the one who was trying to say a scrum ceremony was not a meeting and at no point did i even hint that meetings are a waste of time; some are, some aren't. If you get something useful out of your "ceremony" (a word which has even more connotations of uselessness than "meeting" but that is neither here nor there) then more power to you, but trying to pretend it's anything other than just a meeting, albeit a useful one, is just self-delusion.
Did i say everything is a meeting? No I did not. i said "when a group of colleagues "meet" at a predetermined time and place, for a predetermined work related purpose, then it's a meeting."
So we have several requirements to be met.
A group of colleagues.
A predetermined time.
A predetermined place.
A predetermined work related purpose.
It's a fairly simple list and i'm sure that even with your obvious learning difficulties (my condolences to your mother by the way) you'll eventually work out that your "ceremonies" fit neatly into the definition of "meeting".
If you are doing scrum properly, the team of _developers_ decide via poker planning how hard a particular feature (user story) will be to develop.
That should be true of waterfall as well. You get the requirements then the engineers spec them out completely end to end with a complete breakdown of all the work and come up with an estimation of the total work required for each requirement. Then the project owner can drop requirements to shorten the timescales. You can also account for features that depend on other features so you can know whether or not adding an additional engineer to the project will not shorten the critical path.
Where I'm working at the moment we have two teams, one doing agile (with sprints and retros etc) and one doing kanban.(the one i'm on). The agile team arent going to meet their due date of end of Q1 next year so my team is helping by taking features and doing them using our method (just to keep it simple for us). I don't know how they even know what timescales they expect as none of the epics or tasks have any form of breakdown. They all seem to just have the title and a few subtasks but there's no level of planning involved. I can't understand how you can even subscribe to any deadline until you know the total sum of work to be done before hand. But that's just me, I like waterfall cos I like to plan up front and i've no problem telling someone who wants to change the requirements mid-project to go fuck themselves.
If the core idea of scrum is to break things down so they can be accurately measured then it's pretty much what i was doing for waterfall. If you spend the time up front then you know exactly what tasks you need to do before you're done. The last time i worked on waterfall (before I left the job for more money elsewhere) we spent about a month and a half on planning and ended up only about a week over the estimation for a 9 month, 5 developer project.
when a group of colleagues "meet" at a predetermined time and place, for a predetermined work related purpose, then it's a meeting. You can call it a flower arranging contest if you want, but it's still a meeting.
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i've got one that will already do this! mainly due to the fact that it hosed the SD card and no longer boots...
my understanding is you buy your FTDI chips directly from them. thats how you guarantee genuine supply.
of course they cant guarantee third parties, how can they? they've no way to stop the distributer from mixing in fake chips with the real ones. I mean i doubt that someone like farnell or digikey would do that, but there's no way for FTDI to stop them if they did.
I'm fairly sure you can self sign drivers as you need to.
I started looking making custom winUSB driver for one of my little cypress fx2lp micro controller boards and it wouldnt install on windows 10 due to signing. So I self signed it and stuck the cert into the store and it worked fine. This process should work ok for open source drivers too. I'm currently creating a self signed variant of the Altera USB-Blaster driver since they cheaped out and just took the FTDI driver and edited the inf file, thus rendering the original signing invalid.
Or tax the problem so that the solution is paid for (or more than paid for in the case of smoking in the UK and it's cost to the NHS)
with blackjack? and hookers?
Yes and no. My wife is self employed, with her place of business being our home. She can claim all sorts of deductions on her tax so while her income is more than mine, by the time the deductions are taken off I'm earning more.
Some of the deductions seem to me to be stupid; for instance she can claim depreciation on her car as well as portions of our electricity and home heating bills. All of which we would be paying if she were employed.it probably amounts to about 20% of her income all told.
Ammonium Nitrate and diesel. Favourite recipe from the IRA cookbook.
i endorse big clive.
you just need to craft the tariffs to offset the cost saving of using cheap labour in countries with worse employment and environmental laws. It makes sense to have free trade between equals, such as the US and the EU (so long as they stop letting in the poor eastern European countries) but when you open it up to goods manufactured in countries where the prevailing wage is so low that companies can afford to hire 20 people to replace 1 then every manufactured pretty much has to source their production there or else they just can't compete.
Now it is partially our fault. We, as consumers, will often seek out the cheapest price for our purchases. We will skip the locally owned shop to buy things in the nearby MegaMart. This, like outsourcing everything to the developing world, is short term thinking and it's that that is going to come back and bite us in the arse.
they may need outside help to create a ICBM capable warhead tho.
amen brother. preach it. etc.
but of course apples should all be fermented into proper cider tho. (propery cider means not magners or bulmers but proper tart cider with a hint of after sweetness. kinda like myself.)
I'm much more of a Pink Lady man myself.
you obviously dont watch too many Youtube videos. Most of the regular ones i watch are constantly begging for me to donate using patreon. none of them are worth it.
you were the one who was trying to say a scrum ceremony was not a meeting and at no point did i even hint that meetings are a waste of time; some are, some aren't. If you get something useful out of your "ceremony" (a word which has even more connotations of uselessness than "meeting" but that is neither here nor there) then more power to you, but trying to pretend it's anything other than just a meeting, albeit a useful one, is just self-delusion.
Did i say everything is a meeting? No I did not. i said "when a group of colleagues "meet" at a predetermined time and place, for a predetermined work related purpose, then it's a meeting."
So we have several requirements to be met.
It's a fairly simple list and i'm sure that even with your obvious learning difficulties (my condolences to your mother by the way) you'll eventually work out that your "ceremonies" fit neatly into the definition of "meeting".
This should be the first step in any software development process, be it agile or waterfall or whatever.
If you are doing scrum properly, the team of _developers_ decide via poker planning how hard a particular feature (user story) will be to develop.
That should be true of waterfall as well. You get the requirements then the engineers spec them out completely end to end with a complete breakdown of all the work and come up with an estimation of the total work required for each requirement. Then the project owner can drop requirements to shorten the timescales. You can also account for features that depend on other features so you can know whether or not adding an additional engineer to the project will not shorten the critical path.
Where I'm working at the moment we have two teams, one doing agile (with sprints and retros etc) and one doing kanban.(the one i'm on). The agile team arent going to meet their due date of end of Q1 next year so my team is helping by taking features and doing them using our method (just to keep it simple for us). I don't know how they even know what timescales they expect as none of the epics or tasks have any form of breakdown. They all seem to just have the title and a few subtasks but there's no level of planning involved. I can't understand how you can even subscribe to any deadline until you know the total sum of work to be done before hand. But that's just me, I like waterfall cos I like to plan up front and i've no problem telling someone who wants to change the requirements mid-project to go fuck themselves.
looks like every waterfall project i've ever worked on at anyrate.
If the core idea of scrum is to break things down so they can be accurately measured then it's pretty much what i was doing for waterfall. If you spend the time up front then you know exactly what tasks you need to do before you're done. The last time i worked on waterfall (before I left the job for more money elsewhere) we spent about a month and a half on planning and ended up only about a week over the estimation for a 9 month, 5 developer project.
when a group of colleagues "meet" at a predetermined time and place, for a predetermined work related purpose, then it's a meeting. You can call it a flower arranging contest if you want, but it's still a meeting.
Point of fact: The UK is not currently involved in the air campaign in Syria. We are bombing Iraq, but not Syria. Politics.
Fun Fact: The placebo effect is observed even when the subject is told they are getting a placebo.
why not just start their own IAU? with blackjack! and hookers!