Wait, so why does interferon seem like a good treatment? From what you say it would perhaps delay progression of the virus's spread, but not fundamentally disrupt its operation.
My musing here is that maybe it's worked out that it's more effective to spread directly by cell-to-cell over the long term than to dump out a ton of virons and explode the cell.
Now the immune system is capable of identifying infected cells, but that's a lot harder to identify than a viron. So that is probably working to its advantage also. The white blood cells probably also have an easier time identifying a cel that's not doing its job anymore and is swollen with virons
I think the interesting part about this discovery is that aids is traveling from cell to cell without the need to release virons to float around hoping to find a cell. I don't recall hearing about any other virus that spreads by cell-to-cell contact. It appears as though the infected cell press up against an uninfected cell, form a pocket between them (that is not connected to "outside" and then release some virons into this pocket. The virons contain the necessary "key" to get into a cell, but normally their odds are not good simply because they have to float around and hope to bump into a T cell, one at a time, in just the right way.
This process has several advantages. First, it's not wasting virons by simply multiplying them inside the cell until the cell bursts, leaving the virons to float around hoping for a chance contact. Second, since the body isn't being flooded with virons, it severely delays and slows the auto immune response of the body which isn't going to react anywhere near as fast to such a low-volume threat of a handful of virons leaking out now and then vs thousands popping onto the scene continually. Third, in addition to being hand-delivered to a target cell, there's a ton of them at the contact site concentrated right on the target cell's doorstep, not just one, so infection is pretty much guaranteed.
It's sort of the difference between a country sending an "army" to their enemy, by stirring up a villagefull of people to go attack on their own individually, vs assembling a strike force and attacking at one spot on the wall all at once. Clearly the latter is more effective.
Scarry stuff. AIDS looks to have evolved a very potent new method of infection. It's too bad we don't know more about how this process works. AIDS is probably throttling its viron production so the infected cell survives to infect other cells, rather than multiplying virons as fast as possible to get the most of them released into the body as fast as possible. Interferfon iirc slows the replication of AIDS virons inside the cell, so it makes sense that throttling an already throttled process should be an effective treatment.
If a cell has been taken over and is personally going to another cell and staging an attack, this may be a very difficult problem to overcome. Small, relatively inert virons can only hope for a chance contact in just the right way with a target cell. An entire cell coming to get you is a bit more like a bacteria problem, they have a heck of a lot more resources at their disposal. It's like the enemy taking over one of your tanks, vs coming at you as a walking soldier. Difference is, when the enemy "gets you", he doesn't destroy your tank... he dumps some men INTO your tank and now he has TWO tanks.
What this all boils down to is AIDS has found a new way to use the cells it hijacks. Most other viruses use them as self-destructing viron factories, and a few as places to hide and lay dormant for later relapse. But using cells as lingering attack platforms is just plain scarry.
...on swift deletion of privacy rights here in 'th states? We're falling behind, quick someone find us some more corrupt politicians before we fall too far behind!
it also occurs to me that you could view this as Apple issuing a chargeback the same as the credit card processors do. So apple gets a chargeback fee from their cc processors, and then issues an identical chargeback to the devs. Seeing as Apple is already having to pay for that chargeback they got, technically their chargeback to the devs should be larger, to cover the cost of the chargeback they are having to pay, plus the cost of the service rendered to the devs without profit. So I suppose in that respect, Apple is being generous about this?
"Let's say you sell a 99-cent app. You get 70 cents per sale. You sell 1,000 copies and make $700. Let's say your return rate is a whopping 3 percent (good God! Why are 3 percent of your customers returning the product?!). So you pay back $30; net $670.
and further...
Transaction fees for online credit card processing can run as high as 25 cents to 30 cents per transaction, plus a percentage of the amount. But consider the 99-cent application, the most predominant price used on the App Store. A micropayment transaction (less than $10) processed by PayPal carries a 5-cent transaction fee plus 5 percent of the amount. Assume that Apple has negotiated a similar fee with its payment processors; it would therefore be charged roughly 10 cents on each 99-cent purchase, reducing its cut of that sale to 20 cents. If it were charged a similar amount for a refund, its cut would be down to 10 cents.
Obviously, Apple, with the biggest music store in the United States, processes an awful lot of small transactions and therefore probably gets some sort of attractive volume discount that's less than the example provided above. But that doesn't mean that it gets that service for free: processing transactions on the Internet costs money, whether you are Apple or Joe Developer.
Updated 4:00 p.m. - An Apple representative said the company's policy concerning refunds and developers is that when a refund is granted on a purchase made through the App Store, Apple returns the customer's money and debits the developer's account by 70 percent of the application price, or the revenue the developer had gained on the sale. The company does not charge the developer an additional 30 percent during the refund process, the representative said.
So it would appear that Apple is at least being as nice about this as all the other publishers, isn't creating any outrageous chargebacks, and has said this was their policy from day 1, two important things the submitter seems to have overlooked in their summary.
Any credit card purchase you make, if you take it back and get a refund, you get 100% of your money back. What happens to the 3-7% the credit card processor skims off the sale? The store doesn't get it back, the manufacturer doesn't cover the charge. The store loses that money, every time. Same thing here, Apple is just passing that small loss onto the developers. But I do see a difference, if you return an item to WalMart then WalMart (the store) eats the difference and Sony or whoever isn't affected. But with ITMS, Apple is providing the devs a service for that cut, whereas WalMart isn't providing Sony a service really. Apple believes that this tilts the burden of the loss to the devs. Also to be fair about it, the devs are chiefly responsible for the number of times their apps get returned.;)
I was hoping that last link in the submission was to someone playing microsoft's side, to see why they are against it - why would want it that way, but it was just more highlighting the pluses of open source and the minuses of closed. So much of the open source noise we here is extremely one-sided. Is anyone able to link to or post up devil'd advocate on closed source cloud? There's got to be some advantages to it, and we need both sides represented here to compare them. (anyone that simply says "closed source is best. always", immediately loses my confidence)
Oh I'm sure they'd require you to have some tangible somethingorother as a focus, a picture or a drivers license etc. Tho you can't call them ALL scammers... half the psychics are scammers, the other half are diluted and stupid.
Buy their 80gb ones on their sled, from Apple. You'll take the least markup hit. Remove the drive from the sled and repurpose/sell it. (note it won't have a warranty as it is an OEM component now)
Then go buy a 1T etc sata and attach it to the sled and away you go.
This lacks the "improved" firmware for the drive, and may not be a good quality one, but this is how to save a lot of money. use that extra money to make some mirrors and protect your data in depth instead of quality.
I know more than once I've fired off an email (or made a post in say...a forum somewhere, ahem...) and twitched a second later saying NO thats NOT what I meant to do!
For example, 30 seconds ago I accidentally modded a comment here Offtopic when I intended to mod it Insightful. So here I am doing the next best thing to Undo... posting to undo my errant moderation. Guess slashdot could use some Undo too eh? Too bad there's no similar trick for email.
The court ruled that anonymous posters have no reasonable expectation of privacy
I wonder what then the court considers to be a "reasonable expectation of privacy"? Sorry, here or anywhere else, when I click the "post anonymously" button I have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now what they happen to log etc I can understand, but there's an expectation of at least a measure of privacy. If Joe Troll emails/. asking for my IP I expect them to say get lost. But if they get a subpoena I expect them to get the IP. That's where "reasonable" lies in my opinion.
Treat your backups, and your backup servers, with every bit of seriousness that you treat your main systems. Use the same level of monitoring, management, and security. Investing good practice in your system while slacking on your backup only narrows the attack window, it doesn't tighten the security - your security is only as strong as your weakest link.
And someone needs to add a filter to slashdot to ban IPs that submit >10kbyte posts with "obama" in them in every single new article on slashdot. I'm getting sick of seeing the first 10 pages of every new thread by some retards going off on obama. AGAIN.
Thank you for the link to garden path sentences, that's a very interesting read, and would make an excellent class exercise in English class. (I'd have enjoyed it anyway!)
I've been asked from time to time to install unlicensed software, and a couple times been asked to go out to a customer and assist them with installing cracked copies of software.
I just hold my ground on it, and so far that's been sufficient. If they don't want it that badly, it doesn't happen. If they DO want it badly enough, they do it themselves. Either way I am just going to be responsible for myself. If the BSA wants to stop in and ruin someone's day, it's not my day they'll be ruining. If someone else wants to hang their neck out like that, that's their problem and their consequence.
Sounds like you have a bigger problem where some PHB is telling you to "just do it". I don't even think getting it in writing will sufficiently "CYA". If he writes you a note demanding you go rob a bank, that doesn't mean you're OK to do it just because you got it in writing. Notes from Mom don't absolve you from criminal activity, I sure wouldn't bet my continued state of freedom on that.
If one of the other employees at your place, or other management in a parallel position where they have no direct authority over you is requesting it, be straight, honest, and helpful. "We don't have any available licenses for that installation. Please submit a request to IT or have your department purchase a license and I will install it for you. If you'd like I can email you some links to places where you can purchase it so you know what flavor you need and get a decent deal. If you request IT to install it, the cost of the software will be coming out of your department's budget. I also can suggest some free software alternatives if you're willing to try them. And before you ask, we cannot install software here you have brought from home."
It helps if you already have a good grip on your license deployment. I try to do that when I can. Get a database together with lists of software, activation codes, and have the list include any unused available licenses. It saves a lot of grief later if someone says install xxx there we still have a few installs of the bulk license available somewhere, to be able to actually list where all 10 of the licenses are installed, and to then offer the option of removing it from one of them to free it up. Very often when someone is "liberal" with installations, stuff gets installed places it doesn't need to be. You'd be surprised how many licenses you actually have to work with when you factor in the ability to get things off machines that don't need it. (does Bob REALLY need Access on BOTH of his desktop machines? Whose idea was it to install Cadd on the machine in the break room??)
14.I have diarrhea once a month or more 23.I am troubled by attacks of nausea and vomiting 29.I am bothered by acid stomach several times a week 63.I have had no difficulty in starting or holding my bowel movement
They do seem to have a fixation on bodily functions?
A few of the questions are downright "wacko alarms". But I suppose if you're truly a little nutz, the unusually harsh questions may cause these to catch you off-guard and provide the fatal answer. Maybe that's why so many of the questions have a high "shock value" - to keep you off guard for when the ask an important question that you may otherwise catch as "I better not answer that honestly", making it feel like one of the "safer" questions?
one would assume it does a slow throttled attempt, starting with the true idiot passwords like "admin", "administrator", "root", "password" etc. Those four alone probably get you into 10% of those routers
I really don't understand the 'smell my clutch' comment.
Never ridden with someone that's just learning to drive a clutch eh?
Though I am proud of a few accomplishments with the clutch. A friend was trying to teach me in his escort, and unbeknownst to either of us he tried to start me in third. uphill. Felt like someone was beating the back bumper with a semiautomatic sledgehammer but I actually was able to get it moving.
"OK now shift down into two." "It won't go down past middle." "oh, you're in THIRD!"
So I think I'd prefer an automatic. But for the savings in MPG I'd be willing to properly learn a manual.
I will simply say that article is a very interesting read. Skip the "honorable mentions", they just rattle off things we're all too familiar with. Skip right to the first (#10) and enjoy.
Seriously, look at it. 12" wheels, and how tall and narrow it is!
But looking at what it's designed for, it appears to be very well thought-out. Anyone that's driven in europe can understand why you need a narrow car because of the streets. And anything that gets your side mirror another half inch away from oncoming traffic's mirrors is a good thing, and then of course there's parking. (no mention of how well it turns to squeeze into a tight spot?) For an in-town car in a big city, it looks to be ideally suited. 60mpg? Heck I could use that right now.
It said it accomodates "six footers". I'm 6'2, I wonder if I'll be cracking my head on the roof?
Considering the next-to-nonexistent trunk, it's NOT a family trip car, unless you're a family of two. The back seat really IS the trunk, and the trunk is the glovebox.
But I wouldn't mind trying one. I wonder what it's top speed is, they only tested it to 60mph and it took 17 sec to get there, i wonder if it can do 70? I have to take an interstate to work here and it's 70 in places.
I'd also be interested to know its range. At 60mpg though, I wonder what speed that's at? Most larger cars, that's measured at highway speed (55?) and is lower for in-town. This car is targeted almost exclusively for in-town so that's not the number I want to hear. It's not a hybrid so it lacks the regenerative breaking bonus for in-town driving. (unless the thing's got a flywheel? heh) I'm picturing it getting more like 40mph in-town, and guessing at a 5gal tank, so that'd be about a 200 mile in-town range, which I could certainly live with. My exploder gets 300 miles on the highway, 240 in town. It'd shave 70% off my total at the pump too which would be wonderful.
The review was ok but missed a lot, I'd like to have seen 7 pages, not 2. Airbags I hope? looks to be manual only. (can you smell my clutch yet?) And it doesn't look like they let him drive it, which worries me a little.
It's interesting to read how you so clearly hate the idea of someone else having control, and at the same time you want that exact same control all to yourself above the devs. That's the most common problem with the middle-management level of development, they're in charge and they're going to have it their way, all other factors be damned.
What the development team as a whole needs is balance. I'm not saying for either side to hold things hostage, I'm just saying don't let the PHB's decide when it's "ready" based solely on a trade show date. (with props to Dilbert)
You're almost certainly going to have to let it out the door with some issues, the trick is to get everyone together early to draw the line, and hold your ground when someone barges in with an eraser.
Remeber what Linus Torvalds said: Release early, release often. Don't wait til all your bugs are fixed before shipping your software, or you'll lose your "market" window. If it's good enough, the early-adopters will understand, and might even contribute bug reports or patches that will speed you up.
I forgot to address this. Yes, early adopters and capturing your market are important. I can see where "version 1" could be considered beta for the purposes of getting your foot in the door. I don't think anyone expects a polished product on 1.0. But I'm talking about things that have gotten a ways. I mean, Windows SEVEN? Come on, by now everyone expects you to have your act together. You should already have your market carved out. Nobody is "early adopting" Windows anymore. Releases should be solid by 3. There is no excuse for a product's major releases 3+ years after initial release to be crutching themselves up on the notion of "early adopters" and "capturing market".
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Wait, so why does interferon seem like a good treatment? From what you say it would perhaps delay progression of the virus's spread, but not fundamentally disrupt its operation.
My musing here is that maybe it's worked out that it's more effective to spread directly by cell-to-cell over the long term than to dump out a ton of virons and explode the cell.
Now the immune system is capable of identifying infected cells, but that's a lot harder to identify than a viron. So that is probably working to its advantage also. The white blood cells probably also have an easier time identifying a cel that's not doing its job anymore and is swollen with virons
I think the interesting part about this discovery is that aids is traveling from cell to cell without the need to release virons to float around hoping to find a cell. I don't recall hearing about any other virus that spreads by cell-to-cell contact. It appears as though the infected cell press up against an uninfected cell, form a pocket between them (that is not connected to "outside" and then release some virons into this pocket. The virons contain the necessary "key" to get into a cell, but normally their odds are not good simply because they have to float around and hope to bump into a T cell, one at a time, in just the right way.
This process has several advantages. First, it's not wasting virons by simply multiplying them inside the cell until the cell bursts, leaving the virons to float around hoping for a chance contact. Second, since the body isn't being flooded with virons, it severely delays and slows the auto immune response of the body which isn't going to react anywhere near as fast to such a low-volume threat of a handful of virons leaking out now and then vs thousands popping onto the scene continually. Third, in addition to being hand-delivered to a target cell, there's a ton of them at the contact site concentrated right on the target cell's doorstep, not just one, so infection is pretty much guaranteed.
It's sort of the difference between a country sending an "army" to their enemy, by stirring up a villagefull of people to go attack on their own individually, vs assembling a strike force and attacking at one spot on the wall all at once. Clearly the latter is more effective.
Scarry stuff. AIDS looks to have evolved a very potent new method of infection. It's too bad we don't know more about how this process works. AIDS is probably throttling its viron production so the infected cell survives to infect other cells, rather than multiplying virons as fast as possible to get the most of them released into the body as fast as possible. Interferfon iirc slows the replication of AIDS virons inside the cell, so it makes sense that throttling an already throttled process should be an effective treatment.
If a cell has been taken over and is personally going to another cell and staging an attack, this may be a very difficult problem to overcome. Small, relatively inert virons can only hope for a chance contact in just the right way with a target cell. An entire cell coming to get you is a bit more like a bacteria problem, they have a heck of a lot more resources at their disposal. It's like the enemy taking over one of your tanks, vs coming at you as a walking soldier. Difference is, when the enemy "gets you", he doesn't destroy your tank... he dumps some men INTO your tank and now he has TWO tanks.
What this all boils down to is AIDS has found a new way to use the cells it hijacks. Most other viruses use them as self-destructing viron factories, and a few as places to hide and lay dormant for later relapse. But using cells as lingering attack platforms is just plain scarry.
...on swift deletion of privacy rights here in 'th states? We're falling behind, quick someone find us some more corrupt politicians before we fall too far behind!
That's what I was thinking too. It'd be a bit like that Month of Bugs, quite a lot of progress was made in those 30 days.
Though they'd start running out quick I bet. But for us, that's a good thing.
it also occurs to me that you could view this as Apple issuing a chargeback the same as the credit card processors do. So apple gets a chargeback fee from their cc processors, and then issues an identical chargeback to the devs. Seeing as Apple is already having to pay for that chargeback they got, technically their chargeback to the devs should be larger, to cover the cost of the chargeback they are having to pay, plus the cost of the service rendered to the devs without profit. So I suppose in that respect, Apple is being generous about this?
from TFA:
"Let's say you sell a 99-cent app. You get 70 cents per sale. You sell 1,000 copies and make $700. Let's say your return rate is a whopping 3 percent (good God! Why are 3 percent of your customers returning the product?!). So you pay back $30; net $670.
and further...
Transaction fees for online credit card processing can run as high as 25 cents to 30 cents per transaction, plus a percentage of the amount. But consider the 99-cent application, the most predominant price used on the App Store.
A micropayment transaction (less than $10) processed by PayPal carries a 5-cent transaction fee plus 5 percent of the amount. Assume that Apple has negotiated a similar fee with its payment processors; it would therefore be charged roughly 10 cents on each 99-cent purchase, reducing its cut of that sale to 20 cents. If it were charged a similar amount for a refund, its cut would be down to 10 cents.
Obviously, Apple, with the biggest music store in the United States, processes an awful lot of small transactions and therefore probably gets some sort of attractive volume discount that's less than the example provided above. But that doesn't mean that it gets that service for free: processing transactions on the Internet costs money, whether you are Apple or Joe Developer.
Updated 4:00 p.m. - An Apple representative said the company's policy concerning refunds and developers is that when a refund is granted on a purchase made through the App Store, Apple returns the customer's money and debits the developer's account by 70 percent of the application price, or the revenue the developer had gained on the sale. The company does not charge the developer an additional 30 percent during the refund process, the representative said.
So it would appear that Apple is at least being as nice about this as all the other publishers, isn't creating any outrageous chargebacks, and has said this was their policy from day 1, two important things the submitter seems to have overlooked in their summary.
Any credit card purchase you make, if you take it back and get a refund, you get 100% of your money back. What happens to the 3-7% the credit card processor skims off the sale? The store doesn't get it back, the manufacturer doesn't cover the charge. The store loses that money, every time. Same thing here, Apple is just passing that small loss onto the developers. But I do see a difference, if you return an item to WalMart then WalMart (the store) eats the difference and Sony or whoever isn't affected. But with ITMS, Apple is providing the devs a service for that cut, whereas WalMart isn't providing Sony a service really. Apple believes that this tilts the burden of the loss to the devs. Also to be fair about it, the devs are chiefly responsible for the number of times their apps get returned. ;)
I was hoping that last link in the submission was to someone playing microsoft's side, to see why they are against it - why would want it that way, but it was just more highlighting the pluses of open source and the minuses of closed. So much of the open source noise we here is extremely one-sided. Is anyone able to link to or post up devil'd advocate on closed source cloud? There's got to be some advantages to it, and we need both sides represented here to compare them. (anyone that simply says "closed source is best. always", immediately loses my confidence)
Oh I'm sure they'd require you to have some tangible somethingorother as a focus, a picture or a drivers license etc. Tho you can't call them ALL scammers... half the psychics are scammers, the other half are diluted and stupid.
Buy their 80gb ones on their sled, from Apple. You'll take the least markup hit. Remove the drive from the sled and repurpose/sell it. (note it won't have a warranty as it is an OEM component now)
Then go buy a 1T etc sata and attach it to the sled and away you go.
This lacks the "improved" firmware for the drive, and may not be a good quality one, but this is how to save a lot of money. use that extra money to make some mirrors and protect your data in depth instead of quality.
I know more than once I've fired off an email (or made a post in say...a forum somewhere, ahem...) and twitched a second later saying NO thats NOT what I meant to do!
For example, 30 seconds ago I accidentally modded a comment here Offtopic when I intended to mod it Insightful. So here I am doing the next best thing to Undo... posting to undo my errant moderation. Guess slashdot could use some Undo too eh? Too bad there's no similar trick for email.
a new 4.5 petabyte data center
4.5 PB? Is that the best you can do? sheesh, amateurs....
Though it also did surprise me they only get 200,000 hits/day. I expected the WayBack Machine to get a lot more traffic than that.
The court ruled that anonymous posters have no reasonable expectation of privacy
I wonder what then the court considers to be a "reasonable expectation of privacy"? Sorry, here or anywhere else, when I click the "post anonymously" button I have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now what they happen to log etc I can understand, but there's an expectation of at least a measure of privacy. If Joe Troll emails /. asking for my IP I expect them to say get lost. But if they get a subpoena I expect them to get the IP. That's where "reasonable" lies in my opinion.
Treat your backups, and your backup servers, with every bit of seriousness that you treat your main systems. Use the same level of monitoring, management, and security. Investing good practice in your system while slacking on your backup only narrows the attack window, it doesn't tighten the security - your security is only as strong as your weakest link.
And someone needs to add a filter to slashdot to ban IPs that submit >10kbyte posts with "obama" in them in every single new article on slashdot. I'm getting sick of seeing the first 10 pages of every new thread by some retards going off on obama. AGAIN.
Thank you for the link to garden path sentences, that's a very interesting read, and would make an excellent class exercise in English class. (I'd have enjoyed it anyway!)
I've been asked from time to time to install unlicensed software, and a couple times been asked to go out to a customer and assist them with installing cracked copies of software.
I just hold my ground on it, and so far that's been sufficient. If they don't want it that badly, it doesn't happen. If they DO want it badly enough, they do it themselves. Either way I am just going to be responsible for myself. If the BSA wants to stop in and ruin someone's day, it's not my day they'll be ruining. If someone else wants to hang their neck out like that, that's their problem and their consequence.
Sounds like you have a bigger problem where some PHB is telling you to "just do it". I don't even think getting it in writing will sufficiently "CYA". If he writes you a note demanding you go rob a bank, that doesn't mean you're OK to do it just because you got it in writing. Notes from Mom don't absolve you from criminal activity, I sure wouldn't bet my continued state of freedom on that.
If one of the other employees at your place, or other management in a parallel position where they have no direct authority over you is requesting it, be straight, honest, and helpful. "We don't have any available licenses for that installation. Please submit a request to IT or have your department purchase a license and I will install it for you. If you'd like I can email you some links to places where you can purchase it so you know what flavor you need and get a decent deal. If you request IT to install it, the cost of the software will be coming out of your department's budget. I also can suggest some free software alternatives if you're willing to try them. And before you ask, we cannot install software here you have brought from home."
It helps if you already have a good grip on your license deployment. I try to do that when I can. Get a database together with lists of software, activation codes, and have the list include any unused available licenses. It saves a lot of grief later if someone says install xxx there we still have a few installs of the bulk license available somewhere, to be able to actually list where all 10 of the licenses are installed, and to then offer the option of removing it from one of them to free it up. Very often when someone is "liberal" with installations, stuff gets installed places it doesn't need to be. You'd be surprised how many licenses you actually have to work with when you factor in the ability to get things off machines that don't need it. (does Bob REALLY need Access on BOTH of his desktop machines? Whose idea was it to install Cadd on the machine in the break room??)
popular vote or electoral?
Massive difference. (electoral college REALLY needs to go away, it's 100% unjustified today)
14.I have diarrhea once a month or more
23.I am troubled by attacks of nausea and vomiting
29.I am bothered by acid stomach several times a week
63.I have had no difficulty in starting or holding my bowel movement
They do seem to have a fixation on bodily functions?
A few of the questions are downright "wacko alarms". But I suppose if you're truly a little nutz, the unusually harsh questions may cause these to catch you off-guard and provide the fatal answer. Maybe that's why so many of the questions have a high "shock value" - to keep you off guard for when the ask an important question that you may otherwise catch as "I better not answer that honestly", making it feel like one of the "safer" questions?
one would assume it does a slow throttled attempt, starting with the true idiot passwords like "admin", "administrator", "root", "password" etc. Those four alone probably get you into 10% of those routers
And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes.
By 17% does not a clobbering make. More of an "edged out" don'cha think?
She's one of those people you read about that goes looking for a gas leak in a dark basement, using a lighter.
I really don't understand the 'smell my clutch' comment.
Never ridden with someone that's just learning to drive a clutch eh?
Though I am proud of a few accomplishments with the clutch. A friend was trying to teach me in his escort, and unbeknownst to either of us he tried to start me in third. uphill. Felt like someone was beating the back bumper with a semiautomatic sledgehammer but I actually was able to get it moving.
"OK now shift down into two." "It won't go down past middle." "oh, you're in THIRD!"
So I think I'd prefer an automatic. But for the savings in MPG I'd be willing to properly learn a manual.
I will simply say that article is a very interesting read. Skip the "honorable mentions", they just rattle off things we're all too familiar with. Skip right to the first (#10) and enjoy.
Seriously, look at it. 12" wheels, and how tall and narrow it is!
But looking at what it's designed for, it appears to be very well thought-out. Anyone that's driven in europe can understand why you need a narrow car because of the streets. And anything that gets your side mirror another half inch away from oncoming traffic's mirrors is a good thing, and then of course there's parking. (no mention of how well it turns to squeeze into a tight spot?) For an in-town car in a big city, it looks to be ideally suited. 60mpg? Heck I could use that right now.
It said it accomodates "six footers". I'm 6'2, I wonder if I'll be cracking my head on the roof?
Considering the next-to-nonexistent trunk, it's NOT a family trip car, unless you're a family of two. The back seat really IS the trunk, and the trunk is the glovebox.
But I wouldn't mind trying one. I wonder what it's top speed is, they only tested it to 60mph and it took 17 sec to get there, i wonder if it can do 70? I have to take an interstate to work here and it's 70 in places.
I'd also be interested to know its range. At 60mpg though, I wonder what speed that's at? Most larger cars, that's measured at highway speed (55?) and is lower for in-town. This car is targeted almost exclusively for in-town so that's not the number I want to hear. It's not a hybrid so it lacks the regenerative breaking bonus for in-town driving. (unless the thing's got a flywheel? heh) I'm picturing it getting more like 40mph in-town, and guessing at a 5gal tank, so that'd be about a 200 mile in-town range, which I could certainly live with. My exploder gets 300 miles on the highway, 240 in town. It'd shave 70% off my total at the pump too which would be wonderful.
The review was ok but missed a lot, I'd like to have seen 7 pages, not 2. Airbags I hope? looks to be manual only. (can you smell my clutch yet?) And it doesn't look like they let him drive it, which worries me a little.
It's interesting to read how you so clearly hate the idea of someone else having control, and at the same time you want that exact same control all to yourself above the devs. That's the most common problem with the middle-management level of development, they're in charge and they're going to have it their way, all other factors be damned.
What the development team as a whole needs is balance. I'm not saying for either side to hold things hostage, I'm just saying don't let the PHB's decide when it's "ready" based solely on a trade show date. (with props to Dilbert)
You're almost certainly going to have to let it out the door with some issues, the trick is to get everyone together early to draw the line, and hold your ground when someone barges in with an eraser.
Remeber what Linus Torvalds said: Release early, release often. Don't wait til all your bugs are fixed before shipping your software, or you'll lose your "market" window. If it's good enough, the early-adopters will understand, and might even contribute bug reports or patches that will speed you up.
I forgot to address this. Yes, early adopters and capturing your market are important. I can see where "version 1" could be considered beta for the purposes of getting your foot in the door. I don't think anyone expects a polished product on 1.0. But I'm talking about things that have gotten a ways. I mean, Windows SEVEN? Come on, by now everyone expects you to have your act together. You should already have your market carved out. Nobody is "early adopting" Windows anymore. Releases should be solid by 3. There is no excuse for a product's major releases 3+ years after initial release to be crutching themselves up on the notion of "early adopters" and "capturing market".