MS can't test against genuine hardware, because FTDI can't/won't check an existing chip to tell if it is "genuine," and don't guarantee chips as genuine even when purchased through their distributors...
Well, now all anyone has to do to check is apply this driver update and see what it does to the chip. I'm thinking it should be done while your supplier rep is in the room. You bought 10,000 off the internet from a no name site? Well, that's a learning opportunity... Someone should reverse engineer this driver and build a plug and play detector script or dongle. Personally, if I were making hardware and had to also do support for any counterfeits that would make me crazy.
I would imagine Windows Hardware Quality Labs tests the drivers against the hardware they are made to support. Requiring anyone to test real drivers against fake hardware would be a Gordian knot as new knockoff distributors appear and then fade away when someone starts trying to find them. I'm sure the same factory would produce the same knockoff and a "new" distributor would get it into the supply chains.
All that being said, I learned long ago not to let Windows update my hardware drivers, any hardware drivers. I just fixed one the other day where suddenly a favorite resolution on an LCD TV was missing. It took a bit to figure out the latest graphics driver (Intel via Windows update) installed a management program limiting display resolutions. Removed that program (and hid the update) and everything was back to normal.
Of course, in this case it would not matter where you got the update, if your device is counterfeit it gets tagged.
I like to remember that cortisol, a stress hormone, is also the one that kills salmon after their long stressful swim to their home river.
Well, that's a stressful thought
and you're not even a salmon! One shot at sex and they're done... I wonder what's more stressful to them Transitioning from salt to fresh water Climbing mountains via fish ladders and waterfalls Knowing they have one shot at reproducing (do these scales make me look fat? do I have something stuck in my teeth? I hope I don't screw up the salmon dance {curse you, Chemical Brothers}, What if he/she doesn't like the color I'm wearing?...ad infinitum) Talk about stress!
If it's beef fat as stated in TFS then it's hardly carbon neutral... but it might smell nice... Are you cooking a steak or is there a Frigate in your pants?
The mouse will soon push to make them last longer and they also want the right to move stuff in to the vault and take off the market just to have them come back out years later.
... and now they have The Force on their side... Dum dum dum da dumdum da dumdum d- Possible Intellectual Property Violation Detected no carrier
3.8 billion years ago it was real time. in another 3.8 billion years we will know what it looks like today. I'd put that in my calendar but I don't know if I should trust Google with the information... The event is so unusual, it makes me wonder if someone 3.8 billion light years away said "Hey, what would happen if we fire the Death Star at that Super Nova over there?"
In any event, the Gamma Ray data will hopefully have some clues for us.
Obligatory Robot Chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLcIAJsaF3o Oh, guns are fetishized because for almost all of human existence they would have been considered magic... you point a stick and boom, something dies. While it's not really magic, it is really the power of life or death and many people can not resist owning that...
OMG!!! BACON flavored EGGS!!! How do your chickens feel about hash brown potatoes? This could be big, eliminate two items from breakfast but still have the same arterial clogging. Find a statin manufacturer and apply for a grant right away.
When today's dumbfuck generation tries trolling and all you can do is facepalm...
Someone cue the face palming cows please... or would that be face hoofing cows? Because that would have to really hurt... I have to stop now, I've run out of ellipses,,,
I don't want to hear you bitch and complain about what happens in an imaginary universe.
Imaginary!!! I distinctly remember being informed that it was "in A Galaxy Far Far Away". I remember so well because at the time I said to myself "Far Far Away is a funny name for a galaxy..." but then I remembered I live in "Milky Way", which made me want to go to the snack bar, and I forgot all about the now apparent lie that had been foisted off on me...
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MS can't test against genuine hardware, because FTDI can't/won't check an existing chip to tell if it is "genuine," and don't guarantee chips as genuine even when purchased through their distributors...
Well, now all anyone has to do to check is apply this driver update and see what it does to the chip. I'm thinking it should be done while your supplier rep is in the room. You bought 10,000 off the internet from a no name site? Well, that's a learning opportunity... Someone should reverse engineer this driver and build a plug and play detector script or dongle. Personally, if I were making hardware and had to also do support for any counterfeits that would make me crazy.
I would imagine Windows Hardware Quality Labs tests the drivers against the hardware they are made to support. Requiring anyone to test real drivers against fake hardware would be a Gordian knot as new knockoff distributors appear and then fade away when someone starts trying to find them. I'm sure the same factory would produce the same knockoff and a "new" distributor would get it into the supply chains.
All that being said, I learned long ago not to let Windows update my hardware drivers, any hardware drivers. I just fixed one the other day where suddenly a favorite resolution on an LCD TV was missing. It took a bit to figure out the latest graphics driver (Intel via Windows update) installed a management program limiting display resolutions. Removed that program (and hid the update) and everything was back to normal.
Of course, in this case it would not matter where you got the update, if your device is counterfeit it gets tagged.
Yes. R. Eal Serious.
I was doing her sister, T. Otally Serious, but she wanted a commitment...
and I'm not going back to that madhouse!
I really can't see doing much heavy lifting with scratch...
https://scratch.mit.edu/
It does look like kids might have some fun with it.
Stop making fun of Mr. Chekov!
Just do what everyone else is doing and spray your stuff around everywhere.
But first you tell the lady salmon it's good for her complexion...
... magical palantirs powered by waldos.
I never even found one waldo... how the heck do you get a set of them?
I like to remember that cortisol, a stress hormone, is also the one that kills salmon after their long stressful swim to their home river.
Well, that's a stressful thought
and you're not even a salmon! ...ad infinitum)
One shot at sex and they're done...
I wonder what's more stressful to them
Transitioning from salt to fresh water
Climbing mountains via fish ladders and waterfalls
Knowing they have one shot at reproducing (do these scales make me look fat? do I have something stuck in my teeth? I hope I don't screw up the salmon dance {curse you, Chemical Brothers}, What if he/she doesn't like the color I'm wearing?
Talk about stress!
Don't think of it as a back door. Think of it as a front door with really big locks.
I'd rather it had great knockers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTw1lzxTAis
I'm sure it's actually spelled
Google Ideas ©®*
* (Patent Pending)
Well, disregarding all the energy it takes to raise a cow, turn a into a nice steak or burger, and store and transport the finished product, there are other factors:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/29/opinions/sutter-beef-suv-cliamte-two-degrees
If it's beef fat as stated in TFS then it's hardly carbon neutral... but it might smell nice...
Are you cooking a steak or is there a Frigate in your pants?
The mouse will soon push to make them last longer and they also want the right to move stuff in to the vault and take off the market just to have them come back out years later.
... and now they have The Force on their side...
Dum dum dum da dumdum da dumdum d-
Possible Intellectual Property Violation Detected
no carrier
3.8 billion years ago it was real time. in another 3.8 billion years we will know what it looks like today.
I'd put that in my calendar but I don't know if I should trust Google with the information...
The event is so unusual, it makes me wonder if someone 3.8 billion light years away said "Hey, what would happen if we fire the Death Star at that Super Nova over there?"
In any event, the Gamma Ray data will hopefully have some clues for us.
Obligatory Robot Chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLcIAJsaF3o
Oh, guns are fetishized because for almost all of human existence they would have been considered magic... you point a stick and boom, something dies. While it's not really magic, it is really the power of life or death and many people can not resist owning that...
Just for that there shall be no room for you on the broom powered spacecraft...
OMG!!! BACON flavored EGGS!!!
How do your chickens feel about hash brown potatoes?
This could be big, eliminate two items from breakfast but still have the same arterial clogging.
Find a statin manufacturer and apply for a grant right away.
When today's dumbfuck generation tries trolling and all you can do is facepalm...
Someone cue the face palming cows please...
or would that be face hoofing cows?
Because that would have to really hurt...
I have to stop now, I've run out of ellipses,,,
The US Census used to run the "Tiger Map Server", they retired that and now there is TIGERweb http://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerwebmain/TIGERweb_main.html.
Where is Donald Trump when you need him?
Building a wall around the internet... it's gonna be Huuuuuge!
So, would Ad Blocker Plus stop an invisible ad? I would hope so as long as the code calls an ad... visible or not...
You can tell it's OK because it has _Clean_ISO at the end of the name...
Observations of sustained mutation in closed systems, by G. Hova...
That someone is speculating about this topic at all is akin to the Knights of The Crusades speculating how warfare will be waged in 2016...
I don't want to hear you bitch and complain about what happens in an imaginary universe.
Imaginary!!! I distinctly remember being informed that it was "in A Galaxy Far Far Away". I remember so well because at the time I said to myself "Far Far Away is a funny name for a galaxy..." but then I remembered I live in "Milky Way", which made me want to go to the snack bar, and I forgot all about the now apparent lie that had been foisted off on me...