I believe the absolute base Jeep doesn't have air conditioning, no power locks, and has a manual transmission. In theory at least - last time I looked I couldn't find any Jeeps for sale that were configured that way.
Manual transmissions have basically disappeared from regular cars, like your typical midsize 4-door sedan. They still exist in some basic economy cars, but they're getting squeezed out by cheaper CVTs and automatics. Part of is because of regulation - it costs money to certify a power train so the expected sales have to be high enough to justify the cost of certifying it. My guess is in a few years the manual transmission will be dead in economy cars (in the US, at least).
Manual transmissions are basically dead in trucks and SUVs. You can still get them in a few small trucks, but for larger vehicles automatics took over because they have a higher towing rating as the torque converter can handle more load than the clutch.
Sporty cars can still be had with a manual. But the advantages aren't what they are used to be. The performance of automatics has greatly improved, and they can shift faster than a human can ever hope to do. They may linger on a bit here as people buy them for the "fun" factor to the point where the manufactures will offer a manual version for that reason alone.
Winamp has much better buffering for streams if your connection is not solid. The playlist is far better, global hotkeys rock, and Winamp does video too (though the video player is a bit quirky).
I've been looking for a good Winamp alternative for a while, and but really that's because Winamp is tied to Windows. I have VLC installed on my Windows computers, but really it's just a backup for the occasional oddball file that nothing else can play.
That's an American perspective. In England you can own an apartment, though they are more commonly called "flats". I've never heard the term "condo" used in England either.
I've dumpster-dived a fair number of PCs. It's actually surprising how clean most of them are. Very few user-created files, not a lot of installed software, and very modest collections of photos/music/movies/games/porn/etc. Browsing histories tend to show the computer wasn't used for a lot of web surfing either. Though this may have some selection bias, as many PCs I find don't have harddrives still in them, and I assume the power users are the ones smart enough to make sure a scavenger isn't going to get a hold of their data.
Furthermore, even if you did manage to recover a million Bitcoins, there's no way you could sell them without crashing the market. Assuming the market hadn't already crashed by the time you managed to recover them.
That's the same thing I'm wondering. Around here, they only run the lights if they have a reason to. So usually 1-2 nights a week, and almost always shut off by midnight. Given that the lights have to be well in to the tens of kilowatts, burning them all the time is going to add up, as well as reducing the lifespan of the bulbs.
I wouldn't call it that, as Excel is a pretty good tool for doing something that's relatively simple, very quick and dirty. The thing is, once you've got your results you throw out the Excel sheet, not turn it into a mission-critical application. If you actually need to do that, consider the Excel sheet the proof of concept and then write the application in....almost anything that's not Excel.
Excel is more like the financial equivalent of Labview.
Security by obscurity would be more like there's no obvious door into the house. There's a lever obscured by the downspout that when pulled opens a secret door so you can get inside. Anyone determined to get into your house will figure out how to get in, especially since there's no actual lock on the lever. But the thieves who want to bust in, grab something quick, and be out within a minute aren't going to spend more than a few seconds trying to get in and thus may give up and move on.
Even when you adjust for inflation, the trend has been that each election is more expensive than the last. A lot of this probably has to do with the ever-growing length of the campaigns, which now start well over a year before the actual election date.
That's also the same logic behind Uber. If you are already driving somewhere, you can give someone else a ride there too and earn a bit of cash on the side. However, that doesn't seem to be how it ends up working for most people.
I find it odd too. Note that it's almost entirely Latin/South America, though I do occasionally get something that looks like it might have to do with Spain.
I do get a fair number of Spanish spam from spammers trying to sell me "targeted" lists of email addresses. Amusingly many of these spammers seem to party like it's 1998, with free email dropboxes to contact them (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) and it appears that the lists themselves would to mailed on CD or DVD should someone actually buy them. I can only assume I somehow are on these lists, and these lists are obviously dirty if they also have spam honeypot addresses on them.
I agree about the inefficiency. Bulk sending an email is cheap, but is it worth it to send millions and millions of emails when there's perhaps only a few dozen or hundred people in the world who would even be interested in what you are spamvertising? My theory is that the actual money in spamming is in selling spamming services, not in the spam itself. Basically a spamming service(*) convinces a client to pay them to run an "email marketing campaign". The spammer gets paid in any case, doesn't care whether the spamming was actually generated leads or sales, and millions get spammed with irrelevant and unwanted emails. Eventually, the client probably figures out they are throwing their money away and hurting their reputation, but so long as these spamming services can convince someone else to give them money to send spam, we'll have this problem.
(*) which I suspect may also be a network provider/ISP, especially as Argentina goes
My guess is that would, at the absolute soonest, would be sometime in 2025 for ending 32-bit support on Windows assuming that Windows 10 follows the same 10-year support cycle, and 32-bit Windows 10 is the last of the 32-bit line. That's as far as the desktop goes, things like embedded versions of Windows would likely still have support for at least several more years on top of that (heck, even embedded XP is still supported until 2019...)
Right now, the 32-bit Windows is what I call the compatibility Windows as it works with all kinds of legacy stuff, both hardware and software, and in many ways surprisingly well (I've successfully installed drivers written for Windows 2000 on 32-bit Windows 10 and it just worked). Microsoft has always been a bit hesitant to cut support for something if enough of their enterprise customers demand it, but maybe in 8 years it might be time.
On the server side, 32-bit support is coming to an end in 2020 as the last version of Windows Server to support 32-bit is 2008. My guess is few Windows Servers are still on 32-bit, and the majority of the ones that still run it are old.
I've been getting a fair amount of weird spam too, in addition to the typical vi@ggraa and c1a!as spam. A lot of it is in Spanish, and from what I can it's mostly B2B type spam targetting businesses in Latin and South America selling things like bulk wine for restaurants (huh?), training for HR departments (umm..??), and consulting services for dealing with regulatory issues with selling cosmetics (uhh...what???).
At first I thought that maybe this stuff was a mistake or my email had somehow mistakenly got listed as the contact for some business, but checking Project Honey Pot with the offending IPs shows that they're just blasting this stuff out to harvested email addresses. Furthermore many of the emails use typical spammer munging techniques - they especially like to munge the word capacitación ("training"), which I find interesting. The majority of it seems to come from AR and from what I can the network providers there really don't give a shit about their spam problem, or are in cahoots with the spammers, or are even the spammers themselves.
I'd argue that distributing Chrome as shovelware had more impact than the annoy nag on their homepage. It's also a lot more questionable from the "Do no evil" standpoint, not that Google follows that anymore.
Part of the problem is that there's really no standard "Chromium" as they all differ depending on who built it and what they decided to include/exclude. However, Google specifies exactly what's in Chrome so if someone says Chrome you know exactly what they are talking about.
The same thing exists actually on the Firefox side. While the source code is open, Mozilla owns the Firefox trademark and keeps pretty strict rules on what you can call Firefox should you start distributing your own builds. So the Chromium equivalent is closer to IceCat (formally IceWeasel, which exists exactly for this reason), along with other builds like Waterfox.
Of the chiclet keyboards, the Thinkpad has one of the better ones. They at least put some curvature on the keys which helps with the touch typing and keeping your fingers centered on the right keys, which is much easier to type on than the completely flat keys like on Apple laptops. Though I'd still take the keyboard on my R60 (which I believe has the same keyboard as the T60) any day over a modern Thinkpad.
It's a bit old school in the sense that the screen doesn't go all the way to the edge and has a bezel around it. And it also has a plastic case. This means it's a heck of a lot more durable than the iPhone or the stuff Samsung makes nowadays, and you're a lot less likely to have to fork hundreds of dollars to fix an easily breakable screen on a device you're going to be carrying around with you a lot. Besides, who cares what it looks like if you're going to be putting it in a case anyway.
That's really all it's doing as far as I can tell. It just knows what percentage of the time each box gets clicked. If you click some pattern that's consistent with what it has seen previously it will let you through. That's why they usually give you more than one test - they'll give you a known image that it has many responses to, and an unknown one it doesn't have many responses to (not necessarily in that order). If you answer the known one correctly, it will then assume you are also correct on the other image which allows it to build up a set of responses for that image. That's how they are getting free labor out of you for identifying road signs, store fronts, and vehicles for Google streetview (or whatever the hell they are up to).
Hence, sometimes I'll get an image that I've seen before, which tells me the next image is probably an "unknown" one, in which case I'll just click some random area in it, and it will often let me through just fine.
That new information can mean the HFT's decide they are getting out of the market in a matter of milliseconds, evaporating liquidity and causing huge, sudden price swings. See the flash crash.
A mosquito, by definition, is an insect species where the female feeds on the blood of another species. So all mosquitoes consume blood. If they didn't, they wouldn't be a mosquito. It is true that not all species will feed upon humans, but they all feed upon other species.
While it's true that mosquitoes are a food source for other species such as frogs, it's at the cost of other species that the mosquitoes attack in order to reproduce. I've often wonder what the impact of removing them from the food chain would be.
The images are sliced up by a computer, blindly. After a while, it learns that 95% of people click this box, 84% this other box, 34% that other box, 11% that box, etc. All you need to do is click something consistent with the already established pattern.
The thing that does piss me off the most is that the captcha seems to be intentionally designed to miss clicks, likely to try to fool bots. The captcha is annoying enough as it is, having to click the boxes multiple times to get it to register the click is even more obnoxious.
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I believe the absolute base Jeep doesn't have air conditioning, no power locks, and has a manual transmission. In theory at least - last time I looked I couldn't find any Jeeps for sale that were configured that way.
Manual transmissions have basically disappeared from regular cars, like your typical midsize 4-door sedan. They still exist in some basic economy cars, but they're getting squeezed out by cheaper CVTs and automatics. Part of is because of regulation - it costs money to certify a power train so the expected sales have to be high enough to justify the cost of certifying it. My guess is in a few years the manual transmission will be dead in economy cars (in the US, at least).
Manual transmissions are basically dead in trucks and SUVs. You can still get them in a few small trucks, but for larger vehicles automatics took over because they have a higher towing rating as the torque converter can handle more load than the clutch.
Sporty cars can still be had with a manual. But the advantages aren't what they are used to be. The performance of automatics has greatly improved, and they can shift faster than a human can ever hope to do. They may linger on a bit here as people buy them for the "fun" factor to the point where the manufactures will offer a manual version for that reason alone.
Winamp has much better buffering for streams if your connection is not solid. The playlist is far better, global hotkeys rock, and Winamp does video too (though the video player is a bit quirky).
I've been looking for a good Winamp alternative for a while, and but really that's because Winamp is tied to Windows. I have VLC installed on my Windows computers, but really it's just a backup for the occasional oddball file that nothing else can play.
What happened on August 21, 1999? It was a Saturday, so it's not like the markets tanked.
It was the day before the big GPS week number rollover, but that actually got very little press and had nothing really to do with dotcom crash anyway.
That's an American perspective. In England you can own an apartment, though they are more commonly called "flats". I've never heard the term "condo" used in England either.
I've dumpster-dived a fair number of PCs. It's actually surprising how clean most of them are. Very few user-created files, not a lot of installed software, and very modest collections of photos/music/movies/games/porn/etc. Browsing histories tend to show the computer wasn't used for a lot of web surfing either. Though this may have some selection bias, as many PCs I find don't have harddrives still in them, and I assume the power users are the ones smart enough to make sure a scavenger isn't going to get a hold of their data.
Furthermore, even if you did manage to recover a million Bitcoins, there's no way you could sell them without crashing the market. Assuming the market hadn't already crashed by the time you managed to recover them.
"Oh you want to use a VPN? You need to buy our internet package for professionals. It's only an additional $29.99 a month."
That's the same thing I'm wondering. Around here, they only run the lights if they have a reason to. So usually 1-2 nights a week, and almost always shut off by midnight. Given that the lights have to be well in to the tens of kilowatts, burning them all the time is going to add up, as well as reducing the lifespan of the bulbs.
I wouldn't call it that, as Excel is a pretty good tool for doing something that's relatively simple, very quick and dirty. The thing is, once you've got your results you throw out the Excel sheet, not turn it into a mission-critical application. If you actually need to do that, consider the Excel sheet the proof of concept and then write the application in....almost anything that's not Excel.
Excel is more like the financial equivalent of Labview.
Security by obscurity would be more like there's no obvious door into the house. There's a lever obscured by the downspout that when pulled opens a secret door so you can get inside. Anyone determined to get into your house will figure out how to get in, especially since there's no actual lock on the lever. But the thieves who want to bust in, grab something quick, and be out within a minute aren't going to spend more than a few seconds trying to get in and thus may give up and move on.
Even when you adjust for inflation, the trend has been that each election is more expensive than the last. A lot of this probably has to do with the ever-growing length of the campaigns, which now start well over a year before the actual election date.
That's also the same logic behind Uber. If you are already driving somewhere, you can give someone else a ride there too and earn a bit of cash on the side. However, that doesn't seem to be how it ends up working for most people.
I find it odd too. Note that it's almost entirely Latin/South America, though I do occasionally get something that looks like it might have to do with Spain.
I do get a fair number of Spanish spam from spammers trying to sell me "targeted" lists of email addresses. Amusingly many of these spammers seem to party like it's 1998, with free email dropboxes to contact them (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) and it appears that the lists themselves would to mailed on CD or DVD should someone actually buy them. I can only assume I somehow are on these lists, and these lists are obviously dirty if they also have spam honeypot addresses on them.
I agree about the inefficiency. Bulk sending an email is cheap, but is it worth it to send millions and millions of emails when there's perhaps only a few dozen or hundred people in the world who would even be interested in what you are spamvertising? My theory is that the actual money in spamming is in selling spamming services, not in the spam itself. Basically a spamming service(*) convinces a client to pay them to run an "email marketing campaign". The spammer gets paid in any case, doesn't care whether the spamming was actually generated leads or sales, and millions get spammed with irrelevant and unwanted emails. Eventually, the client probably figures out they are throwing their money away and hurting their reputation, but so long as these spamming services can convince someone else to give them money to send spam, we'll have this problem.
(*) which I suspect may also be a network provider/ISP, especially as Argentina goes
My guess is that would, at the absolute soonest, would be sometime in 2025 for ending 32-bit support on Windows assuming that Windows 10 follows the same 10-year support cycle, and 32-bit Windows 10 is the last of the 32-bit line. That's as far as the desktop goes, things like embedded versions of Windows would likely still have support for at least several more years on top of that (heck, even embedded XP is still supported until 2019...)
Right now, the 32-bit Windows is what I call the compatibility Windows as it works with all kinds of legacy stuff, both hardware and software, and in many ways surprisingly well (I've successfully installed drivers written for Windows 2000 on 32-bit Windows 10 and it just worked). Microsoft has always been a bit hesitant to cut support for something if enough of their enterprise customers demand it, but maybe in 8 years it might be time.
On the server side, 32-bit support is coming to an end in 2020 as the last version of Windows Server to support 32-bit is 2008. My guess is few Windows Servers are still on 32-bit, and the majority of the ones that still run it are old.
I've been getting a fair amount of weird spam too, in addition to the typical vi@ggraa and c1a!as spam. A lot of it is in Spanish, and from what I can it's mostly B2B type spam targetting businesses in Latin and South America selling things like bulk wine for restaurants (huh?), training for HR departments (umm..??), and consulting services for dealing with regulatory issues with selling cosmetics (uhh...what???).
At first I thought that maybe this stuff was a mistake or my email had somehow mistakenly got listed as the contact for some business, but checking Project Honey Pot with the offending IPs shows that they're just blasting this stuff out to harvested email addresses. Furthermore many of the emails use typical spammer munging techniques - they especially like to munge the word capacitación ("training"), which I find interesting. The majority of it seems to come from AR and from what I can the network providers there really don't give a shit about their spam problem, or are in cahoots with the spammers, or are even the spammers themselves.
I'd argue that distributing Chrome as shovelware had more impact than the annoy nag on their homepage. It's also a lot more questionable from the "Do no evil" standpoint, not that Google follows that anymore.
Part of the problem is that there's really no standard "Chromium" as they all differ depending on who built it and what they decided to include/exclude. However, Google specifies exactly what's in Chrome so if someone says Chrome you know exactly what they are talking about.
The same thing exists actually on the Firefox side. While the source code is open, Mozilla owns the Firefox trademark and keeps pretty strict rules on what you can call Firefox should you start distributing your own builds. So the Chromium equivalent is closer to IceCat (formally IceWeasel, which exists exactly for this reason), along with other builds like Waterfox.
Of the chiclet keyboards, the Thinkpad has one of the better ones. They at least put some curvature on the keys which helps with the touch typing and keeping your fingers centered on the right keys, which is much easier to type on than the completely flat keys like on Apple laptops. Though I'd still take the keyboard on my R60 (which I believe has the same keyboard as the T60) any day over a modern Thinkpad.
It's a bit old school in the sense that the screen doesn't go all the way to the edge and has a bezel around it. And it also has a plastic case. This means it's a heck of a lot more durable than the iPhone or the stuff Samsung makes nowadays, and you're a lot less likely to have to fork hundreds of dollars to fix an easily breakable screen on a device you're going to be carrying around with you a lot. Besides, who cares what it looks like if you're going to be putting it in a case anyway.
That's really all it's doing as far as I can tell. It just knows what percentage of the time each box gets clicked. If you click some pattern that's consistent with what it has seen previously it will let you through. That's why they usually give you more than one test - they'll give you a known image that it has many responses to, and an unknown one it doesn't have many responses to (not necessarily in that order). If you answer the known one correctly, it will then assume you are also correct on the other image which allows it to build up a set of responses for that image. That's how they are getting free labor out of you for identifying road signs, store fronts, and vehicles for Google streetview (or whatever the hell they are up to).
Hence, sometimes I'll get an image that I've seen before, which tells me the next image is probably an "unknown" one, in which case I'll just click some random area in it, and it will often let me through just fine.
It's funny, but as Captchas go, that one would be trivial for a bot to nail pretty much every time.
That new information can mean the HFT's decide they are getting out of the market in a matter of milliseconds, evaporating liquidity and causing huge, sudden price swings. See the flash crash.
A mosquito, by definition, is an insect species where the female feeds on the blood of another species. So all mosquitoes consume blood. If they didn't, they wouldn't be a mosquito. It is true that not all species will feed upon humans, but they all feed upon other species.
While it's true that mosquitoes are a food source for other species such as frogs, it's at the cost of other species that the mosquitoes attack in order to reproduce. I've often wonder what the impact of removing them from the food chain would be.
The images are sliced up by a computer, blindly. After a while, it learns that 95% of people click this box, 84% this other box, 34% that other box, 11% that box, etc. All you need to do is click something consistent with the already established pattern.
The thing that does piss me off the most is that the captcha seems to be intentionally designed to miss clicks, likely to try to fool bots. The captcha is annoying enough as it is, having to click the boxes multiple times to get it to register the click is even more obnoxious.