I control when the cruise control is on or off, and what speed it is set to. If functioning properly, it behaves in a very simple and predictable manner. Since steering the car still requires my full attention I'm pretty much ready to take over the throttle at any time should the need arise. Though perhaps the argument could be made that I'm not 100% in control of any car that has an automatic choke...
Putting out fires ASAP makes the most sense. If you don't put it out when you can and the fire gets out of control - which can easily happen given the dry conditions, property is going to get destroyed and people potentially killed. And when that happens, you're going to end up with morons like yourself claiming that the "teh libtards let people's houses burn to save the spotted owl" or some other ignorant nonsense. That's why random fires are put out quickly, and the build-up problem is dealt with by doing controlled burns when conditions are favorable for the fire to not get out of control.
Well, if they try to pawn your Playstation and get busted because the serial number is flagged as stolen, your 6TB hard drive might be in the stuff they are able to recover.
How can they see what devices are behind a NAT, other than that particular operating systems access particular sets of operating system update servers?
Well, if they are doing deep packet inspection, they could probably get a pretty good idea from how many different browser user agents they see. Though most likely they just use the backdoor they put in the modem/router they provide to you to find out how many devices are connected to it.
To most people, it's a tool. Do you give much thought to how old a hammer, shovel, or a pair of pliers are? Do you really know how old something is that was handed down to you or bought second-hand?
If the computer is old enough, you won't find the cap farm next to the CPU, as the CPU would only draw a few watts, and generally ran at 5V (or 3.3V) so it didn't need to step the voltage down either. The capacitors will eventually dry out, but if you keep the system well cooled (most old computers were fairly well cooled) they will last a long time.
Electrolytic capacitors can be replaced. I've successfully repaired and brought back to life computers with bad capacitors. If you ask me the hardest part would be dealing with 15+ year old hard drives and finding suitable spares when they inevitably konk out, though you might be able to use a IDE to CompactFlash adapter and get around that problem. Or alternatively, since he's running WordStar on DOS, just do without a hard drive.
If anything, those old players tend to have more trouble. They didn't always fully implement the error correction algorithms to take advantage of the correction data on the disks, and if they encounter missing data they may not be able to interpolate the missing data (or if they do, they won't do it as well). It's too bad because otherwise many of those early players are solid and reliable units.
I still use them in my car, as dates back to when MP3's were something you downloaded from Napster and an auxiliary input on a factory head unit was unheard of. Yes, I know about the FM modulators, and they suck. I also know about the cassette* adapters, and those suck too (though not as bad).
Simpson's Tapped out is a building game where you're reconstructing Springfield. It's not really a #3, because while there are characters and buildings that are premium you don't need them to progress in the game, and since it's essentially a single player game you don't get a competitive advantage by having them, and the major characters and buildings from the show are all "free". It's more of a #4 where the items you get more or less are "cool" without really changing the gameplay, though there are a lot of players who seem to feel they must have everything (and thus will always fork out money for any new paid content), and they seem to take advantage of this.
Simpson's Tapped out is rather grindy though. The basic mechanism for earning in-game money never changes (you collect money from buildings which earn income every few hours and sending characters on timed tasks) so as your town grows to dozens of buildings and characters it gets to be a bit of a chore to collect all your income and keeping your characters assigned to tasks, and at high levels constructing new buildings costs a lot of in-game money.
The big change to the game the past few months, however, are the event updates (for Christmas, Easter, etc.) with limited-time prizes that can only be obtained by winning a random game of chance. For a free player, the chances of getting enough plays to get the best prizes are slim, so if you want all the prizes you'll have to spend money to buy more plays. The worst part about it is that since it's still a game of chance to get the prizes, you can end up sinking significant money into trying to get the prizes and coming up empty. It used to be that the events were more or less "everyone is a winner" where if you played often enough, you would basically be guaranteed to be able to grind your way to all the prizes in an event, but now it's more like playing slots.
On the other hand, all that momentum means a longer stopping distance which could make the difference between having enough room to safely stop and crashing into something.
I use and pay for NOD32. I was basically hooked when I downloaded the trail version, installed it, and promptly forgot about it as it silently and unobtrusively did it's thing while completely staying out of my way. When it finally piped up when the trial was about to end I decided it was well worth it.
I knew a Saab owner who just left the key in the ignition all the time. They figured that no one would know the ignition is between the seats. I thought it was crazy but no one ever stole the car. Security by obscurity at its finest.
Actually, it's tough to get a manual transmission in a pickup nowadays. There are only a few models left that offer a manual, and they are mostly the smaller trucks, and then you're still limited in engine choices, cab configuration, and trim. As for larger trucks, the only one I can think of where you can get a manual is the Ram 2500 and that's only if you order it with a diesel engine.
The whole reason why you don't see the ignition in the dash anymore is because it was outlawed, I believe sometime around 1970 for cars (trucks and vans came later). The reason is that they considered it a safety issue to have a key sticking out of the dash where it could injure someone in an accident. Of course, you didn't have to put the ignition in the column, but that's what most manufacturers did . However, Saab is notable for putting the ignition in the console or between the seats in a lot of their cars.
Most VCRs sport a composite video out RCA connector on the back. With a cheap RCA to S-Video adapter you could use the S-Video input on the Hauppauge and be in business. If your VCR is fancy enough, it may even have a S-Video output making even it even simpler. If you had to, you could also use the tuner, as pretty much every consumer-level VCR will also output on either Ch 3 or Ch 4.
In case you haven't noticed, $20 isn't very much money nowadays. Unless you already happened to have the required equipment on hand, you'd be hard-pressed to do it cheaper yourself.
Well, Ford is only legally required to support a model for 10 years. Considering that's less than the average vehicle age, that would mean there are lot of "unsupported" Fords out there. Of course, I haven't had much problem getting support for cars older than that (so long as they aren't too old), because there's good money in parts and service. Yet, since the expectation is that Microsoft continue to support XP completely free of charge? No wonder Microsoft wants to drop support. Perhaps the solution would be for Microsoft to continue to offer support for XP for anyone who is willing to pay, not just the few large contracts that have negotiated support. That way everyone wins - anyone who wants to run XP bad enough still can, and Microsoft gets a new revenue stream.
Without the ability to reflash, the days of bricking your phone with a firmware update are over! On the downside though, you only have 3GB of ram for your apps, and if your battery goes dead you lose everything:(
Opera, after the 12.xx releases, is basically a reskinned chromium browser. Now, while the loss of the Presto rendering engine is regrettable, I could live with a version of Opera that had the same interface and features that I was used to, but using chromium under the hood. The problem is that they basically threw out the entire browser and started over again, and they've lost a lot of what made Opera great. Another problem is that they've dropped Linux support after the 12.xx releases, so if you run Linux then it's the end of the line (at least for now). Though interestingly they just dropped 12.17 a few days ago to patch up some SSL exploits so maybe there is still some hope.
As a long time Opera user I've been a bit lost. Between Firefox and Chrome I prefer Chrome, but don't really care for all the Googlely bits in Chrome. Debian provides a build of Chromium so I'm set there, and on Windows I've been trying Comodo Dragon, which I've been pretty happy with.
Hey, the Fit still more or less sticks to the Honda formula. I will give them some credit for the current Accord - it may be bloated, but by 2014 standards it's a relatively clean looking design with decent visibility and headroom, and they've so far resisted the temptation to slap a ridiculous grill on it. On the downside if you want a manual you're limited to a small selection of very dull colors (seriously Honda?).
Now, if they put the third generation back into production I'd buy one tomorrow.
Refried beans may not be vegetarian, depending on how they are made. Traditionally they contain lard, though nowadays it's more likely vegetable shortening. Of course, there are varieties specially marked as vegetarian for those that are concerned about this kind of thing.
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I control when the cruise control is on or off, and what speed it is set to. If functioning properly, it behaves in a very simple and predictable manner. Since steering the car still requires my full attention I'm pretty much ready to take over the throttle at any time should the need arise. Though perhaps the argument could be made that I'm not 100% in control of any car that has an automatic choke...
Putting out fires ASAP makes the most sense. If you don't put it out when you can and the fire gets out of control - which can easily happen given the dry conditions, property is going to get destroyed and people potentially killed. And when that happens, you're going to end up with morons like yourself claiming that the "teh libtards let people's houses burn to save the spotted owl" or some other ignorant nonsense. That's why random fires are put out quickly, and the build-up problem is dealt with by doing controlled burns when conditions are favorable for the fire to not get out of control.
Well, if they try to pawn your Playstation and get busted because the serial number is flagged as stolen, your 6TB hard drive might be in the stuff they are able to recover.
Well, if they are doing deep packet inspection, they could probably get a pretty good idea from how many different browser user agents they see. Though most likely they just use the backdoor they put in the modem/router they provide to you to find out how many devices are connected to it.
To most people, it's a tool. Do you give much thought to how old a hammer, shovel, or a pair of pliers are? Do you really know how old something is that was handed down to you or bought second-hand?
If the computer is old enough, you won't find the cap farm next to the CPU, as the CPU would only draw a few watts, and generally ran at 5V (or 3.3V) so it didn't need to step the voltage down either. The capacitors will eventually dry out, but if you keep the system well cooled (most old computers were fairly well cooled) they will last a long time.
Electrolytic capacitors can be replaced. I've successfully repaired and brought back to life computers with bad capacitors. If you ask me the hardest part would be dealing with 15+ year old hard drives and finding suitable spares when they inevitably konk out, though you might be able to use a IDE to CompactFlash adapter and get around that problem. Or alternatively, since he's running WordStar on DOS, just do without a hard drive.
If anything, those old players tend to have more trouble. They didn't always fully implement the error correction algorithms to take advantage of the correction data on the disks, and if they encounter missing data they may not be able to interpolate the missing data (or if they do, they won't do it as well). It's too bad because otherwise many of those early players are solid and reliable units.
I still use them in my car, as dates back to when MP3's were something you downloaded from Napster and an auxiliary input on a factory head unit was unheard of. Yes, I know about the FM modulators, and they suck. I also know about the cassette* adapters, and those suck too (though not as bad).
*My car is also my only cassette player.
Simpson's Tapped out is a building game where you're reconstructing Springfield. It's not really a #3, because while there are characters and buildings that are premium you don't need them to progress in the game, and since it's essentially a single player game you don't get a competitive advantage by having them, and the major characters and buildings from the show are all "free". It's more of a #4 where the items you get more or less are "cool" without really changing the gameplay, though there are a lot of players who seem to feel they must have everything (and thus will always fork out money for any new paid content), and they seem to take advantage of this.
Simpson's Tapped out is rather grindy though. The basic mechanism for earning in-game money never changes (you collect money from buildings which earn income every few hours and sending characters on timed tasks) so as your town grows to dozens of buildings and characters it gets to be a bit of a chore to collect all your income and keeping your characters assigned to tasks, and at high levels constructing new buildings costs a lot of in-game money.
The big change to the game the past few months, however, are the event updates (for Christmas, Easter, etc.) with limited-time prizes that can only be obtained by winning a random game of chance. For a free player, the chances of getting enough plays to get the best prizes are slim, so if you want all the prizes you'll have to spend money to buy more plays. The worst part about it is that since it's still a game of chance to get the prizes, you can end up sinking significant money into trying to get the prizes and coming up empty. It used to be that the events were more or less "everyone is a winner" where if you played often enough, you would basically be guaranteed to be able to grind your way to all the prizes in an event, but now it's more like playing slots.
On the other hand, all that momentum means a longer stopping distance which could make the difference between having enough room to safely stop and crashing into something.
I use and pay for NOD32. I was basically hooked when I downloaded the trail version, installed it, and promptly forgot about it as it silently and unobtrusively did it's thing while completely staying out of my way. When it finally piped up when the trial was about to end I decided it was well worth it.
I knew a Saab owner who just left the key in the ignition all the time. They figured that no one would know the ignition is between the seats. I thought it was crazy but no one ever stole the car. Security by obscurity at its finest.
Actually, it's tough to get a manual transmission in a pickup nowadays. There are only a few models left that offer a manual, and they are mostly the smaller trucks, and then you're still limited in engine choices, cab configuration, and trim. As for larger trucks, the only one I can think of where you can get a manual is the Ram 2500 and that's only if you order it with a diesel engine.
The whole reason why you don't see the ignition in the dash anymore is because it was outlawed, I believe sometime around 1970 for cars (trucks and vans came later). The reason is that they considered it a safety issue to have a key sticking out of the dash where it could injure someone in an accident. Of course, you didn't have to put the ignition in the column, but that's what most manufacturers did . However, Saab is notable for putting the ignition in the console or between the seats in a lot of their cars.
Most VCRs sport a composite video out RCA connector on the back. With a cheap RCA to S-Video adapter you could use the S-Video input on the Hauppauge and be in business. If your VCR is fancy enough, it may even have a S-Video output making even it even simpler. If you had to, you could also use the tuner, as pretty much every consumer-level VCR will also output on either Ch 3 or Ch 4.
In case you haven't noticed, $20 isn't very much money nowadays. Unless you already happened to have the required equipment on hand, you'd be hard-pressed to do it cheaper yourself.
Well, Ford is only legally required to support a model for 10 years. Considering that's less than the average vehicle age, that would mean there are lot of "unsupported" Fords out there. Of course, I haven't had much problem getting support for cars older than that (so long as they aren't too old), because there's good money in parts and service. Yet, since the expectation is that Microsoft continue to support XP completely free of charge? No wonder Microsoft wants to drop support. Perhaps the solution would be for Microsoft to continue to offer support for XP for anyone who is willing to pay, not just the few large contracts that have negotiated support. That way everyone wins - anyone who wants to run XP bad enough still can, and Microsoft gets a new revenue stream.
Dude, you should change your password because one of them is posting with your account!
That many households already have more than one vehicle? That you can easily rent a gasoline-powered car when you need the range?
Without the ability to reflash, the days of bricking your phone with a firmware update are over! On the downside though, you only have 3GB of ram for your apps, and if your battery goes dead you lose everything :(
Opera, after the 12.xx releases, is basically a reskinned chromium browser. Now, while the loss of the Presto rendering engine is regrettable, I could live with a version of Opera that had the same interface and features that I was used to, but using chromium under the hood. The problem is that they basically threw out the entire browser and started over again, and they've lost a lot of what made Opera great. Another problem is that they've dropped Linux support after the 12.xx releases, so if you run Linux then it's the end of the line (at least for now). Though interestingly they just dropped 12.17 a few days ago to patch up some SSL exploits so maybe there is still some hope.
As a long time Opera user I've been a bit lost. Between Firefox and Chrome I prefer Chrome, but don't really care for all the Googlely bits in Chrome. Debian provides a build of Chromium so I'm set there, and on Windows I've been trying Comodo Dragon, which I've been pretty happy with.
Hey, the Fit still more or less sticks to the Honda formula. I will give them some credit for the current Accord - it may be bloated, but by 2014 standards it's a relatively clean looking design with decent visibility and headroom, and they've so far resisted the temptation to slap a ridiculous grill on it. On the downside if you want a manual you're limited to a small selection of very dull colors (seriously Honda?).
Now, if they put the third generation back into production I'd buy one tomorrow.
Hopefully they track that stuff better than they track their ammunition.
Refried beans may not be vegetarian, depending on how they are made. Traditionally they contain lard, though nowadays it's more likely vegetable shortening. Of course, there are varieties specially marked as vegetarian for those that are concerned about this kind of thing.