Yes, they did. The Cubes had a big and fairly quiet one that was attached to the back panel of the case (which is why it can't be seen in the eBay pics linked to in this thread as in every shot of the back of the case the back panel is either closed or completely removed). Slabs had a smaller fan inside. Overall , NeXTs were reasonably quiet, though the Cubes had a lot of space inside them for sounds to bounce around in and you could really hear your hard disk grinding in there.
It is a fact. The church "fathers" who decided to co-opt the various pagan winter solstice celebrations (Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, probably others) had no more idea when Jesus was born than you or I do. They picked Dec. 25 because people were already celerating the birth of Mithra (a sun god) on that day.
RCE is no big deal, as many of the newer 'Multi-Region' players out there are actually region-selectable, i.e. if the disc wants region one, set it to one, and change it to whatever you want for the next disc.
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>Is it me or is there no Fanta in the US?
I'm not 100% sure but I think Fanta has always been sold only overseas. I remember drinking it when I lived in Ghana back in '78: It was pretty much the only soft drink commonly available there. At the time you had to go to Togo to find Coca-Cola.
I guess this is where the government steps in... ...and mandates something that consumers don't want, or at least don't wan't to pay for at current prices. I say let them make cheap DTVs, then I'll buy one. If that never happens, so what. DVT would be nice, but I'm not losing any sleep over its slow adoption rate.
I found mwave to be a pain in one regard: shipping to an address other than the billing address. I'm single, I work, and am never home when UPS/FedEx etc. arrive, so I never ship anything to my billing address. Companies that have a problem with this lose my business, and as of a year or two ago (the last time I ordered from mwave) they required hoop-jumping to do this. Perhaps they have become more customer friendly lately, I don't know.
>with a piano roll the keys are either down, or not down
No, you're wrong. Player piano companies (such as Aeolian, Welte-Mignon, and Duo-Art) of the early 20th century worked very hard to make the best reproducing pianos possible, with great dynamic range. A well-maintained player piano can still play the old rolls with tremendous dynamic variation. If all they had was on or off, the great pianists of the day would never have 'recorded' on them.
Exactly. I saw Seinfeld interviewed the day the finale aired. When they asked him what he thought of it, he said, "I think everyone will hate it." He was right.
I had similar experiences when I was growing up. Teachers would send notes home criticizing me for doing things in other than the prescribed manner, for basically thinking for myself, sometimes even giving me a lower grade because I did *more* than was required! Thankfully, this drove my parents wild, and they stood up for me every time.
While I'm sure they exist, I don't know anyone who does this.
I do this. TW is the cable option in my city, and I tried them, found their service so incredibly horrible I could no longer support them, and now am back with an antenna. No bill, no worries.
I thought I would reply to my post before someone points out that the Dead Sea Scrolls go farther back than the middle ages. I meant that oldest complete Torah ms. dates from the middle ages, or 1009 to be exact.
the Torah has been hand-copied exactly word for word for over 2,000 years by Jewish scribes/Rabbis
Well, the oldest extant Torah ms. is from the middle ages IIRC, so we don't know for sure that it has not changed for "2000 years". Scholars agree that the Pentateuch had its time of fast-and-loose editing, suppression, etc. just like the Xtian Bible did, only much earlier.
>The Germans could have easily launched another, > better campaign in '43 if not for the resources > lost to bombing and the viable threat of > invasion in the west.
I think the Germans were doomed when Hitler took over personal control of the military in late '41. Their fortunes took a sharp downward turn from the moment Hitler dismissed Von Brauchitsch and began to run things himself.
It was called Star Wars when it was released. In the opening credits it said: Chapter 4: A new Hope
No it didn't! read and learn:
Q 001: Why does it say Episode IV in the scroll-text at the beginning of Star Wars, Episode V in The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI in Return of the Jedi? Did the Episode IV sub-head appear in the original theatrical release or was it added at a later date?
Answer: The Star Wars saga as originally conceived by Lucas was much too large to be made into a single film or even a single trilogy so Lucas structured his ideas into three trilogies.
He decided to make the middle trilogy (Episodes IV, V and VI) first because he believed it had the greatest chance of being a theatrical success.
An interesting point is that the "Chapter IV: A New Hope" sub-title did not appear until the 1979 re-release of the movie. Randal Schwartz says the following about the '79 release:
That was the one with the extended trailer for ESB, which came out the following summer. So the order was:
summer of '77: SW [no IV]
summer of '78: re-release of SW (no IV)
(but Westgate was still playing it)
summer of '79: retitled SW IV, with ESB trailer
summer of '80: ESB
The reference to "Westgate" was that the Westgate theatre (just a few blocks from where I am typing this) was *still* playing it. They set the record worldwide for the longest continuous run for SW (sans IV), something like 79 weeks. So, naturally, it wasn't a "re-release" for summer of '78. (We web-footed Oregonians see a *lot* of movies.:-)
Empire Strikes Back (1980) was always sub-titled Chapter V and Return of the Jedi (1983) was always sub-titled Chapter VI. (Note: the name of the first FILM is Star Wars - the name of the CHAPTER is "A New Hope" In Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi the film name and chapter names just happen to be the same. All the films together are collectively referred to as the Star Wars saga.)
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I wonder if NeXT machines had fans.
Yes, they did. The Cubes had a big and fairly quiet one that was attached to the back panel of the case (which is why it can't be seen in the eBay pics linked to in this thread as in every shot of the back of the case the back panel is either closed or completely removed). Slabs had a smaller fan inside. Overall , NeXTs were reasonably quiet, though the Cubes had a lot of space inside them for sounds to bounce around in and you could really hear your hard disk grinding in there.
you can actually turn on the old NeXT Step UI (for cocoa apps), via some easter egg commands that can be typed into the command line ;)
Hmm. What are these commands? Links please!
I'm betting you have to pay $1500 for some developer kit to write drivers for that OS.
The MacOSX developer tools, docs, etc. are free, silly.
Better yet, avoid using the mouse (almost) entirely and use LaunchBar. You won't regret it.
http://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
The Berlin wall was built in 1961.
Ha! Seinfeld reference sighted. Wasn't it Ghandi originally?
Is that a fact
It is a fact. The church "fathers" who decided to co-opt the various pagan winter solstice celebrations (Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, probably others) had no more idea when Jesus was born than you or I do. They picked Dec. 25 because people were already celerating the birth of Mithra (a sun god) on that day.
IIRC Apple is dropping the Motorola CPUs in 2005 in favor of Intel. I believe it was announced at Mac Expo.
Bullsh*t. Provide a link for this. I dare ya!
RCE is no big deal, as many of the newer 'Multi-Region' players out there are actually region-selectable, i.e. if the disc wants region one, set it to one, and change it to whatever you want for the next disc.
>Moor's law
:-)
No, That's Moop's Law
>Now I'm in the Netherlands
Are you originally from the US? Is it difficult for a non-citizen to find work there?
>Is it me or is there no Fanta in the US?
I'm not 100% sure but I think Fanta has always been sold only overseas. I remember drinking it when I lived in Ghana back in '78: It was pretty much the only soft drink commonly available there. At the time you had to go to Togo to find Coca-Cola.
I guess this is where the government steps in...
...and mandates something that consumers don't want, or at least don't wan't to pay for at current prices. I say let them make cheap DTVs, then I'll buy one. If that never happens, so what. DVT would be nice, but I'm not losing any sleep over its slow adoption rate.
Oops! Parent said .04% not .004%, but that's still wrong.
The population of the US is ~4%, not ~.004% (four-thousandths-of-one-percent = only 240,000 people!).
I found mwave to be a pain in one regard: shipping to an address other than the billing address. I'm single, I work, and am never home when UPS/FedEx etc. arrive, so I never ship anything to my billing address. Companies that have a problem with this lose my business, and as of a year or two ago (the last time I ordered from mwave) they required hoop-jumping to do this. Perhaps they have become more customer friendly lately, I don't know.
>with a piano roll the keys are either down, or not down
No, you're wrong. Player piano companies (such as Aeolian, Welte-Mignon, and Duo-Art) of the early 20th century worked very hard to make the best reproducing pianos possible, with great dynamic range. A well-maintained player piano can still play the old rolls with tremendous dynamic variation. If all they had was on or off, the great pianists of the day would never have 'recorded' on them.
Exactly. I saw Seinfeld interviewed the day the finale aired. When they asked him what he thought of it, he said, "I think everyone will hate it." He was right.
I had similar experiences when I was growing up. Teachers would send notes home criticizing me for doing things in other than the prescribed manner, for basically thinking for myself, sometimes even giving me a lower grade because I did *more* than was required! Thankfully, this drove my parents wild, and they stood up for me every time.
where do they send the royalty cheques for the Bible?
It's in the Public Domain. Well, the King James Version (the most popular translation) is.
While I'm sure they exist, I don't know anyone who does this.
I do this. TW is the cable option in my city, and I tried them, found their service so incredibly horrible I could no longer support them, and now am back with an antenna. No bill, no worries.
I thought I would reply to my post before someone points out that the Dead Sea Scrolls go farther back than the middle ages. I meant that oldest complete Torah ms. dates from the middle ages, or 1009 to be exact.
the Torah has been hand-copied exactly word for word for over 2,000 years by Jewish scribes/Rabbis
Well, the oldest extant Torah ms. is from the middle ages IIRC, so we don't know for sure that it has not changed for "2000 years". Scholars agree that the Pentateuch had its time of fast-and-loose editing, suppression, etc. just like the Xtian Bible did, only much earlier.
>The Germans could have easily launched another, > better campaign in '43 if not for the resources > lost to bombing and the viable threat of
> invasion in the west.
I think the Germans were doomed when Hitler took over personal control of the military in late '41. Their fortunes took a sharp downward turn from the moment Hitler dismissed Von Brauchitsch and began to run things himself.
It was called Star Wars when it was released. In the opening credits it said: Chapter 4: A new Hope
:-)
No it didn't! read and learn:
Q 001: Why does it say Episode IV in the scroll-text at the beginning of Star Wars, Episode V in The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI in Return of the Jedi? Did the Episode IV sub-head appear in the original theatrical release or was it added at a later date?
Answer: The Star Wars saga as originally conceived by Lucas was much too large to be made into a single film or even a single trilogy so Lucas structured his ideas into three trilogies.
He decided to make the middle trilogy (Episodes IV, V and VI) first because he believed it had the greatest chance of being a theatrical success.
An interesting point is that the "Chapter IV: A New Hope" sub-title did not appear until the 1979 re-release of the movie. Randal Schwartz says the following about the '79 release:
That was the one with the extended trailer for ESB, which came out the following summer. So the order was:
summer of '77: SW [no IV]
summer of '78: re-release of SW (no IV)
(but Westgate was still playing it)
summer of '79: retitled SW IV, with ESB trailer
summer of '80: ESB
The reference to "Westgate" was that the Westgate theatre (just a few blocks from where I am typing this) was *still* playing it. They set the record worldwide for the longest continuous run for SW (sans IV), something like 79 weeks. So, naturally, it wasn't a "re-release" for summer of '78. (We web-footed Oregonians see a *lot* of movies.
Empire Strikes Back (1980) was always sub-titled Chapter V and Return of the Jedi (1983) was always sub-titled Chapter VI. (Note: the name of the first FILM is Star Wars - the name of the CHAPTER is "A New Hope" In Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi the film name and chapter names just happen to be the same. All the films together are collectively referred to as the Star Wars saga.)
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