I have a Newton MP100 that I got for $50 from a Goodwill. I was using it somewhat regularly (despite the primitive nature of the Newton 1.x OS) but then the screen broke. Where can I get a replacement screen?
Completism. If RMS had his way, the only thing you would have to pay money for would be hardware. From BIOS to end-user applications, the GNU project could provide a complete, freely available and alterable software solution. Certainly a noble goal.
This is quite possible with any number of cards. I have a blue-and-white G3 and my original video card purchase for it was a PC Radeon 7000 PCI. Unlike the then-current Mac version, it lacked an extra DVI port. However, it had 64MB DDR as compared to 32MB and cost less than half as much. Currently, I'm using a Radeon 9100 PCI with a hacked Mac ROM courtesy of this guy. Overall a much better purchase than ATI's upcoming 9200 PCI for Mac.
It could also be one of the early-mid 80s sedans. I've seen wrecked Dashers, Quantums, and Foxes in the background of news coverage from the Middle East, although they were selling the Bug in Europe all the way through the 80s. The 1.3L TDI you mention isn't on the market in the US, with the 1.9 four-cylinder widely available and the V10 TDI being sold in the Touareg and Phaeton. Also, while the Golf sells fairly well, I believe that the original Type I is still the best-selling single automobile design ever.:)
If you want to complain about scenes lifted from the Matrix, go back to the first movie.:) The entire fight between Goblin and Spidey in the burning building is a much more blatant ripoff than anything I saw in SM2.
I get the impression that both Spider-Man movies take place in the near (but not immediate) future. For instance, in the first one, they're celebrating a "World Unity Day" (some kind of PC World's Fair) and the military is testing advanced exosuits. (Not to mention that weird neutron grenade that the Goblin uses to disintegrate the Oscorp board.) In the second one, Jameson's son is an astronaut who has already been to the moon. Little background details like that make it easier to assume, for the purposes of the story, that somebody (maybe even Octavius) has perfected a more efficient means of harvesting tritium.
I've got a copy of it around here somewhere, but it won't run on OS X. My favorite trick for shits'n'giggles was to build a road out to the farm, get cars going on it, then demolish one square leading back to town. The cars would be stuck there. Then I built a fence around the road and purchased livestock to go in there with the cars. Whee!
I never could figure out how to use the cropduster either. It would just take off, fly around the edge of the map until it ran out of fuel, then crash. I think I may eventually have used the arrow keys or something, but I never got it to spray a damned thing. The game was great nonetheless.
My subscriptions to tech magazines have fallen off in recent years. I used to read Macworld and MacAddict regularly, but let them slide when I realized I could get up-to-date info off the Web. Now, for some reason, most of my regular subscriptions (or newsstand pickups) are transportation-related
I also used to take some of the general auto mags such as Automobile, Car and Driver, and Road and Track, but I've dropped those since an awful lot of their content is on the Web and more often than not they're reviewing something I'm not interested in. Also, for some reason, I'm subscribed to Car Craft, a muscle-car rag that I never ordered. I'll occasionally pick up a magazine focusing on classic Mopar muscle cars, and I just today picked up Warbirds International about vintage military aircraft.
My grandfather also takes Trains, Classic Trains, and Model Railroading (all from the same publisher) which I occasionally read, and my grandmother is subscribed to such varying things as Texas Monthly, Country Weekly, and (I think) Better Homes and Gardens.
I am not sure if any movie can capture in film what those comic books conveyed to comic book nerds at the time.
I must say, this movie comes damned close. Through the first two-thirds of the movie, I kept turning to my friend and asking, "Are we supposed to feel THIS SORRY for him?" However, the ending was a big payoff, set up by Peter Parker's suffering throughout the beginning and middle. I was practically cheering when he turns around without his mask on after convincing Doc Ock to drown the reactor, and Mary Jane finally sees his true identity. Likewise I was almost yelling "YOU DUMBASS!" at the screen when he gives her his "we can't be together, too risky, blah blah blah" speech, but that in turn just helps to provoke her to leave Jameson's son at the altar. At the very end, there's all this depressing stuff (Harry becomes the Goblin, Aunt May loses her house, Jameson's son gets stiffed) but all you're focused on is Peter Parker, finally redeemed, in love, and swinging between towers as Spider-Man. That feeling of total empathy with Spider-Man is what makes the movie so great.
It has a manual transmission, and I believe the sticker said estimated 50mpg highway. The lowest it's given is in the mid-40s (mostly in-town, stop and go driving) and it typically gets around 50, with a high of 52mpg on a trip through the desert.
Is the one on exhibit the fullsize, original filming model as detailed here? If so, I'm somewhat sad that it's in Paul Allen's hands... someday I'll have to make him an offer he can't refuse.:)
I notice that this new museum doesn't allow visitors to photograph the exhibits, much like Allen's Heritage Flight Museum or whatever the hell it's called that has a lot of vintage aircraft. This gives me the impression that Allen's being just a little vain with something he's ostenstibly putting on public display... and perhaps perpetuating the intellectual-property protection mantra of his old pals at Microsoft. Can anybody here give a valid reason for prohibiting photography?
I once posted my AIM screenname (IStewart12) to Slashdot and got a total of one message from a concerned individual warning me about the flood of IMs I was now likely to receive. Must not have been a very active thread.
Not to mention the plane itself is sitting in the parking lot, right next to the friggin' street. It's freaky as all get-out, I'm sure it turns the heads of quite a few passers-by who have never been there before. IIRC it also has the most flight-hours out of any SR-71 airframe. Open Cockpit day is this Sunday and it'll supposedly be open.:)
I firmly believe that Roswell was a practical joke in its entirety.
Think about it. The war's over, and a bunch of Air Force officers who got suckered into staying on get stationed in Podunk Farm Town, New Mexico. One day, a NACA (or whoever) weather balloon with a crash test dummy or two crash-lands in some farmer's field and the farmer flips and calls the air base. These poor, bored Air Force officers decide to have a little fun with the locals. It gets out of hand. The next day, an irritated telegram comes in from the head office in Washington. A legend is born.
Even if this explanation were to be confirmed, perhaps by one of the officers involved if any are still alive, the conspiracy nuts still wouldn't believe it. Go figure.
It needed efficient atmospheric reentry vehicles. I guess George and Gracie told it to come back in a few hundred years and talk to their great-great-grandchildren.
I believe that the fact that a purported representative of the people wished to avoid "political suicide" rather than vote according to the desires of his constituents is either an outright fallacy or very telling about the person in question.
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I have a Newton MP100 that I got for $50 from a Goodwill. I was using it somewhat regularly (despite the primitive nature of the Newton 1.x OS) but then the screen broke. Where can I get a replacement screen?
They won't have to, it's probably going to go the same way as the ISS. Not that getting rid of that horrible theme song would be a bad idea...
Completism. If RMS had his way, the only thing you would have to pay money for would be hardware. From BIOS to end-user applications, the GNU project could provide a complete, freely available and alterable software solution. Certainly a noble goal.
This is quite possible with any number of cards. I have a blue-and-white G3 and my original video card purchase for it was a PC Radeon 7000 PCI. Unlike the then-current Mac version, it lacked an extra DVI port. However, it had 64MB DDR as compared to 32MB and cost less than half as much. Currently, I'm using a Radeon 9100 PCI with a hacked Mac ROM courtesy of this guy. Overall a much better purchase than ATI's upcoming 9200 PCI for Mac.
Maybe you need to update Safari. I'm using 1.2.2 and I see a big fat PNG right in the middle of the Gentoo tab.
It could also be one of the early-mid 80s sedans. I've seen wrecked Dashers, Quantums, and Foxes in the background of news coverage from the Middle East, although they were selling the Bug in Europe all the way through the 80s. The 1.3L TDI you mention isn't on the market in the US, with the 1.9 four-cylinder widely available and the V10 TDI being sold in the Touareg and Phaeton. Also, while the Golf sells fairly well, I believe that the original Type I is still the best-selling single automobile design ever. :)
If you want to complain about scenes lifted from the Matrix, go back to the first movie. :) The entire fight between Goblin and Spidey in the burning building is a much more blatant ripoff than anything I saw in SM2.
I get the impression that both Spider-Man movies take place in the near (but not immediate) future. For instance, in the first one, they're celebrating a "World Unity Day" (some kind of PC World's Fair) and the military is testing advanced exosuits. (Not to mention that weird neutron grenade that the Goblin uses to disintegrate the Oscorp board.) In the second one, Jameson's son is an astronaut who has already been to the moon. Little background details like that make it easier to assume, for the purposes of the story, that somebody (maybe even Octavius) has perfected a more efficient means of harvesting tritium.
No. Just very marginalized.
(I'm using OS X, BTW. FreeBSD LIVES!)
I've got a copy of it around here somewhere, but it won't run on OS X. My favorite trick for shits'n'giggles was to build a road out to the farm, get cars going on it, then demolish one square leading back to town. The cars would be stuck there. Then I built a fence around the road and purchased livestock to go in there with the cars. Whee!
I never could figure out how to use the cropduster either. It would just take off, fly around the edge of the map until it ran out of fuel, then crash. I think I may eventually have used the arrow keys or something, but I never got it to spray a damned thing. The game was great nonetheless.
My subscriptions to tech magazines have fallen off in recent years. I used to read Macworld and MacAddict regularly, but let them slide when I realized I could get up-to-date info off the Web. Now, for some reason, most of my regular subscriptions (or newsstand pickups) are transportation-related
Pertaining to cars:
Dune Buggies and Hot VWs
VW Trends
Excellence (Porsche magazine - couldn't find a link)
I also used to take some of the general auto mags such as Automobile, Car and Driver, and Road and Track, but I've dropped those since an awful lot of their content is on the Web and more often than not they're reviewing something I'm not interested in. Also, for some reason, I'm subscribed to Car Craft, a muscle-car rag that I never ordered. I'll occasionally pick up a magazine focusing on classic Mopar muscle cars, and I just today picked up Warbirds International about vintage military aircraft.
My grandfather also takes Trains, Classic Trains, and Model Railroading (all from the same publisher) which I occasionally read, and my grandmother is subscribed to such varying things as Texas Monthly, Country Weekly, and (I think) Better Homes and Gardens.
I must say, this movie comes damned close. Through the first two-thirds of the movie, I kept turning to my friend and asking, "Are we supposed to feel THIS SORRY for him?" However, the ending was a big payoff, set up by Peter Parker's suffering throughout the beginning and middle. I was practically cheering when he turns around without his mask on after convincing Doc Ock to drown the reactor, and Mary Jane finally sees his true identity. Likewise I was almost yelling "YOU DUMBASS!" at the screen when he gives her his "we can't be together, too risky, blah blah blah" speech, but that in turn just helps to provoke her to leave Jameson's son at the altar. At the very end, there's all this depressing stuff (Harry becomes the Goblin, Aunt May loses her house, Jameson's son gets stiffed) but all you're focused on is Peter Parker, finally redeemed, in love, and swinging between towers as Spider-Man. That feeling of total empathy with Spider-Man is what makes the movie so great.
It has a manual transmission, and I believe the sticker said estimated 50mpg highway. The lowest it's given is in the mid-40s (mostly in-town, stop and go driving) and it typically gets around 50, with a high of 52mpg on a trip through the desert.
Is the one on exhibit the fullsize, original filming model as detailed here? If so, I'm somewhat sad that it's in Paul Allen's hands... someday I'll have to make him an offer he can't refuse. :)
I notice that this new museum doesn't allow visitors to photograph the exhibits, much like Allen's Heritage Flight Museum or whatever the hell it's called that has a lot of vintage aircraft. This gives me the impression that Allen's being just a little vain with something he's ostenstibly putting on public display... and perhaps perpetuating the intellectual-property protection mantra of his old pals at Microsoft. Can anybody here give a valid reason for prohibiting photography?
I once posted my AIM screenname (IStewart12) to Slashdot and got a total of one message from a concerned individual warning me about the flood of IMs I was now likely to receive. Must not have been a very active thread.
Actually, it was Voyager VI, which was never built in the real world... and Commander Klaa destroys Pioneer 10 at the beginning of Star Trek V.
But the Mac version still does, even with the latest patch.
Not to mention the plane itself is sitting in the parking lot, right next to the friggin' street. It's freaky as all get-out, I'm sure it turns the heads of quite a few passers-by who have never been there before. IIRC it also has the most flight-hours out of any SR-71 airframe. Open Cockpit day is this Sunday and it'll supposedly be open. :)
I firmly believe that Roswell was a practical joke in its entirety.
Think about it. The war's over, and a bunch of Air Force officers who got suckered into staying on get stationed in Podunk Farm Town, New Mexico. One day, a NACA (or whoever) weather balloon with a crash test dummy or two crash-lands in some farmer's field and the farmer flips and calls the air base. These poor, bored Air Force officers decide to have a little fun with the locals. It gets out of hand. The next day, an irritated telegram comes in from the head office in Washington. A legend is born.
Even if this explanation were to be confirmed, perhaps by one of the officers involved if any are still alive, the conspiracy nuts still wouldn't believe it. Go figure.
No, it wasn't.
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No wonder the Windows server is so damn slow compared to the IBM machine... Two noble gas molecules aren't nearly enough to compute with.
It needed efficient atmospheric reentry vehicles. I guess George and Gracie told it to come back in a few hundred years and talk to their great-great-grandchildren.
I believe that the fact that a purported representative of the people wished to avoid "political suicide" rather than vote according to the desires of his constituents is either an outright fallacy or very telling about the person in question.