Actually, the Apple-1 can't (easily) play Breakout - it's (essentially) a very primitive "glass teletype," strapped to a computer on the same PCB.
As for the 8-bit Apple II, the strengths there were durability and expansion. (Oh, and yes, you can use it on the modern internet - using a port of Contiki (and a couple ethernet cards, one of them made by the owner of the site that the Contiki port is hosted on,) the same software used on the C64 to get online - do word processing, and spreadsheets (using various applications - for word processing, there were quite a few - Apple Writer, Magic Window, Bank Street Writer, for spreadsheets, you had VisiCalc (the ORIGINAL spreadsheet,) and there was always the (rather excellent) AppleWorks, if you wanted a suite. Oh, and there was also GEOS (yes, the same GEOS as on the C64, it was a port.) Want DTP? There's Print Shop... or, for a much more powerful DTP, there's Publish-It.)
And then there's always the 16-bit IIGS, which had pretty much the best sound capabilities of any computer from that era, acceptable graphics capabilities (not as good as the Atari ST or Amiga, admittedly,) and there's even a GUI web browser (not graphical, just GUI) for it. Oh, and there's AppleWorks GS, which was buggy, but it's a GUI office suite for the thing.
You better have a smartphone positioned to watch the entire scene, streaming to UStream and/or Qik, then. (And, then, if you planned that far ahead, it means that this incident was premeditated, hurting your case.)
Well, if your civil disobedience crosses over into terrorism according to the government, then the media will make a sensation out of you. In a negative light.
This one has had some modifications that reduce the value. (They're all going to have some modifications, but there are unoriginal chips on this board, and that'll hurt value, I suspect.)
And there's another clone using a similar approach (of emulating the video section with a microcontroller,) and a 100% trace-for-trace replica (read: except for the cloner's signature hiding in the board, you can't tell that it's a clone at all) out there.
(There's also the Obtronix replica, which is 100% chip-for-chip, but not trace-for-trace, identical. It's no longer in production, though.)
In at least some areas, it's done based on a grid layout. So, if your street goes east to west, if you draw an imaginary line going north to south, most houses on streets going east to west under that line within your locality will be somewhere around 427.
See, CDMA uses two things for authentication: Your phone number (with some exceptions if the number is ported from another network,) and the ESN/MEID (ESN is older, but the MEID is equivalent to (and IIRC in the same namespace as) the GSM IMEI.) Same authentication as old AMPS phones.
R-UIMs simply move the phone number and the ESN/MEID into the R-UIM, and the phone has no stored ESN or MEID.
And I never even heard of the Amiga until the late 90s, when I first got online. (Everything I had been exposed to mentioned Wintel, Windec (back when the DEC Alpha was supposed to displace x86,) or Apple.)
A 1996 Jetta TDI, or a 1996 Jetta TD? There is a difference, and it does matter when running vegetable oil.
(Neither was sold in the US, and I'm pretty sure in any market where the 3rd-generation-Golf-with-a-trunk was sold with a TDI in model year 1996, it was called a Vento, not a Jetta. Of course, it could be an engine swap.)
Waste veggie oil is known to cause major problems unless you do EVERY SINGLE THING PERFECTLY on a direct injection engine - and even then, premature failure is inevitable, compared to doing everything right (which is far easier) on petrodiesel or even biodiesel.
On an indirect injection engine, it's easier to not fail miserably (but still very possible.) If your car is a TD, and not a TDI, then it's indirect injection.
2004-2006 TDIs in North America are considered to be EXTREMELY intolerant of waste veggie oil, and marginally tolerant of high percentages of biodiesel (the older TDIs are usually considered fairly well tolerant of high percentages of biodiesel, though.)
As for the 2009+ cars... well, they're considered VERY intolerant of more than 5% biodiesel, due to the extremely high sustained fuel pressures (causing breakdown of the fuel) and the particulate filter not being tuned for biodiesel at all. Waste veggie oil is far worse than biodiesel in every respect, for these purposes - it breaks down far sooner, and its combustion profile is far worse for the particulate filter than biodiesel.
Cut the biodiesel with diesel #1 (read: road-legal kerosene,) and it is less likely to gel. (Usually between October and April, fuel suppliers start going to winterized blends, which are usually up to 30% diesel #1, with additives to improve lubricity. (This is also the biggest reason why fuel economy goes down in winter, as diesel #1 has less energy than diesel #2 (what's simply known as diesel, outside of those months.)) Of course, because 2% biodiesel is itself used as a lubricity additive... problem solved.
(All of this said, I'd stick to older diesel cars for running biodiesel. Optimally, a 2003 or older VW, or a 1999 or older Mercedes. And, absolutely not a 2007 or newer of any brand.)
The thing is, it doesn't matter what you think. MPEG LA isn't going to sue you for using VP8.
It matters what the companies that want to use it think, and they think they're going to get sued, and have actually been threatened by MPEG LA. Therefore, for them, they don't want to take the risk of getting sued (in this economy, that may well be reasonable,) so even if VP8 doesn't infringe a single patent, it might as well infringe all of them.
There are plenty examples of other more "primitive" civilizations leaving things alone because they know they cause more harm than good.
(Los Angeles, for instance. Native Americans knew that it wasn't practical to inhabit it, because smoke would stay there. Not a natural resource, but still...)
The shitty part is, the placement of the Q (or even the resolution in question) determines whether it's quarter or quad, and there's no consistency. See:
WQXGA = 2560x1600 (wide quad XGA) QWXGA = 2048x1152 (quad wide XG.. wait, what? First off, this is a 16:9 resolution, the standard is to call it "1152p," second, if it were 16:10, it'd be quad wide SVGA, not quad wide XGA. Quad wide XGA is 2560x1600, damnit.)
At least the higher stuff is usually sensical, although H can mean half or hexadectuple (16x.)
QUXGA-W = 3840x2400 (this was an old designation, I've also seen WQUXGA used, quad ultra XGA, wide) WHSXGA = OK, you win. That one's not sensical, partially because nobody can agree on WSXGA. (Damnit, SXGA is a 5:4 ratio, and is 1280x1024. Base everything off of that, 1440x900 would be something along the lines of WXGA+, not WSXGA. But then WSXGA is sometimes used to refer to WSXGA+, which is based on the (4:3) 1400x1050 SXGA+.
The sad thing is, if you want more than 2560x1600, you're looking at several thousand dollars, or 5+ year old monitors. (The original T220 did 3840x2400 in 22.2", for $18,000 at launch, with the video card to drive it. If you want that resolution now, well, you can't get it without buying used, but if 3840x2160 will do, and you're OK with 56", time to shell out $40,000.)
I own a T221 DGP (Japanese variant of the DG5,) and while I wouldn't give it up, here's why it didn't catch on:
Cost. And not just of the monitor itself, but of the card to drive it. By the time they were discontinued, you could get a Viewsonic for $3-4k, a DG3 for $5k (the Viewsonics were DG3s that binned worse, allegedly,) and a DG5 for $9k. But, with the Viewsonic or the DG3, here were your options:
Run at 3840x2400 13 Hz on a single link
Run at 3840x2400 24 Hz on two single links, on a card that genlocked outputs together (so we're talking Quadro, FireGL, or Parhelia, there's $500-1000 right there)
Run at 3840x2400 41 Hz on four single links, on a card that genlocked outputs together (EXPENSIVE - $2000 on up, back then. Although, now, there's a $150 card that was discontinued years ago, that with a terribly outdated driver on XP, or any driver on Linux with careful application of Xinerama, works for this.)
The DG5, however, is tolerant of non-genlocked cards, and can take (with an adapter box) one dual-link, and one single-link DVI connection for 48 Hz. Or, the DG5's real party trick is, it can take four 1920x1200 60 Hz signals, and display all of them at once on the 48 Hz screen.
Resolution independence. Or, rather, the lack thereof. Iiyama's version of the DG3 actually says that you can spoil your eyes in 3840x2400, and if you're not able to increase font sizes, run at 1920x1200.
Demand. There just wasn't that much demand for a 3840x2400 monitor except in very small niche markets. This is actually why the price went down so much on T221s - they had tons of unsold stock. The T221 actually put IDTech, the joint venture between IBM and Chi Mei Optoelectronics, out of business, and now Sony makes TVs in that factory. In fact, even now, demand is low enough (in some markets, anyway) that you can get one for the equivalent of $300 or so in Japan. I paid $1300 including shipping - before the Japanese market for T221s had COMPLETELY crashed - to get two T221s to Ohio. (I ended up selling one of them, and it paid for both.)
In your old indirect injection diesel. (And, my 1985 Jetta and 1986 Golf called for a maximum of 30% gasoline in emergencies only. Your Mercedes had a much more overbuilt fuel pump designed for trucks that was lubricated by engine oil, my Jetta and Golf used a cheaper pump meant for cars and was lubricated by fuel.)
Doing it to a modern diesel is incredibly stupid, the higher fuel system pressures require better lubrication.
Wankels actually can't hit high compression ratios in practice due to their design - the highest compression Wankels are usually in the 10:1 area, and they would have seal issues at higher ratios.
Or their test is "what a test driver will get," not "what you will get unless you drive like our test driver."
For a decade or so, US fuel economy numbers were "what a test driver will get." Those are the CAFE numbers (and when the government says that they want "62 MPG by 2025," they mean 62 MPG CAFE average, not 1985 EPA average or 2007 EPA average.) The 1985 EPA standard was to knock that down another 10 percent in the city and 22 percent on the highway. The 2007 EPA standard includes some new tests, although on older cars they have a skew formula to guess at what the new tests do.
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Actually, the Apple-1 can't (easily) play Breakout - it's (essentially) a very primitive "glass teletype," strapped to a computer on the same PCB.
As for the 8-bit Apple II, the strengths there were durability and expansion. (Oh, and yes, you can use it on the modern internet - using a port of Contiki (and a couple ethernet cards, one of them made by the owner of the site that the Contiki port is hosted on,) the same software used on the C64 to get online - do word processing, and spreadsheets (using various applications - for word processing, there were quite a few - Apple Writer, Magic Window, Bank Street Writer, for spreadsheets, you had VisiCalc (the ORIGINAL spreadsheet,) and there was always the (rather excellent) AppleWorks, if you wanted a suite. Oh, and there was also GEOS (yes, the same GEOS as on the C64, it was a port.) Want DTP? There's Print Shop... or, for a much more powerful DTP, there's Publish-It.)
And then there's always the 16-bit IIGS, which had pretty much the best sound capabilities of any computer from that era, acceptable graphics capabilities (not as good as the Atari ST or Amiga, admittedly,) and there's even a GUI web browser (not graphical, just GUI) for it. Oh, and there's AppleWorks GS, which was buggy, but it's a GUI office suite for the thing.
You better have a smartphone positioned to watch the entire scene, streaming to UStream and/or Qik, then. (And, then, if you planned that far ahead, it means that this incident was premeditated, hurting your case.)
Well, if your civil disobedience crosses over into terrorism according to the government, then the media will make a sensation out of you. In a negative light.
Except our lawmakers and courts simply make up the second bit about what doesn't constitute free speech as they go.
Some of them have been in better shape.
This one has had some modifications that reduce the value. (They're all going to have some modifications, but there are unoriginal chips on this board, and that'll hurt value, I suspect.)
Actually, in the case of the Apple-1, you have to hit Reset after you turn it on, and then you get dumped into the Monitor.
Then your options are to hand-type BASIC in, or to load it from cassette (if you have the ACI or a replica thereof, which this one does.)
And there's another clone using a similar approach (of emulating the video section with a microcontroller,) and a 100% trace-for-trace replica (read: except for the cloner's signature hiding in the board, you can't tell that it's a clone at all) out there.
(There's also the Obtronix replica, which is 100% chip-for-chip, but not trace-for-trace, identical. It's no longer in production, though.)
In at least some areas, it's done based on a grid layout. So, if your street goes east to west, if you draw an imaginary line going north to south, most houses on streets going east to west under that line within your locality will be somewhere around 427.
The SIM only provides authentication data, what the parent is talking about is a removable card that holds the SIM, antenna, and the baseband chip.
R-UIM is actually a nasty hackjob on top of CDMA.
See, CDMA uses two things for authentication: Your phone number (with some exceptions if the number is ported from another network,) and the ESN/MEID (ESN is older, but the MEID is equivalent to (and IIRC in the same namespace as) the GSM IMEI.) Same authentication as old AMPS phones.
R-UIMs simply move the phone number and the ESN/MEID into the R-UIM, and the phone has no stored ESN or MEID.
That's fine for voice, but what about 3G? IIRC, there's no phone that works on both T-Mobile and AT&T for 3G.
And I never even heard of the Amiga until the late 90s, when I first got online. (Everything I had been exposed to mentioned Wintel, Windec (back when the DEC Alpha was supposed to displace x86,) or Apple.)
Funny how that works.
Fun fact: That's actually a bug caused by a hardcoded DOS version check, and it getting a number that's well out of the range it's expecting.
Well, you could replace the horses with humans. (Yes, I'm aware, that's called slavery, and it's not good.)
A 1996 Jetta TDI, or a 1996 Jetta TD? There is a difference, and it does matter when running vegetable oil.
(Neither was sold in the US, and I'm pretty sure in any market where the 3rd-generation-Golf-with-a-trunk was sold with a TDI in model year 1996, it was called a Vento, not a Jetta. Of course, it could be an engine swap.)
Waste veggie oil is known to cause major problems unless you do EVERY SINGLE THING PERFECTLY on a direct injection engine - and even then, premature failure is inevitable, compared to doing everything right (which is far easier) on petrodiesel or even biodiesel.
On an indirect injection engine, it's easier to not fail miserably (but still very possible.) If your car is a TD, and not a TDI, then it's indirect injection.
2004-2006 TDIs in North America are considered to be EXTREMELY intolerant of waste veggie oil, and marginally tolerant of high percentages of biodiesel (the older TDIs are usually considered fairly well tolerant of high percentages of biodiesel, though.)
As for the 2009+ cars... well, they're considered VERY intolerant of more than 5% biodiesel, due to the extremely high sustained fuel pressures (causing breakdown of the fuel) and the particulate filter not being tuned for biodiesel at all. Waste veggie oil is far worse than biodiesel in every respect, for these purposes - it breaks down far sooner, and its combustion profile is far worse for the particulate filter than biodiesel.
Cut the biodiesel with diesel #1 (read: road-legal kerosene,) and it is less likely to gel. (Usually between October and April, fuel suppliers start going to winterized blends, which are usually up to 30% diesel #1, with additives to improve lubricity. (This is also the biggest reason why fuel economy goes down in winter, as diesel #1 has less energy than diesel #2 (what's simply known as diesel, outside of those months.)) Of course, because 2% biodiesel is itself used as a lubricity additive... problem solved.
(All of this said, I'd stick to older diesel cars for running biodiesel. Optimally, a 2003 or older VW, or a 1999 or older Mercedes. And, absolutely not a 2007 or newer of any brand.)
What occurred in Jurassic Park was a stress-induced gender change due to a lack of males in the area - creating males out of adult females.
This is parthenogenesis - the egg actually fertilizes itself, as I understand.
The thing is, it doesn't matter what you think. MPEG LA isn't going to sue you for using VP8.
It matters what the companies that want to use it think, and they think they're going to get sued, and have actually been threatened by MPEG LA. Therefore, for them, they don't want to take the risk of getting sued (in this economy, that may well be reasonable,) so even if VP8 doesn't infringe a single patent, it might as well infringe all of them.
There are plenty examples of other more "primitive" civilizations leaving things alone because they know they cause more harm than good.
(Los Angeles, for instance. Native Americans knew that it wasn't practical to inhabit it, because smoke would stay there. Not a natural resource, but still...)
The shitty part is, the placement of the Q (or even the resolution in question) determines whether it's quarter or quad, and there's no consistency. See:
QVGA = 320x240 (quarter VGA)
QXGA = 2048x1536 (quad XGA)
Oh, and for real fun...
WQXGA = 2560x1600 (wide quad XGA)
QWXGA = 2048x1152 (quad wide XG.. wait, what? First off, this is a 16:9 resolution, the standard is to call it "1152p," second, if it were 16:10, it'd be quad wide SVGA, not quad wide XGA. Quad wide XGA is 2560x1600, damnit.)
At least the higher stuff is usually sensical, although H can mean half or hexadectuple (16x.)
QUXGA-W = 3840x2400 (this was an old designation, I've also seen WQUXGA used, quad ultra XGA, wide)
WHSXGA = OK, you win. That one's not sensical, partially because nobody can agree on WSXGA. (Damnit, SXGA is a 5:4 ratio, and is 1280x1024. Base everything off of that, 1440x900 would be something along the lines of WXGA+, not WSXGA. But then WSXGA is sometimes used to refer to WSXGA+, which is based on the (4:3) 1400x1050 SXGA+.
The sad thing is, if you want more than 2560x1600, you're looking at several thousand dollars, or 5+ year old monitors. (The original T220 did 3840x2400 in 22.2", for $18,000 at launch, with the video card to drive it. If you want that resolution now, well, you can't get it without buying used, but if 3840x2160 will do, and you're OK with 56", time to shell out $40,000.)
I own a T221 DGP (Japanese variant of the DG5,) and while I wouldn't give it up, here's why it didn't catch on:
The DG5, however, is tolerant of non-genlocked cards, and can take (with an adapter box) one dual-link, and one single-link DVI connection for 48 Hz. Or, the DG5's real party trick is, it can take four 1920x1200 60 Hz signals, and display all of them at once on the 48 Hz screen.
In your old indirect injection diesel. (And, my 1985 Jetta and 1986 Golf called for a maximum of 30% gasoline in emergencies only. Your Mercedes had a much more overbuilt fuel pump designed for trucks that was lubricated by engine oil, my Jetta and Golf used a cheaper pump meant for cars and was lubricated by fuel.)
Doing it to a modern diesel is incredibly stupid, the higher fuel system pressures require better lubrication.
Wankels actually can't hit high compression ratios in practice due to their design - the highest compression Wankels are usually in the 10:1 area, and they would have seal issues at higher ratios.
This is a piston engine.
Or their test is "what a test driver will get," not "what you will get unless you drive like our test driver."
For a decade or so, US fuel economy numbers were "what a test driver will get." Those are the CAFE numbers (and when the government says that they want "62 MPG by 2025," they mean 62 MPG CAFE average, not 1985 EPA average or 2007 EPA average.) The 1985 EPA standard was to knock that down another 10 percent in the city and 22 percent on the highway. The 2007 EPA standard includes some new tests, although on older cars they have a skew formula to guess at what the new tests do.