Ah, but did it have tubes? And a single speaker in the middle of the dash? Was it covered with real chrome?

My car for which you could say yes for all of that also had a transmission with five buttons. Wicked cool for smoke starts.

This is why the pinnacle of automotive engineering is the late-model (long-wheelbase) W126 Mercedes. All but the 3 liter diesel engines and the euro V8 are a bit shit, but there's loads of room for swaps. Driver airbag was standard and passenger available, and it's a big car yet it has crumple zones. Airbag cars have pretensioners. Yet, the diesels are mechanically regulated and the fuel cut is controlled by a vacuum switch on the back of the ignition lock. The e-brake is a completely separate cable-based drum brake inside the rear brake rotor hat. It's also Mercedes' first car made of 100% HSS*, so it's overly rigid in spite of being a thousand pounds lighter than its predecessor or successor.

* Diesels have Aluminum bonnet and boot lids

No, you needed to use an oxyacetylene torch to bring the metal to a cherry red, which removes the work hardening from the accident. Then you work the damage in reverse, starting at the outside and working towards the point of impact.

The car's crumple zone and the truck's mass would have protected you, as evinced by the small dent in the truck.

WD means "water displacer", not lubricant. Should have used a lubricant, not a water displacer. I like silicone products for the engine top, but sometimes I'll just use a general purpose grease.

Is there a version of Photoshop with both perpetual licensing and content-aware fill? I'm not throwing rocks at resynthesizer, but...

The problem with your idea is that Apple hasn't actually had superior build quality since the Macintosh II series. They're just the same Foxconn-built PC motherboards as everyone else's, with some slightly different components. They have slightly better cases. Big whoop. And POWER is gone, and it was a dumb idea to begin with. It was only because Apple couldn't figure out how to emulate 68k on x86, which others were already doing, and doing well.

Some do, like owls. Some don't, like practically every other bird on the planet. Yet for some reason, they are used as examples of animals with forward-facing eyes. Sure, they can SEE in front of them, but not as well as they can see to the sides. They can perceive a moving object there, or an oncoming object, which is enough to know to turn your head to get a better view of what you're about to crash into. If birds actually had forward-facing eyes, they would look at you with both of them instead of with just one of them, which is what they actually do.

Subject pun intended.

What is with all the websites which launch with a bunch of stupid bells and whistles? Just get the core functionality working, and then worry about the pretty pretty. Most sites never really make it that far, but they implement the gewgaws and glitter anyway.

Wait, you're telling me that you don't have some remote power functionality? How rinky-dink is this data center? And why aren't the machines virtualized?

I have. If you can get all the appropriate daemons terminated and your filesystems unmounted or read-only, you're done. What were you hoping to accomplish, having the machine turn itself off? Who cares?

Wait, seriously? You don't know how to kill processes and umount filesystems? YMBNH

Yes, a pair of Voodoo2 cards was the ultimate for quite some time. I never managed to get a pair, but I did have a 12MB card. Then I got the Permedia 2, which was a little slower than a single Voodoo 2 but which would do higher resolutions and which had significantly better visual quality. After that, I didn't upgrade until the gf2.

I don't know about you, but I never saw that work without a whole lot of hassle, and I seldom saw it work properly. In theory, you could have three VLB cards. In practice, you could only be sure that they would work if you only had one of them. Since few people had a need for them (you could get pretty good throughput from one of those Adaptec ISA SCSI cards with its own Z80 running the show, basically any of the ones that work without drivers) few people found it worth the trouble.

In theory, no. In practice, usually.

A pretty fast hard disk back then (say, an original ultra-scsi barracuda) would stream around 20MB/sec peak, most of us were still using modems or had moved up to ISDN... There was plenty of free bus bandwidth, even accounting for overhead. And even then there were machines with multiple PCI buses, though they remained rare throughout the dominance of that bus. Now it's common to have a PCI bus and a PCI-E bus, but that's not really the same thing. Then again, it's not the shared graphics-only bus, either. We tried that twice, and it sucked. We tried it with VLB and we tried it again with AGP and both sucked a lot.

Sure, they will have the distinction of being the last country to fail at mercantilism. That only means they'll be the last country to adopt the next paradigm.