The floppy drives used the old-fashioned method of selecting the drive number with jumpers instead of the IBM cable twist.

Most modern-day pilgrims travel by bus, rarely choosing the old-fashioned method of going by foot.

Derrick devised a beam with a topping lift and pulleys for his hangings, instead of the old-fashioned rope over the beam method.

The risk is exacerbated when a plastic container is used for this purpose instead of the old-fashioned, traditional method, a grass-lined hole, as the botulinum bacteria thrive in the anaerobic conditions created by the air-tight enclosure in plastic.

This method of organising emerged in eighteenth century English Non-conformist religious circles ; this is why the otherwise old-fashioned spelling ( connexion rather than connection ) is retained.

When events in the Franco-Prussian war proved that old-fashioned fortifications were no more of use, this policy was changed and the fortifications were dismantled in 1874.

Takasugi played a major role in this civil war and his Kiheitai militia proved its superiority over old-fashioned samurai forces.

Although regarded, like his contemporary Yasujirō Ozu, as outdated and old-fashioned by Japanese audience immediately after the war, Mizoguchi was rediscovered, particularly by Cahiers du cinéma critics like Jacques Rivette, in the West.

Upon its cinema release, Chicago newspaper movie critic Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars and cited extensive use of cliches, depicting the war in terms of " cowboys and indians ", and being a " heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film.

McGregor himself called it " a good old-fashioned war movie.

But director John Dahl ( Joy Ride ) and the screenwriters have conjured a dreary, old-fashioned ' last roundup ' of war movie and prisoner-of-war movie cliches, small but forgivable sins.

Scott Weinberg of DVD Talk gave it a positive review, and described the film as " truly an ' old-fashioned ' war movie ... based on, and adhering very closely to, actual events that occurred in early 1945 The Great Raid is not a hyper-kinetic flash-banger like Pearl Harbor, nor it is a cerebral rumination like The Thin Red Line ; it's just a well-hewn and efficient re-telling of true story that's worthy of remembrance.

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.

It was Jefferson's “ old-fashioned sound and confident musicianship that made him easy to market.

The Cheyenne turned and fired at Stuart with an old-fashioned pistol, striking him in the chest with a bullet, which did little more damage than to pierce the skin.

The art chores for a 1993 article, " The First Day of School 30 Years Ago and Today " were split between Berg and Rick Tulka, since Berg's old-fashioned appeal made him an ideal choice to depict the gentle nostalgia of 1963.

Lou Gehrig ( Cooper ) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother ( Elsa Janssen ) wants him to study hard and become an engineer.

He went to the salt works, where Bates worked in Manchester, called him to the door and shot him with an old-fashioned " pepper box " pistol.

Political parties aside, he is very conservative and old-fashioned, being largely ignorant of new trends ; several episodes involve him dealing with things like yoga, boy bands, etc.

However, he visited Dublin a number of times and realised that there were groups of people, just like him, interested in Irish, a language looked down on at the time by many and seen as backward and old-fashioned.

His staff are two ageing employees: the hen-pecked George and eternal spinster Anthea, who regularly drive him to exasperation with their old-fashioned ways.

New writers regarded him as old-fashioned and pandering to racial stereotypes.

As personified by Hart, Horner will have won women not so much through clever trickery as " the old-fashioned way ", by being " dangerously attractive ", and it is only fools like Sir Jaspar Fidget who really believe him harmless.

At the same time he had all the virtues of an old-fashioned Roman, according to Polybius and Cicero, the latter of whom gives an appreciation of him in his De re publica, in which Scipio Aemilianus is the chief speaker.

This brings him into conflict with not just Islam but also, sometimes, with old-fashioned Buddhism ..." Yet several well-known Vajrayana Buddhist lamas were married: Marpa the translator is said to have had nine wives ; others had romantic relationships, including the 6th Dalai Lama, and the teacher who brought Buddhism to Tibet, Padmasambhava, who had five Tantric consorts who were also his students.

Whichever the case, he has greatly tempered the story's brutality the old-fashioned way: He puts an appealing, sympathetic star at the center and surrounds him with beautiful visuals, with a darkly contrasting color palette of bruising black and blue.

Subject to the old-fashioned philosophical morality of Nietzsche which frequently leads him into jail or disgrace.

This gave him the opportunity to travel extensively in China and time to study Chinese with an old-fashioned Confucian scholar.

Despite having written several books describing marriage as an " old-fashioned superstition ", Mortimer Brewster ( Cary Grant ) falls in love with Elaine Harper ( Priscilla Lane ), who grew up next door to him in Brooklyn, and, on Halloween day, they marry.

His patriotism and deep belief in the greatness of America never wavered and his articulate and passionate calls for a return to old-fashioned American values earned him the respect of all who knew him.

A famous photograph shows him dressed in an old-fashioned striped bathing suit, in the seal pool at the then-new National Aquarium in Baltimore to settle a wager that it would not be opened in time.

Quintus Cicero also liked old-fashioned and harsh punishments, like putting a person convicted of parricide into a sack and throwing him out in the sea ,( the felon was severely scourged then sewn into a stout leather bag with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey, and the bag was thrown into the river Tiber ).

" The author is chairman of the board of a large corporation, and we confess we find it intriguing and comforting to know that a man whose workday is devoted to the harsh realities of multi-million-dollar profit and loss has in him that good old-fashioned sense of wonder.

He had difficulty with this attitude, as his " old-fashioned " view of justice led him to arrest the leader of the entirely legal Thieves ' Guild on his first day.

On becoming acquainted with Messenger, Helen Reed, who holds the traditional — and seemingly almost old-fashioned — views that consciousness is the business of the humanities, in particular of the novel and of literary criticism ; and that there is and should be a clear-cut Cartesian dualism between mind and body, this Helen Reed is confronted by the new ( or even not-so-new ) trend of considering the mind a mere function of the body.

Surprisingly ( for the Magpyr family, at least ) the old-fashioned ways to defeat vampires that they thought themselves protected against start to work again.

He remained convinced that sound would not work in his films, but was also " obsessed by a depressing fear of being old-fashioned.

* The Culhanes: The adventures of the Culhane family, depicted as all they did was sit on an old-fashioned sofa in the parlor, which focused on Cousin Clem Culhane ( Gordie Tapp ); Cousin Junior Culhane ( Junior Samples ); Cousin Grandpa Culhane ( Grandpa Jones ); and Cousin Lulu Culhane ( Lulu Roman ) who would sit in deadpan character and comment, à la soap opera.

Nancy and her stepfather got along very well ; she would later write that he was " a man of great integrity who exemplified old-fashioned values ".

Through newspapers distributed to bookshops and libraries, he appealed for readers who would report " as many quotations as you can for ordinary words " and for words that were " rare, obsolete, old-fashioned, new, peculiar or used in a peculiar way ".

In the old-fashioned understanding of renormalization, gravity particles would attract each other and adding together all of the interactions results in many infinite values which cannot easily be cancelled out mathematically to yield sensible, finite results.

Among those familiar with his poetry, his identity became an open secret, but Scott persisted maintaining the façade, perhaps because he thought his old-fashioned father would disapprove of his engaging in such a trivial pursuit as novel writing.

In 1996 she said in the Keith Joseph memorial lecture: " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as " liberal ", in the old-fashioned sense.

In the 1996 Keith Joseph memorial lecture Mrs. Thatcher argued that " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as ‘ liberal ’, in the old-fashioned sense.

He even asked Eastman Kodak if they could supply an old-fashioned filmstock that would ' bloom ' or ' halo ' to create the look of a silent film ( they couldn't ).

He passed intelligence and received payments through an old-fashioned dead drop system where Hanssen and his KGB handlers would leave packages in public places and place unobtrusive but visible marks in the area to let the other party know that a package was waiting.

Pumpjacks can also be used to drive what would now be considered old-fashioned hand-pumped water wells.

All of these usages of " should " would be taken as old-fashioned, even archaic, in most registers.

Yet d ' Herelle himself had scant interest in the field of molecular biology, for he was a lifelong Lamarckian, and he clung to his own theory of elementary living " micellae ," which would seem hopelessly old-fashioned after proteins were shown to be giant molecules.

It was a rude building of rough stone, with nothing about it to gratify the eye, or to excite the imagination ; a large old-fashioned narrow house, with a very steep roof, covered with flags composed of gray sandstone, would perhaps convey the best of idea of the place to a modern reader.

Peugeot had been afraid that a five-door 104 would steal sales from the old-fashioned 204 Break, but with production of the 204 coming to an end in July 1976 this was no longer a concern.

In Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore and India this type is near-universal, where the toggle design would be considered old-fashioned.

) He habitually wore a straw skimmer hat and at the drop of a hat would perform an old-fashioned shuffle dance.

He would pepper his play-by-play with various old-fashioned expressions, such as " Whew, boy!

Equipment on the first prototype, built in 1914, was conservative and included a screw reverse ( power reverse would soon be added ), a small 70-P-70 tender holding only of water and 12½ tons of coal set up for hand firing, a wooden cowcatcher pilot, a square-cased, old-fashioned headlight and piston tailrods ( soon to go ).

The congregation hoped that the new church would serve Baltimore's growing West End -- new churches were then springing up in every corner of the city in response to a dramatic increase in population -- and provide protection to an aging, old-fashioned 18th-century style burying ground that few saw as an appropriate resting place.

“ He certainly would fit your mental image of an old-fashioned gentleman ,” stated past National President Jack Thornton, Tau 862.

In addition, converting the old-fashioned hill-top castle into a Baroque palace would have been difficult and costly.

All the above would be absolutely true if we were dealing with a simple open light source, such as an old-fashioned incandescent bulb or a candle.