Older cultures had elaborate myths activated by rites of passage, which helped men along this path, and " men's societie ", where older men would teach young boys on these gender-specific issues.

Older techniques, such as bilinear and trilinear filtering, do not take into account the angle a surface is viewed from, which can result in aliasing or blurring of textures.

Older materials can be dated using zircon, apatite, titanite, epidote and garnet which have a variable amount of uranium content.

Older computers running Mac OS X can run it through Classic.

Older males can get much larger, reaching at least with a few exceptional specimens exceeding.

Older roots left in the ground become woody, after which they are no longer culinarily useful, although older plants can be dug and re-divided to start new plants.

Older devices can be reserved for less demanding uses and get a limited calibration or no calibration at all.

Older intact wood that has escaped decay can extend the time covered by the record by matching the ring depth changes to contemporary specimens.

Older wood not connected to a contemporary record can be dated generally with radiocarbon techniques.

Older, tougher, cheaper cuts of meat and poultry can be made digestible.

* The first bearer of the name can be referred to as Senior, Daddy or have " Big ", or " Older " placed in front of his given name, as in " Big Pete ", or " Older Pete ".

Older Sony decks would not play large cassettes with DVCPRO recordings, but newer models can.

Older males can sometimes have a melanistic coloration, being a dark grayish-olive green, with markings being very subdued.

Older vehicles can be driven in reverse to subtract mileage, a property that provides the premise for a classic scene late in the comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but modern odometers add mileage driven in reverse to the total as if driven forward, thereby accurately reflecting the true total wear and tear on the vehicle.

Older novels can often be retrieved from the ever-growing Project Gutenberg database.

Older carillons can be transposing instruments, generally transposing upward.

Older pollards often become hollow, so can be difficult to age accurately.

Older babies can learn a gesture or baby sign for " potty ".

Older VHS VCRs cannot play back S-VHS recordings at all but can record to an S-VHS tape in the VHS format.

Older languages may also have features that can support the interface concept, such as abstract base classes with pure virtual functions in C ++, or object-oriented features in Perl.

Older furnaces may contain rubber parts that would be affected by biodiesel's solvent properties, but can otherwise burn biodiesel without any conversion required.

Older, poorly designed or poorly managed landfills can create a number of adverse environmental impacts such as wind-blown litter, attraction of vermin, and generation of liquid leachate.

Older water pumps sometimes can make systems noisier than air-cooled, low-power computers.

Older types of switches can even latch up, which means that they continue to conduct excessive currents even after the faulty signal is removed.

Older versions of TDCC replaced the word SEND in the handshake with TSEND ; later versions use the word SEND but append a " T " after the handshake, making this version of TSEND compatible with other clients ( as long as they can parse the modified handshake ).

Older decisions persist through some combination of belief that the old decision is right, and that it is not sufficiently wrong to be overruled.

Older notations for the homomorphism h ( x ) may be x < sub > h </ sub >, though this may be confused as an index or a general subscript.

Older people are thought to be less easy to change.

Older designs ( i. e. Magnox stations ) are either shut down or will be in the near future.

Older specimens believed to be 50 – 70, 000 years old were found in Darling Downs in Queensland and in Western Australia.

Older character sets were stored as bitmaps, therefore to achieve maximum print quality they had to be used at a given resolution only ; these font formats are said to be non-scalable.

Older tracks may be cinder-covered.

Older Madrid people as well as Castilians nationalist in the region consider their city to be in Castile ( cultural identity ).

Older children could continue in other communist organizations, but that would typically be done only by a limited number of people.

Older versions of VBE provide only a real mode interface, which cannot be used without a significant performance penalty from within protected mode operating systems.

Older histories of computing may therefore not be comprehensive in their coverage and analysis of this period.

Older potentiometers may be marked with an ' A ' for linear taper, a ' C ' for logarithmic taper or a ' F ' for anti-logarithmic taper.

Older models used a baked enamel on steel and are prone to chipping and erosion ; chips in the baked enamel finish must be cleaned of all dirt and corrosion then patched with a special compound or even a good quality two-part epoxy.

Older tricyclic antidepressants ( TCAs ) are very anxiolytic as well, however, side effects are greater.

Older cyanine dye based CD-Rs, as well as all the hybrid dyes based on cyanine, were very sensitive to UV-rays and could have become unreadable after only a few days if they were exposed to direct sunlight.

Older IKEA stores are usually very large blue buildings with yellow accents ( also Sweden's national colours ) and few windows.

Older and very cheap irons typically use a bare copper tip, which is shaped with a file or sandpaper.

A pivotal moment occurred when the Jingju performer playing Older Daughter ( a conflation of Goneril and Regan ) stabbed the Noh-performed Lear whose " falling pine " deadfall, straight face-forward into the stage, astonished the audience, in what Yong Li Lan describes as a " triumph through the moving power of noh performance at the very moment of his character's defeat ".

Older classifications took a very broad definition of the genus Lycopodium that included virtually all the species of Lycopodiales.

Older babies may still be very regular, or may vary in timing based on when they have last eaten or slept.

Older lava fields on the plain have been invaded by drought-resistant plants such as sagebrush, while younger fields, such as Craters of the Moon, only have a seasonal and very sparse cover of vegetation.

Older adults, very young children, and those who are sick or overweight are at a higher risk for heat-related illness.

Older members of the species have a very distinctive spotted coloration all over their body.

Older finds, such as the treasures from Traprain Law and the Esquiline Hill in Rome, and more recent ones, such as the great Kaiseraugst treasure from Switzerland and the Hoxne hoard, can now been seen in both international and Romano-British contexts that make it clear that personal possessions of very high quality were indeed in use in the frontier province of Britain in the 4th century AD, and that the Mildenhall material remains pre-eminent as a partial set of silver tableware of that period.

He made very free use of Aristotelianism, but in its employment exercised sharp criticism, and in important points adhered to the teaching of the Older Franciscan School – especially with regard to the plurality of forms or of souls, the spiritual matter of the angels and of souls, etc., wherein he energetically combatted Aquinas.

Older units may be very heavy, but still portable, while some newer ones with inverter technology weigh only a little, yet equal or exceed the capacities of older ones.

Older residential areas co-exist with shimmering and towering skyscrapers and continue to lend an old-world charm to this area located along the sea-front which makes Prabhadevi a very desirable and liveable locality.

Older, now largely discarded theories attempted to make this a very early Indo-European culture ; the presently prevailing view assigns it to indigenous non-Indo-European-speaking people.