The earliest machines ( 14FB and 14FG models, for example ) were initially configured as " horizontal ", which meant that the wire wrap board was placed upside down ( pins up ) onto a horizontal tooling plate, which was then rolled into the machine and locked onto a rotating ( TRP table rotational position of four positions ) and shifting ( PLP = pallet longitudinal position of 11 positions ) pallet assembly.

Later, somewhat smaller machines were " vertical " ( 14FV ) which meant the boards were placed onto a tooling plate with pins facing the machine operator.

As the game port only has direct support for 4 distinct buttons, special device drivers were written to read pins and input meant for the second joystick ( i. e. by mapping button 5 through 8 to the signals to the axis pins meant for the second joystick ), using some normally " unused " pins, or changing the joystick's circuits ( and related software ) to read a 4-bit state code from the four button inputs, thus giving up to 16 button combinations ).

However, while the 25-pin connector on the modem side had more than enough pins for this purpose ( even some meant for this purpose ), the computer side often used a much smaller 9-pin connector, and equally often many of these pins weren't actually connected or accessible from software.

At first I did not know what she meant ; ;

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime.

This meant that programs did not need to be modified for their new memory location but gave no execution speed benefits whatsoever.

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

" At the time, he did not know what this meant.

As the castrato's body grew, his lack of testosterone meant that his epiphyses ( bone-joints ) did not harden in the normal manner.

Excess humidity meant that the parts did not cure correctly and quality assurance did not detect the problems.

Seven years later he created You never really meant it, did you, Mr. Charlie?

This meant to look at these concepts from the standpoint of the paradigm of critical psychology, thereby integrating their useful insights into critical psychology while at the same time identifying and criticizing their limiting implications while ( which in the case of S – R psychology were the rhetorical elimination of the subject and intentional action, and in the case of cognitive psychology which did take into account subjective motives and intentional actions, methodological individualism ).

The third ending was actually meant to be the official ending due to low TV ratings and the Fujiko Fujio duo being busy with other works, but Doraemon did not leave their minds and restarted in the next month's issue.

" Videotapes of the incident are inconclusive as to whether Mason's upswept hand was intended to be an indecent gesture ( as Mason's fingers are just barely off-camera ), but Sullivan's body language immediately afterward made it clear that he was convinced of it, despite Mason's panic-stricken denials later, claiming that he did not know what the " middle finger " meant, and that he did not make the gesture anyways.

Matthew agrees with Paul that gentiles did not have to be circumcised in order to enter the church, but unlike Paul ( and like Luke ) he believed that the Law was still in force, which meant that Jews within the church had to keep it.

That meant that people had accumulated large paper assets, and that official prices and wages did not reflect reality, as the black market dominated the economy and more than half of all transactions were taking place unofficially.

In the United Kingdom, The Crown ( which, for practical purposes, meant the civil service ) did not insure property such as government buildings.

Mystique cried and realized she actually did care about Bobby and threw herself off a bridge seemingly killing herself, Bobby realized what she meant with " kill or cure " and was grateful.

The law of the land was the consuetudinary law, based on the customs and consent of John ’ s subjects, and since they did not have Parliament in those times, this meant that neither the king nor the barons could make a law without the consent of the people.

In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.

The same could be said for Lillywhite ’ s team which, being selected from only four counties, meant that some of England ’ s best players did not take part.

" Matthew Restall argues that Moctezuma politely offering his throne to Cortés ( if indeed he did ever give the speech as reported ) may well have been meant as the exactly opposite of what it was taken to mean: politeness in Aztec culture was a way to assert dominance and show superiority.

Combined with poor weather, this meant that 56 of the boats sank before reaching the designated scuttling areas and those which did were generally sunk by gunfire rather than explosive charges.

Bismarck sought to extend Hohenzollern hegemony throughout the German states ; to do so meant unification of the German states and the elimination of Prussia's rival, Austria, from the subsequent empire.

Consequently, the very features that made Bermuda such a prized base for the Royal Navy ( its headquarters in the North Atlantic and West Indies ' til after the Second World War, also meant it was perpetually threatened by US invasion, as the US would have liked to both deny the base to an enemy, and use it as a way to extend its defences hundreds of miles out to sea, which would not happen ' til the Second World War.

Unlike Hartington and the Whigs, Chamberlain did not enter the Unionist government, aware that the hostility to him in the Conservative ranks meant that an agreement with them could extend merely to Ireland and not wishing to alienate his Radical support base.

These are events that are meant to extend a student's education beyond the classroom and allow for personal growth.

None of them seemed to believe that the Partisans meant to hurt the Germans as never before to extend the popularity of the Resistance " nor did they view the Via Rasella attack as a legitimate act of war.

Neander ( I, 420, note ) says of Sozomen's statement: " The remark could not extend to the early times ; but suppose it did, it meant that the sermon was only secondary.

The Americas extend mainly north and south, which, according to the environmental determinist theory popularized by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, meant that it was much harder for cultivated plant species, domesticated animals, and diseases to migrate.

The failure to extend the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway to Watlington, which would have meant a station at or close to Benson, left the village increasingly isolated as passenger transport between London and Oxford increasingly went via a railway which ran nowhere near the once-vital coaching stop.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

It is meant to be a holistic piece of writing about the people in question, and today often includes the longest possible timeline of past events that the ethnographer can obtain through primary and secondary research.

Traditional myth provided the subject matter but the dramatist was meant to be innovative so as to sustain interest, which led to novel characterization of heroic figures and to use of the mythical past to talk about present issues.

The fast is meant to allow Muslims to seek nearness to Allah, to express their gratitude to and dependence on him, atone for their past sins, and to remind them of the needy.

The setting of the novel in a Gothic castle was meant to imply not only a story set in the past but one shrouded in darkness.

The verb to inoculate is from Middle English inoculaten, which meant " to graft a scion " ( a plant part to be grafted onto another plant ); which in turn is from Latin inoculare, past participle inoculat -.

Penance in this form is not generally intended as a " punishment "; rather, it is meant to encourage reflection upon and spiritual growth from past sins.

World War I brought with it a wave of repression of the newly emergent Czech culture, and this meant a return to the past, to traditional Czech values and history: the Hussites and the Awakening.

Horse-racing historian Michael Tanner, in a 2011 television interview at Epsom, pointed out that as Emily Davison was standing on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner, amidst heaving crowds, and with no racetrack commentary like there is today, it would in fact have been impossible for her to have any idea whether the King's horse Anmer had in fact already gone past or not when she stepped out onto the racecourse to make her protest ; and that at the speeds the horses were going it would not have been practicable for her to identify any particular horse anyway even if she'd meant to.

In the past this was mainly because ' hot-metal ' printing meant that new grids were expensive, but nowadays, it seems to be used as a way of making sure that grids conform to the preferences of a paper's crossword editor.

It is meant to symbolize Trysil in the past, present, and future.

American and African intellectuals looked to the African past for a re-evaluation of what its civilizations had achieved and what they meant for contemporary people.

The word " kere " in the Javanese language means " poor "; it originally was meant to provide the poor people of Java with the taste of satay at an affordable price, since meat was considered a luxury in the past.

In the past, the term might have been used for detrimental animals only, thus for example, causing confusion where the generic term ' pesticide ' meant ' insecticide ' to some people.

The SDP came second in many constituencies, including nearly 70 % of the Conservative-won seats, though the bulk of Labour's defectors to the SDP in 1981 lost their seats, but Britain's first past the post electoral system meant that this success did not translate into parliamentary seats.

The city was not meant to last, and each subsequent generation was expected to build their own city rather than inheriting the architecture of the past.

The pirates ' plan was to sail past the Swallow, which meant exposing themselves to one broadside.

Although these visuals were, as in past concerts, meant to enhance the experience, the rest of the band became frustrated with the press focusing only on the theatrical side of the show and not the musicianship.

This was explained by the fact that in Earth's distant past Martians experimented on humanity, severely culling the metahuman potential ; this means that a species that was meant to have a wide range of powers, like Tamaranians or Kryptonians, ended up " just ... human ".

His past is finally explored ; he is the sole survivor of the previous universe, in which he was the " Codex " — meant to ensure its survival in the event of armageddon.

In the past, this meant that senators represented various geographic regions within a state, regardless of the population, as a way of balancing the power of the lower house, which was apportioned according to population.

However, critics object that this answer leads to circularity: first our actual experience was meant to be explained by the possibility of experience, and now the possibility of experience is meant to be explained by our actual past experience.