Dave Ambrose

Welcome to the Borg collective. Resistance is futile.

I'm thinking they do this for two reasons -- The logic required for things like wipers and lights is much cheaper as software The amount of copper in the wiring is reduced. Copper has been especially expensive lately.

We've had an unusually large number of delivery problems with Sweden and Finland. We don't know why. Send me a PM if it hasn't gotten there by next week, and we'll send you a replacement.

They'll be available from our resellers, or from us if we're at a show. At this point, we aren't directly filling back issue orders.

I don't miss the old days at all. I especially don't miss punch cards. They did have one virtue. Folded in half, they fit beautifully in a shirt pocket. I used my remaining supply for grocery lists. Now we have a white board, and I take a picture with my phone. I went into computing because I wanted to compute orbits. It was a very interesting time to be in computing. My freshman year and sophomore years at Cal were all done with punched cards. Junior year, we had teletypes connected to a Unix timeshare system. Late that year, we all switched to CRT terminals. Software has proven far more durable than the hardware. I had the interesting challenge of beta testing vi my senior year. I still use that editor.

Unfortunately, you missed the 218 cut-off. Your first issue will be 219.

If you're running Chrome, see if there isn't some janky extension installed. This is a popular method for popping those things up. You should also clear your cache regardless of browser.

Be sure to create an event in the calendar. More people will see it.

I fixed it.

Here’s a quick shot of the contents page.

This is awesome. How do you do your anodization?

Send a message to Subscribe@modelcarsmag.com. That's the gateway to our subscription services.

99.9% of our issues arrive at their intended destinations. If an issue doesn't arrive, we'll send a replacement. Main thing is to make sure we have your correct address.

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I used to be on a committee that wrote the ISO standards for computer graphics. The goal of these standards was to be so complete and precise that two different people could write two different implementations, and have them be 100% compatible. This is a great goal for nuts, bolts, and screws. You can't do it in a useful time frame for anything as complex as a software system. So, we have assumptions and minor incompatibilities.

Issue 218 is in the mail and should be arriving soon!

Our hosting got the problem fixed and you shouldn't be getting that message anymore.

Our hosting got the problem fixed and you shouldn't be getting that message anymore.

Great car, great kit build, and interesting display of the real one. I wonder if the molds still exist? Oddly enough, I used to work in the building where that museum is located.

The insurance adjusters are going to see right through that. That kid is going to get a huge education. Maybe even starting with, "we aren't going to insure you anymore." Important thing is that your wife is okay.

The hosting company has messed up our encryption certificate again. They're working on it. The site itself is unchanged. You can bypass it without any danger of ill results. I may be sitting here fuming about it, but don't tell my dharma teacher. ?

Thanks Dan. The hosting company has messed up our encryption certificate again. They're working on it.

Spent the afternoon doing stupid things with sleds in snow, then retire to the house to warm up and build models with my daughter, son, and son in law. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

I had this problem with my mother's Malamute chewing on the cord to my workbench. My mother would unplug it at night, and the dog, who was teething, would chew it. One night, I plugged it back in and went to bed. In the morning, there was a single bite mark. Thereafter, the dog made sure the cords weren't attached to anything before chewing them. Darn animals are too smart for their own good.

If you're here, I seriously doubt you're stupid. You need to resize or crop the picture. If you have a PC available, I use a program called IrfanView for to resize images. It's a free to download and use. It also does a lot of other useful things.