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Re: CPU Fans
In article <1993Apr20.122812.2441@mfltd.co.uk>, nmp@mfltd.co.uk (Nic Percival (x5336)) writes:
|>
|> Just got a 66MHz 486DX2 system, and am considering getting a fan for the
|> CPU. The processor when running is too hot to touch so I think this is a
|> fairly good idea. (long ago when I did some electronics training I read
|> somewhere that the regions within a chip that define junctions/gates etc
|> slowly diffuse over time and this increases with temperature, hence a hot
|> chip goes off-spec sooner)
|>
|> Has anyone out there got a CPU fan??
|> Is there more than 1 type?
|> Do you have to remove the CPU from its scoket to install the fan?
|> Do all CPU fans derive their power from spare drive power lines?
|> Anyone had any trouble with CPU fans?
|> Does anyone have any evidence that CPU fans are a complete waste of money?
|> How are these fans attached? (glue? clips? melted cheese?)
|> Roughly how much cooler will the CPU be with a fan as opposed to without?
|> (an advert I've read claims 85F vs 185F)
|>
|> Any info appreciated,
|> --
|> +-- Nic Percival ----------+- "Well that was a piece of cake, eh K-9?" -----+
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I own a PC FanCard II, which is a slightly different beast. It's a long card
that plugs into an 8 or 16 bit slot and contains two muffin fans. It requires
no extra cabling. I had a 286 that was experiencing some problems due to
heat. The FanCard made the system run cool enough so that the problem no
longer appears. It's supposed to keep the internal temperature in the range
of 75-95 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the maker's (M.S. Tech)
advertisements, the US Army used a bunch of these to keep their PCs running
(w/o a/c) in Desert Storm. I can't vouch for that. However, I am a satisfied
customer. And I have no other connection with the maker or the mail-order
house (Lyben (313) 268-8100).
Hope this helps,
George
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Help: SunView on olwm/xview3/X11R5
Hi,
I just compiled the X11R5 distribution for a Sun3/SunOS4.1.1. I also
compiled the public domain xview3 (with olwm) distribution. I have some
old 3rd-party application binaries that are SunView programs. How do I
get them to work under xview3 and olwm? (I tried using the OpenWindows
version 2 "svenv" program, but it did not work.)
I do not have news access....that's why I am mailing this directly. Also,
is there an email alias where my questions can get to comp.windows.x or
comp.windows.open-look? PLEASE RESPOND TO fwr8bv@fin.af.mil
Thanks,
Shash
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Re: Need advice for riding with someone on pillion
In article <mjs.735489679@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
>lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay) writes:
>
>[lotsa stuff deleted...]
>
>>- Switch your hands to the guardrail to stretch your shoulders, but be
>> sure and squeeze your thighs while you're doing it so your rider knows you're
>> still there. :) The guard rail isn't as safe as holding onto your rider.
>
>Hmmmm - why does everyone on that side of the Pond seem to want
>pillions to hang on to the rider rather than the grabrail?
Because I'm a guy and most of my pillions are female.
Also, the other reasons, like having an idea where you passengers
weight is, it being a more comfortable position for the passenger,
and it being a more stable configuration all come into it as well.
Holding the grab rail is a great idea only for braking, when you
don't want the pillion to slide forward into you, otherwise I don't
find it works well.
-David
(dagibbs@qnx.com)
| 8rec.motorcycles |
NASA "Wraps"
In the April edition of "One Small Step for a Space Activist",
Allen Sherzer & Tim Kyger write:
"Another problem is what are called 'wraps' (or sometimes
the 'center tax'). When work for a large program like
Freedom or Shuttle is performed at a NASA center, the
center skims off a portion which goes into what amounts
to a slush fund. This money is used to fund work the
center manager wants to fund. This sum is estimated to
be over a third of the funds allocated. Think about
that: Of the $30 billion cost of Freedom, fully $10
billion won't be spent on anything having anything
to do with Space Stations! Now, maybe that $10 billion
was wisely spent (and maybe it wasn't), but the work done
with it should stand on its own merits, not distorting
the cost of other projects. Congress has no idea of the
existense of these wraps; Congress has never heard the
term 'center tax'. They look at the Station they are
getting and the price they are paying and note that
it doesn't add up. They wonder this blissfully unaware
that a third of the money is going for something else."
My dear friends, your mixing fact and fiction here. A couple
of weeks ago, when I first read this in your posting, I
talked with one of the cost experts here in Space Station
at Headquarters [if you wondering why I didn't post a
response immediately, I do have a real job I'm supposed
to be doing here at Headquarters, & digging up old 20 kHz
data & looking into Sherzer/Kyger claims rates pretty low
on the totem pole of priority. Also, I spent last weekend
in Kansas City, at the National Science Teachers
Association conference, extolling the virtues of SSF
to 15,000 science teachers.]
First off, yes, the concept of 'center tax', or 'wrap' does
exist. If I recall the numbers correctly, the total 'tax'
for the SSF program for this fiscal year is around $40 Million.
This was computed by adding up the WP-1, WP-2, and WP-4
center 'taxes'. With the SSF budget for this fiscal year at
$2.2 Billion, my calculater says the tax percentage is
04/2.2 = 1.8%
Over the life of the SSF program, using your figure of $30
billion for the cost of SSF, a tax at a 1.8% rate comes to
$540 million. This is alot less than $10 billion, but I
will concede it's still an appreciable amount of pocket
change.
I should note that your estimate of the tax rate at 1/3 could
be close to the actual rate. The tax is only charged on funds
that are spent at the center (kind of like McDonalds at some
states, where you do have to pay sales tax if you eat
the food at the restaurant, but you don't if you get it
take-out). For example, at WP-4, the vast bulk of the funds
we receive go to the Rocketdyne Contract, and are *NOT*
subject to the center tax (I don't have the numbers in
front of me, but I'd guess at least 95% of the WP-4 funds
go to Rocketdyne). So, you could be right about a tax
rate of 1/3, but it's only applied to funds spent at the
center, and not to the prime contracts.
This leads to the obvious question "What is the government
doing with SSF funds that don't go to the prime contractors?
(i.e. ok, WP-4 gets a slice of the $30 billion pie. A
big portion of this slice goes to Rocketdyne. What happens
to the balance of the funds, which aren't eaten
up by the center tax?)"
At WP-4, we call these funds we spend in-house supporting
development funds (as they are supporting the development
work done by Rocketdyne). We have used these funds to
setup our own testbed, to checkout the electrical
power system architecture. Our testbed has a real life
solar array field (left over from solar cell research
research a few years back), with lead-acid car batteries
(to simulate the Nickel-Hydrogen batteries on SSF), DC
switchgear, DC-DC converter units, and simulated
loads. Data from the testbed was used in a recent
change evaluation involving concerns about the stability
of the power system.
We have also used the supporting development money to
purchase Nickel Hydrogen batteries, which are on life
testing at both Lewis and the Crane Naval facility in
Indiana. As a side point, 6 of the battery cells on
test recently hit the four year life test milestone.
38 cells have completed 18,552 to 23,405 cycles (the
on-orbit batteries go through 5,840 cycles per year).
As a final example, my 'home' division at Lewis used
the supporting development funds to purchase personal
computers and work stations, for performing system
analyses (like modeling of the performance of the
electrical power system, availability calculations
using a Monte-Carlo simulation, setting up a
database with information on weight of the power
system elements).
Finally, the money raised by the 'tax' does not all
go into a 'slush fund.' At Lewis, the director
does control a small discretionary fund. Each year,
any individual at Lewis can submit a proposal to
the director to get money from this fund to look
at pretty much anything within the Lewis Charter.
Most of the tax, however, goes to fund the 'general'
services at the Center, like the library, the
central computer services division, the Contractor
who removes the snow, etc. Thus, it is rather
difficult to determine what percentage of the
SSF budget doesn't go for SSF activities. To get
an accurate figure, you would have to take
the annual expenditure for the library (for example),
and then divide by the amount of the library funds
used to support SSF (which would be hard to
compute by itself - how would you figure out
what percentage of the bill for Aviation Week for
1 year is 'billable' to SSF, would you base it on
the person-hours SSF employees spend reading AV-week
versus the rest of the center personnel). You would
then have to compare this estimate of the SSF
portion of the library expense with the portion of
the tax that goes to support the library. Who knows,
maybe SSF overpays on the tax to run the library, but
we underpay for snow removal? Talk about
a burecratic nightmare!
My last point is that I can't believe your claim that
Congress has never heard of the term 'center tax.'
Unfortunately, all of the NASA testimony before
Congress isn't on a computer, so I can't do a simple
word search someplace to prove you wrong. But surely,
in some GAO audit somewhere, these NASA cost methods
were documented for Congress?
| 14sci.space |
Re: The Universe and Black Holes, was Re: 2000 years.....
In <1993Apr20.154658@IASTATE.EDU> kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
>In article <lt8d3bINNj1g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM
>(Eric Marsh) writes:
>>In article <1qvmk2$csk@morrow.stanford.edu> salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce
>Salem) writes:
>>> I wonder if the Universe would look like a Black Hole
>>>from "outside"? How could we posit an "Outside", whether called
>>>DeSitter space, hyperspace, parallel universes, whatever?
>>
>>I don't think that the universe would look like a black hole from
>>the outside, because that would imply that similar to a black hole we
>>would see stuff coming in from the "outside."
> Now that has always confused me. Once a black hole forms, I don't see how
>anything could pass the event horizon (perhaps including the original mass that
>formed (is forming) the black hole in the first place.
> Let's say that we drop a marble into the black hole. It races, ever faster,
>towards the even horizon. But, thanks to the curving of space caused by the
>excessive gravity, as the object approaches the event horizon it has further to
>travel. Integrating the curve gives a time to reach the event horizon of . . .
>infinity. So the math says that nothing can enter a black hole.
No it doesn't. Check again in any of the popular GR texts (Misner,
Thorne, and Wheeler, for example). It takes a finite proper time for
anything near the horizon to cross it (if it's going to in the first
place), and a finite proper time for anything crossing the horizon to
reach r=0.
> | __L__
>-|- ___ Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub
> | | o | kv07@iastate.edu
> |/ `---' Iowa State University
>/| ___ Math Department
> | |___| 400 Carver Hall
> | |___| Ames, IA 50011
> J _____
--
--------
Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov
| 19talk.religion.misc |
Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is
In article <930422.113807.7Q9.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
#frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
#> In article <930421.102525.9Y9.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew
#> <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
#> #frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
#> #> Presumably this means that some moral systems are better than others?
#> #> How so? How do you manage this without an objective frame of reference?
#> #
#> #Which goes faster, a bullet or a snail? How come you can answer that when
#> #Einstein proved that there isn't an objective frame of reference?
#>
#> Not that Einstein "proved" anything,
#
#Oh, yes he did. You may not agree with his premises, and what he proved may
#not apply to "reality" (if such a thing exists), but he certainly proved
#something.
#
#> but you can't answer it, and your
#> answer be in general true.
#
#Got it in one. Similarly, a moral relativist will not judge one moral system
#to be better than another in every possible circumstance. This does not,
#however, preclude him from judging one moral system to be better than another
#in a specific set of circumstances. Nor does it preclude a set of moral
#relativists from collectively judging a moral system, from some set of
#circumstances which they all agree they are in.
O.K., this makes sense to me. (I'm serious, you've explained something
to me which I never understood before). But just for grins, suppose we
almost all agree that we are in a set of circumstances called "reality". What
then? Or say, for all practical intents and purposes, there is no frame
of reference in which thus and such is good, isn't that approximately
objective, in the same way that we usually expect a speeding bullet to
outrun a snail? For example, if we hear of a bomb in a crowded area,
isn't it a rather sensible first guess that this is an immoral act, even
though there conceivably might be some tail-end case that would justify it?
#> And even that statement assumes an
#> objective reality independent of our beliefs about it.
#
#Eh? Could you explain this? Which "that statement" are you talking about?
My own, above. "you can't answer..."
#
#> #> And what weasel word do you use to describe that frame of reference, if
#> #> it isn't an objective reality for values?
#> #
#> #I'm sorry, I can't parse "an objective reality for values". Could you try
#> #again?
#>
#> s/an objective reality for values/some values are real even in the face
#> of disagreement/
#
#I still don't quite see what you're trying to say. I assume by "values" you
#mean moral values, yes? In which case, what do you mean by "real"? What is
#a "real" moral value, as opposed to an unreal one?
I mean to say that values are as real as horses, whatever you understand
by a horse being real is pretty much what I mean about a value being real.
#> If you are saying that some moral systems are better than others, in
#> your opinion, then all you get is infinite regress.
#
#Sorry, but in what way is it an infinite regress? It looks extremely finite
#to me.
I meant that it's never more than your opinion. You've clarified this
for me above. My understanding is now that if a supermajority of relativists
agree that thus and such is wrong in almost any or all frames of reference,
then they're saying something which is to all practical intents and purposes
no different than what I'm saying.
#
#> What you do not get
#> is any justification for saying that the moral system of the terrorist
#> is inferior to that of the man of peace.
#
#Sorry, but that's not so. I can provide a justification for asserting that
#the moral system of the terrorist is inferior to that of the man of peace. I
#just can't provide a justification which works in all possible circumstances.
Logically possible, or actually possible? By which I mean, are you
stretching possible to include events such as the atoms in my terminal
switching places so that the terminal turns upside down, or do you
think it likely that circumstances will arise in which terrorism is
superior to peace. Really what I'm after is some order of magnitude
on the probability you put on 'possible'.
--
Frank O'Dwyer 'I'm not hatching That'
odwyer@sse.ie from "Hens", by Evelyn Conlon
| 0alt.atheism |
Re: Secret algorithm [Re: Clipper Chip and crypto key-escrow]
Though some may argue about the nose of the camel, it's worth noting that
the government proposal is limited to scrambled telephony. If it is only
used for that purpose, and does not extend to electronic mail or file
encryption, then it IS an improvement over the current mass-produced
standard civilian technology which, with a few exceptions, is limited to
easy-to-break inverters.
Note that the big issue for the feds is the continued ability to wiretap.
Before we go off the deep end with long discusions about secure crypto for
e-mail and files, let's focus on this.
One question that was not asked in the release is whether this proposal is
limited to telephony, or if the government intends to expand it.
Though I share many of the concerns expressed by some, I find the proposal
less threatening than many others, since right now most Americans have no
secure telephony, and any jerk with a pair of clip leads and a "goat" can
eavesdrop. This would also plug up the security hole in cellular and
cordless phones.
-------
Reading between the lines, I infer that the system is highly secure
without access to the keys. This would meet the needs of U.S. businesses
confronted by rich and powerful adversaries, including French and Japanese
security services and rich Japanese companies. It allows the NSA to make
available some of its better stuff while protecting law enforcement needs.
Most legitimate U.S. corporations trust the NSA, and would be delighted to
have a high-security system certified by them, even at the price of
depositing keys in escrow. I see no difficulty in creating a reliable
escrow. Corporations entrust their secrets to attorneys every day of the
week, and that system has worked pretty well.
From my point of view this is a fair starting point. There are concerns that
need to be addressed, including the reliability of the escrows. But in
return we get access to high-security crypto. Many have suggested that DES
and other systems may be breakable by the NSA and hence others similarly
skilled and endowed. There is at least a good possibility (which should be
checked) that the proposed system is not so breakable. It doesn't have to
be, nor does it have to have trapdoors, if the government can get the keys
pursuant to a legitimate court order. Thus they can protect legitimate
communications against economic adversaries, while still being able to
eavesdrop on crooks pursuant to a court order.
------
In discussing this, let's try to avoid the nastiness, personal attacks and
noise of some previous threads. This is a substantive and technical issue,
and personal remarks have no place in such a discussion.
--
David Sternlight Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of
our information, errors and omissions excepted.
| 11sci.crypt |
Honda clutch chatter
anyone else experiencing a similar problem?
This concerns the clutch on a 92 Honda Accord 5 speed. When the clutch
is first used in the morning, about the first 4 miles of shifting, there
is a significant amount of clutch chatter until things warm up. Then the
clutch shifts smoothly. This chatter started when I moved to the San
Francisco Bay area from a low-humidity environment. The dealer stated
that this is known to happen since Honda changed from an asbestos to
non-asbestos clutch material. No remedy!! Seems that moisture on clutch
surface causes slipping until the moisture evaporates.
Any comments out there?
| 7rec.autos |
Re: If You Were Pat Burns ...
In article <1r1chb$5l2@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> jake@rambler.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>
>
>What are the Leafs to do? I am a Leaf supporter and
>I say the Leafs are going down in four unless there
>is nothing short of a miracle or a stroke of genenius hits
>Pat Burns.
>
>If you were Pat Burns what would you do?
>
Pray for the Wings to become lazy and overconfident...the Wings
can only lose the series...Toronto cannot win it. Take away
Doug Gilmour and the Leafs are an old Tampa Bay.
The Leafs deserve a lot of credit for their diligent effort
during the regular season...but if Detroit puts in a reasonable
effort, this is not a contest.
Gerald
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
MGBs and the real world
My sister has an MGB. She has one from the last year they were produced
(1978? 1979?). Its in very good shape. I've been bugging her for years
about selling it. I've said over and over that she should sell it
before the car is worthless while she maintains that the car may
actually be increasing in value as a result of its limited availability.
Which one of us is right? Are there MGB affectionados out there who are
still willing to pay $6K to 8K for an old MG? Are there a lot out in the
market?
--
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Director, InterOpen Sales, |MKT| Waterloo, Ontario (519)884-2251
Mortice Kern Systems Inc. |MKS| Canada, N2J 2W9 fax (519)884-8861
| 7rec.autos |
Screen capture -> CYMK converter
I have a small program to extract a 640x480 image from a vga 16 color screen,
and store that image in a TIFF file. I need to insert the image into a
sales brochure, which I then need printed in 4 color. On a mac, I would
use Photoshop to separate the image into 5 EPS files, and then pull it into
quark express, then get it printed to film on a lintronix at a service bureau.
However, I don't have a mac, but I do have windows. What would I need to
do this type of operation in the windows 3.1 environment? Are there any
separation programs available on the net? Is there a good page layout program
that I should look into?
Thanks in advance.
--
Shmuel Einstein, shmuel@einstein.com
Shmuel Einstein & Associates, Inc.
9100 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 235 E
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
310/273-8971 FAX 310/273-8872
| 1comp.graphics |
The wholesale extermination of the Muslim population by the Armenians.
In article <C5yJII.E6B@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>But some of this is verifiable information. For instance, the person who
>knows about the buggy product may be able to tell you how to reproduce the
>bug on your own, but still fears retribution if it were to be known that he
>was the one who told the public how to do so.
Typical 'Arromdian' of the ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and Revisionism
Triangle. Well, does it change the fact that during the period of 1914
to 1920, the Armenian Government ordered, incited, assisted and participated
in the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people because of race, religion
and national origin?
1) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of Van.[1,2,3,4,5]
2) Armenians did slaughter 42% of Muslim population of Bitlis.[1,2,3,4]
3) Armenians did slaughter 31% of Muslim population of Erzurum.[1,2,3,4]
4) Armenians did slaughter 26% of Muslim population of Diyarbakir.[1,2,3,4]
5) Armenians did slaughter 16% of Muslim population of Mamuretulaziz.[1,2,3,4]
6) Armenians did slaughter 15% of Muslim population of Sivas.[1,2,3,4]
7) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of the x-Soviet
Armenia.[1,2,3,4]
8) .....
[1] McCarthy, J., "Muslims and Minorities, The Population of Ottoman
Anatolia and the End of the Empire," New York
University Press, New York, 1983, pp. 133-144.
[2] Karpat, K., "Ottoman Population," The University of Wisconsin Press,
1985.
[3] Hovannisian, R. G., "Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918.
University of California Press (Berkeley and
Los Angeles), 1967, pp. 13, 37.
[4] Shaw, S. J., 'On Armenian collaboration with invading Russian armies
in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
(Volume II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of
Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)." (London, Cambridge University
Press 1977). pp. 315-316.
[5] "Gochnak" (Armenian newspaper published in the United States), May 24,
1915.
Source: "Adventures in the Near East" by A. Rawlinson, Jonathan Cape,
30 Bedford Square, London, 1934 (First published 1923) (287 pages).
(Memoirs of a British officer who witnessed the Armenian genocide of 2.5
million Muslim people)
p. 178 (first paragraph)
"In those Moslem villages in the plain below which had been searched for
arms by the Armenians everything had been taken under the cloak of such
search, and not only had many Moslems been killed, but horrible tortures
had been inflicted in the endeavour to obtain information as to where
valuables had been hidden, of which the Armenians were aware of the
existence, although they had been unable to find them."
p. 175 (first paragraph)
"The arrival of this British brigade was followed by the announcement
that Kars Province had been allotted by the Supreme Council of the
Allies to the Armenians, and that announcement having been made, the
British troops were then completely withdrawn, and Armenian occupation
commenced. Hence all the trouble; for the Armenians at once commenced
the wholesale robbery and persecution of the Muslem population on the
pretext that it was necessary forcibly to deprive them of their arms.
In the portion of the province which lies in the plains they were able
to carry out their purpose, and the manner in which this was done will
be referred to in due course."
Serdar Argic
'We closed the roads and mountain passes that
might serve as ways of escape for the Turks
and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
(Ohanus Appressian - 1919)
'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists
a single Turkish soul.' (Sahak Melkonian - 1920)
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: Top Ten Signs That It's the Age of Aquarius on Pennsylvania Avenue
In article <1ql7tuINN8j8@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> chaudhary-amar@yale.edu (Amar Chaudhary) writes:
>
>Here's my own top ten response to Mr. Ipser's list
>
>8. It just so happens that that it takes money to make this country work,
> to provide the services that people need, and to help solve the problems
> that need to be solved. Granted, some things can probably be done more
> efficiently for less money, and should be. But some things are going to
> cost more money and I'm sick and tired of hearing everyone whining about
> taxes all the time. You want to live in my country, you pay your fair
> share!
Some people pay shares that are more "fair" than others, and will continue
to do so, even with the presence of President Clinton. Until the rich
elite *hurt* from taxes and shower me with their blood dripping from the
wound of the tax dagger, I will scream and yell. Because, taxes are
killing the poor and middle-class, and I'm tired of the wealthy getting
a free ride in this country. Sure, they pay a lot of taxes, but I want
them to SHARE MY PAIN!!
And, not even Slick Willy is *that* fair, is he, seeing that he and his
wife qualify as one of those wealthy people I was talking about? [They're
on the lower end of "wealthy", but "wealthy" they are.]
>7. I can't believe what hypocrites people are when they ask people to give
> up their lives for their country and then complain about taxes. If you're
> willing to send me off to die for some stupid obsession with fighting an
> enemy which at best doesn't affect us and at worst really should be our
> friend, then you have no right to tell me you shouldn't pay taxes!
Yah, I think the draft for Vietnam was a sack of shit. But, do we get
to pick and choose which laws we obey, Mr. Chaudhary? If so, shall we
set up a "you follow the laws you like, and I'll follow the laws I
like" arrangement?
>6. Hey, I think the beaded curtains add a lovely 60's-esque touch!
I never thought much of beaded curtains.
Now beaded seat-covers, on the other hand....
>5. [Health care is a human right--deleted]
I didn't think I was going to respond to this, but I changed my mind.
Tell me, why do you think health care is a human right?
This isn't a flame or anything, I just wonder. Next thing you know,
free public transportation will be a human right. Maybe membership
at prestigious health spas?
[Sorry to grease the hill on ya there....]
>4. Make love, not War!
Be sure and wrap that wanker when you go spreadin' that free love stuff
around. (Or, after the FDA gets its thumb out of its ass, use that neat
new "Reality" femi-condom.)
>3. Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to be a male and a feminist
> at the same time. To discriminate against or to deny equal opportunity
> to a MAJORITY of the population is just plain wrong, and trying to force
> them into some sort of tradition role is even worse. Women certainly
> have as much to offer this world as men, and the day that gender
> discrimination is finally broken it going to make all the revolutions of
> the past few centuries seem like reform bills. I look forward to it.
So do I. Amen. And all that.
>1. HEY MAN, ACADAMIA RULES!!
What the hell is an "acadamia" anyway? Is that like a macadamia?
cpk
--
It's been 80 days. Do you know where your wallet is?
Slick Willy's already got his hand in my pocket. I'm just afraid
of what he might grab hold of.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Re: A visit from the Jehovah's Witnesses
In article <1993Apr5.091139.823@batman.bmd.trw.com> jbrown@batman.bmd.trw.com writes:
>In article <16BA5DA01.I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de>, I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau) writes:
>> But could you give a definition of free will? Especially in the
>> presence of an omniscient being?
>"Will" is "self-determination". In other words, God created conscious
>beings who have the ability to choose between moral choices independently
>of God. All "will", therefore, is "free will".
So these hypothetical conscious beings can ignore any influences of
their circumstances (their genetics, their environment, their experiences)
which are not all self-determined?
(Of course, the idea of Hell makes the idea of "free will" dubious.
On the other hand, the idea of Hell is not a very powerful idea.
"A Parable for You
"There was once our main character who blah blah blah.
"One day, a thug pointed a mean looking gun at OMC, and
said, 'Do what I say, or I'm blasting you to hell.'
"OMC thought, 'If I believe this thug, and follow the
instructions that will be given, I'll avoid getting blasted to
hell. On the other hand, if I believe this thug, and do not
follow the instructions that will be given, I'll get blasted to
hell. Hmm... the more attractive choice is obvious, I'll
follow the instructions.' Now, OMC found the choice obvious
because everything OMC had learned about getting blasted to
hell made it appear very undesirable.
"But then OMC noticed that the thug's gun wasn't a real
gun. The thug's threats were make believe.
"So OMC ignored the thug and resumed blah blah blah.")
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| 0alt.atheism |
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ignore
| 8rec.motorcycles |
Re: CPU Fans33
Jim_Johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us (Jim Johnson) writes:
<speaking of CPU fans>
> Many use clips - make sure you use heat sink
>grease, or heat transfering tape, or you will have wasted your money.
Do these CPU Fans also have heat sinks? Do you recommend using both
on the same chip (i.e. heat sink sandwiched between CPU and Fan)?
If we are just talking about a CPU Fan blowing directly on the CPU chip,
I can't see how "heat sink grease" is necessary (or even desireable).
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Re: Questions about insurance companies (esp. Geico)
In article <66758@mimsy.umd.edu>, davew@cs.umd.edu (David G. Wonnacott) writes...
>I'm considering switching to Geico insurance, but have heard that
>they do not assign a specific agent for each policy or claim. I was
>worried that this might be a real pain when you make a claim. I have
>also heard that they try to get rid of you if you have an accident.
>
>I'm interestend in determining whether or not these things are true.
>Has anyone out there with Geico made a claim? I'd be interested in
>hearing whether or not you were satisfied with the service and whether
>you then had trouble renewing your policy.
>
>I'm also interested in any good or bad stories about Liberty Mutual or
>State Farm.
>
Geico supports (reads gives to police) Laser Radars. They have been known
to be very picky. No sports cars. No radar detectors (although Maryland
insurance board over rules this consistantly). No turbos.
Basically it seems if you need to use your insurance ever they don't want
you. They once told me they wouldn't insure me (perfect record) because of
my corvette even though it would be insured by another specialty insurance.
"We must insure all the cars". I think this rep didn't know what she was
talking about.
Geico is cheap. But if you ever file a claim be prepared to be dropped. I
think in most areas two tickets will do it.
Geico will never see a dime from me If I can help it.
State Farm. Slighty higher than most but very good response. Not as picky
as Geico.
| 7rec.autos |
Contraceptive pill
A very simple question : it seems to me that the contraceptive
pill just prevents the ovule to nest in the vagina and forces it to
fall every month. But it does not prevent the fertilzation of the
ovule. Is it true ? If yes, is there a risk of extra-uterine
pregnancy, that is the development of the ovule inside the Fallopian
tube ?
J.Cherbonnier
jec@zurich.ibm.com
| 13sci.med |
Re: The best of times, the worst of times
In article <txd.735344033@Able.MKT.3Com.Com>, txd@ESD.3Com.COM (Tom Dietrich) writes:
> mtrost@convex.com (Matthew Trost) writes:
>
> >In <1993Apr20.161357.20354@ttinews.tti.com> paulb@harley.tti.com (Paul Blumstein) writes:
>
> >>Turned out to be a screw unscrewed inside my Mikuni HS40
>
> >You better check all the screws in that carb before you suck
> >one into a jug and munge a piston, or valve. I've seen it
> >happen before.
>
> WHAT?!?!? On a MIKUNI??? I'm going through the exploded view of the
> 40mm flatslide on the 'Ol Sport, the 36mm round slide on Spike, and
> the monster on my old Norton in my mind, and I can't, for the life of
> me see a screw in any of them that, if it came loose could get into a
> jug.
When they explode 'em, all the screws fly away.
:-)
Chuck Rogers
car377@torreys.att.com
| 8rec.motorcycles |
??? Mystery Part ???
I have a mystery part labeled NEC AC100. It's from the low voltage
supply of an NEC Multisync I monitor. It's a three lead part in a
square package like a volate regulator or power transistor. The board
is labeled CR691 where the part goes. (Possibly an SCR?) The pin
labeled G on the board goes to a zener diode (reference voltage?); the
pin labeled T1 goes to the negative lead of a capacitor in the power
supply, and the pin labeled T2 goes to the negative side of the bridge
rectifier in the supply.
If anyone can tell me what this is, or better yet, where I can buy
one just like it, please email me at ck3i@andrew.cmu.edu. I've called
NEC's "monitor repair number" and not only do they not know what the
part is, but they don't think that they can find one to sell to me...
It makes no sense to me...
Thanks
| 12sci.electronics |
Shawnee-on-Delaware (Poconos, PA) timeshare week for sale
Second week of January (prime ski season at one of the largest Poconos ski
areas). Just north of Allentown.
Condo sleeps 6-8 depending on how friendly you all are. Has hot tub,
deck. Easy access to parking lot and shuttle to slopes (condo is a few
miles from the slopes).
Cost: $6000 OBRO, price based on what we paid for it (used, also) and
current market.
[RICHR]
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internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
| 6misc.forsale |
Re: blinking LEDs?
In article <199304241801.AA26885@kepler.unh.edu> dmn@kepler.unh.edu (There's a seeker born every minute.) writes:
>
>
> Where can I buy blinking LEDs besides radio shack?
>
>
> * Does anyone sell blinking LEDs with variable flash rate? (by voltage
> I guess) If so, what hertz (pulse) rate are they adjustable or set to?
>
> I'd like blinking LEDs that can be set for approx 5 hz, 10 hz,
> 15 hz, or 20 hz. Something like that... I'm interested in what's
> out there for flash rates. I like the idea of LEDs with flasher
> circuits already in them. I hate soldering ICs in general. Guess I
> don't have a hell of a lot of patience.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dana
>
If you want slow LED flash rates, adjustable by switches (or by a
4066/4016 digitally controlled switch), I suggest looking at a 555
oscillator chip. They cost ~$1 at Radio Shack (much cheaper in
quantity at quality places), and you will be able to find good info
about simple circuits in a 555 oscialltor notebook (I think Forest
Mims has one at Radio Shack). You'll have to toy with
resistor/capacitor values OR you can use your head with a little math
to get the right frequencies. Any engineer worth his salt, can make a
555 osciallator... It's in the book, and left up to you to see (I hate
doing ASCII circuit graphics). The 555 can accurately go from a few Hz
to about 500 KHz (I think).
About the Tape Recorder gizmo, you could alter a stereo tape deck to
use one channel as a DATA line (for flashing LED), and one as audio
line (for voice or music). This would eliminate a lot of noise.
The data line is probably most easily done
by some kind of PLL or bandpass filter (using just an op-amp). The 565
chip is a good PLL, and not hard to work with. However if you nothing
about how a PLL works, I suggest you don't try this. Op-Amp
information can also be found in the Forest Mims Radio Shack
info-booklets, and the popular 741 op-amp is a snap to work with.
Setting frequency and bandpass filter values are not so easy, so I
would suggest the 555 method firstmost... I have no idea what this is
going into, so I am really generalizing...
As for manufacturing techniques, if you're only goofing with it, I
suggest you breadboard the thing... No need to solder. Wire-wrap would
be the next, more permanent step. And lastly, soldering/PCB making.
Hope that clears things......
-squish@endor.harvard.edu
| 12sci.electronics |
Re: Dumbest automotive concepts of all time
seningen@maserati.ross.com (Mike Seningen)
> 85 Mph speedos -- esp. the electronic ones.
>
> The digital dash of the 87 cougars with the large analog clock in
> the middle of the dash -- everything was digital except the stinking clock?
The funny thing about the digital dash (87 T-bird) with the 85mph speedo
limit was that if you pressed the button to convert to kilometers it would
read all the way up to 187kph. At this point the stock anemic 302 would get
short of breath. This of course was equivalent to about 116mph (hehe).I bet
I really coulda confused this thing if I'd toyed with the engine and rolled
the stupid thing (the digits were limited to 199).
I've gotta agree with ya on the analog clock w/digital dash though. My
girlfriend had a '85 TurboCoupe with a digital clock and analog gauges/radio.
Go figure...
usenet@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Usenet Administrator)
> I love the keyless entry on my T-Bird; it's great for those times that
> I had to stop to put air in my tires. I could get out and lock the door
> with the engine running while I ran around to air up the tire. It also
I had a great feature on my T-bird.... I could pull the key out and
leave the ignition on. This scared the hell out of me the first time it
happened but I kinda grew to like it. Musta been a bad key copy or
something.
Mark Novakovic
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| 7rec.autos |
Arrest of fugitive in ADL case
Los Angeles Times, Saturday, May 8, 1993. Page A11.
FIGURE IN ADL SPY CASE ARRESTED AT S.F. AIRPORT
ESPIONAGE: Former police officer is taken into custody upon
arriving from Philippines, where he had fled after FBI
interrogation.
By Jenifer Warren, Times staff writer
San Francisco -- A former San Francisco police officer who fled to the
Philippines amid accusations that he funneled confidential law
enforcement information to an investigator for the Anti-Defamation
League was arrested at the airport here on 11 felony charges, police
said Friday.
Thomas J. Gerard who abruptly left the United States in October after
the FBI questioned him about his activities, was apprehended Thursday
night after a source in the Philippines told investigators that Gerard
was returning home.
Gerard, 50, was booked into San Francisco County Jail early Friday
morning on eight counts of theft of government documents and one count
each of computer theft, burglary and conspiracy.
If convicted on all charges, Gerard could face 16 years in prison and
$40,000 in fines. Bail was initially set at $250,000 after police
argued that he was a flight risk, but it was later reduced to $20,000.
A friend of Gerard was trying to post bail late Friday afternoon, a
sheriff's spokeswoman said.
Gerard returned to the United because he missed his wife and child,
with whom he lived on a houseboat in Sausalito, and "wanted to have
his day in court," said Police Capt. John Willett, his former boss and
one of two arresting officers.
Gerard, an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency from
1982 to 1985, also feared that the CIA was out to kill him, Willett
said. In an interview with The Times last month, Gerard threatened to
disclose illegal CIA support of death squads in Central America if he
was indicted and tried on the San Francisco spying charges.
Gerard is a central figure in a scandal over an intelligence network
operated by the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish civil
rights organization. Investigators allege that Gerard illegally gave
criminal histories to Roy Bullock, a San Francisco art dealer who said
he has been an undercover ADL intelligence operative for 40 years.
Investigators said they found confidential police files in Bullock's
home computer -- which contained entries on 10,000 people and 950
groups -- and in boxes in his apartment. Files have also been seized
under search warrants from ADL offices in San Francisco and Los
Angeles but authorities have not disclosed their contents.
Gerard could not be reached for comment Friday, and his attorney,
James Lassart, did not return telephone calls seeking comment. In the
interview with The Times last month, however, Gerard acknowledged
snooping and sharing some information with Bullock, but denied any
criminal wrongdoing.
Bullock and Gerard also are under investigation for selling
intelligence to South Africa.
ADL officials have described Bullock as a $550-a-week independent
contractor and have vigorously denied knowledge of any illegal
activity. On Friday, ADL lawyer Jerrold Ladar said Gerard's arrest
"has nothing to do with ADL. Other than that, we have no comment on
the case."
Arab-American groups -- which were a main target of the spying,
according to police -- applauded the arrest and pressed authorities to
pursue the investigation.
"We urge investigators to carry this case forward and to publicly
disclose the full extent of ADL and law enforcement involvement," said
James Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute in Washington.
Police, meanwhile, characterized Gerard's arrest -- the first in the
inquiry into the spying scandal -- as an unexpected breakthrough. A
former police colleague of Gerard, Inspector Fred Mollat, visited
Gerard several weeks ago and urged him to return home.
"I knew he wouldn't want to live on an island on the lam forever, but
we didn't think it would happen this quickly," Capt. Willett said.
"This development really speeds up our timetable on the case."
During his 25-year career on the police force, Gerard was a highly
regarded officer known for his work in the department's intelligence
division. His last assignment was on the gang task force.
After FBI agents questioned Gerard last fall, he took early retirement
and fled to the remote jungle island of Palawan, 300 miles south of
Manila.
Gerard was arrested at 8:40 p.m. as he stepped from his Philippines
Airlines flight. He was traveling alone and looked tanned but haggard
after his six-month hiatus, police said.
"He was surprised when he saw us standing there, and got a shocked
look on his face," Willett said. "Then he said, 'Hello, I'm back.'"
--
Yigal Arens
USC/ISI TV made me do it!
arens@isi.edu
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
25 Apr 93 God's Promise in Psalm 56:4
In God,
whose word I praise,
in God I trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can mortal man do to me?
Psalm 56:4 (NIV)
| 19talk.religion.misc |
Re: Albert Sabin
wpr@atlanta.dg.com (Bill Rawlins) writes:
>Some of these so-called human-like creatures were apes. Some were
>humans. Some were fancifully reconstructed from fragments.
Get thee to a natural history museum or a library, Mr. Rawlins. How
do you explain the nearly complete skeletons of australopithecines and
other primal hominids like _Homo erectus_? _Homo erectus_ was
certainly not an ape, and it definitely was not a modern human either.
Consider some of its morphological features: small cranial capacity,
supraorbital ridges, receding forehead, sharp angling of the occipital
bone, receding chin, large masseter muscles for chewing, pentagonal
skull shape, diastema between incisors and canines, protruding
canines, shovel-shaped incisors. _H. erectus_ was bipedal, though.
So are these nearly complete skeletons of _erectus_ human? Or ape?
Or fanciful reconstructions? Have you even seen one?
--
Brett J. Vickers "Don't go around saying the world owes you
bvickers@ics.uci.edu a living. The world owes you nothing.
It was here first." - Mark Twain
| 19talk.religion.misc |
converting keyboard for mac plus
I have an old Mac Plus. A couple of years ago I bought a shiney new lc.
It came with apple's new keyboard (with abd ports). i replaced it with
a mac-pro-plus extended keyboard (which i thoroughly enjoy, thank you
very much).
well, i have this extra keyboard which i would like to use on the plus
but there's a little problem. the plus uses an rj-11 jack for keyboard
input and the new keyboards don't. i got an extra adb cable from my
local apple dealer (they're such nice people), but they couldn't tell
me the order of the wires.
there are four wires in the adb cables: black, white, red, tan. I know
one's a ground, one gets the serial signal, one supplies 5 volts, and
i forgot what the fourth one does. anyway, if you hook them up wrong
you'll fry a board and i <really> don't want to do <that>.
if any brave souls out there have done this before, please e-mail your
experience directly to me. i would greatly appreciate it especially
since apple's original keyboard is not . . . ergonomically correct.
btw, i did take apart my new keyboard to see if i could find the
correlation between the wires for the rj-11 jack and the adb since it
has both, but no such luck (the connections are soldered inside of
little boxes). Oh, well . . .
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* Tis the blink of an eye, tis the draught of a breath, *
* From the blossoms of health, to the paleness of death, *
* From the gilded saloon, to the briar in the shroud, *
* O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? *
* -William Knox *
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* shagberg@vm.cmp.ilstu.edu *
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| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Fujitsu 8" HDD
I have a Fujitsu M2322K which has been removed (I believe) from a digital
X-Ray machine (takes X-Ray pictures without film). The Fujitsu part number
is B03B-4745-B002A.
I have obtained some data on the device, it is 8-inch winchester-type
of 168 megabyte capacity (though I was told it was over 800 megabytes).
However, there is very little information on the interface standard used.
It appears to use two balanced-line connections, but what each connection
corresponds to I know not. One connection is a 30-way IDC, the other a
60-way IDC.
If anyone has any information on this device, I would be most grateful
if you could provide it.
Thanks.
Chris Powell.
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| 12sci.electronics |
Re: m.e. peace talks
> Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
> Lines: 13
> NNTP-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu
>
>
> dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren) writes:
>
> >Our little Goebbels, to those who forgot, is talking about an alleged
> >"infection" of "fine Egyptian men", by a "Mossad agent caught spying
> >with her father in Egypt". As noted before, the women is a Muslim
> >Israeli, she was not a spy, and she didn't infect anybody.
>
> The Jewish version of the story!!
>
> "A Muslim Israeli." I thought it is a Jewish State.
> Hasn't it yet been defined up to this point?
>
This is a post from a hospital? The inmates from foam the cushion ward
have net access!
Take a pill pal,
Richard Thorne rdt@med.pitt.edu
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: Paxil (request)
I don't know much and in fact, have asked questions here
myself. My doctor told me that Paxil is a "cleaner" SRI in that
it produces fewer side effects. As to a comparison between
Zoloft and Prozac, I'm not able to remember what he said about
the differences between those two drugs. Sorry
| 13sci.med |
Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?
In article <C5sJDp.F23@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>This prize isn't big enough to warrent developing a SSTO, but it is
>>enough to do it if the vehicle exists.
>Actually, there are people who will tell you that it *would* be enough
>to do SSTO development, if done privately as a cut-rate operation. Of
>course, they may be over-optimistic.
In spite of my great respect for the people you speak of, I think their
cost estimates are a bit over-optimistic. If nothing else, a working SSTO
is at least as complex as a large airliner and has a smaller experience
base. It therefore seems that SSTO development should cost at least as
much as a typical airliner development. That puts it in the $3G to $5G
range.
>You can also assume that a working SSTO would have other applications
>that would help pay for its development costs.
True it and the contest would result in a much larger market. But I
don't think it would be enough to attract the investors given the
risks involved.
If you could gurantee the SSTO costs and gurantee that it captures
100% of the available launch market, then I think you could
do it.
Allen
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| 14sci.space |
Re: NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED, Apr 20
Why do you insist on reposting the entire original post?
Don't waste bandwidth, please. You know how picky us non-
Jews can be. Ha Ha. :|
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
FASTMicro out of business?
I heard FASTMicro went out of business. Is this true?
They don't answer their 800 number. It's 800-821-9000.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Re: Postscript view for DOS or Windows?
Where can I find the MS windows version of ghostscript? Thanks..
In article <HJSTEIN.93Apr15145240@sunrise.huji.ac.il>, hjstein@sunrise.huji.ac.i
l (Harvey J. Stein) writes:
>I've been using version 2.5.2 of ghostscript, and I'm quite satisfied
>with it. There are, actually, 3 versions: a plain dos version, a 386
>version, and a windows version.
>
>Harvey Stein
>hjstein@math.huji.ac.il
>
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| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Re: Looking for X windows on a PC
> pm860605@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Peter J. McKinney) writes:
> Price:
> PC-Xview for DOS $445.00 for 1 $1780.00 for 5
NCD just announced a new generation of PC-Xview. They
changed the name a little though and I can't remember
exactly... PC-Xsomething.
It now supports Windows and their press release
implies that since it's still priced in the $500 range
and it's so feature-full why buy anything else?
(Disclaimer: This is not a direct quote from the
literature, but I think it sums it up. Also, I have
never used the product.)
| 5comp.windows.x |
Detroit-Toronto?
What's the deal? c.s.h. has nothing on it yet. Is it in OT, is it over,
what? I want to know! We all want to know! Where's Roger when you need
him?!?!?!?! :-)
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!
"A cow is not a vegetarian dish." -- Keith Keller, 1993
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Re: How Big Is Too Big (was Re: 1st bike)
azw@aber.ac.uk(Andy Woodward) writes:
azw>Weight and size over rough roads is a definite no-no. If is starts to
azw>drift, you aint going to catch it.
leavitt@cs.umd.edu (Mr. Bill) says:
mrb>If you're riding hard enough for this to be of concern, then yes, a
mrb>lighter bike is more beneficial.
ai598@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Sturdevant) writes:
ms>If you're not riding hard enough for this to be a concern, are you
ms>having any fun?
Sure. I've never been much of a racerboy, as anybody who's attended the
Minibike Spectacular can attest. ;^) I get a great deal of satisfaction
in riding fast, yet now so fast as to be overly concerned about not being
able to maintain a clean line. And while I'm still known to slide the
occasional tire, I much prefer to stay just to the sticky side of that
line. I've found that I don't heal as well as I used to in days of yore.
BTW, how's the knee?
mrb>anyway. Am I more likely to catch a 400 than a 250? Not necessarily.
mrb>Tires, road surface and rider ability are a much more important criteria.
ms>Actually, big horsepower is just as likely to get you out of trouble
ms>when it "Starts to Drift" as your puny body mass pushing on stuff. A well
ms>placed push from 80 or 90 horsepower can do a lot to straighten or change
ms>in a beneficial way the trajectory of the bike/rider system. That's a
Quite true. Another plus for a 500+ bike, the original thread, I think.
Damn circular threads... ;^)
ms>Go fast. Take chances.
ms>
ms> Mike S.
Mr. Bill
--
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+ leavitt@cs.umd.edu + '76 CJ360 "Little Honda", '68 Lone Star "Sick Leave" +
+ DoD AMA ICOA NIA + '69 Impala convertible "The Incredible Hulk", others +
+ "Hmmm, I thought bore and stroke *was* the technique!" Michael Bain, #757 +
| 8rec.motorcycles |
Re: Electrical Spacecraft via Magnetic field of earth?
In article <C6DF6w.Bur@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>No. A "dragless" satellite does not magically have no drag; it burns fuel
>constantly to fight drag, maintaining the exact orbit it would have *if*
>there was no drag. This is why there are quotes around "dragless".
I didn't exactly follow the "dragless" satellitte thread.
What is the point of it? are they used for laser geodesy missions?
triad seemed to be some sort of navy navigation bird, but why
be "dragless" why not just update orbital parameters?
pat
| 14sci.space |
2 level brightness Xmas light set (for Easter?
Yes, I know it's nowhere near Christmas time, but I'm gonna loose
Net access in a few days (maybe a week or 2 if I'm lucky), and wanted
to post this for interested people to save 'till Xmas. :-(
Note: Bell Labs is a good place IF you have a PhD and a good boss, I
have neither.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Xmas light set with 2 levels of brightness
Another version of a variable brightness Xmas light set:
This set starts with a 2 blinker 35 bulb string.
DIAGRAM: orginal 2 way set
120v---+--b-*-*-*-*-*-*-*--!
!---b-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-!
!
120rtn_____________________!
modified set for 2 level brightness:
string 1
120v---------*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*--!
\_10K_______*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-!
5w ! string 2 !
b ________________!
120v rtn__!___!
^ Note: no mods to wiring to the right of this point.
Only one blinker is used.
Note that the blinker would not have as much current thru it as the
string 1 bulbs, because of the second string of bulbs in
parallel with it. That's why the use of the 10K 5W resistor
here to add extra current thru the blinker to make up for the
current shunted thru the second string while the blinker is glowing
and the second string is not glowing. When the blinker goes open,
this resistor has only a slight effect on the brightness of the
strings, s1 slightly dimmer, s2 slightly brighter.
Or use a 3W 120v bulb in place of the 10K resistor if you can get
one. Caution, do not replace with a standard C9 bulb, as these
draw too much current and burn out the blinker. C9 = approx 7W.
What you'll see when it's working: powerup, string 1 will light
at full brightness, and b will be lit, bypassing most of the current
from the second string, making them not light. b will open, placing
both strings in series, making the string that was out to glow at a
low brightness, and the other string that was on before to glow
at reduced brightness.
Be sure to wire and insulate the splices, resistor leads, and cut wires
in a safe manner!
| 12sci.electronics |
Re: HDF readers/viewers
I wrote...
>
> G'day all,
>
> Can anybody point me at a utility which will read/convert/crop/whatnot/
> display HDF image files ? I've had a look at the HDF stuff under NCSA
> and it must take an award for odd directory structure, strange storage
> approaches and minimalist documentation :-)
and it has since turned out that all the mirror sites I looked at were
fooled by a restructuring at the original site - zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu -
and hence were in a mess. That and a pointer to 'imconv' should get
me started. Ta muchly.
Cheers
Markus
--
Markus Buchhorn, Parallel Computing Research Facility
email = markus@octavia.anu.edu.au
Australian National University, Canberra, 0200 , Australia.
[International = +61 6, Australia = 06] [Phone = 2492930, Fax = 2490747]
| 1comp.graphics |
OPINION POLL!
Net citizens!
This is a desperate try to save our last course in university.
We are writing a study about the Net, how it all started, about the people
living in it, however trying to explain the basics of how it all works.
That includes you, reader of this message.
We would be more than grateful if we could get your answers to the following
questions;
1. For how many years have you known that Internet existed?
2. How often do you use the Net? (occasions per month)
3. Whatfor? (hobby, in your profession, socialy...)
4. How do you access the Net? (university, profession, friends, private...)
5. Has the Net taken over roles that other media played before? (telephone,
newspapers, TV, girlfriend...)
6. What newsgroups/type of information do you take part of?
7. Male or Female?
8. Age?
If you have the time;
9. What's your future visions about the Net? Limits and/or possibilities.
10.How do you think/hope law and censorship will change over time ahead?
We also want to apologize for taking up so much bandwidth with this.
This request has been spread to 60 newsgroups, chosen at random, but,
you know how it is, term end is closing up, panic spreads.
Email address: fm91hn@hik.se or fm91pb@hik.se
Sincere Respect And May The Force Be With You All!
Peter & Henrik
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: WINBENCH 3.11 help -- graphics comparison?!?
In article <1pqd9hINNbmi@zephyr.grace.cri.nz> srg3sir@grv.grace.cri.nz writes:
>
>
>In article <C4zoGD.C56@news.udel.edu> swyatt@bach.udel.edu (Stephen L Wyatt) writes:
>>I have a question about WINBENCH (pc labs thing) 3.11..
>>
>>I have a 386/33 and a Ahead B (512k) card and got these results-
>>
>>windows vga driver - 2.44 million
>>ahead B (640-480-256) driver - 455,000 winmarks
>>windows svga (800-600-16) driver - 1.68 million winmarks...
>>
>>I was thinking about upgrading to a diamond 24x card.. I read it had about
>>8 million winmark..
>
>On my 386dx 33Mhz 4Mb RAM
>Winbench 2.5
> 24x v2.02 16.7M 1,668,274
> v2.03 16.7M 1,668,985
> v2.03 16 4,602,428
> v2.03 256 7,635,278
Be very careful with these results! As I recall, numbers from Winbench
2.5 are calculated differently from 3.1, and so these figures are not
comparable.
However, to answer Stephen's question, replacing the Ahead B card with
a Diamond 24x will yield a cost-effective, dramatic speed increase for
Windows. That or the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus....
--
Greg Franklin
franklig@gas.uug.arizona.edu
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Cool background patterns!
Here are some cool 3-D background patterns I made.
Edit your CONTROL.INI and add the following lines to your [Patterns] section.
Bricks=148 43 86 172 89 182 99 201
Tile=1 43 85 43 85 43 85 255
Tile (diagonal)=148 107 54 156 73 182 99 201
Slats=0 170 85 170 85 170 85 255
Make sure your desktop color is one of the standard 16 colors or the
patterns might not work. I like dark grey the best with these.
If you have any cool one's of your own, please mail them to me.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Stefan Powell - SPowell@TrentU.CA
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
compiling on sun4_411
Hi,
I have a piece of X code that compiles fine on pmax-ul4, pmax_mach, as
well as sun4_mach, but whenever it compiles on sun4_411, it gives me
undefined ld errors:
_sin
_cos
_pow
_floor
_get_wmShellWidgetClass
_get_applicationShellWidgetClass
The following libraries that I linked it to are:
-lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11
The makefile is generated off an imake template.
Can anyone give me pointers as to what I'm missing out to compile on
a sun4_411?
Thanx
Wilson
| 5comp.windows.x |
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| 6misc.forsale |
Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?
In article <C5HLBu.I3A@tripos.com> homer@tripos.com (Webster Homer) writes:
>mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway) writes:
>
>>Here's your error. I really do think this shows some confusion on your
>>part. (Drum roll please) Science isn't so much the gathering of evidence
>>to support an "assertion" (read: hypothesis) as it is the gathering of
>>empirical observations IN ORDER TO MAKE AN HYPOTHESIS. What should
>>convince you (or not) shouldn't be the final product so much as *HOW* the
>>product was made.
>>
>Here's your error. There is no observation or hypothesis that is not tainted
>by theory. I have a theory, I make observations, those observations will be
>made with my theory in mind.
Yes, absolutely, though I'd make the observation in a more general sense of
all observations are made by human beings and therefore made with various
biases.
But here your message leaves talk of hypothesis and gets back, once again,
to equating the business of science with the end result, the gizmo produced.
>Science works very well at developing theories
>within paradigms, but is very poor at dealing with paradigm shifts. If I
>develop a novel paradigm that explains homeopathy, chinese medicine, or
>spontaneous combustion. If the paradigm is useful it will show me the way
>to make observations that "prove" or "disprove" it.
My point isn't so much whether or not you have a novel paradigm but *how*
you come about developing it.
>The paradigm of modern medicine is that the body can be reduced to a set of
>essentially mechanical operations wherein disease is seen as malfunctions in
>the machinery, essentially the old Newtonian model of the world. It seems
>likely that theories based upon this paradigm do not give a complete
>discription of the universe, medicine, healing etc... Indeed we now
>recognize an important psychological component to healing.
Perhaps you'd admit that this is an oversimplification on your part (the topic
of the philosophy of science is made for them, I'm making them too) but I
think that it also summarizes popular misconceptions of science and the
business of doing science. Biomedical research doesn't make any basic
assumptions that aren't the same as any other discipline of scientific
research. That is, that you make empirical observations, form an hypothesis
and test it. Modern medicine has much more to do with biochemistry than
"the old Newtonian model of the world". And I doubt that many psychologists
would appreciate being put outside this empirical "world view". Psychology
also has more to do with biochemistry than spoon bending.
>It is also important to distinguish reason from science. Science may be
>reasonable, but so are many non-scientific methodologies. Aristotle reasoned
>that frogs came from mud by observing one hop out of a puddle.
Oversimplified, of course, but a good example. This is an empirical observa-
tion. It was then tested, though perhaps not by Aristotle, and eventually
found wanting. In the meantime, some folk will
have continued to believe in the spontaneous generation of animal life.
There's nothing at all surprising about this, it's the way the gathering of
knowledge works. There are probably more than a few things in my own
discipline of molecular biology that will be found to be totally off-base,
even idiotic, to someone in the future. These future people won't have come
to these relevations because they had suddenly gone all Zen-like and had
a vision in an LSD trip. Someone will have thought of something new and
tested it. This is the bit that people who seem to relish misrepresenting
science and research can't seem to wrap their minds around. Science is a
creative process. What I think of as factual and good research can be totally
turned on its head tommorrow by new results and theories.
Again, I think it gets down to defining what you mean by "science". I often
don't recognize what it is that I do, and am involved in, in the way science
is portrayed by popular media or writings of people in the humanities. They
portray science as a collection of immutable facts, pronouncements of TRUTH
in big gold letters. That's silly. Its as though we just go into the lab,
turn over a stone, and come up with a mechanism for transcriptional regula-
tion. Its much more interesting than that. It really is a very human
process.
| 13sci.med |
Re: LC Ram Upgrade will be SLOW!
Yes! what you are saying is absolutey true, but what you fail to mention is the
fact that the LCIII uses the new 72 pin simms which allow 32 bit access to
each simm. In the case of the LC III, it only has one simm slot, but accesses will
be 32 bits wides.
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The views expressed in this posting those of the individual author only.
[BBS Number:(613) 848-1346 MacContent is VictoriaÕs first Iconic BBS!]
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| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Re: Cultural Enquiries
In article <Stafford-310393095530@stafford.winona.msus.edu> Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.Edu (John Stafford) writes:
>In article <1993Mar17.115603.28712@aber.ac.uk>, azw@aber.ac.uk (Andy
>Woodward) wrote:
>>
>> Two questions that fascinate me:-
> You are easily fascinated.
>
>> 1) Why are rednecks called rednecks?
> Why are you called a Welch?
> OK, it's because they are often south or southeastern farmers
> who's necks are permanently damaged from sunburn. The sun;
> you know what that is, it never sets on the British Empire
> and never shines in Wales.
>
This is a despicable LIE! It was sunny on 3rd July 1958 from 11.23am
to 11 37am. I made a note of it. Diaries are never wrong.
>> 2) Why do they ride Harleys?
> They don't. They drive in pick-up trucks and shoot bikers.
>
>> Please enlighten me. When I visited last, the only answers I got
>> were incoherent splutterings.
> You deserve more?
>
>====================================================
>John Stafford Minnesota State University @ Winona
> All standard disclaimers apply.
Do you, by any chance ride a Harley? (just a feeling...) How is your
neck? Calamine lotion is good, I'm told.
I am getting bored with winding up Americans. Its like bombing fish
in a barrel.
Haaaaaaaaaaave a Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Andy
| 8rec.motorcycles |
Re: was: Go Hezbollah!!
From article <1993Apr15.031349.21824@src.honeywell.com>, by amehdi@src.honeywell.com (Hossien Amehdi):
> In article <C5HuBA.CJo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> eshneken@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Edward A Shnekendorf) writes:
>>amehdi@src.honeywell.com (Hossien Amehdi) writes:
>>
>>>You know when Israelis F16 (thanks to General Dynamics) fly high in the sky
>>>and bomb the hell out of some village in Lebanon, where civilians including
>>>babies and eldery getting killed, is that plain murder or what?
>>
>>If you Arabs wouldn't position guerilla bases in refugee camps, artillery
>>batteries atop apartment buildings, and munitions dumps in hospitals, maybe
>>civilians wouldn't get killed. Kinda like Saddam Hussein putting civilians
>>in a military bunker.
>>
>>Ed.
>
> Who is the you Arabs here. Since you are replying to my article you
> are assuming that I am an Arab. Well, I'm not an Arab, but I think you
> are brain is full of shit if you really believe what you said. The
> bombardment of civilian and none civilian areas in Lebanon by Israel is
> very consistent with its policy of intimidation. That is the only
> policy that has been practiced by the so called only democracy in
> the middle east!
>
> I was merley pointing out that the other side is also suffering.
> Like I said, I'm not an Arab but if I was, say a Lebanese, you bet
> I would defende my homeland against any invader by any means.
Tell me then, would you also fight the Syrians in Lebanon?
Oh, no of course not. They would be your brothers and you would
tell that you invited them.
Avi.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
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| 6misc.forsale |
Re: Contradictions
In article <C52oys.2CLJ@austin.ibm.com> yoder@austin.ibm.com (Stuart R. Yoder) writes:
>:
>: Then what would it have to do with "in the universe"? You theists
>: cannot understand that inside the universe and outside the universe
>: are two different places. Put God outside the universe and you
>: subtract from it the ability to interact with the inside of the
>: universe, put it inside the universe and you impose the rules of
>: physics on it.
>
>1. God is outside the universe.
>2. Things outside the universe do not have 'the ability to interact
> with the inside of the universe'.
>3. Therefore God cannot interact inside the universe.
>
>(2) has no basis whatsoever. You seem to have positive knowledge
>about this.
(2) is a corrallary of (1).
The negation of (2) would contridict (1).
>
>: Although we do not have a complete model of the physical rules
>: governing the inside of the universe, we expect that there are no
>: contradictory events likely to destroy the fabric of modern physics.
>: On the other hand, your notion of an omnipotent, omniscient and
>: infinitely benevolent god, is not subject to physical laws: you
>: attempt to explain this away by describing it as being outside of
>: them, beyond measurement. To me, beyond measurement means it can
>: have no measurable effect on reality, so it cannot interact: ergo,
>: your god is IRRELEVANT.
>
>1. God is beyond measure.
>2. Beyond measurement means it can have no measurable effect on
> reality.
>3. Therefore God cannot have a measurable effect on reality.
>
>(2) has no basis whatsoever.
(2) Is a corrallary of (1)
The negation of (2) would contradict (1).
--
"Satan and the Angels do not have freewill.
They do what god tells them to do. "
S.N. Mozumder (snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu)
| 0alt.atheism |
Address interliving?
What is address interliving? and memmory modules interliving?
Thanks in advance for the info.
Robert.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Help with 486/66 Decision.
I'm buying a new system this week to replace my brain dead 286, and
could use some feedback on a couple systems I'm looking at if anyone is
familiar with them.
The system that looks the most interesting is the Budget 486/66 VLB
tower. For about $2343 (delivered) it offers VLB, 8MB, 200MB IDE, a Mitsumi
CD-ROM (with software bundle), Media Vision Sound board, 14" CTX 1468NI,
128K Cache, and the usual drives, ports, & OS software. Since my budget is
$2350 for a system, it seems almost too good to be true (which may mean it
IS too good to be true, of course). Among other things, I've never seen a
review of the Budget systems (or their parent company, Micro Smart), or of
the motherboard they are using (the Aetana). Any feedback would be
appreciated.
In a similar vein, the second system I'm considering Midwest Micro's
Elite VESA 486/66 tower with a Diamond Viper (2MB) & Midwest Micro 14" MI
monitor is one I've never seen reviewed anywhere. I'm familiar with the
firm but not the product line - and some idea of their quality would be abig
benefit here as well.
Any other suggestions in the price range would be appreciated - my
greatest needs are speed and graphics capabilities.
Email response would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to
prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is
not a sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Re: Celebrate Liberty! 1993
Bob.Waldrop send the referred to message to a lot of apparently
inappropriate groups. If you consider them such, maybe he would
appreciate learning that.
>Lines: 323
>
>Announcing. . . Announcing. . . Announcing. . .Announcing. . .
>
> CELEBRATE LIBERTY!
> 1993 LIBERTARIAN PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION
> AND POLITICAL EXPO
>
--
doug foxvog
dfo@tko.vtt.fi
| 13sci.med |
MVP '92 Revisited
Tim Shippert recently posted summaries of last year's Defensive Average
stats in terms of the Linear Weights estimated run-value of defensive
performances, compared to league average. I've combined those with my
position-adjusted MLV numbers to come up with first-approximation total
run values for players last year. We can use these as a springboard for
reconsideration of the MVP award.
Major caveats: these numbers include no defensive park adjustment, so if
San Diego really is just a question of odd scoring or gopher holes in the
infield, that will cause some inaccuracies. The offensive numbers are
position-adjusted, but not park adjusted, so we have to deflate some and
inflate others to be fair. Finally, we still don't know what to do about
catchers, and I have no idea how to evaluate the defensive contributions
of Tony Phillips and Bip Roberts.
Having said that, there are still some surprises. Let's look National
League first. All numbers in total runs contributed over the season.
Player Offense Defense Total
Sandberg 44 32 76
Bonds 67 3 70
Walker 26 26 52
Justice 14 33 47
Daulton 44 ?? 44+?
Larkin 36 4 40
Grace 13 27 40
As I see it, these are the legitimate MVP candidates from last season.
If you deflate Sandberg's offense a wee bit for playing in Wrigley, you
get essentially a dead heat. Had Bonds been his usual defensive self, it
wouldn't have been close, but that apparently wasn't the case. Darren
Daulton needs 22 or more defensive runs to make up the offensive difference,
and I couldn't tell you whether that's easy or impossible. A good case
could be made for any of Sandberg, Bonds, or Daulton as top dude.
My personal vote: Bonds, Sandberg, Daulton, Walker, Justice.
In the American League:
Player Offense Defense Total
Ventura 22 34 56
Martinez 47 -1 46
B. Anderson 21 25 46
Thomas 47 -5 42
R. Henderson 25 16 41
Raines 17 23 40
Tettleton 33 ?? 33+?
OK, let's see a show of hands: how many of you picked Robin Ventura as top
player in the AL last year? I certainly didn't, but I'd have a hard time
arguing against him at this point. Yes, I know these numbers are only
approximate, but that's a big gap between him and the #2 guy. Also, those
of you who thought Rickey Henderson stank last year are out of your minds.
Once again, there's a catcher in the ointment. If calling a game is as
important as it might be, 23 runs is easy to make up (or give away). TAke
a guess, folks; I don't think we can do any better than that.
My personal vote (excluding pitchers):
Ventura, Tettleton, Anderson, Martinez, Henderson.
I'm a big Frank Thomas fan, but I have to admit to a bias in favor of
balanced offensive/defensive contribution, which should have a higher
leverage in W/L record than an equal shift that is lots of offense with
negative defense.
For the record:
Carlos Baerga 27 5 32
Roberto Alomar 35 -2 33
Forget it; it's a wash.
Let me also take this opportunity to admit that I was grossly wrong regarding
Don Mattingly's defense this past season. Don recovered brilliantly from his
weak '90 and '91 to end up with
Mattingly -1 17 16 runs
which is clearly an above-average first baseman. However, it's still 18 runs
behind Mark McGwire, 26 runs behind Frank Thomas, and 7 runs behind John
Olerud. On the other hand, it's ahead of Rafael Palmeiro, Cecil Fielder, and
every other AL first baseman not yet mentioned.
--
David M. Tate (dtate+@pitt.edu) | Greetings, sir, with bat not quick
member IIE, ORSA, TIMS, SABR | Hands not soft, eye not discerning
| And in Denver they call you a slugger?
"The Big Catullus" Galarraga | And compare you to my own Mattingly!?
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Re: How hard to change springs on F350 truck?
Bottom line: I did it and it worked.
Some 'tips and techniques' are included here:
In article <C4zzpn.Ax7@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
>In article <1993Apr3.005245.10615@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
>>Does it take any peculiar tools to remove the rear springs from a Ford
>>F350 truck? This is a 4x4 with leaf springs front and rear.
>>
>>So, with a big socket and an air wrench and a floor jack (and a
>>hydrolic bottle jack ...) can I do this at home?
I found that I needed some smaller sockets to undo the shocks.
And a can of WD40 helped...
The sockets needed were metric (exact fit) but I was able to use
some SAE sockets... 13/16 and 15/16 are rather close to 21 and 24mm...
It CAN be fun having a Canadian Ford ...
>>I'm pictureing this: Undo U bolts. Put a bottle jack on the axle
>>and raise the bed/frame to take stress off of the leaf spring. Undo
>>the end bolts/bushings. Drop the spring. Turn the bottom leaf.
>>Re-connect the spring bolts...
>
>Sounds about right.
Didn't have to undo the end bolts/bushings. Just the 2 U bolts on
each side and the shock absorber. Jacking up the frame some more
(had to put the spare tire on the garage floor and put a wooden
platform on top of that to get the 'floor jack' high enough to
raise the frame ... I't one TALLL truck...) lifted the spring
free of the axel. Taking out the block gave me enough room to
undo the pin holding the spring pack together.
The spring pack was held together with a nut on top and a round head
on the other end.... No wrench head... Vice Grips worked fine...
I soaked the nut with WD40 and it came right off.
Flipped the bottom spring and then...
>>Is this a nightmare waiting to happen, or an easy, though physically
>>demanding, thing to do?
>
>Well, it's easier than doing a decent trigger job on a 1911A1 :-)
>(OK, well, maybe it's not _that_ easy, but it's not terribly
>difficult.)
I donno ... I'm a little more sore today than after working on a
1911A1 ...
A 1.5 foot pipe cheater was a real help. Torque spec for the U bolt
nuts is 150 to 200 ft-lbs (!). A 1911-A1 doesn't have that kind of
torque spec ...
It was a 'challenge' to get the 'pack bolt' back in the spring pack.
Squeeze pack with two hands, hold bolt with third, put nut on
with fourth while picking up wrench and vice grips with fifth
and sixth hands ... I used some string to tie the pack together
while holding the pin in for alignment... then I could let go
to get the {nut, wrench, Vice Grips...}.
Getting the pin back lined up with the lift block was a challenge too...
until I discovered that the axel had 1) Tilted and/or 2) rolled forward.
One the drivers side, a bottle jack under the front of the differential
tilted it back in line enough for the pin head to drop into the right
hole. On the passenger side, I had to wrestle the wheel into rolling
forward about 1/2 inch to get things to line up. Spent more than an
hour working on getting the pin head into the hole in the lift block
with levers and ropes and impliments of distruction before I took a
break and thought about WHY it wasn't lined up anymore (since it HAD
been lined up before, and *I* didn't move it, something ELSE must
have ... hmmm, axle no longer constrained not to move ... hmmm, move
it back... hmmm...).
After that, it was all much easier to 'close up'.
BTW, the ride is now softer, but not quite as soft as I was hoping for.
At least it now sits level..
--
E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it.' - Goethe
I am not responsible nor is anyone else. Everything is disclaimed.
| 7rec.autos |
Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is
In article <1993Apr17.153653.26206@Princeton.EDU>, datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
>You were a liberal arts major, weren'tcha?
>
>Guess you never saw that photo of the smallest logo in the world--
>"IBM" made with noble gas atoms (krypton? xenon? I forget the
>specifics).
>
>Atoms, trees, electrons are all independently observable and
>verifiable. Morals aren't. See the difference?
Just for the record ( not that any kind of information would be
likely to affect your thinking ) I have an MSEE -- focus in
Electromagnetics -- from Penn.
A photo of the smallest logo in the world does not an atom make.
What was observed is something we can measure that matches what
the mathematical model we call an atom had predicted.
Much in the same way that we need BOTH a particle model and a
wave model for light, the atomic model is a mathematical
representation of physical phenomena. A model that can and
probably will continue to change over time. That makes it
subjective (the model that is). However, the model gives us an
objective way to talk about the physical world.
To put it another way, the Quantum Mechanical model of the atom
allows for discussion of the atom that will give repeatable and
unambiguous results, which is objective. However, as Bohr and
Einstein duked it out mid-century, the interpretation of
those reapeatable, observable measurements is quite subjective.
Bohr said that the observable randomness of atomic motion was
inherent in the nature of the universe. Einstein said particle
motion was deterministic, but it was our measurement shortcomings
that introduced the randomness. They were talking about the
EXACT same results, though.
-jim halat
| 0alt.atheism |
Re: Jack Morris
maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
>In <1993Apr19.053221.11240@cs.cornell.edu> tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer) writes:
>>In article <1993Apr19.024222.11181@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902043@ariel.yorku.ca (SHAWN LUDDINGTON) writes:
>>>Hey Valentine, I don't see Boston with any world series rings on their
>>>fingers.
>>Yah. So?
>>>Damn, Morris now has three and probably the Hall of Fame in his
>>>future.
>>He certainly didn't earn his last one. *HOW* many games did he blow
>>in the World Series? All of the ones he started?
>He certainly did earn it! He was a valuable member of the Blue Jay team.
Not particularly *in* the World Series. During the season, he was probably
more valuable than, say, putting Olerud out there to pitch, but yeah, he
*was* valuable in getting them there. In the postseason, he sucked dirty
canal water through a straw. The Jays won *in spite* of Morris much more
than *because of* him.
>>>Therefore, I would have to say Toronto easily made the best signing.
>>Oh, yes. Definitely. Therefore Morris is better than Clemens.
>Your definition of "better" refers to some measurement on a scale that
>has nothing to do with winning WS rings.
Umm, Roger? Return with us to those halcyon days of a few postings ago,
where the poster Valentine was replying to used # of WS rings as a measure
of better. The concept is called "context", and you should really become
familiar with it someday.
>The facts are that Morris
>has shown us that he has what it takes to play on a WS winning club.
>Clemens hasn't.
Unless this transaltes to "Clemens hasn't gone into Lou Gorman's office with
a large caliber handgun and refused to come out until he'd been traded to
the Jays," I'm at a complete loss as to any possible meaning for it.
>You can go on about what Clemens has done in the
>past and claim that he is "better" than Morris if you want to. But
>the facts are that Morris has shown us that he can win and Clemens
>hasn't.
What on earth does this mean? Over their careers, Clemens has "won" 68% of
the games he's started, Morris 58%. Per year, Clemens has averaged nearly 17
wins, Morris just under 15. Would you grant the proposition that preventing
the other team from scoring increases your chances of winning a game? If
so, then consider that Clemens allows 2.8 runs/9 innings pitched. Morris
allows nearly a run more per nine innings. In fact, Jack Morris has never in
his career had an ERA for a single year as good as Clemens' career ERA. But
I forget, in the Maynardverse there was obviously some mystical significance
to Buckner missing that grounder in 1986; had Morris been on the Sox, it
would have been a routine groundout, right?
>Whether or not Clemens is better by your standard of measurement
>is totally meaningless. The object of the game is not to compile
>high figures in statistics that you have chosen to feel are important.
>The object of the game is to contribute to WS victories. But this
>has been patiently explained to you many, many times and you are
>either too stupid or too stubborn to grasp it.
Speaking of stupid, it has been patiently (and not-so-patiently) explained to
you many times that attributing greatness to players based on the
accomplishments of their teams makes about as much sense as claiming that
a racecar has the most attractive paint job because it won the race. Your
continued failure to not only understand but even to intelligently reply to
any of the arguments presented leads me to the conclusion that you must have
spent a few too many games in goal without a mask.
>>Don't give me that shit. If Boston had Alomar, Olerud, Henke, and
>>Ward while Toronto had Rivera, Jack Clark, Jeff Reardon, things would
>>have looked a little different last fall. Give credit where credit is
>>due. This lavishing of praise on Morris makes me sick.
>Yes and the dog would have caught the rabbit too...forget about what
>didn't happen and open your eyes, for once, and look out there and
>see what is REALLY happening. Forget about how Morris "shouldn't"
>have won 21 with an ERA over 4.
>When Morris pitched, last year, the Jays won. Stop crying about it and
>get on with life.
No one is crying; the Jays won, and as a team they certainly deserved to win
at least the AL East. They performed well in two short series and won the
World Series, and I congratulate them for it. As a Red Sox fan, I hope they
keep Morris. I was happy when they picked up Stewart, and elated when they
traded for Darrin Jackson. You see, unless you believe in some mystical link
between Morris and the offense, you can hardly help but believe that the man
was credited with so many wins last year because he got lucky. Luck runs
out, just like it did in 1982 when he pitched 50-odd more innings than 1992,
gave up exactly *one* earned run more than in 1992, and went 17-16.
Seriously, Roger, I'd really like to hear your explanation of the difference
between the 1982 Morris and the 1992 Morris. Which one was a better pitcher,
and why? Did Morris somehow "learn how to win" in the intervening ten years?
If so, then why did he go 18-12 in 1991 with Minnesota with an ERA over half
a run lower than 1992?
Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Wanted: 3d rendering lib for PC
Does any one know of a decent quality library of routines for
performing 3D graphics modelling on the PC?
Ideally the routines would be embeded in our application program.
Requirements (wish list):
- flat surface modelling (simple phong shading optional)
- ability to plot hidden-line drawings
- Texture mapping -- both procedural and bit map
- modeling light sources (local, distant, and spot lights)
- Ray-tracing
- Radiosity (optional)
Any comments would be appreciated.
John Chinnick -- jchinnic@mach1.wlu.ca
phone : (519) 888-9666
--
John Chinnick -- jchinnic@mach1.wlu.ca
| 1comp.graphics |
HST Antenna OK?
I haven't seen any mention of this in a while, so here goes...
When the Hubble Telescope was first deployed, one of its high gain antennas
was not able to be moved across its full range of motion. It was suspected
that it had been snagged on a cable or something. Operational procedures
were modified to work around the problem, and later problems have overshadowed
the HGA problem.
Is there any plan to look at the affected HGA during the HST repair mission,
to determine the cause of its limited range of motion? Is the affected HGA
still limited, or is it now capable of full range of motion?
--
Steve Derry
<s.d.derry@larc.nasa.gov>
| 14sci.space |
Re: Torre: The worst manager?
gt0523e@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Andre Mule) writes:
>In article <93095@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7469a@prism.gatech.EDU (Brian R. Landmann) writes:
>>
>e,
>>Later, in the ninth inning with the bases loaded and two outs he puts
>>lankford, a 300 hitter with power in as a pinch runner and uses Luis
>>Alicea, a 250 hitter with no power as a pinch hitter. What the Helll
>>is he thinking.
>If memory serves me well, Alicea hit it, and damn near tied the game.
>Torre obviously knows his players better than you do.
Not to mention that Lankford had been hurt two nights before running
into the outfield wall. This being the reason he was available to pinch-
anything. His ribs were the problem so he could run but not hit.
Torre is no white rat but give him credit for what he is , a pretty darn
good manager. with the exception of the Felix fiasco, but i'm not sure
who's brainchild that was.
-BIL
Cardinals mailing list??????? anyone?????? anyone??????? please??
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Re: plus minus stat
In <1993Apr15.160450.27799@sol.UVic.CA> gballent@hudson.UVic.CA (Greg Ballentine) writes:
>The Selke candidate forwards main purpose on a shift is to prevent goals
>from being scored- not to score them. When Lemieux or Gilmour play their
>number one purpose is to score- defence is secondary- especially considering
>the line that plays against them is probably a defensive one. That is
>why they are not Selke candidates.
>Gainey is the best defensive forward ever. I stand by that assessment.
>He was a very good player who belongs in the hall of fame. Did you
>ever watch him play? He never made a technical error.
I watched him over his entire career. I have NEVER seen a player, and that
includes Russell Courtnall and Davie Keon, screw up as many breakaways as
Bob Gainey. And I will never forget the time Denis Potvin caught Gainey
with his head down. You have been sold a bill of goods on Bob Gainey.
Gainey was a plugger. And when the press runs out of things to say about
the stars on dynasties they start to hype the pluggers. Grant Fuhr, Essa
Tikkannen, Butch Goring, Bob Nystrom, Bob Gainey, Doug Jarvis, Derek
Sanderson, Wayne Cashman, Bob Baun, Bob Pulford, Ralph Backstrom, Henri
Richard, Dick Duff...and so on...
cordially, as always,
rm
--
Roger Maynard
maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Re: MS-Windows graphics viewer?
Check out Image Pals v1.2 from U-Lead (until May, special $99 intro price,
310-523-9393). It has the basic image processing tools for all major formats,
does screen grabbing, and allows all your image files to be calalogged into
a thumbnail database. It's great!
Don
| 1comp.graphics |
Re: Burden of Proof
In article <1993Apr26.142158.11620@ousrvr.oulu.fi> ktikkane@phoenix.oulu.fi (Kari Tikkanen) writes:
>In Math exam I have burden of proof when it says:
> "Prove that no elements in set A=( n divided by 30 leaves 5 as a remainder,
> n prime, n integer) does exist."
>
>Well, Mathematics is formal science. Real world may be different thing.
>But if entertainment (company) sell computer programs saying they are virus
>safe. Doesn`t they have burden of proof that viruses don`t exist in their
>floppies ?
I don't think so. The assumption is there. If it turns out that
their software has a virus, then it is up to you to prove that fact
to a court to get any damages. You are theoretically suppossed to
be able to get damages for that, but you have to give some evidence
that the virus came from that software. But since the computer
company is the defendent, they are uninvolved until proven guilty.
>----------------------- ktikkane@phoenix.oulu.fi -------------------
> Kari Tikkanen ! . . -#- ! b ! begin
> SF-90550 OULU ! ! ! I = / f(x)dx ! s:=s+Eq(i);
> FINLAND ! . . Vega ! a ! end
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
Please, not Pascal! NOOOOO!! ;)
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* M^2 * time. It doesn't work. *
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| 19talk.religion.misc |
Re: If You Feed Armenians Dirt -- You Will Bite Dust!
In article <1993Apr5.194120.7010@urartu.sdpa.org> dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian) writes:
>In article <1993Apr5.064028.24746@kth.se> hilmi-er@dsv.su.se (Hilmi Eren)
>writes:
>David Davidian says: Armenians have nothing to lose! They lack food, fuel, and
>warmth. If you fascists in Turkey want to show your teeth, good for you! Turkey
>has everything to lose! You can yell and scream like barking dogs along the
Davidian, who are fascists? Armenians in Azerbaijan are killing Azeri
people, invading Azeri soil and they are not fascists, because they
lack food ha? Strange explanation. There is no excuse for this situation.
Herkesi fasist diye damgala sonra, kendileri fasistligin alasini yapinca,
"ac kaldilar da, yiyecekleri yok amcasi, bu seferlik affedin" de. Yurrruuu,
yuru de plaka numarani alalim......
Hakan
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: Who's next? Mormons and Jews?
>>>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 1993 06:30:24 GMT, fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
>>>>> (Frank Crary) said:
pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky) writes:
pmy> ...Anyway, I've often wondered what business followers of Christ
pmy> would have with weapons.
fc> Didn't Christ tell his disciples to arm them selves, shortly
fc> before his crusifiction? (I believe the exact quote was along the
fc> lines of, "If you have [something] sell it and buy a sword.")
"If you have a purse" it was.
fc> Certainly, Christ said,
fc> "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to
fc> send peace but the sword. For I am come to set a man at variance
fc> against his father, and the daugher against her mother..."
fc> [Matthew 10 34-35]
Yes, He said this, but the sword that Jesus brought was the sword of
the Word of God, which divides between those that believe, and those
who do not, even right down a family.
Mark
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Other: towfiq@Justice.Medford.MA.US +1 617 488 2818
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| 19talk.religion.misc |
*** HELP I NEED SOME ADDRESSES ***
Hi all,
I'm trying to get mailing addresses for the following
companies. Specifically, I need addresses for their personnel
offices or like bureau. The companies are:
- AMROC
- Orbital Sciences Corp. (sp?)
- Spacehab, Inc. (I know this one is somewhere in
Seattle, WA, or at least part of it is.)
- Space Industries, Inc. (Somewhere in Houston)
- Space Enterprises Inc.
If anybody could point me in the right direction on this, I
would be most appreciative. I prefer an email response, but I
will post a summary if sufficient interest exists.
Thanks,
Mitch-------------------------------->jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu
| 14sci.space |
Re: Truly a sad day for hockey
>A fine 26 year history came to a close tonight, as the Minnesota North Stars,
>or Norm's Stars (whichever you prefer) lost to the Red Wings by a score of
>5-3. The Stars goals were scored by Mike McPhee and Ulf Dahlen, who netted
>two including the final one in franchise history, with less than a minute to
>play.
Yes, it's a shame that the NHL lost a fine team in one of the best
hockey markets in the country. Being a North Stars fan, it is sad to
see all of the tradition of the last 26 years get thrown into oblivion
at the hands of a truly crappy owner.
Hopefully the NHL will install an expansion franchise in the Twin Cities
within the next five years. Even if this is the case, a lot has been
lost in the North Stars move...
KEA
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Two-Line Orbital Element Set: Space Shuttle
The most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are
carried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when
possible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this
system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current
elements for the current shuttle mission are provided below. The Celestial
BBS may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600 bps using
8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.
Element sets (also updated daily), shuttle elements, and some documentation
and software are also available via anonymous ftp from archive.afit.af.mil
(129.92.1.66) in the directory pub/space.
STS 55
1 22640U 93 27 A 93119.24999999 .00041555 00000-0 12437-3 0 90
2 22640 28.4657 249.3697 0008512 260.9747 152.1416 15.90732913 425
--
Dr TS Kelso Assistant Professor of Space Operations
tkelso@afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology
| 14sci.space |
Re: Goalie mask poll
In article <93743@hydra.gatech.EDU> gtd597a@prism.gatech.EDU (Hrivnak) writes:
>Current votes for favorite goalie masks (3pts - 1st, 2pts - 2nd, 1pt - 3rd)
>Others receiving less than 4pts: Mike Vernon (Cal), Clint
> Glenn Healy (NYI), Toy Espo (???), Gilles Gratton (???),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is this Tony Esposito? If memory serves me correctly, Chicago. God I
hope I am right, otherwise I will never hear the end of it. ;-)
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!
"A cow is not a vegetarian dish." -- Keith Keller, 1993
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Circuit Cellar Ink address?
Is CCI still published? If so, does anyone have their address?
| 12sci.electronics |
Re: HELP for Kidney Stones ..............
In article <1993Apr21.143910.5826@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> pk115050@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>My girlfriend is in pain from kidney stones. She says that because she has no
>medical insurance, she cannot get them removed.
>
>My question: Is there any way she can treat them herself, or at least mitigate
>their effects? Any help is deeply appreciated. (Advice, referral to literature,
Morphine or demerol is about the only effective way of stopping pain
that severe. Obviously, she'll need a prescription to get such drugs.
Can't she go to the county hospital or something?
--
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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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| 13sci.med |
Re: Question about hell
In article <May.11.02.36.38.1993.28081@athos.rutgers.edu>, wytten@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dale Wyttenbach) writes:
|> What is the basis of the idea of hell being a place of eternal
|> suffering? If it is Biblical, please reference.
|>
|> Here's my train of thought: If God is using the Earth to manufacture
|> heavenly beings, then it is logical that there would be a certain
|> yield, and a certain amount of waste. The yield goes to Heaven, and
|> the waste is burned (destroyed) in Hell. Why is it necessary to
|> punish the waste, rather than just destroy it?
Luke 16 talks about the rich man and Lazarus. Matthew 25 talks about
the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Revelations
20 and 21 reference this fire as the place where unbelievers are
thrown. Matthew 18 talks about being thrown into the eternal fire and
the fire of hell. It seems quite clear that there is this place where
a fire burns forever. From the Revelations passages it is clear that
the devil and his angels will be tormented there forever. From the
Matthew 25 passage it doesn't seem abundantly clear whether the
punishment of unbelievers is everlasting in the sense of final or
in the sense of continual.
From Dale's question, I come away with the suggestion that hell,
if it were short, might be an acceptable alternative to living
forever with the Source of Life, Peace and Joy i.e. the
unbeliever ceases to exist. Whereas, if punishment goes on
continually, then one should have a greater motivation to avoid it.
It definately seems to me that hell is something we want to avoid
regardless of its exact nature.
There seem to be two main questions in Dale's thought:
What is God's main plan on earth?
Why is continual punishment a necessary part of hell as opposed
to simply destroying completely those who refuse God?
I believe that God's main plan is to have a genuine relationship
with people.
The nature of hell and the reasons for its nature seem a lot more
difficult to ascertain. It does seem clear that hell is something
to avoid. At a minimum, hell is the state one is in when one has
nothing to do with God.
In the Bible, I am not aware of any discussion about the specifics of
hell beyond the general of hot, unpleasant and torment. For instance,
it is not discussed how (if at all) the rich man can
continually stay in the fire and still feel discomfort or pain or
whether there is some point at which the pain sensing ability is
burned up. If you can forgive the graphicalness, if you throw a
physical body into a fire, assuming the person starts out alive,
at some fairly quick point, the nerves are destroyed and pain is
no longer sensed. It is not stated what occurs when at the judgement,
the unbelievers, (who are already physically dead) are cast into hell
i.e. they no longer have a physical body so they can't feel physical
pain. What could be sensed continually is that those in hell are
to be forever without God.
The Lazarus/rich man parable is told with the idea of having the listener
think in physical terms in order to get the point that some people
won't listen to God even after he rises from the dead. The point of
the parable is to reach the hard-hearted here who are not listening
to the fact of the resurrection nor the Gospel about Jesus Christ.
It seems reasonable to also draw from the parable that hell is
not even remotely pleasant.
--
Peter White
disclaimer: None of what is written necessarily reflects
a view of my company.
Phil I want to know Christ and the power of his
3:10 resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in
NIV his sufferings, becoming like him in his death
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Re: Help with WinQVT
swartzjh@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jeff H. Swartz) writes:
> when I use a name such as rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
> Initiating nameserver query for 'rosevc'
> nameserver query time out
> when I use the IP number
> Local host or gateway not responding
>I know the nameserver is correct and the router is correct. They work
>fine using NCSA telnet/ftp.
They are working ok, but your definitions in QVTNET.INI and QVTHOST.RC are
incorrect (see below).
>The docs said if you are running concurrent packet software you need to
>load PKTMUX??? Does this apply to me???
No, I don't think so. You are using QVTNET and NOVELL concurrently, aren't
you? They use different packet types, so QVTNET (TCP/IP) and NOVELL (IPX/SPX)
should be able to coexist just fine. PKTMUX is required if you are using
different TCP/IP-Packages concurrently.
>This is the qvthost.rc file.
>137.112.5.2
>137.112.199.50
There is the first problem: You didn't specify hostnames, just IP-Addresses.
Your file should look like this:
137.112.5.2 <Name of your Nameserver>
137.112.199.50 <Name of your Router>
>This is the beginning of the winqvt.ini file.
>[net]
>name=swartzjh.test.rose-hulman.edu
Here you should only specify your hostname, without the domain part.
>router=137.112.199.50
Instead, use router=<Name of your Router>, as specified in your QVTHOST.RC
I know the release notes for 3.31 say that IP addresses should work also,
but apparently they don't.
>nameserver=137.112.5.2
Here, too, you should use the hostname of the nameserver instead of the
IP address.
It worked fine for me that way, although I could not specify more than
one nameserver. The relnotes say it should be possible to specify up to
three nameservers, separated by commas, but it didn't work.
Hope it helps,
Richard
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Re: Who's next? Mormons and Jews?
In article 7205@dazixco.ingr.com, crphilli@hound.dazixca.ingr.com (Ron Phillips) writes:
>In article <C5s5n0.DyJ@world.std.com>, rjk@world.std.com (Robert J. Kolker) writes:
>|> Thank you for remembering Matzada. Matzada was not an insane act. It was
>|> a sanctification of G_D's name and the most extreme denial of tyranny
>|> possible. To this day the officers of the Tzahal (Isreal Defense Force)
>|> take their oath at the fortress. Lo Tepol Shaynit Matzadah. Matzadah will
>|> not fall again!
>|>
>
>Not anymore! Recent archaeological inspection of the site presents pretty
>compelling evidence that the "mass suicide" at Masada never occured. This
>evidence was so compelling tha the Tzahal no long hold their secret ceremony
>at the fortress.
>
>
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First I've heard of this... could yo please elaborate a little?
| 16talk.politics.guns |
Re: BEST FIRST BASEMEN...
In article <1993Apr20.102857.1@tesla.njit.edu>, drm6640@tesla.njit.edu writes:
> DON MATTINGLY IS THE BEST FIRST BASEMAN IN THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL.....ALWAYS
> HAS BEEN.....ALWAYS WILL BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT KIND OF HAPPY GRASS YOU ARE SMOKING? MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHARE SOME WITH ME.
FIRST OF ALL, LOU GEHRIG IS THE GREATEST FIRST BASEMAN EVER. JIMMIE FOXX IS
CLEARLY THE NEXT BEST FIRST BASEMAN EVER. HE COULD BE THE GREATEST FIRST
BASEMAN OF THE YANKEES IN THE MODERN ERA. TO PUT HIM IN THIS "BEST IN THE
HISTORY OF BASEBALL" IS QUITE HUMOROUS, VERY SILLY, AND TOTALLY OFF THE LINE.
TONY
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Re: Space Marketing would be wonderfull.
In article <C73u77.84x@world.std.com> vis@world.std.com (Tom R Courtney) writes:
>In some sense, I think that the folks who think the idea is wonderful, and the
>I got incensed when I read that Carl Sagan called this idea an "abomination."
>I don't think that word means what he thinks it does. Children starving in the
>richest country in the world is an abomination; an ad agency is at worst just
>in poor taste.
Is it not also an abomination that somebody would spend money on "space
advertising" when those children are starving? Perhaps some redistribution
of wealth would help them ...
Dan
| 14sci.space |
NL OPI through first week+
Here is the OPI (Offensive Production Index) for all NL players with at
least 10 at-bats.
It is early in the season so there are some high numbers. Barry Bonds
finished last season at 0.795.
I welcome comments and suggestions.
Kevin
League OPI: 0.410
League BA: 0.252
League SLG: 0.375
League OBA: 0.321
Rank Player OPI BA SLG OBA
-----------------------------------------------------
1 Phi,daulton 1.101 0.333 0.875 0.515
2 Phi,kruk 1.069 0.429 0.821 0.529
3 Cub,grace 1.007 0.452 0.742 0.514
4 Cub,may 0.931 0.389 0.889 0.421
5 Col,boston 0.888 0.545 0.545 0.545
6 Pit,bell 0.873 0.429 0.714 0.467
7 Col,galarraga 0.867 0.458 0.708 0.458
8 StL,pena 0.833 0.400 0.600 0.516
9 StL,zeile 0.811 0.440 0.560 0.500
10 Cin,mitchell 0.810 0.429 0.643 0.467
11 Mon,lansing 0.792 0.419 0.677 0.438
12 Pit,slaught 0.754 0.474 0.526 0.474
13 Mon,vanderwal 0.746 0.389 0.556 0.476
14 NYM,tfernandez 0.709 0.300 0.400 0.500
15 SnF,martinez 0.697 0.300 0.400 0.500
16 Hou,bagwell 0.695 0.367 0.567 0.424
17 Col,hayes 0.686 0.333 0.667 0.364
18 Col,eyoung 0.682 0.333 0.500 0.407
19 Mon,alou 0.675 0.371 0.600 0.389
20 Cin,milligan 0.659 0.333 0.375 0.515
21 Phi,dykstra 0.646 0.214 0.571 0.405
22 SnF,bonds 0.624 0.280 0.680 0.333
22 Flo,conine 0.624 0.393 0.393 0.469
24 SnD,plantier 0.603 0.286 0.571 0.375
25 Hou,gonzalez 0.596 0.296 0.667 0.296
26 Hou,anthony 0.594 0.320 0.480 0.414
27 Col,cole 0.579 0.318 0.409 0.400
28 Atl,sanders 0.576 0.357 0.643 0.357
29 Mon,berry 0.566 0.273 0.273 0.500
30 Cub,sosa 0.558 0.303 0.545 0.343
31 StL,jefferies 0.551 0.269 0.692 0.296
32 Pit,vanslyke 0.549 0.296 0.444 0.387
33 *Montreal 0.548 0.312 0.490 0.367
34 Los,butler 0.545 0.296 0.333 0.457
35 Mon,grissom 0.542 0.333 0.455 0.371
36 Pit,king 0.536 0.308 0.346 0.438
37 SnD,gwynn 0.533 0.280 0.400 0.379
38 Pit,merced 0.532 0.300 0.400 0.391
39 NYM,murray 0.521 0.308 0.462 0.357
40 StL,gilkey 0.514 0.312 0.438 0.353
41 NYM,bonilla 0.507 0.292 0.417 0.370
42 SnD,walters 0.501 0.300 0.500 0.333
43 Cub,wilson 0.497 0.323 0.452 0.344
44 Flo,weiss 0.492 0.261 0.348 0.433
45 *Philadelphia 0.487 0.243 0.431 0.348
46 Atl,justice 0.480 0.207 0.448 0.361
47 *Pittsburgh 0.479 0.292 0.428 0.351
48 StL,osmith 0.476 0.310 0.448 0.355
49 Phi,incaviglia 0.473 0.250 0.500 0.308
50 Pit,young 0.470 0.286 0.500 0.310
51 *StLouis 0.467 0.275 0.445 0.344
52 *Colorado 0.459 0.287 0.426 0.327
53 NYM,hundley 0.458 0.300 0.450 0.333
54 NYM,orsulak 0.454 0.357 0.429 0.400
55 SnF,benjamin 0.440 0.200 0.500 0.273
56 Atl,gant 0.438 0.214 0.464 0.333
56 *NYMets 0.438 0.261 0.345 0.356
58 *Houston 0.436 0.260 0.415 0.318
59 Mon,pitcher 0.434 0.312 0.375 0.353
60 Phi,morandini 0.433 0.240 0.360 0.321
61 Hou,cedeno 0.427 0.280 0.440 0.308
62 Cin,sabo 0.423 0.226 0.452 0.273
63 SnF,manwaring 0.413 0.261 0.435 0.292
64 *SnFrancisco 0.412 0.253 0.396 0.315
65 Atl,blauser 0.409 0.276 0.310 0.364
66 SnF,thompson 0.408 0.278 0.389 0.316
66 Hou,caminiti 0.408 0.259 0.481 0.286
68 Flo,barberie 0.405 0.267 0.267 0.371
69 Mon,cordero 0.400 0.276 0.345 0.323
70 SnD,sheffield 0.397 0.241 0.448 0.267
71 Los,karros 0.392 0.259 0.296 0.355
72 SnF,williams 0.391 0.226 0.452 0.250
72 SnD,mcgriff 0.391 0.192 0.385 0.276
74 Flo,destrade 0.390 0.267 0.333 0.333
75 Col,girardi 0.388 0.238 0.381 0.304
76 Atl,bream 0.386 0.182 0.409 0.250
77 Mon,wood 0.385 0.200 0.300 0.333
78 Flo,santiago 0.384 0.200 0.360 0.286
79 Phi,thompson 0.383 0.227 0.273 0.320
80 SnF,clayton 0.382 0.345 0.379 0.345
80 Los,piazza 0.382 0.304 0.391 0.333
82 SnD,bell 0.378 0.273 0.364 0.304
83 Los,wallach 0.374 0.200 0.400 0.273
84 Cin,larkin 0.367 0.281 0.281 0.361
85 Pit,garcia 0.366 0.273 0.318 0.304
85 *Cincinnati 0.366 0.256 0.319 0.326
87 NYM,coleman 0.363 0.259 0.259 0.310
88 NYM,kent 0.362 0.190 0.286 0.320
89 StL,whiten 0.361 0.240 0.360 0.321
90 Cin,roberts 0.359 0.278 0.278 0.333
90 *Cubs 0.359 0.236 0.366 0.277
92 SnF,lewis 0.354 0.227 0.364 0.261
92 Hou,finley 0.354 0.214 0.250 0.312
92 Col,clark 0.354 0.250 0.350 0.286
95 Los,pitcher 0.350 0.286 0.357 0.286
95 *SnDiego 0.350 0.219 0.357 0.268
97 Atl,lemke 0.345 0.200 0.240 0.333
98 *LosAngeles 0.339 0.221 0.275 0.311
99 SnF,mcgee 0.335 0.267 0.300 0.333
99 *Atlanta 0.335 0.199 0.308 0.287
101 Cin,sanders 0.334 0.267 0.333 0.290
101 Cin,oliver 0.334 0.208 0.208 0.345
103 SnD,gardner 0.332 0.238 0.333 0.273
103 Los,reed 0.332 0.276 0.276 0.323
105 Phi,hollins 0.327 0.226 0.290 0.294
106 *Florida 0.326 0.226 0.268 0.311
107 Los,davis 0.325 0.188 0.219 0.278
108 Atl,pendleton 0.322 0.212 0.273 0.297
109 SnF,clark 0.316 0.161 0.290 0.257
110 Los,strawberry 0.314 0.111 0.185 0.314
110 Hou,biggio 0.314 0.179 0.214 0.303
112 Phi,bell 0.304 0.182 0.364 0.217
113 Flo,magadan 0.303 0.182 0.182 0.357
114 StL,pagnozzi 0.299 0.158 0.316 0.238
115 Pit,martin 0.295 0.167 0.417 0.167
115 Col,bichette 0.295 0.222 0.389 0.222
117 Hou,taubensee 0.294 0.190 0.333 0.227
118 Mon,bolick 0.292 0.250 0.312 0.250
119 Flo,pose 0.291 0.258 0.323 0.303
120 Mon,cianfrocco 0.287 0.188 0.375 0.188
121 NYM,johnson 0.274 0.136 0.136 0.296
122 Cin,kelly 0.272 0.250 0.333 0.270
123 Atl,nixon 0.256 0.185 0.222 0.241
124 NYM,pitcher 0.255 0.167 0.250 0.231
125 Pit,pitcher 0.250 0.222 0.278 0.222
126 Cub,buechle 0.231 0.154 0.192 0.241
127 StL,lankford 0.225 0.133 0.133 0.316
128 Atl,olson 0.224 0.150 0.150 0.261
129 Cub,vizcaino 0.217 0.148 0.259 0.179
130 Cub,sanchez 0.212 0.188 0.219 0.212
131 Phi,duncan 0.202 0.214 0.214 0.214
132 Los,offerman 0.198 0.182 0.182 0.250
133 SnF,pitcher 0.197 0.176 0.235 0.176
134 Mon,laker 0.183 0.133 0.267 0.133
135 Phi,chamberlain 0.180 0.111 0.111 0.200
136 SnD,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
136 Atl,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
138 Phi,pitcher 0.159 0.111 0.167 0.158
139 Cub,maldonado 0.150 0.105 0.158 0.150
140 Flo,felix 0.148 0.172 0.207 0.172
141 Cin,espy 0.141 0.100 0.100 0.182
142 StL,jordan 0.140 0.105 0.211 0.105
143 Atl,berryhill 0.128 0.091 0.182 0.091
144 Cub,pitcher 0.126 0.111 0.111 0.158
145 SnD,shipley 0.122 0.087 0.174 0.087
146 StL,pitcher 0.106 0.125 0.125 0.125
147 Hou,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
147 Col,benavides 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
147 Cin,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
150 Cub,wilkins 0.038 0.000 0.000 0.067
151 Flo,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
151 Col,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
0.74*1B + 1.28*2B + 1.64*3B + 2.25*HR + 0.53*BB + 0.34*(SB-2*CS)
OPI = ----------------------------------------------------------------
AB - H
BA = H / AB
SLG = (H + 2B + 2*3B + 3*HR) / AB
OBA = (H + BB) / (AB + BB)
--
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4800 Oak Grove Dr. | schmidt@spc5.jpl.nasa.gov
M/S 525-3684 |
Pasadena, CA 91109 |
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Re: Orbital RepairStation
In article <C5MtyJ.12q@well.sf.ca.us> collins@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Collins) writes:
>The difficulties of a high Isp OTV include...
>If you go solar, you have to replace the arrays every trip, with
>current technology.
You're assuming that "go solar" = "photovoltaic". Solar dynamic power
(turbo-alternators) doesn't have this problem. It also has rather less
air drag due to its higher efficiency, which is a non-trivial win for big
solar plants at low altitude.
Now, you might have to replace the *rest* of the electronics fairly often,
unless you invest substantial amounts of mass in shielding.
>Nuclear power sources are strongly restricted
>by international treaty.
References? Such treaties have been *proposed*, but as far as I know,
none of them has ever been negotiated or signed.
--
All work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
| 14sci.space |
Questions on installing PAS16 in GW2K DX2-66V
I went out and bought the PAS16 yesterday, and installed it into my Gateway
DX2-66V. I followed the instructions and set the SB side with DMA 1 and IRQ5
(the default) and then the PAS side with DMA 5 and IRQ 10. My question is how
should I configure for MPU-401 compatibility. The manual and installation
program recommended IRQ2, but on my machine it is configured to [cascade] to
IRQ8-15. So can I still use IRQ2, or should I choose a different one? Right now
I have the MPU-401 emulation mode turned off. Actually what is this "cascade to
IRQ8-15" business?
A related questions (to other GW or VL-bus machine owners) I was told that
only DMA 5, 6, 7 are 16 bit DMAs, and 0-4 are 8 bit DMAs. Now what about
32-bit VL-bus mastering DMAs?? Which DMA channel(s) is used by the VL-bus
extension to do 32-bit DMA?
Yet another question, after installing PAS16, my Links (golf game) will hang
the machine when I select SB mode and run, but works with Adlib mode??
Civilization however works fine ( at least so far). Any body knows what I might
have done wrong?
Thanks (I am obviously a newbie) -- John
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Re: ** Need Advice ** (about Tech Works etc.)
Gregory Welch writes:
>
> ... I followed the instructions for
>returning the old RAM, expecting to see a credit on my VISA within a few weeks.
>
>Well, months went by, and no credit. After many calls (almost none of which were
>ever returned - arghhh) I finally found someone who told me "Why we never
>received your old chips." I then explained I the procedure that I had
>followed to return them, to which the person replied "You mean you sent them
>US Mail?" (which I had, per the original sales person's instructions.) I was
>told that they their loss of US mail shipments is not uncommon (come on) and that
>I should have sent the stuff via FedEx, etc. ...
I also returned PB memory last summer for credit, and the sales person warned
me not to use US mail. I did (although I did insure the shipment), and
apparently Techworks got it.
My minor grip with techworks is that they have different price lists for
different people. I ordered DUO memory, thinking I got their "best" price
because of my employeer. I subsequently found out that Apple was offering
developers memory for less than techworks charged, called up to complain,
and was told I should have said I was an apple developer and they credited
my card for about 16% of the purchase price. I like techworks quality
and installation instructions (and they include powerbook tools), but
for out-of-CA purchases (no sales tax) chip merchant seems to be a bit less.
--
Forrest Howard
Oracle Corporation
500 Oracle Parkway
Box 65414
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Re: Clipper considered harmful
shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:
>It seems likely to me that that a large subset of encrypted communications
>would be archived to tape so they could be read if sometime in the future
>probable cause arises and a warrant is obtained. I can even imagine this
>being found legal and constitutional, since nothing is actually listened to
>until a valid warrant is issued and the keys are obtained.
>Imagine archiving all pay-phone conversations, so if someone turns out
>to be a drug dealer, you can listen to all their past drug deals. And
>archive calls to/from suspected Mafia members, potential terrorists,
>radicals, etc. Imagine the convenience for the police of being able to
>get a warrant now and listening to all the calls the World Trade Center
>bombers made in the past year.
Imagine if this were available during the 1992 elections; instead of
clumsily searching through the Clinton passport file, they could have
just done a "voice-grep" (as someone stated earlier) on his telephone
conversations for the last 10 years.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't even play one on TV, but intuitively there's
something wrong with having one's words archived for possible future
use against you. This possibility frightens me more than any of the
talk about the Clipper Chip, right to cryptography, etc.
>Since archiving would be such a powerful tool and so easy to do, why
>wouldn't it happen?
I'm afraid it just might.
-nhy
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nina H. Yuan "It's a miracle that curiosity
Harvard College survives formal education."
yuan1@husc.harvard.edu - Albert Einstein
| 11sci.crypt |
Re: Question on Sabbath question; Correction
>> There are a few groups that continue to believe Christians have to
>> worship on the Sabbath (Saturday). The best-known are the Seventh-Day
>> Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses. They argue that Act 20:7 is not a
>> regular worship service, but a special meeting to see Paul off, and
>> that I Cor 16:2 doesn't explicitly say it's a regular worship service.
Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that Christians are required to observe
the Sabbath, whether it is on Saturday or Sunday. The Sabbath was part
of a Covenent between God and the Israelites and is not required for
Christians.
Steve Peterson
| 19talk.religion.misc |
WANTED: Playmation Info
Hi Folks,
Does anyone have a copy of Playmation they'd be willing to sell me. I'd
love to try it out, but not for the retail $$$. If you have moved onto
something bigger (3DS) or better (Imagine), I'd love to buy your table scraps.
If noone is selling, can anyone recommend a place to buy Playmation
mail-order for cheap?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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| Mark Marino | omar@osf.org | uunet!osf!omar |
| Open Software Foundation | 11 Cambridge Center | Cambridge, MA 02142 |
|_____________________________________________________________________________|
| 1comp.graphics |
Re: Need help with car stereo....
Just a shot here, but ya never know:
I once bought a (REAL) cheap equalizer / power amp for my car tape player
at one of those motel-room truckload sales, and it sounded great. For a
while, that is. Then one channel quit entirely. I opened it up, and the
amplifier chip for the bad channel had simply melted some of its solder
joints attaching it to the PCB. I soldered them back and it worked fine.
I just had to keep the volume a bit lower than I did before. Probably
lousy heat sinking.
You said "a nice Alpine" which I'm sure is a few orders of mag higher
in quality than the P.O.S. I had. But the point is - look inside before
you scrap it, since you OCCASIONALLY find something you can repair.
Maybe even the same thing I found.
Good luck!
| 12sci.electronics |
Dick Estelle
Does anyone know if the Dick Estelle who does the Radio Reader on NPR is one in
the same with the lefty who pitched briefly for the Jints in '64 & '65?
Just curious.
--->Paul, spending too much time reading the baseball encyclopedia
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We will stretch no farm animal beyond its natural length
paula@koufax.cv.hp.com Paul Andresen Hewlett-Packard (503)-750-3511
home: 3006 NW McKinley Corvallis, OR 97330 (503)-752-8424
A SABR member since 1979
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Re: Who's next? Mormons and Jews?
In article <1qvfik$6rf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes:
>
>Now that Big Brother has rubbed out one minority religion in Waco, who is
>next? The Mormons or Jews?
>
>[...]
>
>Of course, to Jews and Mormons this is just a broken record. It has
>happened before.
It's only been happening to the Mormons for... what? 150 years?
Pikers. We've been persecuted for well over 3000 years. The Mormons
just aren't in our league.
(Am I the only one who's reminded of Masada?)
--
Andrew M. Solovay
"I have been Foolish and Deluded,
and I am a Bear of No Brain at All." -- Pooh
| 16talk.politics.guns |
X11R5 and Gateway2000
Hi,
I just got myself a Gateway 4DX-33V and trying to configure
X11R5 for it. Has anyone done this before ? More specifically,
I need a correct Xconfig file entry that is set up for my
graphics card and monitor. I have a 15" Color CrystalScan 1572FS monitor
and a VESA LOCAL BUS ATI Ultra Pro with 1MB VRAM video card.
Any help will be extremely appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Please send replies to christy@alex.qc.ca
Christy
| 5comp.windows.x |
Re: Observation re: helmets
In article 734919391@u.washington.edu, moseley@u.washington.edu (Steve L. Moseley) writes:
>
>So what should I carry if I want to comply with intelligent helmet laws?
Take up residence in a fantasy world.
---
Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
DoD #0111 (919)460-8302 |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
(The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
| 8rec.motorcycles |
Sampler for Sale
Ok people, I really need to sell this sampler to pay off bills, so
I'm even going to include 3 sample cds worth at least 200 separately in
this deal.....
It's an Emax II with standard memory and 16 bit stereo sampling
It's rackmount and has at least 24 voice pol., It's got a brand new
Connor (sp.?) 170 meg internal scsi drive (4 wk old, never used)
it works perfect and runs perfect. In addition access to a friends
sound library of over 1gig of sounds is available... All this for
only $1600.. The sample cd's are based on dance/house/techno stuff.
Email or call 213-341-4425
thanks
Mike
| 6misc.forsale |
Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is
In article <C5L1Ey.Jts@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
>In <11825@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
>
>
>> Actually, my atheism is based on ignorance. Ignorance of the
>> existence of any god. Don't fall into the "atheists don't believe
>> because of their pride" mistake.
>
>How do you know it's based on ignorance, couldn't that be wrong? Why would it
>be wrong
>to fall into the trap that you mentioned?
>
If I'm wrong, god is free at any time to correct my mistake. That
he continues not to do so, while supposedly proclaiming his
undying love for my eternal soul, speaks volumes.
As for the trap, you are not in a position to tell me that I don't
believe in god because I do not wish to. Unless you can know my
motivations better than I do myself, you should believe me when I
say that I earnestly searched for god for years and never found
him.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 0alt.atheism |
Re: text of White House announcement and Q&As on clipper chip encryption
Misinterpretation, though it should be a crime in itself, is what
United States lawyers use to make their bread and butter.
In Manchester, CT a few years ago, a small company wanted to run a
game system galled "LaserGames," similar in many aspects to Photon
(tm). Three lawyers and about a hundred citizens found an ancient law
in Manchester's books which clearly from context was designed to
prohibit travelling carnivals by enumerating the features of a carnival
which they felt at the time made the prohibition obvious. Among these
things was "shooting galleries," which is what the lawyers for the
opposition to LaserGames wanted to harp upon. The judge took the two
words from this law, completely out of context, and ruled that
LaserGames could not operate in Manchester.
Keep in mind that most travelling carnivals use projectile weapons in
their shooting galleries, and not light beams. Clearly from context,
LaserGames got shafted, but if the two words are applied, their denial
of operating permission was justified.
If I had the text of the law I'd post it, but I'm afraid I don't
remember it all well enough to even try. That little bit with the two
words stuck well, though.
: John Dormer
: jad@expert.cc.purdue.edu
| 11sci.crypt |
Letter to President, Members of Congress, Newspapers, TV Stations...
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of
2.5 million Turks and Kurds in Eastern Anatolia and x-Soviet
Armenia. The following letter, which represents a small portion
of the full text, along with more than 200 pages of historical
documents, scholarly sources, eyewitness accounts and photographs,
was sent to President Bill Clinton, members of Congress, editors,
program directors and columnists of major newspapers, journals and
radio/TV stations for the 78th anniversary of the Armenian genocide
of 2.5 million Muslim people. On April 23 of every year, the people
of Turkiye remember their dead. They grieve for lost family and the
lost homes of their grandfathers. This year the Turkish Nation is
mourning and praying again for her fallen heroes who gave their
lives generously and with altruism, so that the future generations
may live on that anointed soil of the Turkish land happily and
prosperously.
------------------------- letter ----------------------------------
During the years of World War I, the x-Soviet Armenian Government
has planned and perpetrated the 'Genocide' of the Muslim people, which
not only took the lives of 2.5 million Muslim people, but was also the
method used to empty the Turkish homeland of its inhabitants. To this day,
Turkish historic lands remain occupied by the x-Soviet Armenia. In order
to cover up the fact of its usurpation of the historic Turkish homeland,
which is the crux of Turkish political demands, fascist x-Soviet Armenia
continues its anti-Turkish policy in the following ways:
1. x-Soviet Armenia denies the historical fact of the Turkish Genocide
in order to shift international public opinion away from its political
responsibility.
2. x-Soviet Armenia, employing ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and Revisionism
Triangle, attempts to call into question the veracity of the Turkish
Genocide.
3. x-Soviet Armenia has also implemented state-sponsored terrorism through
the ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and Revisionism Triangle in an attempt to
silence the Turkish people's vehement demands and protests.
4. Using all its human, financial, and governmental resources, x-Soviet
Armenia and its tools in the United States attempt to silence through
terrorism, bribery and other subversive methods, non-Turkish supporters
of the Turkish cause, be they political, governmental and humanitarian.
Using all the aforementioned methods, the x-Soviet Armenian Government
is attempting to neutralize the international diplomatic community from
making the Turkish Case a contemporary issue.
Yet despite the efforts of the x-Soviet Armenian Government and its
terrorist and revisionist organizations, in the last decades, thanks
to the struggle of those whose closest ones have been systematically
exterminated by the Armenians, the international wall of silence on
this issue has begun to collapse, and consequently a number of
governments and organizations have become supportive of the recognition
of the Turkish Genocide.
With the full knowledge that the struggle for the Turkish territorial
demands are still in their initial stages, the Turkish and Kurdish people
will unflaggingly continue in this sacred struggle, therefore the victims
of the Turkish Genocide demand:
1. that the x-Soviet Armenian Government, as the heirs of the Armenian
Dictatorship, recognize the Turkish Genocide;
2. that x-Soviet Armenia return the historic homeland to the Turkish and
Kurdish people;
3. that the x-Soviet Armenian Government make material reparations for
their heinous and unspeakable crime to the victims of the Turkish Genocide;
4. that all world governments, and especially the United States, officially
recognize the Turkish Genocide and Turkish territorial rights and refuse
to succumb to all Armenian political pressure;
5. that the U.S. Government free itself from the friendly position it
has adopted towards its unreliable ally, x-Soviet Armenia, and officially
recognize the historical fact of the Turkish Genocide as well as be
supportive of the pursuit of Turkish territorial demands;
6. that the x-Soviet Republics officially recognize the historical fact
of the Turkish Genocide and include the cold-blooded extermination of
2.5 million Muslim people in their history books.
The awareness of the Turkish people of the necessity of solidarity in the
efforts to pursue the Turkish Cause is seen by the victims of the first
genocide of the 20th century as a positive step. Furthermore, a new
generation has risen - equipped with a deep sense of commitment, politically
mature and conscious, who determinedly pursue the Turkish Cause, through
all necessary means, ranging from the political and diplomatic to the
armed struggle. Therefore, the victims of the Turkish Genocide call upon
all Muslims in the United States and Canada to participate vigorously in
the political, cultural and religious activities of the 78th Anniversary
of the Armenian genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people.
Serdar Argic
'We closed the roads and mountain passes that
might serve as ways of escape for the Turks
and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
(Ohanus Appressian - 1919)
'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists
a single Turkish soul.' (Sahak Melkonian - 1920)
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Running Mathematica on a PB160?
Here's another question by a hesitant Powerbook purchaser.
I want to be able to run Mathematica and would like to hear some comments
from the gallery about this. How much slower does the program run on a
machine without an FPU (namely a PB160) versus a machine with an FPU
(namely a PB170). What types of calculations get bogged down the most. I
primarily due moderately simple algebra, integrals which can be dealt with
analytically and plotting including 3-d plots. I don't do a lot of
numerical work. Would a PB160 with a lot of memory ( and the very nice
video port ) be sufficient or should I really try to get an FPU for this
type of work? Is a PB170 with 8Mb faster than a PB160 with 12 or 16Mb.
All comments appreciated.
Please respond by email: ross@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Re: WHAT car is this!?
Deloreans NEVER had a factory V8. They were considering production
with a turbo (or twin turbo, I forget) version of the standard V6. As
to who produced it, you got me!
Jonathan
jdrout@scott.skidmore.edu
| 7rec.autos |
Re: Death and Taxes (was Why not give $1 billion to...
In article <1993Apr23.000021.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:
>In article <1993Apr22.162501.747@indyvax.iupui.edu>, tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
>> [...] Somebody pointed out, quite correctly, that such rights are
>> not anybody's to grant (although I imagine it would be a fait accompli
>> situation for the winner.) So how about this? Give the winning group
>> (I can't see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year
>> moratorium on taxes.
>>
>> Tom Freebairn
>
>
>Who says there is no mineral rights to be given? Who says? The UN or the US
>Government?
Tom's right about this. It's only a grantable right if the granter has
the will and the ability to stop anyone from taking it away from you.
Never mind the legal status.
>Major question is if you decide to mine the moon or Mars, who will stop you?
>The UN can't other than legal tom foolerie.. Can the truly inforce it?
Nick's right about this. It's always easier to obtain forgiveness than
permission. Not many people remember that Britain's King George III
expressly forbid his american subjects to cross the alleghany/appalachian
mountains. Said subjects basically said, "Stop us if you can." He
couldn't.
>If you go to the moon as declare that you are now a soverign nation, who will
>stop you from doing it. Maybe not acknowledge you?
That's how the USA started. Of course, that's also how the Bolivarian
Republic started (ca. 1800-1820) in central america. It didn't have
quite the staying power of the USA. I'm sure there are more examples of
going far away and then ignoring authority, but none jump to mind right
now.
>What can happen is to find a nation which is acknowledged, and offer your
>services as a space miner and then go mine the asteroids/mars/moon or what
>ever.. As long as yur sponsor does not get in trouble..
Or do as some whaling nations do: define whatever activities you want to
carry out as "scientific research" which just coincidentally requires
the recovery of megatonnes of minerals (or whatever), then go at it.
>Basically find a country who wants to go into space, but can't for soem reason
>or another, but who will give you a "home".. Such as Saudia Arabia or
>whatever..
Lute Keyser had just this sort of arrangement with Libya (I think) in
the late '70's for his commercial space launch project (one of the very
earliest). It was killed by Soviet propaganda about NATO cruise
missiles in Africa, which made Libya renege on the arrangement.
Doug Loss
| 14sci.space |
Re: RE: HELP ME INJECT...
From article <1993Apr22.233001.13436@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, by krishnas@vax.oxford.ac.uk:
> The best way of self injection is to use the right size needle
> and choose the correct spot. For Streptomycin, usually given intra
> muscularly, use a thin needle (23/24 guage) and select a spot on
> the upper, outer thigh (no major nerves or blood vessels there).
> Clean the area with antiseptic before injection, and after. Make
> sure to inject deeply (a different kind of pain is felt when the
> needle enters the muscle - contrasted to the 'prick' when it
> pierces the skin).
>
> PS: Try to go to a doctor. Self-treatment and self-injection should
> be avoided as far as possible.
>
The areas that are least likely to hurt are where you have a little
fat. I inject on my legs and gut, and prefer the gut. I can stick
it in at a 90 degree angle, and barely feel it. I'm not fat, just
have a little gut. My legs however, are muscular, and I have to pinch
to get anything, and then I inject at about a 45 degree angle,and it
still hurts. The rate of absorbtion differs for subcutaneous and
muscular injections however--so if it's a daily thing it would be
best not to switch places every day to keep consistencey. Although
some suggest switch legs or sides of the stomach for each shot, to prevent
irritation. When you clean the spot off with an alcohol prep,
wait for it to dry somewhat, or you may get the alcohol in the
puncture, and of course, that doesn't feel good. A way to prevent
irratation is to mark the spot that you injected. A good way to
do this is use a little round bandage and put it over the
spot. This helps prevent you from injecting in the same spot,
and spacing the sites out accuartely (about 1 1/2 " apart.)
This is from experience, so I hope it'll help you. (I have
diabetes and have to take an injection every morning.)
Later,
David
--
David Hahn
University of Wisconsin : Milwaukee
hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
| 13sci.med |
Re: Flashing anyone?
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna) writes:
>>Just before arriving at a toll booth I
>>switch the hazards on. I do thisto warn other motorists that I will
>>be taking longer than the 2 1/2 seconds to make the transaction.
>>My question, is this a good/bad thing to do?
> This sounds like a VERY good thing to do.
I'll second that. In addition, I find my hazards to be more
often used than my horn. At speeds below 40mph on the interstates,
quite common in mountains with trucks, some states require flashers.
In rural areas, flashers let the guy behind you know there is a tractor
with a rather large implement behind it in the way. Use them whenever
you need to communicate that things will deviate from the norm.
>--
>Chris BeHanna DoD# 114 1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide - Jubilee's Red Lady
>behanna@syl.nj.nec.com 1975 CB360T - Baby Bike
>Disclaimer: Now why would NEC 1991 ZX-11 - needs a name
Is that ZX-11 painted green? Since the green Triumph 650 that
a friend owned was sold off, her name is now free for adoption. How
does the name "Thunderpickle" grab you?
< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
< ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
< USENET: Post to exotic, distant machines. Meet exciting, >
< unusual people. And flame them. >
| 8rec.motorcycles |
Re: FBI Director's Statement on Waco Standoff
After seeing William Sessions on television, explaining the great lengths
to which the FBI went to determine the suicidal tendancies of David Koresh,
I got the very unpleasent feeling that Koresh had manipulated the FBI's
perceptions much the way he manipulated his own followers.
Maybe I was manipulated by the news story.
David McGaughey
Texas Tech University
| 16talk.politics.guns |
Bungee After Dark module uploaded
Hey folks!
Just moments ago, I uploaded the Bungee Jumper After Dark module that
was widely talked about on here some time ago.
It's at ftp.cica.indiana.edu, in /pub/pc/win3/uploads, titled simply
bungee.zip.
Be sure to set your ftp connection to binary mode before downloading.
If you have any other After Dark shareware/freeware modules, please
upload them too. The more the merrier.
Andrew
--
Andrew Bennett ajbennett@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu What planet are you from?
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
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