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Did anyone happen to see Peter Gammons on ESPN last night? He addressed
this exact issue, and dismissed it rather quickly. According to Gammons,
advanced scouts are reporting that Morris' fastball and slider still have
the same zip and that his problems this year are due to his sudden inability
to keep the ball hidden during his release. Guzman and Stottlemyre have
gone through similar stretches that have been cleared up succinctly by a
little work with the pitching coach. Gammons looks to see Morris back in
top form within the month.
I, on the other hand, still have my doubts. Morris' ERA last year was
rather high for a pitcher who won 20 games. His showing in the Series was
not surprising. Although I'm not convinced that he's washed up, I have my
doubts as to whether or not he can ever regain the form he had for the
Twins in '91.
-Brian Klaff
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <1993Apr6.195710.24227@cs.tulane.edu> finnegan@navo.navy.mil writes:
>In article <1993Apr6.180456.17573@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen) writes:
>|> In article <1993Apr06.133319.7008@metrics.com> tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>|> >CHINTS@ISCS.NUS.SG writes:
>|> >> Here are "another" ten reasons why we should all love CR
>|> >> 10. Car salesmen love their new car buying service
>|> >> 2. And later on buying a CR "idealized family sedan"
>|> >
>|> >And my number 1:
>|> >
>|> >1. The spectacle of the religious fervour of the CR "true believers".
>|>
>|> Or the spectacle of "Macho Real Men" who would never bother to read the
>|> magazine but are more than apt to criticize it.
>
>Hey, I'm a "Macho Real Man" and I DO read it. So I can criticize
>it all I want, especially since I pay for the publication. (They
>accept no outside advertising, don't you know....)
>
>|> John Nielsen MAGNUS Consultant ______ ______ __ __
>|> "To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just /\ __ \ /\ ___\ /\ \/\ \
>|> something that happened to other people, \ \ \/\ \\ \___ \\ \ \_\ \
>|> wasn't it?" - The Black Adder \ \_____\\/\_____\\ \_____\
>
>Relying on Consumer Reports to pick your automobiles is like
>letting Field & Stream select your living room furniture.
>
>Kenneth
>finnegan@navo.navy.mil
No one should EVER rely on just a magazine to determine what car they
buy, I don't care what magazine. Btw, I subscribe to three other
auto rags, I just think CU is getting a bum rap by these macho men
from hell who think real men should read . . . .
Statements like what you said above have no meaning. People keep on
saying "CU is only good for dishwashing detergent" or as you
said:"Relying on Consumer Reports . . . . is like. . ." and that is
all they say.
If there were as critical of themsevles as they are of CU maybe there
would be some real content.
john
--
John Nielsen MAGNUS Consultant ______ ______ __ __
"To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just /\ __ \ /\ ___\ /\ \/\ \
something that happened to other people, \ \ \/\ \\ \___ \\ \ \_\ \
wasn't it?" - The Black Adder \ \_____\\/\_____\\ \_____\
| 7rec.autos |
In article <mjs.735489679@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
>if I'm riding I would far sooner have the pillion hanging on to the bike,
>rather than me, because I find that their weight can cause *me* to move,
>and that can upset the balance of the bike. Most of the pillions I see
>over here hold the grabrail. The really good ones don't hang on to anything
>unless violent acceleration is taking place.
Hmmmmn...don't you ride with your sweetheart?
--
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irwin@cmptrc.lonestar.org DoD #0826 (R75/6)
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| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <1993Apr21.211707.7828@ra.royalroads.ca>
mlee@post.RoyalRoads.ca (Malcolm Lee) writes:
>In article <f2dutxH@quack.kfu.com>, pharvey@quack.kfu.com (Paul Harvey) writes:
>|> In article <1993Apr20.144825.756@ra.royalroads.ca>
>|> mlee@post.RoyalRoads.ca (Malcolm Lee) writes:
>|> >If one does not follow the teachings of Christ, he is NOT Christian.
>|> >Too easy?
>|> That would exclude most self-proclaimed "Christians."
>|> Do you follow the Ten Commandments?
>As a matter of fact, yes I do or at least I strive to. I will not
>be so proud as to boast that my faith is 100%. I am still human
>and imperfect and therefore, liable to sin. Thankfully, there is
>opportunity for repentence and forgiveness.
>God be with you, Malcolm Lee :)
It sounds like you're modifying your definition of Christian to anyone
who *strives* to follow the teachings of Christ. Do I read you
correctly? And just what constitutes *strive*? Did Jesus say this and
define just what "striving" means? Can you give an example of striving
that is insufficient to qualify one as a Christian and thus condemns one
to eternal damnation in fiery torture? Do you self-proclaim yourself a
Christian and if so on what basis?
| 19talk.religion.misc |
//I'm using BC++'s ObjectWindows (version 3.1) and trying to get some data
//processed in a window object. However, when the calling program invokes
//the window object, it gives up the control to the window object, and keeps
//executing the next statement. I would like the calling program, after
//invoking the window object, to wait until the window object is closed.
//Can I do that? My program may look like:
class MyWindow : public TWindow
{
...
};
void MyCallingProg(...) // Could the calling program be a C function?
{ ...
MyWindow *MyWinObj;
MyWinObj = new MyWindow(...);
GetApplication()->MakeWindow(MyWinObj);
MyWinObj->Show(SW_SHOWNORMAL);
next statement; // I want the program to wait here until MyWinObj
... // is closed so that I can get some data back from
... // MyWinObj. I specified the window style to be
... // WS_POPUPWINDOW, didn't help. Is there any other way
... // to execute the window object so that the calling
... // program won't give up the control? Any help would
} // be appreciated. Thanks. -- Jun
To talk to the Lord with PS/2 through MS-Windows
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Hi there,
Can anyone tell me where it is possible to purchase controls found
on most arcade style games. Many projects I am working on would
be greatly augmented if I could implement them. Thanx in advance.
-Dave
dnewman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <C5L86z.E73@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> rdb1@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (ronald.j.deblock..jr) writes:
>Yes, I saw a 200 Turbo Quattro wagon on I-287 in NJ on Monday. I thought
>Audi stopped selling wagons in the US after the 5000. This is exactly the
>type of vehicle I would like to own. I bet its price is 4-5 times my
>car budget.
think again!! thanks to 60 minutes (tick tick tick), used 200
quattros are bargains.. '89s go for about $15K, '90s go for perhaps 1
or 2K more, the 20 valve 91's are quite a bit more because of an
enormous hp and torque gain.. i think they go for about $23 to $25K if
you can find one. i have seen quite a lot of '89-'90 200 quattros (not
that many wagons though) at the dealer lot.. they use very high
quality paint and the entire car is zinc galvanized, so it will never
rust.
in short, typically a 4 yr old 200 looks no more older than a 1 year
old and the 5 bangers are bullet proof engines. 200K out of one is
not rare, even for a turbo, which is watercooled for the 200s. then
there are aftermarket chips that you can buy to bump up turbo boost...
if you are into luxo-gizmos.. the cars are loaded with just about
everything too..
the price of parts is a different story though...
eliot
| 7rec.autos |
In article <93113.010900RAP115@psuvm.psu.edu>, Robbie Po <RAP115@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> I'm just wondering where all the Bruins fans are??? I mean they woofed it
> up with about 1,000,000 posts during the regular season saying that their
> fave team was going to kick everyone's @#$ in the playoffs and win the Stanley
> Cup. While I see nothing wrong with a little ranting and raving, I'm just
> curious why all the Boston faithful have stopped posting. I mean I haven't
> even see just one little Boston fan post, 'cept for the Bruins fans that
> aren't cocky. Well, maybe they're all out on the golf course or something,
> but I don't know, I'd sure like to see where all those Bruins fans are at :-)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ** Robbie Po ** 1993's STREAKERS "We do what comes naturally!
> Patrick Division Semi's -- PGH PENGUINS -- You see now, wait for the
> PENGUINS 4, Devils 3 1991, 1992 STANLEY possibility, don't you see a
> Penguins lead, 3-0 CUP CHAMPIONS :-) strong resemblance..."-DG '89
Here in the middle of Connecticut there are plenty of Bruin Fans, many who have
let me know in no uncertain terms that the Rangers choked down the stretch. I
think the Bruins are doing the same exact thing the Rangers did, they're
playing too tight!! Who's responsibility is it to check Mogilny? He has
gotten off a number of quality shots on goal of which there are many rebounds
which are not being cleared by the B's defense. It's too bad the B's might not
get the opportunity to play Pittsburgh again. I would really enjoy seeing
Ulfie get beat up by Neely. We all hate Ulfie, but would love him on are
team!!
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <pww-150493204912@spac-at1-59.rice.edu> pww@spacsun.rice.edu (Peter Walker) writes:
#In article <1qkj31$4c6@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank
#O'Dwyer) wrote:
#> If there
#> is no objective worth, usefulness, or importance then science has no
#> objective worth, usefulness, or importance. If nothing is inherently
#> worthwhile or desirable, then simple theories with accurate predictions
#> are not inherently worthwhile or desirable. Do you see any flaws in this?
#>
#Count me for one. The simple theory that makes accurate predictions does so
#whether or not we value it.
If the quality x does not exist, nothing has quality x. Which part did
you not understand?
#Frank, you're desperately confusing science with the reasons we, as
#individuals and as a society, *want* to do science.
Peter, you may assert that I am confused about this all you want, but
wishing it does not make it so. A simple theory is not simple until
someone judges it to be. A theory merely makes predictions. Predictions
are not accurate until someone judges them to be. You are choosing
theories at subjective whim, in other words? At what point do things
get objective, Peter?
--
Frank O'Dwyer 'I'm not hatching That'
odwyer@sse.ie from "Hens", by Evelyn Conlon
| 0alt.atheism |
"The Villager-Quest seem like the best of the Cravan/Voyager
copies to come along since the Mazda MPV."
I'll agree about villager but not MPV -- it's so small that I'd class
it as a SUV with an extra seat shoehorned in. To get any rear cargo
space, you shove the back seat up against the middle seat, eliminating
*all* leg room.
Back to the Villager ...
"Only the price is controversial."
And the use of attack belts instead of 3-point belts. That killed it
for me.
-=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
| 7rec.autos |
Arthur Clarke may have quoted the comment about knowing you're to be
hanged in the morning concentrating a man's mind wonderfully, but the
source of the comment is Samuel Johnson.
(Pardon me if you already knew that.)
-----je
| 15soc.religion.christian |
I have a program produces a continuous tone by calling XBell
repeatedly at an interval equal to the duration of the bell. If it is
run more than once on a display, the tones are buffered in the X
server and the tone contunues after all occurrences of the program
have exited. Is there a convenient way of preventing this, e.g., by
emptying the X server bell buffer when each program exits?
- Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not
be construed as an official comment from the JET project.
| 5comp.windows.x |
In <C63nA8.4C1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> George F. Krumins writes:
>I was suggesting that the minority of professional and amateur astronomers
>have the right to a dark, uncluttered night sky.
Sorry, you have a _wish_ for an uncluttered night sky, but it
isn't a right. When you get down to it, you actually have no rights
that the majority haven't agreed to give you (and them in the process).
It's a common misconception that being born somehow endows you with
rights to this that and the other. Sadly this is not true.
Now if you want to talk about the responsibility that _should_ go with
the power to clutter the night sky, then that's a different matter.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Greg Nicholls ... : Vidi
nicho@vnet.ibm.com or : Vici
nicho@olympus.demon.co.uk : Veni
| 14sci.space |
I have 2 new SMC 270E ARCNET cards for sale . They are brand new. $50 each
wow@cup.portal.com
Wally Waggoner
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <1993Apr21.113152.395@gems.vcu.edu> , langford@gems.vcu.edu
writes:
>However, it's likely to be as hard or harder to exercise this right as it
>is getting to exercise the other rights that the government is slowly
>restricting. Maybe the NRA _would_ be the best existing organization?
>(Although I think a new one might be better, but perhaps would take too
long
>to start up. I would certainly join.)
The NRA is successful because (among a number of things), on the drop of
a hat, they can get a congresspersons office flooded with postcards,
faxes and phone calls. Certainly, with our way-cool Internet powers of
organization, we can act in the same way, if such action is appropriate.
As long as we are kept informed of events, anyone on this bboard can make
a call to action. Hopefully, we're a strong enough community to act on
those calls. I realize this is a little optomistic, and I'm glad EFF is
working in the loop on these issues, but don't underestimate the
potential of the net for political action.
Adam
* I speak for myself
| 11sci.crypt |
In article <C5HA0x.11oq@austin.ibm.com> $LOGIN@austin.ibm.com writes:
>
>A while ago I posted a note asking for specs on the Quadra 700, and opinions on
>the Q700 upgrade of a IIci vs. an accelerator card. So far no responsed that
>I've noticed. Please let me know what you think of these possible upgrade
>paths: Cost, efficiency, pros/cons, etc.. Thanks!
Complete Q700 are best obtained from your dealer or some recent
copy of MacWorld or MacUser. My foggy memory suggests that the most relevant
comparison factors vis-a-vis a IIci are as follows:
25 MHz 68040
16 Mhz data path (don't recall this for sure, but it's slower
than Q 950 style machines for sure).
Ethertalk card on-board
Audio in/out
4 MB RAM on motherboard
4 SIMM slots
2 NuBus slots.
More flexible build-in video than the CI. Uses VRAM.
In comparison, a IIci with an accelerator won't give you
audio or ethernet or the same video options.
With a 68040 accelerator, CPU performance can be comparable but I
think it ends up costing more.
Greg Dudek
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
mad9a@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Michael A. Davis) writes:
> Chances are that this has been discussed to death already, and
>if so could someone who has kept the discussion mail me or direct me
>to an archive site. Basically,
>I am just wondering if Slick 50 really does all it says that it does.
>And also, is there any data to support the claim. Thanks for any info.
>Mike Davis
I don't have any written data but I know what I have experienced. I use
S-50 in everything including my lawnmowers. In my car it smoothed the idle
and reduced the operating temp by 5 degrees. I havent used it long enough
to test for wear, but some people I know have.
A farmer that lives near by used to have to overhaul his big deisel tractors
at least every other year if not every year. Since he has been using S-50
he has went 5 years without an overhaul.
Also a friend at a machine shop has in the past rebuilt engines with 200K
miles on them because the coustomer thought it was time. These coustomers
had ran S-50 since almost new. It was found when measuring the internals
of the engine that they showed only about the amount of wear that would be
expected of 30K miles not 200K.
In my opinion it works.
______________________________________________________________________________
Beware! The cat is on the prowel | Disclamer: Hey I'm a student,
A 1974 Cat hungry as hell. | I don't need one.
detomaso Pantera EFI twin turbo | David J. Doddek
With liscence to fly "IT FLIES" | UofI pantera@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
______________________________________________________________________________
| 7rec.autos |
Hello!
I have a SE/30 and a Generation Systems 8bit PDS card for a 17"
screen.
It worked great until I upgraded from 5 to 20 mb ram.
Now with Sys7.1 and MODE32 or 32enabler it does not boot..
a tech support person said the card does not support these 32bit
fixes.
BUT: when pressing the shift key while booting (when the ext. monitor
goes black after having been grey) the system SOMETIMES boots properly!!
and then works ok with the 20mb and full graphics.
WHAT's HAPPENING???
Thanks a lot for any advice!!!
please answer by mail.
Ossip Kaehr
ossip@cs.tu-berlin.de
voice: +49.30.6226317
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| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
#
# I think the original post was searching for existing implementations of
# f.i. Gouroud-shading of triangles. This is fairly complex to do with plain
# X. Simpler shading models are implemented already, f.i. in x3d (ask archie
# where to get the latest version).
# For Gouroud, a fast implementation will be possible utilizing some extension
# only, either MIT-SHM to do the shade in an image and fast update the window
# with it, or PEX/OpenGL which should be able to shade themselves. The portable
# 'vanilla X' way would be to shade in a normal XImage and use XPutImage(),
# what would be good enough to do static things as f.i. fractal landscapes
# or such stuff.
#
# To speak about POVRay, the X previewer that comes with the original source
# package is not that good, especially in speed, protocol-friendlyness and
# ICCCM compliance. Have a look on x256q, my own preview code. It is on
#
# 141.76.1.11:pub/gfx/ray/misc/x256q/
#
# The README states the points where it is better than xwindow.c from
# POVRay 1.0
#
The version I have is using the x256q code instead of the default X Windows
code. I have it currently running on a DEC Alpha running OpenVMS AXP and
so far have been pretty impressed. The only "side-effect" of x256q is that
it requires xstdcmap -best be run before it will work, annoyning but not a
show stopper.
Patrick L. Mahan
--- TGV Window Washer ------------------------------- Mahan@TGV.COM ---------
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered - Lazarus Long
a capital crime. For a first offense, that is From the Notebooks of
Lazarus Long
| 5comp.windows.x |
When I use telix (or kermit) in WIN 3.1, or use telix after exiting windows
to dos, telix can not find the serial port. If you have some ideas on how
to solve this problem or where I can find further information, send me email
or send it to the news group. Thanks.
Dale Erickson
dericks@plains.nodak.edu
--
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
phil.launchbury@almac.co.uk (Phil Launchbury) writes:
> >The "apostate church" of Revelation most likely refers to the 1st century
> >Jews who rejected their Messiah and had Him crucified. John refers to them
> I'm afraid not. It refers to the church that Christ founded. Many, many
> times he warns that the church will fall away into heresy as do the
> apostles. For an example look at the parables in Matthew 13:31-33. They
> refer to 'the kingdom of heaven' (the church) and the process of how
> they will be corrupted.
Sorry, but I think this interpretation of the Matthew 13 parables is
nonsense. I.e.,
> 'yeast' - *ALWAYS* stands for sin/corruption/heresy. For example 'beware
> of the yeast of the Pharisees'. ...
Matthew 16:12 explains that by "leaven of the Pharisees" Jesus was simply
referring to their teaching; not sin/corruption/heresy.
Jesus gaves His apostles the keys of the kingdom and said that
the gates of hell would not prevail against His church.
--
Tom Albrecht
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <1993Apr19.164451.3744@news.eng.convex.com>, Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.COM> writes:
> Is it worthwhile to get an alarm system on a new car?
>
> What features are important?
>
> What features are unimportant?
That is a question that can only be answered by yourself and where you live.
If you live in a place where crime is apparent, then it might be a good idea to
get one simply as a deterrent. However, if a professional thief wants your
vehicle, its as good as gone no matter what you do. But to slow down any
thieves it would be a good idea to get the basic options. That would be:
1) ignition kill or fuel cut-off
2) a flashing red LED
These two are basic to a decent alarm system.
To slow down the criminal some more, get a steering wheel lock.
That should be sufficient to persuade the thief to find an easier target.
But, then there's always car-jacking.
Why is life so confusing?
I hope I helped somewhat.
************************************************************************
Jason Yow Human Factors Psychology Program
Wright State University, Dayton, OH E-mail: jyow@desire.wright.edu
************************************************************************
| 7rec.autos |
I have posted the logos of the NL East teams to alt.binaries.pictures.misc
Hopefully, I'll finish the series up next week with the NL West.
Darren
--
Darren Reiniger reiniger@ug.cs.dal.ca || arishem@ac.dal.ca
Centre For Marine Geology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
| People who wonder where this generation is going should remind themselves |
| where it came from in the first place. |
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <C5uxHI.H2B@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>In article <DZVB3B6w164w@cellar.org> techie@cellar.org (William A Bacon) writes:
>>FURY OF MOTHER NATURE
>>Clearly, man has a long way to go to match nature as a "despoiler" of the
>>environment.
>
>BULLSHIT. How many lakes have ceased to be able to support life from
>purely natural pollution? Man has already done this to scores of lakes.
>Also, much of the "degredation" you cite was done by cows and pigs.
You have perhaps heard of the Dead Sea. I may be wrong, but I believe
it is not misnamed. And I don't believe that humans had a hand in it,
although it is possible since the great cedar forests of Lebanon were
but a memory by the time of Christ if not earlier.
But, more on the point, while Nature is the may be the more prolific
"despoiler", Man is certainly the more creative. We have to our
credit pesticides and heavy metals, not to mention radioactivity,
which is so wonderfully persistent and fatal (not that we invented
radioactivity or heavy metals, we only concentrated them so that they
would be a more lethal threat).
In general I find Mr. Bacon's arguments rhetorical, devoid of sense,
and therefore trivial.
BTW, is there any reason this discussion is on phl.misc?
So long,
JR
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Hello, I realize that this might be a FAQ but I have to ask since I don't get a
change to read this newsgroup very often. Anyways for my senior project I need
to convert an AutoCad file to a TIFF file. Please I don't need anyone telling
me that the AutoCAD file is a vector file and the TIFF is a bit map since I
have heard that about 100 times already I would just like to know if anyone
knows how to do this or at least point me to the right direction.
Any help greatly appreciated,
Matt Georgy
| 1comp.graphics |
kubey@sgi.com (Ken Kubey) said:
>I suppose a foul ball machine (like Brett Butler) is pretty valuable,
>but I'd rather watch (and root for) the lower OBP guys who can
>actually hit the ball.
Now *this* is a legitimate point. Baseball is entertainment, and I have no
quarrel with people who find certain styles of play more entertaining than
others, regardless of their win-value. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the
slug-bunt; I doubt it's a high-percentage play, but I get a big kick out of
it. I am willing to live with the bad consequences in exchange for the fun.
Of course, this is *not* the same as claiming (as some do) that Galarraga's
inability to defer gratification isn't hurting his team because he "isn't
paid to walk" or "is an RBI guy" or whatever.
>And finally, I'd like to point out that many high OBP guys draw
>their walks more because pitchers are afraid to throw a strike
>to them, than because they have a great "eye"
I'm not sure. I used to think this was true, but more and more I'm becoming
convinced that it's the other way around: among players with the physical
ability to hit the ball real hard, the patient ones are the ones who get the
chance to do it a lot.
Let's break down the four basic categories of hitter, according to whether
they are power threats and whether they walk a lot:
Power No Power
Patient Frank Thomas Brett Butler
Barry Bonds Ozzie Smith
Mark McGwire Craig Grebeck
Babe Ruth Miller Huggins
Ted Williams Billy Hamilton
Rickey Henderson Eddie Joost
Joe Morgan Mike Hargrove
. .
. .
. .
Impatient Ernie Banks Ozzie Guillen
Dave Kingman Shawon Dunston
Joe Carter Andres Thomas
George Bell Jose Lind
Kirby Puckett Devon White
etc.
As far as I can tell, all the categories are full. It really looks like the
two are independent. Nobody could possibly be *afraid* of Craig Grebeck at
the plate, and yet he walks quite a lot. Part of that, undoubtedly, is being
small of stature, but surely major league pitchers can hit that sort of
target at least 3 times out of 6. Randy Milligan is an even better example;
he's only shown noticeable power for one (partial) season, but he walks all
over the place, despite his huge strike zone.
--
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 |
In article <5214@unisql.UUCP> wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
>In article <chrissC587qB.D1B@netcom.com> chriss@netcom.com (Chris Silvester) writes:
>
>>WAGON, which I have heard is somehow slightly faster than the Coupe.
>
> Wagon has an automatic, it's slower.
>
Could be due to the rear-end ratio also.
Usually automatics have different rear-ends than manuals, from
my limited experience anyways.
David
>
>
--
David W. Hwang, M.D. // University of Michigan Medical School
1050 Wall Street, Suite 10C // Telephone: 313/663-5557
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 // Internet: david@ganglion.ann-arbor.mi.us
| 7rec.autos |
Tigers' manager Sparky Anderson gets his 2,000th career win as moments ago,
the Tigers completed a two game sweep over the Oakland A's at Tiger Stadium
by beating the A's 3-2. Here are the highlights:
R H E
Oakland 2 9 0
Detroit 3 7 1
Chad Krueter scored Skeeter Barnes from 1st with an RBI double in the
bottom of the ninth against none other than Dennis Eckersley to give the
Tigers the victory. Barnes also had an RBI single to score Thurmond to
tie the score in the ninth, also off Eckersley (sp?).
The A's got their runs on an RBI single by McGwire in the 1st and a solo
homer by Reuben Sierra in the 6th. Deer doubled home Kirk Gibson in the
7th for the other Tiger run.
John Doherty pitched another strong game for the Tigers, once again lasting
through the seventh inning. He was relieved by Bolton and then David Haas
in the 8th, and Haas got the win. Bobby Witt started for the A's, and was
replaced by Honeycutt in the 6th, followed by Goose Gossage in the 8th, and
finally Eckersly in the 9th. Doherty gave up both of the A's runs, while
Witt gave up the first Tiger run and Eckerseley gave up the last two.
In the post game interview (on WJR radio in Detroit), Sparky Anderson said
its one of the few times he's gotten emotional in his managing career. It
was a big moment for him, and I'm sure all of us Tiger fans are unanimously
very happy for him. And what a way to get number 2,000!.
Considering the circumstances, I think it might be appropriate to say:
WOOF! Go Tigers!
--Randy
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
I've got a 386DX-40, 4MB and I'm using Windows 3.1. Sometimes I wondered why
Windows worked endlessly on my HD when I was doing nothing (execpt having lunch
or something like that). Then I turned this virtual memory swapfile off, and
Windows became quite faster, but now having less memory free. And so I'm still
wondering, why windows is reading everything from virtual memory when the
convertional is sufficient? Any common-sense-explanation is really appreciated.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
I have two questions:
1) What would be required to create a Macintosh PC network
including laser printers, line printers, etc.?
2) What would be bare minimum to create a network for
the primary purpose of networking a laser printer by
approx. 3 mac's?
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <1993Apr14.175931.66210@cc.usu.edu> slp9k@cc.usu.edu writes:
>> (BTW - Which parts should be secure? Criminal
>> records, ie convictions, are typically considered public information,
>> so should that info be secure? Remember, the population includes
>> parents checking prospective childcare worker.)
>
> Like I said, I'm not sure of the details. But it seems to me that you
>could access medical information without giving out a name, or any other
>information.
Medical info without a name/body attached is completely useless for
treatment.
>The article I mentioned the the earlier post described a debit
>card type transaction in which neither the store nor the BANK, knew who was
>withdrawing the money.
Thus making it as secure as cash, for some purposes, but far less
secure for others.
> Parent's checking a babysitter shouldn't need access to the information
>stored in the card.
Sure they do. The prospective sitter may have a nasty habit of molesting
kids three or four months into the job. The references may not have
known him long enough or may not have picked up on this yet.
Remember, criminal conviction info is public, so if you're going to
argue for an ID card, other people are going to have a strong argument
that it disclose public info.
>things. I think anything that you choose to keep unknown should be.
Thus making it useless for negative information.
>could have it so that only doctors can access medical information, police
>criminal records etc etc.
Yeah right. How are you going to keep doctors from spilling the
beans? (We already know that you can't keep cops from disclosing
info, but at least that info is typically supposed to be public
anyway.)
> Like I said, it's best if you read the article for yourself.
The article discusses technology, not appropriate policy. It also
fails to deal with "what happens if the folks with the secrets blab".
-andy
--
| 16talk.politics.guns |
cng@me.utoronto.ca (Charles Ng) writes:
>I have a PLP II laser printer make by GCC Technologies. I have problem
>with a dirty first page. The top portion of the first is always smeared
>with black toner across the page. If I print more than one page at the
>same time, the problem does not occur on other pages. I cleaned the
>printer but still does not help. Can anyone offer any solutions?
>or know the phone # to GCC Technologies?
The phone number for GCC is 617-275-5800, I believe. I don't have the
number for Tech Support handy...
-=Alan
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <C5D2L2.7wx@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>>
>>which part didn't you understand? Has Canada eliminated crime? No?
>>Then it's rather obvious that your claim that they wouldn't have
>>been fired upon in the first place is completely bogus. I note you
>>think the Brady Bill is only a partial control. Nice to know you
>>agree that it won't be effective, a very literal translation of the
>>claim made even by Sarah Brady.
>
>
>Of course it won't. I consider it a first step on the road to true
>gun control.
OOooooHhhh! He admits it! The infamous "first step". Let's look at
it this way. I have never harmed anyone with my firearms. I have
successfully defended myself with them. I have successfully procurred
food with them. I have successfully had much enjoyment in target
practicing with them.
In that order firearms are important to me. Friend, I was raped as a
child by an older child who had a knife. That ain't never gonna
happen again. There is no one, including yourself, who will *ever*
make me a victim again. As long as you don't try to make me a victim,
I will leave you alone. But if you *ever* try to make me a victim,
I'll fight you all the way, such as I'm doing now. And I'll fight you
with a response appropriate to the situation. Now, you aren't
advocating making me a victim are you? Exactly what are you doing?
--
Anmar Mirza # Chief of Tranquility #My Opinions! NotIU's!#CIANSAKGBFBI
EMT-D # Base, Lawrence Co. IN # Legalize Explosives!#ASSASINATEDEA
N9ISY (tech) # Somewhere out on the # Politicians prefer #NAZIPLUTONIUM
Networks Tech.# Mirza Ranch.C'mon over# unarmed peasants. #PRESIDENTFEMA
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <BGLENDEN.93Apr29182711@colobus.cv.nrao.edu>, bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:
-|
-| Alas, we too will have to stop using it.
-|
-| Brian
-| --
-| Brian Glendenning - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
-| bglenden@nrao.edu Charlottesville Va. (804) 296-0286
It says in the licence that non-profit organisations have the rights to
copy, use, distribute etc.. Does that not cover NRAO ? I sure hope it
covers us. Please someone let me know if I have to buy a licence.
best regards
Ata <(|)>.
--
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| Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, |
| Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, |
| Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ, ENGLAND |
| Internet/Arpanet/Earn/Bitnet atae@spva.ph.ic.ac.uk or ata@c.mssl.ucl.ac.uk |
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| 5comp.windows.x |
In <Apr.22.00.55.06.1993.2048@geneva.rutgers.edu> aaron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Scott Aaron) writes:
>In article <Apr.20.03.02.42.1993.3815@geneva.rutgers.edu>,
>conditt@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Paul Conditt) wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think it's really sad that so many people put their faith in a mere
>> man, even if he did claim to be the son of God, and/or a prophet.
>I'll pose a question here that's got me thinking: what distinguishes
>"true" religion from cults (I'm speaking generally here, not specifially
>about Christianity)? Jerry Falwell was on Good Morning America on
>Tuesday ostensibly to answer this question. Basically, he said that
>true religion follows a message whereas a cult follows a person.
>But, then, Christianity is a cult because the message of Christianity
>IS the person of Jesus. So what distinguishes, for example, the
>Branch Davidian "cult" from the Presbyterian "church"? Doctrinal
>differences don't answer the question, IMHO, so don't use them as
>an answer.
As far as I can see, one of the big differences between Davidians and
Christians is in who they follow. I have sometimes tried to put myself
in the feet of one of Jesus's disciples. Basically, they gave up a
lot --- career, possibly family, and well, a whole bunch, to follow
Jesus.
So what is the difference? It is quite plain. Jesus was good and
David Koresh was not.
The problem is, I think, is that we try to legislate what is good
and what is bad in terms of principles. For instance, there are thousands of
laws in the U.S. governing what is legal and what is not. Often, it is hard
to bring people to justice, because it is not possible to find
a legal way to do it. If only we could trust judges to be just,
then we could tell them to administer justice fairly, and justice
would be followed. But since judges don't always get it right,
we have a complicated system involving precedent and bunches
of other stuff which attempt to make the imperfect (the justice
of man) into something perfect. But what I hear about the justice
system in the U.S. tells me that quite the opposite is true.
There is also a problem that we tend to judge the presentation
more than the material being presented. So we might consider
a ranting Christian to be bad, but an eloquent person from another
religion to be good. This goes along with the American desire
to protect the Constitution at all costs, even if it allows
people to do bad things.
I think that it is the message that is important. If a man is
presenting a false message, even if he is ever ever so mild mannered,
then that man is performing a tremendous disservice.
I know that I am rambling here. I guess that what I am trying to
say is that we shouldn't be looking for principles that tell us
why the Davidians got it wrong. It is not wrong to follow and
worship a person. But it is important to choose the right person.
It is simple. Choose Jesus, and you got it right. Choose
anyone else, and you got it wrong. Why? Because Jesus is the
begotten son of God, and nobody else is. Jesus was without sin, and
nobody else was.
Stephen
| 15soc.religion.christian |
>Hi- Does anybody know the # for ticket info for Fenway?
>
Less Than 40 People (617) 267-1700
40 or more (617) 262-1915
Steve
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <bskendigC5rCBG.Azp@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>They used a tank to knock a hole in the wall, and they released
>non-toxic, non-flammable tear gas into the building.
How do you know? Were you there?
While obviously Koresh was a nut case, the (typical) inability of the
government/media to get its story straight is quite disturbing. On
tuesday night, NBC news reported that the FBI did not know the place
was burning down until they saw black smoke billowing from the
building. The next day, FBI agents were insisting that they saw Davidians
setting the fire. The FBI was also adamantly denying that it was possible
their battery of the compound's wallks could have accidentally set the
blaze, while also saying they hadnt been able to do much investigating
of the site because it was still too hot. So how did they KNOW they
didnt accidentally set the fire.
Sounds like the FBI just burned the place to the ground to destroy
evidence to me.
--
Legalize Freedom
| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <1ql71pINN5ef@gap.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan
Schneider) says:
>
>Andrew Newell <TAN102@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>>Sure, they may fall back on other things, but this is one they
>>should not have available to use.
>
>It is worse than others? The National Anthem? Should it be changed too?
>God Bless America? The list goes on...
Worse? Maybe not, but it is definately a violation of the
rules the US govt. supposedly follows. Maybe the others
should be changed to? But I'm not personally as concerned
about the anthem since I don't come across it in daily
nearly unavoidable routines.
>>every christian. And I'd be tempted to rub that motto in the
>>face of christians when debunking their standard motto slinging
>>gets boring.
>
>Then you'd be no better than the people you despise.
I don't despise the people...just their opinions. I meant
when chatting with the ones who refuse to listen to any idea
other than their own...then it just becomes an exercise for
amusement.
>[...]
>>For the motto to be legitimate, it would have to read:
>> "In god, gods, or godlessness we trust"
>
>Would you approve of such a motto?
No. ...not unless the only way to get rid of the current one
was to change it to such as that.
| 0alt.atheism |
In article <C5qsBF.IEK@ms.uky.edu> billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn) writes:
>I built a little project using the radio shack 5vdc relays to switch
>audio. I got pretty bad 'clicks' when the thing switched. I was doing
>most of the common things one is supposed to do when using relays and
>nothing seemed to get rid of the clicks.
>
>
>My question is:
>
> Is there a good relay/relay circuit that I can use for switching
>audio, so that there will be *NO* noise of any kind on the audio lines.
>
>
>I will appreciate any advice or references to advice. Also, exact part
>numbers/company names etc. for the relays will help!
Are you switching high level signals or low level signals like pre-amp
out level signals? Also, are the clicks you mentioning the big
clack that happens when it switches or are you refering to contact
bounce? How are you driving the relays? TTL gate output? Switching
transistor? How are the relays connected to what you are driving?
Need more specifics to answer your question!! :-)
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr23.210109.21120@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
brian@lpl.arizona.edu (Brian Ceccarelli 602/621-9615) wrote:
> > Hmm, it seems that this is the core of Christianity then, you
> > have to feel guilty . . .
>
> I think I see where you are coming from Kent. Jesus doesn't view
> guilt like our modern venacular colors it.
>
> "Feelings" have nothing to do with guilt. Feelings arise from the state of
> being guilty. Feeling and guilt are mutally exclusive. Feelings are a
> reaction from guilt. Jesus is talking about the guilt state, not the
> reaction. Let me give you an example:
>
> Have you ever made a mistake? Have you ever lied to someone? Even a
> little white lie? Have you ever claimed to know something that you really
> didn't know? Have you ever hated someone? Have you ever been selfish?
> Are you guilty of any one of these? The answer is of course, YES. You
> are guilty. Period. That is it what Jesus is getting at. No big surprise.
> Feelings do not even enter the picture. Consider Jesus's use of the word
> "guilt" as how a court uses it.
I've done all those things, and I've regretted it, and I learned
a lesson or two. So far an aspirin, a good talk with your wife,
or a one week vacation has cured me -- no need for group therapy
or strange religions!
Cheers,
Kent
---
sandvik@newton.apple.com. ALink: KSAND -- Private activities on the net.
| 19talk.religion.misc |
Terence Rokop writes:
>Richard J Coyle writes:
>
>>That's not inner calm. It's boredom, and it's being spoiled. The Arena's
>>been as quiet as a church on many nights this year; too many of us just
>>take winning for granted. It's been seemingly forever since the team
>>lost, and we've forgotten what it's like to feel real excitement and
>>surprise at victory.
>I don't really agree with this. But it is an entirely different "high,"
>at any rate. The first Cup the Pens won, I didn't think about anything
>else; I just watched Mario and all skate the thing around the ice. Now
>it seems to be more of a question whether or not, thirty years from now,
>young hockey fans (may there be millions!) will still ask us what it was
>like to watch this team. That's what they are playing for now. But I
>was still as nervous as ever when the Devils were blasting shots at
>Barrasso in the final seconds of game three, so the fun is far from over
yet.
I'm not bored either. Most people I know say that winning the second Cup
was better than the first but to me nothing will ever top that first one.
But I'm every bit as excited this year and I am experiencing that inner calm
to which Susan originally referred. Inner calm is not boredom.
As far as the arena in general being boring, well Richard's got that right.
It's been that way all season. I attribute it to a lot of new fans who
just don't have the same spirit and knowledge as long-time fans. At
last Tuesday's game, I overheard a man express surprise that a
goaltender can get an
assist.
Anyone who follows sports with regularity knows that anything can happen
at any time. I'm confident in the Pens but I'm also not stupid enough to
think for one minute that it's impossible for New Jersey to blow them out
of this series. I doubt that will happen but it's possible. Bored? Uh-uh.
Spoiled? Not in the least. Forgot what excitement is like? Living through
that amazing streak wasn't exciting?! I don't take a darned thing for
granted. God, look at Chicago...
And I see no problem with quietly savoring all of this anyway. It isn't gonna
last forever and I intend to enjoy it while I can.
Mom.
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr14.185059.27513@ncsu.edu>, fmsalvat@eos.ncsu.edu (FRANK MICHAE SALVATORE) writes:
|>
|>
|>
|> >
|> > What makes you think so? I'd like to understand your reasoning.
|> > From my seat, the Caps don't really appear to believe that they can
|> > defeat Pittsburgh. Therefore, they don't. I think their spirit was
|> > broken in last year's playoffs and hasn't really recovered. I don't know
|> > what the season series numbers were, but I believe that the Pens won it.
|> > I think that either the Devils or the Islanders will cause more problems for
|>
|>
|> What is this spirit crap? I'm a Caps fan and hope they win
|> if they end up facing Pittsburgh,
|> but I don't think the Caps lose to Pitt because of lack
|> of spirit. Yes, the Penguins won the season series against the
|> Caps. They've won eighteen games in a row for God's sake.
|> Did you ever think the Penguins might be good, and that's
|> why they win?
I re-read what I wrote and it didn't say exactly what I thought.
Sure the Pens are a better team. They've got size and the best skill players
in the league. They've also got the best clutch goaltending. They're the
best team in the league.
But, my point was the Caps have not played to their ability level vs the
Pens since last year's choke. And that's the mental problem (the one they've
had for a number of years) I tried to point out. Spirit, mental preparedness,
will to win, whatever you want to call it, it's missing when the Caps play the
Pens. Actually, you're right - it won't make any difference.
George
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1ps8d7INNrc0@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>,
chyang@leghorn.engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang) writes:
>
>In article <bauer-060493101758@134.60.68.23>, bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Christian Bauer) writes:
>> In article <Afi9sHS00VohMrYlEe@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Donpaul C. Stephens"
>> <deathbird+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>> >
>> > What is the difference?
>> > I want a double-spin CD-ROM drive by May
>> >
>> > looking into NEC and Apple, doublespins only
>> > what is the best?
>>
>> Nec Toshiba and Sony (Apple) nearly deliver the same speed.
>> As apples prices are very low (compared to there RAM SIMMS)
>> You should buy what is inexpencive. But think of Driver revisions.
>> It is easier to get driver kits from Apple than from every other
>> manufacturer
>>
>> Christian Bauer
>>
>> bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de
>
>
> I thought NEC and Toshiba CD-ROM mechanism have an average
>access time of less than 200 ms. While the SONY-APPLE CD-ROM
>drive has an access time of 300 ms for the doublespin models.
>
>- Chung Yang
>
The Toshiba has a 200ms access time, the NEC has a 280ms access
time, right around the Sony/Apple. Access time is, of course,
somewhat important, but not as vital in the case of CDs as data
transfer rate.
All the drives are double-speed drives with maximum data transfer
rates of 300K/second. Any is a good choice. Apple's is very cheap
when included with new Macs and I agree with Christian's comment
about drivers.
Plus, Apple's is bootable on the Centris and Quadra 800. A very nice
feature if you need to install System software. I don't know if the
NEC or Toshiba are bootable on those machines.
Mark
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <1993Apr30.173625.10139@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>In article <C6B2pA.My4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (George Wm Turner) writes:
>>
>>
>>an image of the moon has been caught in a weather satellite images of the earth.
>Near midsummer, you can see the relfection of the Sun in the ocean.
Cool!
>Also during solar eclise you can see the shadow of the sun move
>across the clouds. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think you mean Moon.
(Sorry, I had to.) ; )
| 14sci.space |
Knight Riders has got to be one of the silliest
movies I've ever seen.
---
Curt Howland "Ace" DoD#0663 EFF#569
howland@nsipo.nasa.gov '82 V45 Sabre
Meddle not in the afairs of Wizards,
for it makes them soggy and hard to re-light.
| 8rec.motorcycles |
garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod) writes...
>It is interesting, sometimes, to listen to U.S. news as seen through
>the eyes of another country.......
>B.B.C. world news service, on short-wave, originating out of London,
>reports that a survivor of the Waco massacre states that a tank, when
>making a hole in the wall of the building, knocked over a kerosene
>lamp and that is how the fire started. Attempts were made by the
>people inside to put out the fire, but it spread too quickly.
>Has anyone in U.S. heard anything similar or are U.S. government
>spin-doctors censoring such information?
It was on CBS yesterday. The explanation is reasonable enough.
Then again, if the fire was accidental, why didn't more
people get out?
>The B.B.C. news is also reporting that about 20 of those that died
>were british citizens.
That's true. I think there were several Australians in the
group as well.
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
6misc.forsale | |
In article <speedy.173@engr.latech.edu> speedy@engr.latech.edu (Speedy Mercer) writes:
>In article <5295@unisql.UUCP> ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea) writes:
>>*Everything* in Louisiana is related to liquor: eating, sleeping, walking,
>>talking, church, state, life, death, and everything in between.
>
>How DARE you make such an accusation!
Accusation? I thought it was a recommendation. (I mean, I did grow up there,
I oughta know).
>If We wern't so busy unloading the beer truck for the week end,
>I might just come up that and have a talk wit you! B->
Bring the truck and about 10 pounds of crawfish and we'll talk.
--
Ray Shea
UniSQL, Inc.
unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu
DoD #0372 : Team Twinkie : '88 Hawk GT
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <C5xtp7.MtB@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jmh@hopper.Virginia.EDU (Jeffrey Hoffmeister) writes:
|> In article <1993Apr22.192652.3032@virginia.edu> jmm4h@Virginia.EDU ("The Blade Runner") writes:
|> >I just have got to remind all of you that this is it! Yes,
|> >that's right, somtime this fall, Ford (the granddaddy of cars)
|> >will be introducing an all-new, mega-cool
|> >way-too-fast-for-Accord-drivers Mustang. It's supposed to be
|> >100% streamlined, looking similar to the Mach III concept car
|> >Ford came out with around January. I can't wait. Anyone out
|> >there hear anything about it recently?
|>
|>
|> If everything I've read is correct, Ford is doing nothing but "re-
|> skinning" the existing Mustang, with MINOR suspension modifications.
|> And the pictures I've seen indicate they didn't do a very good job
|> of it.
|>
|> The "new" mustang, is nothing but a re-cycle of a 20 year old car.
|>
|> Jeff
|>
|>
|>
What??? I heard there was a new engine slated for the mustang...something
like 280hp (ok, it was from one of their other lines...)...
--
Eric Alter
| 7rec.autos |
I need information on microstrip circuit design especially
filter design for the 1-3GHz range. Can you recommend any
good books, journals, or microstrip circuit design software.
.
all help appreciated
Gerry Corley, ECE Department, Univesity of Limerick, Ireland.
| 12sci.electronics |
In <1993Apr19.024949.27846@nysernet.org> astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein) writes:
+>The Golan Heights is a serious security problem, and Israel obviously
+>will have to keep part of it and give up part of it. (One should
+>remember that the Golan Heights had been part of the area that was to
+>be in Britain's Palestine Mandate, slated to become part of the Jewish
+>state, until Britain traded it to France for other considerations. In
+>other words, it is an historical accident that it was ever part of
+>Syria.)
The Palestine mandate had no borders before
the borders were negotiated and drawn. The most the Golan may have been
is on the list of what territories Britian would have liked to
see in the palestine mandate.
Until the mandates came into existance, there were no defined
boundaries between any of the various territories in the region.
If you have a source for any of these claims, then please
present it.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <1raee7$b8s@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
>In article <23APR199317325771@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
(Ron Baalke) writes:
>> In answer
>>to a question from Hawking, Chahine described a proposed
>>drag-free satellite, but confirmed that at this point, "it's only
>>a concept."
>
>SO what's a drag free satellite? coated with WD-40?
TRIAD, the first drag-free satellite, was designed and built by the
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and launched 2 Sept 1972. The
satellite was in three sections separated by two booms. The central section
housed the DISCOS Disturbance Compensation System, which consisted of a proof
mass of special non-magnetic alloy housed within a spherical cavity. The
proof mass flew a true gravitational orbit, free from drag and radiation
pressure. Teflon microthrusters kept the body of the satellite centered
around the proof mass, thereby flying the entire satellite drag free.
TRIAD was one of the APL-designed Navy Navigation Satellites. The
2nd-generation operational navigation satellites flying today (NOVA) use a
single-axis version of DISCOS. TRIAD was also the sixth APL satellite to be
powered by an RTG (APL flew the first nuclear power supply in space, in 1961).
Further info on TRIAD, DISCOS, etc. can be found in "Spacecraft Design
Innovations in the APL Space Department," Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest,
Vol. 13, No. 1 (1992).
--Eric Hoffman
| 14sci.space |
I checked the FAQ on this first, and no luck..
I need to convert the R5 Tree widget for use with xview v3.0. The
problem is the fact that xview uses their own event loop system, and I
was wondering if anyone had any tips (or converted source) on converting
these pups.
Thanks,
Sean. (wipeout+@cmu.edu)
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <1phnkoINNbk@ctron-news.ctron.com> king@ctron.com (John E. King) writes:
>To: adpeters@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Andy Peters) writes:
>>Funny, there's absolutely nothing in these numbers supporting Jack's
>>implication that "the probability of one protean molecule forming" is
>>less than 10^-50
>
>As I recall the figure for just one of the molecules forming is 1 : 10^-114.
>
>>[lists 5 steps for determining probability of abiogenesis]
>
>Its going to take a little time for me to do this Andy. Hope you'll be
>patient :).
>
>Just so you understand where I am coming from, even though I am a theist,
>I don't totally reject the possibility that this complex creation could have
>just come together on its own. Can I assume you are equally as objective?
>
>Most of my discussions on this net (which has been very little in recent
>years), have been with other theists over doctrinal issues. I have rarely
>ventured into the "origins" arena, because there is so much speculation
>involved. What hard data there is (e.g. DNA "program" that in proper sequences
>tells the cells how to divide and form), tells me that there must have
>been a Designer behind it all.
>
>Nonetheless, I remain open minded. I wonder how many can claim that on
>this net.
This is exactly the type of thing I was talking about before. A creationist
appears on t.o, makes a completely unsupported statement the facts of
which he/she is completely ignorant, is taken to task, and finally replies
with a subtle insult. (actually two insults)
Just to make sure I am being fair let's check a few details. Jack, you don't
know anything about abiogenesis, do you? (this is no sin, I know next to
nothing about it either) I mean, anything other than this "10^50"
probability thing which you got wrong in the first post.
The speculation involved is really your own, isn't it? How much _biology_
do you know, even apart from abiogenesis? Any classes past high school?
Read Chris Colby's FAQ? How much paleontology, geology, etc do you know?
Or are you speculating that its all speculative? Do you have any basis
upon which to imply that to keep an "open mind" one must allow that
the earth, universe, and all the creatures in it could have been created
~10,000 years ago? None of this is intended as a flame. To say that
you don't know a subject is _not_ the same as calling you an idiot. I
don't know _much_ about these areas, but then I am not the one
calling into question all of mainstream science. In other words, where
do you get off calling it speculative unless by this you also mean that
all of physics, chemistry, etc are also speculative in some sense?
You may have, in fact, not been implying that the rejection of creationism
is a sign of close-mindedness, or that the theory of evolution is especially
speculative, in which case I have merely misinterpreted
you. In this case the worst thing you could be accused of is unclear
prose.
>Jack
Scott
smullins@ecn.purdue.edu
| 0alt.atheism |
Title says it all. I'd be particularly interested in the performance
difference. Just how much faster (50%?) is the Centris 610 over the LCIII?
--Tom
UUCP: humu!nctams1!pnet16!tomj
ARPA: humu!nctams1!pnet16!tomj@nosc.mil
INET: tomj@pnet16.cts.com
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
(sci.space readers can skip the first paragraph)
Yesterday, in response to Henry Spencer's question about the
temperature of a blackbody in interstellar space, I said "Dust grains
acts as blackbodies, and they're at 40-150 K." Well, I was dead
wrong. Our local interstellar dust expert, Bruce Draine, has
informed me that dust grains _aren't_ good radiators in the far IR,
which is why they are so warm; actually, the ambient radiation field
from distant stars can bring a true blackbody to only 3 or 4 Kelvin.
Sorry, Henry, and anyone else I misled. Obviously, time for me to
take another ISM class :-(
In other news, Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute gave
a talk on the Pluto-Charon binary system yesterday. He gave a brief
overview of the currently-accepted system parameters (volume ratio of
about 8:1, mass ratio about 15:1 or so, plus lots more...) and then
gave his thoughts on the formation of Pluto-Charon. His idea is
that there were lots and lots of small planetesimals in the outer
solar system, with masses distributed as a power law of some kind;
over time, the planetesimals accreted into larger bodies. Most got
scattered out of the solar system by close encounters with Jupiter
and Saturn, but many accreted into the gas giants, especially
Uranus and Neptune. A large planetesimal was captured by Neptune -
we call it Triton [captured how? Perhaps by a collision with a smaller,
already-existing Neptunian moon, perhaps by a very close passage through
Neptune's atmosphere - mondo aerobraking!].
He notes that the two recently discovered "Kuiper Belt" objects,
1992 QB1 and 1993 FW, plus Chiron and Pholus, are all about the same
mass, and he identifies this group as one-accretion-down from the
larger bodies of Triton and Pluto/Charon. Pluto/Charon, he thinks,
formed when an impacting body hit proto-Pluto, knocking some material
into a ring around Pluto which later accreted in Charon; similar to
ideas about the formation of Earth's moon. There is good evidence
from spectra that the surfaces of Pluto and Charon are very different
(Pluto has methane frost, Charon doesn't), which can be used as evidence
for the impact theory.
He believes that there may be around 1000 Pluto-to-Chiron-sized objects
remaining in a relatively stable dynamical zone just outside Neptune's
orbit, beyond 35 AU or so. 1992 QB1 and 1993 FW are the first members
of this population to be found, in his model. Note that such bodies
will be very dark, since if their surfaces are covered with methane
frost, it will have photolyzed into very dark, long-chain hydrocarbons
by now. The reason that Pluto has such a high albedo (around 0.5, I think)
is that its surface warms up JUST enough around perihelion to sublimate,
and when the atmosphere freezes out again, thirty years later, it forms
bright, new frost. So any bodies much farther away than 30 AU are going
to be very hard to see.
I hope I haven't made any errors in the transcription; if you see
a howling mistake, it's undoubtedly mine, not his.
By the way, he's one of the top guns behind the Pluto Fast Flyby
mission (I think), and said that the current plans are to use a
Titan 4 to send the probe on "just about a rectilinear trajectory"
to Pluto (we were speaking loosely at the time...). He'd like
to use a Proton, which gives a slightly smaller velocity but costs
MUCH less. His figures: $500 Million for 2 Titan 4 launches (there
will be two separate probes, launched separately), or $120 Million
for 2 Proton launches. He told a story about how the Soviets originally
offered to sell Proton launches for $30 Million each, but were forced
to increase their prices in the US in order to be allowed in the
marketplace.
I'm just telling you what he said.
Michael
--
----- Michael Richmond
"This is the heart that broke my finger." richmond@astro.princeton.edu
| 14sci.space |
Other idea for old space crafts is as navigation beacons and such..
Why not?? If you can put them on "safe" "pause" mode.. why not have them be
activated by a signal from a space craft (manned?) to act as a naviagtion
beacon, to take a directional plot on??
Wierd or what?
==
Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked
| 14sci.space |
Mr. Freeman:
Please find something more constructive to do with your time rather
than engaging in fantasy..... Not that I have a particular affinty
to Arafat or anything.
John
"Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a
meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time...The offing was barred by
a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the utter-
most ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky - seemed to
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <May.9.05.38.49.1993.27375@athos.rutgers.edu> REXLEX@fnal.fnal.gov writes:
[much deleted]
>point today might be the Masons. (Just a note, that they too worshipped
>Osiris in Egypt...)
[much deleted]
It bugs me when I see this kind of nonsense.
First, there is no reasonable evidence linking Masonry to ancient
Egypt, or even that it existed prior to the late 14th century (and
there's nothing definitive before the 17th).
Second, worship of Osiris is not, nor has it ever been, a part of
Masonic practice (we are strictly non-denominational).
>tangents, never ending tangents,
You said it!
>Rex
Peter Trei
ptrei@mitre.org
Editor: Masonic Digest
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Does anybody know where I can get, via anonymous ftp or otherwise, a PostScript
driver for the graphics libraries GINO verison 3.0A ?
We are runnining on a VAX/VMS and are looking for a way outputing our plots to a
PostScript file...
Thanks in advance...
--
Koon Tang, internet: ktt3@unix.bton.ac.uk
Department of Mathematical Sciences, uucp: uknet!itri!ktt3
University of Brighton,
Brighton,
BN2 4GJ,
U.K.
| 1comp.graphics |
Hi, Experts,
I'm kind of new to X. The following question is strange to me. I am
trying to modify the contents of the colormap but failed without
reason (to me). I am using the following piece of code:
toplevel = XtInitialize(argv[0], "Testcolor", NULL, 0,
&argc, argv);
dpy = XtDisplay(toplevel);
scr = DefaultScreen(dpy);
def_colormap = DefaultColormap(dpy,scr);
if(XAllocColorCells(dpy, def_colormap, True, NULL, 0, cells, 5)) {
color.pixel = cells[0];
color.red = 250;
color.green = 125;
color.blue = 0;
color.flags = DoRed | DoGreen | DoBlue;
XStoreColor(dpy, def_colormap, &color);
printf("\n Try to allocate, the color %d as (%d,%d,%d)",
color.pixel, color.red, color.green, color.blue);
XQueryColor(dpy, def_colormap, &color);
printf("\n After allocate, the color %d is (%d,%d,%d)",
color.pixel, color.red, color.green, color.blue);
}
else
printf("\n Error: couldn't allocate color cells");
Running output:
Try to allocate, the color 7 as (250,125,0)
After allocate, the color 7 is (0,0,0)
After XStoreColor(), XQueryColor() just returned the original value.
No failure/error displayed but the contents of colormap are obvious
unchanged. (I also tried to draw a line using the colors but it
turned out to be the unmodified colors.)
So what is my problem? How to modify the contents of the colormap?
Any help/information will be appreciated. Please send mail to
"yang@cs.umass.edu".
--------------------------
William
email: "yang@cs.umass.edu"
--------------------------
By the way, the following is the environment I am using (output of
"xdpyinfo"). It shows the default visual is PseudoColor.
version number: 11.0
vendor string: DECWINDOWS DigitalEquipmentCorporation UWS4.2
vendor release number: 1
maximum request size: 16384 longwords (65536 bytes)
motion buffer size: 100
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 2
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 86, maximum 251
number of extensions: 8
Adobe-DPS-Extension
DPSExtension
SHAPE
MIT-SHM
Multi-Buffering
XInputExtension
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
DEC-XTRAP
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0:
dimensions: 1024x864 pixels (333x281 millimeters)
resolution: 78x78 dots per inch
depths (2): 1, 8
root window id: 0x29
depth of root window: 8 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x27
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 1, white 0
options: backing-store YES, save-unders YES
current input event mask: 0xd0001d
KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask
EnterWindowMask SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask
ColormapChangeMask
number of visuals: 5
default visual id: 0x21
visual:
visual id: 0x21
class: PseudoColor
depth: 8 planes
size of colormap: 256 entries
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x22
class: GrayScale
depth: 8 planes
size of colormap: 256 entries
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x23
class: StaticGray
depth: 8 planes
size of colormap: 256 entries
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x24
class: StaticColor
depth: 8 planes
size of colormap: 256 entries
red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x25
class: TrueColor
depth: 8 planes
size of colormap: 8 entries
red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
number of mono multibuffer types: 5
visual id, max buffers, depth: 0x21, 0, 8
visual id, max buffers, depth: 0x22, 0, 8
visual id, max buffers, depth: 0x23, 0, 8
visual id, max buffers, depth: 0x24, 0, 8
visual id, max buffers, depth: 0x25, 0, 8
number of stereo multibuffer types: 0
| 5comp.windows.x |
Hi -- sorry if this is a FAQ, but are there any conversion utilities
available for Autodesk *.DXF to Amiga *.IFF format? I
checked the comp.graphics FAQ and a number of sites, but so far
no banana. Please e-mail.
Thanks.
_______ Pei Hsieh
(_)===(_) e-mail: ph14@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
||||| "There's no such thing as a small job; just small fees."
||||| - anon., on being an architect
| 1comp.graphics |
In article <cosmosC6BCz0.KEE@netcom.com> cosmos@netcom.com (cosmos) writes:
>Hi ! I am trying to develop a utility to view WORD for window file. But
>to do that I need to know the format of the DOC ( word for window file
>format ) files.Can anybody tell me what is the format of DOC file or
>direct me where can I get it. Or is it proprietory format ?
>Your help is greatly appriciated.
>
>Thanks,
The format for Word for Windows doc files is available from Microsoft.
Call their Developer Support Services number (sorry, don't have it handy)
and ask for the Word for Windows binary file format spec.
Warning: It is not terribly useful, and you will need to do a *lot* of
looking before you can figure out how the stuff is stored.
General primer:
Word for Windows stores its data in two chunks. The first chunk is the
actual text in the file. This is all stored together and has nothing
but text and graphics. The second chunk is the formatting information.
For general use, to read a Word for Windows file, skip the first 384 bytes
of the file (its a general header). Then read the remaining text until you
hit binary data.
Matt
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article 27611@athos.rutgers.edu, mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon) writes:
>In <May.7.01.08.16.1993.14381@athos.rutgers.edu> whitsebd@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Bryan Whitsell) writes:
>Homosexual Christians have indeed "checked out" these verses. Some of
>them are used against us only through incredibly perverse interpretations.
>Others simply do not address the issues.
>
>You would seem to be more in need of a careful and Spirit-led course
>in exegesis than most of the gay Christians I know. I suggest that
>you stop "proof-texting" about things you know nothing about.
Let me say that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is
central to Christianity. If you personally believe that Jesus Christ
died for you, you are a part of the Christian body of believers.
We are all still human. We don't know it all, but homosexual or heterosexual,
we all strive to follow Jesus. The world is dying and needs to hear about
Jesus Christ.
Are you working together with other Christians to spread the Gospel?
|-------------------|
| Gary Chin |
| Staff Engineer |
| Sun Microsystems |
| Mt. View, CA |
| gchin@Eng.Sun.Com |
|-------------------|
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Recently we have found TIFF manipulation packages which do not recognize
TIFF files output by xv. This is due to a missing XRESOLUTION and YRESOLUTION
tag which apparently is required (or at least believed to be required) for
valid TIFF. I have checked both xv 2.x and xv 3.x and neither of these
do indeed copy these tags.
Has anyone out there hacked in the fixes for xv to support these tags?
I have been told that I could find some code in tiff/tools/tiffcp.c, but
that directory is one of many of the tiff group not distributed with xv. I
hope to obtain the original tiff src and look at it, but would prefer
to find code already known to work in xv.
--
:s
:s Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org
:s Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614
| 1comp.graphics |
In the last two weeks I have the following problem on two 160's
1 has a 8Mb Simm and the other a 6 Mb simm
Both are about 2 -3 months old, bought from different vendors and installed
by different people.
Both computers begin crashing frequently, locking up and ultimately the
Memory Chimes. Crashes would almost always occur if you moved the screen
and sometimes would occur when you weren't even touching the computer. In
both cases, taking the machine apart, taking the memory out and putting it
back in solved the problem for awhile but then it would comeback, my
marginally educated guess as to what's happening is that larger SIMMS are
"lopsided" in that the insertion point is sort of a pivot point and after
time they begin to move about - possible because of pressure on the
keyboard or something?
Anyway, has anyone else had such a problem or solution - If somehow you
could support the other end of the simm to prevent it from moving.
I've had no problem for the past 3 weeks by replacing my 8Mb simm with a
2Mbsimm -although this is NOT desireble solution.
Please email any resp - and/or post if usefull to the rest of the world.
Ted
Ted Schreiber
Mechanical Enginering
Northwestern University
Tel: 708.491.5386 FAX 708.491.3915 Email: rts@nwu.edu
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <1qu8ud$2hd@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>, eugene@mpce.mq.edu.au writes:
>In article <C5o1yq.M34@csie.nctu.edu.tw> ghhwang@csie.nctu.edu.tw (ghhwang) writes:
>>
>>Dear friend,
>> The RISC means "reduced instruction set computer". The RISC usually has
>>small instruction set so as to reduce the circuit complex and can increase
>>the clock rate to have a high performance. You can read some books about
>>computer architecture for more information about RISC.
>
>hmm... not that I am an authority on RISC ;-) but I clearly remember
>reading that the instruction set on RISC CPUs is rather large.
>The difference is in addressing modes - RISC instruction sets are not
>as orthogonal is CISC.
>
I hope this will clear it up :
(Taken from one of my lecture notes)
" ... The alternative approach (to CISC),
which has been adopted by many in
recent years, has come to be known as "RISC": the Reduced
Instruction Set Computer. This can be characterised simply as
"Simpler is Faster"; by simplifying the design (e.g. by reducing
the variety of instructions & addressing modes), the hardware can be
designed to run faster. Even at the cost of needing more
instructions, the same task can be done more quickly by the simpler,
faster design.
A typical RISC processor will:
o provide a large number of registers (e.g. 32);
o perform all data operations on registers;
o provide few addressing modes (e.g. immediate or 'register + offset');
o only allow load & store operations to access memory;
o only use a few instruction formats;
o only support a few data types (e.g. integer, unsigned, floating).
Steffi Beckhaus JANET: Steffi.Beckhaus@uk.ac.newcastle
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances
are 50-50 it will.
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Actually I am trying to write something like this but I encounter some
problems, amongst them:
- drawing a 3d wireframe view of a quadric/quartic requires that you have
the explicit equation of the quadric/quartic (x, y, z functions of some
parameters). How to convert the implicit equation used by PoV to an
explicit one? Is it mathematically always possible?
I don't have enough math to find out by myself, has anybody heard about
useful books on the subject?
| 1comp.graphics |
In article <1993Apr29.010847.1@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> belgarath@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
> getting at here. This puppy is far enough away, that if a bright
> burst happens nearby, the huge annulus created by it will hopefully
> intersect the line or general circle given by BATSE, and we can get a
> moderately accurate position. Say oh, 2 or 3 degrees. That is the
> closest anyone has ever gotten with it.
You can do a whole hell of a lot better than 2 or 3 degrees with
the differential timing measurements from the interplanetary network.
Ignore the directional information from BATSE; just look at the time
of arrival. With three detectors properly arranged, one can often
get positions down to ~arc minutes.
BTW, about Oort cloud sources: shouldn't this be testable in the
fairly near future? Some of the GRBs have very short rise times (< 1
ms). We could detect the curvature of the burst wavefront out to a
distance of on the order of b^2/(t c) where b is the detector spacing
and t the time resolution. For t = 1 ms and b = 2 AU, this is on the
order of 16 light years. I understand statistics will reduce this
number considerably, as would geometry if the burst is coming from the
wrong direction.
Paul
| 14sci.space |
NS>I am going to be getting a C650 soon, but I don;t want Apple
NS>to come out with the Cyclones and the Tempest in a month
NS>and have the price drop on the system I want. I have negotiated a
NS>good deal with a supplier for a C650 8/80 and I would like to jump on it,
NS>but, again, I don't want the price drop to smuther me. BTW, the deal
NS>I have is a C650 8/80 with mouse for $2295... does anyone know of a better
NS>deal?
I don't know of a better deal, but would you be willing to share your
deal with the rest of us. That certainly sounds like you're getting a
great deal. I'd be interested in that deal too.
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| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article gideon@otago.ac.nz (Gideon King) writes:
>I posted this a couple of weeks ago, and it doesn't seem to have appeared
>on the newsgroup, and I haven't had a reply from the moderator. We were
>having intermittent problems with our mail at the time. Please excuse me
>if you have seen this before...
>
>Should Christians fight?
>
>Last week Alastair posted some questions about fighting, and whether there
>are such things as "justifiable wars". I have started looking into these
>things and have jotted down my findings as I go. I haven't answered all
>his questions yet, and I know what I have here is on a slightly different
>tack, but possibly I'll be able to get into it more deeply later, and post
>some more info soon.
May I suggest the book: "Ethics" by Dr. Norm Geisler, of Dallas Theological
Seminary. In it, he goes over all the arguments pro and con and in-between,
and comes up with a very reasonable answer. If I have time, and there is
enough interest, I may post his position.
Jon Noring
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| 15soc.religion.christian |
In <3889@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM> Brad Wright writes:
> If you know much about PC's (IBM comp) you might try the joystick
>port. Though I haven't tried this myself, I've been told that the port
>has built in A-D converters. This would allow the joystick to be a couple of
>pots. If you could find the specs this might just work for you...
I guess 100k, connecting pins 1-3 (1x), 1-6 (1y), 9-11 (2x), and 9-13 (2y).
Or: Get an 8-bit DA-Converter (merely a couple of transistors and
Resistors) and an OpAmp to compare its output to the voltage you want to
measure, connect them to a spared printer port (if you have one), and do
the rest by software (stepwise refinement). The port addresses for your
printer ports are probably: &H378 (LPT1), &H278 (LPT2). This should work
well enough for your purposes.
Hope this helps
--
GMD, Schloss Birlinghoven, Postfach 1316, D-5205 St. Augustin 1, FRG
e-mail: Peter.Hendricks@gmd.de ph@zi.gmd.dbp.de
ph@gmd.de
| 12sci.electronics |
Did you remember to clamp ground to the engine block first?
Rob
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
My wife wants to publish a newsletter. She's no artist, so she intends to
use comercial clipart and customise it a bit by drawing a circle or a box
around it etc.
We have MSPublisher for manipulating text, but it is not suitable for doing
much with graphics, so she needs a more specialised tool. Right now she's
looking at Corel Draw and Harvard Draw. There seem to be more books in the
stores on Corel than on Harvard, so she's inclined to go with Corel on the
basis of popularity. Can anyone give us an informed opinion on which
package would be more suitable or if there is an even better alternative
available? If this is a FAQ, please withhold the flames and just send the
location of the FAQ document. Thanks.
Three PS's:
1) Is it ok to use clip art from Harvard Draw or whatever for commercial
purposes?
2) We have a 600 dpi Laser Jet 4 printer. What would be a good scanner for
reading in paper clipart?
3) How about someone starting up a newsgroup on desktop publishing if one
doesn't exist?
| 1comp.graphics |
I would like to apologize for the typos in the previous post.
In retrospect I would also like to quote another source: Douglas C.
Haldeman from his 1991 book _Homosexuality_
THERAPY INEFFECTIVE
Recently the founders of yet another prominent "ex-gay" ministry, Exodus
International, denounced their conversion therapy procedures as ineffective.
Michael Busse and Gary Cooper, cofounders of Exodus International and lovers
for 13 years, were involved with the organization from 1976 to 1979. The
program was described by these men as "ineffective . . . not one person was
healed." They stated that the program often exacerbated already prominent
feelings of guilt and personal failure among the counselees; many were
driven to suicidal thoughts as a result of the failed "reparative therapy."
The previous article quoted in the last posting is from THE ADVOCATE, June
30, 1992 called "The Ex-Ex-Gay" by Robert Pela.
Some personal thoughts:
It is of no great astonishment that there is a concerted effort by a major
portion of the Church to control and mandate change of a minority among
its ranks. This was the momentum behind the Spanish Inquisition, only all
they required was a confession of faith (after much torture) and then, to
save their souls they would dispatch them to heaven through death. Even
later, the Bible was used vigorously to defend slavery, oppression and
segragation of African-Americans, even to the justification of lynchings.
Today's scholars are just a bit more slick in their approach. The tool is
still coersion, but now it is mostly by means of brainwashing and mind
control, convincing people that they should see themselves as less than
God sees them, then maintaining a cultic hold on them until it is felt
thier mind-conditioning is complete. Sure, no one is "physically" forced
to stay in this "reparative therapy" but sheer social pressure is enough for
many to keep themselves in this new found bondage of self-hate.
As an abolitionist I advocate the abolishment of oppression and persecution
against gays in all facets of civil life. A person should be judged by
the contibution, or non-contribution to the society in which they live,
not by some high-brow standard of conformity imposed by those who haven';t
a clue what is in their heart.
For those who seek more information about Gays and groups that accept them
please contact your nearest chapter of PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians
And Gays) who will be more than happy to assist you. This is a group of
people comprised of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals, their parents and friends
who have formed a support group for help and understanding. Try talking to
a parent of a gay son or daughter and learn some "first-hand" real life and
loving understanding. God's love and understanding for Gay people is no
less abundant.
Thank you.
PAX
| 19talk.religion.misc |
[much blathering on the Role Of Military Forces in
Enforcing Civil Law deleted]
The main problem with trying to get the Military involved in Police work
is the differences in the missions.
The Police take names, try and find out what happened,
stop suspects (thats the meaning of 'arrest') and
turn them over to the custody of the Judicial Branch
for the adjudication of their case.
The Military's mission is to kill the enemy before
they can escape or surrender.
chus
pyotr
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OPTIMIST: Bagpiper with a beeper.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <1r00ug$d60@btr.btr.com> michaelh@public.btr.com (Michael Hahn michaelh@btr.com) writes:
>Pol Pot 100,000s Killed?
I've read estimates that Pol Pot killed somewhere in the neighborhood
of 2 million.
Drew
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <C5sy24.LF4@watson.ibm.com> yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:
>>Why do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don't do cultures.
>>They poo-poo doing more lab tests: "this is Lyme, believe me, I've
>
>Are you arguing that the Lyme lab test is accurate?
If you culture out the spirochete, it is virtually 100% certain
the patient has Lyme. I suppose you could have contamination
in an exceptionally sloppy lab, but normally not. There are no
false positives.
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| 13sci.med |
Greetings,
Specious reasoning alert! Sorry folks, I don't like gun control
too much, but this is just too crazy.
1) The main gun control law is similar to (or even BASED ON) a
German gun control law.
2) Germany was Controlled With Evil Nazi's at the time.
3) Nazi's are bad.
Therefore gun control is bad! (If this seems reasonable to you,
try reading it as GunControlIsANaziPlot! That's pretty much what it's
saying.)
Look, let's try to beat gun control with reason and sense, not by
trying to appeal to emotions, and threatening conspiracies. Denounce
GCA '68 as wrong because it's WRONG, not because it's based off of a
law from someone else's government.
As for the 'Lots Of Brave Men Died Fighting Nazi's, So Their Laws
Have No Place On Our Books!' Well, lots of brave men died fighting
England. Wanna bet we've got lots of English laws on our books? Oh,
but they're our ALLIES now, so everything's hunky-dory. I'm *VERY*
sure that the GCA is not the only law that we have on the books which
is similar, or even based on, a law on the german books. HOWEVER,
that does not give invalidation in and of itself.
WE, THE PEOPLE, must state that we find the law unappealing and
contrary to our freedom. We must use logic, and reason, and compelling
arguments. To use emotion, and appeal to fear is to lower yourselves
to the level of your enemies.
A side issue... When talking about the Amendments, it bothers
me to see people acting as if they empower them, but require no
responsibility from them. Free speech also assumes restraint, well
armed militia expects well TRAINED militia, the right to vote expects
the citizen to try to become educated enough to make a reasonable
decision. You are not granted these rights without any responsibility
to the society that offers them. You have a responsibility in return,
and it's to do more than bitch.
-- Morgan Schweers
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
Hello,
I'm trying to use the BIOS timer interrupts (which occur every .055
seconds, or 18.2 times a second) to time people's response times, in a
psychology experiment, and the response times are on the order of .01
seconds. Is there any way I can get better precision than by counting
ticks? Or can I make the ticks occur more frequently? I'm trying to do
this in DOS 5.0 on a 386, and it would be nice if this could also work
on our old 8086 machines running DOS 2.1 (I know, I know, I don't like
them any more than you do) but this is by no means a requirement, just a
possibility.
So, basically, any information on the BIOS tick scheme and the
related inrterruots would be appreciated, as well as any information on
alternate ways of improving accuracy. Email is preferred, as I'm
planning on posting this to a few boards, and I don't read all of them.
Thanks
Joe
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Well, since someone probably wanted to know, here's this year's playoff
matchups on the left, and what the matchups would be next year under the
new alignment and playoff-matchup rules. The same 16 teams make the playoffs
under next year's rules, and three of the first round matchups are the same
(QUE-MTL, CHI-STL, VAN-WIN).
PIT --+ +-- CHI | PIT --+ +-- CHI
+---+ +---+ | +---+ +---+
NJ --+ | | +-- STL | BUF --+ | | +-- STL
+---+ +---+ | +---+ +---+
WAS --+ | | | | +-- DET | QUE --+ | | | | +-- TOR
+---+ | | +---+ | +---+ | | +---+
NYI --+ | | +-- TOR | MTL --+ | | +-- CAL
+------+ | +------+
BOS --+ | | +-- VAN | WAS --+ | | +-- VAN
+---+ | | +---+ | +---+ | | +---+
BUF --+ | | | | +-- WIN | NJ --+ | | | | +-- WIN
+---+ +---+ | +---+ +---+
QUE --+ | | +-- CAL | BOS --+ | | +-- DET
+---+ +---+ | +---+ +---+
MTL --+ +-- LA | NYI --+ +-- LA
====================================================================
Jim Murawski
Sr. Software Engineer (412) 268-2650 [office]
Administrative Computing and (412) 268-6868 [fax]
Information Services jjm+@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University Office: UCC 155
4910 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
"Le Mieux! Le Magnifique! Soixante Six! Claude...NON!"
There are 1374 days until Clinton (Clinocchio) leaves office (1373 too many).
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr27.152233.906@bert.eecs.uic.edu> you write:
>cah@tactix.rain.com (Chris Huey) writes:
>
>>Jamie Scuglia (jamie@zikzak.apana.org.au) wrote:
>>: Thanks to all those people who recommended Workspace managers for
>>: Windows 3.1. I found 3 shareware Workspace Managers, from Australia's
>>: MS-WINDOWS archive (monu6.cc.monash.edu.au), which mirrors some
>>: sites in the U.S. The three I found were:
>>:
>>: 1. WORKSPACES 1.10 (wspace.zip)
>>[ review deleted ]
>>: 2. WORKSHIFT 1.6 (wrksft16.zip)
>>[ review deleted ]
>>: 3. BIGDESK 2.30 and BACKMENU (backdesk.zip)
>>[ review deleted ]
>
>>I really appreciate this information. However, given that I don't have
>>direct Internet access - which means I don't have Archie access - I must
>>resort to using FTPMAIL. This means that I need the site name and the
>>directory where these workspace managers are located.
>
>backdesk.zip is on CICA, but I'm not sure of the whole directory.
>
>Another to throw into the running is topdesk. It is alsow on CICA, but
>I'm not sure where. It is more complicated then backdesk, but I've found
>it to be more stable and more usefull. I recomend it to people who
>have already used a virtual desktop. Oh yeh, It's free.
>Copyright Microsoft and Sanford Staab.
>
> Carl
> zmola@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
OK here are some usefull applications and locations and other:
On Cica or mirrors in the /desktop directory
WRKSFT16 ZIP 39798 920915 WokShift Graphical Virtual Desktop (ver 1.6)
(email author about version 2.0)
DESK240 ZIP 164690 921103 Desktop Tools For Windows 3.x
(BackMenu 2.4 & BigDesk #### Later version than BackDesk)
TOPDESK ZIP 51051 920723 Virtual Windows for Windows
????
FINDER ZIP ??????? 930329 A Mac Finder clone for Windows
(Works well with BackMenu)
************
Also look out for SuperBar 2.0. Due out soon. It allows button bars
to be added to almost any application.
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| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Need I say more???????
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Has anyone heard of or Played Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space?
Does anyone know when it is expected to be released...?
Thanx, Tom.
| 14sci.space |
jblanken@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James R. Blankenship) writes:
[The only reason for the death penalty is revenge?? If you are going to
try to refute a position, try to refute the whole position or acknosledge
that you are only speaking to small piece of the problem. Broad sweeping
"the only reason, " etc on as tough nut to crack as the death penalty
reallly doesn't help much.
Every year the FBI releases crime stats showing an overwhelming amount of
crime is committed by repeat offenders. People are killed by folks who
have killed (who knows how many times) before. How aobut folks who are for
the death penalty, not for revenge, but to cut down on recidivism?]
Your point is well taken. I acknowledge the fact that there are some who
take this position. Sorry about that. Of course, I still believe that the
vast majority of those who favor the death penalty, do so for reason of
seeking vengeance. I'm curious, if you favor the death penalty to keep
killers from killing again, what do you think we should do with people who
commit other crimes, such as rape or robbery? Isn't it the Muslims who
cut your hand off if you're caught stealing?
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Posted by Cathy Smith for L. Neil Smith
LETTER TO A LIBERAL COLLEAGUE
[AUTHOR'S NOTE: "Adrian" -- name changed to protect the guilty --
and the author are science fiction novelists who once worked with
the same editor at a famous New York publishing house.]
Dear Adrian:
I'm way behind schedule on my current book again, so this reply to
your note -- criticizing the recent magazine interview I gave and
generally attacking gun ownership -- will necessarily consist
mostly of assertions you're free to believe (or not) I can back
with evidence and logic I've neither time nor energy to present
now. I've written fully on this topic before and will again in the
future. When I do, I'll make sure you get copies.
There are many arguments I might make, from the futility and danger
of delegating self-defense to the police (see Don Kates in the Jan.
10, 1985 WALL STREET JOURNAL) to the real effect of prohibition,
shifting consumers from newly-outlawed handguns or semiautomatic
rifles to items like sawed-off shotguns or homemade bombs, but I'll
limit myself here to commenting on the newspaper clipping you sent
with your note.
First, the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a
natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right -- subject neither to the democratic process
nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
Second, publication of some latter-day "scientific study" doesn't
alter the fact that the gun prohibitionists I discussed in my
interview -- annoying you so much in the process -- were lying.
Third, the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a
natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right -- subject neither to the democratic process
nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
Fourth, as often happens with these things, the "study" doesn't
support the gun prohibitionists' original numerical contentions
anyway, but simply adds a new layer of spurious claims to an older
body of lies, omissions, and distortions.
Fifth, the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a
natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right -- subject neither to the democratic process
nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
Sixth, the fact that gun prohibitionists have been caught lying on
countless occasions (Carl Bakal, author of NO RIGHT TO KEEP AND
BEAR ARMS, even confessed to it publicly) makes the value of this
present "study" dubious, to say the least.
Seventh, the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is
a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil,
and Constitutional right -- subject neither to the democratic
process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
Eighth, given your own lifelong service as a federal bureaucrat
(not to mention the cynical sophistication of your fiction), you
should be better aware than most people how "progress" -- in
designing "studies" to prove whatever you want -- outstrips our
ability to collect meaningful data. A case in point we might agree
on is the fact that it took another kind of prohibitionist 20 or 30
years to create "studies" "proving" that pornography causes crime.
More naive (and probably more honest) efforts in the 50s and 60s
clearly indicate the contrary.
Ninth, the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a
natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right -- subject neither to the democratic process
nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
Tenth, another reason to doubt all such "studies" is that human
behavior (as the Austrian School of economics demonstrates) is far
too complex and unpredictable to be meaningfully quantified. The
attempt to do so -- and then create public policy based on the
resulting pseudo-information -- is wrecking our civilization.
Eleventh, the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is
a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil,
and Constitutional right -- subject neither to the democratic
process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
Twelfth, the "study" is also worthless because it incorporates
figures for suicide, which is not necessarily a tragedy but
basically another individual right, sometimes with ancillary social
benefits. If anything, perhaps suicide INTERVENTION should be a
criminal offense.
Thirteenth and finally, the National Rifle Association officials
quoted in the article, whatever their shortcomings (and they are
many), are correct in this instance: the "study" is meaningless
because the freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a
natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right -- subject neither to the democratic process
nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
And because of that, Adrian, even if the "study" were valid, it
wouldn't deter me from a lifelong personal objective of seeing that
anyone can own any weapon he or she prefers and carry it however,
whenever, and wherever he or she desires without asking anybody's
permission. In this I'm ably assisted by gun prohibitionists
themselves, whose yawping invariably moves previously unarmed
people to go out and buy their first gun "while they still can".
Before the '68 Gun Control Act, most of the "shooting fraternity"
viewed handguns (incorrectly, as it turned out) as inaccurate,
ineffective toys. There probably weren't six million of them in
the whole country. Now, thanks to Kennedy, Metzenbaum, the Bradys,
and their ilk -- AMERICA'S GREATEST SPORTING GOODS SALES TEAM -- we
probably manufacture at least that many every year.
The fascinating datum is that Handgun Control, et al. are perfectly
aware of this -- so I guess you'll have to ask them yourself what
their real motives are.
Look: gun-making isn't an arcane or difficult art (and by the way,
it's easier to make a fully automatic weapon than a semiautomatic;
the fact that I can still obtain my own weapon of preference, the
self-loading pistol, is the only thing which keeps me from pursuing
this further). Even if it were difficult, there are already a
quarter billion firearms in America, with an estimated "half life"
of 1000 years -- possibly more for stainless steel. Guns are gonna
be around a long time, Adrian, whether you like it or not.
As for me, to paraphrase Elmer Keith, regardless of what the law
provides or any court decides, I'm always going to be armed. And I
will always work to see that others are, as well. The bad news is
that there are thousands more -- perhaps even hundreds of thousands
-- where I come from. We can't be stopped by passing laws, we can
only be forced to arm ourselves and others secretly and -- given
both the practical and alleged differences between full automatics
and semiautomatics -- perhaps more efficiently.
So what's the point?
L. Neil Smith
Author: THE PROBABILITY BROACH, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE, HENRY MARTYN,
and (forthcoming) PALLAS
LEVER ACTION BBS (303) 493-6674, FIDOnet: 1:306/31.4
Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus
NRA Life Member
My opinions are, of course, my own.
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <1qjnpi$bsj@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) wrote:
>
> We are doing heavy - duty image processing with some seriously
> underpowered Mac's (Mac IIsi, for example). Most of the CPU time is
> burned in doing FFT's.
>
> What cards are out there which would allow us to take away that part
> of the load from the CPU? Any DSP 56001 or i860 cards out there,
> for example? They'd have to be callable from Think Pascal, to
> replace the one - and two - dimensional FFT's routines in an already
> existing program.
Check out the National Instruments NB-DSP2300. This uses the Texas
Instruments TMS320C30 chip, which is a true 32 bit floating point DSP. It's
pricey, however.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
[posted for a friend]
Okay, I looked through the FAQs and didn't see this, but I know its
come up before...
XAllocColor is supposed to do the following in order:
Try to find an exact match read-only color cell. (within hardware limits)
Try to allocate a read-only colorcell and set it to match.
and when all else fails,
Return the colorcell with the best match from the read-only colors
already allocated in the colormap.
This sounds good in theory. It doesn't seem to work this way
though. If there is no exact match already in the colormap, and
no unallocated cells, then XAllocColor fails, even when it has
already allocated several other cells already, and there are dozens
of read-only cells already in the colormap.
Is this a bug? A feature? A misunderstanding on my part?
Any help appreciated,
Noel (ngorelic@speclab.cr.usgs.gov)
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <EDM.93Apr20145436@gocart.twisto.compaq.com> edm@twisto.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>
>While we're on the topic of books, has anyone else noticed that Paine's
>"The Age of Reason" is hard to find. I've been wanting to pick up
>a copy for a while, but not bad enough to mail order it. I've noticed
>though that none of the bookstores I go to seem to carry it. I thought
>this was supposed to be classic. What's the deal?
>--
Me too. Our local used book store is the second largest on the
West Coast, and I couldn't find a copy there. I guess atheists
hold their bibles in as much esteem as the theists.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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 |
In article <Apr.16.23.15.27.1993.1836@geneva.rutgers.edu> cs89mcd@brunel.ac.uk (Michael C Davis) writes:
>: I would like to get your opinions on this: when exactly does an engaged
>: couple become "married" in God's eyes? Some say that if the two have
>: publically announced their plans to marry, have made their vows to God, and
>: are unswervingly committed to one another (I realize this is a subjective
>: qualifier) they are married/joined in God's sight.
>
>The way I read Scripture, a couple becomes married when they are *physically*
>married, i.e. when they first have sexual intercourse.
Some years ago an Anglican synod was discussing the marriage canons and
there was some debate on what actually constituted a marriage.
The bishop of Natal, whose wife of many years had died, and who had recently
remarried, announced "It MUST be consummated" and looked like that cat that
got the cream.
So I suppose he at least would agree with you.
============================================================
Steve Hayes, Department of Missiology & Editorial Department
Univ. of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
Internet: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za Fidonet: 5:7101/20
steve.hayes@p5.f22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
FAQ: Missiology is the study of Christian mission and is part of
the Faculty of Theology at Unisa
| 15soc.religion.christian |
I am trying to help a friend of mine get the second serial port on his DTK
I/O Plus II card working and it does not want to cooperate. The documentation
is no help at all. As an example, it says 'The serial port can be changed to
COM2 from COM1 by moving jumpers.' but does not say what jumpers to move!! :-(
There are 2 banks of jumpers. The first one is labeled as follows:
C1
C2
S2
P2
P1
G
The second bank is labeled "IRQ" and has the following labels:
5C
5S
4
3
3S
2C
2S
I have determined that the C1 & C2 jumpers tell it to address the first
serial port as COM1 or COM2. The P1,P2 jumpers tell it to use the printer
port as LPT1 or LPT2. I am guessing that the "G" enables the game port and
the "S2" SHOULD enable the second serial port, but I can't get it to work. I
have tried numerous setting on the IRQ bank without success. I assume that
this bank must tell the card which IRQ's to use for both ports, but I don;t
know how. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
EBD
--
Elliot Dierksen "Is that a real poncho... I mean is that a Mexican poncho or
is that a Sears poncho? Hmmm... no foolin'..." -- F. Zappa
W) e.dierksen@att.com (407) 660-3377 H) elliot@alfred.UUCP (407) 290-9744
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <116305@bu.edu> dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff) writes:
>
>Many of these cereals are corn-based. After your post I looked in the
>literature and located two articles that implicated corn (contains
>tryptophan) and seizures. The idea is that corn in the diet might
>potentiate an already existing or latent seizure disorder, not cause it.
>Check to see if the two Kellog cereals are corn based. I'd be interested.
Years ago when I was an intern, an obese young woman was brought into
the ER comatose after having been reported to have grand mal seizures
why attending a "corn festival". We pumped her stomach and obtained
what seemed like a couple of liters of corn, much of it intact kernals.
After a few hours she woke up and was fine. I was tempted to sign her out as
"acute corn intoxication."
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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| 13sci.med |
In <joedal.735221221@dfi.aau.dk> joedal@dfi.aau.dk (Lars Joedal) writes:
>Except from clock frequency, what are the differences between the
>various types of 386 and 486 processors?
>The following is a list with what I know (or perhaps only what I
>think I know!). Can anybody extend & correct?
>80386: True 32 bit processor.
> (cache?)
No cache.
>80386SX: Emulates 80386 with a 16 bit bus.
>80486: True 32 bit processor.
> Internal mathematical coprocessor (Correct?)
Correct.
> Internal cache (Correct? How big?)
8kB.
> (extended instruction set in any way?)
Was it six instructions?
>80486SX: Probably sorta like 80486...
80486DX without the mathematical coprocessor (FPU).
>80486DX: Probably sorta like 80386...
Actually, the 80486 you described above is 80486DX.
(There is no separate 80486 nor 80386, either).
This is for Intel processors. Does anyone have a complete
list with Cyrix and Ibm products?
Anssi
--
Anssi Saari s106275@ee.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology
Finland, Europe
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In <1993Apr13.212441.26562@gtx.com> al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski) writes:
>Even though this city (Phoenix) has a relatively small black
>population, black people seem to be responsible for a disproportionate
>amount of violent crime. yesterday, black men robbed a cafeteria, beat
>the employees for no apparent reason, and shot one dead, even though
>they were being cooperative. a few days ago, a car full of black men
>opened fire on a car containing a young white couple and their baby,
>possibly because they didn't like the way the man was driving. the
>baby was slightly injured. These incidents are not even unusual.
>even if a white person starts out without racial prejudice (as, after
>all, we all do) and no one "teaches" them to be prejudiced, it's
>sometimes hard to see how they can avoid becoming so, based on their
>own observations and instinct for self-preservation. We always taught
>our children that racial prejudice is wrong (not only bad, but also
>mistaken), but how do you counteract the effect of these kinds of
>incidents?
>what's the answer? how can we work against racial prejudice when
>incidents like this keep fanning the flames? what can we say to deny
>that racial prejudice is a rational response to our environment? is
>it? should we? Since the 60's, I have thought the only hope is through
>integration based on ignoring race and treating each person as an
>individual, but so many either preach divisiveness by emphasizing race
>or validate racism by their actions. where does it lead?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ( Alan Filipski, GTX Corp, 2390 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix, AZ 85016, USA )
> ( INTERNET: al@gtx.com UUCP: uunet!gtx!al PHONE: (602)224-8742 )
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alan, you can start by teaching your children that the perpetrators
of crimes no more represent the "Black community" than racist hateful Whites
represent the majority culture (although there are many ethnic minorities
who have fallen into the very trap that you are struggling with, and believe
otherwise). The trap is the easy way out.
For yourself, I think it would be a good idea to realize that the
demographics related to the crimes you speak of have less to do with race,
and much to do with socioeconomic status and disenfranchisement. You're
going to find higher crime within *any* community comprised of *any* ethnic
group or subgroup that has become dysfunctional, whatever the factors
leading to that dysfunction. With ethnic minorities it is more usually than
not, as I said, socioeconomic disenfranchisement.
If, for example, you lived in an area where there were very few
Blacks, but quite a few poor-for-generations Whites, you'd see the crime
statistics reflecting the dysfunction of those White people. Would you then
worry about whther your children would begin to see Whites as undesireable
or whatever? The trap springs into action when our innate compunction to
define "us" and "other" raises its little voice. The trap becomes dangerous
when we stop to listen to that little voice and stop thinking like rational
humans.
It's interesting that Blacks are traditionally seen as *the* or the
*most* criminal element in many of our urban areas. I don't know the racial
makeup of Phoenix, so I can't speak to your situation. However, I live in
San Francisco, a city that loves to tout its "ethnic diversity". Here, we
have Black gangs, Hispanic gangs, Asian (yes, the "model minority") gangs,
and even a few White gangs. The Asian gangs have become a particularly
troublesome element for law enforcement here, mainly due (I think) to their
propensity for engaging in organized criminal activities. But ask people on
the street and they'll, 8-out-of-10 times, tell you that Black gangs and
crime are what they most fear. During the "disturbance" in Los Angeles last
year many of the rioters and looters were not Black. Some were even White! I
remember being amazed at television news scenes that showed looting mobs
where there were maybe one or two Blacks at most! My perceptions, gleaned
from TV news, were further corroborated by numerous friends and relatives
that live in Los Angeles. This may have been the country's first truly
multi-ethnic riot. Yet I know from face-to-face and online discussion that
in the minds of America the popular perception is that it was a *Black*
riot!
In closing, I'd like to say that you raise some interesting points
that really need discussion. Our country has spent too long ignoring the
racism (and its attendant ills) that is very much a part of our culture. As
a people, we are afraid to face up to some hurtful truths, and the problem
becomes compounded *daily*. We cannot afford to do it much longer. I truly
believe that the well-being of ALL OF US depends on changing our current
course of denial and repression.
I wish you and your children, and all other people, of *all* colors,
luck in avoiding the "trap".
Peace, my brother.
m.
--
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mdouglas@netcom.com : and the Storm is Data,
Michael Douglas-Llyr : and the Data is Life.
: ---Player's Litany (The Long Run)
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In <1qjt76$ll@agate.berkeley.edu> dzkriz@ocf.berkeley.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes:
>In article <C5IDKn.MMt@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
>>In <1qid8s$ik0@agate.berkeley.edu> dzkriz@ocf.berkeley.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes:
>|>>I recently have become aware that my health insurance includes
>|>>coverage for abortion. I strongly oppose abortion for reasons of
>|>>conscience. It disturbs me deeply to know that my premiums may
>|>>be being used to pay for that which I sincerely believe is
>|>>murder. I would like to request that I be exempted from abortion
>|>>coverage with my health premiums reduced accordingly.
>|>>
>>Reduced? Abortion is a lot cheaper than pre-natal care and birth.
>>If you wanted to pay the higher premiums that would result if everyone
>>using their health insurance to pay for an abortion instead elected to
>>carry to term, I'm pretty sure that your insurance carrier would be
>>happy to take your money.
>
>One pays insurance to pay for coverage one expects/fears one might need.
If that's true, then it's a reasonable assumption that a person named
"Dennis" will *never* need an abortion, and therefore you're already
not paying for it, so what's your problem?
--
Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Dean Anneser (anneser@pwa-b.uucp) wrote:
: My 9 yr old son has signed up to do a science report on batteries. I was
: wondering if anyone could provide me with some information as to how to
: construct a home-built battery. In my grade school days, I remember seeing
: the 'ice cube tray' version, but I don't remember what to use as a good
: electrolyte or what the easily obtainable metals were.
: Thank you in advance.
: Dean W. Anneser Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
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: (203)565-9372 (desk) 5016 (fax) 400 Main St. Ooo.. (_)-V/( )
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The simplest one is easy. Take a lemon or other citrus type fruit, and
stick a pair of metal strips into it for the contacts. The two strips must
be of disimelar metals like copper and zinc. Then connect a voltmeter to
the contacts and read the voltage.
bill@xpresso.UUCP (Bill Vance), Bothell, WA
rwing!xpresso!bill
You listen when I xpresso, I listen When uuxpresso.......:-)
| 12sci.electronics |
In <sehari.734022369@vincent2.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
>---
>With my limited knowladge about the PC Geos, I came out with following
>comparison:
> PC Geos Windows OS/2 Unix/X11
> ________ _______ ____ _______
>2. can run win
> programs nop yap yap nop
^
Novell is at least
demoing windows apps
running under UNIXWare.
>5. can run unix nop I have not nop yap
> heard of it
^ ^
Try MKS. MKS &
others, esp.
EMX
Note here: the MKS toolkit (for DOS/Windows & OS/2) gives you a good
suite of standard UNIX utilities. There are other similar systems from
other vendors as well. The EMX system for OS/2 gives you most of the
standard UNIX system calls for recompiling your UNIX programs under
OS/2. Not quite the same thing as actually running UNIX programs
directly in either case, but EMX makes OS/2 almost as compatible with
UNIX systems as many UNIX systems are with each other. And, best of
all, EMX is free. :-)
There is a similar system (GO32) for DOS, but it doesn't work with
Windows, as far as I know.
>7. price $120 $70 $120 free-$1000s
> A good one
> costs $400-$700
> avaliable on Ext.
> card too.
Should add in the cost for DOS with both Geos and Windows, neither of
which is a standalone OS at this point. Neither OS/2 nor UNIX requires
DOS.
BTW, two of the best unices I've seen for the pee cee are UNIXWare ($300
for the personal edition) and LINUX (free). So I don't agree that "a
good one costs $400-$700." :-)
And, if you really want to check out the various options available to
you, you should also look into DESQview and DESQview/X.
cheers
--
Chris Waters | the insane don't |"Judy's in the bedroom,
xtifr@netcom.COM| need disclaimers | Inventing situations." -D. Byrne
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
I own a Zoom V.32bis modem and I am having some strange problems, I
would like to contact the manufacturer.. but there is no address on the
box. Does any1 have their address? or telephone number?
Thanx,
Don Smith
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
I am looking for a rat cell line of adrenal gland / cortical cell -type. I
have been looking at ATCC without success and would very much appreciate any
help.
Thank you for reading this.
Christophe Roos
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| 13sci.med |
Most of this discussion has been between Mark Singer and David Tate,
with Valentine weighing in on the same side as Dave at various times.
My opinion, FWIW, to all:
Mark, age doesn't matter; ability does. I would rather have the untried
rookie with great minor league numbers than the veteran who has proven
himself to be average at best. I don't care if he is 15; if he plays
better than what I have, I want him out there. Sandy Alomar had decent
minor league numbers, grossly inflated by the PCL in general and Las
Vegas in particular; he should have been projected as an average major
league hitter (which is good for a catcher, I'll admit). Santiago's
numbers would probably come out the same as Sandy's, but I don't have
the league data from the mid-80s to check it out.
That being said, I agree with sending Lopez to Richmond, at least to
start the season. As the box below shows, he has *one* minor league
season in which he hit well. He has two in which he hit very, very
poorly. I want to see that the 92 Lopez is real. Olson and Berryhill
are not complete mediocrities; for catchers, especially NL catchers,
they are essentially average hitters, with equivalent averages around
.220. If he had hit well at prior levels, I would say he belongs on
the Braves; but there is a reasonable chance that Lopez last year was
just as much a fluke as Alomar in 90 or Santiago in 87. One year at
any level, at any age, doesn't satisfy MY standards of evidence.
JAVIER LOPEZ 1971
1990 BUR 428 101 10 1 9 5 0 1 .179 33 .236 .245 .327
1991 DUR 389 84 8 1 9 14 7 2 .175 29 .216 .243 .311
1992 GRN 445 135 22 2 14 22 7 2 .271 71 .303 .336 .456
1992 ATL 16 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 .306 3 .375 .375 .500
MAJ 16 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 .306 3 .375 .375 .500
MIN 1262 320 40 4 32 41 14 5 .213 133 .254 .277 .368
TOT 1278 326 42 4 32 41 14 5 .214 136 .255 .278 .369
MAJ 650 244 81 0 0 0 0 0
MIN 630 160 20 2 16 20 7 2
TOT 630 161 21 2 16 20 7 2
On a similar note, I don't understand why more people are not
supportive of Neon Deion. Granted, I thought his behavior with
McCarver last year was completely bush. Last year was the first time
he ever got 300 AB in one place, so his lines are hard to read. But he
has a combined 720 OPS in minor league play; with his speed is more
valuable than the OPS alone indicates; and at a still young age (24),
had a monster year with an 868 OPS. He has a total, major and minor,
EQA of .249; above major league average, and above average for CF
(which was about .240 in the NL last year). He has shown at least the
potential of going into the .290s, which would make him one of the 15
best hitters in the league. He has two full seasons before reaching
his "prime" season of 27. He should be considered as a legitimate
prospect, and not as a simple side-show attraction.
DEION SANDERS 1968
1988 FLA 21 8 2 0 0 1 1 0 .325 4 .381 .409 .476
1988 INT 20 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 .086 0 .150 .190 .200
1989 EAS 123 35 1 2 2 9 15 4 .257 19 .285 .333 .374
1989 NYY 47 11 1 0 2 3 1 0 .222 6 .234 .280 .383
1989 INT 263 70 11 4 6 18 15 6 .246 37 .266 .313 .407
1990 NYY 133 21 2 2 3 13 8 2 .161 9 .158 .233 .271
1990 INT 85 26 7 1 1 14 8 1 .312 18 .306 .404 .447
1991 ATL 110 20 2 1 4 12 10 3 .201 12 .182 .262 .327
1991 RIC 129 30 5 2 4 7 11 3 .230 17 .233 .272 .395
1992 ATL 306 92 10 12 11 22 24 9 .295 60 .301 .348 .520
MAJ 596 144 15 15 20 50 43 14 .245 87 .242 .300 .418
MIN 641 172 27 9 13 50 51 15 .252 96 .268 .321 .399
TOT 1237 316 42 24 33 100 94 29 .249 182 .255 .311 .408
MAJ 600 145 15 15 20 50 43 14
MIN 603 162 25 8 12 47 48 14
TOT 601 154 20 12 16 49 46 14
Clay D.
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
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