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## Don't forget that 25% had 20 or more partners.... # #Not surprising. Remember, that study includes homosexuals as well. Err, earth to Clayton, you posted this to show that 2% were homosexual. So if we assume EVERY homosexual was promiscious, that leads us to conclude that 23 percent of heterosexuals are promisciou...
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I was one of the unfortunate people to run into this guy. I sent him $30 cash (Stupid, I know) for 4 CDs. That was the last I heard of him. I know there were some other people ripped off by this guy. Has there been any advances in tracking him down?
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The other week I saw a TV program about the american space industry and NASA. It said that in the 60's they developed a rocket that used ions or nuclear particles for propolsion. The government however, didn't give them $1billion for the developement of a full scale rocket. Did anybody see this program? If not, has any...
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[stuff deleted] ^^^ I think you mean HCI here. [snip] Joe
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The April 1993 edition of MIX Magazine carries a story on 3DO which includes pictures of the unit, a schematic of what's inside and some indication from the people at 3DO as to where they intend to go and in what stages. (MIX is a trade rag aimed at the professional sound engineering community.) The schematic show...
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I have a SPARC-2 with 2 CGSIX cards in it. I'd like to have the R5 server recognize the second card. I mknod created a /dev/cgsix1 device, but when I brought up the server, the second device was ignored. How do I setup the second card? Note: If I borrow a cgthree card, and put a cgthree and a cgsix card in the...
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I need info regarding a miniscribe 3.5" half-height drive. There is a sticker on it with the following, MODEL HDA PCBA UNIQUE TDA 8425F 09AA 03AB 03AA - But the sticker on the biggest chip on the MFM interface has this, MODEL PCBA TDA FXX 03AB What is the spec of the drive (#...
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1. Don't hold your finger on it 2. When cooking with it use a very small pan and be sure to not spill liquids on the components 3. If you do not plan to cook with it there are a number of small cooling fans designed to mount on the chip and plug into your power supply. Look in Consumer Shoppers.
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Can somebody send me a copy of this faq? Thanks alot!
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Hi! We have an old Montage FR-1 35mm film recorder. When connected to a PC with its processor card it can directly take HPGL, Targa and Lasergraphics Language files. 24 bit Targa is quite OK for raster images, but conversion from whatever one happens to have can be quite slow. This Lasergraphics Language seems to be ...
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Even better. Make up pete conrad in a Martian Suit, and have him get ou;t and throw a football to the refs.
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Hi there, I have a problem here, I've lost the software drivers and setup programs for my Hardcard. Can someone email me the files, or let me know if Plus Development (were they bought out by Quantum?) has a BBS or phone #? I have a Hardcard II XL50.
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The people involved in it have been building hardware rather than writing press releases. This is not a high-manpower project; they don't *have* spare people sitting around. As I understand it, there has also been some feeling on the part of some of the project management that publicity was not a good idea. A lot o...
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Will someone who can 'see' the X-Face included in this header please reply and tell me if it turned out okay? I'm not all too sure about my viewing software. I *hand*-converted this thing in "vi" from a Sun rasterfile... what a pain! For folks who haven't the slightest, it went like this: --------------------------...
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hahahahahahahahahahaha - thanks for that, I haven't laughed so much in ages!
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"CHRISTIANITY IN CRISIS" by: Hank Hanegraaff "Controversy for the sake of controversy is a sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command." -Dr. Walter Martin Dr. Walter Martin personally selected Hank Haneg...
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I did. You're mistaken. NSA's communications intelligence mission is strictly against foreign governments. Here's an excerpt from the enabling charter (24 Oct 52, Truman) that should clarify this. The charter was declassified in about Feb 1990 when an FOIA request made it public. Mind you, I don't know that they ...
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Baloney. Either the programmer or the people who decided to let their actions be governed by the program are clearly at fault. If you neglect to do maintenance on your car, and the steering goes out, you _are_ responsible for the death of all those kids on the sidewalk your car subsequently drives over "on its...
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Though this will be addressed in the series of articles I'm posting now under "ARESNOKOITIA", I can't wait. This just really blew my socks off. Read I Tim 1: 3-11. Verses 3-8 speaks against those who have perverted the teachings of the Mosaic Law. In vv.9-10, we have, *IN ORDER*, the 5th thru the 9th commandments...
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What about disks? Won't it erase them if you're carrying them in the bag?
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Jeremiah: 25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto th...
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hi netters, I'm doing a project which is about image analysis. Firstly, I have to find out any restrictions or limitations on the colour display on various kind of workstations, they are DECstation, HP, Amiga, Apollo. Secondly, I read from some graphic texts that image is displayed in 24 bites(please point out to ...
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Have there ever been any other no-hitters in Mariner history?
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This homeopathic remedies. I tried the dander one for a month. 15 drops three times a day. I didn't notice any change whats so ever. How long were you using the drops before you noticed a difference?
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I am planning on buying a modem and related software. What are some good products out there that won't cost me a lot of money but will still do the job? Any help will be appreciated. I am looking for something in the 2400 baud area. Kenneth --
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Pete-- That was uncalled for. I'm sure Andi Beyer or whatever his name is was a product of his environment before he came to school, and is enjoying the mantle of THE UNIVERSITY to make his viewpoint seem legitimate (well-reasoned). I'm at Virginia, too, and I think maligning UVA is in poor taste, even if Beyer did sl...
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This is kind of interesting. I always assumed that the 240SX was named because of the 2.4 liter engine which it uses. Likewise for the 200SX which uses a 2.0 liter engine. Isn't this true?
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Seagate ST-212, HH, 10MB, $25 IBM, FH, 30MB, $70 They all are MFM type and in good working condition. Buyers pay shipping.
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'63 to '82 vettes had the same basic chassis. 1980 add aluminum (weaker) rear 'axle' housing. All these years used same brakes, similar springs etc Late 70's was a bad year for GM reliability. Catastrophic converter was added in 1975. Cheapest corvette '78 to '79 low end about 4k tops out about $12k except for ...
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I have the following CD's for sale for $5 each plus shipping Body Count - (without "Cop Killer") Yo! MTV Raps (volume 1) Skid Row (1st album) Bryan Adams - Waking up the Neighbours Temple of the Dog C + C Music Factory - gonna make you sweat IBM PC games - Eye of the Beholder 2 with cluebook - $25 Pools of Darkness - ...
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Jonathan, interesting questions. Some wonder whether or not the moon could have ever supported an atmosphere. I'd be interested in knowing what our geology/environmental sciences friends think. As for human tolerances, the best example of human endurance in terms of altitude (i.e. low atmospheric pressure and lower...
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I'm sure there are many people who work with neural networks and read this newsgroup. Please tell Kevin what you've achieved, and what you expect. Indeed. I think dualism is a non-solution, or, as Dennett recently put it, a dead horse. Petri
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Dave, What i recall from air craft maintence. Torqque and safety wires or cotters were more important, then if some bolt face were nicked up. If it was in bad shape you replaced it with another $30, aircraft grade bolt. I can see adjustable spanners eating up profit, but lives?
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Well, let me see if I can explain it. It's similar to collecting coins, or stamps, or campaign buttons, or coke bottles, or juke boxes, or model trains, or just about anything else that is collected (and just about everything is collected). In all cases, you might consider it something of an aberration; I mean, what...
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But of course it does. It's certainly a legal matter. If it's not a legal matter that interest *you* you may simply put it in your kill file.
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HONDA ACCORD FOR SALE ===================== - 4 Dr, Steel Grey, 1984 Honda Accord. - ~ 139K miles - 5 speed (manual) gives around 30mpg - Brand new clutch (installed last month) - Original owner - AM/FM (Cassette doesn't work), A/C, Cruise Control - $2500/b....
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I read about a SuperTrapp system called E.A.R that was supposed to be quiet enough to pass some European standards. Apparently it's not on the market yet... Yoshimura makes a few systems that are supposed to be "kind of" quiet. They are also really light. I'm planning on getting one of these systems soon, and will...
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I'm sure you are not. After the "San Francisco" Earthquake a couple of years ago, there was a flurry of traffic on talk.religion.misc about how this was the result of the notorious homo- this that and t'other in the City. The fact that the Earthquake was actually down the road in Santa Cruz/Watsonville didn't s...
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930425 Rome was under attack by barbarians, they sent for advice to some Oracle, and she said Worship Cybele and you'll be saved. They did, they were. Cybele was the quintessential wiccan goddess, there was Her and her son & lover, Attis. Yucky idea if you ask me. OK the book says she was Phrygian, from the neolith...
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Hi there, I'm looking for help on hi-rez CGA modes (hey, i know it sounds crazy but at the moment it's got to do). My card's manual says it does something like 640 by 400 2 colour and 640 by 200 4 colour (the card has 64k memory). Could anyone give me some help on how to implement these modes (Assembly language is f...
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It will be ironic in the extreme if Spector manages to uncover a government conspiracy and cover-up in this case. Maybe he'll posit a Magic Grenade that lit fires in three wings of the building at once.
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Heh, someone mentioned Tommy Soderstrom (Flyers) for the besk mask poll too (in the mentioned below part). All he has is a plain white helmet with a big cage. I found this pretty amusing. -John Santore Philadelphia Flyers in '93-'94! ===========================================================================...
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You don't, and never had to. That's what enhanced shells are for. Remember 4DOS and NDOS? I mean, come on, you can't expect DOS to cover everything from R1.0. Microsoft has other projects to work on. I don't think they deliberately crippled the project. On the other hand, it IS a technical achievement for w...
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Being a a BLUES fan I don't get to see much else from around the league with the exception of Hockey Night on ESPN. I can't get the BLUES games where I go to school, thus I don't get to see a whole lot of other teams play except for the Hawks. But last night I got to catch a glimpse of the Caps/Isles game. It occurr...
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Jason - I've heard the people who are talking about this dismissed as conspiracy nuts, but nobody seems to be talking about a conspiracy, at least at the beginning. There were a lot of bad decisions that went into this tragedy, and some people may now be taking some serious evasive action to avoid being held resp...
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I think a few things are being missed overall here... First of all, anyone with a DOS manual can copy a disk, or copy anything (hidden files dont go far if you are dealing with anyone who is not comletely DOS ignorant) off of a hard disk. 'Professional' crackers aren;t interested in copying disks. They are programmers ...
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How about changing team names! Post your choices! Here I'll start: How about the Baltimore Baseblazers San Francisco Quakes
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Personally, I'll be blasphemous and say that if Microsoft keeps doing what it does so well, I hope to see much harsher/stricter copyright and patent laws for computer algorithms, concepts, interfaces, and other intellectual properties to protect real innovators. I'd hate to be one who actually does innovate, and then...
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: I heard about the arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Now, how is it such a grave : mistake to sell Saudi Arabia weapons? Or are you claiming that we shouldn't : sell any weapons to other countries? Straightforward answer please. Saudi Arabia is an oppressive regime that has been recently interfering in the politcs of new...
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There was a guy around here who would do them on an early pre fairing Wing with a Hannigan. He would get it right up and ride a ways. Pretty intimidating sight. He was real good. He had to be. I guess you wouldn't get away with chopping the throttle more than once. __ Jorg Klinger | GSXR1...
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It will certainly *help* to be able to run Windows and Dos apps but the only way that Solaris or OS/2 or any other scheme is going to challenge Microsoft is if they can somehow get the prices for Solaris or OS/2 or whatever apps, down to a DOS competitive level. Everybody would rather run a Solaris app on a Solaris ...
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See xwd, xpr. Even better, grab xdump from ftp.cs.uwm.edu. It makes use of these programs as well, but has a much nicer interface (and can do more). You can dump to PostScript, bitmaps, etc.
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As I recall from Kieth Hernandez' 'auto'biography, Rusty is a devout Roman Catholic. Kieth and Rusty would carpool to Shea everyday but Sunday, when Rusty would go to mass. SC
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Try coming up with your own definition of any or all "self-hating" peoples. To me, any who reject their culture to the point where they *only* see the absolute negatives of that culture (generally, or regarding a particular event) and accept *only* those views purely opposing aspects of that culture (thus, selective ...
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If you want slow LED flash rates, adjustable by switches (or by a 4066/4016 digitally controlled switch), I suggest looking at a 555 oscillator chip. They cost ~$1 at Radio Shack (much cheaper in quantity at quality places), and you will be able to find good info about simple circuits in a 555 oscialltor notebook (I th...
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What does this bill do? McD
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I badly need a pair of SEGA 3D glasses for a cheap VR setup. If you have a set and want to part with it, I can arrange shipping, etc.., and duty if necessary. Leave e-mail to: davecru@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca or call (403) 459-2893 ask for DJ.
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A friend and I have ATI Graphic Ultra display adaptors, and they have been reasonably good performers, but we both have had irritating compatibility problems with the ATI drivers and are ready to change to something faster and more compatible with windows. I have heard rumblings that the new Orchid 9000 card is very fa...
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Like it or not stock prices and sales of a particular product ARE measures of success. They can be measures of short term or long term success. I think in MS case they are a good measure of their long term success. The original post mentioned how it seems on this group that there are a large number of people attacking...
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Why bother with a new newsgroup? If you want to discuss the subject, *start discussing it*. If there is enough traffic to annoy the rest of us, we will let you know... and *then* it will be time for a new newsgroup.
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Can I view JPEG files without special hardware?
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This happens intermittently to Macs in our department, ranging from IIsi's to a Quadra 950. I can end the slowdown immediately by unplugging the Ethernet cable from the Mac. It seems that something on the network puts out these packet storms every few days. These storms have the effect of making our Macs slow down t...
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I'm told that I can replace the colorful windows logo that appears as windows invokes with a graphic of my choosing. The challange is that the image must be in 'RLE' format. I've got GIF's, PIC's, JPG's, TIF's, etc... everything but RLE's! What's the best route to converting these things? What program should I dow...
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Where did that idea come from? It's news to me.
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This is very curious being that they are both built by Mercury in the very same factory. Steve
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I bought a 386DX-40 motherboard for 50$... no documentation at all. Everything appears to work, except I'm having trouble getting a few of the LED connectors working. I've looked at the manuals for 4 other motherboards, but the pin configuration doesn't look anything like what is on this board. Does this pin arrangemen...
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Because, unlike the UK, passing the average driving test over here usually only requires a pulse & a single digit IQ. Every state controls their own licensing requirements, so it's possible that there's a test out there that actually requires some driving skills, but I doubt it.
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cheek.
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My doc handed me 10mg samples of CLARITIN (brand of Ioratadine Tablet from Schering Corp.) I tried to find it in the PDR to no avail. I do remember she mentioned this drug was relatively new to the US but available overseas for quite some time. Looking mostly for side-effect, contraindications, and mode of action su...
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Hello Netters I recenlty aquired enough money to purchase a laser printer. The other day, I bought the COMPUTER SHOPPER mag. I was looking through printer review section and noticed the WINPRINTER800. The machine is incredibly low priced for all the features it has 800 dpi! 8Meg RAM Postscript compatabl...
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>in the field who might be able to find out haven't yet done their >review of the chip design, and there's been a lot of wild speculation >and guesswork from those with little information that it might be >Swiss cheese. Oh, that puts the debate on -excellent- terms for our side: FEDS: You people saying that ...
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On the other hand, Rush made an interesting point: The Democrats ran one of their best campaigns in years against a pathetic Republican and a paranoiac and still only pulled 43% of the vote, lost 10 seats in the House, and gained 0 seats in the Senate. 1994 might be pretty interesting. Clueless of the...
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I'm replying to someone who asked for information on space camp. I have a brochure that has all different schedules. What age, what level and what program do you want to know the schedule of? Most of the missions are 5 to 8 days long. The address for Huntsville is: Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission U.S. Space...
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I recently made the mistake of purchasing a SONY CPD-1320 monitor for my Mac IIci. The monitor is very good, however it seems that the IIci does not support VGA (then why did you buy it you ask? I am stupid I reply). What I am looking for is a video card, preferably 8 bit, which supports VGA. I am interested in any...
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And unless I am mistaken (I screwed up my borrowed VCR and got the first 2 minutes :-), the Corrado SLC was awarded AJAC's Sports (Sporty?) Car of the Year.. Mattias
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========================= commodore 128 1571 d/s disk drive 2 joysticks 1 mouse lotsa software, both games and apps. rapid fire joystick adapter ALL necessary cables ========================== about a year old $95 OBO
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Hello, Our application requires us to capture keypad presses for all windows in a number of applications. We are trying to use action translation tables to implement this. We have only succeeded by assigning the translation table to every individual widget in all windows in a single application. The Xt calls we ma...
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I think you would need a DOS macro program. Superkey (by Borland?) comes to mind. I don't think Windows is capable of sending keystrokes to a DOS window. What you want to do sounds like a security problem to me, though.
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GCC and other big programs seemed to crash about 15% of the time for me. gcc gave something like "program as got fatal signal 11" and when doing anything past the complexity of elvis, kermit, etc, I got kernel general protection faults at *least* once a session. I disabled my cache as suggested, and bingo, Linux is a...
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We have Suns running SunOS 4.1.3 and Openwindows 3.0 (X11R4). We have used Xvision on a PC, setup to broadcast query to the UNIX xdm servers and allow a user to choose a UNIX client in which to login: xdm will then manage that display. I would like to do the same thing with xfree86 running under Linux, but I don't know...
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It varies. You may get a catalog or price list from the advertiser, or if the ad was a specific product - a slec sheet on that product or line.
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For those of you who complain about Don Cherry, and wonder why he is popular... the reply is Dick Vitale and John Madden and Bobby Knight and Joe Garagiola and Howard Cosell. John Madden picks Gary Clark of the Redskins for his All-Madden team a lot, over much better receivers...for much the same reasons Cherry sing...
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"This is your god" (from John Carpenter's "They Live," natch)
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Can anyone figure out what kind of deranged parent was stupid enough to bring their infant on a rock throwing crusade (or jihad, sorry)? 18-month old infants certainly don't walk around the streets on their own. That would lead me to believe that some nimrod of a "parent" brought them along for a little terrorism....
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I am looking at buying a Dual Sport type motorcycle. This is my first cycle as well. I am interested in any experiences people have with the following motorcycles, good or bad. Honda XR250L Suzuki DR350S Suzuki DR250ES Yamaha XT350 Most XXX vs. YYY articles I have seen in magazines pit the Honda XR650L against a...
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... If we are indeed talking about CS, then this is not quite accurate. CS is "just" tear gas--albeit the worst kind. It isn't a nausea gas, and doesn't have direct CNS effects. However, it's quite bad--much worse than CN gas. I was briefly exposed to it once (during an engagement in Berkeley circa 1968 8^) and it's n...
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Yeah... and BMW 525e has 2.7 litres 535 3.4 BTW - can someone out there please tell me how to put someone else's file on and then reply to that so the other person's file and my own 'reply' go to the newgroups together? (ps: just mail me personally)
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This is a phenomenon known around work as ready-fire-aim. I am astounded at the number of times people post strong opinions about things they not only don't understand but publicly admit to not understanding. In fact, there's a plausible argument that saves are a more rational stat than wins. For the record, there ar...
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I've been using Final from CODA for some time, but suddenly it stopped using my fonts. I have a 386 PC with lots of disk space and memory, a Postscript laser, Win3.1, Finale 2.0.1 and I recently installed ATM 2.0. I've been fiddling around with the Windows setup for some time, and when I needed to do some work with...
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How about the GNU people, handing out very good, free software? I've also distributed two decent-sized programs myself, the Go player Fumiko (at ftp.u.washington.edu) and the Genetic Neural Network Programmer CEREBRUM (somewhere out there). I've only had time to write these programs because of scholarships and grant...
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I am looking for info on products that can take Windows source on a Unix box (such as Sparc), and produce a Motif executable. Another requirement is that MFC 2.0 should be supported. I already know of: Wind/U by Bristol Technologies Hunter SDK MainWin by MainSoft Are there any other...
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Hi, I need to know if there is a 256 color graphics mode that allows multiple pages. I want something like mode 0x10 (640x350x16 2 pages). I have been experimenting with graphics by calling the BIOS with borland turbo c. I feel like I am flying blind in this area, and could use all the help that you can give. T...
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Well, let's delve one level deeper. Why is democracy better than tribalism or other means of Govt.? The President of Georgia was elected with a thumping majority and booted out later, w/ no objections from the UN. Similarly, the people of Algeria elected an Islamic Fundemantalist Party into power but the junta declare...
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From article <C5wDMK.Jrn@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>, by 3s737abg@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Unknown Class User): Saying things like that incline one to believe that you can't get it (SCSI) to work for your setup (too bad). I've daisy-chained 4 SCSI devices off my mac without a problem (limit is 7 SCSI devices in the daisy-chain). If i...
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Last night, Boston Red Sox win its 11 games of 14 games by beating Seattle 5-2. Roger Clemson pitch not so dominate. He walked at least 6 man in first 6 inns. But Valetin and Greenwell hit homeruns and Red Sox prevail.
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I wonder why you say that? I don't see why having a spouse and/or kids would have anything to do with it. It might if you brought your kids to the game and wanted them to get home in time to get to bed at a reasonable hour (in which case I'd probably decide to take my kids to games on weekends, as many people do, o...
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