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Sharp brand "Pocket Computer" model PC-1246 Dimensions; 3.5 x 5 x 0.5 inches. Has 15-digit LCD display 53 rubber keys (w/alphabet) built-in BASIC prog.language an 11-pin-socketed interface for optional cassette drive. (Don't have) slide-over/reversable plastic cover. ...
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G'day all! Does anyone know anything about front end for POVRay (X11 version)? I mean are there things like user friendly modeller for POVRay, or any modellers which will let me design a scene and produce a file which POVRay can then read? Cheers, Tomek +------------------------------------------------------+ +------...
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the unuseable) motorcycle What happens is that (I heard this discussed on "Northern Exposure") there is a molecular juxtaposition of the molecules in the battery and the molecules in the concrete. This acts as an attractant to UFOs (actually their crew members) and they arrive at the scene of the battery/concr...
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It wasn't "invented", but was supposed by the writers of the Constitution to be a universal, pre-existing right. Howsomever... Hmmm. You need to spend some time in a library, son. When the Bill of Rights was written, in addition to the (muzzleloading) shotgun and pistol you mention we had: - rifles in calibers r...
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[snip].... Excellent point, Mark. We should all remember that if Nixon hadn't tried to cover up the misguided actions of some of his subordinates in the Watergate burglary, the scandal would never have brought down his presidency. So far, Klinton seems to be stonewalling this the same way Tricky Dick did...
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Then again, maybe $2445 for the gateway system isn't too cheap. I have a system from Micron computers:
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An advertisement in MicroTimes (a bay area mini-Computer Shopper) from ENCY systems in Fremont has a graphic for the P24T performance based on MIPS (power meter v1.7): the 486DX-33 raked in about 14-15, the 486DX2-66 got about 24, and the P24T-66 got about 44-45. Tom
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OK, Andrew, I'll provide some evidence. A friend of mine worked for an electronics manufacturer on with a west-coast office. They routinely sold equipment to the Japanese. One day, the Japanese started showing up with discount demands that were amazingly close to the cost to manufacture the products. This company rou...
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Nope. I keep my Mac running all the time since it also acts as a usenet node and exchanges mail and news every half hour (I run uAccess) and receives all my faxes. I do turn off the monitors hooked up to it. They produce more heat than I want - it can be warm in my garage office in the summer. I've got one of thos...
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If in said situation. I would, reviewing other cases I've seen reported on in the articles I've read etc.., suggest the safest legal course of action is as follows. Warn your assailant loudly and in clear tones that you have a weapon(Yes!Even though it's blatantly obvious now that you have it out!) and that you will...
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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 ...
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In the wake of the Waco denouement, I had email discussions with people from this group. In particular, we discussed how cults operate, why the FBI might be motivated to black out news or behave the way it did, and what kinds of problems are involved in dealing with cults and similar organizations. I include an edite...
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 23, 1993 PRESS BRIEFING BY DEE DEE MYERS ...
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No wonder you 'wieneramus' are in such a mess. Following the Greek Cypriot attempt to annex the island to Greece with the aid of the Greek army, Turkiye intervened by using her legal right given by two international agreements. Turkiye did it for the frequently and conveniently forgotten people of the island, Tur...
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Review of 1989 Ford Taurus SHO -- By Gene Kim ============================================= Background: Last week, I bought a 1989 Ford Taurus SHO, moving up from driving a 1987 Toyota Celica ST and a 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass. I have been interested in buying a SHO for about five months and have been combing the ...
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I am happy to announce the first public release of the bit program, an INTERACTIVE, FULL COLOR image viewer and editor based on SGI GL. Besides typical touchup tasks, such as crop, rotate, smooth, etc, bit offers some unique features not available in similar programs, such as text and vector support and the...
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That was probably me. I meant only that nobody has overreacted yet. It seemed to me that Jerry was suggesting that people are currently overreacting, and I vehemently disagree. I see a lot of talk, but not much action. I see now that I misunderstood Jerry's position. Not this bunch. They'll just bitch on the Net...
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Robert McElwaine is the authoritative source of scientific data on Internet. He can be reached alt.fan.mc-elwaine... Spiros
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I need to sell two pairs of BladeRunner in-line skates (we don't use them). One is size 9 and one is size 12. They are less than a year old and were used very little, generally in the Corridor. They are in very good condition. They sell at Lechmere for $99.98 (we still have the boxes, if you want them) and we'd like...
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If that's the ONLY reason, I'd be inclined to doubt whether or not what they profess is Christianity. The relationship of faith is based upon trust. Fear and trust are generally incompatible. If my only motivation is fear, is there room for trust? If so, there's room for faith. If fear precludes trust, then ther...
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Hello, I heard that a certain disease (toxoplasmosys?) is transmitted by cats which can harm the unborn fetus. Does anybody know about it? Is it a problem to have a cat in the same apartment? Thanks
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This comes indirectly from Al Morgani who works in the studio for ESPN hockey. The management of ESPN was reluctant to leave the Pitt-NJ game (even though the outcome was certain) because of fear of the Wash-Ny game going to overtime. When the Caps scored with :02 left to tie the game, Al said he heard many people...
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Well, I'm not going to quote the message, but anyhow... Mail fraud is a FEDERAL OFFENCE! PUNNISHABLE BY TIME AND >>> BIG <<< > > > B I G < < < F I N E S ! ! ! ! What you can do is contact the ...
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That was Clint Malarchuk. That was a very dangerous accident. He could he died right there on the ice. However, he has played since but I don't know where he is now. I think he is still playing but I'm not positive. He was a Sabre at the time. I don't know who skated into him though. I remember a couple of se...
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It was implied in the first technical posting by Dorothy Denning that the FBI would do the decryption *for* the law enforcement agencies. It wasn't clear to me from the post whether this would be done in realtime or not, or whether the FBI would just decrypt the session keys for the locals, or would do the whole ...
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A really sad op-ed appeared in my school's newpaper today. It claimed that full-auto weapons are illegal in the U.S. I understand that full-auto weapons made and registered before May 19, 1986 are still legal in 40 of the 50 states. Is Texas one of those states? Can anyone point me to a source for info on how many p...
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The Libertarians believe in getting the government off the backs of the people, so that the free market can solve problems. Libertarians believe in an end to the welfare state, an end to government subsidies of all sorts. The basic idea is that the government is way too big and way too expensive, and should be sh...
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I don't know. I think Phil Plantier has the ugliest stance. He looks like he's sitting on the toilet.
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CALL FOR VOTES This is the official 2nd Call For Votes for this newsgroup. NAME OF PROPOSED NEWSGROUP: ========================== soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya CHARTER: ======= A religious newsgroup, which would mainly be devoted to fostering an understanding and appraisal of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Comm...
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What you are trying to describe is that transition point where the front wheel actually reverses direction; turns backwards.
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Not to mention that Lankford had been hurt two nights before running into the outfield wall. This being the reason he was available to pinch- anything. His ribs were the problem so he could run but not hit. Torre is no white rat but give him credit for what he is , a pretty darn good manager. with the exception of...
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After hearing endless debate (READ: name-calling) over which os is better, dos and windows or OS/2 and finally having enought resourses to play with a couple of different operating systems, I have decided to put the two products to a head to head test, as so many fellow newsposters have suggested. I have, however, no...
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I couldn't agree more. The Jays have a lot of power in their line-up. So far pitching has been the biggest problem. Maybe we can get Acker back? :-) One incident that sticks out in my mind was when Derek Bell ran back out on to the feild after the Jays had won the division and all the players were back in the clu...
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WARNING WARNING MAY CAUSE UNPLEASANTNESS! It's a "make before break" type of switch. If not required, it ought to be for high-low beams. There might be a wee problem with this. If you use both filaments at the same time, the bulb is tossing out a great deal more heat than normal. Possibly enough to shorten it's ...
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I'm curious to know if Christians ever read books based on critique on the religion, classical text such as "Age of Reason" by Paine, or "The Myth Maker" by Jacobi. Sometimes it is good to know your enemy, and if you want to do serious research you have to understand both sides, and not solely the one and only right o...
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Here are the NHL's alltime leaders in goals and points at the end of the 1992-3 season. Again, much thanks to Joseph Achkar. Carl Notes: An active player is a player that has scored at least one point the past season. The points leaders follow the goal leaders. If you find any mistakes, please send me email. -------...
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Of course not. I would think that would be great _fun_, not having ever felt the joy and peace the Christians speak of with a longing gaze. This is not what I got when I believed - I just tried to hide my fear of getting punished for something I never was sure of. The Bible is hopelessly confusing for someone who wa...
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Greetings. I've recently decided to chuck the linear regulators and learn the "black magic" art of switching power supplies... (before anyone flames me, I KNOW, both have their place :-) Anyways, I've built the basic up & down converters with pretty good results (>80% efficiency) but I'm running into problems whe...
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So when they took the time to *copy* *the* *text* correctly, that includes "obvious corruptions?" So when they took the time to *copy* *the* *text* correctly, that does not exclude "variant readings from the masoretic text" which are "of little theological import" Hey, you're the expert.
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I keep hearing people say this. It assumes that we, at some point, had a choice at the ballot box: "Vote yes or no I want the FBI and BATF to become latter-day Gestapos". That just isn't so. The process is far more complex. We do not have direct control over the bureaucracy. When we evaluate our representative...
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Why sell them at a low price to poor people immediately? The NRA is an educational organization too, after all, and it would be a shame to pay all that money for new guns when these cheap guns would allow a lot of money thus saved to be used in opening more classes. Mention that the NRA trains our boys in blue an...
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Count me in for $1000.00. Allan Lockridge My Opinions are my own and are not for sale.
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I have the following Macintosh software for sale. Email me if interested, or for complete descriptions. All prices are negotiable, but first offer at asking price gets it. Prices include First Class, 2-day shipping!!! (Outside U.S. extra) OIDS $20 Expert Color Paint $20 RoboSport ...
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Yup. Most JPEG viewers seem to require specific video drivers since they support only specific video cards. Some have the standard IBM BIOS video support for the VGA 320x200 256 colour mode, but they leave out the other cards such as the Hercules monochrome card (which by the way can give very good picture quality i...
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[text deleted] [text deleted] Thank you very much Paul. I have always been impressed by the very human-ness of Mary. That God chose a woman, like me, to bring into this world the incarnation of Himself proves to me that this God is MY God. He reaches down from His perfection to touch me. Ah, the wonder of it all :...
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I recently came across this article which I found interesting. I have posted it to hear what other people feel about the issue. I realise it is rather long (12 pages in Wordperfect) by may well be worth the read. Except for the first page (which I typed) the rest was scanned inusing Omnipage. Some of the f's have ...
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: >: I'd really like to see such a thing developed so that interactive : >:internet talk radio could be done. Ideally, though, it should be a general : >:purpose device. It should be a general purpose enough device that nobody : >:should be able to balk at its widespread use. Obviously, to make it easy : >:for homebrew...
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But aren't you imposing your moral standards against gay people because you do not want to rent to, or hire, or as you put associate with, ( and I do not know of a law that requires you to associate with gay people)? It works both ways.
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Newsgroup: sci.electronics From: martin.vuille@synapse.org Subject: Electronic Design Does anyone know the telephone number for the circulation department of 'Electronic Design' magazine? MV
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I would like to prevent our Windows users from using ctl-alt-del from within windows. I know there must be a way to do it. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Mike Glynn mike.glynn@business.gatech.edu
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Does anyone here know anything about chelation therapy using EDTA? My uncle has emphesema, and a doctor wants to try it on him. We are wondering if: 1. Is there any evidence EDTA chelation therapy is beneficial for his condition, or any condition? 2. What possible side effects are there. How can they be mimimize...
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The Catholic church has an entirely different view of Mary than do "most" other Christian churches (those with parallel beliefs notwithstanding). Christ, by most accounts, is the only sinless person to ever live. I too, have trouble with a sinless Mary concept just. As for the related issue of the "original" sin -...
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Really now. Why is this the pot calling the kettle black? I am stating that a person who shows a continually biased opinion is close-minded and that his opinion should be ignored. Clayton is stating that a group of at least two million (1%) American citizens are evil vicious malicious child-molesters. Her...
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*** On 04-21-93 04:50, R.x. Getter had the unmitigated gall to say this: RG> This may be a dumb question, but I need to put a hard drive on my RG> father's PC/XT, either MFM, RLL, or IDE. I know how to hook it up, but RG> how do I tell the computer the geometry of the drive. On my 386, you RG> set it in the BIOS,...
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Not that the question is anything important, but I am still curious: Why is that almost all printed circuit boards are green? I have seen a few blue ones, but no red, yellow, company logo etc. Is there a technical reason or could it be that the marketing "geniuses" have not tought about it (yet)?
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Gant's ML record Age 28 this season. Year G AB BA OBP SLG HR SB CS 1987 21 83 .265 .271 .386 2 4 2 1988 146 563 .259 .317 .439 19 19 10 <-- 3rd Base Expt. year 1989 75 260 .177 .237 .335 9 9 6 1990 152 575 .303 .357 .539 32 33 16 1991 154 561 .251...
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Are 180 degree V-6 "Flat-Six" engines???
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I think C.S. Lewis has argued that medieval people did not all think the world is flat. However, this argument goes both ways. Pretend someone telling Plato that it is highly probable that people do not really have souls; their minds and their consciousness are just something their brains make up, and their brains (...
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Ford aimed for 75% US content when they designed the new Probe. In actual practice it came out to 77% US content. If my '89 is any example the 23% that is imported may be the engine and brakes, at least the '89 had Missybitchy brakes.
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... This is a common misconception, shared my many manufacturers, programmers, and users alike. COM3, for example, is simply the third equipped COMM port, not necessarily the one with I/O address 3E8. The BIOS just searches sequentially through a set of potential COMM port addresses. The first equipped port it find...
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[Frank's solution deleted.] If you have access to telnet, contact nyx.cs.du.edu. It's a public access Unix system, completly free, and all you need to for access is a verifiable form of ID (I think he requires a notarized copy of a picture, or a check, or some such).
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Is it realistic for the government to try to keep the details of the encrytion algorithm secret if it intends to use evidence from wiretaps in court? Won't defense attorneys attempt to obtain the details of the method if the prosecution attempts to present evidence from wiretaps in court? Is it certain that ...
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You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3
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How do I get a subscription to MacWeek. I want one, but I don't seem to be able to find a subscription card anywhere.
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You can't customize a command line interface? Where have you been? I can change the prompt, I can make aliases (so someone like me who is used to say, ls, can type it on my dos machine and still get a directory listing), and under Unix, if I don't like the command line interface, I throw it out and get a different o...
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Hi Fellows, I have : -------------------------------------------------------- 36 pcs. 1x1-80 $102 + $5.00 for shipping. Total 107.00 -------------------------------------------------------- If interested, respond here or call 408/942-9690 Fax 408/942-9693
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Are there any graphics texts with examples/demos/projects directly in X? The last time I taught the course, I used a popular graphics text that uses its own graphics package, with implementations available for X/Mac/PC. The problem was that after the course the students were good at programming in the artificial pack...
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Dear Netters, My friend have brought a S3801 card with 2Mb RAM. Is there any new driver for the card available on ftp cites? What is the newest version? She is very interest in have a driver for 1024x768 with HiColor and 800x600 true color. No such driver come with the card. K.W.Mok
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I speculate, from the MykoTronx data sheet on the MYK-78, that the algorithm is a classified cryptosystem, similar in application to DES but cleared by the NSA for classified traffic, that has been in use for a number of years. Myktotronx refers to it as "Government Type II encryption", which matches the designat...
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[ ... ] [ ... ] One very interesting thing I notice about this is that the only use of the chip key is to encode the session key for the law enforcement field. It is not used at all by the encryption algorithm. It seems like it would be possible to create a device that would be otherwise compatible, but would s...
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Damn. And I did so have my hopes up. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away, and sank Manhattan out at sea.
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The above article is a good short summary of traditional Christian teaching concerning the death of Mary. Also very good is "Re: Question about the Virgin Mary" by Micheal D. Walker. He tells the story very well. I would like to add that in the Eastern Orthodox Church we celebrate "The Dormition (or falling asleep)...
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Hi, I just test installed kanjitalk 6.07 on my IIci and got a black screen, a way sick looking mac icon, and when hitting the programmers reset, a tone sequence that I guess is the infamous "tones of death." I was able to reboot off a floppy, removed the japanese system, and set up the system folder on the hard drive...
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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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Has anyone, while driving a cage, ever waved at bikers? I get the urge, but I've never actually done it. I've bike like | Jody Levine DoD #275 kV got a you can if you -PF | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca ride it | Toronto, ...
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Can anyone mail me the address of Houston's Mailing List? Thanks in advance. J. Scott Smithers smithers@dcseq.uscga.edu
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After seeing William Sessions on television, explaining the great lengths to which the FBI went to determine the suicidal tendancies of David Koresh, I got the very unpleasent feeling that Koresh had manipulated the FBI's perceptions much the way he manipulated his own followers. Maybe I was manipulated by the news ...
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: I was recently talking to a possible employer ( mine! :-) ) and he made a reference to a : 48-bit graphics computer/image processing system. I seem to remember it being called IMAGE or : something akin to that. Anyway, he claimed it had 48-bit color + a 12-bit alpha channel. That's : 60 bits of info--what could ...
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Would you like fries with that, sir?
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The Brady Bill passed the House in 1992, but failed to reach a vote in the Senate. As such, it never reached Bush. (Sarah Brady's condemnation not-withstanding). It'll probably pass the House again, and will probably pass the Senate if they can get it to a vote. Whether of not they'll be busy wit...
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How difficult would it be to do a solar sail mission to say mercury? Not much has been there and there is a 23?KM/s delta v to eat off. could a solar sail, handle say adiscovery bus, and drop it into mercury orbit, good enough for rockets to put it into some form of polar orbit?
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Yes, they are nice ads, and even better: great prices. But this is all on the outside. The consumer sees this and orders. Little do they know, they will get *POOR* service (very poor). When I ordered a 105mb hard drive from TC about 6 months ago, I received it in the mail, installed it, and discovered it DIDN'...
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There is a review of 3DO in the latest "wired" magazine. You may just want to take a trip to the local bookstore and check it out (there's some cool pics too). (I haven't read it yet, or I'd tell you more.. :-)
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Greeting I am starting work on a project where I am trying to make strain gages bond to bone in vivo or a period of several months. I am currently using hydroxyapaptite back gages, and I have tried M-bonding the gages to the bone. Apart from those two application methods there doesn't seem to be much else in the lit...
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Nice touch - using the word *seem*. -- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
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The green layer is a solder-mask, and is used to make a finished board look neat, and to avoid solder bridges, especially when using wave soldering (or any other mechanized approach). I've seen red mask, but most that I've seen are green. A bakelite board will look brown in colour, and, if the solder mask is put on,...
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********* WANTED : Word Processing Typewriter ******** A friend is looking for a wordproccing electronic typewriter, preferably with 40 char. display and spelling correction. Send info to the addresses below: Thanks, -Steve
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existance. *************************************************************************** I just thought it necessary to help defend the point that Jesus existed. Guys: Jesus existed. If he didnt, then you have to say that Socrates didnt exist cuz he, like Jesus, has nothing from his hands that have survived. O...
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While it may mean that in 1993, the relevant meaning comes from 1789. Moreover, "controlled" doesn't tell you WHO's doing the controllling. Fletcher's Political Works, pub'd in 1749, defines a "well-regulated militia", that being the relevant phrase, as being an armed people NOT under the control of govt. The wigged...
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Huh? Where did you get this idea from? I think you got this backwards. The Duo's memory is faster than its equivalent desktop machine by 5-10% (and the rest of the powerboks). I think the explanation for this was that it can refresh faster (in 2 instead of 5 cycles I believe). Things that could affect performa...
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[story about dealing having problems w/C610's deleted] I've had my C610 for about six weeks now with no problems whatsoever. It's been "customized" with--- * replaced the Apple-Quantum 80 drive with a Connor 212 drive. * installed a Tandberg SCSI tape drive in the internal bay which works just fine (though ...
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I have many icons in IconEdit and PBIcon format and I would like to convert them to PBM, PGM or PPM format. Do you know the formats of IconEdit or PBIcon?
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TRry the SKywatch project in Arizona.
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Where is Roger anyway? Haven't heard from him in awhile. He must be out on the golf course waiting for the Leafs to join him any day now. : )
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It could also be that your shell is hogging the resources. For example, open the apps with data files that cause resulting low system resources with ndw 2.x as shell, then do the same with program manager, and see if it's the shell or the apps.
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ALL, Finally cleaned out the storage room and have the following items for sale: C-64 Computer 2-1542 Disk Drives 1351 Mouse all cables lots of software (mostly games) The computer and drives work (hooked it to the TV to test) except for sound-evidentl...
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