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To windows 3.0, yes. It's definitely dated - I used OS/2 1.21, & alpha 2.0 (when msft was developing it...) I preferred Windows 3.1 because it was more stable & faster than 3.0, but could still run more apps than OS/2 (again I made this choice before 2.0 was released). No, I've seen no such data. hee hee. good one ;> ;> ...and one that I've encountered as well... Hmm. Are you sure? I'm speaking from my own experience as an OS/2 _user_. Certainly people in, say, the NT marketing group would be in a unique position to present the results of, say, research on upcoming NT and OS/2 apps (vs Windows and MS-DOS apps). Part of my point was that just cause one works at microsoft does not mean one has access to such data (if it exists). I will confess to, at times, attacking the poster. Again, my point was that not all microsofties are here to "sell" readers on our products (which would conflict with the "no-ads" philosophy of usenet). Nor do we necessarily have access to info that others have. I also get tired of people assuming that microsofties are, like, members of the BORG. -jen --
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i have no experience with State Farm, but i think it's important to differentiate your experience from a typical "accident."
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You are quite correct in your understanding. The filtering is not interpolation, as that would distort the frequency content of the signal you are listening to. Generally, these players run the samples thru an all-pass filter network. I have done this for ECG waveforms from a person's heart, and the effect is rather spooky. It actually reconstructs peaks that weren't there (correctly, too!) and fills in the gaps with the properly computed values, just as if there had been a real sample taken at that point. I use a CPU to do all the math. It takes a decent (but not unreasonable) amount of CPU time to do this. You can keep up with things in realtime if you write efficient code. In case you care, the filtering method uses an FIR (finite impulse response) filter. I'd guess that CD makers use the same kind of method. Anybody out there know the real answer? I'd say that they use a tapped delay line with resistor/op-amp weighting to accomplish the filtering. This strikes me as the most cost effective method for volume production runs. Actually, I think the only reason they do this is so that they can say that they have a marketting gimic. I would guess that it is acutally cheaper to filter an oversampled signal than not. You can use sloppier components and give the filter a roll-off that isn't so sharp. It's too bad that they charge more for something that (I think) is actually less costly to build. I seriously doubt that the filters cost the same but are better. They are built to a price spec, and that spec says "cheap as possible!". -dave
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Well, they can't listen in on much of mine, since I already use cryptography for much of my electronic mail, and will start using it for my telephony as soon as practical. However, allow me to tell a parable. There was once a far away land called Ruritania, and in Ruritania there was a strange phenonmenon -- all the trees that grew in Ruritainia were transparent. Now, in the days when people had lived in mud huts, this had not been a problem, but now high-tech wood technology had been developed, and in the new age of wood, everyone in Ruritania found that their homes were all 100% see through. Now, until this point, no one ever thought of allowing the police to spy on someone's home, but the new technology made this tempting. This being a civilized country, however, warrants were required to use binoculars and watch someone in their home. The police, taking advantage of this, would get warrants to use binoculars and peer in to see what was going on. Occassionally, they would use binoculars without a warrant, but everyone pretended that this didn't happen. One day, a smart man invented paint -- and if you painted your house, suddenly the police couldn't watch all your actions at will. Things would go back to the way they were in the old age -- completely private. Indignant, the state decided to try to require that all homes have video cameras installed in every nook and cranny. "After all", they said, "with this new development crime could run rampant. Installing video cameras doesn't mean that the police get any new capability -- they are just keeping the old one." A wise man pointed out that citizens were not obligated to make the lives of the police easy, that the police had survived all through the mud hut age without being able to watch the citizens at will, and that Ruritania was a civilized country where not everything that was expedient was permitted. For instance, in a neighboring country, it had been discovered that torture was an extremely effective way to solve crimes. Ruritania had banned this practice in spite of its expedience. Indeed, "why have warrants at all", he asked, "if we are interested only in expedience?" A famous paint technologist, Dorothy Quisling, intervened however. She noted that people might take photographs of children masturbating should the new paint technology be widely deployed without safeguards, and the law was passed. Soon it was discovered that some citizens would cover their mouths while speaking to each other, thus preventing the police from reading their lips through the video cameras. This had to be prevented, the police said. After all, it was preventing them from conducting their lawful surveilance. The wise man pointed out that the police had never before been allowed to listen in on people's homes, but Dorothy Quisling pointed out that people might use this new invention of covering their mouths with veils to discuss the kidnapping and mutilation of children. No one in the legislature wanted to be accused of being in favor of mutilating children, but then again, no one wanted to interfere in people's rights to wear what they liked, so a compromise was reached whereby all homes were installed with microphones in each room to accompany the video cameras. The wise man lamented few if any child mutilations had ever been solved by the old lip reading technology, but it was too late -- the microphones were installed everwhere. However, it was discovered that this was insufficient to prevent citizens from hiding information from the authorities, because some of them would cleverly speak in languages that the police could not understand. A new law was proposed to force all citizens to speak at all times only in Ruritanian, and, for good measure, to require that they speak clearly and distinctly near the microphones. "After all", Dorothy Quisling pointed out, "they might be using the opportunity to speak in private to mask terrorist activities!" Terrorism struck terror into everyone's hearts, and they rejoiced at the brulliance of this new law. Meanwhile, the wise man talked one evening to his friends on how all of this was making a sham of the constitution of Ruritania, of which all Ruritanians were proud. "Why", he asked, "are we obligated to sacrifice all our freedom and privacy to make the lives of the police easier? There isn't any real evidence that this makes any big dent in crime anyway! All it does is make our privacy forfeit to the state!" However, the wise man made the mistake of saying this, as the law required, in Ruritanian, clearly and distinctly, and near a microphone. Soon, the newly formed Ruritanian Secret Police arrived and took him off, and got him to confess by torturing him. Torture was, after all, far more efficient than the old methods, and had been recently instituted to stop the recent wave of people thinking obscene thoughts about tomatoes, which Dorothy Quisling noted was one of the major problems of the new age of plenty and joy. -- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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Sorry Malcolm, but I rather believe Jesus than you. Cheers, Kent
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An extended ride as a passenger on a 750 ninja. Owww. Well, I hate to be a wet sock, but, well... I was a passenger on many bikes for the longest time before I started riding myelf, and I grew to hate long rides on sport bikes. The passenger seats are not designed for long rides. The passenger positions aren't even usually designed for short rides. I ended up torturing my knees and my back by taking long rides as a passenger on sport bikes. One of the reasons I originally liked my current guythingy so much was becase he had a BMW. :) I'd suggest a shorter extended ride at first -- a short turn in the mountains or some such. Then see how much pain she's in, and proceed from there. The best advice I'd give a beginning passenger: - Don't get on the bike until the rider says its OK, and work out some sort signal for the rider to tell you when its OK to get off. After I get on the bike I squeeze my riders hips to tell that I'm ready, and at the stop he nods his head to show its OK for me to get off. - Keep your feet on the pegs at all times. Don't wiggle (unless your rider asks you to :) - The best passengers are those which are unobtrusive. Echo the movements and lean of your rider. Look over the shoulder thats most comfortable, but during turns look over the shoulder on the inside of the turn. - Get used to your rider's shifting style (Riders: use a reasonably consistent shifting style). Avoid "helmet bonk." Helmet bonk is when your rider revs the bike up and then shifts and the sudden change in foreward acceleration causes your helmet to bonk his/hers. It gets old real fast. - When pulling to a stop, put a hand or both hands on the tank to keep your weight from pushing your rider up onto the tank. Putting your hands on the tank is also a good way to stretch your back if you're in pain, but I'm told it gets harder to steer in turns if you leave them there. - Switch your hands to the guardrail to stretch your shoulders, but be sure and squeeze your thighs while you're doing it so your rider knows you're still there. :) The guard rail isn't as safe as holding onto your rider. - Don't be afraid to ask for frequent stops if you're in pain or losing feeling in your feet. Passenger seats are not generally designed for comfort. Work out some sort of pull over signal beforehand.
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This is a very impotant update, I will omit just a few lines, and add some "overhead" for the sake of the copyright :-) I say despite all the bad news for Muslims around the world, things are shaping up very well, a lot of killings might happen in the near future, though (as if Bosnia is not a lot). Right now, I feel like saying what Martillo said : "the stage is set". I don't think that things will be the same in ten year, On the pessimistic/realistic side, we can only see the stage set for more wars imposed on our people, and governments being remote controlled. to fight each other and to oppress their own people, but I am confident they will all fall: I venture to list the order: Sudan/Yemen alliance, Algeria/Libya in 5 years, Tunisia one year later but Egypt may face direct colonization very soon to prevent an Islamic government which might take over after Egypt attacks SUdan and is envolved in atrocities there as it fails to achieve victory. Meanwhile Saudia faces a civil war and goes to war with Yemen/Sudan over it, The new North African Alliance (Algeria/Tun/Libya) goes to war with Morocco who attacks it. U.S/France involved everywhere but cannot concentrate on one place, especially that Syria/Jordan/Iraq have to be kept under control. After the cloud clears, I do not know what the end result will be, O.K back to reality: CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- The Cairo-based Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) Sunday called on King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to order the release of members of the kingdom's first human rights group.
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I've noticed a recent proliferation of 1 gig SCSI-2 3.5" drives, in particular, the Fujitsu 2694 and the Micropolis 2112. There is also the Maxtor LXT1240s (6100 rpm, 1.2 gig) drive. They are all quite cheap, and have nice 3-5 year warranties. My questions are: Is there a catch? Which one is better? What type of SCSI-2 do these drives use? Is the service generally better for one of these manufacturers? Are prices likely to go down soon for any reason? thanks,
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Reports in Ottawa today say that the Senators have come to a verbal agreement with last seasons first pick and 2nd overall choice Alexei Yashin on a 5 year deal. As well the Senators have signed their second round pick Chad Penney who is currently playing for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the Ontario Junior league playoffs.
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My 24-bit color 600 dpi fladbed scanner can do the job for you. GIF, TIFF, PCX, BMP. Interested? Please write to me: imagesyz@aol.com
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Hmm. The police strategy of bursting in with weapons drawn, clearly marked as officers and yelling "Police" repeatedly. This is used every day to bust drug houses. The idea is to awe the suspects into submission with surprise and display of firepowere in order to avoid a gun fight. As for not knocking, it's a sad necessity in many cases since the suspects will attempt to escape or even fight. Usually this strategy works; if it didn't, then it wouldn't be used so commonly, now would it? Whether or not it was appropriate to use this strategy on the BD is not my point, since I don't think any of us have enough information to make a clear judgement on this issue. I merely point out that it IS a valid strategy which is used every day. Furthermore, we don't know of any substitute strategy capable of apprehending potentially dangerous and armed suspects. Do you suggest that the police always knock with guns holstered and never arrest any suspects until they have been allowed to inspect the officers's badges? Just what should the police do when apprehending potentially dangerous and armed suspects? How far can they reasonably go to identiy themselves? What do you suggest they can do which can't be faked by the "competition"? Even if you've got deadly enemies who may pretend to be cops, that's not an excuse to murder police. In the case of the BD's, there was almost definitely at most the paranoid delusion of deadly enimies who would pretend to be cops.
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hello, i want to know if a spoilt com port will create problems with mouse ?? my mouse just gets stuck on the screen for a while and i have to press its button to be able to move it around again..... is there a shareware utility program to diagnose my com ports?
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Isn't this the point of "a better windows than Windoze". :).
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{deletions} Yes, this is a valid concern IMHO. With the directly attached fan units I've seen, it looks like if the fan were to stop the chip cooling would be a good bit worse than no heat sink at all. In other words, if the fan stops the unit turns into an insulator and the chip might get hot enough to suffer permanent damage, not just stop working temporarily. My Zeos 486DX2/66 (tower case) has a passive heat sink on the cpu, and it's located so the front fan, which sucks air into the case, blows right on the heat sink. If that fan stops the heat sink is still cooled by convection air flow so should not see too dramatic a temperature rise. Essentially the arrangement you're talking about and a good idea IMHO.
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>tell RSA or any other non-DOD entity anything that its eavesdropping >reveals.
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A couple of months ago I tried out a Hercules Graphite card. A pretty nice board. Fairly fast, and seemed quite compatible -- even seemed to handle the SVGA modes I have whined about here on occasion. At the time I was just buying a VLB system, so after checking out the card I sent it back. I wanted a VLB card, and purchased a Fahrenheit VLB card. This card is fairly fast, will do 70 Hz refresh at 1024x768, but is not compatible with my CD-ROMS (the SVGA thing -- I think; I have merely conjectured that is the cause of an old graphics board being able to run in a higher resolution with those programs than the modern boards I have tried. I have not gotten a straight answer out of anybody...). The monitor I am using it with is a 17" Magnavox, which also tops out at 1024x768x70 Hz so its really a pretty good match. But... That is for my wife. I just purchased a Viewsonic 17 for myself, and am looking for a graphics card to drive it. I want > 70Hz refresh, and would really like it to handle my CD-Roms. I tried the Orchid P9000, which did neither of those things (though Robert at Wietek did say that the to Hercules. They were supposed to be coming out with a VLB version of the Graphite around the end of March. I have heard precisely ZERO about it since then. Does anyone know if the card was actually released, and what capabilities (and price) it has? Any info would be most appreciated.
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Yeah, it seems toyota has always had a problem with those 2.2's and sound. I know the celicas with em were pretty noisey, and the MR2s were no exception. Now, about large displacement 4s with bad noise.. I have a 90 Grand Am H.O. quad 4, and it sounds really good, almost like a larger 6.. Now, Toyota is coming out with an all-new Celica next year and the Mr2... well who knows..
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The April 13 issue of PC Magazine published benchmarks for the ATI UltraPro running on both VLB and EISA: 800x600,16 800x600,256 1024x768,16 1024x768,256
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Turbo boost is necessary if a turboed car. Fuel reserve warning. Coolant level warning. It would also be nice to have a gauge that would cycle across the different sensors in the FI system such as O2 sensor, altitude, Air Flow... I'd love to get Tranny and diff. Brake temp would be great... And a BIG ASS tach. :) Sean
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I have access to a DEC TLZ06 DEC DAT tape backup. What do I need to interface my SE/30 to the tape backup. The tape backup is a SCSI. Will Norton Utilities be sufficient to interface the two?
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I have an opportunity to buy a Radius VideoVision board for about 1/3 of normal street price, which I believe is due to a change in the board architecture. I VAGUELY, MAYBE remember that there was some kind of serious problem with this board, which does Composite, PAL, SECAM to S video, Composite, etc coversions. Plus also generating quicktime movies, etc. MacWeek was generally complimentary about it in the April 12th issue. Does anyone have any information on this board, such as is it the one which has been superceeded, what about an upgrade if so, etc. I'd be very curious to hear from you. THANKS! --B.W.
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Net citizens! This is a desperate try to save our last course in university. We are writing a study about the Net, how it all started, about the people living in it, however trying to explain the basics of how it all works. That includes you, reader of this message. We would be more than grateful if we could get your answers to the following questions; 1. For how many years have you known that Internet existed? 2. How often do you use the Net? (occasions per month) 3. Whatfor? (hobby, in your profession, socialy...) 4. How do you access the Net? (university, profession, friends, private...) 5. Has the Net taken over roles that other media played before? (telephone, newspapers, TV, girlfriend...) 6. What newsgroups/type of information do you take part of? 7. Male or Female? 8. Age? If you have the time; 9. What's your future visions about the Net? Limits and/or possibilities. 10.How do you think/hope law and censorship will change over time ahead? We also want to apologize for taking up so much bandwidth with this. This request has been spread to 60 newsgroups, chosen at random, but, you know how it is, term end is closing up, panic spreads. Email address: fm91hn@hik.se or fm91pb@hik.se Sincere Respect And May The Force Be With You All!
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God ItSelf appeared to me and spoke to me, saying "Rawlins has been listening to a deamon, and has been taken in by its satanic words!"
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As I said, I do not want to convice anyone, so, why should my opinions convince anyone? I do not believe that my opinions are refuted by facts. Maybe youy view of a dictionary is the problem here. One thing is the accepted meaning of a word by a dictionary, and sometimes a completely different thing is what that word came to mean after a long time. OK. Tell me how many people in Zionist movements define a Jew in a different way, and how many are who define Jew based on a religious way. You need to start reading before answering. My point was that because some movement claims to be nationalistic, it does not mean that I consider it to be nationalistic. I did not comapre Israel to the IRA. I think that you are starting to put words on my mouth and that is wrong. I never said that Zionism is monolithic. If you are going to attribute me things, present the quotes where I said that. That is your problem. I could certainly interpret this like you are running out of arguments. First, you put words in my mouth, now, you say you do ot believe me. Why don't you try reading for a change? Did I say that the Law of Return demand a person to be religious? Now, how does the Law of Return define who is a Jew and who is not? I said that it uses a religious standard: If your mother is a Jew, you are a Jew, if your mother is not Jewish, neither you are. Do not twist my words, please. I am not talking about the debate. I am talking about how things are right now. When the debate is over, I'll see what happens. Right now, things are like they are. Let me ask you one thing. I understand that Israel differenciates between Citizenship and Nationality. Suppose M(ale) and F(emale) have a child in Israel. Which nationality will the child's ID show, according to each one of the following cases: a) F and M are both Jewish. b) F is Jewsh and M is not. c) F is Muslim and M is jewish. d) F is Christian and M is Jewish. e) F and M are both non-Jewish. It called history. At some point it was OK. Now, I believe, it is not. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ Interesting. How do you know? Had I ever talked to you about this and forgotten about that? Which definition are you now talking here about? I do not know why you are so touchy. I never said that you did not support Palestinian self-determination. I just gave an example of hypocrisy. I never said that someone in this net is guilty of it. It was just an example. Nothing more, nothing less than that. Why did you have to clarify what you think? Here you have several problems. First, you should know that words have more meanings than those given in the dictionary. Second, it may come to be a shock for you to know that there are more words than those in the dictionary. Third, we can exchange ideas if you want, but you come out with this nonsense about being believable = using the definitions given in a dictionary. It seems that you cannot answer to the ideas given by others without insulting others. Sad. If you did not put words in my mouth, it might be that you might start reading what I had actually said. So far, you come over and over twisting what I said or presenting things I never said as if I had said them. In this way, you are answering to yourself. That is why you do not find it believable. Maybe, if you start reading what I had actually said, and not what you added, you might change your mind. First, there is nothing resembling a fact in what you added to what I said, as if I had said it. Seconf, anyone else is supposed to mean "than I do"?
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In the Monday, May 10 morning edition of the San Jose Mercury News an article by Sandra Gonzales at the top of page 12A explained convicted killer David Edwin Mason's troubled childhood saying, "Raised in Oakland and San Lorenzo by strict fundamentalist Christian parents, Mason was beaten as a child. He once was tied to a workbench and gagged with a cloth after he accidently urinated on his mother when she walked under his bedroom window, court records show." Were the San Jose Mercury news to come out with an article starting with "Raised in Oakland by Mexican parents, Mason was beaten...", my face would be red with anger over the injustice done to my Mexican family members and the Mexican community as a whole. I'm sure Sandra Gonzales would be equally upset. Why is it that open biggotry like this is practiced and encouraged by the San Jose Mercury News when it is pointed at the christian community? Can a good christian continue to purchase newspapers and buy advertising in this kind of a newspaper? This is really bad journalism.
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# #Actually, I bet you more gay/bi men are as not as promiscuous as gay men, # #because more of them could have the "option" of living a straight life, and # #with social pressures, probably would at least try. # # Geez, where have you been, Ryan? I proposed this theory *months* # ago. Let's take it one step further, even. If, as the surveys show, # up to 33% of all men have *had* a homosexual encounter, then there must Cite a survey, other than the obviously bogus Kinsey studies. # be an even *larger* percentage of people who have had homosexual erotic # fantasies. But if less than 10% of the population is gay, what can we # say about these people who don't identify as gay but have demonstrated # gay potential. Obviously, a large chunk of these people *chose* (or, # more accurately, were forced to choose by force of religion and social # sanction) to put those feelings aside, to be heterosexual. # # Obviously, Cramer and Kaldis fall into this category. I can't speak for Kaldis; but "force of religion and social sanction" played no part in my sexual preferences. Neither had much influence on me as a teenager. # elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
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Hi all, I wrote a small application which uses pixmaps copied into a window to show some drawings. This works perfectly for all kind of objects expect large fonts. What happens on the screen is that the right half of the font is not shown. The way I create these things is quite simple; some aggregated code: XFillRectangle(Disp, Pixs, AnyColor, 0, 0, Width, Height); XDraw[Line|Rect|String](...); XCopyArea(Disp, Pixs, Win, 0, 0, Width, Height, 0, 0); I am using a RS6K 340 with BOS 3.2. The question is: is this a bug in the AIX X-server (may be some PTFs), or did I do something wrong within my code?? Sorry for the cross-posting, but I really do not know what kind of error it is. Juergen Schietke Research Insitute for Discrete Mathematics University of Bonn Nassestr. 2 5300 Bonn 1 (Germany)
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First, please watch your line lengths. Not everyone has autowrap. Second, Franklin to the rescue! Here's the list: Player HR SB Aaron 755 240 Mays 660 338 FRobinson 586 204 RJackson 563 228 Winfield 406 216 * Dawson 377 304 * Baylor 338 285 BoBonds 332 461 Wynn 291 225 Strawberry 280 201 * Morgan 268 689 Pinson 256 309 Yount 235 247 * KGibson 208 253 * Sandberg 205 297 * Players marked with an * are still active; numbers through 1991. That's only 15; the 16th is probably Rickey Henderson, who was listed at 184 HR, 994 SB or George Brett, listed as 186 SB, 291 HR. The surprises? Probably Reggie, Bayor, and Wynn for steals. Maybe Morgan (to a lot of people) for homers. I was kind of surprised to realize that Sandberg has that many steals, though I wasn't surprised that the number was Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
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Just MHO, but I prefer hardcopy books because you can have three or four of them open spread across the bed (next to the desk in my dorm) and reference them while using the program full-screen. The Windows Help things come closest to good on-line documentation I've seen, but they generally aren't detailed enough and would probably take a LARGE amount of space (even compressed) which is at a premium on my system . . .. In fact, the manuals are the primary reason I bought Borland's C++ compiler instead of using the one the lab licensed (in the lab, of course). I've got a SHELF full of books to help me out when I'm stuck. :-) To each his own . . . :-) We've destroyed about six sets of original Microsoft Word for Mac 5.0 and Word for Windows (may have been a bad batch of disks). Don't have the faintest idea what happened to them, they just went bad. Weren't stored near any magnetic fields or otherwise mistreated, indeed they were only used once. Given this, and the massive headaches finding a working set of disks to fix some of the machines that periodically go down, I'd say having working backups is a godsend. I sure wish we'd had them (Sometimes I think Murphy's Law holds true more often than Newton's!!) when we needed them. I think it's sortof like snake antivenin. 99.995% of the time you have absolutely no use for it, but when you need it, BOY do you ever need it! I don't have backups of my originals at "home" but then my machine doesn't see anywhere NEAR the use/abuse of these here at the lab, and so I consider it less of a risk. Still, I usually make "working copies" of them when I install them and then eventually re-use these "working copies" for something else. . .. Just mine, too! :-) BTW, before anyone notices my mentioning "copying" programs from machine to machine when we do installs here and wonders about the licensing, the upper-management (non-student staff, of course) are METICULOUS in checking with providers of the software and making SURE we are sticking to the license agreements . . ..
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As far as I know, there is no way to get around the BIOS password except by shorting out the power supply to the CMOS memory, thereby erasing it. This will remove the password, but it will also destroy all the previous BIOS settings, so then you'll have to go and set them all up again. On my 386, there is a jumper on the motherboard which is provided for the purpose of shorting the battery. You just short this jumper briefly, and it interrupts power to the CMOS long enough to erase it. I would imagine there is something like this on your board too. In the future, I would suggest that YOU set the password, and leave it on "Setup" only. That way, no-one else can go and reset it or set it to " Always" unless they know what password you used. They had to do this over here too when they got a bunch of new 386's, for just the same reason. -Dale
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Actually if Mr X had something to gain by his claims his account of the events would nmot be the most respected. Case and point, the resurrection. By claiming that the resurrection actually happened the early preachers were able to convert many to Christianity. However, if you read Mathew 27:38 (?) and the case for the resurrected saints who walked around Jerusalem and appeared to "many People" you would realize that other historians (Josephus for one) would have reported on it all if it happened. The fact that the Bible speaks of events of such great magnitude that they would have been noticed taken with the fact that they are not reported on by historians could only mean that the bible contains many made up stories.
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Isn't it ironic. I'm of that generation, and I remember the lesson. I cry to see all the postings from domestic .edu sites that have naively swallowed everything the government has seen fit to feed to them. Especially contrasted to such a post from the .uk yet. I suspect we saw the latter. However, the injustice implied in letting those involved escape without investigation and/or prosecution is also horrible to contemplate. --
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Why are you all playing these pathetic number games? The number of people showing up at the MOW hardly constitutes the entire queer populace. I doubt that it constitutes more than a handful of us. I'm queer, and I won't be there, simply because I don't have the time or the transportation. What the hell makes you think the participants in the MOW embody more than a minimum number? Face it, people, we're everywhere. There are always more of us than you think. Our numbers are constantly GROWING, not diminishing...some of your children will grow up to join us. Hell, some of MY children may grow up to join us. The best way to deal with this phenomenon is not to fear it and blind yourself to it, but to realize that you have nothing to fear. We're not perverts, we're not dangerous, we're just here, and we're human just like you--er, most of you. Idiots like Cramer and Kaldis can rant all they like. It won't do them one iota of good. Drewcifer P.S. I still can't get over the fact that some people actually believe that every queer in the U.S. would show up at the MOW, and that these numbers are meaningful. And, come to think of it, what about those of us in OTHER countries? Tree.
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Yeah, but who wants to start a pool on the first person arrested mistakenly and has their life turned upside-down because some law enforcement agency *does* make a chip::person association? I wonder if there are any plans to keep these records (e.g. encode the serial number into the UPC scanned at K-Mart along with the credit card info, voila.) At least your phone number tends to only locate to your house or whatever (i.e. to be coming from your telephone number the person likely is in your house etc.), plus or minus some shenanigans of course. But I'd hate to think of these guys getting the clipper id, recording the conversation, then doing a quick cross-lookup and your name comes up as owner of that id (mistakenly, maybe you sold the phone at a garage sale or the phone was stolen from your car or whatever.) They might only know who one side of the conversation is, for example. Anyone who thinks the govt is forbidden by law to cross-correlate such databases loses two points. First, law enforcement agencies can of course do this. Second, they're only forbidden from BUDGETING any money for it. The IRS, for example, does do this anyhow. They just don't spend any money on it so it's (technically) legal I guess. Instead they probably trade little favors with companies like mastercard (if you're the IRS I'll bet you have a *lot* of opportunities to trade favors with major corps for their databases.) I know, an IRS guy read an amazing list off to me (from his screen, I could hear him typing to pull up each screen) once on the phone during a dispute I had with them (to intimidate me, actually, not much of a dispute, I didn't particularly disagree, but for some reason this fellow wanted to play tough guy with me, I hope he's better now.) Amazing stuff he had at his finger tips. Be afraid. -- -Barry Shein
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[ref to Rev 12:7-12 deleted] Also read Ezek 28:13-19. This is a desctiption of Lucifer (later Satan) and how beautiful He was, etc, etc Grant
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Here is your chance to have a full UNIX System at a small cost: I have a full set of Unix system for the AT&T 6300+ for sale. It is version 2.5 (The latest as far as I know) and includes all the software (1.2Meg 5.25" floppies) and Manuals for: - Base OS - Development tools (C compilers etc...) - Dos Merge (Simultask) - etc. (I beleive the software requires a 6300+ and will not work on any other machine) I also have a few AT&T 6300 and + manuals including the System Programmers Guide if anyone is interested. Drop me a line with your offer if you are interested.
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A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the FREE State, the right of the people to KEEP and BEAR arms, shall not be infringed. I know that as a Canadian, I don't have much to stand on... But, I think that the right to KEEP and BEAR arms is very important to maintaining a FREE society. The America is still the most enviable place to live on this Earth (by anyone with their head on straight) and will stay that way only if more people stand-up PUBLICLY for what they believe!! Remember, that if you stand for nothing... You'll fall for anything... including "well-meaning" socialists, they did in Canada.
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Here's one from the mill. The Oilers MIGHT move to Hamilton where Porklington can get a free deal. Given what Labour relations and Puck has been like, it WOULD be a sigh of relief. This WAY w4e can can BOTH elements!!
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That is the standard advice in dermatology texts. The soak part greatly increases the inconvenience. Don't bother unless it doesn't work otherwise. Exactly, but it adds to the "ritual" aspect, which is important for us suggestible patients. (Posters, don't bother to repeat the rationale for the soak.) Greasy no matter what. Vaseline (generically, petrolatum) is famous for that. One text states that the more greasy a dry-skin cream is, the more effective. Try USP lanolin, at least for maintenance (preventive) therapy. USP lanolin is natural and much less greasy AND cheap (don't buy the more expensive perfumed lanolin mixture). As I've commented before, petrolatum is a poorly characterized mixture of hydrocarbons which are not found in biological systems (that is not inherently bad, but smell it up close, even on your hand), are partially absorbed into the body and remain there for months or more, and have associations with cancer. Don't panic, but also don't believe it's God's gift to the human skin.
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Wrong. Quite true. And evolution made "decided" that homosexuality had a place, otherwise it would have disappeared quite quickly. There are very few animals which do not exhibit homosexual behavior. It has been here before humans existed, and will be here after the human race has gone. Quite true. 2000 years of religious idiocy have not changed the nature of man. You tried to rid yourselves of us for 2000 years and failed.
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So this year you had a game on SCNY, a game on SCA, a game on ESPN, and if the Rangers hadn't crashed and burned, you would have had a game on MSG. What are you complaining about? I seem to recall last year everyone complaining about SC coverage. I even remember Orioles' games being shown in the DC area instead of hockey. And what about when SC failed to show the conclusion of other games because its feature game was over? Sound familiar? This year I'm getting twice the coverage. I can see all the Caps games *plus* the games ESPN shows. I think it's great that hockey is back on ESPN. IMHO, they're doing a great job especially considering the baseball contract they have to work around. --
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There is an office on the middle left US coast on Middlefield Road in Menlo Park, CA (415) 329-4390
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I agree with your points, and I'm glad to hear that you subscribe to the notion of secular humanism, humans helping humans instead of hoping for a possible deux ex machina solution! As for faith, you could always use such constructs to dampen your anger or sorrow. Cheers, Kent
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I have a very funny yet confusing problem. I am using Telemate within Win 3.1. Everytime I close dos box, my Telemate operation get affected (Normally I am doing file transfer). However, if I open + close windows program everything seems running smoothly. My file transfer operation get affected only if I close dos box. Can somebody please gimme some pointers on what is going on and how to fix it??
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Idea for repair of satellites: Warning I am getting creative again: Why not build a inflatable space dock. Basically deploy one side of the space dock (using a scissor shaped structure, saw it on beyond 2000), then maneuer the side to next to the satellite and then move the rest of the dock around the satellite and seal it.. The inflate the dock with a gas (is does not have to be oxygen, just neeeds to be non-flameble, non-damaging to the satellite and abel to maintain heat), thenheat the space dock (for the astronaut who will be working onthe satellite to be able to not have to wear the normal bulky space suit, but a much striped down own).. I know this might take a slot of work or not??? Or just to plain wierd, but ideas need to be thought of, for where is tomorrow, but in the imagination of the present..
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None of you guys noticed my "Gross Mistake" 'cause you don't have a clue. I noticed the misspeaking myself and corrected it. I doubt you would have ever noticed. Actually I've read books and taken courses on the subject. Ah yes and like you lived in the greater Deutschland. You guys are funny. It's funny to see people lose control and start the name calling when they realize they have no point. Could have fooled me. I understand how individual liberties (freedom of speach, religion etc.) could be a thing you "never heard about". Actually, Civil Libertarians believe in the fundamental freedoms that belong to human beings. They would support the Jews against the Nazis or anyone else who tries to oppress them and they would support the Arabs against the Israelis and any other such oppressive regimes (Iraq etc.) Well actually now that you mentioned here are a few things I appreciate: 1. Politeness 2. Stimulating conversation 3. A red rose 4. New York in june and a good Gerschwinn tune 5. A chocalate Sundae 6. Really angry out of controll funny people
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Is the U used in the law enforcement field from the phone which placed the call, from the unit whose 'start secure session' button was pressed first, or does each phone transmit its own law enforcement field? Even assuming one of the first two choices, the FBI is going to get a fresh N,U for its own database about every other phone call, eventually accumulating keys for all the phones used to connect to the line they are monitoring, not just the 'suspects' key. (Assuming the ever-thrifty FBI doesn't forget each key after its wiretap permission has expired.) Not quite a pyramid, but not bad, either.
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]it would be a shame to split boxer riders between different lists ]unless, of course, the existing list failed to meet the readers' ]needs. nowhere did I see you mention K bikes, which, being made by BMW, are welcome on my list. in fact, you go out of your way to say: "most all boxer talk is welcome" your list appears to cater to boxers. that's great. my list caters to BMW's, *without any restrictions* like you have. considering that the subscription count went to 29 within 18 hours of my initial post about the list (which was made around 10:00pm just before I went to bed), I'd say that there is a need for a *BMW* list as opposed to just a GS boxer list. my motivation for setting up the BMW list came from an earlier post of yours announcing your boxer list. it didn't fit my needs. ok, we've pissed on each other's list. let's get back to the regular net.noise and read our respective lists.
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I would like to hook up some cameras that were recently donated to our local community cable TV station which have sync inputs in the form of horizontal and vertical drive. Our station sync is a black burst which works fine with other boxes with "genlock" style inputs. Can anyone point me at a design, article, or whatever showing how to produce the horizontal & vertical drive signals? Thanks in advance. Jack Powers
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[re McElwaine] I just heard this week that he has started on COMPUSERVE flying models forum now. Sigh. --
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I just received some new information regarding the issue of BCCI and whether it is an Islamic bank etc. I am now about to post it under the heading "BCCI". Look for it there!
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A "moment of silence" doesn't mean much unless *everyone* participates. Otherwise it's not silent, now is it? Non-religious reasons for having a "moment of silence" for a dead classmate: (1) to comfort the friends by showing respect to the deceased , (2) to give the classmates a moment to grieve together, (3) to give the friends a moment to remember their classmate *in the context of the school*, (4) to deal with the fact that the classmate is gone so that it's not disruptive later. Blindly opposing everything with a flavor of religion in it is utterly idiotic.
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nnget 93122.1300541 And where do you advise people to turn for cancer information? Most It seems to me you've offered a circular refutation of Moss's organization. Who has shown the information in the latest book of PAC to be questionable? Could it be those 'regulatory' agencies and medical industries which Moss is showing to be operating with *major* vested interests. Whether one believes that these vested interests are real or not, or whether or not they actually shape medical research is a seperate argument. If one sees a possibility, however, that these interests exist, then the 'fact' that some of the information put out by PAC has been refuted by the medical industry doesn't hold much weight. As for the ineffectiveness of antineoplasteons, the fact that the NIH didn't find them effective doesn't make much sense here. Of course they didn't! I tend to have more faith in the word of the patients who are now alive after being told years ago that they would be dead of cancer soon. They are fighting like hell to keep that clinic open, and they credit his treatment with their survival. Anyone who looks at the NIH's record for investigation of 'alterna- tive' cancer therapies will easily see that they have a strange knack for find- ing relatively cheap and nontoxic therapies dangerous or useless.
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Generally the ship sinks (sorry, there's a picture of the USS Iowa next to my desk). First, unless that round is chambered there is little threat of penetration by the bullet, or the brass for that matter. Unless that expanding gas is held in an enclosed space you get a nice "pop" and not enough threat for even firefighters to worry about. Finally, it's rather simple to tell if a person was shot prior to being burned to a crisp. See, by the time the ammunition went up those people were quite dead. Look for blood around the wound, particularly bruising. However, it's my contention that it makes little difference whether they died from exploding ammunition or fire; the Feds seem to have shared responsibility for both.
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Has anybody heard an explanation of why the FBI was using tear gas in a 35 mph wind? Doesn't seem like vry good tactics to me ... Any other explanations? Lew
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I agree with Nick. What's the big deal about long games? If you want to watch baseball, there's that much more baseball to watch. And yes, baseball includes the space between plays as well as the plays themselves. I suspect that a lot of the complaining about long games, especially when it's coming from TV people, has to something to do with advertising. Probably time "wasted" in the middle of an inning, say by a batter stepping out of the box to fiddle with his gloves, or by a pitcher walking around behind the mound trying to collect his thoughts, could otherwise be sold as advertising time.
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Why can't an aircraft be designed so that the pilot can always be maintained in a upright position, perpendicular to the plane of acceleration? With the visual helmets now being used that display some of the flight parameters and with a keyboard and manuvering equipment moving with the pilot, a pilot may be able to function at accelerations in excess of 12G. Is anyone currently pursuing this area or is there a reason why this is impossible at the present time?
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The original poster, John Navitsky, said that he might use the monitor on a SparcStation LX. The LX is able to generate a picture at 1280*1024 at 76 Hz. Not officially, but I tried to set this resolution and refresh rate and the LX came up with a non-syncing screen. Our tube obviously couldn't handle this speed. At 67 Hz, it worked perfectly. When buying a third party monitor that's going to be used on a SparcStation LX, you might consider a monitor that's fast enough to do 1280*1024 at 76Hz. I don't know for sure whether the LX supports this (Sun certainly won't tell you) so you'll have to check.
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While I don't have an answer for you, I reckon Blaise Pascal is generally credited with inventing the syringe per se. I don't know much about the needles; however, I do know of a southwest Virginia country doctor who some thrity or more years ago invented, patented, used, and sold a syringe/ hypodermic needle combination that retracted, injected with the flip of a trigger, then retracted, giving a near-painless injection. The fellow was Dr. Daniel Gabriel, and it was termed the Gabriel--somebody else syringe. Did you come across that one. (Plastic, disposable syringes came onto the market about that time and his product went by the wayside, to my knowledge.)
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This is a point that seems to have been overlooked by many. The ending of a 1600 year old schism seems to be in sight. The theologians said that the differences between them were fundamentally ones or terminology, and that the Christological faith of both groups was the same. Some parishes have concelebrated the Eucharist, and here in Southern Africa we are running a joint theological training course for Coptic and Byzantine Orthodox. There are still several things to be sorted out, however. As far as the Copts are concerned, there were three ecumenical councils, whily the Byzantine Orthodox acknowledge seven.
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--> -->What, a dog weighs 150lb maybe, at max? You can't handle it? --> -->You have, I presume, thumbs? Grapple with it and tear it's head -->off! --> -->Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human, -->we have *all* the advantages. --> -- --This was a recent discussion on rec.martial-arts. Humans definitely don't --have all the advantages. Dogs are deceptively strong and often bred for --fighting of one sort or another. --Ed --DoD #1110 Being related to former trainers, I have come to know that humans do have all the advantages (well, at least one anyway). It is a little known fact that a dog will involuntarily regurgitate and release an object that is too large to swallow. I was told that if I were ever attacked by a dog I should ball my hand in a fist and force it down the dog's throat. The dog would naturally gag and release, and become momentarily disoriented. This commonly happens to humans when we go to a doctor and have our throats examined ( Proof Positive ). In the time during the dog's disorientation, the next move would be to wrap an arm about the dog throat in a choke hold manner and constrict with all your might until the dog lapses into unconsciousness ( from lack of oxygen and halting blood flow ). Finally, run like the wind to get away from the local area should the dog get up again and be really pissed. OOOOOOOpsssss. For a second there I thought I was in rec.beatthelivingcrapoutofadog and not rec.motorcycles. Till next time.
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1) I think that most of us can afford a stamp and an envelope, and the cost of printing out a letter. 2) If some kind soul out there would write a letter, and upload it to the net, everyone could capture it, print it out, and snail-mail it out to their local congressional critter. BTW>> I'm working on one. -nate
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Well, that post was not that accurate. People with early life hernias are felt to have a congenital sack that promotes the formation of hernias. The hernias of later life may be more associated with chronic straining. However, the risk of damage to the intestine without an operation is high enough that it ought to be repaired. The risk of cancer is probably no higher than the general population, but since you are near 40, it would be sensible to have some sort of cancer screening, such as a flexible sigmoidoscopy. Sorry for the misleading info.
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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- D"SB Below please find an electronic copy of a leaflet put up at Warsaw U.: DEGEL*HATORAH Jewish Circle for Arts and Sciences, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, invites you to the lecture *PRESENT-DAY SOCIOPOLITICAL ISSUES OF THE MIDDLE EAST* which will be delivered by Dr Mohamed SOLIMAN, Egypt's Ambassador to Poland. Time & place: 4 p.m., Tuesday, 25th May, '93, (Erev Shavuot; Dept. of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Oriental Institute (Polish: Orientalistyka), University of Warsaw, 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmies'cie Street, PL-00-927 WARSAW, Poland. :molahs ahetovit'n lohk'v * ma(on yehk'rad ahehkar'd * * ############# * * * * * * * ############ ############# * * * * ############ # * * # # # * * * * # # # * * * * * * * # * * * DEGEL*HATORAH Judaistyczne Kol/o Nauk i Sztuk przy Uniwersytecie Warszawskim w Warszawie zaprasza na wykl/ad pt. *AKTUALNE ZAGADNIENIA SPOL/ECZNO-POLITYCZNE BLISKIEGO WSCHODU*, kto'ry wygl/osi Dr Mohamed SOLIMAN, Ambasador Egiptu w Polsce. Czas i miejsce: 16:00, wtorek, 25 maja, '93, (Erev Shavuot; Zakl/ad Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Instytut Orientalistyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmies'cie, PL-00-927 WARSZAWA.
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It was 93%-94%, and actually another msdos team member posted it. Note that people not on the msdos team would not necessarily know about that, or... When I heard those numbers I wondered how they got them (having worked in product support and knowing that the typical support caller has very little positive to say about the product, I figured it wasn't from there...) so I wandered over to the marketing folks and asked. And I was told it was from a survey of registered users. And I posted that on the net when people asked where the 93% figure came from. Hmm. I figured, if Chuck posted the numbers, why not include where they came from? (I also find it interesting that postitive info is "fear, uncertainty & doubt".) ???? I think you've got me confused with someone else. I don't pretend that MSDOS provides what all people need, or that other OSes (including unix & OS/2) don't provide useful and/or necessary features. I also don't push people to use MSDOS; I even posted in comp.os.msdos.misc that I suggest _waiting_ before installing a new os, esp if you have trouble (support is always overloaded during release, unless the sales are a total bomb). I ain't saying some of us don't get defensive sometimes. Do you *really* think msdos gets any more respect within microsoft than outside it? I just mean we all aren't cut out of the same dough with the same cookie cutter. We don't all think alike. Yeah, ChuckSt and I have some "inside" info on MSDOS - doesn't mean that everyone else does :) -jen --
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a user on my bbs "accidentally" deleted his vga driver for his oak77 card and has no backup. i was wondering if someone knew of an ftp site (and path, please!) where such a thing might be obtained. thanks.
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MAG Innovision MX15F Fantastic 15" multiscan monitor that can display up to 1280x1024 noninterlaced (!) with .26 mm dot pitch. If you are looking for a large crystal clear super vga monitor then this is for you. $430 call Scott at (503) 757-3483 or email scotts@math.orst.edu
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I have never said that only humans are the only beings which are sufficiently sentient to have intentions. In fact, I have explicitly said that I am perfectly happy to consider that some animals *are* capable of forming intentions. What I am objecting to is considering programmed or instinctive behaviour to have moral significance, since, it seems to me, such behaviour does *not* involve intention. That's not the point. The point is whether the implementor thinks *at all*. The issue is not whether thinking produces opinion A or opinion B, but whether thinking takes place, period. Since humans are part of nature, are not all human actions "natural". Or perhaps you're going to throw in a definition of "natural" that will allow us to describe some actions as "natural" and some as "not natural". If so, what is the definition? Sure they do, as multiple posters have show you. Sharks, for example, eat wounded sharks. I've personally seen cats eat their newborn. Are you in some kind of denial? People give you example after example, and you go off the air for a week, and then pop up claiming that it never happened. It's very strange. See what I mean. Here we go again. What do we have to do: write up a tailor-made FAQ just for Mr Schneider?
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I swore off taking passengers over ten years ago, but I recall Sturgis, 1981 getting some strange looks because my passenger was reading a book. She was so engrossed that she didn't even notice when we hit a roadkill to make the hit-of-the-day with the riders behind us.
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Sorry, Fred, but for the purposes under discussion here, I must disagree. Your point is true only in the sense that one cannot argue against communism by reference to the Chinese or Soviet empires, since those did not represent *true* communism. In judging the practical consequences of Islam as a force to contend with in the world today, it is precisely the Khomeini's of the world, the Rushdie-fatwa supporters, and perhaps more importantly, the reaction of the world Muslim community to those extremists, that we must look to. Perhaps unfortunately from your perspective, most people are not concerned with whether Islam is the right religion for them, or whether the Qur'an could be used as a guidebook for a hypothetical utopia, but how Islam affects the world around them, or what their lives might be like if Islam gains in influence. When I consider such possibilities, it is with not inconsiderable fear.
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So now you are saying that an Islamic Bank is something other than BCCI. Would you care to explain why it was that when I said "I hope an Islamic Bank is something other than BCCI", you called me a childish propagandist.
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Steve Bellovin writes a well-thought-out and nearly persuasive article about why the Clipper (are we still calling it Clipper today, or have they figured out a non-infringing word yet?) protocol is almost as good as one can do given their marching ordes. I'll accept the second assumption only for the sake of argument. In my view the primary remaining flaw is that the encryption algorithm is secret, leading to suspicion that there is a back door. Without complete disclosure this suspicion cannot be dispelled, no matter how many trusted experts are allowed to look at it in isolation. Is it possible to do this whole thing with a public algorithm? The only concern I've seen with making Skipjack public is that someone could build Clipperphones without registering the keys. Assume F can really be kept secret as the Government assumes. Then as part of the initial connection, a Clipperphone executes a protocol with the Pseudophone to demonstrate that they both know F. For example, the initiating phone picks a number Q and sends E[Q; F]. The receiver sends back E[Q+1; F], and the initiator sends back E[Q+2; F] to demonstrate that her first packet wasn't just a random 64-bit block. Repeat in the opposite direction with another Q so it can't be defeated by somebody building up a library of sequential numbers by remembering responses and using those responses as the initial numbers of subsequent challenges. This way Clipperphones will talk only to other Clipperphones. Of course the Pseudo Company can build their own proprietary Skipjack phone, but the Presidential Fact Sheet implies that they won't get approval for it without equivalent key escrow. What's wrong with this picture? It depends of F staying secret and on Skipjack being resistant to cryptanalysis, but the Government appears to believe in both of these. Even if the particular Q&A I suggest has some flaw, I imagine there's a zero-knowledge-proof protocol that doesn't. Agreed. My view, and you can quote me: if it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.
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But it is subject to all kinds of bias, and is almost completely useless for first basemen. From the raw stats, there is no way to tell which of a first baseman's putouts were made on throws from other fielders, and which were made on his own plays; likewise, you can't tell whether a double play was 6-4-3 or 3-6-3. Fielding Runs thus gives a first baseman no credit for putouts or double plays, only for assists and errors. It thus favors first basemen who play deep, reaching a lot of balls but forcing the pitcher to cover first more frequently. It also hurts first baseman who play behind left-handed pitching staffs and thus face few left-handed batters. This is better; of course, it still isn't all of a first baseman's defense. Defensive Average, which uses larger (and probably better) zones, has Mattingly tied for second in the league. While 233 batting runs is good, it is mostly in the past; the runs he produced in 1986 don't say much about his value in 1993.
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According to an AP report (from Texas, written by Jaime Aron) this morning, in addtion to the gas pumped in by hoses from CS generators, canisters of tear gas were thrown into the building from armored vehicles, one of the canisters hitting a man inside in the face. This was in the part of the article *before* going into differences in the stories told by BD survivors and the gov't. Tear gas canisters *used* to be able to start fires... --
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For some reason my fingers want to type "probably" cause whenever I want to say "probable" cause. Sorry for any confusion in the previous message. David
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Please do not reply to this account - posting for a friend: GT-BMX bike, chrome frame, blue, alloy parts, z-rims, mint condition asking $300 obo. Apple IIe 64k, floppy drive, monitor, Okidata Microline 92 printer, modem, and 30 disks of stuff. Asking $400 obo.
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Hi, I own a IIsi and I'm considering buying a Powerbook. Can anyone give me a listing of all the models and tell me what I'm looking for, i.e. passive matrix vs. active, memory sizes, upgradeability, internal modems, disk size. If you could provide some prices too that would help. I'm not informed enough on Powerbooks to know how well they operate. I have been following the posts on some of the problems that have been encountered such as the trackball not working in the horizontal. I would appreciate the list as well as any advice you may have.
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: : Dear, dear. They could have COME OUT. :
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You said everyone in the world. That means *everyone* in the world, including children that are not old enough to speak, let alone tell lies. If Jesus says "everyone", you cannot support that by referring to a group of people somewhat smaller than "everyone". -- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey! On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole that she made from Leftover Turkey. [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ... -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
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: I'm responding at the risk of misreading your response, but I do have to tell my fellow conservatives to give it up, attacking Reno/Clinton/ATF/FBI. They may have botched an operation, but they didn't kill anybody who never shot at them first. David Koresh was a frigging lunatic. His followers had the combined I.Q of a Geraldo audience. The kids probably would have been those fucked up social rejects who go to Freshman dances in high school, never to be seen again (except maybe in the band) until prom, when they show up like animals boarding the ark. Then it's bowling till 3 in the morning..... (WHY....WHY?? did it happen to me??!!) Anyway, the point is Janet Reno/Bill Clinton were only following the advice of trained, law enforcement officials who were experts in their fields. I'd rather have our leaders do that then micro-manage every crisis that comes along. Then you'd really see trouble no matter what party or ideology the President and her (er.. I mean his) Attorney General is. -- Ryan C. Scharfy
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This is getting sad. All you can do is make this ridiculous statements, based upon some old information and a Press Democrat article that was poorly written. Please show the numbers for your use of "MUCH more". I have not seen them. And I want them to be true and accurate, or at least show a trend within the everyday gay population. There are all kinds of 'damaged and screwed up' people, and most of them are not gay.
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..... I'll sell mine for $200 O.B.O. - Never Used, I've decided I just don't have the time to get into C++.
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^^^^^^^ ^^^^ Please pardon my ignorance if this is well known, but what is the current rule? Maybe we could limit the number of throws to first that the pitcher can make, and award a balk if he exceeds it. I'd have another question: who would operate the pitch clock? One of the umpires? Add another one to the crew? I'm not sure I like this idea. I think it would severely diminish the number of stolen bases and limit the availability of such neat strategic ploys as the hit and run and the squeeze play (one of my personal favorites). Ahhh! I suppose I should read the whole article before I hit the 'f' key, eh? Obviously, from what I wrote above, I like this idea. It may also increase the number of wild throws to the bag, since the pitcher knows he doesn't have very many chances to pick off the runner, so he may hurry too much. I'd rather see runs scored as the result of sound hitting and sound baseball strategy rather than on the sloppiness that could result from this kind of rule. So, I suppose there are some disadvantages to that idea too. I remember in little league, if when up to bat we stepped out of the batter's box, even for a moment, we were automatically out. That may be a little harsh for the majors, but seriously, how about putting a limit on the batters being able to step out, take several dozen practice swings, pound their shoes, scratch their balls, etc.? Maybe forcing them to stay in the batter's box wouldn't be such a bad idea. That could save a few minutes.
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: As you know all ready, it is the pattern in the bioplasmic energy : field that is significant. No, I didn't already know that. I've never even heard of a "bioplasmic energy field." Care to explain it? It's been a few years since my last fields class so I may have forgotten (or maybe I skipped that day). Anyway, as Ross Perot said, I'm all ears. Well, eyes in this case.
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Hi. I'm looking for information on how to directly manipulate video memory. I have an application that I would like to use this for, because it is much faster than going through the BIOS. I know that video memory ispart of the system area above the first 640K, so I guess I am looking to find out exactly what section of memory it is, and how it is layed out. Thanks.
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I tend to agree, but I would like a better explanation of why the FBI stopped the firetrucks at the gate. I saw this in realtime. It concerns me that the FBI "appeared" to not be too interested in stopping the fire after it started, and actually started flying hueys around the compound, which had to add in some small part to the winds driving the fire. Jim -- jmd@handheld.com
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Having recently purchased a 93 Probe with clear-coat paint, I would like to give it a good wax job. What is the Best type of wax to use for this type of finish? Is paste or liquid better? I would be waxing it by hand, and buffing it by hand, I guess using cheesecloth to buff it (anything better you would suggest?). I've heard comments here before about things like Turtle Wax and Raindance not being very good, so I'm wondering what is recommended for a quality finish. Thanks in advance. Bill
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# # Does anyone know if the following is possible, and if so how do I go about # doing it. # # I want to be able to display remote X11 applications on a VAXstation 2000 off # of an Internet node. Here is where the problem comes up, the VAXstation isn't # connected directly to the Internet but is connected via Decnet to a node that # does have a connection to the Internet. Does anyone know if it is possible to # get the display to use TCPIP from the remote Internet node down to my local # Internet node and then send it via Decnet down to the VAXstation 2000? # For the machine that is connected to the InterNet, what is it running? If it is running VMS, then if you obtain MultiNet for it, MultiNet comes with a TCP/IP to DECnet gateway for X11. Patrick L. Mahan --- TGV Window Washer ------------------------------- Mahan@TGV.COM ---------
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Newsgroups: misc.wanted,misc.forsale,misc.forsale.computers, Subject: Wanted: Manual of Polaroid Palette 72-10; $10 Distribution: world Organization: Clemson University, Clemson SC I need the Polaroid Palette Model 72-10 (or similar model) manual. I am willing to pay $10 for it, plus the shipping charge via USPS 3rd class. I don't need the original one, photo-copyed manual will just fine for me. If you have the manual, please help me out. Thanks in advance. Eric (803)6548817
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You can use PBM's 'rawtopgm' to convert three raw (r, g, b) files to pgm format. Then you can use pgm3toppm to convert the pgm files to a composite ppm file, and feed this to cjpeg for compression. Slow, and circuitous, but it will work.
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