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dale> I found an oddity with our SGI Indigo (MIPS R3000 chip). dale> When xlock +nolock is running, and I am working remotely dale> or in batch (at) mode, the runtime of my programs (as timed dale> by using clock() in the code itself) is ~25% slower than if dale> xlock is NOT running. No other processes seem to affec...
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According to a previous poster, one should seek a doctor's assistance for injections. But what about Sumatriptin [sp?]? Doesn't one have to inject oneself immediately upon the onset of a migraine?
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Do you think Omar's grand slam is the result of his new fan club? Last week a banner appeared in the Kingdome: OLDER WOMEN FOR OMAR
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This is a periodic posting intended to answer the Frequently Asked Question: What is the DoD? It is posted the first of each month, with an expiration time of over a month. Thus, unless your site's news software is ill-mannered, this posting should always be available. This WitDoDFAQ is crossposted to all four rec.moto...
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In reference to the limits of acceleration with guns launching solid rockets as payloads. Thiokol provided me with samples and data on a reinforcement to solid motor grains for high accelerations. Solid motor propellants usually have a substantial percentage of aluminum in the mix. For example, the Space Shuttle SR...
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True rumor. Fact! A big three way deal! Eric Lindros going to Ottawa Senators. And Senators get $15mill from Montreal. Montreal gets Alexander Daigle (the first round pick from Senators) Philly gets Damphousse, Bellow, Patrick Roy and a draft pick.
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Anyone in Europe got any advice for a US citizen whose going to be living and working in Italy for a year and wants to buy a motorcycle there? An Italian friend just arrived here in Washington State to work for two years, and she's finding it very very difficult to obtain car insurance. So I thought I'd ask... I hav...
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1985.5 Porsche 944 - Turbo trim (spoilers) - graphite black - all around excellent condition - removable factory sunroof - leather interior - new A/C - new timing belt - bra - 90k miles $9900 OBO - Patrick
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Sorry, I misread your remark about young men and women. (Though I am now unsure what that sentence does mean.) You implied that anyone who wants to send troops to Bosnia wants to do so to help the "butchers of their choice". Since the primary targets of help are Muslim victims of "ethnic cleansing", you imply that...
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: :> As someone else has pointed out, why would the stove be in use on a warm day :> in Texas. : :Do YOU eat all your food cold? Thank you for pointing out the obvious to people who so clearly missed it. I can't stand it when people's first reaction is to defend the aggressor. Mr. Tavares, you have a unique and thou...
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[ The discussion begins: why does the universe exist at all? ] = = Must there be a "why" to this? I ask because of what you also = assume about God-- namely, that He just exists, with no "why" = to His existence. So the question is reversed, "Why can't = we assume the universe just exists as you a...
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COMPUTER HARDWARE ( all are working fine last time checked ) Tandy 360k external floppy drive with cable (hardly used) ..................... $70 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SOFTWARE ( all software include...
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Hi. I'm trying to figure out how to make a window manager place the window where the create window command tells it, regardless of what it may think is right. (my application has reason to know better) I don't want to set the override-redirect because I do want all the embellishments that the window manager gives, I ...
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You have a lot more problems keeping up with hardware interrupts in Windows than in DOS - regardless of what communication software you are using. Try the following: 1) Turn off disk write cache for the disk you are downloading to. The cache will save up so much that when it grabs control of the machine ...
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------- Blind-Carbon-Copy To: spacenews@austen.rand.org, cti@austen.rand.org Subject: White House outlines options for station, Russian cooperation Date: Tue, 06 Apr 93 16:00:21 PDT From: Richard Buenneke <buenneke@austen.rand.org> 4/06/93: GIBBONS OUTLINES SPACE STATION REDESIGN GUIDANCE NASA Headquarters, Washing...
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One thing that everyone is forgetting in this argument over the pricing of the SC1 vs. the Japanese cars is the Saturns "no-dicker sticker". This makes the Saturn's price low in comparison to the inflated base prices of the Japanese competition on paper, but in reality, one could dicker several hundred dollars off the...
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jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu: Firearms tend to fall into this low dollar/pound area. It would not be economic to smuggle them in. All production would have to be local. There are not all that many people who have both the skill AND motivation to assemble worthwhile firearms from scratch. High-ranking crime f...
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d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte) writes ... The only problem is going to be finding someone who can make a 200MHz computer system. Could be tough.
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There are several products you might investigate. If you've got $20,000 per seat and high-end hardware, Gain Momentum might be a good choice. It isn't compatible with HyperCard, but has a similar architecture (and *way* more functionality). I don't have contact information, but they were recently purchased by Syb...
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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) > Oh great. Wonderful news. Nobody can listen in--except the feds. Hey, it's better than the status quo. I am far less worried about "the feds" tapping my phone than high school scanner surfers who get their kicks out of eavesdropping on cellular and co...
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Yeah, but what's your point? You still need the offense to score more runs than you allow, too. The Braves do have a fine pitching staff. But that's still only half the game.
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Sometimes. It depends on your monitor and your timing. If you don't have enough vertical front porch and you use XOR composite sync you can get even/odd tearing at the top of the screen, which is very sensitive to the HHOLD control. It looks like what you would expect if you scanned the even fields (say) onto a she...
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Thanks. I've ftp'ed the FAQ file and it is just what I was looking for.
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No thanks. This topic is of interest to a much wider audience. "In making this decision, I intend to prevent the private sector from developing, except with the government's approval, other microcircuits or algorithms that are more effective in assuring privacy."
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I've got a probelm with printing envelops on my deskjet 550C from Word for Windows. History: when I had a Deskjet 500, I had to modify the macro so that it would disable reverse printing since there seemed to be a bug that interferred with printing envelops. That bug is still present, however... Now: the problem I h...
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Help! I'm trying to configure NCSA Telnet v2.3.05 to work with a 3C503 ethernet board. I can use FTP fine, but whenever I attempt to use Telnet, the machine hangs with a blank screen and a blinking green cursor. Any ideas?
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There are two more reasons to save old databooks and then beyond two years--obsoleted parts and better application notes and tutorials. When a part is dropped from future production planning, such as the National MM-series white noise generators, camera sync generators, etc., it will disappear from current databooks...
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^^^^^^^^^^^ nit: Is he unable to type the first 'h' in this word? ;-) As a matter of fact D.J., it does make a difference. Almost a half million new users joined the Internet last year, many of them are commercial businesses. The ban on commercial use of Internet is no ...
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That figure (1/4") for image rotation would seem to be a little high... on my NEC 5FG the specs call for no greater than 3mm (0.12"). I can't speak for MAG Innovision but as far as NEC is concerned, they are adjusted to "factory-spec" before leaving the central USA distribution point (MA) for the eastern Canadian ma...
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I've recently picked up some TIL311 display chips, but I can't find any information on them. It seems they are no longer made by TI, and I don't have an old enough data book. :-( It appears to have a dot-matrix led display capable of showing one hex digit. It is in a 14 pin DIP package, but pins 6, 9, and 11 are no...
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Well, the message was interesting (and long), but TWICE? Oh Well. Personally, I loathe libertarianism, but my disagreement is philisophical, not tactical. Election law reform is a good idea. You would not believe what kind of stunts the creatures of the 2 party system are capable of pulling. ===========================...
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I got asked in Sci. Med. Nutrition about vitamin C and oxalate production( toxic, kidney stone formation?). I decided to post my answer here as well because of the recent question about kidney stones. Not long after I got into Sci. Med. I got flamed by a medical fellow for stating that magnesium would prevent kidn...
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Feasability study?? What a wimp!! While you are studying, others would be doing. Too damn many engineers doing way too little engineering. "He who sits on his arse sits on his fortune" - Sir Richard Francis Burton
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etc. etc..... ^^^^^^ ***Sure!!! And what's .3 of a woman??? Any hypothesis?? How can you trust a report from people that have *no idea* of what a MEDIAN is? The same bullshit article reported that 22,5% of all the men have sex 10 times or more a week (Elf, how many t...
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Have you read the applicable part of the Constitution and interpreted it IN CONTEXT? If not, please do so before posting this misinterpretation again. It refers to the right of the people to organize a militia, not for individuals to carry handguns, grenades, and assault rifles.
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First of all as far as I know, only male homosexuality is explicitly mentioned in the bibles, so you're off the hook there, I think. In any event, there are *plenty* of people in many denominations who do not consider a person's sexual identification of gay/lesbian/bisexual as an "immoral lifestyle choice" This is ...
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You are right but PLEASE DON'T DO THIS. It makes my brain hurt. USPosition and USSize should ONLY be set if the USER specified the position and size. You say: "Tom, don't blow a gasket, what's the harm?" Some window managers do very different things (besides positioning the window) when they see USPosition rather ...
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Well, may I point out that paranoia is an IRRATIONAL fear, without basis in reality. As we've seen here in the US, there is nothing irrational about it. Perhaps you folks in Finland have been down on your knees being good little boys and girls so that the former Soviet Union didn't come across the border and stomp ...
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Government-Mandated Energy Conservation is Unnecessary and Wastful, Study Finds Washington, DC -- The energy tax and subsidized energy-efficiency measures supported by President Clinton and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary are based on faulty assumptions, a new study from the Cato Institute points out. Acco...
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Scott -- look on ftp.cica.indiana.edu for gws.....zip. They embed the release number in the name, and I'm not sure what the lates is. It is Graphics Workshop. There is a DOS and a Windows version. Both work Great. I even had someone bring me some images from the Amiga, and converted them to great looking wallpape...
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DMorf (Dave's Morph, I think is what it means) and DTax (Dave's TGA Assembler) are available in the MSDOS_UPLOADS directory on the wuarchive. They are arjed and bundled with their respective xmemory versions, dmorfx.exe and dtax.exe, you can also find a version of aaplay.exe there, with which you can view files you ...
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sure sounds like they got a ringer. the 325is i drove was definitely faster than that. if you want to quote numbers, my AW AutoFile shows 0-60 in 7.4, 1/4 mile in 15.9. it quotes Car and Driver's figures of 6.9 and 15.3. oh, BTW, these numbers are for the 325i. i don't know how the addition of variable valve tim...
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Bullshit. You've been in Iceland for the past 30 years. You told us so yourself. It had something to do with not wanting to suffer the fate of your mother, who has lived with Jews for a long time or somesuch. Sounded awful. Are you as concerned about peace and justice in Palestine (Jordan)? Let's say that Isr...
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Archive-name: atheism/logic Alt-atheism-archive-name: logic Last-modified: 5 April 1993 Version: 1.4 Constructing a Logical Argument Although there is much argument on Usenet, the general quality of argument found is poor. This article attempts to provide a gentle introduction to logic, in the...
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In rec.autos you write: This McLaren auto-transmission (I still think it's only half auto, but You may be right) has NOTHING to do with Your GM, Chrysler, Volvo, or whatever auto transmission. It's a normal manual transmission gearbox with clutch and all, but there are servo motors, which do the shifting. That mean...
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Hi there, I've made a VGA mode 13h graphics library available via FTP. I originally wrote the routines as a kind of exercise for myself, but perhaps someone here will find them useful. They are certainly useable as they are, but are missing some higher-level functionality. They're intended more as an intro to mode ...
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By '8 grey level images' you mean 8 items of 1bit images? It does work(!), but it doesn't work if you have more than 1bit in your screen and if the screen intensity is non-linear. With 2 bit per pixel; there could be 1*c_1 + 4*c_2 timing, this gives 16 levels, but they are linear if screen intensity is linear. With 1...
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If "I forgot" doesn't have as much credibility as you'd like, consider this alternative. Somewhere on the hard disk, duplicated a few times, keep a 128-bit random number. When the 128-bit digest of your passphrase is computed, it is XORred with the random number before being used as the key for your hard disk. Writi...
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For the purpose of a contest, I'd bet some things could be cut. Like fuel for re-entry, any kind of heat shielding, etc., etc. Even still, if the contest participants had to fund DC-1 development, it probably wouldn't be worth it to develop DC-1 (just for the contest). Just give me the cheapest heaviest lift man ra...
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Hello, recently I have been printing out a lot of files on school's laser printer and feeling guilty about it. Please help me by showing me where to get a post script viewer for X-windows. Thank you for your help.
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: I am in the market for a bike and have recently found a 1990 : Honda VRF 750 at a dealership. The bike has about 47,000 miles : and is around $4500. It has had two previous owners, both employees : of the dealership who, I have been told, took very good care of the : bike. : I have two questions: 1) Is this too many...
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yeah, just like we have here in the US. --
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A brief political/cultural item. Radio station WGMS in Washington is a classical music station with a large audience among high officials (elected and otherwise). Imagine a radio station that advertises Mercedes Benzes, diamond jewelry, expensive resorts and (truthfully) Trident submarines. This morning I heard a c...
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Can someone tell me the maximum horizontal and vertical refresh rates of the NEC 5fgx.(not the 5fge)
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This does sound good, but I heard it tends to leave more grit, etc in the oil pan. Also, I've been told to change the old when it's hot before the grit has much time to settle. Any opinions?
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Just felt it was important to add four letters that Steve left out of his Subject: header.
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How about Jews who were expelled from their homelands in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Algeria, etc.? Don't they deserve justice, too? Why is your criticism ALWAYS directed against Israel, but never against the Arab states, even when they are so much more guilty of the accusations you make? Is it because you now call your...
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A list of options that would be useful. They can be existing options on a car, or things you'd like to have... 1) Tripmeter, great little gadget. Lets you keep rough track of mileage, makes a good second guesser for your gas gauge... 2) Full size spare 3) Built in mountings and power systems for radar detectors. ...
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Ditto for me..
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I use the ashtray to keep change and other items in. I converted the cigarette lighter into a volume control knob for my in trunk subwoofer! . / Larry __/ _______/_ ...
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If you want to have some fun. Plug the basic formulas into Lotus. Use the spreadsheet auto re-calc, and graphing functions to produce bar graphs based on latitude, tilt and hours of day light avg.
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sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes... Which Jews KS? (ex. as a people, as a language, religiously, politically, or...) Do you mean those Jews who are God's chosen? {And Malcolm, please, if you will, set your word wrap at 75 or less to avoid clutter?}
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I find these to be intriguing remarks. Could you give us a bit more explanation here? For example, which religion is anti-semitic, and which aesthetic?
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: I'd appreciate any feedback on capture/playback tools for use with X clients. : Any comparisons/comments on regression testing tools would be great - : particularly XTM, XRunner, Autotester, and SRI's CAPBAK, SMARTS and EXDIFF. How about starting where I could find ANY of these. For the commercial ones, at least a...
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I have a like new Hayes JT FAX for sale $125 or offer or trade!
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Actually, what the study shows is that 2 percent of the men surveyed *said* they engaged in homosexual sex and 1 percent *said* they considered themselves exclusively homosexual. The point being that what people say and what they acutally do may be different. It is interesting that this clip from the newspaper did ...
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Paraphrase of initial post: Can I fight a speeding ticket in court? My reply: Fight your ticket : California edition by David Brown 1st ed. Berkeley, CA : Nolo Press, 1982 The second edition is out (but not in UCB's library). Good luck; let us know how it goes.
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A friend has what is apparently a fairly minor case of Crohn's disease. But she can't seem to eat certain foods, such as fresh vegetables, without discomfort, and of course she wants to avoid a recurrence. Her question is: are there any nutritionists who specialize in the problems of people with Crohn's disease ? (I...
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I need a off-the-shelf method of transmitting small amounts of data up to 300 feet. The data is low speed and can be encoded as needed. Low power on the transmitting end would be a plus. An FCC certified product would be prefered. If you have any pointers to products or companies I'd appreciate hearing from you.
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[insert deletion of unnecessary quote] First of all, God does not take any sort of pleasure from punishing people. He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy and compassion on whom he will have compassion (Ex 33:19). However, if he enjoyed punishing people and sending them to hell, then why would he send Jesus t...
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It's normal for the BMW K bikes to use a little oil in the first few thousand miles. I don't know why. I've had three new K bikes, and all three used a bit of oil when new - max maybe .4 quart in first 1000 miles; this soon quits and by the time I had 10,000 miles on them the oil consumption was about zero. I've b...
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Since running any GUI over a network is going to slow it down by a fair amount, I expect Windows NT will be multiuser only in the sense of sharing filesystems. Someone will likely write a telnetd for it so one could run character-based apps, but graphics-based apps will have to be shared by running the executables on...
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Here are some ideas for those of you who want to oppose the White House Clipper chip crypto initiative. I think this is going to be a tough measure to fight, since the Government has invested a lot of resources in developing this high-profile initiative. They are serious about it now. It won't be as easy as it was d...
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From article <1993Apr15.031349.21824@src.honeywell.com>, by amehdi@src.honeywell.com (Hossien Amehdi): Tell me then, would you also fight the Syrians in Lebanon? Oh, no of course not. They would be your brothers and you would tell that you invited them.
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Only my common sense. The fire was caused by either Koresh and his followers or by the FBI/ATF/CIA/KGB/and maybe the Harper Valley PTA. Since you are throwing around the evidence arguement, I'll throw it back. Can you prove any government agency did it? (Please don't resort to "they covered it up so that proves t...
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Avoiding mistakes is certainly highly desirable. However it is also widely acknowledged that perfectionism is inimicable to creativity. And in ordinary life, perfectionism carried beyond a certain point is indicative of a psychological disorder. In the extreme case, a perfectionist becomes so paralyzed by all th...
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How many runs will be scored in Denver? I don't know. but some idea can be gotten by looking at the runs scored in Mile High Stadium during the last few years of the Bears/Zephyrs tenure in the American Association. Here's the total runs scored per game in Zephyrs games, all league games and the ratio. I found the...
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A few days ago I posted a question about trying to call a function which set up an X app multiple times. It was pointed out that XtAppInitialize() should never be called more than once. This helped. However, I am still having some problems. Below is a new little test program that more closely models my real program...
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Xenophobic trash deleted. If you're going to go to those extremes, I guess you'd better start packing. Because unless you're a Native North American, this isn't your continent either.
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} >> } >>>Has Jack lost a bit of his edge? What is the worst start Jack Morris has had? } >> } >>Uh, Jack lost his edge about 5 years ago, and has had only one above } >>average year in the last 5. } > } >Again goes to prove that it is better to be good than lucky. You can } >count on good tomorrow. Lucky seems to be...
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