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Not to drag this out anymore, but....
Many veterinarians feel that Lyme Disease in dogs is so easy to treat that
in an endemic area, they often just give the appropriate antibiotics to dogs
presenting with lameness, swollen joints, +/- fever.
A recent paper (March 1993) has finally established that Lyme disease in dogs
can be reproduced in a controlled experimentaly setting. This has been
an ellusive matter for researchers, and is one of the fundamental requirements
for many to acknowledge an agent as being causitive of a particular disease.
Up to now, only the vaccine manufacturer has been able to "prove" that
the disease exists.
This paper is noteworthy in two other regards:
1) None of the animals they infected were treated in any way. The dogs
had episodes of lameness during a 6-8 week period which occurred 2-5
months after exposure. After this period, none showed any further
clinical signs up to the 17 month observation period of the study. So
these are proven, clinically sick Lyme patients showing spontaneous
recovery without the benefit of drug treatment. Of course, observations
longer than 17 months will be necessary to be sure the disease doesn't
have the same chronicity that some see in humans.
2) The addendum to the paper calls into question the techniques used by the
vaccine manufacturer to validate the vaccine. Of course, they want
the world to use the model they developed in order to test vaccine
efficacy.
Anyway, maybe we will see some independent, scientifically sound evaluations
of this vaccine in the next year or so.
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6,253 | SAMPE, NCGA, The University of Akron, and NASA Lewis Research Center
is sponsoring:
COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITES
A one-day seminar devoted to practical applications of
computer workstations for efficient processing, design, and
Manufacture of composites
May 18, 1993
at
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio
Speakers on:
Advancement in Graphics Visualization Dr. Jay Horowitz, NASA
Integrated Product Development with Mr. Michael R. Cowen
Network Workstations Sikorski Aircraft
Structural Analysis Mr. Brian Fite, NASA
Stereolithography Mr. Jason Williams, Penn State-Erie
Molecular and Physical Modeling Dr. Vassilios Galiatsato,
of Polymer Curing University of Akron
Process Modeling of Polymer
Matrix Composites Dr Ram Upadhyay, GE Corporate R&D
Registration Fees: $75.00 Advance, $100.00 on site (Includes box lunch)
Contact Gary Roberts, NASA Lewis Research Center (216) 433-344
or write:
SAMPE Regional Seminar
c/o Gary Roberts
NASA Lewis Research Center
21000 Brookpark Rd MS 49-1
Cleveland, Ohio 44135
Or Email to me, | and I'll get it to Gary.
|
\/ | 1 | trimmed_train |
7,597 |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As a muslim (spelled sometimes as Moslem) I must say that Muslims strong
ly believe in Jesus. Refered in islamic text as eesau(as)
Jesus ==> J - esu - s ===> esu (pronounced eee-saw)
Yah we knew him well. Ideally, this war should not even be. And even in
a time of war, our goal is peace. We should try to refrain from viloating
the peace of others as then if we do violate, we will not have peace in
ourselves. I don't like this war eaither, It is a conflict of territory.
Croats, Muslims, and Serbs lived together before in peace. The rallying
point is 'race'. And Im sure that there is a General out there who wouldn't
mind being a president.
--
Mohammad R. Khan / [email protected]
After July '93, please send mail to [email protected] | 0 | trimmed_train |
6,277 |
Not any more the rules don't say that. So that's a pretty dumb argument.
| 2 | trimmed_train |
7,546 |
This a "tried and true" method utilized by guerilla and terrorists groups:
to conduct operations in the midst of the local populace, thus forcing the
opposing "state" to possible harm innocent civilians in their search or,
in order to avoid the deaths of civilians, abandon the search. Certainly the
people who use the population for cover are *also* to blaim for dragging the
innocent civilians into harm's way.
Are you suggesting that, when guerillas use the population for cover, Israel
should totally back down? So...the easiest way to get away with attacking
another is to use an innocent as a shield and hope that the other respects
innocent lives?
Your damn right Israel insists on some sort of "demilitarized" or "buffer"
zone. Its had to put up with too many years of attacks from the territory
of Arab states and watched as the states did nothing. It is not exactly
surprizing that Israel decided that the only way to stop such actions is to
do it themselves.
What? So the whole bit about attacks on Israel from neighboring Arab states
can start all over again? While I also hope for this to happen, it will
only occur WHEN Arab states show that they are *prepared* to take on the
responsibility and the duty to stop guerilla attacks on Israel from their
soil. They have to Prove it (or provide some "guaratees"), there is no way
Israel is going to accept their "word"- not with their past attitude of
tolerance towards "anti-Israel guerillas in-residence".
Good lord, Brad. What in the world goves you the idea that UN troops stop
anything? They are ONLY stationed in a country because that country allows
them in. It can ask them to leave *at any time*; as Nasser did in '56 and
'67. Somehow, with that "limitation" on the troops "powers" I don't
think that Israel is going to be any more comfortable. Without a *genuine* commitment to peace from the Arab states, and concrete (not intellectual or political exercises in jargon) "guarantees" by other parties, the UN is worthless
to Israel (but, perhaps useful as a "ruse"?).
Perhaps you are aware that, to most communities of people, there is
the feeling that it is better that "many of us die fighting
against those who attack us than for few to die while we silently
accept our fate." If,however, you call on Israel to see the sense of
suffering fewer casualties, I suggest you apply the same to Palestinian,
Arab and Islamic groups.
From Israel's perspective, "concessions" gets it NOTHING...except the
realization that it has given "something" up and now *can only
hope* that the other side decides to do likewise. Words *can be taken
back* by merely doing so; to "take back" tangible items (land,
control of land) requires the sort of action you say Israel should
stay away from.
Israel put up with attacks from Arab state territories for decades
before essentially putting a stop to it through its invasion of Lebanon.
The entire basis of that reality was exactly as you state above: 1) Israel
would express outrage at these attacks and protest to the Arab state
involved, 2) that state promptly ignored the entire matter, secure
in the knowledge that IT could not be held responsible for the acts
committed by "private groups", 3) Israel would prepare for the next
round of attacks. What would Israel want to return to those days (and
don't be so idiotic as to suggest "trust" for the motivations of
present-day Arab states)?
Ah, ok...what is "different" about the present situation that tells
us that the Arab states will *not* pursue their past antagonistic
policies towards Israel? Now, don't talk about vague "political factors"
but about those "tangible" (just like that which Israel gave up)
factors that "guarantee" the responsibility of those states. Your
assessment of "difference" here is based on a whole lot of assumptions,
and most states don't feel confortable basing their existence on that
sort of thing.
It has not. Without the support, and active involvement, of Syria,
Lebanon would not have been able to accomplish all that has occurred.
Once Syria leaves who is to say that Lebanon will be able to retain
control? If Syria stays thay may be even more dangerous for Israel.
Tim | 6 | trimmed_train |
6,909 |
Yes, but whose freedom? The world in general doesn't seem to value the
freedom of Tibetans, for example.
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6,406 |
Excuse me, that's 850 x 1163.
-- Mike
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
======================================================================== | 18 | trimmed_train |
5,391 | Hi guys.
I am scanning in a color image and it looks fine on the screen. When I
converted it into PCX,BMP,GIF files so as to get it into MS Windows the colors
got much lighter. For example the yellows became white. Any ideas? | 1 | trimmed_train |
6,690 |
I remember one he hit circa 1976 at Wrigley Field that went across
the street (in dead center field) and hit a house on the roof. He
whiffed a lot, but when he *did* connect, watch out!
--
#include <std_disclaimer.h> | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,414 | I'd like to converse with anyone who has purchased a 1993 Honda
Civic about their experience. I'm new to the car buying game
and would like to know what price I can expect to pay for a sedan
after bargaining.
Thanks in advance, | 4 | trimmed_train |
7,567 | I have a question regarding the processing of program arguments
such as the -geometry option. Since this is a standard X option,
I'm wondering wether I have to parse it manually or whether there
is some predefined function that will do this for me? | 16 | trimmed_train |
288 |
I haven't followed whatever discussion there may have been on these
people, but I feel that C. S. Lewis is an excellent apologist and I
see no reason for embarrassment. If you think that errors and flawed
arguments are a reason for dismissing a thinker, you must dismiss
nearly every thinker from Descartes to Kant; any philosophy course
will introduce you to their weaknesses.
The above also expresses a rather odd sense
I said nothing about "the masses." However comparing "the masses" in
our day and in Aquinas' day really *is* odd. Read Ortega y Gasset on
this.
I'm talking about the familiar experience of arguing all night and
winning on logic and evidence, only to discover your opponent to be
unaware, even intuitively, of things like entailment (let alone
pragmatics). (I am assuming that both parties are college graduates
or better...) Myself, I don't bother any more.
Ken | 0 | trimmed_train |
5,062 |
A good summary has been posted (thanks), but I wanted to add another comment.
I remeber reading the comment that General Dynamics was tied into this, in
connection with their proposal for an early manned landing. Sorry I don't
rember where I heard this, but I'm fairly sure it was somewhere reputable.
Anyone else know anything on this angle?
Hrumph. They didn't send _me_ anything :( | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,524 | DH>>Does anyone out their have a mountain tape backup that I could compare
DH>>notes with, (jumper settings, software, ect...)
DH>>or does anyone know where I could contact the makers of this drive ?
DH>You can contact Mountain Network Solutions at:
DH>800-458-0300 (general number)
DH>408-438-7897 (tech support)
DH>408-438-2665 (bbs)
Thanks very much for the info David !
Especially for their tech and BBS lines.
This should get me going...
Bye !
___
X SLMR 2.1a X It's only a hobby ... only a hobby ... only a | 3 | trimmed_train |
6,959 | : Experiment: From a Sun openwindows 4.1.3 xterm window log into a
: Solaris 2.x machine using rlogin; now do an "ls" and get the first
: character of each line display in the last column of the display
: with the rest of the line wrapped to the next line of the display.
: Log out and the condition persists. Check stty all, try reset
: with no effect.
The condition happens when the TAB is not set to 8 spaces, set and
then check out.
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8,087 |
Steve> Folks,
Steve> I'm looking for a Public Domain X-Y plotting package for X.
Steve> I need basic capabilities (axes, labels, log and linear, &c).
Steve> It's hard to imagine that someone has not put such a thing
Steve> together, so I'm hoping to avoid reinventing the wheel.
Steve> Thanks for any leads!
Steve> Steve Frysinger
Your might take a look a PLPLOT. Version 4.99c (actually beta v5.0)
can be found anonymous ftp from hagar.ph.utexas.edu, in the pub/plplot
directory.
--Mark
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From the README file of version 4.99c:
This is the PLPLOT distribution. PLPLOT is a scientific plotting package for
many systems, small (micro) and large (super) alike. Despite its small size
and quickness, it has enough power to satisfy most users, including: standard
x-y plots, semilog plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D plots, mesh plots,
bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or different sizes)
may be placed on a single page with multiple lines in each graph. Different
line styles, widths and colors are supported. A virtually infinite number of
distinct area fill patterns may be used. There are almost 1000 characters in
the extended character set. This includes four different fonts, the Greek
alphabet and a host of mathematical, musical, and other symbols. The fonts
can be scaled to any size for various effects. Many different output device
drivers are available (system dependent), including a portable metafile
format and renderer.
The PLPLOT package is freely distributable, but NOT in the public domain.
The PLPLOT source code, except header files and those files explicitly
granting permission, may not be used in a commercial software package without
consent of the authors. You are allowed and encouraged to include the PLPLOT
object library and header files in a commercial package provided that: (1) it
is explicitly and prominently stated that the PLPLOT library is freely
available, and (2) the full copyrights on the PLPLOT package be displayed
somewhere in the documentation for the package.
We welcome suggestions on how to improve this code, especially in the form of
user-contributed enhancements or bug fixes. If PLPLOT is used in any
published papers, please include an acknowledgment or citation of our work,
which will help us to continue improving PLPLOT. Also, please remember that
as PLPLOT is not a commercial product, we cannot be expected to offer the
kind of support that a commercial product may. There is great interest
in extending PLPLOT and fixing bugs, but the principal authors can only
afford to work on it part time. Improvements will necessarily focus on
those which help us get our work done.
PLPLOT is written in C, enabling it to run on many platforms practically
without modification. Fortran programs may use it transparently; stub
routines are provided to handle the C<->Fortran interface without any
modification of the user program. C programs are required to include the
header file "plplot.h"; see the documentation for more details.
The main documentation for PLPLOT is in the doc/ directory in the form of
several TeX files; please consult this for additional information ('latex
plotdoc'). Unfortunately documentation tends to lag actual improvements to
the code, so don't be surprised if some known features are not explained
there. Consult 'Changes.log' to see a list of recent changes.
At present, PLPLOT is known to work on the following systems:
Unix: SunOS
A/IX
HP-UX
Unicos
DG/UX
Ultrix
SysV
Linux
Amiga/Exec
MS-DOS
OS/2
NeXT
For more information on how to get or use PLPLOT on your system, see:
- appendices to the PLPLOT manual
- system-specific documentation in the appropriate sys/<system> directory.
To become a subscriber to the PLPLOT mailing list, send a request to
[email protected].
CREDITS
-------
PLPLOT is the result of the effort of many people, so it is impractical to
list all the contributors. Those currently supporting and otherwise
responsible for the package in its present form include:
Maurice LeBrun
Please send all comments, flames, patches, etc, to me. I am responsible for
all the PLPLOT kernel development as well as most of the work on the
metafile, xwindow, xterm, postscript, tektronix, and Amiga drivers.
EMAIL [email protected]
USMAIL Dr. Maurice LeBrun
Institute for Fusion Studies
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
Geoff Furnish
Please send questions regarding the MS-DOS and OS/2 drivers to Geoff.
EMAIL [email protected]
USMAIL Geoff Furnish
Institute for Fusion Studies
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
Tony Richardson
Creator of PLPLOT 2.6b, 3.0
Please send questions regarding installation of PLPLOT on the NeXT to Tony.
EMAIL [email protected] | 16 | trimmed_train |
8,280 |
There are 3 alternatives:
1. You can try to write a small C program something like:
int my_int_var;
my_int_var = system("command");
and display my_int_var value (which is the exit code of the command).
2. Or use 4dos.com instead of command.com (it has built in move command)
you can also get any program exist code by using the exec function
of 4dos:
c:\>echo %@exec[command]
will display the exit code of the command.
3. Get DOS 6, not worth buying if you already have QEMM/PCTools/Norton,
and you only need the move utility.
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11,229 | Configuration of IDE Harddisks
==============================
last update: 14.4.1993
collected by Carsten Grammes ([email protected])
and published regularly on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is explicitly NO WARRANTY
that the given settings are correct or harmless. (I only collect, I do
not check for myself!!!). There is always the possibility that the
settings may destroy your hardware!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since I hope however that only well-minded people undergo the effort of
posting their settings the chance of applicability exists. If you should
agree or disagree with some setting, let me know immediately in order
to update the list.
If you possess a HD not mentioned here of which you know BIOS and/or
jumper settings, please mail them to me for the next update of the list!
Only IDE (AT-Bus) Harddisks will be accounted for.
If not specified the Landing Zone should be set equal to the number of
cylinders. If not specified the 'Write Precompensation' should be set
65535. (There are BIOSes that don't even ask for it).
Another statement (maybe right):
IDE harddisk don't have Precomp and LZone. The precomp is a built-in parameter
and lzone isn't used because most if not every IDE disk has autopark.
The jumpers' names are given as printed on the HD's board, often only a
jumper number (JP12 means the jumper '12'). A zero means that the jumper
is left open, a one means that the jumper is closed.
*************************** C O N N E R ***************************
Conner Peripherals Drive Geometry
IDE/AT
Conner drives are low level formatted at the factory. It is only necessary
to run SETUP, FDISK, and DOS FORMAT.
Model Heads Cylinders Sectors PComp L-Zone Type Table LED
CP2034 2 823 38 0 823 *UT 3 N/A
CP2064 4 823 38 0 823 *UT 3 N/A
CP2084 8 548 38 0 548 *UT 3 N/A
CP3184 6 832 33 0 832 *UT 1 A
CP3104 8 776 33 0 776 *UT 1 A
CP3111 8 833 33 0 833 *UT 1 A(?)
CP3204 16 683 38 0 683 *UT 2 B
CP30064 4 762 39 0 762 *UT 2 B
CP30084 8 526 39 0 526 *UT 2 B
CP30104 8 762 39 0 762 *UT 2 B
CP30084E 4 903 46 0 903 *UT 3 C
CP30174E 8 903 46 0 903 *UT 3 C
CP30204 16 683 38 0 683 *UT 3 C
CP3304 16 659 63 0 659 *UT 3 D
CP3364 16 702 63 0 702 *UT 3 D
CP3504 16 987 63 0 987 *UT 3 D
CP3554 16 1054 63 0 1054 *UT 3 B
Table 1 Table 2
Jumper Settings Jumper Settings
Single Drive = Jumper ACT and C/D Single Drive = Jumper C/D
Master Drive = Jumper ACT, C/D and DSP Master Drive = Jumper C/D & DSP
Slave Drive = No jumpers installed Slave Drive = No jumpers installed
Table 3
All Conner 20 Mbyte drives use
Jumper Settings Drive type 2. All Conner 40
Mbyte drives use Drive type 17.
Single & Master Drive = Jumper C/D
Slave Drive = No jumpers installed *UT = Universal translate.
Select a drive type that is
close to but does not exceed
the megabyte capacity of the
drive. The drive will
translate to the megabyte
capacity that you have
selected.
LED
A: B: C: D:
J-4 J-5 J-5 J-3
Pin 1 = + Pin 3 = + Pin 3 = - Pin 3 = +
Pin 2 = - Pin 4 = - Pin 4 = - Pin 4 = -
*************************** F U J I T S U ***************************
DETAILS OF FUJITSU DRIVES M261xT (Standard)
M2614ET M2613ET M2612ET M2611T
Heads (physical) 8 6 4 2
Cyl (physical) 1334 1334 1334 1334
Sec/trk 33 33 33 33
Speed (rpm) 3490 3490 3490 3490
Capacity 180MB 135MB 90MB 45MB
+-----------------------------------------------+
| |
+--+ |
PSU | | CNH-2 |
+--+ 1 |
1 | | . LED |
| | CNH-1 9 CNH-3 Connector |
| | 1 6..1 o o |
40-way | | . | | |
IDE | | . |
| | . |
| | 12 |
+--+ |
+-----------------------------------------------+
Pin Function
Position
* 1- 2 Active mode
2- 3 Slave present mode
4- 5 Pin 27=IOCHRDY
CNH-1 JUMPERS * 5- 6 Pin 27=RESERVED
7- 8 2 drive system
* 8- 9 1 drive system
10-11 Pin 29=IRQ14 : Pin 31=RESERVED
* 11-12 Pin 31=IRQ14 : Pin 29=RESERVED
Pin Function
Position
1- 2 SLAVE drive mode
CNH-2 JUMPERS * 4- 5 MASTER drive mode
7- 8 ECC 4 bytes
* 8- 9 ECC 7 bytes
Pin Function
Position
1- 2 Write protect enabled
CNH-3 JUMPERS * 2- 3 Write protect disabled
4- 5 -6 Reserved
Key: * (I guess!) marks factory default setting for jumper
BIOS SETTINGS
BIOS setting for the M2614ET in my system is 667 cylinders, 33 sectors
and 16 heads.
MODEL CYLINDERS HEADS SECTORS CAPACITY (Million bytes)
M2622T 1013 10 63 326.75
M2623T 1002 13 63 420.16
M2624T 995 16 63 513.51
There are 6 switches on the switch block on these drives. Only 4 of
them have a use that I am aware of (from my M2624T manual):
Master/Slave Master (*) SW1-5 OFF
Slave SW1-5 ON
ECC bytes 4 bytes (*) SW1-4 OFF
7 bytes SW1-4 ON
Write Protect Disabled (*) SW1-3 OFF
Enabled SW1-3 ON
IO Channel Ready Disabled (*) SW1-1 OFF
Enabled SW1-1 ON
I have no idea about the function of SW1-2 and SW1-6. The values
listed with a (*) are the factory default settings.
*************************** K A L O K ***************************
KALOK KL3100 105 MB
BIOS: cyl 979 heads 6 sectors 35
KALOK KL3120 120 MB
BIOS: Cyl 981 heads 6 sectors 40
The following jumper settings have been reported for KL3100 but are probably
also valid for other Kalok drives.
Single HD:
o o o o o
o o o o-o <-- same row as pin 1 of the IDE connector.
Master (disk 1):
o o o o o
|
o o o o o
Slave:
o o o o o
|
o o o o o
These 5 pairs of pins are at the righthand side of the disk.
*************************** M A X T O R ***************************
Model Cyls Heads Sectors Precomp Landing Zone
---------- ----- ----- ------- ------- ------------
LXT-200A 816 15 32 0 816
LXT-213A 683 16 38 0 683
LXT-340A 654 16 63 0 654
LXT437A 842 16 63 0 842
LXT535A 1036 16 63 0 1024
Jumpers are as follows:
The bottom of the drive looks like this (well, sort of):
+[POWER] [IDE CONNECTOR]-----+
Single drive Dual Drive System
Pin numbers Jumper System Master Slave
----------- ------ ------------ ------ -----
1-2 Slave Drive remove remove install
3-4 Activity LED optional optional optional
5-6 Slave Present remove remove optional
7-8 Master Drive remove install remove
9-10 Sync Spindle remove (n/a) optional* remove
* only one drive (the master) in an array should have this jumper installed.
Maxtor 7060A 16 467 17 62,0 J14 closed, J13 closed
Maxtor 7060A 7 1024 17 59,5 J14 open, J13 open
Maxtor 7060A 4 762 39 58,0 J14 closed, J13 open
Maxtor 7060A 8 925 17 57,9 J14 open, J13 closed
Maxtor 7120A 16 936 17 124,3 J14 closed, J13 closed
Maxtor 7120A 14 1024 17 119,0 j14 open, J13 open
Maxtor 7120A 8 762 39 116,0 J14 closed, J13 open
Maxtor 7120A 15 900 17 112,0 J14 open, J13 closed
Maxtor 7120A 8 824 33 106,2 J14
Jumpers for the above 2 drives:
J11 I/O-channel ready ( open: disabled; close: enabled )
J13 see above
J14 see above
J15 operation-status ( open: normal; close: factory )
J J J J J
2 1 1 1 1
0 9 8 7 6
Power data-cable
J16: Idle mode latch ( open: disabled; close: enabled )
J17: drive model ( open: 7060A; close 7120A )
J18: ECC Bytes ( open: 7 bytes; close: 4 bytes )
Master/Slave: drive is master and alone : J20 closed, J19 closed
drive is master of two drives: J20 closed, J19 open
drive is slave of two drives : J20 open , J19 closed
Maxtor 7213A
Default (power-up) AT BIOS Translation Parameters (others possible)
Cyl Hds SpT MBytes
683 16 38 212
There are two sets of jumpers. A set of 5 and a set of
4. With the power and IDE connector toward you, the set of 5 is
numbered (left to right) J16 - J20 , and the set of 4 is numbered
(bottom to top) J22-J25.
The only jumper of normal interest is J20. Jumper it for only
drive in a single drive system, or master drive in a dual drive
system.
Remove the jumper J20 for slave drive in a dual drive system.
J19 is a dummy and may be used to store the spare shunt if the
drive is configured for a slave mode.
Jumpers J17, J18, J24, J25 are factory reserved. Abnormal operation
may occur if jumpered.
Jumper 22 is sync spindle enabled/disabled (open=disabled)
Jumper 23 is sync slave/master (open=slave)
Jumper 16 is I/O Channel Ready (open=disabled)
Maxtor 7245A (245Mb IDE; self-parking; Universal Translate):
Drive type : User defineable
Cyl Hds WPC LZ S/T
967 16 0 0 31 (WPC and LZ optional)
Master(2): J20 closed
Slave(2): J20 open (use J19 for shunt storage)
Single: J20 closed
********************** M I C R O P O L I S ****************************
Drive 2105A 2112A
----------------------------------------
Unformatted MB 647 1220
Formatted MB 560 1050
Platters 5 8
Heads 8 15
Cylinders 1760 1760
----------------------------------------
Performance (both):
Track to track (read) 1.5 msec
Track to track (write) 2.5 msec
Average 10 msec
Max 25 msec
Avg Rotational Latency 5.56 msec
Rotational speed 5400 rpm (+/- 5%)
Data Transfer Rate upto 5Mbytes/sec
Internal data rate 24-40 Mbits/sec
BIOS Settings:
2105A 1084 cyl 16 heads 63 sectors
2112A* master 1024 cyl 16 heads 63 sectors
slave 1010 cyl 16 heads 63 sectors
* the 2112A emulates both master and slave
Jumpers (labelled J6 on the drive)
----
|oo| W1\ only these 2 are used
|oo| W2/
|oo|
|oo|
|oo|
----
W2 W1
-- --
in in 2112A only - drive emulates both master + slave
in out Drive is master, slave is present
out in Drive is slave
out out Drive is master, no slave present (ie single drive)
********************** M I C R O S C I E N C E ****************************
MicroScience
Model: 7100-00
Heads: 7
Cylinders: 855
S/T: 35 (?)
Size: 105M
Model # 8040-00.
Size 40M 5hd/17sec/977cyl
********************** M I N I S C R I B E ****************************
Miniscribe
MODEL AT CAP CYC H RWC WPC ENC RATE ACCESS SPT COMMENTS
8225AT 3.5" 21 745 2 - - 8 28 MS 28
8051AT 3.5" 42 745 4 - - 8 28 MS 28
8450AT 3.5" 42 745 4 - - 8 40 MS 28
Master(2): 5-6
Slave(2): 1-2
Single: 1-3 (shunt storage)
*************************** N E C *********************************
NEC D3735, 40 MB
BIOS: Cyl 537 Head 4 sect 41
NEC D3755, 105 MB
BIOS: Cyl 625 Head 8 sect 41
NEC D3741, 44 MB
BIOS: Cyl 423 Head 8 sect 26 WPcom 0 LZone 424
Jumper JP12 JP13 (for all above NEC drives)
Single 0 0
Master 1 0
Slave 1 1
There have been reported difficulties in using WD Caviar as Master and
NEC drives as slave - the other way it works.
*************************** Q U A N T U M *************************
Logical Specs for Quantum AT Drives
COMPLIMENTS OF COMPUTER BROKERS OF CANADA
Model Cap Avg Acc Cylinders Heads Sectors/Track
(MB) (ms)
40AT 42 19 965 5 17
80AT 84 19 965 10 17
120AT 120 15 814 9 32
170AT 168 15 968 10 34
210AT 209 15 873 13 36
425AT 426 14 1021 16 51
LPS 52AT 52 17 751 8 17
LPS 80AT 83 17 611 16 17
LPS 105AT 105 17 755 16 17
LPS 120AT 122 16 901 5 53
LPS 240AT 245 16 723 13 51
=================================================
Legend: 1=Jumper Installed 0=No Jumper
=================================================
40 & 80 AT Jumpers
DS SS Meaning
1 0 Single drive configuration
1 1 Master of dual drive
0 0 Slave of dual drive
0 1 Self-Seek Test
=======================================================
120, 170, 210 & 425 AT Jumpers
DS SP SS Meaning
0 0 0 Slave when the Master is Quantum PRODRIVE other than 40/80A
0 0 1 Slave in PRODRIVE 40/80A mode
0 1 0 Slave when Master is non Quantum Drive
0 1 1 Not Used
1 0 1 Master drive PDIAG mode checking DASP for slave
1 1 0 Master in PDIAG mode using SP to check if slave present
1 1 1 Master in 40/80A mode using SP to check if slave present
1 0 0 Single drive
=======================================================
LPS 52, 80, 105, 120 & 240 AT Jumpers
DS SP DM* Meaning
0 0 0 Slave in standard PDIAG mode for compatibility with drives that use
PDIAG-line to handle Master/Slave communications
0 0 1 Slave in PRODRIVE 40/80A mode compat. without using PDIAG line
0 1 0 Self Test
0 1 1 Self Test
1 0 0 Master in PDIAG mode using DASP to check for Slave
1 0 1 Master in 40/80A Mode using DASP to check for Slave
1 1 0 Master in PDIAG mode using SP to check for Slave without
checking DASP
1 1 1 Master in 40/80A mode using SP to check for Slave without
checking DASP
======================================================================
* While my Spec form marked the jumper name DM, it is labeled as CS on
my LPS 240AT drive.
The QUANTUM ELS series:
Model Cap Avg Acc Cylinders Heads Sectors/Track
(MB) (ms)
ELS42AT 42 - 968 5 17
ELS85AT 85 - 977 10 17
ELS127AT 127 - 919 16 17
ELS170AT 170 - 1011 15 22
Write precomp = 0 for all Quantum drives ( probably no significance)
Landing Zone = Cylinders
Straps: If an ELS drive is
master only, use DS
master with slave, DS or, DS and SP in some cases
slave, no strap
*************************** R O D I M E *********************************
Information for RO 3008A and RO 3009A series hard disk drives:
Drive Types
Model Cyls Hds Sectors/Trk No. blocks Formatted Cap.
------- ---- --- ----------- ---------- --------------
RO3058A 868 3 34 88,536 45.33 MByets
RO3088A 868 5 34 147,560 75.55 MByets
RO3095A 923 5 34 156,910 80.33 MByets
RO3128A 868 7 34 206,584 105.77 MByets
RO3135A 923 7 34 219,674 112.47 MByets
RO3059A 217 15 28 91,158 46.67 MByets
RO3089A 325 15 28 136,737 70.00 MByets
RO3129A 492 15 28 206,645 105.80 MByets
RO3139A 523 15 28 219,735 112.50 MByets
RO3209A 759 15 28 319,053 163.35 MByets
RO3259A 976 15 28 410,211 210.02 MByets
Link Options
In order to install the Rodime Ro 3000A series drives the dumpers for
the single/dual drive and LED operation on the drive need to be set as
described in the relevant product specification.
I a single drive environment the drive is described as a Master.
In a dual drive environment the drives are described as a Master and a
Slave. This is due to the protocal the takes place between the two drives
when performing diagnostics.
There are four links, LK1, LK2, LK4 and LK5, adjacent to the 40 way
interface connector. They have the following functions and are described
in order as viewed from the end of the drive, with the first jumper
described nearest the 40 way interface connector.
LK2: LED
When fitted, this jumper connects the LED drive to pin 39 of the
interface. This allows a LED to be connected to the interface. An
external current limiting resistor needs to be fitted in series with
the LED when this option is selected. The value of the resistor will
be dependant on the LED type chosen but will be in the range of 130
Ohms ot 220 Ohms.
LK1: Dual Drives
This jumper must be fitted when two drives are attached to a single
bus. It fallows communication across the 40 way interface connector,
indicating, to the Master drive, the presence of a Slave.
LK4: Master
When fitted this signifies that the drive jumpered is a Master. If
there are two drives connected on a single bus then only one may be
jumpered in this way.
LK5: IOChRdy
When fitted this connects the IOChRdy signal to the drive, it is
fitted when the drive is used in host systems that have a higher
data transfer rate than the drive i.e. greater than 4 MBytes per
second when using 1:1 interleave. This jumper is not normally
fitted as most hosts transfer at a lower rate than 4 MBytes per
second.
There are four possible Master/Slave configurations in which a drive(s)
may be jumpered:
Master, single drive with LED on interface LK2 & LK4 fitted.
Master, single drive without LED on interface LK4 only fitted.
Master, dual drive without LED on interface LK4 & LK1 fitted.
Slave, dual drive without LED on interface No jumpers fitted.
Master, dual drive with LED on interface LK4, LK1 & LK2 fitted.
Slave, dual drive with LED on interface LK2 only fitted.
The Master drive will delay power-up for approximately two seconds to
reduce power surges in applications where dual drives are used.
The other connections for a LED will be found close to the 28 way
connector at the other end of the drive. This LED driver is not affected
by the link options. An internal current limiting resistor is on the
drive for this LED driver. Refer to the product specification for further
details.
*************************** S E A G A T E *************************
There is a list of most Seagate HD (including MFM, SCSI, ESDIand IDE) on
every Simtel mirror under
/msdos/dskutl/1seagate.zip
It contains info about the following drives:
st1144a st138a st274a st3283a
st1057a st1156a st1400a st280a st351ax
st1090a st1162a st1401a st3051a st9051a
st1102a st1186a st1480a st3096a st9077a
st1111a st1201a st157a st3120a st9096a
st1126a st1239a st2274a st3144a st9144a
st1133a st125a st2383a st325ax
********************* T E A C **************
Model: SD-3105
Cyls. Heads Sect/T PreCmp LZone Capacity
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ---------
Physical 1282 4 40 - - 105021440
BIOS (AMI) 641 8 40 0 0 105021440 (100.2M)
(Award) 926 13 17 0 0 104778752 (99.9M)
(Phoenix) 776 8 33 0 0 104890368 (100.0M)
Connectors and Jumpers:
+----+ 1 Jumper Function
|....| +---+ +-------/ /---+ 2 0 0 ON: -ACT selected (ext.LED)
| | |...| |::::::/ /::::| :::: OFF: -SLV PRESENT selected
+----+ +---+ +-----/ /-----+ 3 1 1 ON: Two HDD's
J2 J7 40 J1 ---- OFF: Single HDD
Power (Power) Signal Jumpers 2 ON: Master (/Single)
OFF: Slave (with 2 units used)
3 ON: -I/O CH RDY not output
OFF: -I/O CH RDY is output
Master Slave Settings:
Jumper no.: 1 2
-----------------------
Single....: 0 1 1, ON = jumpered
Master....: 1 1 0, OFF = not jumpered
Slave.....: 1 0
********************* W E S T E R N D I G I T A L **************
Caviar series:
Name Size (Mb) Cylinders Heads Sectors
----------------------------------------------------
WDAC140 40.7 980 5 17
WDAC280 81.3 980 10 17
WDAC2120 119.0 1024 14 17
WDAC2170 162.7 1010 6 55
WDAC2200 202.8 989 12 35
WDAC2340 325.4 1010 12 55
Please note that these are the *recommended* CMOS parameters. All the disks
support so-called dynamic translation, and should thus be able to work with
any parameters having fewer sectors than the total number of sectors on
the disk.
Now, according to the manual, the jumper settings are as follows:
Jumper CP MA SL
-------------------------------------------------
Single 0 0 0
Master 0 1 0
Slave 0 0 1
Slave with Conner CP342 or CP3022 1 0 1
Maybe there are 2 kinds of Caviar's floating around:
If your jumpers read MA SL and SI then use:
Jumper SI MA SL
Single 1 0 0
Master 0 1 0
Slave 0 0 1
There have been reported difficulties in using WD Caviar as Master and
NEC drives as slave - the other way it works.
WD93044-A (40 MB)
BIOS-Settings
977 cyln, 5 heads, 17 sect, LZone: 977 ( wenn sie sie braucht )
+-------+ +---+---+---+ 1: drive is master
+-------+ +---+---+---+ 3: second drive is a conner-drive
No jumper set: this is the only drive.
******************** Useful telephone numbers... ********************
Miniscribe:
303-651-6000
Maxtor:
Info/tech support: 800-262-9867
FAX-back: 303-678-2618
BBS: 303-678-2222
They list their 800 number as 1(800)2-MAXTOR.
Quantum:
408-894-4000
408-944-0410 (Support)
408-894-3218 (FAX)
408-894-3214 (BBS)
Seagate:
Info/tech support: 408-438-8222
FAX-back: 408-438-2620
BBS: 408-438-8771
******************* last but not least *****************
If I could help you with my little collection and if you live in a
part of the world far away from me, how about a postcard for my pinboard?
I will surely answer! | 3 | trimmed_train |
7,110 |
I don't know a whole lot on Proton, but given that it is a multi stage
rocket, up to 4 stages, it may not really need the Centaur, plus
it may end up seriously beating on said centaur.
Also, the centaur is not small, unless the Proton has an oversize
shroud you may not be able to get the centaur in under it.
Dennis, you know much about this? | 10 | trimmed_train |
6,693 | I've been looking into getting a portable Mac to do some work and I've
had my eye on the PB 100. Lately, I've been seeing people with the old
portables, and they're selling for $300 LESS that the PB 100s. What I
want to know is: what are the differences between them? All I know is
that the Portable is heavier, but the PB100 doesn't have an internal
drive. Here's what I NEED to know:
Does the portable support Appletalk/network connections?
What's the CPU inside a Portable? (68000?)
DOES THE PORTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEM 7?????????
What's the maximum memory capacity of the Portable? Can you still get
RAM (meaning: does it use special SIMMS?)
What kind of internal HD does it use?
Does the Portable have a better screen?
THANX in advance. | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,616 | Thank you ALL for requesting my list and thank you again
if you purchased vinyl from me.
LOTSA MORE VINYL LEFTOVER FOR SALE.
VINYL looking for a new home.
PLEASE BUY some (more) so I can STOP running this AD.
Bunches of 12" vinyl records for sale
including a METAL ACETATE!!! NO not heavy metal music)
BUT EM ALL and GET AMAZING DEAL...
email me for BIG list and details. (Mass, USA) | 5 | trimmed_train |
1,843 | I was laughing about the law part.
I've driven thru SOHO...manahattan, _I_ know what' you're talking 'bout...
:^)
Not that Durham, NC is any better...
(well, maybe a little bit anyway, but the NC DOT takes more
money from road taxes and puts it in their own pockets and
into the pockets of the guys building the large condos that
need their own roads than they do back into fixing roads, but
hey, the local paper did a report of this last summer, and
boy, am I glad I don't work for the DOT, 'cause they got SHAT
on, bigtime....wonder who lost their jobs? ED? Got any idea?)
| 12 | trimmed_train |
10,340 |
You are making precisely one of the points I wanted to make.
I fully agree with you that there is a big distinction between the
*process* of science and the end result.
As an end result of science, one wants to get results that are
objectively verifiable. But there is nothing objective about the
*process* of science.
If good empirical research were done and showed that there is some merit
to homeopathic remedies, this would certainly be valuable information.
But it would still not mean that homeopathy qualifies as a science. This
is where you and I disagree with Turpin. In order to have science, one
must have a theoretical structure that makes sense, not a mere
collection of empirically validated random hypotheses.
Experiment and empirical studies are an important part of science, but
they are merely the culmination of scientific research. The most
important part of true scientific methodology is SCIENTIFIC THINKING.
Without this, one does not have any hypotheses worth testing. (No,
hypotheses do not just leap out at you after you look at enough data.
Nor do they simply come to you in a flash one day while you're shaving or
looking out the window. At least not unless you've done a lot of really
good thinking beforehand.)
The difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre
scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology.
It depends on the quality of their THINKING.
It really bothers me that so many graduate students seem to believe that
they are doing science merely because they are conducting empirical
studies. And it bothers me even more that there are many fields, such as
certain parts of psychology, where there seems to be no thinking at all,
but mere studies testing ad hoc hypotheses.
And I'm especially offended by Russell Turpin's repeated assertion that
science amounts to nothing more than avoiding mistakes. Simply avoiding
mistakes doesn't get you anywhere.
--
In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems
less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects. | 19 | trimmed_train |
2,227 | THE HAMAS WAY of DEATH
(Following is a transcript of a recruitment and training
videotape made last summer by the Qassam Battalions, the military
arm of Hamas, an Islamic Palestinian group. Hamas figures
significantly in the Middle East equation. In December, Israel
deported more than 400 Palestinians to Lebanon in response to
Hamas's kidnapping and execution of an Israeli soldier. A longer
version appears in the May issue of Harper's Magazine, which
obtained and translated the tape.)
My name is Yasir Hammad al-Hassan Ali. I live in Nuseirat [a
refugee camp in the Gaza Strip]. I was born in 1964. I finished
high school, then attended Gaza Polytechnic. Later, I went to work
for Islamic University in Gaza as a clerk. I'm married and I have
two daughters.
The Qassam Battalions are the only group in Palestine
explicitly dedicated to jihad [holy war]. Our primary concern is
Palestinians who collaborate with the enemy. Many young men and
women have fallen prey to the cunning traps laid by the [Israeli]
Security Services.
Since our enemies are trying to obliterate our nation,
cooperation with them is clearly a terrible crime. Our most
important objective must be to put an end to the plague of
collaboration. To do so, we abduct collaborators, intimidate and
interrogate them in order to uncover other collaborators and expose
the methods that the enemy uses to lure Palestinians into
collaboration in the first place. In addition to that, naturally,
we confront the problem of collaborators by executing them.
We don't execute every collaborator. After all, about 70
percent of them are innocent victims, tricked or black-mailed into
their misdeeds. The decision whether to execute a collaborator is
based on the seriousness of his crimes. If, like many
collaborators, he has been recruited as an agent of the Israeli
Border Guard then it is imperative that he be executed at once.
He's as dangerous as an Israeli soldier, so we treat him like an
Israeli soldier.
There's another group of collaborators who perform an even
more loathsome role -- the ones who help the enemy trap young men
and women in blackmail schemes that force them to become
collaborators. I regard the "isqat" [the process by which a
Palestinians is blackmailed into collaboration] of single person as
greater crime than the killing of a demonstrator. If someone is
guilty of causing repeated cases of isqat, than it is our religious
duty to execute him.
A third group of collaborators is responsible for the
distribution of narcotics. They work on direct orders from the
Security Services to distribute drugs as widely as possible. Their
victims become addicted and soon find it unbearable to quit and
impossible to afford more. They collaborate in order to get the
drugs they crave. The dealers must also be executed.
In the battalions, we have developed a very careful method of
uncovering collaborators, We can't afford to abduct an innocent
person, because once we seize a person his reputation is tarnished
forever. We will abduct and interrogate a collaborator only after
evidence of his guilt has been established -- never before. If
after interrogation the collaborator is found guilty beyond any
doubt, then he is executed.
In many cases, we don't have to make our evidence against
collaborators public, because everyone knows that they're guilty.
But when the public isn't aware that a certain individual is a
collaborator, and we accuse him, people are bound to ask for
evidence. Many people will proclaim his innocence, so there must be
irrefutable proof before he is executed. This proof is usually
obtained in the form of a confession.
At first, every collaborator denies his crimes. So we start
off by showing the collaborator the testimony against him. We tell
him that he still has a chance to serve his people, even in the
last moment of his life, by confessing and giving us the
information we need.
We say that we know his repentance in sincere and that he has
been a victim. That kind of talk is convincing. Most of them
confess after that. Others hold out; in those cases, we apply
pressure, both psychological and physical. Then the holdouts
confess as well.
Only one collaborator has ever been executed without an
interrogation. In that case, the collaborator had been seen working
for the Border Guard since before the intifada, and he himself
confessed his involvement to a friend, who disclosed the
information to us. In addition, three members of his network of
collaborators told us that he had caused their isqat. With this
much evidence, there was no need to interrogate him. But we are
very careful to avoid wrongful executions. In every case, our
principal is the same: the accused should be interrogated until he
himself confesses his crimes.
A few weeks ago, we sat down and complied a list of
collaborators to decide whether there were any who could be
executed without interrogation. An although we had hundreds of
names, still, because of our fear of God and of hell, we could not
mark any of these men, except for the one I just mentioned, for
execution.
When we execute a collaborator in public, we use a gun. But
after we abduct and interrogate a collaborator, we can't shoot him
-- to do so might give away our locations. That's why collaborators
are strangled. Sometimes we ask the collaborator, "What do you
think? How should we execute you?" One collaborator told us,
"Strangle me." He hated the sight of blood.
| 6 | trimmed_train |
8,797 | [The following is my comment on an article by Desiree Bradley. --clh]
Koresh did originally claim to be the Christ, but then backed off and
said he was a prophet. The latest news at 8:00 CDT from Waco is that
the feds broke through a wall of the compound with a tank. No news
besides that at this time. | 0 | trimmed_train |
705 | # |## |#2. Professors get summers off; industry employees don't.
# |##
# |## What professor gets the summer off ? The primary purpose of a professor
# |## at a university is to publish. Teaching is secondary. The summer
# |## is when professors are able to do the research required for their
# |## papers.
# |#
# |#I'm told by my advisor that only at some universities is publishing
# |#the primary emphasis; many professors in the Cal State University
# |#system don't publish at all. Those that prefer teaching are under
# |#no pressure to publish.
# |#
#
# When discussing and issue, it helps that all participants use the same
# definitions, although this rarely occurs on Usenet.
#
# When I use the term "university", I think of an organization that has
# a Bachelors, Masters, and PhD program. I believe that Cal State schools
# do not. I call them colleges. UC schools are universities. At a univeristy
# the number one goal is to publish.
Cal State University system offers bachlors and masters degrees. The
Ph.D. is not offered, because of opposition from UC.
# At the Cal State schools, do the professors you speak of have PhDs? At
Nearly all the professors have PhDs. I haven't had a professor who didn't,
though my wife has had a couple of professors with just an M.A. A friend
had an instructor who didn't have a degree at all, but because he had
been Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers, he was teaching anyway.
He had a bad habit of usually not showing up to teach the class, and
finally quit in disgust at the racism of a university that expected him
to show up to teach.
# a university you have professors with PhDs and then Teaching Assistants (TAs).
# TAs were the slave labor, graduate students who got their tuition paid, and
# a few hundred a month for living expenses in exchange for doing all the grunt
# work. The professors taught the lectures, with 100 to 500 students per class,
# then the TAs taught the labs, with 20 to 30 per class.
#
# Tim Fogarty ([email protected])
At Sonoma State University, typical class size is 20 to 30 per class.
Teaching is definitely more the goal, and sometimes, it actually happens.
The best professors at Sonoma State U. are equivalent to the best
professors I had at UCLA and USC. | 13 | trimmed_train |
3,574 |
jubilee, Pope >Leo the 12th had a medallion cast with his own image on
one side and on >the other side, the Church of Rome symbolized as a
"Woman, holding in >her left hand a cross, and in her right a cup with
legend around her, >'Sedet super universum', 'The whole world is her
seat."
You read more into the medal than it is worth. The Woman is the
Church. Catholics have always called our Church "Holy Mother Church"
and our "Mother." An example would be from St. Cyprian of Carthage, who
wrote in 251 AD, "Can anyone have God for his Father, who does not have
the Church for his mother?"
Hence the image of the Church as a woman, holding a Cross and a Cup,
which tell of the Crucifxition of Our Lord, and of the power of His
Blood (the grail legend, but also, more significantly, it shows that
"This is the Cup of the New Covenant in my blood, which shall be shed
for you and for many." (Luke 22.20), the Cup represents the New Covenant
and holds the blood of redemption). The fact that the woman is holding
both and is said to have the whole world for her seat, is that the
Catholic Church is catholic, that is universal, and is found throughout
the world, and the Church shows the Crucifixtion and applies the blood
of redemption to all mankind by this spread of hers, thorugh which the
Holy Sacrafice of the Mass, can be said and celebrated in all the
nations as Malachi predicted in Malachi 1.11, "From the rising of the
sun to its setting, my name is great among the gentiles, and everywhere
there is sacrafice, and there is offered to my Name a clean oblation,
for my Name is great among the gentiles, says the Lord of hosts." And
so we acknowledge what St. Paul wrote "For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death until he comes." (1
Corinthians 11.26)
You are quite right about the identification of "Babylon the Great,
Mother of all Harlots" with Rome. I think we simply disagree as to what
time period of Rome the Apostle John is talking about. | 0 | trimmed_train |
6,994 |
Ashok,
Is WinTrumpet available anywhere via anonymous ftp? | 18 | trimmed_train |
5,222 | I don't think there is really any question about which god the courts
mean. The request for solemnly swearing, so help you god,
is always made after a request to pick up the bible in your left hand
and hold up your right hand. In the courts of NC, at least, it is always
an old and new testament. | 8 | trimmed_train |
8,319 |
Steve,
It's nice that you find me laughable but I don't quite
understand. Is it because you think my firearms clash with
what I'm wearing, or that my NRA sticker isn't on straight?
Please state your judgement!
I find it sad that people won't accept the responsibility
to defend themselves. And I laugh with the same contempt you
have for me at the sheep who expect the government to protect
them.
You and your friends sound like a bunch of smug intellectuals.
Oh, I guess you are. I'm still waiting for you all-knowing
academic-likes to solve the worlds problems. Let us know when
you have the answers or punch lines as this case may be.
So it's not a "Yankee" thing?
Are Canadians actually as uncivilized as we Americans?
Well if it's anything like here it wouldn't matter if they
did; they wouldn't be able to use them.
You shouldn't waste your time watching TV, Steve. It will corrupt
your mind.
Ditto to you, Self Righteous One.
Lay your derogatory tirade on thick, Steve. Y'all can keep laughing and
I'll keep feeling safe and secure.
| 9 | trimmed_train |
8,040 |
ahh, yes, this is a fun topic. No, once the name is incribed on the
disk, that is it, it is encoded. Not even a HEX editor will find it. You can
write over the "Licensed to:", but you can't change the name underneth it. I
think if you wish to change this you would have to be a pirate, and we're not
going to promote that here.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robert S. Dubinski | Aliases include: Robb, Regal, Sir, Mr., and I |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Marquette University ||||||||||| Math / Computer Science Double-Major|
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| Internet Address: 2A42Dubinski.vms.csd.mu.edu | Milwaukee, WI | | 18 | trimmed_train |
1,849 | I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to respond to my post about
fighting my ticket.
Many of you wrote to say that you have successfully fought and won your
case in court. Others lost due to the cop outright lying to the judge
about the circumstances surrounding your ticket, while one fellow lost
because the judge just didn't appear to be in the mood for such foolishness.
Several of you suggested that I obtain a book called "Fight Your Ticket".
The general theme from those who said "go for it", was to be prepared.
I should do as much research as possible, go back and review the scene,
transcribe what happened to tape or paper, use any witnesses that may
have been around, have a list of questions to ask the cop and/or the judge,
and to be positive and assertive. I am innocent until proven guilty! <gulp>
A few people suggested trying to get my court date changed, as this might
trip up the arresting officer, he may not show up if the date is on his day
off or if he feels/knows that he doesn't have a chance to win against you.
One individual stated that an Officer could be an Expert Witness, and if he
says I was speeding, then by damn, I was speeding.
Another says that I must have been paced or clocked with a radar gun.
Lots of good suggestions and ideas from you all. I'll let you know what
happens after the big day!
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| 12 | trimmed_train |
6,160 |
[intermediate reply suggesting cable switch deleted]
I hate to burst your bubble but you cannot "slip in a B:" to that
particular AMI BIOS setting. That setting only allows you to set
the *boot order* of the floppy A: with respect to the primary HD C:,
i.e., check A: first, then C: or check C:, then A:.
| 3 | trimmed_train |
11,297 | Hello,
I am having a small problem with my sound blaster pro and a game.
Is there a utility out there that would tell me what DMA's my system
is using?
| 3 | trimmed_train |
4,315 | 6 | trimmed_train |
|
4,977 | : I've started to look at some devices doing serial data transmission
: over fairly decent distances in fairly noisy environments, and have
: seen a variety of schemes for protecting the RS232 transceivers (and
: the rest of the circuit) from transients on the serial lines. I'm
: left wondering what is the best way of doing this? How necessary is
: it?
: [stuff deleted]
: What is the wisdom on this out there?
:
: Ta,
:
: Martin.
:
:
From what I know, protection is necessary, esp. if you plan to route
the cables into an unknown environment (out of your control). Things
like accidental shorts between the signal lines and power cables, or
even lightning strikes are very likely and I don't think you like to see
the sight of your computer going up in smoke! [Even ethernet cards are
protected. I've looked at the one in my PC and the connector is
protected by a gas discharge tube!]
{But if you plan to use the serial cables for internal routings (i.e. in
controlled environments), it should be reasonably safe not to have
them.}
Suggestion: look in the RS data book. They have several RS232
transceivers that have overvoltage protection. Among them include the
LT1080, LT1081 and MAX250 and MAX251. The Maxims are suppose to be
electrically isolated ones but still need opto-isolators to work (don't
ask me why. I've never used them before.
Another alternative is an RS232 surge protector. Two are listed in the
RS catalogue. If you need additional info (i.e. stock nos.), just e-mail
me. | 11 | trimmed_train |
4,703 | 0 | trimmed_train |
|
4,732 | Any thoughts on who is going to count all of the gorgeous bodies at the MOW?
The press? The White House Staff? The most Junior Senator? The King of
the motss/bi?
Just curious as to whose bias we are going to see when the numbers
get brought out.
--
bram
| 13 | trimmed_train |
6,479 | Well it seems that I have a soundblaster card for sale since
I recently purchased a SBPro. The card comes complete, In mint
condition; with box, manuals,docs ,disks and original packaging.
Make an offer..._Canadian_ inquiries prefered!
Respond before APRIL 28!!!!!!!!!!!!!
e-mail at [email protected] | 3 | trimmed_train |
8,336 | [email protected] (A.J. Teel) writes...
On whose authority do you have this and on what grounds was it
dismissed?
Daniel Reitman
HOW NOT TO WRITE A DEED
One case involved the construction of a conveyance to grantees "jointly, as
tenants in common, with equal rights and interest in said land, and to the
survivor thereof, in fee simple. . . . To Have and to Hold the same unto the
said parties hereto, equally, jointly, as tenants in common, with equal rights
and interest for the period or term of their lives, and to the survivor thereof
at the death of the other." | 13 | trimmed_train |
4,180 |
What it has to do with your original question is this: many times
beginning X users (heck, experienced X users too!) write small test
programs. Many times they forget to draw only in response to expose
events, and thus see unpreditable results whereby sometimes the application's
graphics show up, and sometimes they don't. We're just trying to
eliminate all the "easy" explanations for why you're not seeing your
graphics.
That being said, why don't you try copying different planes to your
window other than 16 (== 1 << 4). Try 1, 1<<1, 1<<2, ..., 1<<7
to see it you get any output. Since you're dipslaying only a single
plane of your data, it's possible that all the pixel values in your
pixmap have the same value for that color plane.
Ken
| 16 | trimmed_train |
6,304 |
My knowledge about driving in the U.S. is also second-hand, but I think I can
correct your statements about our Autobahn:
Oh yeah, that would be paradise... in fact, you can forget it. From all I've
heard from my U.S. relatives, drivers esp. here in Germany are much more agg-
ressive, but not disciplined. One of my relatives, a L.A. resident, hired a car
at the Nuernberg airport and went about 18 miles to our home. He said then that
he grew about 1 year older during this ride and swore he'd never drive a car in
Germany again (this was in 1982 and he kept his promise - the situation now is
even worse as effect of the increased volume of traffic).
What you mean by `better disciplined' should perhaps be considered `cautious due
to fear':
When driving around here, you always *have* to take into consideration that the
majority of the other drivers absolutely relies on you: They expect that nobody
fails or sleeps; many of them exploit this by driving as fast as their car can
go (of course only where that is allowed, you might think - dream on :).
So any mistake you make is a very high risk to your health - and if you're ex-
posed to such a situation from your very first day as a driver, you learn to
handle it - or you lose...
That's the way I and most people I know experience our traffic situation -
whether you think this is pleasant or efficient is up to you; I think we handle
a very high volume of traffic and that at high speeds with modest (compared to
the volume) and decreasing rates of lethal accidents - OTOH, more and more
people (esp. women) dislike driving (because they feel overtaxed and threatened)
and each accident is one accident too much.
Better designed and maintained, may be - but animal fences are very rare. Auto-
bahnen and many other streets have guard-rails (I hope that's the right word -
a plank made from thick steel sheet fixed on uprights; it's about 2 feet high);
those guard-rails are designed for keeping vehicles on the road. Smaller animals
can crawl under the plank, bigger ones can easily jump over it. The point is
that esp. larger animals are very rare in Germany; they tend also to be very
timid. Accidents caused by animals are a neglegible danger.
You're right (there are speed linits even on the major part of the Autobahn) -
but the attitude towards driving (see above) seems to be very similar to that
in Germany (I've been in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Spain, Belgium,
the Netherlands) - besides that, you really can't rely on the residents abiding
the local speed limits. I've got quite a lot of practise (~120k miles) and I'm
used to travel at 130 mph (FYI, with a car even smaller than a rabbit), but I
consider driving on the highways round Paris or Milano really a thrill...
Sorry, but you'll find quite a lot rabbit-class-car (or even smaller, mine is a
Peugeot 205) owners going that fast; small cars with much HP are very `hip' over
here - and most people buying such cars aren't afraid to let them run.
I disagree; the size or weight of a car is rather irrelevant. Formula-1 cars
weigh less than 700 kg and the drivers have a chance to survive accidents at
130 mph or higher - OTOH when crashing against a solid object at 130 mph,
it makes no difference whether you sit in a Porsche, a Mercedes, a tank or on
a bicycle: Your're dead.
Bye,
Stefan
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Stefan Dalibor ([email protected]) | 4 | trimmed_train |
565 |
Here is one by Andrew "Graphics Gems" Glassner that I got from a
collegue of mine. I think I fiddled with it a little bit to make it
deal with whatever bizarre problem I was working on at the time but it
is known to work.
spl
- - - -
/* spheres
ASG 9 Feb 85
spl Thu Mar 8 17:17:40 EST 1990
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#define PI 3.141592654
struct Point_struct {
double x, y, z;
};
static double radius;
static double xorg;
static double yorg;
static double zorg;
do_sphere( r, freq, x, y, z )
double r;
int freq;
double x;
double y;
double z;
{
int pole;
double northy, southy, poley;
double rtheta, rtheta2, ntheta, ntheta2, magicangle;
double theta, thetastart, thisy, den, t;
struct Point_node *pnp;
struct Point_struct p1, p2, p3, p4, n1, n2, n3, n4, pt;
radius = r;
xorg = x;
yorg = y;
zorg = z;
/* north pole */
magicangle = 30.0*PI/180.0;
northy = radius*sin(magicangle);
southy = -radius*sin(magicangle);
for (pole=0; pole<2; pole++) {
if (pole==0) {
poley=radius;
thisy=northy;
thetastart=0.0;
}
else {
poley= -radius;
thisy=southy;
thetastart=36.0;
}
for ( theta = thetastart; theta < 360.0; theta += 60.0 ) {
rtheta = theta*PI/180.0;
rtheta2 = (theta+60.0)*PI/180.0;
p1.x = 0.0;
p1.y = poley;
p1.z = 0.0;
p2.x = radius*cos(rtheta);
p2.y = thisy;
p2.z = radius*sin(rtheta);
p3.x = radius*cos(rtheta2);
p3.y = thisy;
p3.z = radius*sin(rtheta2);
if (pole==0) {
/* make ring go the other way so normals are right */
pt.x = p3.x;
pt.y = p3.y;
pt.z = p3.z;
p3.x = p2.x;
p3.y = p2.y;
p3.z = p2.z;
p2.x = pt.x;
p2.y = pt.y;
p2.z = pt.z;
}
den = (p1.x*p1.x)+(p1.y*p1.y)+(p1.z*p1.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p1.x *= t;
p1.y *= t;
p1.z *= t;
}
den = (p2.x*p2.x)+(p2.y*p2.y)+(p2.z*p2.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p2.x *= t;
p2.y *= t;
p2.z *= t;
}
den = (p3.x*p3.x)+(p3.y*p3.y)+(p3.z*p3.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p3.x *= t;
p3.y *= t;
p3.z *= t;
}
subdivide_tri(&p1,&p2,&p3,freq);
}
}
/* now the body */
for (theta=0.0; theta<360.0; theta += 60.0) {
rtheta = theta*PI/180.0;
rtheta2 = (theta+60.0)*PI/180.0;
ntheta = (theta+36.0)*PI/180.0;
ntheta2 = (theta+96.0)*PI/180.0;
p1.x = radius*cos(rtheta);
p1.y = northy;
p1.z = radius*sin(rtheta);
p2.x = radius*cos(rtheta2);
p2.y = northy;
p2.z = radius*sin(rtheta2);
p3.x = radius*cos(ntheta);
p3.y = southy;
p3.z = radius*sin(ntheta);
p4.x = radius*cos(ntheta2);
p4.y = southy;
p4.z = radius*sin(ntheta2);
den = (p1.x*p1.x)+(p1.y*p1.y)+(p1.z*p1.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p1.x *= t;
p1.y *= t;
p1.z *= t;
}
den = (p2.x*p2.x)+(p2.y*p2.y)+(p2.z*p2.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p2.x *= t;
p2.y *= t;
p2.z *= t;
}
den = (p3.x*p3.x)+(p3.y*p3.y)+(p3.z*p3.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p3.x *= t;
p3.y *= t;
p3.z *= t;
}
den = (p4.x*p4.x)+(p4.y*p4.y)+(p4.z*p4.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p4.x *= t;
p4.y *= t;
p4.z *= t;
}
subdivide_tri(&p1,&p2,&p3,freq);
subdivide_tri(&p3,&p2,&p4,freq);
}
return;
}
#define norm_pt(v) { register double r = sqrt( ( ( v )->x * ( v )->x ) + \
( ( v )->y * ( v )->y ) + \
( ( v )->z * ( v )->z ) ); \
( v )->x /= r; \
( v )->y /= r; \
( v )->z /= r; \
}
subdivide_tri(p1,p2,p3,a)
struct Point_struct *p1, *p2, *p3;
int a;
{
struct Point_struct n1, n2, n3;
struct Point_struct p12, p13, p23;
double den, t;
if (a>0) {
p12.x = (p1->x+p2->x)/2.0;
p12.y = (p1->y+p2->y)/2.0;
p12.z = (p1->z+p2->z)/2.0;
den = (p12.x*p12.x)+(p12.y*p12.y)+(p12.z*p12.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p12.x *= t;
p12.y *= t;
p12.z *= t;
}
p13.x = (p1->x+p3->x)/2.0;
p13.y = (p1->y+p3->y)/2.0;
p13.z = (p1->z+p3->z)/2.0;
den = (p13.x*p13.x)+(p13.y*p13.y)+(p13.z*p13.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p13.x *= t;
p13.y *= t;
p13.z *= t;
}
p23.x = (p2->x+p3->x)/2.0;
p23.y = (p2->y+p3->y)/2.0;
p23.z = (p2->z+p3->z)/2.0;
den = (p23.x*p23.x)+(p23.y*p23.y)+(p23.z*p23.z);
den = sqrt(den);
if (den != 0.0) {
t = radius / den;
p23.x *= t;
p23.y *= t;
p23.z *= t;
}
subdivide_tri(p1, &p12,&p13,a-1);
subdivide_tri(&p12, p2, &p23,a-1);
subdivide_tri(&p13,&p23, p3, a-1);
subdivide_tri(&p12,&p23,&p13,a-1);
} else {
n1.x = p1->x;
n1.y = p1->y;
n1.z = p1->z;
norm_pt(&n1);
n2.x = p2->x;
n2.y = p2->y;
n2.z = p2->z;
norm_pt(&n2);
n3.x = p3->x;
n3.y = p3->y;
n3.z = p3->z;
norm_pt(&n3);
/* nothing special about this poly */
printf( "%f %f %f %f %f %f\n", p1->x + xorg,
p1->y + yorg,
p1->z + zorg,
n1.x, n1.y, n1.z );
printf( "%f %f %f %f %f %f\n", p2->x + xorg,
p2->y + yorg,
p2->z + zorg,
n2.x, n2.y, n2.z );
printf( "%f %f %f %f %f %f\n", p3->x + xorg,
p3->y + yorg,
p3->z + zorg,
n3.x, n3.y, n3.z );
}
return;
} | 1 | trimmed_train |
10,251 |
I'm not sure it is the fluctuation so much as the estrogen level.
Taking Premarin can certainly cause migraines in some women.
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
[email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon." | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,400 |
You became older and your intestine normalized to the weaned state. That
is, lactose tolerance is an unusual state for adults of most mammals
except for h. sapiens of northern European origin. As a h. sapiens of
asian descent (assumption based on name) the loss of lactase is normal
for you. | 19 | trimmed_train |
3,825 | ) The documentation says that Wordperfect for windows, requires 4 M of ram, but
)when I try to install it on my laptop I get a not enough memory error message.
)I've unloaded everything that I possibly could but still, NOT ENOUGH MEMORY.
)Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening. | 3 | trimmed_train |
1,310 | [For those attending the AAAI conf this summer, note that
this conference is immediately preceding it.]
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION MATERIALS
First International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Washington, D.C.
July 6-9, 1993
Sponsored by:
The National Institutes of Health,
National Library of Medicine
The Department of Energy,
Office of Health and Environmental Research
The Biomatrix Society
The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Poster Session and Tutorials:
Bethesda Ramada Hotel
Technical Sessions:
Lister Hill Center Auditorium, National Library of Medicine
For more information contact [email protected] or FAX (608)262-9777
PURPOSE
This, the First International Conference on Intelligent Systems
for Molecular Biology, is the inaugural meeting in a series
intended to bring together scientists who are applying the
technologies of artificial intelligence, robotics, machine
learning, massively parallel computing, advanced data modelling,
and related methods to problems in molecular biology. The scope
extends to any computational or robotic system supporting a
biological task that is cognitively challenging, involves a
synthesis of information from multiple sources at multiple levels,
or in some other way exhibits the abstraction and emergent
properties of an "intelligent system."
FACILITIES
The conference will be held at
Lister Hill Center
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
NIH, Building 38A
Bethesda MD 20894
Seating in the conference center is strictly limited, so
registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Accomodations, as well as a reception and poster session, will be
at the
Bethesda Ramada Hotel
8400 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda MD 20814
A special room rate has been negotiated with the hotel, of $92/day
(expires 6/21). Attendees must make their own reservations, by
writing the hotel or calling (800)331-5252 and mentioning the
ISMB conference. To participate in a roommate-matching service,
e-mail [email protected].
TRANSPORTATION
The two facilities are within easy walking distance, convenient to
the subway (Metro Red Line, Medical Center stop), and from there
to the Amtrak station. Nearby airports include Dulles, National,
and Baltimore-Washington International.
PROCEEDINGS
Full-length papers from both talks and posters will be published in
archival proceedings. The citation is:
Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Intelligent Systems for
Molecular Biology (eds. L. Hunter,
D. Searls, and J. Shavlik) AAAI/MIT
Press, Menlo Park CA, 1993.
Copies will be distributed at the conference to registered
attendees, and will be available for purchase from the publisher
afterwards.
TALKS
Wednesday, July 7, 1993
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8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15am Opening Remarks
9:15-10:30am Invited Talk
"Statistics, Protein Cores, and Predicted Structures"
Prof. Temple Smith (Boston University)
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00am "Constructive Induction and Protein Structure Prediction"
T.R. Ioerger, L. Rendell, & S. Surbramaniam
11:30am "Protein Secondary-Structure Modeling with Probabilistic
Networks" A.L. Delcher, S. Kasif, H.R. Goldberg, & W. Hsu
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm "Protein Secondary Structure using Two-Level Case-Based
Reasoning" B. Leng, B.G. Buchanan, & H.B. Nicholas
2:00pm "Automatic Derivation of Substructures Yields Novel
Structural Building Blocks in Globular Proteins"
X. Zhang, J.S. Fetrow, W.A. Rennie, D.L. Waltz, & G. Berg
2:30pm "Using Dirichlet Mixture Priors to Derive Hidden Markov
Models for Protein Families" M. Brown, R. Hughey, A. Krogh,
I.S. Mian, K. Sjolander, & D. Haussler
3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30pm "Protein Classification using Neural Networks"
E.A. Ferran, B. Pflugfelder, & P. Ferrara
4:00pm "Neural Networks for Molecular Sequence Classification"
C. Wu, M. Berry, Y-S. Fung, & J. McLarty
4:30pm "Computationally Efficient Cluster Representation in
Molecular Sequence Megaclassification" D.J. States, N. Harris,
& L. Hunter
7:00-7:30pm Poster Setup
7:30-10:00pm Reception & Poster Session
Thursday, July 8, 1993
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8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:15am Invited Talk
"Large-Scale DNA Sequencing: A Tale of Mice and Men"
Prof. Leroy Hood (University of Washington)
10:15-10:45am Break
10:45am "Pattern Recognition for Automated DNA Sequencing:
I. On-Line Signal Conditioning and Feature Extraction for
Basecalling" J.B. Bolden III, D. Torgersen, & C. Tibbetts
11:15am "Genetic Algorithms for Sequence Assembly"
R. Parsons, S. Forrest, & C. Burks
11:45am "A Partial Digest Approach to Restriction Site Mapping"
S.S. Skiena & G. Sundaram
12:15-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm "Integrating Order and Distance Relationships from
Heterogeneous Maps" M. Graves
2:30pm "Discovering Sequence Similarity by the Algorithmic
Significance Method" A. Milosavljevic
3:00pm "Identification of Human Gene Functional Regions Based on
Oligonucleotide Composition" V.V. Solovyev & C.B. Lawrence
3:30pm "Knowledge Discovery in GENBANK"
J.S. Aaronson, J. Haas, & G.C. Overton
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30pm "An Expert System to Generate Machine Learning
Experiments: Learning with DNA Crystallography Data"
D. Cohen, C. Kulikowski, & H. Berman
5:00pm "Detection of Correlations in tRNA Sequences with
Structural Implications" T.M. Klingler & D. Brutlag
5:30pm "Probabilistic Structure Calculations: A Three-
Dimensional tRNA Structure from Sequence Correlation Data"
R.B. Altman
Friday, July 9, 1993
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8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:15am Invited Talk
"Artificial Intelligence and a Grand Unified Theory of
Biochemistry" Prof. Harold Morowitz (George Mason University)
10:15-10:45am Break
10:45am "Testing HIV Molecular Biology in in silico Physiologies"
H.B. Sieburg & C. Baray
11:15am "Identification of Localized and Distributed Bottlenecks
in Metabolic Pathways" M.L. Mavrovouniotis
11:45am "Fine-Grain Databases for Pattern Discovery in Gene
Regulation" S.M. Veretnik & B.R. Schatz
12:15-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm "Representation for Discovery of Protein Motifs"
D. Conklin, S. Fortier, & J. Glasgow
2:30pm "Finding Relevant Biomolecular Features"
L. Hunter & T. Klein
3:00pm "Database Techniques for Biological Materials and
Methods" K. Baclawski, R. Futrelle, N. Fridman,
& M.J. Pescitelli
3:30pm "A Multi-Level Description Scheme of Protein
Conformation" K. Onizuka, K. Asai, M. Ishikawa, & S.T.C. Wong
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30pm "Protein Topology Prediction through Parallel Constraint
Logic Programming" D.A. Clark, C.J. Rawlings, J. Shirazi,
A. Veron, & M. Reeve
5:30pm "A Constraint Reasoning System for Automating Sequence-
Specific Resonance Assignments in Multidimensional Protein
NMR Spectra" D. Zimmerman, C. Kulikowski, & G.T. Montelione
5:30-5:45pm Closing Remarks
POSTER SESSION
The following posters will be on display at the Bethesda Ramada
Hotel from 7:30-10:00pm, Wednesday, July 7.
[1] "The Induction of Rules for Predicting Chemical
Carcinogenesis in Rodents" D. Bahler & D. Bristol
[2] "SENEX: A CLOS/CLIM Application for Molecular Pathology"
S.S. Ball & V.H. Mah
[3] "FLASH: A Fast Look-Up Algorithm for String Homology"
A. Califano & I. Rigoutsos
[4] "Toward Multi-Strategy Parallel Learning in Sequence
Analysis" P.K. Chan & S.J. Stolfo
[5] "Protein Structure Prediction: Selecting Salient Features
from Large Candidate Pools" K.J. Cherkauer & J.W. Shavlik
[6] "Comparison of Two Approaches to the Prediction of Protein
Folding Patterns" I. Dubchak, S.R. Holbrook, & S.-H. Kim
[7] "A Modular Learning Environment for Protein Modeling"
J. Gracy, L. Chiche & J. Sallantin
[8] "Inference of Order in Genetic Systems"
J.N. Guidi & T.H. Roderick
[9] "PALM - A Pattern Language for Molecular Biology"
C. Helgesen & P.R. Sibbald
[10] "Grammatical Formalization of Metabolic Processes"
R. Hofestedt
[11] "Representations of Metabolic Knowledge"
P.D. Karp & M. Riley
[12] "Protein Sequencing Experiment Planning Using Analogy"
B. Kettler & L. Darden
[13] "Design of an Object-Oriented Database for Reverse Genetics"
K.J. Kochut, J. Arnold, J.A. Miller, & W.D. Potter
[14] "A Small Automaton for Word Recognition in DNA Sequences"
C. Lefevre & J.-E Ikeda
[15] "MultiMap: An Expert System for Automated Genetic Linkage
Mapping" T.C. Matise, M. Perlin & A. Chakravarti
[16] "Constructing a Distributed Object-Oriented System with
Logical Constraints for Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting"
T. Matsushima
[17] "Prediction of Primate Splice Junction Gene Sequences with
a Cooperative Knowledge Acquisition System"
E.M. Nguifo & J. Sallantin
[18] "Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases for the Analysis of
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Genomes"
G. Perriere, F. Dorkeld, F. Rechenmann, & C. Gautier
[19] "Petri Net Representations in Metabolic Pathways"
V.N. Reddy, M.L. Mavrovouniotis, & M.L. Liebman
[20] "Minimizing Complexity in Cellular Automata Models of
Self-Replication" J.A. Reggia, H.-H. Chou, S.L. Armentrout,
& Y. Peng
[21] "Building Large Knowledge Bases in Molecular Biology"
O. Schmeltzer, C. Medigue, P. Uvietta, F. Rechenmann,
F. Dorkeld, G. Perriere, & C. Gautier
[22] "A Service-Oriented Information Sources Database for the
Biological Sciences" G.K. Springer & T.B. Patrick
[23] "Hidden Markov Models and Iterative Aligners: Study of their
Equivalence and Possibilities" H. Tanaka, K. Asai, M. Ishikawa,
& A. Konagaya
[24] "Protein Structure Prediction System Based on Artificial
Neural Networks" J. Vanhala & K. Kaski
[25] "Transmembrane Segment Prediction from Protein Sequence
Data" S.M. Weiss, D.M. Cohen & N. Indurkhya
TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Tutorials will be conducted at the Bethesda Ramada Hotel on
Tuesday, July 6.
12:00-2:45pm "Introduction to Molecular Biology for Computer
Scientists" Prof. Mick Noordewier (Rutgers University)
This overview of the essential facts of molecular biology is
intended as an introduction to the field for computer scientists
who wish to apply their tools to this rich and complex domain.
Material covered will include structural and informational
molecules, the basic organization of the cell and of genetic
material, the "central dogma" of gene expression, and selected
other topics in the area of structure, function, and regulation as
relates to current computational approaches. Dr. Noordewier has
appointments in both Computer Science and Biology at Rutgers, and
has extensive experience in basic biological research in addition
to his current work in computational biology.
12:00-2:45pm "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for
Biologists" Dr. Richard Lathrop (MIT & Arris Corp.)
An overview of the field of artificial intelligence will be
presented, as it relates to actual and potential biological
applications. Fundamental techniques, symbolic programming
languages, and notions of search will be discussed, as well as
selected topics in somewhat greater detail, such as knowledge
representation, inference, and machine learning. The intended
audience includes biologists with some computational background,
but no extensive exposure to artificial intelligence. Dr.
Lathrop, co-developer of ARIADNE and related technologies, has
worked in the area of artificial intelligence applied to
biological problems in both academia and industry.
3:00-5:45pm "Neural Networks, Statistics, and Information Theory
in Biological Sequence Analysis" Dr. Alan Lapedes (Los Alamos
National Laboratory)
This tutorial will cover the most rapidly-expanding facet of
intelligent systems for molecular biology, that of machine
learning techniques applied to sequence analysis. Closely
interrelated topics to be addressed include the use of artifical
neural networks to elicit both specific signals and general
characteristics of sequences, and the relationship of such
approaches to statistical techniques and information-theoretic
views of sequence data. Dr. Lapedes, of the Theoretical
Division at Los Alamos, has long been a leader in the use of such
techniques in this domain.
3:00-5:45pm "Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming"
Prof. John Koza (Stanford University)
The genetic algorithm, an increasingly popular approach to highly
non-linear multi-dimensional optimization problems, was originally
inspired by a biological metaphor. This tutorial will cover both
the biological motivations, and the actual implementation and
characteristics of the algorithm. Genetic Programming, an
extension well-suited to problems where the discovery of the size
and shape of the solution is a major part of the problem, will
also be addressed. Particular attention will be paid to
biological applications, and to identifying resources and software
that will permit attendees to begin using the methods. Dr. Koza,
a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, has taught
this subject since 1988 and is the author of a standard text in
the field.
3:00-5:45pm "Linguistic Methods in Sequence Analysis"
Prof. David Searls (University of Pennsylvania)
& Shmuel Pietrokovski (Weizmann Institute)
Approaches to sequence analysis based on linguistic methodologies
are increasingly in evidence. These involve the adaptation of
tools and techniques from computational linguistics for syntactic
pattern recognition and gene prediction, the classification of
genetic structures and phenomena using formal language theory, the
identification of significant vocabularies and overlapping codes
in sequence data, and sequence comparison reflecting taxonomic and
functional relatedness. Dr. Searls, who holds research faculty
appointments in both Genetics and Computer Science at Penn,
represents the branch of this field that considers higher-order
syntactic approaches to sequence data, while Shmuel Pietrokovski
has studied and published with Prof. Edward Trifinov in the area
of word-based analyses.
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304 |
There are ALWAYS scalpers with tickets outside the Arena. You might have
to pay a few bucks extra, but you can always find them. Look on the
street under the message board, or out on the street in front of the Hyatt,
or even around Gate 1. The later you buy them, the less money you'll pay,
and during the regular season you could usually find some for near face
value or below if you wait until game time. Might be better to pick them
up earlier now, though. | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,846 |
My wife rarely carries a purse, so all of her crap ends up in my pockets!
| 4 | trimmed_train |
8,944 |
Was it Pascal, or maybe Descartes, who first used this figure of speech?
I seem to have some vague recollections from reading some of their essays,
but I certainly couldn't say it was one of them for sure.
| 0 | trimmed_train |
10,980 | Hi.
Well, I really hate to make a decision, but recently, I have to choose
whether stacker 3.0 or dos 6.0 with double space for my poor HD.
I am using windwos 3.1 and I hope what I choose will live with windows.
Any help will be appreciated.
| 18 | trimmed_train |
10,489 | *** 10 MONTH OLD POLK SYSTEM FOR SALE ***
Excellent condition 10 month old (proof available) Polk Monitor 4.6 bookshelf
speakers are being offered for sale. The are excellent, and sound great. I am
going for a higher model. So I need to sell these speakers. I paid $250 for
the pair of bookshelf speakers. I am willing to consider the best offer.
Send me your offers. E-mail: [email protected].
Also have excellent condition Luxman receiver R-351 and Onkyo tape deck
TA-RW404 for sale. Both are in excellent condition and just 10 months old.
Makes an excellent system. Paid $950 for receiver, tape deck and speakers
10 months back, will consider the best offer. Each piece will be sold
seperately if wanted. E-mail best offer to [email protected] | 5 | trimmed_train |
9,154 | SSF is up for redesign again. Let's do it right this
time! Let's step back and consider the functionality we want:
[1] microgravity/vacuum process research
[2] life sciences research (adaptation to space)
[3] spacecraft maintenence
The old NASA approach, explified by Shuttle and SSF so far, was to
centralize functionality. These projects failed to meet
their targets by a wide margin: the military and commercial users
took most of their payloads off Shuttle after wasting much effort to
tie their payloads to it, and SSF has crumbled into disorganization
and miscommunication. Over $50 billion has been spent on these
two projects with no reduction in launch costs and littel improvement
in commercial space industrialization. Meanwhile, military and commercial
users have come up with a superior strategy for space development: the
constellation.
Firstly, different functions are broken down into different
constellations placed in the optimal orbit for each function:
thus we have the GPS/Navstar constellation in 12-hour orbits,
comsats in Clarke and Molniya orbits, etc. Secondly, the task
is distributed amongst several spacecraft in a constellation,
providing for redundancy and full coverage where needed.
SSF's 3 main functions require quite different environments
and are also prime candidates for constellization.
[1] We have the makings of a microgravity constellation now:
COMET and Mir for long-duration flights, Shuttle/Spacelab for
short-duration flights. The best strategy for this area is
inexpensive, incremental improvement: installation of U.S. facilities
on Mir, Shuttle/Mir linkup, and transition from Shuttle/Spacelab
to a much less expensive SSTO/Spacehab/COMET or SSTO/SIF/COMET.
We might also expand the research program to take advantage of
interesting space environments, eg the high-radiation Van Allen belt
or gas/plasma gradients in comet tails. The COMET system can
be much more easily retrofitted for these tasks, where a
station is too large to affordably launch beyond LEO.
[2] We need to study life sciences not just in microgravity,
but also in lunar and Martian gravities, and in the radiation
environments of deep space instead of the protected shelter
of LEO. This is a very long-term, low-priority project, since
astronauts will have little practical use in the space program
until costs come down orders of magnitude. Furthermore, using
astronauts severely restricts the scope of the investigation,
and the sample size. So I propose LabRatSat, a constellation
tether-bolo satellites that test out various levels of gravity
in super-Van-Allen-Belt orbits that are representative of the
radiation environment encountered on Earth-Moon, Earth-Mars,
Earth-asteroid, etc. trips. The miniaturized life support
machinery might be operated real-time from earth thru a VR
interface. AFter several orbital missions have been flown,
follow-ons can act as LDEFs on the lunar and Martian surface,
testing out the actual environment at low cost before $billions
are spent on astronauts.
[3] By far the largest market for spacecraft servicing is in
Clarke orbit. I propose a fleet of small teleoperated
robots and small test satellites on which ground engineers can
practice their skills. Once in place, robots can pry stuck
solar arrays and antennas, attach solar battery power packs,
inject fuel, etc. Once the fleet is working, it can be
spun off to commercial company(s) who can work with the comsat
companies to develop comsat replaceable module standards.
By applying the successful constellation strategy, and getting
rid of the failed centralized strategy of STS and old SSF, we
have radically improved the capability of the program while
greatly cutting its cost. For a fraction of SSF's pricetag,
we can fix satellites where the satellites are, we can study
life's adaptation to a much large & more representative variety
of space environments, and we can do microgravity and vacuum
research inexpensively and, if needed, in special-purpose
orbits.
N.B., we can apply the constellation strategy to space exploration
as well, greatly cutting its cost and increasing its functionality.
Mars Network and Artemis are two good examples of this; more ambitiously
we can set up a network of native propellant plants on Mars that can be used
to fuel planet-wide rover/ballistic hopper prospecting and
sample return. The descendants of LabRatSat's technology can
be used as a Mars surface LDEF and to test out closed-ecology
greenhouses on Mars at low cost.
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2,769 |
Gee, the War on Drugs has been going on for all these years and they're
still getting drugs! Imagine that...
My friends who like grass (I don;t agree but it's pretty harmless) are
unable to get it, yet I know a number of places where someone stupid
enough could get crack cocaine within a half hour of leaving my office.
The War on Drugs has been completely unsuccessful, yet it's lead to really
horrible abuses of peoples' COnstitutional rights. I don't see how a
thinking person could justify it. | 13 | trimmed_train |
7,858 | <stuff deleted>
You mean like: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years. . . :-)
Remember, the Fahrenheit temperature scale is also a centigrade scale. Some
revisionists tell the history something like this: The coldest point in a
particular Russian winter was marked on the thermometer as was the body
temperature of a volunteer (turns out he was sick, but you can't win 'em all).
Then the space in between the marks on the thermometer was then divided into
hundredths.
:-)
FWIW,
Doug Page
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7,562 |
s,
This country is hardly ruined. In fact, it is booming compared to after the
1980 election.
This whole "USA has gone to hell and Reagan/Bush caused it", is not only lame,
pathetic, and old....... it's wrong.
Under Reagan/Bush the economy grew by 1.1 trillion dollars. This is more than
the entire economy of Germany, a "kind, gentle" country, in many peoples'
books. What a joke. | 13 | trimmed_train |
1,108 | Many thanks to those who replied to my appeal for info on a drive I have
which is 3.5" 600RPM!!
I now have some information on how to modify this for use with a BBC B
computer. Not only do you have to change the speed from 600 to 300 rpm
(tried that) but also change 8 components in the Rec/Play section to allow
for the lower data rate (250kbit, not 500kbit as it was designed for) and also
change the Recording Current to allow for the low data rate/rev speed!
Hopefully this should sort it all out .... not bad for 9 quid (normally 32
quid and upwards ....)
The drive is a JVC MDP series drive ... | 11 | trimmed_train |
1,904 |
Waco is a city of about 100,000 people. The population temporarily
raised to about 102,000 people when all the feds, and state police officers
arrived.
I tell you what, I stayed in a hotel room about 4 miles from the BD
compound around 3 weeks ago. I have never felt more paranoid in my whole
life. There were at least 100 state police in the hotel.
| 9 | trimmed_train |
1,322 | >This argument sounds very stupid.. if the ability to make guns from
>"simple metalworking" was easy, then Drug dealers would make their own
>wouldn't they???.. why spend hundreds of dollars buying a gun that
>somebody else made cheap and is selling it to you at an
>exorbitant markup???... The simple truth of the matter is, that regardless
>of how easy it is to make guns, banning guns will reduce the
>the number of new guns and seriuosly impede the efforts of a
>killer intent on buying a weapon....
>To show why the tools argument is the silliest i have ever seen.. take an
>analogy from computer science... almost every computer science major
>can write a "wordprocessor" yet we(comp sci majors) would willingly pay 3
>to 400 bucks for a professional software like wordperfect... why don't we
>just all write our own software???...... Because it is highly
>inconvinient!!!..
>Same with guns... secondly.. how does one get this gunpowder for the
>"home made gun" ??? Take a quick trip to the local 7-eleven???.
> If guns were really that simple to make... the Bosnian muslims would
>be very happy people (or is it the case that metalworking tools are
>banned in bosnia??? (deep sarcasm) ).
>
>well this is my two cents..
> i will now resume reading all these ridiculus post from people
> who must make their living doing stand-up comedy.
** END OF FORWARDED MATERIAL **
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4,411 | This is an all-point team for the Canadian NHLers who are not playoff bound...
GOALIES
Bill Ranford, Edmonton
Sean Burke, Hartford
Peter Sidorkiewicz, Ottawa
DEFENSEMEN
Zarley Zalapski, Hartford
Norm MacIver, Ottawa
Garry Galley, Philadelphia
Greg Hawgood, Philadelphia
Dave Manson, Edmonton
Mark Tinordi, Minnesota
CENTERS
Mark Messier, N. Y. Rangers
Geoff Sanderson, Hartford
Brian Bradley, Tampa Bay
Rod Brind'Amour, Philadelphia
LEFT WINGS
Adam Graves, N. Y. Rangers
Chris Kontos, Tampa Bay
Patrick Poulin, Hartford
Shayne Corson, Edmonton
RIGHT WINGS
Pat Verbeek, Hartford
Russ Courtnall, Minnesota
Mike Gartner, N. Y. Rangers
Kevin Dineen, Philadelphia | 17 | trimmed_train |
3,400 |
Science does not progress via experimentation but by philosophising. One
aim of experiments is to investigate the validity of the hyptheses
resulting from the models produced by this thinking process.
Science has one advantage of all other approaches to explaining the world.
It is objective.
Anything which affects the physical world can be studied. For example,
since we are part of the physical world, anything (including spirits) which
affects our behaviour can be observed. Science does not make any claims
about the existence or non-existence of objects which do not affect the
physical world.
The purpose of science is to produce a model of the *physical* world. The
model must be able to explain all past observations and predict the outcome
of future observations. One of the aims of experiments is to carry out
well defined observations which are objective.
Ideally scientist will except the model which best describes the world, and
the model which realises on the minimal number of assumptions. At the
moment models which do not rely on the assumption of some *spiritual* world
existing are equally powerful to ones which assume the assumption of a
*spiritual* world. As the non-spiritual models has fewer assumptions it
should be the currently accepted models.
The scientific process never assumes that its present models are the
correct ones, whereas many religions claim to represent the truth. The
arrogance of many theists is that they claim to represent the truth, this
cannot be said of scientists. | 0 | trimmed_train |
786 | Yarn of Cargo of Human Bones [1]
Copyright, 1924, by the New York Times Company
Special Cable to The New York Times
PARIS, Dec 22, -- Marseilles is excited by a weird story of the arrival in
that port of a ship flying the British flag and named Zan carrying a
mysterious cargo of 400 tons of human bones consigned to manufacturers there.
The bones are said to have been loaded at Mudania on the Sea of Marmora and
to be the remains of the victims of massacres in Asia Minor. In view of the
rumors circulating it is expected that an inquiry will be instigated.
- - - Reference - - -
[1] _New York Times_, December 23, 1924, page 3, column 2 (bottom)
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On the 78th Commemorative Anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians,
we remember those whose only crime was to be Armenian in the shadow of an
emerging Turkish proto-fascist state. In their names we demand justice.
In April 1915, the Turkish government began a systematically executed
de-population of the eastern Anatolian homeland of the Armenians through a
genocidal extermination. This genocide was to insure that Turks exclusively
ruled over the geographic area today called the Republic of Turkey. The
result: 1.5 million murdered, 30 billion dollars of Armenian property stolen
and plundered. This genocide ended nearly 3,000 years of Armenian civilization
on those lands. Today, the Turkish government continues to scrape clean any
vestige of a prior Armenian existence on those lands. Today's Turkish
governmental policy is to re-write the history of the era, to manufacture
distortion and generate excuses for their genocide of the Armenian people. In
the face of refutation ad nauseam, the Turkish Historical Society and cronies
shamelessly continue to deny that any such genocide occurred. This policy
merely demonstrates that in the modern era, genocide is an effective state
policy when it remains un-redressed and un-punished. A crime unpunished is a
crime encouraged. Adolf Hitler took this cue less than 25 years after the
successful genocide of the Armenians.
Turkey claims there was no systematic deportation of Armenians, yet...
Armenians were removed from every city, town, and village in the whole of
Turkey! Armenians who resisted deportation and massacre are referred to as
"rebels".
Turkey claims there was no genocide of the Armenians, yet...Turkish population
figures today show zero Armenians in eastern Turkey, the Armenian homeland.
Turkey claims Armenians were always a small minority, yet...Turkey claims
Armenians were a "threat".
In a final insult to the victims, the Republic of Turkey sold the bones of
approximately 100,000 murdered Armenians for profit to Europe.
Today, the Turkish government is enjoying the fruits of that genocide. The
success of this genocide is hangs over the heads of Turkey's Kurdish
population.
The Armenians demand recognition, reparation, return of Armenian land and
property lost as a result of this genocide.
ARMENIANS DEMAND JUSTICE ERMENILER ADALET ISTIYOR
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2,810 |
I'm sure it is, and I am not amused. Every time I read that part of the
TIFF spec, it infuriates me- and I'm none too happy about the
complexity of the spec anyway- because I think their "arbitrary but
carefully chosen number" is neither. Additionally, I find their
choice of 4 bytes to begin a file with meaningless of themselves- why
not just use the letters "TIFF"?
(And no, I don't think they should have bothered to support both word
orders either- and I've found that many TIFF readers actually
don't.) | 1 | trimmed_train |
1,233 |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So you believe in the existance of One creator I assume.
Ok, god has the disclaimer, reserves the right to judge individual
cases. If we believe him to be loving, then we also believe him to be
able to serve justice to all. Don't worry if a Jew, or athiest is
going to heaven or hell, for that is god to judge (although truly
if you were concerned you could only worry abput those who refuse to
believe/satisfy gods decrees) as much as keeping yourself straight.
If you see something going on that is wrong, discuss it and explore it
before making summary judgement. People have enough free will to choose
for themselves, so don't force choices on them, just inform them
of what they're choices are. God will take care of the rest in his justice.
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1,347 |
Please, PAY ATTENTION.
I, and others, were referring to TOTAL HOMICIDE DEATHS, NOT JUST
HANDGUN HOMICIDES. In terms of how likely are you to be killed,
(regardless of how it's done, 'cause DEAD is DEAD), the UK has a
higher homicide rate. Period. You are more likely to be killed in the
UK than in Switzerland. If you were to be murdered with a handgun,
then yes, Switzerland has a higher rate. But, to belabor the point,
you are MORE LIKELY to be murdered in the UK. In that sense, the
weapon is irrelevant. The UK is more violent, period.
Al
[standard disclaimer] | 9 | trimmed_train |
10,266 | 14 | trimmed_train |
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7,494 |
In New Orleans, LA, there was a company making motorcycles for WHEELCHAIR
bound people! The rig consists of a flat-bed sidecar rig that the
wheelchair can be clamped to. The car has a set of hand controls mounted on
conventional handlebars! Looks wierd as hell to see this legless guy
driving the rig from the car while his girlfriend sits on the bike as a
passenger!
----===== DoD #8177 = Technician(Dr. Speed) .NOT. Student =====---- | 12 | trimmed_train |
2,105 | I am in the market for a couple of Intel 486 chips.
Please let me know if you have one (or more) for sale.
I am interested in both SX and DX models, but they
must be Intel.
email me at: [email protected]
| 5 | trimmed_train |
1,686 | WASHINGTON - A stark reminder of the Holocaust--a speech by Nazi
SS leader Heinrich Himmler that refers to "the extermination of the
Jewish race"--went on display Friday at the National Archives.
The documents, including handwritten notes by Himmler, are
among the best evidence that exists to rebut claims that the
Holocaust is a myth, archivists say.
"The notes give them their authenticity," said Robert Wolfe,
a supervisory archivist for captured German records. "He was
supposed to destroy them. Like a lot of bosses, he didn't obey his
own rules."
The documents, moved out of Berlin to what Himmler hoped
would be a safe hiding place, were recovered by Allied forces after
World War II from a salt mine near Salzburg, Austria.
Himmler spoke on Oct.4, 1943, in Posen, Poland, to more than
100 German secret police generals. "I also want to talk to you,
quite frankly, on a very grave matter. Among ourselves it should be
mentioned quite frankly, and yet we will never speak of it publicly.
I mean the clearing out of the Jew, the extermination of the Jewish
race. This is a page of GLORY in our history which has never been
written and is never to be written." [Emphasis mine--rje]
The German word Himmler uses that is translated as
"extermination" is *Ausrottung*.
Wolfe said a more precise translation would be "extirpation"
or "tearing up by the roots."
In his handwritten notes, Himmler used a euphemism,
"Judenevakuierung" or "evacuation of the Jews." But archives
officials said "extermination" is the word he actually
spoke--preserved on an audiotape in the archives.
Himmler, who oversaw Adolf Hitler's "final solution of the
Jewish question," committed suicide after he was arrested in 1945.
The National Archives exhibit, on display through May 16, is
a preview of the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum here on April 26.
The National Archives exhibit includes a page each of
Himmler's handwritten notes, a typed transcript from the speech and
an offical translation made for the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
---From p.A10 of Saturday's L.A. Times, 4/17/93
(Associated Press) | 6 | trimmed_train |
101 |
Or, _documentation_ for the program ;-). A lot of shareware out there is
very similar in the approach - send in your money, and you get
documentation, and a free upgrade to the latest version. Perhaps even
support of some small degree. Whatever you want to offer that is "better"
than the circulating version.
Figure about 50%, as I have seen.
It doesn't really hurt legit users. Shareware is still much cheaper than
the alternatives.
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3,622 |
TJ
This problem is most likely the same that all cx users are experiencing....
Thanks to one very adventurous USENET reader (sorry I can't remember the
guy's name! Somebody please post it....he deserves the credit for saving
us all $$$$$) it is easily fixed, if it is the same problem......
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3,650 | I was watching the Dodgers/Marlins game yesterday and a couple of
things impressed me.
First is that the way the sun was shining in Miami, it had a summer
atmosphere in early spring for baseball. In comparison Wrigley Field
in early April still has a wintry look to it with the dead ivy and
bundled up fans.
The second and most important was the fans. I like these guys/gals!
I will admit I am a football fan first but I still enjoy baseball.
It was interesting because most of these fans are only accustomed to
the Miami Dolphins. The way they were cheering, I thought it was the
AFC playoffs. Of course opening day may have A LOT to do with it,
but I really got feeling of electricity that I think is lacking with
a lot of baseball fans in other cities.
Baseball certainly needs a charge and I hope these two expansion
teams bring back some excitement. We'll find out Friday how Denver
Bronco fans respond. | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,797 |
Reasonably fancy.
Standard "voice" circuits run at 56kbps inter-exchange in the US.
Therefore, you need to achieve 4:1 to get standard voice quality.
If you're willing to give up some quality, you need only 2:1. This is still
acceptable from a speech standpoint; it will be a little less faithful to
the original, but certainly intelligable. That's all you really need for
this application.
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7,239 | Is that the low-end configuration? If it is, it has the 68LC040 (no FPU), as
opposed to all the other configurations with a 68RC040 (has an FPU). Be sure
you know what you are getting before you buy!!! The 68RC040 is around
$350-$400 right now, if you intend to upgrade it from a 68LC040. | 14 | trimmed_train |
4,675 |
Purists often distinguish between "true" clubbing and "pseudo"
clubbing, the difference being that with "true" clubbing the
angle of the nail when viewed from the side is constantly
negative when proceeding distally (towards the fingertip).
With "pseudo" clubbing, the angle is initially positive, then
negative, which is the normal situation. "Real" internists
can talk for hours about clubbing. I'm limited to a couple
of minutes.
Whether this distinction has anything to do with reality is
entirely unclear, but it is one of those things that internists
love to paw over during rounds. Supposedly, only "true" clubbing
is associated with disease. The problem is that the list of
diseases associated with clubbing is quite long, and includes
both congenital conditions and acquired disease. Since many of
these diseases are associated with cardiopulmonary problems
leading to right to left shunts and chronic hypoxemia, it is
very reasonable to get a chest xray. However, many of the
congenital abnormalities would only be diagnosed with a cardiac
catheterization.
The cause of clubbing is unclear, but presumably relates to
some factor causing blood vessels in the distal fingertip to
dilate abnormally.
Clubbing is one of those things from an examination which is
a tipoff to do more extensive examination. Often, however,
the cause of the clubbing is quite apparent. | 19 | trimmed_train |
8,473 |
I think you have to go a little further back.
This opinion comes from riding CB750's GS1000's KZ1300's and a V-Max.
I find no enjoyment in riding a V-Max fast on a twisty road. | 12 | trimmed_train |
4,069 |
I totally agree with each point you made. Jose Viscaino looked
like a single A hitter up there. Who swings on 3-1 count with Maddux
pitching and your teams down by a run, and you haven't touched the ball all
day. I also think too much is made of that lefty-righty thing. Watching
the Cubs games I get the feeling Steve Stone knows a lot more about what
the Cubs should be doing than Lefebre does. Harry said it best when he
stated after another terrible Vizcaino at bat-- we can't wait til
Sandberg returns!
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3,365 |
Oh, this is an easy trivia question. The answer is "any Cub not named
Sandberg or Grace."
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10,594 |
Neil Gehrels is Prof. Tom Gehrels son. Tom Gehrels was the discoverer
of P/Gehrels 3 (as well as about 4 other comets - the latest of which
does not bear his name, but rather the name "Spacewatch" since he was
observing with that system when he found the latest comet).
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Jim Scotti
{[email protected]}
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA | 10 | trimmed_train |
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The description of the chip's operation evidently leaves out some of the
key management aspects. Either the K_P is the secret key corresponding
to a public key which is broadcast at message initiation, or it is the
result of a Diffie-Hellman key exchange or something similar. Either
way there must be some protocols beyond those described here. It isn't
clear whether they are implemented in the Clipper wiretap chip or must
be provided by other system components. | 7 | trimmed_train |
5,675 | I have one original SAM (Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh) V3.0 for sale.
It comes with three program discs and one user manual. Will work with 800K and 1.4MB disc drives.
Selling for $17.90 (make an offer) which includes postage.
Respond to: | 5 | trimmed_train |
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Sorry for the followup, but I couldn'y get email through on your addresses.
I, too, am trying to decide between these two printers, and I would like to
hear what users of these printers have to say about the questions above.
Thank you. | 18 | trimmed_train |
7,804 |
Where did you hear this? If it is printed in a book somewhere,
throw away the book. According to the MIT specs, only the first
2 are true.
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I think the next time I post something like this, I obviously need to make
the sarcasm a bit more obvious...
chuck
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That's OK -- you can mail me if you want more discussion.
Around here, long-guns are proof of age and fill out the forms.
For pistols, nation-wide check for felonies and three days wait. The
"good reason" is the difference, and one Americans tend to get annoyed
over as we see no reason the guy with the badge is any better than us.
Not when dealing with America. I can drive an 18-wheel truck
with no permit, no license, and at age 12 if I'm engaged in farming
work. Strange, that, but there is little to no problem with this.
Again, personal rights versus collective security.
Strange that the rates would decline, since killing somebody
is much more frowned upon than merely stealing a gun.
Why attract attention? I carry my sword openly to and from
practice, as that is the only legal thing I can do. I also attract
a lot of attention doing this. I'd rather be lost "in a crowd of one"
than be the subject of attention while carrying a weapon. Think of
the word "intimidation" and you can see where intimidation is not
the preferable method for the normal citizen.
Aggressive towards whom? Southerners? Germans? Precisely
why I think your society is less violent, weapons aside.
Then the masses have the same rights as the individuals, because
everything comes down to the individual in one instance or another. To
draw an analogy, Norway is involved in the EEC. The USA in involved in
NATO. The EEC requires certain changes in your laws. NATO requires
no such changes in USA law. These laws affect citizens, and hence
Norway is saying Europe is more important than, say, Norwegians having
motorcycles that make over 100bhp. In the USA, we'd likely tell the
EEC to get stuffed since the EEC has no business, in our eyes, in
telling us how much horsepower we can safely ride. While I note
that our own state governments often play with game with the federal
government, in essence this is a cultural difference between us.
It shouldn't. Since neither of our countries has managed to
remove criminals from society, in America we feel (and remember we
have individual states that are larger than your country) that if the
police cannot protect us then we must do so ourselves. The criminals
in our country are quite violent, hence we prepare for them.
We don't. E-mail me to find out just how difficult it really
is in this country. It is easier than in yours, but theft is far
easier than the troubles we go through to purchase over here.
They are neither. They are an option. We would never force
you to own guns if you lived here. We would, however, fight to keep
that option open to you.
Then you show you are a responsible, rational user of weapons.
Welcome to our ranks. Now, how do we teach the young people this sort
of responsibility? Cultures seem to have a grave impact here.
I notice you didn't use my great-grandfather's name. Well,
he didn't like it much either ;-) | 9 | trimmed_train |
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I believe we still remember Masada, where Jews killed themselves rather
than being captured by the Romans. While I do not agree with the
Davidians, I must admire their willingness to die for what they
believed, which Jews have had to do often. | 9 | trimmed_train |
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Ref: Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade
MAGI:
[Sneak Preview: Later still, eschatology and apocalyptics were a fertile meeting
ground for Iranian and Judeo-Christian religions, as can be seen in the famous
_Oracles of Hystaspes_, a work whose Iranian roots are undeniable and which
most likely dates from the beginning of the Christian era, probably the
second century CE (Widengren, 1968). The Zoroastrian doctrine of the Savior of
the Future (Saoshyant) was the basis for the story of the coming of the Magi
to Bethlehem in the _Gospel of Matthew_ (2:1-12).]
The Old Persian word magu, rendered in Greek by magos, is of uncertain
etymology. It may originally have meant "member of the tribe," as in the
Avestan compound mogu-tbish ("hostile to a member of the tribe"). This meaning
would have been further resticted, among the Medes, to "member of the priestly
tribe" and perhaps to "priest" (Benveniste, 1938; Boyce, 1982). The term is
probably of Median origin, given that Herodotus mentions the "Magoi" as one of
the six tribes of the Medes.
For a variety of reasons we can consider the Magi to have been members of a
priestly tribe of Median origin in western Iran. Among the Persians, they were
responsible for liturgical functions, as well as for maintaining their
knowledge of the holy and the occult. Most likely, the supremacy of the Median
priesthood in western Iran became established during the time of the Median
monarchy that dominated the Persians from the end of the eighth century
through the first half of the sixth century BCE until the revolt of Cyrus the
Great (550 BCE). The Persians were indebted to the Medes for their political
and civil institutions as well. Even if hypotheses have been advanced
concerning the existence of Magi of Persian origin in the Achaemenid period
(Boyce, 1982), we must still maintain that they were of Median origin. This is
demonstrated by the eposide of the revolt of Gaumata the Magian, mentioned by
Darius I (522-486 BCE) in the inscription at Bisutun (Iran), as well as by
Greek sources. Indeed, Herodotus insists on the idea of the usurpatory power of
the Medes against the Persians through the conspiracy of the Magi.
The fact that the Magi may have been members of a tribe that handed down the
sacerdotal arts in a hereditary fashion naturally did not exclude the
possibility that some of them undertook secular prefessions. This seems to be
attested by the Elamite tablets at Persepolis.
There is a theses, put forth by Giuseppe Messina, that denies that the Magi
are members of an ethnic group by suggesting that they are simply members of
the priesthood - a priesthood of purely Zoroastrian origin. This thesis is
untenable; on the other hand, the hypothesis that their name is related to the
Avestan term magavan, derived from the Gathic maga (Vedic, magha, "gift"), is
not without foundation (Mole, 1963). The meaning of maga can probably be found,
in conformity with the Pahlavi tradition, within the context of the concept of
purity, or separation of the "mixture" of the two opposed principles of spirit
and matter. The maga, which has been erroneously interpreted as "chorus," from
the root mangh, which is said to mean "sing the magic song" (Nyberg, 1966) and
has been rendered simply by an expression like unio mystica, seems to be an
ecstatic condition that opens the mind to spiritual vision. In any case, though
there may be a relation between the Old Persian term magu and the Avestan terms
magavan and maga, we must maintain a clear distinction between the Magi and the
Avestan priesthood. The Avesta ignores the Median or Old Persian term, despite
a recent hypothesis proposed by H.W. Bailey; Old Persian inscriptions ignore
the Avestan term for "priest," athravan (Vedic, athravan), even if this is
perhaps present in an Achaeminid setting in the Elamite tablets of Persepolis
(Gershevitch, 1964).
The term magu has been present in Zoroastrianism throughout its history; the
Pahlavi terms mogh-mard and mobad represent its continuation. The latter in
particular derives from an older form, magupati ("head of the Magi"). During
the Sasanid period (third to seventh centuries CE), which saw the formation of
a hierarchically organized church, the title mobadan mobad ("the high priest of
high priests") came to be used to designate the summit of the ecclesiastical
hierarchy.
The Magi practiced consanguineous marriage, or khvaetvadatha (Av.; Pahl.,
khwedodah). They also performed a characteristic funeral rite: the exposure of
the corpse to animals and vultures to remove the flesh and thereby cleanse it.
The corpse was not supposed to decompose, lest it be contaminated by the demons
of putrefaction. This practice later became typical of the entire Zoroastrian
community and led to the rise of a complex funeral ritual in Iran and among the
Parsis in India. Stone towers, known as dakhmas, were built especially for this
rite. During the time of Herodotus the practice of exposure of the corpse was
in vogue only among the Magi; the Persians generally sprinkled the corpse with
wax, then buried it. The practice was widespread, however, among the peoples
of Central Asia.
The Magi were the technicians of and experts on worship: it was impossible to
offer sacrifices without the presence of a Magus. During the performance of a
ritual sacrifice, the Magus sang of the theogony (the Magi were possibly the
custodians of a tradition of sacred poetry, but we know nothing about the
relationship of this tradition to the various parts of the Avesta) and was
called upon to interpret dreams and to divine the future. The Magi were also
known for the practice of killing harmful, or "Ahrimanical," animals (khrafstra)
such as snakes and ants. They dressed in the Median style, wearing pants,
tunics, and coats with sleeves. They wore a characteristic head covering of
felt (Gr. tiara) with strips on the sides that could be used to cover the nose
and mouth during rituals to avoid contaminating consecrated objects with their
breath (Boyce, 1982). The color of these caps, in conformity with a tradition
that is probably of Indo-European origin, according to Georges Dumezil, was
that of the priesthood: white.
In all likelihood, during the Achaemenid period the Magi were not in
possession of a well-defined body of doctrine, and it is probable that they
gradually adopted Zoroastrianism; they were most likely a clergy consisting of
professional priests who were not tied to a rigid orthodoxy but were naturally
inclined to eclecticism and syncretism. Nonetheless, they must have been
jealous guardians of the patrimony of Zorastrian traditions. By virtue of this
they were the educators of the royal princes. The wisest of them was responsible
for teaching the prince the "magic of Zarathushtra, son of Horomazes" and thus
the "cult of the gods." Magi who excelled in other virtues were entrusted with
the education of the prince so that he would learn to be just, courageous, and
master of himself.
During the Achaemenid period the Magi maintained a position of great
influence, although they were certainly subordinate to the emperor. Despite
several dramatic events such as the massacre they suffered after the death of
Gaumata the Magian - in which, according to Herodotus (who calls himself
Smerdis), the Persians killed a large number of Magi to avenge the usurpation -
the Magi nevertheless managed to maintain their influence at court in Media,
in Persia, and in the various regions of the empire where they were stationed
as a consequence of the Persian civilian and military administration.
No priesthood of antiquity was more famous than that of the Magi. They were
renowned as followers of Zarathushtra (Zoroaster); as the teachers of some of
the greatest Greek thinkers (Pythagoras, Democritus, Plato); as the wise men
who arrived, guided by a star, at the manger of the newborn savior in
Bethlehem; and as the propagators of a cult of the sun in India. But they were
also known as the Chaldeans, the priesthood of Babylon, known for its occultism;
this was perhaps the reason that the term magos had a pejorative sense in Greek,
like "goes," "expert in the magic arts" (Bidez and Cumont, 1938). Indeed, the
Chaldeans were experts in all types of magical arts, especially astrology, and
had a reputation for wisdom as well as knowledge.
To understand the reasons for such various and sometimes discordant views, it
is necessary to distinguish between the Magi of Iran proper and the so-called
western Magi, who were later hellenized. In the Achaemenid period both must
have been at least in part Zoroastrian, but the western Magi (those of the
Iranian diaspora in Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Armenia), who came in
contact with diverse religious traditions, must have, sooner or later and in
varying degrees, been influenced by syncretic concepts.
The Greeks were familiar with both kinds of Magi and, depending on their
varying concerns, would emphasize one or the other aspect of them. Classical
historians and geographers, including Herodotus and Strabo, document their
customs, while the philosophers dwell above all on their doctrines: dualism,
belief in the hereafter, Magian cosmology and cosmogony, and their theology
and eschatology. Those sources most interested in the doctrines of the Magi
even speak of Zarathushtra as a Magus. In doing so they are repeating what the
Magi themselves said from the Median and Achaemenid periods, when they adopted
Zoroastrianism. At that time they embraced Zarathushtra as one of their own and
placed themselves under his venerable name.
Zoroastrianism had already undergone several profound transformations in the
eastern community by the time of the Acheamenids and was already adapting those
elements of the archaic religion that refused to die. It has been said quite
often, in an attempt to characterize the precise role of the Magi in the
Zoroastrian tradition, that the Vendidad (from vi-daevo-data, "the law-abjuring
daivas"), part of the Avesta, should be attributed to them. (This collection of
texts from various periods is primarily concerned with purificatory rules and
practices.) Nonetheless, the hypothesis is hardly plausible, since the first
chapter of the Vendidad - a list of sixteen lands created by Ahura Mazda, the
supreme god of Zoroastrianism, but contaminated by an attack by Ahriman (Pahl.;
Gathic-Avestan, Angra Mainyu), the other supreme god and the ultimate source of
all evil and suffering - does not mention western Iran, Persia, or Media (the
land of Ragha mentioned in the text cannot be Median Raghiana). Furthermore, it
has been noted (Gershevitch, 1964) that if the authors had been Magi the
absence of any reference to western Iranian institutions, including their own
priesthood, would be very strange.
The Magi were above all the means by which the Zoroastrian tradition and the
corpus of the Avesta have been transmitted to us, from the second half of the
first millennium BCE on. This has been their principal merit. We can attribute
directly to the Magi the new formulation that Iranian dualism assumed, known to
us especially from Greek sources and, in part, from the Pahlavi literature of
the ninth and tenth centuries CE. According to this formulation, the two poles
of the dualism are no longer, as in the Gathas, Spenta Mainyu ("beneficent
spirit") and Angra Mainyu ("hostile spirit") but Ahura Mazda himself and Angra
Mainyu (Gershevitch, 1964). [See Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu.] This trans-
formation was of immense consequence for the historical development of Zoro-
astrianism and was most likely determined by the contact of the Magi with the
Mesopotamian religious world. In this new dualism - which was that later known
to the Greeks (Aristotle, Eudemus of Rhodes, Theopompus, and others) - we can
see the affirmation of a new current of thought within Zoroastrianism, to which
we give the name Zurvanism. [See Zurvanism.]
Thanks to their adherence to Zoroastrianism, the Magi played an enormously
important role in the transmission of Zarathushtra's treachings, as well as in
the definition of the new forms that these would assume historically. Their
natural propensity to eclecticism and syncretism also helped the diffusion of
Zoroastrian ideas in the communities of the Iranian diaspora. The Greeks began
to study their doctrines and to take an interest in them (Xanthus of Lydia,
Hermodorus, Aristotle, Theopompus, Hermippus, Dinon), even writing treatises
on the Persian religion, of which only the titles and a few fragments have
survived. In the Hellenistic period, the Magi were seen as a secular school of
wisdom, and writings on magic, astrology, and alchemy were lent the authority
of such prestigious names as Zarathushtra, Ostanes, and Hystaspes, forming an
abundant apocryphal literature. (Bidez and Cumont, 1938).
Later still, eschatology and apocalyptics were a fertile meeting
ground for Iranian and Judeo-Christian religions, as can be seen in the famous
_Oracles of Hystaspes_, a work whose Iranian roots are undeniable and which
most likely dates from the beginning of the Christian era, probably the
second century CE (Widengren, 1968). The Zoroastrian doctrine of the Savior of
the Future (Saoshyant) was the basis for the story of the coming of the Magi
to Bethlehem in the _Gospel of Matthew_ (2:1-12). [See Saoshyant.]
The Sasanid period saw the Magi once again play a determining role in the
religious history of Iran. Concerned to win back the western Magi (de Menasce,
1956), and eager to consolidate Zoroastrianism as the national religion of
Iran, the priests of Iranian sanctuaries in Media and Persia were able to
establish a true state church, strongly hierarchical and endowed with an
orthodoxy based on the formation of a canon of scriptures. The leading figures
in the development of a state religion and of Zoroastrian orthodoxy were Tosar
and Kerder, the persecutors of Mani in the third century. | 15 | trimmed_train |
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If you were omniscient, you'd know who exactly did what, and with what
purpose in mind. Then, with a particular goal in mind, you sould be
able to methodically judge whether or not this action was in accordance
with the general goal.
In an objective system, there are known goals. Then, actions are judged
as either being compatible with these goals, or not. Simple. The problem
with most systems in current practice is that the goals differ. That is,
the goals of each society are different.
Note that an objective system is not necessarily an inherent one.
I've said it many, many times.
Which part do you have a problem with?
But, we can enslave the animals, right? But just not kill them? Or
are you a vegetarian for health reasons?
No. I fail to see how my *personal* views are relevant, anyway.
Of course not. It seems perfectly valid to kill members of other species
for food. It might be nice, though, if the other animals were not made
to suffer. For instance, a cow in a field lives out its life just about
the same way it would in the wild. They seem happy enough. However,
the veal youngsters aren't treated very well.
I don't know. What is the goal of this particular system? There is no
inherent system.
Nope. Again, it seems okay to kill other species for food. | 8 | trimmed_train |
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I lived in Tokyo for a year and a half, and one of the many reasons why
I intend to go back indefinitely is the freedom one enjoys when one can
walk anywhere (and I mean *anywhere*) at any time of day or night and not
feel uneasy, even if one's from an ethnic minority as I was.
Clues for Bobby (why do I bother?): (i) Tokyo is a city, and inner Tokyo
is an inner city; (ii) there is a negligible level of violent crime, and
a street murder will be a lead item on *national* TV news; (iii) the
population is almost universally atheistic.
Next time I go for a stroll around Beirut at night, I'll let you know how
it compares.
Cheers
Simon | 8 | trimmed_train |
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[More stuff deleted]
This seems to be a pretty arogant definition of belief. My beliefs
are those things which I find to be true based on my experience of the
world. This experience includes study of things that I may not have
experienced directly. But even then, I can only understand the
studies to the extent to which I can relate what I study back to what
I have experienced.
Which means that by beliefs about God are directly related to my
experience of God. Having experienced God, I try to make sense of
that experience. I study religion and read the Bible. I find things
that echo what I have already experienced. Out of this I build my
beliefs. I also find things that don't match my experience. That
doesn't make them false. They just don't match my experience. Maybe
I will understand that stuff later. I don't know. Maybe all of my
beliefs are wrong. I can change my beliefs.
If someone else has beliefs that are different from mine, so what.
Neither of us are necessarily wrong. Someone else is making sense out
of a different set of experiences. Even though we have different
explanations and beliefs, if we talk we might even discover that the
underlying experiences are similar.
Some people approach religion as a truth that can only exist in one
form, and usually has a single revelation. The more dogmatic and
inflexible the belief system, the more arrogant it will appear to an
outsider. There is another approach possible, however. God is a
mystery. I am trying to solve the mystery, so I look at the evidence
available to me. I try to arrive at the best understanding that I can
based on the evidence. New evidence may cause me to change my
understanding. When I encounter someone with a different belief than
my own, it isn't a threat, it is an opportunity to perhaps discover
something new about this mystery I can never fully comprehend.
Peace
Will Taber
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10,343 | Hello,
I'm trying to get a drum program to work that I downloaded from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the pub/pc/win3/sounds directory. It's called
drum.zip.
I have an ATI Stereo FX card with the latest Windows drivers installed.
When I try to run the drum program, it reports that a MIDI device is not
installed, however the drivers utility in the control panel reports that it
is installed.
Anyone have any idea how to set up the MIDI device so that the drum program
will work with my setup? What I'm trying to do is use my computer as a
metronome. Someone suggested that I try one of the drum machines that are
circulating around out there. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Terry | 18 | trimmed_train |
6,405 | I am looking for the latest drivers for the Actix graphics accelerator card.
The driver I am currently using is version 1.21 and doesn't support more
than 256 colors in 1024x768 mode even you have 2MB memory.
The BBS support for Actix is unbelievable! They are still using 2400bps
modem! It will take you hours to download the drivers, it hurts when you
are calling long distance. Is there any ftp site that has a collection
of video drivers for windows?
BTW, anyone using this card, and how do you like it so far?
Thanks.
--
Daniel Y.H. Wong UofT:(416)978-1659
[email protected] Electrical Engineering | 18 | trimmed_train |
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8,043 | I need some advice on having someone ride pillion with me on my 750 Ninja.
This will be the the first time I've taken anyone for an extended ride
(read: farther than around the block :-). We'll be riding some twisty,
fairly bumpy roads (the Mines Road-Mt.Hamilton Loop for you SF Bay Areans).
Communication: work out your own system. Or just slow down and holler
back every once in a while. At reasonable speeds, even on my under-muffled
Magna, we can hear each other. It's only above, say, 45 MPH that you
can't really communicate.
Balance: New passengers are a real pain, because you never know how
they're going to react to steering. Some people catch on immediately
and lean with me. Others are completely skittish about the leaning
thing, and keep their bodies perpendicular to the horizon. This is a
pain while turning, but manageable. The WORST are the passengers who stay
perpendicular to the horizon, then REMEMBER in the middle of a turn
and WHIP AROUND until they're in the `correct' position. This always
screws up the line I've picked out.
Here's my personal checklist of things to tell passengers:
- attire: helmet, long pants, boots/heavy shoes, jacket.
- Keep feet on pegs at all times, unless I say otherwise. Do not
get on/off unless I say you can. (I've had people try to dismount
in traffic, just as I'm pulling in to a parking space!)
- Muffler gets HOT! ('Nuff said)
- We get *GOOD* traction. We're not going to fall over. (Many
first-time riders are surprised by how tightly you can turn!)
- Turn dynamics: sit so that you feel like you're sitting upright and
we're going straight. Trust your butt, not your eyes -- if you're
confused, close your eyes for a couple of turns to get the feel
of it. Or just hug me tight.
- Please, no sudden moves -- shift your weight as desired, but be
gradual, so I can compensate.
- Your faceplate is yours to open/close as desired.
- Trust is essential. Trust the driver (me) to do the right
thing -- I've driven many miles on this thing, and know how
to operate it. Enjoy the ride. (This is important to
stress. For example, one of my first-time passwngers seemed to
watch the speedo like a hawk: I drove her to the beach down 84,
and whever we topped 35 mph, she'd holler, "SLOW DOWN! I'M SCARED"
I humored her for a while, then simply covered the speedometer with
the spare piece of duct tape I keep stuck to the top of the cluster.
Problem solved: she watched the scenery instead of the
instruments, and had a much better time. Based on her
experience driving a Lincoln Continental, she was unwilling to
trust my ability to choose a safe speed for the bike.)
Usually I'll point out the controls, engine, transmission, brakes,
tires, etc. and discuss motorcycle physics a bit too for first-timers.
Helps calm their nerves, and gives the bike a chance to warm up.
Watch out for gravel on the Mt. Hamilton road: there were lots of little
mudslides after the last big rain; by now, many of the blind corners will
be nicely covered with a carpet of little, round, nearly invisible stones.
It doesn't help build trust when you slide out on a blind corner, on the
first trip!
Good luck -- have fun! | 12 | trimmed_train |
5,830 |
Battery powered devices like the PowerBook are sometimes more sensitive to
serial port weirdness. I had trouble with connecting my Mac Plus to an HP 95LX
handheld. Everything else worked okay on that port, but not the HP. (it runs
on two penlite batteries). It turned out that the plus (by accident or by
design flaw?) was putting a 4 volt bias on the serial port that was doing
weird things to the HP (which has only 3v dc!). The HP worked fine when
connected to the printer port.
Does your PB screen get dim or anything when connected to the device? Have you
tried using the printer port?
Good luck.
--jamie
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5,363 | Hi folks
Say, I'm new to R5 and have one quick question.
In using xon ( xon <machine_name> ) , I notice that it
always comes up with a very small window . I'm pretty
sure its the default font. My xterms all work normally.
Is xon supposed to read your .Xresources for a font size ?
xrdb -q appears to show the right stuff.
I can use xon with arguments such as xterm -fn 10x20 etc
and everything is correct. Of course you could always do a
simple script to do this , but I have a feeling I'm missing
something simple here.
Comments / suggestions appreciated.
Thanks in advance | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,087 |
How long ago was this? When I said you'd get counselling, I meant if
you did it now. Long ago, practices varied and agencies had to gear
up to provide the counselling.
Good for her. What we don't need is everyone suing community service
agencies that provide blood that people need. Testing is not fool proof.
The fact that he got AIDS from a transfusion (if he really did) does
not mean the Red Cross screwed up. Prior to 1983 or so, there wasn't
a good test and a lot of bad blood got through. This wasn't the fault
of the Red Cross. When did he get the transfusions?
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
[email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon." | 19 | trimmed_train |
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just picked out this one point because it struck me....
why do you believe this? muslims believe in many of the same things
that christians and jews believe; they believe jesus, while not the
messiah, is a prophet. this seems to me to be much closer to
christianity than other religions are. (then again i tend to be
somewhat liberal about others' beliefs.)
this also relates to the serbian "ethnic cleansing" question. i have
been waiting for condemnations of this and have seen very few. HOW
can we stand by and watch innocent people, even people whose beliefs
we condemn, if this is the case (and don't get me wrong, the things
fundamenalist muslims have to say about women make my blood boil), be
tortured, raped (the stories about that made me physically ill), and
killed? jesus loves all, not just those who love him back -- and he
would advocate kindness toward them (in the hopes of converting them,
if that's the way you want to put it) rather than killing them.
i'm sorry i got off the subject here -- maybe i should have used a
different title. i did need to get this off my chest, however.
peace (shalom),
vera shanti
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Hand over hand [email protected]
Doesn't seem so much (Vera Noyes)
Hand over hand
Is the strength of the common touch drop me a line if you're in the mood
- Rush, "Hand Over Fist"
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[I am also worried about this issue. I've made a posting under my own
name earlier today. I do not much want to discuss Moslem beliefs
here. This isn't the right group for it. Their beliefs about Jesus
appear to come as much from the Koran as the Bible. This means that
while they honor him, what they think he did and stood for differs in
many ways from Christian beliefs about him. But Moslem beliefs are
an appropriate topic for soc.religion.islam.
As I'm sure you know, many Christians believe that you must accept
Christ in order to be saved. While Stanley's comment appears to be
anti-Moslem, I would assume he would say the same thing about all
religions other than Christianity. | 0 | trimmed_train |
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The code fragment looks reasonable, but is your logic valid?
Just because something appears in an 8 bit deep pixmap doesn't
mean every bit plane contains data. Did you try each plane?
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5,043 | I'm buying a new system this week to replace my brain dead 286, and
could use some feedback on a couple systems I'm looking at if anyone is
familiar with them.
The system that looks the most interesting is the Budget 486/66 VLB
tower. For about $2343 (delivered) it offers VLB, 8MB, 200MB IDE, a Mitsumi
CD-ROM (with software bundle), Media Vision Sound board, 14" CTX 1468NI,
128K Cache, and the usual drives, ports, & OS software. Since my budget is
$2350 for a system, it seems almost too good to be true (which may mean it
IS too good to be true, of course). Among other things, I've never seen a
review of the Budget systems (or their parent company, Micro Smart), or of
the motherboard they are using (the Aetana). Any feedback would be
appreciated.
In a similar vein, the second system I'm considering Midwest Micro's
Elite VESA 486/66 tower with a Diamond Viper (2MB) & Midwest Micro 14" MI
monitor is one I've never seen reviewed anywhere. I'm familiar with the
firm but not the product line - and some idea of their quality would be abig
benefit here as well.
Any other suggestions in the price range would be appreciated - my
greatest needs are speed and graphics capabilities.
Email response would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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