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517 | There is a new product for the (IBM'ers) out there... it is called
IMAGINE and it just started shipping yesterday... I can personally attest that it will blow the doors off of 3D-Studio. It is made by IMPUlSE, and is in its
3rd version....(1st) for the IBM.... it can do morphing, your standard key-framming animation, it is a raytracer (reflections & shadows), and can do/apply special FX to objects... (like ripple, explode, bounce) things of that nature. Also it has algorithmic texture maps....and your standard brushmapping also...
you can have animated brushmaps...(ie. live video mapped on the objs)...
also animated backdrops (ie. live video backgrounds)
also animted reflections maps....
you get the idea.... it will run for about 500$ retail (I think)...
dont let the low price fool you.... this product can do it all when it
comes to 3D-animation and Renderering...!
also....does anyone here know how to get in the Imagine mailing list??
please e-mail me if you do or post up here....
oh...the number for IMPULSE is --->1 800 328 0184 | 1 | trimmed_train |
6,279 |
It may be that they just didn't mention it, or that they actually haven't
thought about it. I got the vague impression from their mission proposal
that they weren't taking a very holistic aproach to the whole thing. They
seemed to want to land people on the Moon by the end of the decade without
explaining why, or what they would do once they got there. The only application
I remember from the Av Week article was placing a telescope on the Moon. That's
great, but they don't explain why it can't be done robotically.
But I'm a _member_. Besides Bill, I hang out with you :)
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6,828 |
C'mon, Tommy Soderstrom is having a fine rookie (I think he's a rookie)
season with the Flyers. I'm sure most of you knew that already, but just
in case. | 17 | trimmed_train |
7,093 | Oh yeah! I just got my new Eizo Flexscan yesterday (to replace my old 8515), and
I tried it with 1360x1024. This mode is just great! I can get four perfectly readable
command windows on the screen! And if I need more colors, I can go back to 1024x768
or even 800x600.
One thing I am wondering though: Why isn't there a MONxxxx.DGS file which contains
ALL the resolutions up to 1360x1024? Now I have to change the XGASETUP.PRO every
time I want to switch, instead of simply going through the system settings of OS/2.
Regards, Martin Erzberger
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7,662 |
I don't know how to reach Serdar, but you might be able to reach his
sysadmin by email, phone, or snail-mail.
Here is information from rs.internic.net:
Ahmet Cosar (ANATOLIA-DOM)
1530 S. 6th St.
Suite C705
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55454
Domain Name: ANATOLIA.ORG
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Cosar, Ahmet (AC234) [email protected]
612-376-7873
And here is what "finger [email protected]" gets you:
name: Ahmet Cosar-1
info: Last registered 1993 Winter Qtr
Internet mailbox: [email protected]
other mailbox: PROFS: COSA0001@UMNTCML
postal address: 1530 So 6th St Apt C705
Minneapolis
MN 55454
surname: Cosar
telephone: +1 612-376-7873
title: Grad
userid: cosa0001
X.400 mailbox: /G=Ahmet/S=Cosar-1/OU=mail/O=tc/PRMD=umn.edu/ADMD= /C=us/ | 6 | trimmed_train |
4,988 | GREAT post Martin. Very informative, well-balanced, and humanitarian
without neglecting the need for scientific rigor.
(Cross-posted to alt.psychology.personality since some personality typing
will be discussed at the beginning - Note: I've set all followups to sci.med
since most of my comments are more sci.med oriented and I'm sure most of the
replies, if any, will be med-related.)
They are just responding in their natural way: Hyper-Choleric Syndrome (HCS).
Oops, that is not a recognized "illness" in the psychological community,
better not say that since it therefore must not, and never will, exist. :^)
Actually, it is fascinating that a disproportionate number of physicians
will type out as NT (for those not familiar with the Myers-Briggs system,
just e-mail me and I'll send a summary file to you). In the general
population, NT's comprise only about 12% of the population, but among
physicians it is much much higher (I don't know the exact percentage -
any help here a.p.p.er's?)
One driving characteristic of an NT, especially an NTJ, is their obvious
choleric behavior (driver, type A, etc.) - the extreme emotional need to
control, to lead, and/or to be the best or the most competent. If they are
also extroverted, they are best described as "Field Marshalls". This trait
is very valuable and essential in our society - we need people who want to
lead, to strive to overcome the elements, to seek and thirst for knowledge,
to raise the level of competency, etc. The great successes in science and
technology are in large part due to the vision (an N trait) and scientifically-
minded approach (T trait) of the NT personality (of course, the other types
and temperaments have their own positive contributions as well). However,
when the NT person has self-image challenges, the "dark-side" of this
personality type usually comes out, which should be obvious to all.
A physician who is a strong NT and who has not learned to temper their
temperament will be extremely business-like (lack of empathy or feeling),
and is very compelled to have total control over their patient (the patient
must be obedient to their diagnosis and prescription without question). I've
known many M.D.'s of this temperament and suffice to say I don't oblige them
with a followup visit, no matter how competent I think they are (and they
usually are very competent from a knowledge viewpoint since that is an
extreme drive of theirs - to know the most, to know it all).
Maybe we need more NF doctor's. :^)
Enough on this subject - let's move on to candida bloom.
You've helped me already by your post. Of course, I believe that I have
been misdiagnosed on the net as suffering from 'anal retentivitis', but being
the phlegmatic I am, maybe I was just a little too harsh on a few people
myself in past posts. Let's all try to raise the level of this discussion
above the level of anal effluent.
In my well-described situation (in prior posts), I definitely was immune
stressed. Blood tests showed my vitamin A levels were very low. My sinuses
were a mess - no doubt the mucosal lining and the cilia were heavily damaged.
I also was on antibiotics 15 times in 4 years! In the end, even two weeks
of Ceftin did not work and I had confirmed diagnoses of a chronic bacterial
infection of the sinuses via cat-scans, mucus color (won't get into the
details), and other symptoms. Three very traditional ENT's made this
diagnosis (I did not have any cultures done, however, because of the
difficulty of doing this right and because my other symptoms clearly showed
a bacterial infection). Enough of this background (provided to help you
understand where I was when I make comments about my Sporanox anti-fungal
therapy below).
The first question I have is this. Can fungus penetrate a little way into poor
mucus membrane tissue, maybe via hyphae, thus causing symptoms, without being
considered 'systemic' in the classic sense? It is sort of an inbetween
infection.
I was concerned, too, because of the toxicity of vitamin A. My doctor, after
my blood tests, put me on 75,000 IU of vitamin A for one week only, then
dropped it down to 25,000 IU for the next couple of weeks. I also received
zinc and other supplementation, since all of these interrelate in fairly
complex ways as my doctor explained (he's one of those 'evil' orthomolecular
specialists). I had a blood test three weeks later and vitamin A was normal,
he then stopped me on all vitamin A (except for some in a multi-vitamin)
supplement), and made sure that I maintain a 50,000 IU/day of beta carotene.
Call me carrot face. :^)
Hopefully, Elaine's doctor will take a similar, careful approach and to
all supplements. I'm even reevaluating some supplements I'm taking, for
example, niacin in fairly large dosages, 1 gram/day, which Steve Dyer had
good information about on sci.med.nutrition. If niacin only has second-order
improvement in symptomatic relief of my sinus allergies, then it probably is
not worth taking such a large dose long-term and risking liver damage.
Though I do now believe, based on my successful therapy with Sporanox, that
I definitely had some excessive growth of fungus (unknown species) in my
sinuses, I still want to ask the question: have there been any studies that
demonstrate candida "blooms" in the sinuses with associated sinus irritation
(sinusitis/rhinitis)? (My sinus irritation reduced significantly after one
week of Sporanox and no other new treatments were implemented during this
time - I did not have any noticeable GI track problems before starting on
Sporanox, but some for a few days after which then went away - considered
normal).
BTW, my doctor dug out one of his medical reference books (sorry, can't
remember which one), and found an obscure comment dating back into the 1950's
which stated that people can develop contained (non-lethal or non-serious)
aspergillis infestations (aspergiliosis) of the sinuses leading to sinus
inflammation symptoms. I'll have to dig out that reference again since it
is relevant to this discussion.
My doctor tested me (I believe a RAST or RAST similar test) for allergic
response to specificially Candida albicans, and I showed a strong positive.
Another question, would everybody show the same strong positive so this test
is essentially useless? And, assuming it is true that Candida can grow
part-way into the mucus membrane tissue, and the concentration exceeds a
threshold amount, could not a person who tests as having an allergy to
Candida definitely develop allergic symptoms, such as mucus membrane
irritation due to the body's allergic response? As I said in an earlier post,
one does not need to be a rocket scientist, or have a M.D. degree or a
Ph.D. in biochemistry to see the plausibility of this hypothesis.
BTW, and I'll repost this again. Dr. Ivker, in his book, "Sinus Survival",
has routinely given, before anything else, Nizoral (a pre-Sporanox systemic
anti-fungal, not as safe and not as good as Sporanox) to his new chronic
sinusitis patients IF they have been on antibiotics four or more times in
the last two years. He claims that out of 2000 or so patients, well over
90% notice some relief of sinus inflammation and other symptoms, but it
doesn't cure it by any means, implying the so-called yeast/fungus infection
is not the primary cause, but a later complication. He's also found that
nystatin, whether taken internally, or put into a sinus spray, does not help.
This implies (of course assuming that excessive yeast/fungus bloom is
aggravating the sinus inflammation) that the yeast/fungus has grown partway
into the tissue since nystatin will not kill yeast/fungus other than by
direct contact - it is not absorbed into the blood stream. Again, I admit,
lots of 'ifs', and 'implies', which doesn't please the hard-core NT who
has to have the double-blind study or it's a non-issue, but one has to start
with some plausible hypothesis/explanation, a strawman, if you will.
This brings up an interesting observation used by those who will deny
and reject any and all aspects of the 'yeast hypothesis' until the
appropriate studies are done. And that is if you can't observe or culture
the yeast "bloom" in the gut or sinus, then there's no way to diagnose or
even recognize the disease. And I know they realize that it is virtually
impossible to test for candida overbloom in any part of the body that cannot
be easily observed since candida is everywhere in the body.
It's a real Catch-22.
Another Catch-22: Those who totally reject the 'yeast hypothesis' say that
no studies have been done (actually studies have been done, but if it's not
up to a certain standard then it is, from their perspective, a non-study which
should not even be considered). I agree that the appropriate studies should
be done, and that will take big $ to do it right. However, in order to
convince the funding agencies in these austere times to open their wallets,
you literally have to give them evidence, and the only acceptable evidence to
compete with other proposals is paradoxically to do almost the exact study
needed funding. That is, you have to do 90% of the study before you even get
funding (as a scientist at a National Lab, I'm very aware of this for the
smaller funded projects). I'm afraid that even if Dr. Ivker and 100 other
doctors got together, pooled their practice's case histories and anecdotes
into a compelling picture, and approach the funding agencies, they would get
nowhere, even if they were able to publish their statistical results.
It is obvious from the comments by some of the doctors here is that they have
*decided* excessive yeast colonization in the gut or sinuses leading to
noticeable non-lethal symptoms does not exist, and is not even a tenable
hypothesis, so any amount of case histories or compiled anecdotal evidence
to the contrary will never change their mind, and not only that, they would
also oppose the needed studies because in their minds it's a done issue -
excessive yeast growth leading to diffuse allergic symptoms does not, will
not, and cannot exist. Period. Kind of tough to dialog with those who hold
such a viewpoint. Kind of reminds me of Lister...
Aren't there also other nutrients necessary to the proper working of the
sinus mucus membranes and cilia?
Again, the evidence from mycological studies indicate that many yeast/fungus
species can grow hyphae ("roots") into deep tissue, similar to mold growing
in bread. You can continue to kill the surface, such as nystatin does, but
you can't kill that which is deeper in the tissue without using a systemic
anti-fungal such as itraconazole (Sporanox) or some of the older ones such
as Nizoral which are more toxic and not as effective. This is why, as has
been pointed out by recent studies (sent to me by a doctor I've been in
e-mail contact with - thanks), that nystatin is not effective in the long-
term treatment of GI tract "candidiasis". It's like trying to weed a garden
by cutting off what's above the ground but leaving the roots ready to come
out again once you walk away.
The $60000 question is whether a contained candida "bloom" can partially
grow into tissue through the mucus membranes, causing some types of symptoms
in susceptible people (e.g., allergy), without becoming "systemic" in the
classical sense of the word - something in between strictly an excessive
bloom not causing any problems and the full-blown systemic infection that
is potentially lethal.
Also, if one is an 'anal retentive', like I've been diagnosed in a prior
post, that can also provide more sites for excessive candida growth. ;^)
As I've said in private e-mail, there are flaws in our current medical system
that make it difficult or even impossible for a physician to attempt
alternative therapies AFTER the approved/proven/accepted therapies don't work.
For example, I went to three ENT's, who all said that I will just have to live
with my acute/chronic sinusitis after the ab's failed (they did mention
surgery to open up the ostia, but my ostia weren't plugged and it would not
get to the root cause of my condition). After three months of aggressive and
fairly non-standard therapy (Sporanox, body nutrient level monitoring and
equalization, vitamin C, lentinen, echinacea, etc.), my health has vastly
improved to where I was two years ago, before my health greatly deteriorated.
Of course, skeptics would say that maybe if I did nothing I would have
improved anyway, but that view is stretching things quite far because of the
experience of the three ENT's I saw who said that I'd just have to "live with
it". I'm confident I will reach what one could call a total "cure". The
anti-fungal program I undertook was one necessary step in that direction
because of my overuse of ab's for the last four years. (Note: for those
having sinus problems, may I suggest the book by Dr. Ivker I mention above.
Be sure to get the revised edition.)
Dr. Ivker started off having chronic and severe sinus problems, and his
visits to several ENT's totally floored him when they said "you'll just have
to live with it". He spent several years trying everything - standard and
non-standard, until he was essentially cured of chronic sinusitis. He now
shares his approach in his book and I can honestly say that I am on the road
to recovery following some parts of it. His one recommendation to take a
systemic anti-fungal at the beginning of treatment IF you have a history of
anti-biotic overuse has been proven to him time and time again in his own
practice. I'm sure if I commented to him of the hard-core beliefs of the anti-
"yeast hypothesis" posters that he would have definite things to say, such as,
"it's worked wonders for me in almost two thousand cases", to put it mildly.
I also would not be surprised if he would say that they are the ones violating
their moral obligations to help the patient.
Maybe those doctors who are reading this who have a practice and are
confronted by a patient having symptoms that could be due to the "hypothetical
yeast overgrowth" (e.g., they fit some of the profiles the pro-yeast people
have identified), should consider anti-fungal therapy IF all other avenues
have been exhausted. Remember, theory and practice are two different things -
you cannot have one without the other, they are synergistic. If a doctor does
something non-standard yet produces noticeable symptomatic relief in over a
thousand of his patients, shouldn't you at least sit up and take notice?
Maybe you ought to trust what he says and begin hypothesizing why it works
instead of why it shouldn't work. I'm afraid a lot of doctors have become
so enamored with "scientific correctness" that they are ignoring the patients
they have sworn to help. You have to do both; both have to be balanced, which
we don't see from some of the posters to this group. There comes a point when
you just have to use a little common sense, and maybe an empirical approach
(such as trying a good systemic anti-fungal such as Sporanox) after having
exhausted all the other avenues. I was one of those who the traditional
medical establishment was not able to help, so I did the natural thing: I
went to a couple of doctor's who are (somewhat) outside this establishment,
and as a result I have found significant relief.
Would it not be better if the traditional medical establishment can set up
some kind of mechanism where any doctor, without fear of being sued or having
his license pulled, can try experimental and unproven (beyond a doubt)
therapies for his/her patients that finally reach the point where all the
accepted therapies are ineffective? I'd like to hear a doctor tell me:
"well, I've tried all the therapies that are approved and accepted in this
country, and since they clearly don't work for you, I now have the authority
to use experimental, unproven techniques that seem to have helped others. I
can't promise anything, and there are some risks. You will have to sign
something saying you understand the experimental and possibly risky nature of
these unproven therapies, and I'll have to register your case at the State
Board." Anyway, if my ENT had suggested this to me, I would've jumped on this
pronto instead of going to one of those doctors who, for either altruistic
reasons, or for greed, is practicing these alternative therapies with much
risk to him/her (risk meaning losing their license) and possibly to the
patient. Such a mechanism would keep control in the more mainstream medicine,
and also provide valuable data that would essentially be free. It also would
be morally and ethically better than the current system by showing the
compassion of the medical community to the patient - that it's doing everything
it can within reason to help the patient. It is the lack of such a mechanism
that is leading large numbers of people to try alternative therapies, some of
which seem to work (like my case), and others of which will never work at all
(true quackery).
I better get off my soapbox before this post reaches 500K in size.
What dosage of B6 appears to be necessary to promote the healing and proper
working of the mucos memebranes?
I'd like to see the role of complex carbohydrates, such as starch.
Brave soul you are. The venom on Usenet can be quite toxic unless one
develops an immunity to it. One year ago, my phlegmatic self would have
backed down right away from an attack of cholericitis. But my immune
system, and my computer system, have been hardened from gradual
desensitization. I now kind of like being called "anal retentive" - it has
a nice ring to it. I also was very impressed by how it just flowed into the
post - truly classic, worthy of a blue (or maybe brown) ribbon. I might
even cross-post it to alt.best.of.internet. Hmmm...
Thanks again for a great and informative post. I hope others who have
researched this area and are lurking in the background will post their
thoughts as well, no matter their views on this subject.
Jon Noring
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Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club. | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,831 |
# Well said Mr. Beyer :)
He-he. The great humanist speaks. One has to read Mr. Salah's posters,
in which he decribes Jews as "sons of pigs and monkeys", keeps
promising the "final battle" between Muslims and Jews (in which the
stons and the trees will "cry for the Muslims to come and kill the
Jews hiding behind them"), makes jokes about Jews dying from heart
attacks etc, to realize his objective stance on the matters involved. | 6 | trimmed_train |
9,354 |
Which, considering the amount Bush&congress added to it, would be a
not-inconsiderable achievement.
While we're on the subject, I also believe that the supply-side claim that
reducing taxes raised revenue is also false, because they typically factor in
SocSec taxes, which were *raised* a considerable amount, at the same time that
income taxes were cut. If you look at income tax revenue alone, it fell after
after the cuts began, and didn't recover for several years. By then, record
deficits were well entrenched.
*crunch, crunch* | 13 | trimmed_train |
479 |
Actually, for the Padres this year so far it's 23%. They are 5th in
the league in HRs, and ALL have been solo shots.
Pythagorean projection puts them at .360 winning percentage
or 58-104. Need some pitching help, fast!
Good news, though, is that Hurst has been throwing curveballs
w/o any pain. Threw 80 pitches yesterday. Should be back
in a couple of weeks. Maybe we can trade him to the Yankees
for Militello.
Dave | 2 | trimmed_train |
6,932 |
Fine... THE ILLIAD IS THE WORD OF GOD(tm) (disputed or not, it is)
Dispute that. It won't matter. Prove me wrong.
Brian West | 8 | trimmed_train |
1,565 |
Ah, double-fulfillment. First of all I would say that I'm not sure all
the prophecies had double-fulfillment, e.g., the Isaiah 7:14 prophecy.
I would say that just because this happens on some occasions does not mean
it will occur always, especially with regard to NT prophecies. The apostles
who quoted the OT and applied those passages to Jesus were acting as divine
messengers and giving the inerrant Word of God to the Church. No one has
that authority today. No one has the apostolic authority to say that
such-and-such a prophecy has double-fulfillment. If the imagry of
Revelation fits with events of the 1st century, it is folly for us to try
and make it apply to events 20 centuries later.
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4,143 | What is the value of an SE (HDFD) 4/20?
-David | 14 | trimmed_train |
3,022 | 1) Complete 80386Dx25Mhz System for sale
SVGA card/w color Tatung VGA Monitor
2s/1p
2 floppies (1.44 and 1.2)
230 Watt Power supply
1 meg ram installed
80 meg IDE 14ms Hard drive
Best offer...
2) Bits and pieces
a) IDE controller card
b) internal 2400 baud modem
c) 80386Dx25Mhz CPU
d) 3 megs SIMM memory
e) Standard VGA card
3) Panasonic KXP-1524 Wide Carriage 24 pin Printer
Brand new condition
comes with plenty 'o ribbons
Parallel and Serial ports
Nice crisp output
ALl items are in beautiful condition. All fully functional. Willing to
provide net references if needed. Best offers on all items snag 'em.
Thanks for your time!
Ciaran | 5 | trimmed_train |
954 | Howdy
We have been having a real problem with an AST 386sx/16 machine with
4mb of RAM. We installed Paradox for Windows, (but I don't think
Paradox is the real problem here), and the installation went ok
(windows is installed on a local drive, paradox installed on a novell
network (netware 386 v3.26 or greater), DOS 5, Win 3.1) but the program
will not load in 386 enchanted mode. The thermometer bar goes to 60%
and we then either get a 'invalid command.com' or a windows nastygram
talking about an illegal instruction. I've checked out the command.com
thing, but as a long-time C programmer, I've crashed my share of machines
with pointer problems and this is a standard behavior :-)
Anyway, paradox will run in standard mode, but not enhanced. We also have
quattro pro windows, exhibiting the same behavior. Spent about 2 hours
with Borland's tech people, with no avail. The guy I talked to a microsoft
didn't want to really dig in and help, as he gave up pretty quickly.
Somewhat disappointing, really. I expected more from Microsoft. You'd think
with all the millions of windows installations that they would have seen all
the possible problems, but I guess not...
Microsoft had sent us a 13 page fax on fixing UAE and General
Protection faults (sorry, I can't fax anything out of here so please
don't ask, try Microsoft), which we tried. We did *everything* they
said, and still no luck.
So. If you can help, please mail me. This problem is driving us nuts.
I will greatly appreciate any information anyone can pass on.
Thanks
Kelly
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89 | I would like to experiment with the INTEL 8051 family. Does anyone out
there know of any good FTP sites that might have compiliers, assemblers,
etc.?
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4,446 | : You were right the second time, it is KNX. Believe it or not, I also
: listen to KNX in the evenings here in Colorado! It's kind of fun driving
: through the country listening to traffic jams on the 405. Back to your
: original question. Yes, there are sensors just past every on-ramp and
: off-ramp on the freeways. They're the same sensors used at most stoplights
: now (coils in the pavement). You might want to give CalTrans a call or
: even ask Bill Keene (KNX's traffic reporter). I doubt if just anyone can
: get the information, but it would be worth asking just in case you can
: get it.
I seem to remember that they sell the information (and a computer connection)
to anyone willing to pay.
On the subject of the pavement sensors, can anyone tell me more about them?
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5,397 | David Vergolini writes
Yeah, if the Tigers can keep scoring 20 runs a game. If I'm reading all this
woofing correctly, one midseason slump is going to pull this team out of
contention. Like Yogi says, I'll believe when I believe it.
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10,382 | One of the candidates that has been suggested for a key registration
body is the ACLU. I think this is poor choice. The ACLU is
essentially a group of auditors: they audit how people's civil
liberties are administered. Traditionally, auditors do not like to get
involved in the design or operational aspects of things, and with good
reason.
When I was a systems programmer, it always infuriated me that the
auditors would come in and tell us our implementation stunk from a
security point of view, but wouldn't tell us how to fix it. I always
figured they just liked to critcize, without doing the work to help fix
the problem.
Then I took a stint as an auditor, and I found out the real reason.
Auditors don't like to recommend solutions, because it puts them in a
bad position if they have to criticize the implementation later. The
auditee can say, "Well, you told us this way would be OK." It
compromises the independence that is a necessary part of the auditor's
job.
Taking the case at hand, suppose ACLU becomes a key half registrar.
Suppose that, perhaps through some error on ACLU's part, a key half gets
away that shouldn't, and is used to deprive someone of her civil
liberties. The ACLU gets wind of this, and wants to take it to court.
But they end up being at the same time on the side of the defendant
and of the plaintiff, which is not an easy position to be in.
There are exceptions to the complete independence of auditors: at one
place where I worked, when payroll checks were printed, they were signed
automatically by a signature drum on the bursting machine. This drum
was kept by the auditors (who also kept the check stock), and
was brought down to Data Processing when it was time to do the checks.
I believe the difference between this situation and the key registration
situation is that it is fairly obvious when it is time to do the payroll
checks: if they were done yesterday, and someone wants to do them again
today, he better be able to produce yesterday's checks so that they can
be destroyed. Determining which of the many requests for key halves are
legit is a trickier process, one much more prone to mistakes that could
put the ACLU in a protecting-the-client versus protecting-the-ACLU
conflict of interest.
As always, my opinions are my own. | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,689 | I have read that there will be some concrete proposals concerning creation
of a "palestinian police force" during the talk's next stage. Does anyone
knows of the details of this idea? How does it "fit" with the differing
conceptions listed above?
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666 | Once again, the Rockies bullpen fell apart. Andy Ashby pitched six (somewhat
shaky) innings giving up just one run. Then game the dreaded relief. Three
picthers combined to give up 3 runs (one each I believe) in the 7th inning
and blew the save opportunity. (Final was 4-2 vs Expos).
Despite their problems in the pen, I think the Rockies are a team that wont
be taken lightly. Going into today's game, the had the league's leading
hitter and RBI man (Galarraga), two of the leaders in stolen bases (Young
and Cole) and increasingly strong starting pitching.
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8,151 |
- or their handlers.
They key depositories are IRRELEVANT. In order for the applicable law
enformcement agencies to be able to know what keys to request from
escrow, the system will have to squawk its serial number in clear text
as part of the link establishment protocol. Whoever owns the program
that assigns keys to each serial number won't need access to the key
depository.
In other words, the FBI may need a court-ordered release of escrowed
keys, but the NSA has the keys before the chip is ever manufactured.
There is no need to go through the escrow or to try all keys. While
relations between law enforment agencies have sometimes been strained,
there is also a long history of trading favors. This will re-establish
the NSA as a very important agency for everyone to get along with,
because they can give you untraceable encryption leaks without court
orders.
The more I think about this affair, the fouler it smells. I'd rather
have a DES with an engineered-in backdoor ... | 7 | trimmed_train |
3,986 |
Anyone who can repeate this choice piece of tripe without checking
his/her sources does not deserve to be believed. The Gaza strip does
not possess the highest population density in the world. In fact, it
isn't even close. Just one example will serve to illustrate the folly
of this statement: the city of Hong Kong has nearly ten times the
population of the Gaza strip in a roughly comparable land area. The
centers of numerous cities also possess comparable, if not far higher,
population densities. Examples include Manhattan Island (NY City), Sao
Paolo, Ciudad de Mexico, Bombay,...
Need I go on? The rest of Mr. Davidsson's message is no closer to the
truth than this oft-repeated statement is.
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7,912 |
Unfortunately there a *LOT* of such software. I also find it to be
the case that the majority of the software that is BAD in this regard
is COMMERCIAL software. Way too many commercial packages are very
poorly written. But then most of the programs in MS-DOS are crap, such
as the PRINT command TSR that locks up your system for long periods of
time when the printer is full instead of trying every clock tick.
Back to comm software... I find success with TELIX (my COM3 at 3e8/5
works ok on TELIX). | 3 | trimmed_train |
7,841 |
I would suggest skipping olwm and getting olvwm instead. This version of the
olwm window manager implements a virtual desktop that I find really handy even
on large monitors.
This version is also available at export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/olvwm3.tar.Z.
The README file also suggest getting the files in /contrib/xview3.
In my case, I built the X Server first, Xview second, then olvwm. All of these
were installed into /usr/X5. Once I verified the server worked correctly,
I happily issued "rm -rf /usr/openwin/*".
Using gcc 2.3.3 to build all of the above resulted in a windowing system that
is, for all intents and purposes, identical to OpenWindows 3.0 and that is
incredibly faster. There is a bit of tweaking you will have to do if you want
things to work _exactly_ like OpenWindows, but not much.
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6,493 | Actually, with several sharware utilities, you cn change both. My fav is
Plug-In. | 18 | trimmed_train |
5,739 | Okay all my friends are bitching at me that the map I made in Appsoft Draw
can't be displayed in "xv"... I checked... It's true, at least with version
1.0. My readers on the NeXT have very little trouble on it (Preview messes
up the .eps, but does fine with the TIFF and ImageViewer0.9a behaves with
flying colors except it doesn't convert worth *&^^% ;-) )
Please is there any way I can convert this .drw from Appsoft 1.0 on the NeXT
to something more reasonable like .gif? I have access to a sun4 and NeXTstep
3.0 systems. any good reliable conversion programs would be helpful... please
email, I'll post responses if anyone wants me to... please email that to.
Yes I used alphachannel... (god i could choke steve jobs right now ;-) )
Yes i know how to archie, but tell me what to archie for ;-)
Also is there a way to convert to .ps plain format? ImageViiewer0.9 turns
out nothing recognizable....
terrychay
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small editorial
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4,239 | I sometimes see OTC preparations for muscle aches/back aches that
combine aspirin with a diuretic. The idea seems to be to reduce
inflammation by getting rid of fluid. Does this actually work? | 19 | trimmed_train |
8,062 | Tektronix 453 scope for sale:
- 50MHz bandwidth
- portable (NOT one of the 5xx series boatanchors! :^)
- delayed sweep
- works fine
- I don't have the manual (they are available from various places)
- no probes
- $275 + shipping
Email me for more info...
Regards,
Keith
| 5 | trimmed_train |
9,514 | #>So, does anyone care to enlighten us whether DOS6.0 is worth upgrading to?
#>How good is it's compression, and can it be turned on/off at will?
#>Any other nice/nasty features?
#
#According to reports, if you don't have DOS yet, and don't have any
#utilities (QEMM, Stacker, PCTools, Norton, ...) then DOS6 may be worth it.
#For people who have DOS5, and some sort of utility, DOS6 doesn't offer
#much. You'd never know it from the usual hype that marketing is able
#to create, however. :-)
IMHO, it seems to be worth the $40 to upgrade. DoubleSpace seems a bit
saner than Stacker 2.0 (which I've replaced). MemMaker is nowhere near as
aggressive as QEMM, but it doesn't hose my system like QEMM did (at least
it hasn't yet). Microsoft AntiVirus is just the latest version (or a
reasonably recent one) of CPAV - mine was very aged, so this was quite welcome.
MS-DOS 6.0 ain't the end all, be all of operating systems - but it's
better than a sharp stick in the eye, unless you happen to be into that sort
of thing. :-) | 5 | trimmed_train |
2,969 |
I recall reading in the recently revised edition of the "Yeast Connection"
that there is indeed work by researchers to do this. Of course, they are
working on the theory that candida overbloom with penetration into mucus
membrane tissue with associated "mild" inflammatory response can and does
occur in a large number of people. If you reject this "yeast hypothesis",
then I'd guess you'd view this research as one more wasteful and quixotic
endeavor. Stay tuned.
Jon Noring
--
Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club. | 19 | trimmed_train |
10,111 | I had exactly the same problem with a 1981 Horizon. Third gear would
just disengage. Engine would rev up. Kind of disconcerting.
I sold that car quite a few years back but the memory of that tranny
sticks with me. It also had a clutch chatter in first that the dealer
could not fix. If the lemon law had been in place then, that car
would have been covered.
I have had several Jap cars since then (figuring the Horizon was my
contribution to the American Auto Companies), and have never seen any
bad behavior with the exception of a Toyota Tercel with a bit of
clutch chatter that they did fix on the first try.
Anyway, from that day forward, I have sworn that I would never
purchase another American car with a standard. American manufacturers
don't have a clue on how to manufacture five speed transmissions and
have been doing the automatics much longer and on many more cars.
However, I hate automatics, so I am still buying Jap cars.
Not sure this is any help, but other cars do this too.
Cheers, Larry
--
@@ Larry Rogers *
@@@ [email protected] * Big Brother
@@@ &&& [email protected] * is Watching
@@ && Data General 508-870-8441 *
The opinions contained herein are my own, and do not reflect the
opinions of Data General or anyone else, but they should. | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,281 | JL-NS>Subject: Re: Motorcycle Courier (Summer Job)
I'd like to thank everyone who replied. I will probably start looking in
earnest after May, when I return from my trip down the Pacific Coast
(the geographical feature, not the bike).
Ryan Cousinetc.|1982 Yamaha Vision XZ550 -Black Pig of Inverness|Live to Ride
KotRB |1958 AJS 500 C/S -King Rat |to Work to
DoD# 0863 |I'd be a squid if I could afford the bike... |Flame to
[email protected] | Vancouver, BC, Canada |Live . . .
* SLMR 2.1a * Have bike, will travel. Quickly. Very quickly.
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10,738 |
The answer is obvious: ZX-11 D. | 12 | trimmed_train |
8,312 | A Unix tool of cryptographic significance is available
for anonymous ftp.
"agrep 2.0.4" -- a fast approximate pattern-matching tool
source code project available from:
cs.arizona.edu
in directory "agrep"
agrep is a very fast fuzzy search tool with a tremendous
number of powerful search options. The one most obviously
applicable to cryptography (key selection) is to be able to
specify the "similarity" of matches in the data.
For example say you make up a password/phrase of "qimwe7l".
Of course you rightly suspect that this key itself is not
in any dictionary or word list. But how *close* is it to
en entry that could be varied by some "crack" program to
brute-force search for it?
You use agrep to find out. Looking with argument for none,
one or two errors, no matches. Good so far. But
agrep -3 "qimwe7l" bigwordandphraselist
finds that the pattern "qimwe7l" is too close to the
pattern "imsel" (part of "himself" and a host of others),
to be of any cryptographic value as a key.
An error of level two corresponds to a simple transposition of
letters like "teh" for "the". A minimally acceptable password
would have to pass as *least* level 3 in order not immediately
ruled-out as even a remote possibility of being a good password.
(In real cryptographic use, my personal passphrases clear at
*least* level 8 on my rather large [>80 meg] word and phrase lists.)
And for searching for key words in human-typed data (lots o'
typos) the tool is unexcelled. For example, For example,
say I want to find out what people think about Gibson's
SF book "Neuromancer" in the huge SF-Lover's archives.
Even with an error distance specification as small as
of "1" I will find all those people who think the title
was "Necromancer" or other common typos. Why miss anything?
Also, the program can look for up to 30,000 patterns IN PARALLEL
at Boyer-Moore (sublinear) speeds. Great for a NSA wannabe
to look for your name, terrorists names, special Tagalog or
religious words, etc. in the news or e-mail spool directories.
You can even search for ciphertext by using, say, 30,000
random three-byte combinations and eliminate all texts that
don't score the X chi-square 'birthday' hits on message size Y.
You think some crypto-terrorist is try to foil you by changing
the pattern on you? No problem. Try agrep -p NSA to find
NSA, National Security Agency, NSecAg, No Such Agency,
National Scrabble Association, N*S*A, etc.
You can also specify "fixed" areas: looking for license
plate XYZ123 when you know that the letters are correct,
you might say:
agrep -2 <XYZ>123 licenseplatedatabase
will find all plates starting with XYZ with up to two errors
(addition, substitution, deletion) in the number area. You can
also "weight" the relative "cost" for substiutions, additions,
or deletion errors. For example, when searching DNA patterns
for a particular protein combination, you might know that
some kinds of damage cause the "A" nucelotide to drop out more
than other errors... you could adjust for this bias by setting
-Dc where you set the "deletion cost" to count as "c" errors.
A steganographic use (I even used "agrep -2 "<steg>eograp" E"
just now to find the correct spelling!) would be to intentionally
introduce errors of a certain type and magnitude into a plaintext
and then later recover the orginal it via an agrep pipe. Lots of
possibilities here when only outlaws can have ciphertext...
Also with agrep's powerful extraction options it makes it easy
to abstract the "hits" into a useful form. For example,
agrep -d "^From" 'PGP;(passphrase|Zimmerman|NSA)'
says output the entire mail record, delimited by 'From'
that contains 'PGP' and contains either 'passphrase',
'Zimmerman', or 'NSA'.
And agrep has been measured an order-of-magnitude faster
than the second-best similarity tool publicly available.
As usual, I will be glad to e-mail the source and docs
to those who reqest them by e-mail IF they cannot do
an anonymous FTP.
Get this now.
It is too powerful to stay in the hands of the NSA.
Grady Ward, vendor to the NSA (and proud of it)
| 7 | trimmed_train |
2,525 |
I AGREE, LUMBERJACK (except that they're in 2nd)! They ARE going PLACES -
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Denver, Atlanta, Miami,
Philadelphia, New York, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis...and
points in between. :-)
But,
THEY'RE 0-3 AT HOME!
I'm just not used to an overly enthusiastic Houston fan. I really shouldn't
discourage it, so HANG IN THERE, LUMBERJACK! (But, get ahold of that shift
key, will ya?)
ObBase: Apparently the new owner (Drayton McLain (sp?)) doesn't particularly
like excuses. An item in our paper (the Austin American-Statesman - "If you
read it here, it was somewhere else first") said that he wouldn't take
injuries as an excuse for losing because that possibility should have been
accounted for. Uh, oh. I don't want an owner that'll keep everybody on
edge - I'd never gotten that feeling about him, but who knows? Does
anybody down there in the Houston area have a feel for how meddling of an
owner McLain is going to be? | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,971 |
I'm all in favor of drug legalization, but I do see some problems with
it. My hope is that people disposed to doing so would simply overdose
quickly, and be done with it, before making a mess of thisgs.
| 13 | trimmed_train |
7,182 | Only if you persist in believing that Peter Gammons is more knowledgable about
baseball than the average mailbox. Okay, I'm overstating. Still, the man
actually had the gall to say that one out of every six pitchers in the NL this
year did not pitch in the majors last year.
Huh?
IMO, this expansion will not see the explosive jump in offense that the
other expansion drafts had, since the talent was diluted over both leagues.
In Gammons' defense, because the talent drain came from the AL as well, some
increase will be seen. He also gets credit for mentioning that the 1969 jump
in offense was due also to the rules changes after the 1968 season. He's still
full of it...
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8,352 |
That's because Lankford had a minor injury from a couple of games
before that
and was day-to-day... only available as a pinchrunner.
| 2 | trimmed_train |
7,866 | My sunroof leaks. I've always thought those things were a royal pain.
Can anyone provide any insight ?
I know the seal isn't great. Maybe I could weld the stupid thing shut. | 4 | trimmed_train |
8,491 | on wednesday morning, another driver decided to illegally
turn left in front of me, doing great damage to my car
(Honda Civic).
i have yet to pay off the car, and the body shop says the
insurance company wants to total the car. i haven't
been able to get in touch with the person handling my claim,
so i checked on some things:
1) my payout is $3700.00
2) Blue Book retail is $5650.00
3) loan value is $4450.00
4) trade-in value is $4000.00
could anyone give me any advice on what i should/could do
if the insurance company does not give me a reasonable
amount for the loss of the car.
thanks,
james baker | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,443 | I am coordinating the Space Shuttle Program Office's e-mail traffic to
NPO Energia for our on-going Joint Missions. I have several e-mail
addresses for NPO Energia folks, but I won't post them on the 'Net for
obvious reasons. If you need to know, give me a yell.
-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
[email protected] (713) 483-4368 | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,058 | You're right ... I'm sick of seeing all those white guys on skates
myself ... the Vancouver Canucks should be half women, and overall
one-third Oriental.
(-; (-; (-; (-; (-; (-;
And I'll gladly volunteer myself for the overage draft. (-;
gld | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,034 |
The speculum is the little cone that fits on the end of the otoscope.
There are also vaginal specula that females and gynecologists are
all too familiar with.
--
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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 |
3,358 |
> be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no
> materials we can't get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids
> and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low
> grade fusion reactors.
I don't know what a "low grade" fusion reactor is, but the major
problem with 3He (aside from the difficulty in making any fusion
reactor work) is that its concentration in lunar regolith is just so
small -- on the order of 5 ppb or so, on average (more in some
fractions, but still very small). Massive amounts of regolith would
have to be processed.
This thread reminds me of Wingo's claims some time ago about the moon
as a source of titanium for use on earth. As I recall, Wingo wasn't
content with being assured that titanium (at .5% in the Earth's crust,
average) would not run out, and touted lunar mines, even though the
market price of ilmenite concentrate these days is around $.06/pound.
This prompted me to look up large potential terrestrial sources.
On the moon, titanium occurs in basalts; "high-Ti" basalts (Apollo 11
and 17) have 8-14% titanium dioxide (by weight). This is nice, but...
terrestrial continental flood basalts are also typically enriched in
titanium. They very often have 3% TiO2, frequently have 4%, and
sometimes even 5% TiO2 (again, by weight). These flood basalts are
*enormous* -- millions of cubic kilometers, scattered all over the
world (Siberia, Brazil, the NW United States, Ethiopia, etc.). If
even 1% of the basalts are 5% TiO2, this is trillions of tons of TiO2
at concentrations only a factor of 2-3 less than in lunar high-Ti
basalts. It is difficult to see how the disadvantages of the moon
could be overcome by such a small increase the concentration of the
ore (never mind the richer, but less common, terrestrial ores being
mined today). | 10 | trimmed_train |
4,462 | I just bought a select 300 and rushed home to print
some grayscale pictures for my kids, when I discovered that
grayscale(and photograde) are not available if you are
using an SE...even if you are running with an '030 cpu.
You won't see this in the printer's docs, and the Apple
rep didn't mention it to our users group either. It seems
that SE ROMs won't support those "features". Okay, I
guess I should have somehow known that this was the case.
Let the buyer beware, huh Apple?
Be that as it may, I have been thinking about the
problem and I'm puzzled. Why can't a defencieny in the
ROM be made up for in software. I write software for a living
(on unix platforms) and I don't understand the "it just
can't be done" responses I've gotten from those I have
asked so far. Isn't Mode32, or somesuch piece of soft-
ware, just such a fix.
Anyway, I was hoping someone knowledgeable
about Mac internals could set me straight: is it simply
impossible for a mac SE to print grayscale, or could
someone armed with enough info and a little pro-
gramming experience cook something up that would
supplement the ROM's capabilities?
Also, how does one know if one's mac can
support the grayscale and photograde that the Select 300
is supposedly capable of? ( Short of buying the printer
and trying it out like I did)
Thanks for your help. | 14 | trimmed_train |
8,064 | After having OpenWindows
(Version 3 for SunOS 4.1) or Xwindows
running continuously on my machine for 3-4 days,
the following message appears when trying to open
a new window, or to run any program that needs to open windows.
XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: :0.0 (Server
package)
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions to solve this problem. | 16 | trimmed_train |
4,895 |
And seen from my point of view, I get far too much articles to keep up with
them. I am lucky if I can scan through the subjects from time to time.
--
Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute I R B : immer richtig beraten
Univ. Dortmund, IRB
Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
D-W4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386 | 16 | trimmed_train |
3,462 |
Many X servers supporting graphics accelerators do not allow the creation
of pixmaps exeeding the size of the screen. One workaround is to create
several smaller pixmaps and add the results.
| 16 | trimmed_train |
4,694 | After the marvelous "time-out" call by Chris Webber (which resulted in
a technical foul, since his team had no time-outs left) perhaps Webber
will take the place of Bill Buckner as the master of choke. At least
this Red Sox fan hopes so.
Ted
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2,080 | Well, that would depend on how much we wanted the US and how much
we wanted the $1, wouldn't it?
-Ekr
| 15 | trimmed_train |
6,636 | -*----
The two commandments *are* rules; they are merely rules that are
so vague that they are practically devoid of meaning. Michael
Siemon acknowledges this every time he writes that the resolution
of an argument over them turns on secular and cultural
assumptions that are independent of these rules.
The commandment to love your neighbor as yourself can be viewed,
in part, as reminding man that he is not God and cannot act as if
he has "ultimate responsibility." Indeed, many traditions present
an interpretation where believers are supposed to interpret
loving one's neighbor as following various other rules, and
relying on their god to make things come out right, precisely
because it would be wrong for man to assume such "ultimate
responsibility." Once again, we are confronted with good sounding
goo that means whatever the reader wants it to mean.
And who is to say that this interpretation is "twisted"? There
are many passages in the Bible that in their most straightforward
reading show the Christian god behaving in just this way.
Michael cannot refer to "base" claims or base commandments to
show that such readings are "twisted," because this divergence in
understanding occurs even in trying to interpret the "base"
claims and commandments. In addressing conservative Christians,
Michael will necessarily draw upon secular and cultural notions
that these conservative Christians will reject.
But these base commandments are too vague to serve as "a
principle for the CRITIQUE of ethical systems." The meaning of
these base commandments for any believer derives from the secular
and cultural notions that the believer brings to them, from how
the believer mixes their demands with straightforward readings of
other Biblical passages, from a particular sectarian tradition,
or from some combination of these things. These commandments
lack sufficient substance in themself to serve as a basis for
criticizing ethical systems. What meaning they have comes from
the ethical system the believer brings to these commandments.
Jesus explicitly states that this summarizes Jewish law, which
would seem to bring in all of it if we properly understand what
it means to love God and love our neighbors. There are *many*
parables and teachings the gospels attribute to Jesus that are
straightforwardly read as ethical commandments. The Pauline
epistles are similarly full. If it is not clear that these all
come together in a sensible understanding of ethical behavior,
the problem is *not* a lack of raw material.
-*----
No, Michael, the conservative Christians also take the gospel
seriously. What differentiates you is the way you interpret the
gospel.
In a sense, the wide variety of interpretations does tell us
something about Christianity. It tells us that the New Testament
authors left a sufficiently vague hodge-podge that it can serve
as the source text for many, vastly different beliefs about the
nature of the Christian god and about what men should and
shouldn't do.
The irony here is that there is *nothing* in Christianity per
se that Michael can use to support the cause of lesbians and
gays. *Every* Christian principle he turns to this cause is
effective only through the extra-Christian principles through
which Michael interprets his religion, and the homophobes apply
the *same* Christian principles, with equal justification, to
their cause. In short, it is the extra-Christian principles that
make Michael's Christianity beneficial, and I suspect they would
be as beneficial, perhaps moreso, without being filtered by
Christian interpretation.
Michael paints a picture of "standard American atheism" as the
rejection of the evil in many conservative Christian
interpretations of the Bible. But I think it is even more
damaging to Christianity to note that the New Testament presents
such a vague hodge-podge of notions about the nature of God and
the nature of the good (except, of course, when it is ordered by
an interpretation that relies on extraneous principles). Here, I
think we should apply a Christian parable, where a cold drink can
have its value and a hot drink can have its value, but the
lukewarm we should spit out. | 15 | trimmed_train |
10,674 | In Re:Syria's Expansion, the author writes that the UN thought
Zionism was Racism and that they were wrong. They were correct
the first time, Zionism is Racism and thankfully, the McGill Daily
(the student newspaper at McGill) was proud enough to print an article
saying so. If you want a copy, send me mail. | 6 | trimmed_train |
7,317 |
Yes some radar detectors are less detectable by radar detector
detectors. ;-) | 11 | trimmed_train |
1,375 | a
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GT (5sp of course) | 4 | trimmed_train |
2,346 |
Ok, this is the only thing I will comment on from Stan at this time...
part of this forum we call rec.scouting is for policy discussions and
related topics. This is a policy discussion, and involves related
topics. this is not a "fringe" group discussion. obviously, it
engenders strong feelings from all sides of the issues at hand.
Wether a particular view is anti-societal or not is your opinion,
and yours alone, don't try to make it seem otherwise.
If you do not wish to engage in this discussion, use a kill file.
If you wish to continue in this discussion, please do so, knowing
full well the implications that apply.
I know for myself that I plan on continuing with the discussion when
i have the wish to have input. I for one am tired of people trying to
say that this is not a matter significant for this group! It is, and
quite so. Especially for those of us who feel the impact more closely.
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9,717 | Accounts of Anti-Armenian Human Right Violations in Azerbaijan #014
Prelude to Current Events in Nagorno-Karabakh
+----------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| I asked, "What's going on?" He says, "What's the matter, |
| can't you see, they've overturned a car and they're |
| killing Armenians!" |
| |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
DEPOSITION OF ZAVEN ARMENAKOVICH BADASIAN
Born 1942
Employed
Sumgait Bulk Yarn Plant
Resident at Building 34, Apartment 33
Microdistrict No. 12
Sumgait [Azerbaijan]
On February 27 my wife and I went to Baku to go shopping and returned to
Sumgait at around five in the evening. We ran into one of my relatives at the
bus station and got to talking. A lot of people had gathered not far away,
near the store. Well at first we didn't know what was happening, and then a
fellow I know comes up to me, an Azerbaijani guy, and says, "What are you
standing here for? Go home immediately!" I asked, "What's going on?" He says,
"What's the matter, can't you see, they've overturned a car and they're
killing Armenians!" He helped me catch a cab and we got home safely.
We sat at home for two days. During that time a gang of bandits came into our
courtyard. But the neighbors wouldn't let them in the building. There were
about 80 of them. They had sticks and pieces of armatures in their hands. They
were shouting something, but you couldn't understand it. It wasn't one voice
or two, all of them were shouting in a chorus. They turned toward Building 35.
They went up to the third _floor, and we see that they're breaking glass and
throwing things out the window. After a while they come out the entryway: one
has a pair of jeans in his hands, another has a tape recorder, and a third a
guitar. They went on toward the auto parts store.
We had to save ourselves. After midnight on March 1 we went to hide at School
No. 33, which is in Microdistrict 13. There were two other Armenian families
there with us. There were 13 of us altogether. Out of all of them I had only
known Ernest before, he had moved to Sumgait from Kirovabad. The Azerbaijani
guard at the school let us in. At first he didn't want to, but there was
nowhere else for us to go. We had to plead with him and talk him into it. We
were told that on that day, the 1st, there would be an attack on our
microdistrict.
We went upstairs to a classroom on the second floor.
On the city radio station they announced three telephone numbers that could be
used to summon assistance or communicate anything important. I called one of
them and the First Secretary of the Sumgait City Party Committee answered. I
asked him for assistance. I say, "We're in School No. 33, we need to be
evacuated." Well he says, "Got it, wait there, I'm sending out help now."
I know his voice. The First Secretary had been to our plant, I had spoken with
him personally. When I called he said, "Muslimzade here."
About two hours after the call we heard shouts near the school. We looked out
the window and about 100 to 120 people were outside saying, "Armenians, come
out, we're here to get you." They have clubs, axes, and armature shafts in
their hands. The guard sat there with us, and asked, "Where should I go?" I
say, "If your life is of any value to you you'll go down there and say that
the Armenians were here and that they left." That's what he did. He went down
there and said, "The Armenians were here," he said, "I let them out the back
door, they went that way." And pointed with his hand. And with shouts and
noise the mob set off in the direction he had pointed.
So the assistance we had been promised did come. They sent us help, all right!
Instead of sending real soldiers he had sent his own. I am positive that
Muslimzade did that. No one had seen us entering the school, no one knew that
we were there. In any case, we stayed at the school until seven in the
morning, and no soldiers of any sort came to our aid.
In the morning we went to my relative's in Microdistrict 1, and the soldiers
took us to the SK club from there. The club was jammed with people, and there
were lots of people ahead of us--there was no space available. One small boy,
about three months old, died right in my arms. There wasn't a single doctor,
nothing. The boy was uninjured, there were no wounds or bruises on him. He was
just very ill. They gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, they did everything
they could under the circumstances, but were unable to save him. And his
mother and father, a young Armenian couple, were right there, on the floor ...
I searched for a spot for us in the SK, we have a small child of our own, I
wanted to find a room or something to put my family in. I went up to the third
floor, there were a lot of soldiers up there, bandaged, with canes, limping,
with their heads broken open. They were a terrible sight. Young guys, all of
them.
There were a lot of bandaged Armenians, too. Everyone had been beaten,
everyone was crying, wailing, and calling for help. I think that the City
Party Committee ignored us completely. True, there was a snack bar: a sausage
was 30 kopeks or 40 kopeks, a package of cookies that cost 26 kopeks was being
sold for 50, a bottled soft drink cost a ruble . . . But there was no way to
get the things any cheaper.
I met my old uncle, Aram Mikhailovich, there. He saw me and tears welled up in
his eyes. My whole life he had told me that we were friendly peoples, that we
worked together, he always had Azerbaijanis over at his house. And now he saw
me and there was nothing he could say, he just cried. You can understand his
feelings, of course.
April 8, 1988
Yerevan
- - - reference - - -
[1] _The Sumgait Tragedy; Pogroms against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan,
Volume I, Eyewitness Accounts_, edited by Samuel Shahmuradian, forward by
Yelena Bonner, 1990, published by Aristide D. Caratzas, NY, pages 185-186
| 6 | trimmed_train |
242 | Some pixels on my PB 140 display disappear intermittently. They are not in
a particular place but random. If anybody has suggestions I would appreciate
e-mailings. Thanks.
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8,359 |
1. Get the friend to uninstall it.
2. Read the manual (though from your post I infer that you are using
pirated software.)
3. Go into SYS.INI and change the SHELL= line to read SHELL=PROGMAN.EXE | 18 | trimmed_train |
2,267 | Read this through once or twice. Then replace "prince" with
"government" or "president", as appropriate, and read it again.
[From Chapter XX of _The Prince_, by N. Macchiavelli, as translated by
Daniel Donno.]
In order to keep their lands secure, some princes have
disarmed their subjects; others have prompted division within the
cities they have subjugated. Some have nurtured animosities against
themselves; others have sought to win the approval of those they
initially distrusted. Some have erected fortresses; others have
destroyed them. Now, although it is impossible to set down definite
judgements on all of these measures without considering the particular
circumstances of the states where they may be employed, I shall
nevertheless discuss them in such broad terms as the subject itself
will allow.
To begin with, there has never been a case of a new prince
disarming his subjects. Indeed, whenever he found them disarmed, he
proceeded to arm them. For by arming your subjects, you make their
arms your own. Those among them who are suspicious become loyal,
while those who are already loyal remain so, and from subjects they
are transformed into partisans. Though you cannot arm them all,
nonetheless you increase your safety among those you leave unarmed by
extending privileges to those you arm. Your different treatment of
the two categories will make the latter feel obligated to you, while
the former will consider it proper thoat those who assume added duties
and dangers should receive advantages.
When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them, by
showing that, either from cowardliness or from lack of faith, you
distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
Moreover, since it is impossible for you to remain unarmed, you would
have to resort to mercenaries, whose limitations have already been
discussed. Even if such troops were good, however, they could never be
good enough to defend you from powerful enemies, and doubtful
subjects. Therefore, as I have said, a new prince in a newly acquired
state has always taken measures to arm his subjects, and history is
full of examples proving that this is so.
But when a prince takes posession of a new state which he
annexes as an addition to his original domain, then he must disarm all
the subjects of the new state except those who helped him to acquire
it; and these, as time and occasion permit, he must seek to render
soft and weak. He must arrange matters in such a way that the arms of
the entire state will be in the hands of soldiers who are native to
his original domain.
... | 7 | trimmed_train |
350 |
Oh to be back in the good old days when I lived in Florida (Florida for
Petes sake!!) and could watch hockey every night as ESPN and USA alternated
coverage nights. Oh well I guess it would be too simple for the home office
to look back into their past to solve a problem in the present...
Of course I shouldn't complain. At least I'm getting to watch the playoffs
for a change. (Hooray!!) Now if the ESPN schedulers will realise there are
other teams except Pittsberg in the Patrick. (Sounds like a Dr Suess Book
=)
KOZ | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,424 | Yes, both dblspaced and non-dblspaced drives can be defragmented. I believe
they use Norton's Speedisk.
| 18 | trimmed_train |
4,112 | Here's what I (think) have figured out. All I need to do is install
the R5 disitribution without the Xserver like the sony.cf file defines,
and all the new libraries, utils, etc., will be installed and my old
server from r4 will still work. This will allow me to run Xview 3.0,
and have X11r5 up and running. Does the server interface remain the
same with all changes made only to the libs?
Another question: Is it likely that since Sun is dropping OW support
that the desktop utils (like the file manager) will be made public?
It would be nice if companies would make old code public for the
benefit of those of us with smaller budgets. :)
--
[email protected] | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,817 | Bottom line: I did it and it worked.
Some 'tips and techniques' are included here:
I found that I needed some smaller sockets to undo the shocks.
And a can of WD40 helped...
The sockets needed were metric (exact fit) but I was able to use
some SAE sockets... 13/16 and 15/16 are rather close to 21 and 24mm...
It CAN be fun having a Canadian Ford ...
Didn't have to undo the end bolts/bushings. Just the 2 U bolts on
each side and the shock absorber. Jacking up the frame some more
(had to put the spare tire on the garage floor and put a wooden
platform on top of that to get the 'floor jack' high enough to
raise the frame ... I't one TALLL truck...) lifted the spring
free of the axel. Taking out the block gave me enough room to
undo the pin holding the spring pack together.
The spring pack was held together with a nut on top and a round head
on the other end.... No wrench head... Vice Grips worked fine...
I soaked the nut with WD40 and it came right off.
Flipped the bottom spring and then...
I donno ... I'm a little more sore today than after working on a
1911A1 ...
A 1.5 foot pipe cheater was a real help. Torque spec for the U bolt
nuts is 150 to 200 ft-lbs (!). A 1911-A1 doesn't have that kind of
torque spec ...
It was a 'challenge' to get the 'pack bolt' back in the spring pack.
Squeeze pack with two hands, hold bolt with third, put nut on
with fourth while picking up wrench and vice grips with fifth
and sixth hands ... I used some string to tie the pack together
while holding the pin in for alignment... then I could let go
to get the {nut, wrench, Vice Grips...}.
Getting the pin back lined up with the lift block was a challenge too...
until I discovered that the axel had 1) Tilted and/or 2) rolled forward.
One the drivers side, a bottle jack under the front of the differential
tilted it back in line enough for the pin head to drop into the right
hole. On the passenger side, I had to wrestle the wheel into rolling
forward about 1/2 inch to get things to line up. Spent more than an
hour working on getting the pin head into the hole in the lift block
with levers and ropes and impliments of distruction before I took a
break and thought about WHY it wasn't lined up anymore (since it HAD
been lined up before, and *I* didn't move it, something ELSE must
have ... hmmm, axle no longer constrained not to move ... hmmm, move
it back... hmmm...).
After that, it was all much easier to 'close up'.
BTW, the ride is now softer, but not quite as soft as I was hoping for.
At least it now sits level..
--
E. Michael Smith [email protected]
'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it.' - Goethe | 4 | trimmed_train |
9,840 |
I'll put in a vote for the latter. A bike
takes a lot of involvement, and I for one
do not want any accident to be my fault.
I remember one artical where the reviewer
tried the radio on the bike, not having had
one on any of his. He stated that the bike
tended to go faster when the music was
good. I agree, having felt like this my self,
and this was not a physical imparement, like
drinking, just the emotional lift from music.
First rule of ecology: There is never only one side-effect.
Ride Well-
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7,385 |
Actually, they're pretty worthless, if you want to evaluate players
with stats. RBIs and Runs Scored should be banned; all they do is
confuse victims of mediot brainwashing like yourself.
You
Uh, so?
You've just explained why we use OBP and SLG to evaluate players.
Precisely because the team that scores more runs wins the game.
Traditional baseball stats have gotten way too far away from methods
which enable fans to see who contributes to those runs scored - that's
where OBP, SLG, Runs Created, Linear Weights, etc. come in. These
simplify matters so that we can more easily measure a player's
offensive contribution to the team's runs scored.
Thank you for making our case. Have a nice day. | 2 | trimmed_train |
8,481 | If anyone has the current Moto Guzzi National Owners Club
address please e-mail it to me. Thanks in advance!
T.K. | 12 | trimmed_train |
1,222 | How long can the Leafs play short-handed and still be expected to
score? They did some fine penely-killing in the first (2 men down
for a couple of minutes at one point) but they just couldn't keep it
up. They spent virtually the entire game either short-handed or
just coming off a penelty -- as soon as they'd get re-grouped, they're
penalized again!
Sheesh -- like Gilmour said after the 1st -- you can't go calling
every little push an shove in a game like that. And if you're going
to, you have to do it for both teams.
Pearson (one of my four favorite Leafs) played like a bonehead -- I
saw him personally screw up at least 2 good scoring opportunities, and
then he got that *bonehead* 5-minute major high-sticking penalty.
Cullen has gotten stronger since his return from injury a hand-full of
games ago and he played a good game. If the other players on his line
can smarten up, that line should do okay. Clark's got to get tough --
he's got to intimidate and go for the net. Send Clark up the left
wing over the blue line a couple times... his patented wrist shot will
put some numbers on the board... and Pearson... heck, maybe he should
be benched.
I hate to repeat Grapes, but where the heck was Foligno? Zezel can't
do all the checking himself -- and get MacLlwain on the move... we
need some speed out there! Keep Potvin in net, he did okay
considering... although (like I said a couple weeks ago) Potvin
messed up in a couple games in the AHL playoffs last year -- he can
easily do it again.
My prediction last week was Toronto in 7 -- that the games DET wins
will be blow-outs and the game TOR wins will be close -- I still stand
by that.
Don't fret, Leafs fans, in order to win in 7, the other team has to
win 3! :-)
Burns is going to make some magic -- he'll mix up some lines. Match
the Wings line-per-line. He'll have his team checking hard, and he'll
never let them get out-numbered in their own end. The Leafs will win
Wednesday night... and will take 1 or their home games (probably the
first one). | 17 | trimmed_train |
461 |
You better check all the screws in that carb before you suck
one into a jug and munge a piston, or valve. I've seen it
happen before. | 12 | trimmed_train |
1,828 | BoSox 3 Royals 1
WP: Clemens (1-0)
LP: Appier (0-1) | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,841 |
We'll let you live, but just this once....
There's more to a real "storage" scope than just a long-persistence
phosphor. Actually, the phosphor ISN'T usually anything special at all;
what makes a storage tube work is a screen placed just *behind* the phosphor,
which becomes charged as the electron beam intially "writes" the trace.
With the trace now written to the screen, a separate low-level "flood"
electron gun keeps the image lit by exciting those areas of phosphor
which are next to the "written" areas on the storage screen. There are
some problems with this - the resolution is limited compared to a non-storage
tube, and the stored trace tends to "bloom" with time.
Of course, this is pretty much obsolete technology, done in by the current
digital scopes which use raster-scan displays and keep everything in a
frame-buffer memory anyways.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah, yes - from the same people who brought you that amazing new reading
program that's sweeping Eastern Europe: "Hooked on Consonants!" :-)
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5,862 |
I've been using the xrpc package for about a year now. I believe I got it from
export.
| 16 | trimmed_train |
9,613 | Chances are that this has been discussed to death already, and
if so could someone who has kept the discussion mail me or direct me
to an archive site. Basically,
I am just wondering if Slick 50 really does all it says that it does.
And also, is there any data to support the claim. Thanks for any info. | 4 | trimmed_train |
6,059 |
Do you have the X source code? Simply look in mit/clients/xwininfo/xwininfo.c and you
will find out exactly how to do it. :-) | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,110 | (Frank DeCenso)
How incredibly fucking stupid. Of *course* the text is referring to the city
itself (buildings, bricks, mortar, etc.) Otherwise it makes no sense to
refer to the future of Tyre as being reduced to nothing but a _place_ to spread
fishing nets. | 15 | trimmed_train |
8,303 | So-Called Cool-Hot boxes have been advetised for several years. I recall
Damark advertising them in a recent catalog. Problem with the units is they do
a sh***y job of keeping food cold/warm. The peliter devices used just don't
seem to have enough punch to keep up. If you want something hot, you need to
heat it up before you put it in the box, and end up hours later with food thats
only moderately warm. Same goes for cold items.
You'de probably be better off getting a good Coleman(tm) cooler and stocking
up on "blue ice" blocks.
Same as above. Not enough "punch" in them to keep/get things cold/hot.
Mike Behnke | Senior Tech/Advisor | Quid est illuidin aqua??
Fermi Nat Accel Lab | Equipment Suuport |
Batavia, Il. | Computing Div | PISTRIX!! PISTRIX!!
[email protected] | |
My opinions are my own, not of the lab. So, if you don't like them, call | 11 | trimmed_train |
415 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I know that this isn't the group for it, but since you brought it up,
does anyone have any idea why they haven't "bombed" the Waco cult?
Just curious.
.
/
Larry __/ _______/_
[email protected] / \
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---------------- FAHRVERGNUGEN FOREVER! --------------------
The fact that I need to explain it to you indicates
that you probably wouldn't understand anyway! | 4 | trimmed_train |
3,711 |
The tater that Jack Morris served to Griffey the Younger in his first
at-bat this year went 394 feet, if I remember right (I'll have to check
my scorecard at home). I think that's the longest so far in the Kingdome
through the first stand (five games) there. A weak showing, despite some
promising taterball candidates ... Ben McDonald, Rich DeLucia, and the
rest of the Mariner bullpen ... making appearances.
Anyone have the tape-measure value for Omar Vizquel's grand slam in the
Skydome? | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,326 | Don't know how to avoid the XOpenDisplay hang... but perhaps you could
use something else (such as zephyr, perhaps)? | 16 | trimmed_train |
3,635 |
Forgot to mention that the above mentioned Quantum is a SCSI
drive. | 5 | trimmed_train |
7,775 |
OK, just for grins:
- Kekule hypothesized a resonant structure for the aromatic benzene
ring after waking from a dream in which a snake was swallowing his tail.
- Archimedes formalized the principle of buoyancy while meditating in
his bath.
In neither case was there "no connection to prior theories, concepts, etc."
as you stipulated above. What there was was an intuitive leap beyond
the current way of thinking, to develop ideas which subsequently proved
to have predictive power (e.g., they stood the test of experimental
verification).
pardon my kibbutzing... | 19 | trimmed_train |
10,455 | Mark Singer brings up the Strawberry Incident, where he lost a homerun
and the fan caught it.
Yes, I think he should have done more to get out of the way. As much
as fans want to catch a ball, they really should be aware that winning
the game is more important. As a Dodger fan, he has to be aware that
this is the home stadium, and that entails helping the home team win
in any way possible. As soon as the ball was hit that far, his first
instinct should be to root for Darryl to catch it, not to try to catch
it himself, particularly when he is sitting that close.
I enjoy the attitude of the Wrigley fans, where they are against
visiting team home runs so much, they actually throw them back on the
field.
Now, this has nothing to do with whether Darryl could have caught it or
not. Sure, he probably screwed up, but the fan should realize his
first responsibility is to get out of the way and help the team win.
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9,145 |
This is posted on behalf of Peter Tattam. There is a North American
mirror with the beta test version of WinTrumpet for Winsock. Please
contact me or Peter for details.
Ashok | 18 | trimmed_train |
10,483 | $400included shipping
| 5 | trimmed_train |
6,786 |
INTENSIVE JAPANESE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THIS SUMMER
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The University of Pittsburgh is offering two intensive Japanese language
courses this summer. Both courses, Intensive Elementary Japanese and
Intensive Intermediate Japanese, are ten week, ten credit courses
each equivalent to one full year of Japanese language study. They begin
June 7 and end August 13. The courses meet five days per week, five hours
per day. There is a flat rate tuition charge of $1600 per course.
Fellowships available for science and engineering students. Contact
Steven Brener, Program Manager of the Japanese Science and Technology
Management Program, at the University of Pittsburgh at the number or
address below.
ALL INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY, THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.
#######################################################################
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JAPANESE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
The Japanese Science and Technology Management Program (JSTMP) is a new
program jointly developed by the University of Pittsbugh and Carnegie Mellon
University. Students and professionals in the engineering and scientific
communitites are encouraged to apply for classes commencing in June 1993 and
January 1994.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
The program intends to promote technology transfer between Japan and the
United States. It is also designed to let scientists, engineers, and managers
experience how the Japanese proceed with technological development. This is
facilitated by extended internships in Japanese research facilities and
laboratories that provide participants with the opportunity to develop
long-term professional relationships with their Japanese counterparts.
PROGRAM DESIGN
To fulfill the objectives of the program, participants will be required to
develop advanced language capability and a deep understanding of Japan and
its culture. Correspondingly, JSTMP consists of three major components:
1. TRAINING IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Several Japanese language courses will be offered, including intensive courses
designed to expedite language preparation for scientists and engineers in a
relatively short time.
2. EDUCATION IN JAPANESE BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CULTURE
A particular enphasis is placed on attaining a deep understanding of the
cultural and educational basis of Japanese management approaches in
manufacturing and information technology. Courses will be available in a
variety of departments throughout both universities including Anthropology,
Sociology, History, and Political Science. Moreover, seminars and colloquiums
will be conducted. Further, a field trip to Japanese manufacturing or
research facilities in the United States will be scheduled.
3. AN INTERNSHIP OR A STUDY MISSION IN JAPAN
Upon completion of their language and cultural training at PITT and CMU,
participants will have the opportunity to go to Japan and observe,
and participate in the management of technology. Internships in Japan
will generally run for one year; however, shorter ones are possible.
FELLOWSHIPS COVERING TUITION FOR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE COURSES, AS WELL AS
STIPENDS FOR LIVING EXPENSES ARE AVAILABLE.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION MATERIALS CONTACT
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University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260 FAX: (412) 268-8163
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Interested individuals, companies and institutions should respond by phone or
mail. Please do not inquire via e-mail.
Please note that this is directed at grads and professionals, however, advanced
undergrads will be considered. Further, funding is resticted to US citizens
and permanent residents of the US. | 19 | trimmed_train |
7,556 | Another objection occurred to me. There was a comment about how
supposedly there would only be one decode box, operated by the FBI.
This is flat ridiculous, and I don't believe it for a millisecond.
Even *if* they in fact only build one (or two or some other small
number) of these, that won't stop others from building one. Make
it work like two Clipper-chip phones, one listening to each side
of the recorded conversation. I'll have to have another look at
the specs posted so far, but offhand I didn't see anything that
would preclude this sort of thing..... | 7 | trimmed_train |
1,055 |
It only falls apart if you attempt to apply it. This doesn't mean that
an objective system can't exist. It just means that one cannot be
implemented. | 8 | trimmed_train |
2,473 | Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.misc: 5-Apr-93 Re: HELP INSTALL RAM
ON CEN.. by Jason Harvey Titus@farad
oh boy am i confused, I thought the entire point of the 72 pin simms was
that you could use diffrent size simms so you could avoid having to use
sets. all horror stories not withstanding. | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,149 | : I have 19 (2 MB worth!) uuencode'd GIF images contain charts outlining
: one of the many alternative Space Station designs being considered in
: Crystal City. [...]
I just posted the GIF files out for anonymous FTP on server ics.uci.edu.
You can retrieve them from:
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ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode02.gif
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ics.uci.edu:incoming/geodeA.gif
ics.uci.edu:incoming/geodeB.gif
The last two are scanned color photos; the others are scanned briefing
charts.
These will be deleted by the ics.uci.edu system manager in a few days,
so now's the time to grab them if you're interested. Sorry it took
me so long to get these out, but I was trying for the Ames server,
but it's out of space.
-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
[email protected] (713) 483-4368 | 10 | trimmed_train |
2,025 |
You are correct! The motherboard manufacturer where I usually buy boards says
that they will have this problem fixed in about two weeks... | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,419 | Well, here are the results of the Mathematica test which I posted to
this newsgroup. The "test" was the following command:
I was just curious how fast the plot command would be executed on
various Macintosh machines as well as other personal computers and
workstations. The results are posted below:
Machine System Math vers. # of trials time, min
PB 170 7.0.0 with 2.1 2 2:08
tuneup/8MB
RAM/5MB for
Mathematica
DEC 5000 Ultrix v4.2a 2.1 for 1 0:25
DEC RISC
IIsi 7.1/cache@96MB 1.2f33Enh. 1 4:30
25MHz/5MB RAM/
3MB for Math./
w/ 68882
C650 7.1/8MB RAM 2 0:32
Q800 8MB/Cache@384/ 1.2 1:01
4MB for Math.
Sparc SunOS4.1.3 0:14
Station 40MB RAM
SGI Iris/4D R3000 RISC <0:01
processor
version
Sparc SunOS4.1.2 2.1 0:26
Station2
IIsi 7.1 3:15
NeXT NeXTSTEP 2.1 1.2 2:38
Cube 68030 based/
w/ coprocessor
NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.0 1.2 5(ave) 0:52
Cube 68040/25MHz/
20 MB RAM
IIsi 17MB/8MB for 2.102 Enha 3:15
Math.
w/ 68882
NeXT 16MB RAM/ 1 0:37
25 MHz 040/
Workspace
Manager 2.1
Funny how the IIsi running at 25 MHz is slower than other equivalent
machines, lots slower in fact. Perhaps the version of Mathematica
makes a difference or the fact that not much RAM was allocated.
Another interesting thing is how fast the SGI did it. Wow.
Basically, though, I wouldn't draw any conclusions from this data. It
seems that Mathematica's speed is dependant on a lot of variables. I
was just curious how different machines would measure up.
Well, if you have any questions or if I forgot something, just drop me
a line at "[email protected]".
Chad | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,153 |
I think the original post was searching for existing implementations of
f.i. Gouroud-shading of triangles. This is fairly complex to do with plain
X. Simpler shading models are implemented already, f.i. in x3d (ask archie
where to get the latest version).
For Gouroud, a fast implementation will be possible utilizing some extension
only, either MIT-SHM to do the shade in an image and fast update the window
with it, or PEX/OpenGL which should be able to shade themselves. The portable
'vanilla X' way would be to shade in a normal XImage and use XPutImage(),
what would be good enough to do static things as f.i. fractal landscapes
or such stuff.
To speak about POVRay, the X previewer that comes with the original source
package is not that good, especially in speed, protocol-friendlyness and
ICCCM compliance. Have a look on x256q, my own preview code. It is on
141.76.1.11:pub/gfx/ray/misc/x256q/
The README states the points where it is better than xwindow.c from
POVRay 1.0
| 16 | trimmed_train |
1,109 | / hpcc01:rec.motorcycles / [email protected] (Cookson) / 2:02 pm Apr 2, 1993 /
All right people, this inane bug wibbling is just getting to much. I
propose we split off a new group.
rec.motorcycles.nutrition
to deal with the what to do with squashed bugs thread.
--
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What?!?!? Haven't you heard about cross-posting??!?!? Leave it intact and
simply ignore the basenotes and/or responses which have zero interest for
a being of your stature and discriminating taste. ;-)
Yesterday, while on Lonoak Rd, a wasp hit my faceshield with just
enough force to glue it between my eyes, but not enough to kill it as
the legs were frantically wiggling away and I found that rather, shall
we say, distracting. I flicked it off and wiped off the residue at the
next gas stop in Greenfield. :-) BTW, Lonoak Rd leads from #25 into
King City although we took Metz from KC into Greenfield.
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Graeme Harrison, Hewlett-Packard Co., Communications Components Division,
350 W Trimble Rd, San Jose, CA 95131 ([email protected]) DoD#649 | 12 | trimmed_train |
1,214 | Archive-name: rec-autos/part1
[most recent changes, 15 March 1993: addition of alt.autos.karting -- rpw]
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ignored altogether. Some topics are naturally inflammatory; it is
difficult if not impossible to have meaningful discussion of them. Some
of these topics include the following:
1) the 55mph speed limit in the US: Pro and Con
2) discussions about the morality and legality of the sale and usage of
radar detectors.
3) discussions over which radar detector is best.
4) discussions over what is a sports car (this is one reason why
rec.autos.sport is not a `sports car' group -- everyone would argue
about what constitutes a `sports car'.)
5) disputes over whether or not US Federal law protects the driver's
right to own and operate a radar detector
6) `Buy American' discussions
7) `clever' bumper stickers and personalized license plates
8) <insert nationality here> cars are terrible
9) What kind of car did Maxwell Smart drive?
[when I have a complete, accurate answer it will be added to the
commonly-asked questions article which is also posted monthly.
Until then, please don't waste bandwidth on this topic. -- rpw]
Please direct comments and suggestions about this article to:
[email protected] | 4 | trimmed_train |
9,497 |
What, a dog weighs 150lb maybe, at max? You can't handle it?
You have, I presume, thumbs? Grapple with it and tear it's head
off!
Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human,
we have *all* the advantages.
Regards, Charles
DoD0.001
RZ350 | 12 | trimmed_train |
3,289 |
(Deletion)
Since this drivel is also crossposted to alt.atheism, how about reading
the alt.atheism FAQ? The Josephus quote is concidered to be a fake even
by Christian historians, and the four gospels contradict each other in
important points. | 15 | trimmed_train |
4,114 | [...]
[...]
I was a cryptologic tech in the US Navy (CTRSN, nothing big). All 'spooks'
in the Navy are required to know the "gist" of "USSID 18", the Navy-way of
naming a particular Presidential "Executive Order". It outlines what spooks
can and can't do with respect to the privacy of US nationals.
The following information is (of course) UNCLASSIFIED.
The whole issue hangs about what you mean by "wiretap". If the signal can
be detected by "non-intrusive" means (like radio listening), then it may be
recorded and it may be "analyzed". "Analyzed" means that it may be either
deciphered and/or radio-location may be used to locate the transmitter.
The catch is this: Any and all record of the signal and its derivatives
may only be kept for a maximum of 90 days, after which they are destroyed
unless permission is obtained from the US Attorney General to keep them.
Didn't you ever wonder how Coast Guard cutters *find* those drug-runners
in all those tens of thousands of square miles of sea, even in the dark?!? | 7 | trimmed_train |
5,340 |
True, all you need to define is one statement that defined one
polarity, and all the other states are considered the other
polarity. Then again what is the meaning of nil, false or true :-) ?
Cheers,
Kent | 8 | trimmed_train |
4,658 | Has anyone connected a high-res, fixed frequency monitor to their PC?
I have a mitubishi monitor that does 1024x768 at 60hz, but won't do
any other resolutions. All the video cards designed for this sort of
thing are very expensive (>$400). Has anyone done it with an SVGA
card (I know it can be done, it's just a question of getting the card
at the right resolution and frequency)? I'd like to use a mono
(hercules) monitor as my dos/command line monitor, and switch to the
mitsu for Windows or X-windows (under Linux or 3BSD).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. E-mail, please.
Thanks,
| 3 | trimmed_train |
6,352 |
The problem is, your use of the word "objective" along with "values."
Both definitions three and four are inherently subjective, that is
they are particular to a given individual, or personal. You see,
what one person may see as worthwhile, another may see as worthless.
Again, your form of measurement in this sentence, that being of "worth"
is subjective.
When I find that my usage of a word is different than the usage of
that word given by another person, I try to find a standard against
which to judge that usage. In most cases, the dictionary is the standard
I use. Here is a definiton of objective:
objective ADJ. 1. Of or having to do with a material object as
distinguished from a mental concept. 2. Having actual existance.
3.a. Unenfluenced by emotion or personal prejudice. b. Based on
observable phenomenon.
By this definition, science does not have an objective worth, since the
phrase "objective worth" is an oxymoron. However you asked something a
little differently this time, you asked for an objective basis for a
notion. The fact that the use of science as an intellectual tool is
responsible for changes in our world (the changes are material, and
thus "objective") would provide an objective _basis_ for an argument.
However, the conclusion arrived at from that argument (that science is
"good") is subjective.
I think that the problem here is one of word usage. Take a little time
and read the definitions of these words: objective, subjective, worth,
value, morality, good, evil. I believe that if you think about the
meaning of them for a while, you will have to conclude that there is no
such thing as an objective morality.
| 15 | trimmed_train |
1,881 |
What's the difference between the F550i and the new F550iW? I'm
about to buy a Gateway system and was going to take the F550i
upgrade. Should I get the F550iW instead?
| 3 | trimmed_train |
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