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Yeah Valentine, how many rings does Clemens have?
Nothin' like good old fashioned Canadian logic...
BTW: The only good thing I can say about the Jay's rotation this year
is that it could have been worse. Stewart might have stayed healthy.
-- | 2 | trimmed_train |
8,249 |
But of course YOUR version of YOUR position has been included in the
Charley Challenges, so your claim above is a flat-out lie. Further,
only last week you claimed that you "might not" answer the Challenges
because you were turned off by "included text". So which is it, do
you want your context included in my articles or not? Come to think
of it, this contradiction has the makings of a new entry in the next
Challenges post.
By the way, I've kept every bloody thing that you've written related
to this thread, and will be only too pleased to re-post any of it to
back my position. You seem to have forgotten that you leave an
electronic paper trail on the net.
Now, now, let's not change the subject. Wouldn't it be best to finish
up the thread in question before you begin new ones? | 8 | trimmed_train |
4,217 | ]I wrote the slash two blues for a bit of humor which seems to be lacking
]in the MOA Owners News, when most of the stuff is "I rode the the first
]day, I saw that, I rode there the second day, I saw this"
I admit it was a surprise to find something interesting to read in
the most boring and worthless mag of all the ones I get.
]any body out there know were the sense if humor went in people?
]I though I still had mine, but I dunno...
I think most people see your intended humor, I do, I liked the article.
you seem to forget that you've stepped into the political arena. as well
intentioned as you may intend something you're walking through a china
store carrying that /2 on your head. everything you say or do says something
about how you would represent the membership on any given day. you don't
have to look far in american politics to see what a few light hearted
jokes about one segment of the population can do to someone in the limelight.
OBMoto: I did manage to squeak in a reference to a /2 ;-)
| 12 | trimmed_train |
5,125 |
Here are some selected excerpts of the invitation/registration form they
sent me. Retyped without permission, all typo's are mine.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Low-Cost Lunar Access: A one-day conference to explore the means and
benefits of a rejuvenated human lunar program.
Friday, May 7, 1993
Hyatt Regency - Crystal City Hotel
Arlington, VA
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Low-Cost Lunar Access conference will be a forum for the exchange of
ideas on how to initiate and structure an affordable human lunar program.
Inherent in such low-cost programs is the principle that they be
implemented rapidly and meet their objectives within a short time
frame.
[more deleted]
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Preliminary)
In the Washington Room:
9:00 - 9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks
Dr. Alan M. Lovelace
9:10 - 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address
Mr. Brian Dailey
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. U.S. Policy Outlook
John Pike, American Federation of Scientists
A discussion of the prospects for the introduction of a new low-cost
lunar initiative in view of the uncertain direction the space
program is taking.
10:00 - 12:00 noon Morning Plenary Sessions
Presentations on architectures, systems, and operational concepts.
Emphasis will be on mission approaches that produce significant
advancements beyond Apollo yet are judged to be affordable in the
present era of severely constrained budgets
In the Potomac Room
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Guest Speaker: Mr. John W. Young,
NASA Special Assistant and former astronaut
In the Washington Room
1:30 - 2:00 p.m. International Policy Outlook
Ian Pryke (invited)
ESA, Washington Office
The prevailing situation with respect to international space
commitments, with insights into preconditions for European
entry into new agreements, as would be required for a cooperative
lunar program.
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Plenary Sessions
Presentations on scientific objectives, benefits, and applications.
Emphasis will be placed on the scientific and technological value
of a lunar program and its timeliness.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
There is a registration form and the fee is US$75.00. The mail address
is
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Dept. No. 0018
Washington, DC 20073-0018
and the FAX No. is:
(202) 646-7508
or it says you can register on-site during the AIAA annual meeting
and on Friday morning, May 7, from 7:30-10:30
Sounds interesting. Too bad I can't go. | 10 | trimmed_train |
143 |
Watch out. Often when some scumbag steals the cover, that means
that they were or are looking to steal the bike. In my case, I
had a faded cover stolen off a bmw R100RS that was stashed in an
apartment carport and not visible from the street. They evidently
decided the beemer wasn't worth stealing, but did try the next night to
steal a Honda Hurricane 600 parked in the next apartment building.
A neighbor heard them wheeling it out and called the cops.
I know this is just setting myself up, but this is actually one of the
things that is really good about BMW bikes. From all accounts I've
heard practically no one steals BMWs. Probably it is similar for Moto
Guzzis and other relative "exotics" since there isn't a large demand
for parts and the bike would be much easier to track down. It seems
that the most stolen bikes are Harleys and 600cc Jap sport bikes.
| 12 | trimmed_train |
5,205 |
I remember this happening on the I-75 through Michigan and Ohio several
years back. A group of guys in an old beater would rear end a car,
usually out of state or Canadians. You stop and they smack you with a BB
bat. At least they didn't kill you for the sake of a car.
I think the cops put out decoys and this calmed down for a while. | 4 | trimmed_train |
7,959 |
Are any of the inputs to the chip coming from TTL? Standby-drain specs
for CMOS chips typically apply only if inputs are pulled all the way down
to zero or all the way up to Vcc. TTL isn't good at doing the former and
it won't do the latter at all without help from pullup resistors. This
sort of thing can easily multiply power consumption by a considerable
factor, because the CMOS transistors that are supposed to be OFF aren't
all the way hard OFF. | 11 | trimmed_train |
10,975 | That is an idea.. The most efficient moon habitat..
also the idea of how to get the people off the moon once the prize was won..
Also the idea of how to rescue someone who is "dying" on the moon.
Maybe have a area where they can all "see" each other, and can help each other
if something happens..
I liek the idea of one prize for the first moon landing and return, by a
non-governmental body..
Also the idea of then having a moon habitat race..
I know we need to do somthing to get people involved..
Eccentric millionaire/billionaire would be nice.. We see how old Ross feels
about it.. After all it would be a great promotional thing and a way to show he
does care about commericalization and the people.. Will try to broach the
subject to him..
Moonbase on the cheap is a good idea.. NASA and friends seem to take to much
time and give us to expensive stuff that of late does not work (hubble and
such). Basically what is the difference between a $1mil peice of junk and a
multi $1mil piece of junk.. I know junk.. | 10 | trimmed_train |
6,752 |
I think the is BZ gas, not CS or CN. BZ gas exposure results in projectile
vomiting, loss of essentially all muscle control, inability to concentrate
or think rationally and fatal reactions in a significant fraction of
the population. For that reason its use is limited to military
applications. | 9 | trimmed_train |
6,736 | We are working on gas-solid adsorption air-con system for auto applications.
In this kind of system, the energy for regenerating the adsorbent is from
the exhaust gas. Anyone interested in this mail email me or follow up this
thread, we may have a discussion on prospects of this technology.
Max
| 4 | trimmed_train |
7,498 |
For the first Move incident (no bomb, several members killed in
gunfire, circa 1978) the mayor was the very white Frank Rizzo.
For the second (bomb included) the mayor was Wilson Goode, who
is indeed black. | 9 | trimmed_train |
1,086 |
Sometimes a bad choke pull-off diaphram will cause a car to fast idle. The
pull-off, which is vacuum actuated, provides a necessary pull in non-cold
weather conditions to get the idle off the the fast idle cam. Locate the
fast idle cam on your vehicle and see if you can rotate it to produce a
normal idle. If so, locate the diaphram and test it. If you can't apply
suction (via a good piece of rubber vacuum hose) with your mouth that will
cause the diaphram to retract, then it's bad and should be replaced. | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,289 | I am not sure if this is the proper group to post this to but here goes anyway.
About five years ago my mother was diagnosed with having cancer in the lymph nodes
under one of her arms. After the doctors removed the cancerous area she had full movement
of her arm with only slight aching under her arm when she moved it. Over the course of
the next two years the aching got more severe and her complaining to the doctors produced
the explanation that it was scar tissue causing the pain. At this time her doctor
suggested that some physiotherapy should be employed to break up the scar tissue.
While attending one of her therapy sessions, while her arm was being
manipulated, some damage occured (nerve?) which caused the level of pain to permanently
increase severly (controlled by Tylenol 3s) and some loss of use of the arm (
palsied wrist and almost no outward lateral movement). With great persistence on her part
the doctors looked further into the issue and discovered that not all of the cancer had
been removed and another tumor had grown under the arm. This was removed also but the
pain in the arm has not decreased. The doctors are not sure exactly why the pain is
persisting but feel some sort of nerve damage has occured and they have employed Tylenol 3
and soon Morphine to relieve the pain. She has tried acupuncture by this only provides
minor reductions in pain and is only short term.
My questions are:
Has anyone has heard of similar cases and what, if anything, was done to reduce the
levels of pain?
Are their methods to block nerves so that the pain can be reduced?
Are their methods to restore nerves so that loss of arm function can be restored?
Any general suggestions on pain reduction would be greatly appreciated.
Please respond by email because I do not always get chance to read this group.
If anyone knows of some literature that may be useful to this case or another newsgroup
that I should be posting this to it would also be appreciated.
| 19 | trimmed_train |
3,322 |
No, no, no! Bill, please, don't nominate ANYone who pronounces it
"noo-q-lar"! Jimmy always used to drive everyone nuts when he did that!
And don't let Amy anywhere near! And...
{Emily Litella voice}
...never mind.
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Paul Havemann (Internet: [email protected]) | 13 | trimmed_train |
673 |
Nope. Here in Northern California, a newspaper recently did a survey,
asking if people favored stricter gun controls. A full 40% said no.
Here, in one of the most Liberal (it wasn't always a swear word :( areas
of the country, nearly half the people don't want additional controls, let
alone revocation of RKBA...
Misguided dolt though he may be (though, I still maintain, less dangerous
than Bush), Clinton does not publicly support revoking the second amendment.
Well, I'll help MY neighbors...
Violent solutions are passe'? I take it you propose disarming the police,
then?
Please don't mention RKBA in the same breath as the KKK. RKBA is about
being able to defend yourself and others, not about killing the innocent.
Actually, your mention of the KKK is rather funny, considering that the
first gun control law in the US were created specifically to disarm black
people... | 9 | trimmed_train |
5,130 | ...
I seriously doubt that any practical implementation of this proposal would
place the onus on the individual to register keys. Realistically, the
Clipper-Chip will probably emit an ID code which will serve as the identifier
when requesting the key fragments. The chip manufacturer would register
this identifier code vs. key combination when the chip is made and the
(uninitiated) end-user can therefore remain completely outside the loop.
The chip could be used in a cellular phone, a modem, or other device --
it really makes no difference: When the authorities detect the use of this
encryption standard during surveillance, they would then capture the ID
and apply for the key in order to decrypt the data. | 7 | trimmed_train |
2,721 |
Brad,
For an antenna, gain is synonymous with directionality. The only way
to get gain (>1) out of an antenna is to design in directionality. The
"gain" of an antenna is defined as the signal increase (for a preferred
direction) over the signal obtained by an isotropic antenna. | 11 | trimmed_train |
26 |
Actually, fossil fuel plants run hotter than the usual
boiling-water reactor nuclear plants. (There's a gripe in the industry
that nuclear power uses 1900 vintage steam technology). So it's
more important in nuclear plants to get the cold end of the system
as cold as possible. Hence big cooling towers.
Oil and gas fired steam plants also have condensers, but they
usually are sized to get the steam back into hot water, not most of the
way down to ambient. Some plants do cool the condensers with water,
rather than air; as one Canadian official, asked about "thermal
pollution" de-icing a river, said, "Up here, we view heat as a resource".
Everybody runs closed-cycle boilers. The water used is
purified of solids, which otherwise crud up the boiler plumbing when
the water boils. Purifying water for boiler use is a bigger job than
cooling it, so the boiler water is recycled. | 11 | trimmed_train |
4,215 | Does anybody know of any information regarding the implementaion of total
quality management, quality control, quality assurance in the delivery of
health care service. I would appreciate any information. If there is enough
interest, I will post the responses.
Thank You
Abhin Singla MS BioE, MBA, MD
President AC Medcomp Inc
| 19 | trimmed_train |
2,038 | Hello,
I'm investigating the purchase of an Object Oriented Application Framework. I have
come across a few that look good:
Zapp 1.1 from Inmark
Zinc 3.5 from Zinc software
C++/Views from Liant
Win++ from Blaise
Some considerations I'm using:
Being new to Windows programming (I'm from the UNIX/X world), the quality and
intuitivness of the abstraction that these class libraries provide is very
important. However, since I'm not adverse to learning the internals of Windows
programming, the new programming methodology should be closely aligned with
the native one. I don't believe arbitrary levels of abstraction, just for the
sake of changing the API, are valuable.
Since we will be developing for the 32bit Windows NT system the
memory management issues and issues particular to the Windows 3.1 API are less
important.
We will probably buy another C++ class library (something like Tools.h++ or Booch
components from Rational) to handle data structures and other miscellaneous stuff
(allocators etc...). So those features are not that important for this toolkit to have.
The two that I have narrowed it down to are ZApp and Zinc, they seem to be the two
toolkits that have received the most attention from the media. I was wondering if
anyone had any first-hand experience with any of these toolkits (especially ZApp and Zinc).
A couple of observations about these toolkits that seem particularly noteworthy are:
ZApp
----
Seems to have the most extensive coverage of Windows functionality and
also includes some other miscellaneous useful classes.
Has new fancy 3D-style controls available, and support for custom controls.
Has a Windows NT version (Essential)
Redirectable graphics display/output architecture (useful for printing)
Sizer class for automatically managing control layout after resize.
Seems to be the newcomer, this could be an advantage in designing a better system.
Zinc
----
Has a platform independent resource strategy. (Not too important for me right now)
Comes with a interface builder tool
Has a Windows NT version (Essential)
Seems to have been around longer (more mature), but grew up out of a DOS version.
Had a better demo :-)
Both have source code availability options
Both are lacking OLE support
Neither seem to have any particular support for multimedia type stuff
Any thoughts anyone has on this would be much appreciated,
Thanks,
Brett Harper
| 18 | trimmed_train |
412 |
It always amazes me how quick people are to blame whatever
administration is current for things they couldn't possibly have
initiated. This chip had to take *years* to develop, yet already
we're claiming that the Clinton administration sneaked it in on us.
Bullshit. The *Bush* administration and the career Gestapo were
responsible for this horror, and the careerists presented it to the
new presidency as a fait accompli. That doesn't excuse Clinton and
Gore from criticism for being so stupid as to go for it, but let's lay
the body at the proper door to start with. | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,298 |
You didn't mention whether or not cost is an issue. Where
exactly are you running 100MHz?? THe digital side? TTL?
ECL? We run 200MHz and 100MHz all over our IC test equipment
all day long in the ECL domain, and we use DIP's along
with PLCC's, 25mil and 20mil pitch 256pin QFP's to name
a few. I don't see a problem in packaging as long
as you adhere to sound engineering practices.
A good source of information is Motorola's MECL System Design
Handbook. The latest ed. is dated 2/88. That is considered
to be one of the *bibles* in high-speed design.
The very fact that you need to build a test fixture means
you're most likely going to need a socket. It in itself
has far more inductance per pin than the package you are
testing, not to mention any impedance discontinuities. I
don't see the big concern over the packaging because it
probably isn't going to make that much difference
If you're trying to get TTL to run at 100MHz, have fun...
TTL was never designed to run in a 100MHz environment.
:-(
aaron | 11 | trimmed_train |
10,911 |
I think you are vastly oversimplifying things. We know that early Christians
suffered totures because of their witness to Christ. For example:
ACT 5:40 His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in and had
them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of
Jesus, and let them go.
ACT 5:41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been
counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.
It appears that the Jewish rulers of that time had a particular aversion
to even hearing Jesus's name.
ACT 5:28 "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name," he said.
"Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are
determined to make us guilty of this man's blood."
Finally, the first apostle's death, James of Zebedee was certainly
not by Rome's hand any more than the first martyr Stephen.
The problem was that if one believed in the Resurrection, then one
must believe in Jesus as truly being the Son of God and what He
stood for and preached during His ministry on Earth. That would
have been extremely difficult for some people, especially those
that had plotted to kill Him.
| 0 | trimmed_train |
8,668 |
A "fuel injector cleaning" at the dealer is probably little more than
them opening your gas tank, dumping in a bottle of fuel injector cleaner,
and sending you on your merry way $59 poorer. Go to KMart and buy the
cleaner yourself for $1.29.
Just because you dealer sez you need it, don't mean it's necessarily so.
Be suspicious. | 4 | trimmed_train |
7,078 |
I spoke with the author of MacWireFrame earlier today. The cost is $299, but there
are no license royalties. His name is Eric Johnson in Sacramento, CA phone
916/737-1550. He doesn't have email. Very nice guy... very knowledgeable about
graphics. Seems like he may have a decent package. It's an Object Pascal Framework
that supposedly has a fairly complete set of geometry creation classes.
I'm going to check it out and see if it's got what I need for my CAD package.
I also found another package: 3D Graphic Tools by Micro System Options in Seattle.
The number is: 206/868-5418, also no email. The package is strong at ray tracing,
I'm not too sure about its geometry creation tools. I also need to look into this
package some more. I also spoke with the author, Mark Owens, another nice
guy that seems to know his business. The price is $249, no royalties. | 1 | trimmed_train |
9,285 |
Yow - get some sleep Brad! You mean that people (i.e. life-is-cheap
terrorists & drug-dealing warlords) who want to communicate in privacy will
prefer to break into my house, kill or kidnap me, and steal my telephone,
rather than:
- Spending $15 at K-mart to buy a new phone.
- Purchasing a load of phones from the black market / flea market /
super market.
- Talking (*gasp*) face-to-face.
- Walking down to any one of millions of pay phones.
- Using messengers.
- Going to excruciating effort to think of code phrases like "I had
a blowout on the freeway today".
Look, this system does nothing to threaten folks who _know_ they're
being wiretapped, since it's trivial to find other avenues of communication;
they'd have no reason to resort to extreme measures, since a plethora of
simple alternatives are easily available to them.
Among all the legitimate reasons to damn the proposed system, I don't
think we need to worry about terrorist commie drug warlord assasin thugs
murdering our families, kicking the dog and leaving the toilet seat up just
to steal a $15 telephone. The system is more like urine testing: it
catches some small number of very stupid people, has no effect on the "bad
guys" with at least three neurons working in unison who wish to subvert it,
and penalizes most heavily those who have no cause to be subject to it. | 7 | trimmed_train |
46 | Is there a Wyse 60 Terminal Emulator or a comms toolbox kit available on the
net somewhere?
Thanks. | 14 | trimmed_train |
592 |
Yeah, I loved the vent windows on my 82 Escort (hell, the only thing I liked
about the car). One of the things I'd like to see brought back. Does
anyone know if they're an option on the new Escorts? | 4 | trimmed_train |
9,579 | KS> From: [email protected] (Keith Stewart)
KS>My wife has become interested through an acquaintance in Post-Polio Syndrome
KS>This apparently is not recognised in New Zealand and different symptons ( eg
KS>chest complaints) are treated separately. Does anone have any information
I'm not sure that this condition is "recognised" anywhere (in the
sense of a disease with diagnostic criteria, clear boundaries
between it and other diseases, unique pathologic or physiologic
features, etc), but here goes with what many neurologists agree on.
Post-polio syndrome patients have evidence of motor neuron disease
by clinical examination, EMG, and muscle biopsy. The abnormalities
are mostly chronic (due to old polio) but there is evidence of
ongoing deterioration. Clinically, the patients complain of
declining strength and endurance with everyday motor tasks.
Musculoskeletal pain is a nearly universal feature that doubtless
contributes to the impaired performance. The examination shows
muscle weakness and atrophy. The EMG shows evidence of old
denervation with reinnervation (giant and long-duration motor unit
action potentials) *and* evidence of active denervation
(fibrillation potentials). The biopsy also shows old denervation
with reinnervation (fiber-type grouping) *and* evidence of active
denervation (small, angulated fibers with dense oxidative enzyme
staining) - but curiously, little or no group atrophy.
Post-polio patients do not have ALS. In ALS, there is clinically
evident deterioration from one month to the next. In post-polio,
the patients are remarkably stable in objective findings from one
year to the next. Of course, there are patients who had polio
before who develop genuine ALS, but ALS is no more common among
polio survivors than among people who never had polio.
The cause of post-polio syndrome is unknown. There is little
evidence that post-polio patients have active polio virus or
destructive immunologic response to virus antigen.
There is no solid evidence that patients with post-polio have
anything different happening to the motor unit (anterior horn cells,
motor axons, neuromuscular junctions, and muscle fibers) than
patients with old polio who are not complaining of deterioration.
Both groups can have the same EMG and biopsy findings. The reason
for these "acute" changes in a "chronic" disease (old polio) is
unknown. Possibly spinal motor neurons (that have reinnervated huge
numbers of muscle fibers) start shedding the load after several
years.
There are a couple of clinical features that distinguish post-polio
syndrome patients from patients with old polio who deny
deterioration. The PPS patients are more likely to have had severe
polio. The PPS patients are *much* more likely to complain of pain.
They also tend to score higher on depression scales of
neuropsychologic tests.
My take on this (I'm sure some will disagree): after recovery from
severe polio there can be abnormal loading on muscles, tendons,
ligaments, bones, and joints, that leads to inflammatory and/or
degenerative conditions affecting these structures. The increasing
pain, superimposed on the chronic (but unchanging) weakness, leads
to progressive impairment of motor performance and ADL. I am
perhaps biased by personal experience of having never seen a PPS
patient who was not limited in some way by pain. I do not believe
that PPS patients have more rapid deterioration of motor units than
non-PPS patients (i.e., those with old polio of similar severity but
without PPS complaints). | 19 | trimmed_train |
7,401 | >>
>> Environment:
>> mach/arch : sparc/sun4 (IPX)
>> OS : SunOS 4.1.3
>> X11 : X11R5 (patchlevel 22)
>> Motif : 1.2.2
>>
>> I bring up X server using 'startx' and /usr/bin/X11/Xsun. The following sequence
>> of actions crashes the X server (SIGPIPE, errno=32, 'xinit' reports that connexion
>> to X server lost):
>
>I had this problem as well - It had to do with the CG6 graphics card that
>comes with the IPX. What fixed the problem for me was to apply the "sunGX.uu"
>that was part of Patch #7. Patch #1 also used this file so perhaps you
>didn't apply the one that came with Patch #7.
>
>jeff
>-
>Jeff W. Boote <[email protected]> *********************************
>Scientific Computing Division * There is nothing good or bad *
>National Center for Atmospheric Research * but thinking makes it so. *
>Boulder * Hamlet *
> *********************************
Thanx, Jeff. You're a lifesaver. I imported the new sun GX emulator that came in
with patch #7. The problem has since disappeared.
Thanx to der (schoene) Mouse for his help too.
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5,681 | Try this:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>
Display *dpy;
int screen;
XColor *xclrs,*xclrp;
XID cmap;
int cells,i,j,red,green,blue,got;
main()
{
dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
screen = DefaultScreen(dpy);
cells = DisplayCells(dpy,screen);
cmap = XCreateColormap(dpy,RootWindow(dpy,screen),DefaultVisual(dpy,screen),1);
xclrs = (XColor *)malloc(cells * sizeof(*xclrs));
xclrp = xclrs;
for (i=0; i<cells; i++) { xclrp->pixel = i; xclrp->flags = 7; xclrp++; };
XQueryColors(dpy,DefaultColormap(dpy,screen),xclrs,cells);
XStoreColors(dpy,cmap,xclrs,cells);
XInstallColormap(dpy,cmap);
got = 1;
while(got) {
xclrp = xclrs;
got = 0;
for(i=0; i<cells; i++) {
if(xclrp->red < 65000) {xclrp->red += 256; got = 1;};
if(xclrp->green < 65000) {xclrp->green +=256; got=1;};
if(xclrp->blue < 65000) {xclrp->blue +=256; got=1;};
xclrp ++;
}
XStoreColors(dpy,cmap,xclrs,cells);
/* XInstallColormap(dpy,cmap); */
}
got = 1;
while(got) {
xclrp = xclrs;
got = 0;
for(i=0; i<cells; i++) {
if(xclrp->red > 256) {xclrp->red -= 256; got = 1;};
if(xclrp->green > 256) {xclrp->green -=256; got=1;};
if(xclrp->blue > 256) {xclrp->blue -=256; got=1;};
xclrp ++;
}
XStoreColors(dpy,cmap,xclrs,cells);
/* XInstallColormap(dpy,cmap); */
}
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
It will work on any PseudoColor XServer. (hopefully :)
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9,220 |
Ideologies also split, giving more to disagree upon, and may also lead
to intolerance. So do you also oppose all ideologies?
I don't think your argument is an argument against religion at all, but
just points out the weaknesses of human nature.
I would like a reference if you have got one, for this is news to me.
One must approach the Qur'an with intelligence. Any thinking approach
to the Qur'an cannot but interpret the above verse and others like it
that women and men are spiritual equals.
I think that the above verse does clearly imply that women have
souls. Does it make any sense for something without a soul to be
forgiven? Or to have a great reward (understood to be in the
after-life)? I think the usual answer would be no -- in which case, the
part saying "For them has God prepared forgiveness and a great reward"
says they have souls.
(If it makes sense to say that things without souls can be forgiven, then
I have no idea _what_ a soul is.)
As for your saying that the quote above may not be given a high priority
in all interpretations, any thinking approach to the Qur'an has to give
all verses of the Qur'an equal priority. That is because, according to
Muslim belief, the _whole_ Qur'an is the revelation of God -- in fact,
denying the truth of any part of the Qur'an is sufficient to be
considered a disbeliever in Islam.
Look, any approach to the Qur'an must be done with intelligence and
thought. It is in this fashion that one can try to understand the
Quran's message. In a book of finite length, it cannot explicitly
answer every question you want to put to it, but through its teachings
it can guide you. I think, however, that women are the spiritual equals
of men is clearly and unambiguously implied in the above verse, and that
since women can clearly be "forgiven" and "rewarded" they _must_ have
souls (from the above verse).
Let's try to understand what the Qur'an is trying to teach, rather than
try to see how many ways it can be misinterpreted by ignoring this
passage or that passage. The misinterpretations of the Qur'an based on
ignoring this verse or that verse are infinite, but the interpretations
fully consistent are more limited. Let's try to discuss these
interpretations consistent with the text rather than how people can
ignore this bit or that bit, for that is just showing how people can try
to twist Islam for their own ends -- something I do not deny -- but
provides no reflection on the true teachings of Islam whatsoever. | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,312 | DROPLET VOL 1, No 11, Part 3
D R O P L E T
From The Vast Ocean Of The Miraculous Qur'an
Translations from the Arabic and Turkish Writings of
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, The Risale-i Noor
VOL 1, No 11, Part 3
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NINETEENTH LETTER
MU'JIZAT-I AHMEDIYE RISALESI
A TREATISE ON THE MIRACLES OF MUHAMMED SAW, Part 3
(continued from Droplet Vol 1, No 11, Part 2)
THIRD SIGN: The miracles of Muhammad (SAW)
are extremely varied. Because his messengership is
universal, he has been distinguished by miracles that
relate to almost all species of creation.
Just as the supreme aide of a renowned ruler, arriving
with many gifts in a city where various people live, will be
welcomed by a representative of each people who
acclaims him and bids him welcome in his own language
so, too, when the supreme messenger of the Monarch of
Pre- and Post-Eternity (Ezel and Ebed Sultani) honored the
universe by coming as an envoy to the inhabitants of the
earth, and brought with him the light of truth and spiritual
gifts sent by the Creator of the universe and derived from
the realities of the whole universe, each species of
creation -from water, rocks, trees, animals and human
beings to the moon, sun and stars- welcomed him and
acclaimed his prophethood, each in its own language, and
each bearing one of his miracles.
Now it would require a voluminous work to mention all
his miracles. As the punctilious scholars have written
many volumes concerning the proofs of His prophethood,
here we will briefly point out only the general category
into which fall fhe miracles that are definite and accepted
as accurate reports.
The evidences of the prophethood of Muhammad
(SAW) fall into two main categories:
The first is called irhasat and includes the paranormal
events that happened at the time of his birth, or before his
declaration of prophethood.
The second group pertains to all the remaining evidences
of the prophethood, and contains two subdivisions:
1) Those wonders that were manifested after
his departure from this world in order to confirm his
prophethood, and
2) Those that he exhibited during the era
of his prophethood. The latter has also two parts:
2.1) The evidences of his prophethood that became manifest
in his own personality, his inner and outer being, his moral
conduct and perfection, and
2.2) The miracles that: related to substantial matters.
The last part again has two branches:
2.2.1) Those concerning the Qur'an and spirituality, and
2.2.2) Those relating to matter and creation. This last
branch is again divided into two categories:
2.2.2.1) The first involves the paranormal happenings
that occured during his mission either to break the
stubbornness of the unbelievers, or to augment the
faith of the belivers. This category has twenty different
sorts, such as the splitting of the moon, the flowing of
water from the fingers, the satisfying of large numbers with
a little food, and the speaking of trees, rocks and animals
Each of these sons has also many instances, and thus
has, in meaning, the strength of confirmation by
consensus.
2.2.2.2) As for the second category, this
includes events lying in the future that occured as he had
predicted upon Allah (SWT)'s instructions. Now starting
from the last category, we will summarize a list of them.(1)
(1) Unfonunately, I could not write as I had intended
without choice, I wrote as my head dictated, and I could
not completely conform to the order of this classification.
| 15 | trimmed_train |
2,294 | If I have one thing to say about "No Fault" it would be
"It isn't" | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,909 |
I think those are to make the lines more visible to airplanes and
helicopters... cheaper than blinking red lights.
'course I could be wrong. | 11 | trimmed_train |
122 |
Sure. I can give is a shot...
You need to get the 30-pin simms.
If you mean in a "newer, more powerful" Mac system then the answer
is no. Apple has stated that all new Macs will use the 72-pin SIMMs and
no longer use the 30-pin SIMMs. | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,238 |
I am sure that Mike is correct on this point. I am also pretty sure that
administering "truth serum" would be ruled a violation of your right
not to incriminate yourself. But, what is the salient difference?
Both drawing blood and injecting "truth serum" incapacitate you for
a while, but do no permanent damage. Is it simply that we have come to
view one as acceptable, while the other is viewed as a fundamental
violation of one's rights? If this is the case, how do we expand the
protections of the 5th amendment to incorporate new technologies without
the results being a hodgepodge of different judges personal opinions? | 7 | trimmed_train |
272 | GB> From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
GB> >(I am excepting migraine, which is arguably neurologic).
GB> I hope you meant "inarguably".
Given the choice, I would rather argue <g>.
No arguments about migranous aura; in fact, current best evidence is
that aura is intrinsicially neuronal (a la spreading depression of
Leao) rather than vascular (something causing vasoconstriction and
secondary neuronal ischemia).
Migraine without aura, however, is a fuzzier issue. There do not
seem to be objectively measurable changes in brain function. The
Copenhagen mafia (Lauritzen, Olesen, et al) have done local CBF
studies on migraine without aura, and (unlike migraine with aura,
but like tension-type) they found no changes in LCBF.
From one (absurd) perspective, *all* pain is neurologic, because in
the absence of a nervous system, there would not be pain. From
another (tautologic) perspective, any disease is in the domain of
the specialty that treats it. Neurologists treat headache,
therefore (at least in the USA) headache is neurologic.
Whether neurologic or not, nobody would disagree that disabling
headaches are common. Perhaps my fee-for-service neurologic
colleagues, scrounging for cases, want all the headache patients
they can get. Working on a salary, however, I would rather not fill
my office with patients holding their heads in pain. | 19 | trimmed_train |
8,228 | Hi,
I'd like to subscribe to Leadership Magazine but wonder if there is one on
disk instead of on paper. Having it on disk would save me retyping
illustrations, etc into a word processor. It's just cut and paste.
If there are other good Christian magazines like Leadership on disk media,
I'd appreciate any info. | 0 | trimmed_train |
10,759 | Hi, I was looking for some helpful advice.
I'm a university student with about $7000 to spend, and I'm looking for a
used car. Does anyone have any useful advice they could offer to a first-
time buyer? I'm not looking for anything sporty, just something functional
and reliable (less maintenance costs). Anybody have any ideas on what models
might suit me?
Thanks | 4 | trimmed_train |
8,986 |
I agree with you.
| 1 | trimmed_train |
2,247 | No, he's not nuts, WIP is second to none THE sports station. They
don't have Tony Bruno working ESPN radio and Al Morganti doing Friday
Night Hockey because they suck. I live in Richmond Va, but I visit
Phila often, and on the way I get WTEM Washington) and WIP. I hear
the FAN at night wherever I go (the signal used to be WNBC, when they
played golden oldies) because you can't avoid it. Of those three,
WIP has the best hosts hands down. Chuck Cooperstein isn't a homer,
and neither is Jody Mac. WTEM is too generic to be placed in the
catergory. In fact if you have heard WTEM and the FAN you notice the
theme music is identical...same ownership?? I think so! WIP is
totally original. Their hosts actually have a personality (this is a
knock at TEM (the TEAM) not the FAN because Mike and the Mad Dog and
Sommers are good) I mean comparing the morning guys in Philadelphia
to the ones in Washington is a total joke. Anyway, I like the FAN
and WIP, but I think the edge goes to 'IP.
When I get back from Philly, I go into withdraw cause Richmond has
nada except the national sports line (and those guys are totally
clueless)
I was really mad when WCAU was cancelled because they had Steve
Fredericks doing sports phone after the Phillies games. (WCAU is
another strong station, now it's an oldies station, but they still
have the Phillies) I started listening to the FAN because I heard he
went there. I finally heard him last summer and he wasn't the same
guy. Those NY fans got to him. I was glad to hear him back in
Philly when I went to see a few Eagles games.
I will admit, I am die hard EAGLES fan and WIP is basically an
Eagles station 365 days a year. BUT, I bet you the Phillies are in
control right now.
About the knock on G. Cobb, I like him. He knows the Eagles like a
book. I remember the weekend before they went to play San Fran,
(when everyone thought the Eagles would be blown away) Cobb said that
the Eagles usually play their best when no one believe they can win.
Well they were inches shy of pulling the victory. | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,194 |
|>
|> Final Solution for the Gaza ghetto ?
|> ------------------------------------
|>
|> While Israeli Jews fete the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto, they
|> repress by violent means the uprising of the Gaza ghetto and
|> attempt to starve the Gazans.
|>
|> [...]
|>
|> The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were fighting to keep themselves and
|> their families from being sent to Nazi gas chambers. Groups like Hamas
|> and the Islamic Jihad fight with the expressed purpose of driving all
|> Jews into the sea. Perhaps, we should persuade Jewish people to help
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> these wnderful "freedom fighters" attain this ultimate goal.
|>
|> Maybe the "freedom fighters" will choose to spare the co-operative Jews.
|> Is that what you are counting on, Elias - the pity of murderers.
|>
|> You say your mother was Jewish. How ashamed she must be of her son. I
|> am sorry, Mrs. Davidsson.
|>
|> Harry.
O.K., its my turn:
DRIVING THE JEWS INTO THE SEA ?!
I am sick and tired of this 'DRIVING THE JEWS INTO THE SEA' sentance attributed
to Islamic movements and the PLO; it simply can't be proven as part of their
plan !
(Pro Israeli activists repeat it like parrots without checking its authenticity
since it was coined by Bnai Brith)
What Hamas and Islamic Jihad believe in, as far as I can get from the Arab media,
is an Islamic state that protects the rights of all its inhabitants under Koranic
Law. This would be a reversal of the 1948 situation in which the Jews in
Palestine took control of the land and its (mostly Muslim) inhabitants.
However, whoever committed crimes against humanity (torture, blowing up their
homes, murders,...) must be treated and tried as a war criminal. The political
thought of these movements shows that a freedom of choice will be given to the
Jews in living under the new law or leaving to the destintion of their choice.
As for the PLO, I am at a loss to explain what is going inside Arafat's mind.
Although their political thinking seems far fetched with Israel acting as a true
super-power in the region, the Islamic movements are using the same weapon the
Jews used to establish their state : Religion.
Ahmed.
Forget the syntax, Ahmed, and focus on the semnatics. The fact is that
the PLO does not recognize Israel's right to exist. This is perfectly
obvious from the PLO covenant (Cairo, 1968). The covenant calls for
the destruction of the "Zionist entity". As far as I know the
Israel-destruction clauses still exist in the document which specifies
the purpose for the existence of the PLO. If you would like, I can
post the relevant caluses.
Now the Hamas ideal is far more radical, it seems. I know it has been
posted here several times, and while I do not have a copy of it, I am
sure that someone does and he (or she, of course) would be more than
happy to repost it.
Regardless of phrasing, groups like Hamas, and the Hezbollah, and
even the newly moderate and politically-correct PLO, have at the very
heart of their ideologies the need for the destrcution of Israel.
It just seems to me that Mr. Davidsson's suggestion that Jews support
people envolved in these organizations is not a particularly appealing
one to many Jews. | 6 | trimmed_train |
9,306 |
The magnet trick will work. Be careful when you apply the white tape to the
rubber carriage roller, it tells the scanner where the edge is and it can come
off.
Jim
| 14 | trimmed_train |
4,937 | On the other side of the fence, I owned a Bieffe off-road helmet.
Took what I would consider a minor fall, and had visible damage
to the shell. Yes, the helmet did its job. But the damage/impact
ratio was scary. I own Bell Moto-5 now, have taken impacts on
order of twice the Bieffe impact (we do this frequently in MX),
and don't even have a scratch on it after two seasons. My
recommendation is to buy _high_ quality gear. YMMV. | 12 | trimmed_train |
6,147 | Oops! I came across this file from last year. Thought you might
enjoy some of these thoughts. The predictions were made on the
date indicated. They are largely out of order.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
June 11, 1992
[email protected] (ME!)
You all know how things turned out. The Orioles, Red Sox, and Yankees
all disappeared. The Jays and Tigers continued at essentially the
expected pace. The Brewers and Indians cranked in the second half.
The Rangers predictably took a dive. That shouldn't have surprised
anybody. Meanwhile, as predicted, the Mariners dropped behind the
Angels and Royals. They clearly didn't deserve the 22-33 record in
June. The White Sox and A's upped their game a bit, while the Twins
dropped off a little. But for the most part things were as expected.
Okay, so there were a few blatant errors. But for a predictive
calculation, I thought this did pretty well.
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From [email protected] Tue Mar 31 16:36:34 1992
Hm. Pete Smith made the rotation instead of Mercker. And Bielecki
wasn't released until the end of the year. I won't comment on the
bullpen. (Jeff Reardon??? :-)
Right on Blauser. Wrong on Bream and Mitchell. A bit early on
Lonnie, as with Bielecki. Didn't pick Sanders. (Did anybody? :-)
Three of them went, right? Showalter is still around (and likely to
stick, it seems).
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From [email protected] Tue Mar 31 17:04:22 1992
Nope! They won the division, and so kept him for a shot at the
playoffs.
:-) Well, they didn't finish last.
Got that one right.
Nope.
I guess this is why you picked the Mets to win, huh?
Tsk Tsk. Not nice to predict something like this.
You got that right!
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And my response...
Okay, so the Mets finished fifth. But I got the Pirates and Expos
right!
First half? Dead on! Second half? Ummm.... I'm a Sox fan, go easy
on me!
So I got my predictions for Gooden and Saberhagen reversed. :-) I
was at least *close*, and was right about Jefferies. (Though I don't
know. HAS WFAN criticized the Jefferies trade?)
Close. No cigar.
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Some predictions need no introduction!
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Sometimes us statheads get lucky. Grace *didn't* hit behind Dawson
the entire season, but he also finished with only 79 RBIs.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nope. He slowed down, and the injury finished him off. Didn't
even reach 50. But a ballsy prediction, nonetheless.
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From [email protected] Thu May 21 16:42:21 1992
The Orioles finished seven games out. None of them won 20 (though
Mussina might have had a chance, with better relief and more starts).
Except for the Brewers (who you probably forgot), you were right! The
rest of the division was thoroughly mediocre. The Yankees and Indians
"led" with 76 wins, the Red Sox "trailed" with 73 wins. None were
horrible, but four were five or more games below .500.
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From: [email protected] (David Johnson)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 15:47:30 GMT
You win!
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From [email protected] Thu Nov 14 14:33:45 1991
You were right!
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From [email protected] Fri Sep 13 01:15:52 1991
He had 211 IP, but didn't win the Cy Young. Maddux surprised all.
I don't think I want to wait that long. But they won 89 games last
year, and they were fifth in the league in ERA. Not a bad start.
Looks like it. He wasn't bad last year, just too consistent to be an
ace. So far this year looks like more of the same.
I honestly can't say. Did they get rid of him? Their BB totals were
down last year.
I just don't think he's that good....
:-) So far, so good. I'm *definitely* not waiting to check this one.
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From [email protected] Fri Sep 13 12:38:08 1991
Current plans seem to be to use Quantrill in long relief. He has a
rubber arm and unusual delivery. He might be decent in that role.
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From [email protected] Sat Sep 14 01:51:28 1991
Wrong on all of the above. (Hal Morris????)
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And my favorites!
From tedward Sun Oct 20 23:52:57 1991
Belle hit 34 HR last year, walking 52 times (but five of those were
intentional!). Okay, so I exaggerate. But I *might* have been right.
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From [email protected] Tue Mar 31 15:25:28 1992
How much did Cal sign for? When did he sign? If I remember
correctly, he got a rather hefty contract despite a weak season.
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And finally....
From [email protected] Thu Sep 12 10:35:58 1991
Snyder is still in SF. Acker is gone??
They aren't in the majors.
Never heard of him.
I don't *think* they are in the majors.
Dunno what happened to him.
If he's still around, he's stuck in the minors.
Hm. With Raines out, Bo looks to get a lot of PT.
:-)
Hm.
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4,044 |
And my number 1:
1. The spectacle of the religious fervour of the CR "true believers".
| 4 | trimmed_train |
10,666 | I've been thinking about the idea that was raised (by Michael Covington,
I think) that words mean what we think they mean, regardless of
etymology. I've been reflecting on what certain words meant in my
childhood and tracing how this shaped some of my attitudes.
I grew up in a home where Christ was a bad word. People who were very
angry said it. The word Christian meant someone who was not a Jew. It
carried connotations of otherness, of threat, of enemy. It took some
time to figure out that there was a connection between `Christ' and
`Christian'. When I accepted Jesus, I expected to be disowned. To
become a Christian meant to join the enemy. I knew others would
consider me a traitor. At some level, I agreed, but was still prepared
to pay this price. Like Esau, I sold my birthright. However, I made a
better bargain. He only got some stew, but I got the incomparable
riches of knowing Christ.
As it turned out, my parents did not disown me. I found out later that
they were hoping it was a phase that I would grow out of. By the time
they had decided it wasn't a phase, they were sort of used to it. They
didn't disown me but they didn't completely accept the situation either.
For example, they didn't come to my wedding because it was in a church.
When I visited my grandmother in the hospital a few days before her
death, she said to me, "As far as I'm concerned, you still are a Jew."
What she meant was that she loved me and forgave me. But I am not a
Jew. I am a Christian. (I'll concede, one that likes chicken soup with
matzoh balls.:-))
I do not keep kosher. I do not celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday. My
sons are not circumcised. But these things are true of some people who
do consider themselves Jews. It is not these rules that make people
Jews; it is the heritage from the past. I gave up the past.
This is why I find it hard to relate to Messianic Jews. Their
experience is unlike mine. They still consider themselves Jews while
following Jesus. Some would even say that I *must* do so, too.
I am at a stage of my life now where I would like to have a heritage.
It was not something I valued very much when I gave it. But I did have
a sense that I was giving it for God. It may have been a small
sacrifice. It may have been an unnecessary sacrifice. But I gave it
and do not want to ask for it back.
And while I don't have the heritage I was born with, I do have another.
I am an outcast from the house of Israel, but I am a member of the
Church. One of the things I like about being a Catholic Christian is
that it is rich in tradition. It gives me a feeling of, once again,
being rooted in the past.
This is probably one of the reasons why I don't like it when people mess
around with Christian traditions (for example, changing the name of
Easter). These traditions fill an important emotional need of mine.
I suppose the point of all this is that people shouldn't assume that all
believers of Jewish background are the same. For some `Jewish
Christian' is a good name, for others it is an oxymoron. | 0 | trimmed_train |
7,096 |
Illegal to receive land-mobile telephone service? Don't you have to have a
mobile reciever to even have land-mobile telephone service? What about
ship-to-shore telephone service?
| 11 | trimmed_train |
9,271 |
This statement is just so blatantly disgusting and free of any implicit
neural activity that I will almost completely ignore it.
Sigh. It's so amusing to watch bigots point fingers at what they imagine to
be other bigots. I do believe this person meant "bean *counting*". And are
you trying to suggest that only Hispanics eat beans? Or that they even have
a monopoly on eating beans? Or that this person is seriously promoting what
is obviously a tongue-in-cheek .sig?
You must have a brain somewhere, if you can cause your fingers to type. Use
it.
Drywid | 13 | trimmed_train |
4,028 | Hello, and thank you for reading this request. I have a Mpeg viewer for x-windows and it did not run because I was running it on a monochrome monitor. I need the mono-driver for mpeg_play. | 1 | trimmed_train |
8,813 | I am thinking about getting an Infiniti G20.
In consumer reports it is ranked high in many
catagories including highest in reliability index for compact cars.
Mitsubushi Galant was second followed by Honda Accord).
A couple of things though:
1) In looking around I have yet to see anyone driving this
car. I see lots of Honda's and Toyota's.
2) There is a special deal where I can get an Infinity G20, fully
loaded, at dealer cost (I have check this out and the numbers match
up). They are doing this because they are releasing and update mid-1993
version (includes dual air-bags) and want to get rid of their old 1993's.
I guess my question is: Is this a good deal?
Also, Can anyone give me any feedback on Infiniti?
Thanks,
Carl Hoffman
P.S. | 4 | trimmed_train |
6,599 | True.
Also read 2 Peter 3:16
Peter warns that the scriptures are often hard to understand by those who
are not learned on the subject. | 0 | trimmed_train |
10,213 |
That shows how much you know about anything. The brakes on the
SHO are very different - 9 inch (or 9.5? I forget) discs all around,
vented in front. The normal Taurus setup is (smaller) discs front,
drums rear.
Your argument still boils down to "An SHO shouldn't be driven
fast because I, Jim Frost, say it isn't designed to go fast."
Pffffftttttt.
Damn straight. You're one of those people who makes stuff
up and tries to pawn it off as God's own truth. If I want lies I can
go listen to television. | 4 | trimmed_train |
5,054 | Yes, eXceed has windows version. Have ported some games like tetris,
works fine.
Si c'est vrai, ce serait bien de se le procurer car a ce moment la, le
portage Xt... Suis-je en train de perdre mon temps avec la toolkit c++
? | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,980 |
Not in Indiana: they showed a tape-delay of Chicago v Boston, because
WGN had the rainout of the cubs. So WGN showed reruns of Hitchcock.
No hockey (at least in this part of the state).
Go Aeros! | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,447 | Archive-name: typing-injury-faq/keyboards
Version: $Revision: 5.11 $ $Date: 1993/04/13 01:20:43 $
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Answers To Frequently Asked Questions about Keyboard Alternatives
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The Alternative Keyboard FAQ
Copyright 1992,1993 By Dan Wallach <[email protected]>
The opinions in here are my own, unless otherwise mentioned, and do not
represent the opinions of any organization or vendor.
[Current distribution: sci.med.occupational, sci.med, comp.human-factors,
{news,sci,comp}.answers, and e-mail to [email protected],
[email protected], and [email protected]]
Changes since previously distributed versions are marked with change ||
bars to the right of the text, as is this paragraph. ||
Information in this FAQ has been pieced together from phone conversations,
e-mail, and product literature. While I hope it's useful, the information
in here is neither comprehensive nor error free. If you find something
wrong or missing, please mail me, and I'll update my list. Thanks.
All phone numbers, unless otherwise mentioned, are U.S.A. phone numbers.
All monetary figures, unless otherwise mentioned, are U.S.A. dollars.
Products covered in this FAQ:
Using a PC's keyboard on your workstation / compatibility issues
Apple Computer, Inc.
Key Tronic FlexPro
Dragon Systems
The Bat
DataHand
Comfort Keyboard System
Kinesis Ergonomic Keyboard
Maltron
The Tony! Ergonomic KeySystem
The Vertical
The MIKey
The Wave
The Minimal Motion Computer Access System
Twiddler
Half-QWERTY
Microwriter
Braille 'n Speak
Octima
AccuKey
GIF pictures of many of these products are available via anonymous ftp
from soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury. (128.32.149.19) I highly
recommend getting the pictures. They tell much more than I can fit
into this file.
If you can't ftp, send me mail, and I'll uuencode and mail them to you
(they're pretty big...)
==============
Using a PC's keyboard on your workstation / compatibility issues
Mini outline:
1. Spoofing a keyboard over the serial port
2. X terminals
3. NeXT
4. Silicon Graphics
5. IBM RS/6000
6. Other stuff
1. Spoofing a keyboard over the serial port
If you've got a proprietary computer which uses its own keyboard
(Sun, HP, DEC, etc.) then you're going to have a hard time finding
a vendor to sell you a compatible keyboard. If your workstation
runs the X window system, you're in luck. You can buy a cheap used
PC, hook your expensive keyboard up to it, and run a serial cable
to your workstation. Then, run a program on the workstation to read
the serial port and generate fake X keyboard events.
The two main programs I've found to do this are KT and A2X.
a2x is a sophisticated program, capable of controlling the mouse, and
even moving among widgets on the screen. It requires a server
extension (XTEST, DEC-XTRAP, or XTestExtension1). To find out if your
server can do this, run 'xdpyinfo' and see if any of these strings
appear in the extensions list. If your server doesn't have this,
you may want to investigate compiling X11R5, patchlevel 18 or later,
or bugging your vendor.
kt is a simpler program, which should work with unextended X servers.
Another program called xsendevent also exists, but I haven't seen it.
Both a2x and kt are available via anonymous ftp from soda.berkeley.edu.
2. X terminals
Also, a number of X terminals (NCD, Tektronics, to name a few) use
PC-compatible keyboards. If you have an X terminal, you may be all
set. Try it out with a normal PC keyboard before you go through the
trouble of buying an alternative keyboard. Also, some X terminals add
extra buttons -- you may need to keep your original keyboard around
for the once-in-a-blue-moon that you have to hit the Setup key.
3. NeXT
NeXT had announced that new NeXT machines will use the Apple Desktop
Bus, meaning any Mac keyboard will work. Then, they announced they
were cancelling their hardware production. If you want any kind of
upgrade for an older NeXT, do it now!
4. Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics has announced that their newer machines (Indigo^2 and
beyond) will use standard PC-compatible keyboards and mice. I don't
believe this also applies to the Power Series machines. It's not
possible to upgrade an older SGI to use PC keyboards, except by
upgrading the entire machine. Contact your SGI sales rep for more
details.
5. IBM RS/6000
IBM RS/6000 keyboards are actually similar to normal PC keyboards. ||
Unfortunately, you can't just plug one in. You need two things: a ||
cable converter to go from the large PC keyboard connector to the ||
smaller PS/2 style DIN-6, and a new device driver for AIX. Believe ||
it or not, IBM wrote this device driver recently, I used it, and it ||
works. However, they don't want me to redistribute it. I've been ||
told Judy Hume (512) 823-6337 is a potential contact. If you learn ||
anything new, please send me e-mail. ||
6. Other stuff
Some vendors here (notably: Health Care Keyboard Co. and AccuCorp)
support some odd keyboard types, and may be responsive to your
queries regarding supporting your own weird computer. If you can
get sufficient documention about how your keyboard works (either
from the vendor, or with a storage oscilloscope), you may be in
luck. Contact the companies for more details.
Apple Adjustable Keyboard
Apple Computer, Inc.
Sales offices all over the place.
Availability: February, 1993
Price: $219
Supports: Mac only
Apple has recently announced their new split-design keyboard. The
keyboard has one section for each hand, and the sections rotate
backward on a hinge. The sections do not tilt upward. The keys are
arranged in a normal QWERTY fashion.
The main foldable keyboard resembles a normal Apple Keyboard.
A separate keypad contains all the extended key functions.
The keyboard also comes with matching wrist rests, which are not
directly attachable to the keyboard.
As soon as soda comes back up, I'll have a detailed blurb from
TidBITS available there.
FlexPro Keyboard
Key Tronic
Phone: 800-262-6006
Possible contact: Denise Razzeto, 509-927-5299
Sold by many clone vendors and PC shops
Availability: Spring, 1993 (?)
Price: $489 (?)
Supports: PC only (highly likely)
Keytronic apparently showed a prototype keyboard at Comdex. It's
another split-design. One thumb-wheel controls the tilt of both
the left and right-hand sides of the main alphanumeric section.
The arrow keys and keypad resemble a normal 101-key PC keyboard.
Keytronic makes standard PC keyboards, also, so this product will
probably be sold through their standard distribution channels.
DragonDictate-30K (and numerous other Dragon products)
Dragon Systems, Inc.
320 Nevada Street
Newton, MA 02160
Phone: 800-TALK-TYP or 617-965-5200
Fax: 617-527-0372
Shipping: Now.
Price: DragonDictate-30K -- $4995 (end user system)
DragonWriter 1000 -- $1595 / $2495 (end user/developer system)
various other prices for service contracts, site licenses, etc.
Compatibility: 386 (or higher) PC only
(3rd party support for Mac)
Free software support for X windows is also available -- your
PC with Dragon hardware talks to your workstation over a
serial cable or network. The program is called a2x, and is
available via anonymous ftp:
soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/a2x.tar.Z
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/a2x.tar.Z (most current)
If you want to use your Dragon product with X windows, you may want
to ask for Peter Cohen, an salesman at Dragon who knows more about
this sort of thing.
Dragon Systems sells a number of voice recognition products.
Most (if not all) of them seem to run on PC's and compatibles
(including PS/2's and other MicroChannel boxes). They sell you
a hardware board and software which sits in front of a number
of popular word processors and spreadsheets.
Each user `trains' the system to their voice, and there are provisions
to correct the system when it makes mistakes, on the fly. Multiple
people can use it, but you have to load a different personality file
for each person. You still get the use of your normal keyboard, too.
On the DragonDictate-30K you need to pause 1/10th sec between
words. Dragon claims typical input speeds of 30-40 words per minute.
I don't have specs on the DragonWriter 1000.
The DragonDictate-30K can recognize 30,000 words at a time.
The DragonWriter 1000 can recognize (you guessed it) 1000 words at a time.
Dragon's technology is also part of the following products
(about which I have no other info):
Microsoft Windows Sound System (Voice Pilot)
IBM VoiceType
Voice Navigator II (by Articulate Systems -- for Macintosh)
EMStation (by Lanier Voice Products -- "emergency medical workstation")
The Bat
old phone number: 504-336-0033
current phone number: 504-766-8082
Infogrip, Inc.
812 North Blvd.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, U.S.A.
Ward Bond (main contact)
David Vicknair (did the Unix software) 504-766-1029
Shipping: Now.
Supports: Mac, IBM PC (serial port -- native keyboard port version
coming very soon...). No other workstations supported, but serial
support for Unix with X Windows has been written. PC and Mac are
getting all the real attention from the company.
A chording system. One hand is sufficient to type everything.
The second hand is for redundancy and increased speed.
Price:
$495 (dual set -- each one is a complete keyboard by itself)
$295 (single)
(cheaper prices were offered at MacWorld Expo as a show-special.)
DataHand 602-860-8584
Industrial Innovations, Inc.
10789 North 90th Street
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260-6727, U.S.A.
Mark Roggenbuck (contact)
Supports: PC and Mac
Shipping: In beta. "Big backlog" -- could take 3+ months.
Price: $2000/unit (1 unit == 2 pods). (new price!) ||
Each hand has its own "pod". Each of the four main fingers has five
switches each: forward, back, left, right, and down. The thumbs have
a number of switches. Despite appearances, the key layout resembles
QWERTY, and is reported to be no big deal to adapt to. The idea is
that your hands never have to move to use the keyboard. The whole pod
tilts in its base, to act as a mouse.
(see also: the detailed review, written by Cliff Lasser <[email protected]>
available via anonymous ftp from soda.berkeley.edu)
Comfort Keyboard System 414-253-4131
FAX: 414-253-4177
Health Care Keyboard Company
N82 W15340 Appleton Ave
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 53051 U.S.A.
Jeffrey Szmanda (Vice President -- contact)
Shipping: Now.
Supports: PC (and Mac???) ||
Planned future support:
IBM 122-key layout (3270-style, I believe)
Sun Sparc
Decision Data
Unisys UTS-40
Silicon Graphics
Others to be supported later. The hardware design is relatively
easy for the company to re-configure.
Price: $690, including one system "personality module". ||
The idea is that one keyboard works with everything. You purchase
"compatibility modules", a new cord, and possibly new keycaps, and
then you can move your one keyboard around among different machines.
It's a three-piece folding keyboard. The layout resembles the
standard 101-key keyboard, except sliced into three sections. Each
section is on a "custom telescoping universal mount." Each section
independently adjusts to an infinite number of positions allowing each
individual to type in a natural posture. You can rearrange the three
sections, too (have the keypad in the middle if you want). Each
section is otherwise normal-shaped (i.e.: you put all three sections
flat, and you have what looks like a normal 101-key keyboard).
Kinesis Ergonomic Keyboard 206-455-9220
206-455-9233 (fax)
Kinesis Corporation
15245 Pacific Highway South,
Seattle, Washington 98188, U.S.A.
Shirley Lunde (VP Marketing -- contact)
Shipping: Now.
Supports: PC. Mac and Sun Sparc in the works.
Price: $690. Volume discounts available. The $690 includes one foot
pedal, one set of adhesive wrist pads, and a TypingTutor program.
An additional foot pedal and other accessories are extra.
The layout has a large blank space in the middle, even though the
keyboard is about the size of a normal PC keyboard -- slightly
smaller. Each hand has its own set of keys, laid out to minimize
finger travel. Thumb buttons handle many major functions (enter,
backspace, etc.).
You can remap the keyboard in firmware (very nice when software won't
allow the reconfig).
Foot pedals are also available, and can be mapped to any key on the
keyboard (shift, control, whatever).
Maltron (+44) 081 398 3265 (United Kingdom)
P.C.D. Maltron Limited
15 Orchard Lane
East Molesey
Surrey KT8 OBN
England
Pamela and Stephen Hobday (contacts)
U.S. Distributor:
Jim Barrett
Applied Learning Corp.
1376 Glen Hardie Road
Wayne, PA 19087
Phone: 215-688-6866
Supports: PC's, Amstrad 1512/1640, BBC B, BBC Master,
Mac apparently now also available
Price: 375 pounds
$735 shipped in the U.S.A. (basically, converted price + shipping)
The cost is less for BBC computers, and they have a number of
accessories, including carrying cases, switch boxes to use both
your normal keyboard and the Maltron, an articulated arm that
clamps on to your table, and training 'courses' to help you learn
to type on your Maltron.
You can also rent a keyboard for 10 pounds/week + taxes.
U.S. price: $120/month, and then $60 off purchase if you want it.
Shipping: Now (in your choice of colors: black or grey)
Maltron has four main products -- a two-handed keyboard, two one-handed
keyboards, and a keyboard designed for handicapped people to control with
a mouth-stick.
The layout allocates more buttons to the thumbs, and is curved to
bring keys closer to the fingers. A separate keypad is in the middle.
AccuKey
AccuCorp, Inc.
P.O. Box 66
Christiansburg, VA 24073, U.S.A.
703-961-3576 (Pete Rosenquist -- Sales)
703-961-2001 (Larry Langley -- President)
Shipping: Now.
Supports: PC, Mac, IBM 3270, Sun Sparc, and TeleVideo 935 and 955.
Cost: $495 + shipping.
Doesn't use conventional push-keys. Soft rubber keys, which rock
forward and backward (each key has three states), make chords for
typing keys. Learning time is estimated to be 2-3 hours, for getting
started, and maybe two weeks to get used to it.
Currently, the thumbs don't do anything, although a thumb-trackball
is in the works.
The company claims it takes about a week of work to support a
new computer. They will be happy to adapt their keyboard to
your computer, if possible.
Twiddler 516-474-4405, or 800-638-2352
Handykey
141 Mt. Sinai Ave.
Mt. Sinai, NY 11766
Chris George (President)
Shipping: now.
Price: $199.
Supports: PC only. Mac and X Windows in the works.
The Twiddler is both a keyboard and a mouse, and it fits in one hand.
You type via finger chords. Shift, control, etc. are thumb buttons.
When in "mouse" mode, tilting the Twiddler moves the mouse, and mouse
buttons are on your fingers.
The cabling leaves your normal keyboard available, also.
Most applications work, and Windows works fine. DESQview has trouble.
GEOWorks also has trouble -- mouse works, keyboard doesn't.
Braille 'n Speak 301-879-4944
Blazie Engineering
3660 Mill Green Rd.
Street, Md 21154, U.S.A.
(information provided by Doug Martin <[email protected]>)
The Braille N Speak uses any of several Braille codes for entering
information: Grade I, Grade II, or computer Braille. Basically,
letters a-j are combinations of dots 1, 2, 4, and 5. Letters k-t are
the same combinations as a-j with dot 3 added. Letters u, v, x, y, and
z are like a-e with dots 3 and 6 added. (w is unique because Louis
Braille didn't have a w in the French alphabet.)
The Tony! Ergonomic KeySystem 415-969-8669
Tony Hodges
The Tony! Corporation
2332 Thompson Court
Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.A.
Supports: Mac, PC, IBM 3270, Sun, and DEC.
Shipping: ???
Price: $625 (you commit now, and then you're in line to buy the
keyboard. When it ships, if it's cheaper, you pay the cheaper price.
If it's more expensive, you still pay $625)
The Tony! should allow separate positioning of every key, to allow
the keyboard to be personally customized. A thumb-operated mouse
will also be available.
The Vertical
Contact: Jeffrey Spencer or Stephen Albert, 619-454-0000
P.O. Box 2636
La Jolla, CA 92038, U.S.A.
Supports: no info available, probably PC's
Available: Summer, 1993
Price: $249
The Vertical Keyboard is split in two halves, each pointing straight up.
The user can adjust the width of the device, but not the tilt of each
section. Side-view mirrors are installed to allow users to see their
fingers on the keys.
The MIKey 301-933-1111
Dr. Alan Grant
3208 Woodhollow Drive
Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, U.S.A.
Shipping: As of July, 1992: "Should be Available in One Year."
Supports: PC, Mac (maybe)
Price: $200 (estimated)
The keyboard is at a fixed angle, and incorporates a built-in mouse
operated by the thumbs. Function keys are arranged in a circle at
the keyboard's left.
The Wave (was: 213-) 310-644-6100
FAX: 310-644-6068
Iocomm International Technology
12700 Yukon Avenue
Hawthorne, California 90250, U.S.A.
Robin Hunter (contact -- in sales)
Cost: $99.95 + $15 for a set of cables
Supports: PC only.
Shipping: now.
Iocomm also manufactures "ordinary" 101-key keyboard (PC/AT) and
84-key keyboard (PC/XT), so make sure you get the right one.
The one-piece keyboard has a built-in wrist-rest. It looks *exactly*
like a normal 101-key PC keyboard, with two inches of built-in wrist
rest. The key switch feel is reported to be greatly improved.
The Minimal Motion Computer Access System 508-263-6437
508-263-6537 (fax)
Equal Access Computer Technology
Dr. Michael Weinreigh
39 Oneida Rd.
Acton, MA 01720, U.S.A.
Price: InfoGrip-compatible: "a few hundred dollars" + a one-handed Bat
For their own system: $300 (DOS software) + "a few hundred dollars"
Shipping: these are custom-made, so an occupational therapist would
make moulds/do whatever to make it for you. You can buy one now.
Supports: PC only, although the InfoGrip-compatible version might
work with a Mac.
In a one-handed version, there is exactly one button per finger. In a
two-handed version, you get four buttons per finger, and the thumbs
don't do anything. You can also get one-handed versions with three
thumb buttons -- compatible with the InfoGrip Bat. Basically, get it
any way you want.
They also have a software tutorial to help you learn the chording.
Works on a PC under DOS, not Windows. Planning on Macintosh and
PC/Windows support. No work has been done on a Unix version, yet.
Half-QWERTY (Canada) 416-749-3124
The Matias Corporation
178 Thistledown Boulevard
Rexdale, Ontario, Canada
M9V 1K1
E-mail: [email protected]
Supports: Mac and PC (but, not Windows)
Demo for anonymous ftp: explorer.dgp.toronto.edu:/pub/Half-QWERTY ||
Price: $129.95 (higher in Canada, quantity discounts available)
Shipping: Now.
This thing is purely software. No hardware at all.
The software will mirror the keyboard when you hold down the space
bar, allowing you type one-handed.
Octima (Israel) 972-4-5322844
FAX: (+972) 3 5322970
Ergoplic Keyboards Ltd.
P.O. Box 31
Kiryat Ono 55100, Israel
(info from Mandy Jaffe-Katz <[email protected]>)
A one-handed keyboard.
Microwriter AgendA (U.K.) (+44) 276 692 084
FAX: (+44) 276 691 826
Microwriter Systems plc
M.S.A. House
2 Albany Court
Albany Park
Frimley
Surrey GU15 2XA, United Kingdom
(Info from Carroll Morgan <[email protected]>)
The AgendA is a personal desktop assistant (PDA) style machine. You
can carry it along with you. It has chording input. You can also
hook it up to your PC, or even program it.
It costs just under 200 pounds, with 128K memory.
===========
Thanks go to Chris Bekins <[email protected]> for providing
the basis for this information.
Thanks to the numerous contributors:
Doug Martin <[email protected]>
Carroll Morgan <[email protected]>
Mandy Jaffe-Katz <[email protected]>
Wes Hunter <[email protected]>
Paul Schwartz <[email protected]>
H.J. Woltring <[email protected]>
Dan Sorenson <[email protected]>
Chris VanHaren <[email protected]>
Ravi Pandya <[email protected]>
Leonard H. Tower Jr. <[email protected]>
Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>
Jim Cheetham <[email protected]>
Cliff Lasser <[email protected]>
Richard Donkin <[email protected]>
Paul Rubin <[email protected]>
David Erb <[email protected]>
Bob Scheifler <[email protected]>
Chris Grant <[email protected]>
Scott Mandell <[email protected]>
and everybody else who I've probably managed to forget.
The opinions in here are my own, unless otherwise mentioned, and do not
represent the opinions of any organization or vendor. | 19 | trimmed_train |
9,970 |
Outbreaks of a chronic-mono-like entity were originally called EBS (or
some variant thereof) because most of the people with this disease had
elevated levels of antibodies to the EBV virus. But not all of them
did, which prompted an official renaming of the disease to Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome (this renaming took place in the Annals of Internal
Medicine, Jan. 1988, I believe). Now it's also called Chronic Fatigue
and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), since it seems clear that
some sort of immune disregulation is causing the probs.
Astonishly, there are still docs who tell people with massively
swollen glands, recurrent fevers and nightsweats, etc., that there's
nothing wrong with them. This is not the same thing as saying that the
syndrome may have a (at least partly) psychological cause. The
disagreement among people whose thoughts are worth considering centers
on just what the cause is. No one knows, but theories include:
psychological stress, some sort of virus (a retrovirus, say most --
maybe one of the newly discovered herpes viruses), environmental
toxins, bacteria (and, yes, candida), genes, (and/)or some combo of
these.
There's no outright cure at the moment, but different docs try
different things, some of which seem to help.
Massive amounts of info on the condition are available these days.
Post your Q to alt.med.cfs, and you will be flooded w/facts. | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,455 | Greetings. I received a reply stating that unless someone else
confirms that the following company is operating, I should
remove it from my lst:
This is from the COMM_PCB.FAQ (commercial PCB makers).
Also, I don't have time to get the FAQ onto the sci.answers
because of what I like to refer to is "red tape" - after the
finals, I'll see what I can do... in the mean-time, anyone know
of an FTP site that wouldn't mind a 250K file? :-)
And last, I have some new entries for the SIMUSOFT list (mostly
commercial/institutional stuff) but was wondering: should I keep
the restrictions on the price of the software to be considered ->
under $600 or should I include all those in 4 digit prices also?
Take care. | 11 | trimmed_train |
9,785 | I am setting up a video-aid for a computer room for the teacher to share his
display with the class.
I have seen people using video projector, TV sets and large monitor to do
presentations before. I am told that there are three ways to connect video
projector: composite, Y/C & RGB.
Can anyone explain to me the difference and their likely costs?
Please reply to my INETNET E-mail account as well as posting in bulletin:
[email protected]
I also like to know if there are TELNET or KERMIT for windows. | 1 | trimmed_train |
9,892 | 10).
A 256K DRAM chip is a 256 kilobit chip whereas a 256K SIMM is a 256
kilobyte memory module. The SIMM is a PCB with a 30 pin connector edge
and on the SIMM are 8 256 kilobit DRAM chips (making the total memory 256
KBytes.
You are correct assuming that SIMMs will not fit into a LaserWriter.
Apple printers either require 64 pin SIMMs like those in the Mac IIfx or
special memory chips. Contact your Apple dealer to find out exactly what
kind of chips you need. | 14 | trimmed_train |
3,597 | record
hand | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,686 |
condom
during wone of the 500 times i had to go over my accident i
was asked if i was wearing "protection" my responces was
"yes i was wearing a condom"
| 12 | trimmed_train |
5,323 | Do you realize that the yankees are paying Matt Nokes 2,500,000 dollars
this year!!!! GEESH. And Maas only gets 125,000.
By the way, the yankees are going to WIN IT ALL
Yankees are the BEST.
| 2 | trimmed_train |
3,008 | Does XFree86 support any EISA video cards under Dell 2.2? | 16 | trimmed_train |
1,626 | Please excuse if FAQ but...
New Trident 8900CL based card claims to have 1280x1024 support.
Drivers with card indicate several 1280x1024 drivers on diskette.
Windows 3.1 does not make all drivers on diskette available to
configuration dialog box. Any suggestion?
Thanx; please e-mail.
[email protected]
| 18 | trimmed_train |
8,849 | Hi there netters,
I require a window to appear at a co-ordinates (0,0) (top left corner) of my
screen (root window). Could some windows guru out there help me on how to
go about doing this. I write the whole program which creates the window with
the image it displays - I require the image to appear at the top-left corner
so that I can grab it for recording on to video, using a MIniVas controller,
which expects the window at the same spot every time.
Thanks in advance.
sincerely,
Sanjeev Sharma
| 16 | trimmed_train |
8,096 |
Implicitly you are assuming that goals scored against Winnipeg with Selanne
on the ice can be blamed on him...Roger, he is a FORWARD. Winnipeg has a
lousy defensive record anyway. Let's put it another way. John Cullen's +/-
is terrible. What's your excuse for him? That his powerplay points don't
count? Neither do Selanne's...
Knowledgeable hockey observers the world over would agree that
feeding Selanne so he can score does contribute in a meaningful way to
winning.
You're worried about Teemu when you have Glenn Anderson on your team?
What he does best is score...so I refer you to my comment above.
| 17 | trimmed_train |
6,997 |
Perhaps instead of this silly argument about what backup lights
are for, couldn't we agree that they serve the dual purpose of
letting people behind your car know that you have it in reverse
and that they can also light up the area behind your car while
you're backing up so you can see?
Backup lamps on current models are much brighter than they used
to be on older cars. Those on my Taurus Wagon are quite bright
enough to illuminate a good area behind the car, and they're
MUCH brighter than those on my earlier cars from the 60s and 70s.
Insofar as Vettes having side backup lights, look at a '92 or '93
model (or perhaps a year or two earlier too) and you'll see
red side marker lamps and white side marker lamps both near the
car's hindquarters. Those aren't just white reflectors. | 4 | trimmed_train |
1,104 |
As mentioned in Adiposity 101, only some experience weight
rebound. The fact that you don't doesn't prove it doesn't
happen to others. | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,225 | Charles Parr, on the Tue, 20 Apr 93 21:25:10 GMT wibbled:
: >If Satan rode a bike (CB1000?) would you stop to help him?
: Of course! We riders have to stick together, you know...Besides,
: he'd stop for me.
: Satan, by the way, rides a Vincent. So does God.
: Jesus rides an RZ350, the Angels get Ariels, and the demons
: all ride Matchless 500s.
: I know, because they talk to me through the fillings in my teeth.
: Regards, Charles
: DoD0.001
: RZ350
: --
: Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
: separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
: struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
: gourd. --Unknown net.person
I think that the Vincent is the wrong sort of bike for Satan to ride.
Honda have just brought out the CB1000 (look in BIKE Magazine) which
looks so evil that Satan would not hesitate to ride it. 17-hole DMs,
Levi 501s and a black bomber jacket. I'm not sure about the helmet,
oh, I know, one of those Darth Vader ones. There you go. Satan.
Anybody seen him lately? Just a cruisin'?
God would ride a Vincent White Lightning with rightous injection.
He'd wear a one-piece leather suit with matching boots, helmet and gloves.
--
Nick (the Righteous Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford New (non-leaky) gearbox
M'Lud. | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,964 |
Agreed, but, yes, chapstick fits under the "waxy shit" category,
although I've noticed that stealing Annette's chapstick (after she's
applied it :-) kept my lips from cracking this past winter like they have
in all previous winters. Sigh...the price I must pay...
So does my darling Annette (okay, I guess you can ready the
barf bags now :-)
Later, | 12 | trimmed_train |
4,742 | Hey All,
Does anyone know if I can ftp to get the newest version of Radiusware
and soft pivot from Radius? I bought a pivot monitor, but it has an
old version of this software and won't work on my C650, and Radius said
it would be 4-5 weeks until delivery.
Thanks! | 14 | trimmed_train |
11,009 |
>Thousands? Tens of thousands? Do some arithmetic, please... Skipjack
>has 2^80 possible keys. Let's assume a brute-force engine like that
>hypothesized for DES: 1 microsecond per trial, 1 million chips. That's
>10^12 trials per second, or about 38,000 years for 2^80 trials. Well,
>maybe they can get chips running at one trial per nanosecond, and build
>a machine with 10 million chips. Sure -- only 3.8 years for each solution.
But there is a MUCH more pernicious problem with the scheme as
proposed. Building a brute force machine to test 2^40 possible keys
if you have the other half from one escrow agent is EASY. (One chip,
one test per microsecond gives you one break every two weeks, and that
break gives you all messages involving that phone.)
The XOR scheme so that the files from one escrow agent gives you
nothing is an improvement, but notice that XORing with (truely random)
bit strings allows for an arbitrary number of escrow agents. Using +
for XOR, SK for the escrowed key, and A and B for two random bit
strings, hand SK+A+B, SK+A, and SK+B to three escrow agents. It is
possible to come with an encoding scheme to match any escrow pattern,
for example 3 of 4, such that fewer cooperating escrow agents gives
the cracking agency no benefit.
--
Robert I. Eachus | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,472 |
Sure. Contact the World Space Foundation. They're listed in the sci.space
Frequently Asked Questions file, which I'll excerpt.
WORLD SPACE FOUNDATION - has been designing and building a solar-sail
spacecraft for longer than any similar group; many JPL employees lend
their talents to this project. WSF also provides partial funding for the
Palomar Sky Survey, an extremely successful search for near-Earth
asteroids. Publishes *Foundation News* and *Foundation Astronautics
Notebook*, each a quarterly 4-8 page newsletter. Contributing Associate,
minimum of $15/year (but more money always welcome to support projects).
World Space Foundation
Post Office Box Y
South Pasadena, California 91301
WSF put together a little paperback anthology of fiction and
nonfiction about solar sails: *Project Solar Sail*. I think Robert
Staehle, David Brin, or Arthur Clarke may be listed as editor.
Also there is a nontechnical book on solar sailing by Louis Friedman,
a technical one by a guy whose name escapes me (help me out, Josh),
and I would expect that Greg Matloff and Eugene Mallove have something
to say about the subject in *The Starflight Handbook*, as well as
quite a few references.
Check the following articles in *Journal of the British Interplanetary
Society*:
V36 p. 201-209 (1983)
V36 p. 483-489 (1983)
V37 p. 135-141 (1984)
V37 p. 491-494 (1984)
V38 p. 113-119 (1984)
V38 p. 133-136 (1984)
(Can you guess that Matloff visited Fermilab and gave me a bunch of
reprints? I just found the file.)
And K. Eric Drexler's paper "High Performance Solar Sails and Related
Reflecting Devices," AIAA paper 79-1418, probably in a book called
*Space Manufacturing*, maybe the proceedings of the Second (?)
Conference on Space Manufacturing. The 1979 one, at any rate. | 10 | trimmed_train |
2,579 | one way to get the system going with one floppy drive and one hard
disk on a 63 watt power supply is to first disconnect the power from
the floppy drive than turn on the pc, you will notice the hard drive
having a real difficult time getting up to speed, but it manages.
when booting is finished, plug in your floppy drive, now it will work.
(ok I know this is not very user friendly, maybe you are better off
buying a 486-66 with 300 watt power supply or something like that) | 3 | trimmed_train |
1,755 | Hi,
Can anybody suggest robust algorithms/code for computing the point of intersection
on n, 2-d lines in a plane. The data has outliers and hence a simple least squares
technique does not seem to provide satifactory results.
Please respond by e-mail and I will post the summary to the newsgroups
if there is sufficient interest.
Thanks,
Raj Talluri
Member Technical Staff
Image Understanding Branch
Texas Instruments
Central Research Labs
Dallas, Texas 75248 | 1 | trimmed_train |
8,225 |
That's why we have expansion - to create more jobs. NHL teams can't afford to
import role players from Europe, they pick the stars but will continue to build
their teams around local players.
I'd *LOVE* to see a European NHL division but can't see it happen for some
time. There's simply not enough fan interest at the moment in several
"crucial" markets like Germany, Italy and France while Sweden and Finland
probably can't afford to shell out $20-$30 for tickets the way
American/Canadian fans do. Call it "the Minnesota North Stars" effect:
Scandinavians do love hockey but we prefer to watch local, inexpensive
hockey to the NHL. The National Hockey League should love the idea, though.
Pan-European TV channels such as Eurosport could bring in the millions the
American networks likely never will pay. | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,521 |
Well...I need the old 8" disks ... You are right, disks is a better word,
but they are so big and calling them disks is kind of funny ... but the
appropriate word is disks ... | 18 | trimmed_train |
1,127 |
Good heavens, you mean my good friend Wes Collins, who took his wife and two
small children into the jungles of Guatemala, despite dangers from primitive
conditions and armed guerillas, so that the indigenous people groups their
could have the Bible in their native languages--the young man who led Bible
studies in our church, who daily demonstrated and declared his deep abiding
faith in the Lord of Love--you mean he really was a sneaky imperialistic *SPY*
whose _real_ reason for going was to exploit and oppress the ignorant and
unsuspecting masses? Imagine my surprise! I never would have thought it of
him.
How was this terrible deceit discovered? What exactly was the "cultural
interference" they were caught committing? Attempting to persuade the locals
that their ancestral gods were false gods, and their sacrifices (including
human sacrifices in some cases) were vain? Destroying traditional lifestyles
by introducing steel tools, medical vaccines, and durable clothes? Oh and by
the way, who did the denouncing?
I am terribly shocked to hear that my friend Wes, who seemed so nice, was
really such a deceitful tool of the devil. Please provide me with specific
documentation on this charge. There is some risk that I may not believe it
otherwise. | 0 | trimmed_train |
2,631 |
As one of the "Clintonites" cited above, I'll try to clarify since this
is not a case of Clinton's "dishonesty." (I won't necessarily defend him
on other issues.)
There were NEVER any specific projects included in the Community
Development Block Grant portion of the President's proposal. Congressional
Republicans, in an effort to discredit the stimulus package, selected what
they felt were silly sounding projects from a wish-list of POTENTIAL
projects prepared by the US Mayors' Conference before the stimulus package
was ever proposed. (The document in question was designed to pressure the
White House to increase the size of the block grant proposal submitted
to Congress. It didn't work.)
The $2.56(?) billion proposed in the stimulus package came nowhere close
to covering the total estimated cost of the original wish-list. If it
were passed, communities would have to select which projects to fund and
at what level.
In the case of Spokane, Wa., Tom Foley's home district, no one ever
expected to be able to refurbish a local swimming pool (one of the
Republicans' examples) FROM THE FUNDS AVAILABLE IN THE STIMULUS
PACKAGE since the estimated cost of doing so exceeded the total
amount of block grant funds the city would receive from the stimulus
package for ALL projects.
The plan, instead, was to use the money on public housing construction
and remodeling to cope with a severe housing shortage. (Yup, there are
places where that is true.) The swimming pool improvements were near the
bottom of a long list of priorities prepared by the city. The $3 million
or so to be received would cover only a few of the most pressing
priorities.
If the block grants are cut from the stimulus package, it is these projects
that will be affected by the lack of funds. And that is why the Clinton
administration has been publicizing the issue.
A final point. One may or may not like community block grants. It is
worth noting, however, that Congressional Republicans' opposition to them
is new. Since the Nixon administration, Republicans have generally
supported such grants as an alternative to targeted federal spending,
arguing that local governments are far better able to determine spending
priorities than "Washington bureaucrats."
Is it clear now? Or is this all too complicated to understand?
jsh | 13 | trimmed_train |
7,242 |
#In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Michael McClary)
# Just thought I'd clear up a few of the murky areas...
#
#>Actually, after surviving being driven out of Nauvoo, and later Carthage,
#>the Mormons DID fortify Utah. They still arm themselves to "defend the
#>faith", and stockpile food as well. They have been involved in quite a
#>lot of illegal activity - including multiple (and often underage) wives
#>for the leaders - a practice still in vogue with some splinters of their
#>sect. The parallels between Koresh and Joseph Smith are striking.
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^
By "they," you mean the leaders of the lds church? I grant you that when
Joseph Smith was still alive, plenty of "accusations" were filed, most of
which had little bearing with reality, as evidenced by various verdicts.
I have studied lds history for 15 years now, and I have yet to see prove
that the lds leadership was involved, in quote: "illegal activities."
Plural marriage, yes, but your charge of "underage" wives sounds like it
could have originated from a tabloid, and discredits the high moral
standards which characterized these leaders and families, unlike, as it
appears, those of David Koresh.
# Joseph Smith started the sect. After he and his brother Hyram
#were murdered in a Nauvoo, Il. jail cell, church membership split over
#who to follow. Initially, Smith was considered a prophet (just like
#Mohammed, a rather interesting parallel considering Muslims consider
#Christ to be a prophet the same as Jews, I'm led to understand. Make
#no mistake, this was no messiah we're talking about in Smith). The
And neither did he claim he was. As the church reflects the moral
aptitude of its leaders (and especially those of Joseph Smith), I have
nothing but the highest respect for this inspired man, whose only "crime"
was that he refused to deny that he had seen a vision... Many have tried
to explain the "Smith phenomenon" away, but the bold presence of an 8.5
million member strong church stands as a witness that Joseph Smith's
testimony had enough resilience and power to carry on the message.
#thought at the time was that the gift of prophecy was to be handed
#down father to son. After Joseph Smith died, his son was only
#entering his teens. Brigham Young and a few others claimed to have
#been bequeathed the gift and leadership prior to his death. The
#Council of Twelve, the Church governing body, wasn't of much help
#here, and this basic conflict is still a wedge between the sects.
#Brigham Young took his followers to Salt Lake. The rest waited
#for Smith Jr. to grow up enough to assume leadership. The other
#claimants to the leadership were soon ignored, like Mike Dukakis. ;-)
"The rest" were apostates and excommunicated members of the Church,
while the great majority of the membership, the Twelve, and the various
auxiliary organizations, chose to accept Brigham Young as the new
prophet and leader of the Church. If you knew your lds scriptures and
doctrine, you would have known that Brigham Young was the FIRST in
line to fill the prophet Joseph Smith's vacancy: he was the senior
apostle in the Quorum, and various comments made by Joseph indicated
that it was Brigham who would lead the latter-day exodus to the West.
Other rightful "heirs" were either dead (Hyrum Smith) or excommunicated
(Oliver Cowdery), and while persecutions abounded and intensified,
Joseph Smith had already given orders to look for a new place, an empty
land beyond the boundaries of the United States (at that time). This
"Rekhabite" principle (pseudographia) was well understood and antipated
by the great majority of lds faithful, and was not questioned by them.
Granted, a couple of "do-it-yourselfers" stayed behind, unwilling to
sacrifice and to undertake the perilous journey to the unknown, but
this also was necessary to separate the tares from the wheat. The
church benefitted from this purification process: they became even
more unified and willing to carry out their mission to the world.
# Both sects practiced the "1-year food stockpile" doctrine,
#and this being frontier and farming country most carried or at
#least owned weapons. There is little evidence that they were a
#militaristic sect, given that they tended to move on rather than
#face large-scale opposition. Brigham Young, having suffered a
#great deal getting to Salt Lake, seems to have been quite
#justified in making military training a good thing. Remember,
#this was far beyond where even the US Army went, and these people
#had nobody to turn to save themselves.
#
# Just a little context to put this all in perspective.
BTW, since when is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (one of
the largest denominations in the country) a "sect"??? It didn't "splinter"
from any other religion, as did say, the Southern Baptists or Methodists.
#>So what did the Mormons get? It seems that J. Edgar Hoover was very
#>impressed with the way they kept secrets. (They're pledged to defend
#>secrets with their lives and atone for sin with blood. Many actually
#>do - even to the point of suicide.)
What a balloney. Suicide is sinful and against the law of God. I am
not comfortable with this alleged "cosiness" with Mammon: I assure you
that *many* among us reject this attitude categorically. Period. Our
ONLY true allegiance is to our God and to the leaders which He has
appointed to represent Him. In any regard, to read this TRASH (about
suicide and "atone for sins with blood") is yet another insulting
misrepresentation of what my church believes in and stands for...
#
# The RLDS, the Reorganized LDS, are friendly rivals of the LDS
#and delight in telling stories about them, which generates quick retorts
#from the LDS members and everybody has a grand time. At no time have
#I ever even heard this hinted at. I'm taking it with a salt block.
Make it a really big salt mountain with a glacier on top.
#> So he hired virtually no one but
#>Mormons, until the FBI was almost exclusively staffed by members of the
#>Church of Later Day Saints. Though J. Edgar is finally gone, the FBI
#>personnel (especially the field agents) are still heavily Mormon.
#>I have often wondered how this might affect the FBI's treatment
#>of religious organizations a Mormon would consider heretical.
Preposterous. Even if this were true (reliable data, please), I
am convinced that those officers would perform to the highest codes
of honor and conduct (that's why they were selected for in the
first place, remember?). Besides, one of our Articles of Faith
STRONGLY states the principle of freedom of religion, and that all
people are free to worship "*how*, *where*, or *what* they may."
# If it's true, there would be little affect. LDS and RLDS
#philosophy is that all other religions have strayed from the true
#Church as set down by Jesus, but that God will judge each on his
#own merits. In addition, the RLDS also contend (and the LDS may
#as well) that ignorance of the True Way (tm) is an excuse. You
#can only be condemned if you had been tought the way and rejected
#it. In short, LDS and RLDS suffer everybody from Lutherans to
#Buddhists, secure in the knowledge that though they are wrong they
#will not be penalized for ignorance. It is more likely that Hoover
#liked them because of their rather strict upbringings which forbade
#alcohol, tobacco, hot drink (like coffee or tea), and the like.
#These people are the "salt of the Earth" and as such are more
#easily made to follow orders and have few vices to be used against them.
A good explanation, I can accept that. You are right that lds people
are sometimes a little too cosy with Mammon's "orders" (the late
president Kimball, for example, was an exception with his strong
opposition of the selection of the MX "Peace Keeper" missile maze
in Utah).
# That's my somewhat educated guess, anyway. Both sects have
#splinter groups that don't mirror the masses, but these are small
#and rare, and hardly worth noting their common ancestry.
#
# None of this has any relevance to guns, though. When a
#man's religion is used to deny him the right of self-protection with
#the weapons suitable for the job, he'll find an ally in me.
#
#< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 [email protected] [email protected] >
#< ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
#< USENET: Post to exotic, distant machines. Meet exciting, >
#< unusual people. And flame them. >
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9,771 | A posting in another news group I read a while ago said that
PC-Xview and PC-Xremote allow you to use Xterm.
Call NCD @ 503-641-2200 for more info.
Hope it helps,
-Hao
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[email protected] [email protected] | 18 | trimmed_train |
131 |
No, obviously talking about Research Assistants. I favor a high protein,
low fat diet, barely adequate salary on a fixed time schedule, four hours
of sleep a night, continuous infusion of latte, unpredictable praise
mixed randomly with anxiety-provoking, everpresent glances with
lowered eyebrows, unrealistic promises of rapid publication, and
every three months a dinner consisting of nothing but microbrewery ale
and free pretzels. Actually, mine hails from San Diego, and indeed
has more problems in Seattle in cold weather than in warm. | 19 | trimmed_train |
2,372 |
500,000 to 1,000,000 self-defense incidents a YEAR doesn't count with you?
Maybe they're just UNLUCKY. If a rapist pulls a woman into an alley
in Boston, chances are almost certain that she won't be counted
as one of those self-defenders because our local constabulary didn't
consider it important that she be allowed to arm herself. Even though
the shotgun she owns at home makes her show up in the "gun owner" column.
Ironic words for somebody who lives in Florida. The "average threat
level" in Florida has been REDUCED by a liberal CCW policy. It's well
known that your local thugs like to target tourists precisely because
they are less likely to be carrying than your natives. Come on up to
Boston, or NYC, or Washington DC, and see how much diddlysquat the
"average threat level in the country" means to a resident there.
Sometimes this works. Sometimes it just lands your good neighbors
on the dance card for the next wave of drive-bys. Someone here once
told a story about LA gangs moving into Phoenix. I've misplaced the
original text, but the story started with one resident calling the
cops on a gang member. Sure enough, a few nights later, there was a
drive-by performed at the resident's house. Except that this time,
unlike in LA, the entire street came out and returned fire, putting
an end to the car's occupants. The gang packed up and left.
Of course, in LA, or in a place like Florida after the hurricane,
your first problem is to FIND an officer to step up to and tell
anything.
Look, nobody is arguing this. I have a fire extinguisher at home.
That doesn't mean I can be careless about tossing my burnt matches
on the carpet. I live carefully, monitor the woodstove, get my flue
cleaned twice a year, and test my smoke alarms annually. But if --
DESPITE all this -- a fire does start, it's too late for any of
these things EXCEPT the extinguisher.
You seem to be agreeing with your opponent. You can't trust your
government to protect you from abusers and violators -- white-collar,
blue-collar, epauletted, or tank-shirted. Ultimately, no one has the
power to enforce your "rights" but you. Unless you've given up that
power.
Too many people fit that category, that is true. Some of us like to
believe that they are uninterested in the facts behind the case for gun
ownership because they've been conditioned to believe that there AREN'T
any. You seem content to underestimate the electorate; I'm willing to
try to raise their consciousness.
I think we can.
HCI was founded in what, 1980? In the mid-80's, they ran a "One
Million Strong!" campaign for two years before reaching this goal.
My understanding is that they "reached" it by the stratagem of including
wide classes of people other than dues-paying members. (I can't speak
authoritatively on this -- maybe somebody else has details.) Then they
started running a "Two Million Strong!" campaign for a while -- but they
let it slip into unannounced obscurity when it became clear that they
simply were never going to reach that level of membership.
In 1964, just after the commencement of the Dodd Hearings -- the starting
point of the modern gun-control movement, the NRA had a mere 625,000 members.
By 1968, barely after the first murmurs of future registration, it had
about a million. Today, it has over three million members, making it the
third largest membership organization in the country (next to AARP and AAA).
And its membership is GROWING FASTER than at any previous time. (Historical
figures from Kukla's "Gun Control," pp. 61 and 420.)
As you say, many of the people in the middle of this debate are bemused
by their T-bones and MTV. That leaves hard-core gun-owners against
hard-core gun banners.
I know a number of ex-HCI members who have recently become NRA members.
I've never heard of a single one who has gone the other way.
Yes, I think we can and will win this one.
I think they would be used far less to hammer nails, as well, but,
like you, I can't give any citation showing that this utilization is
CURRENTLY significant at more than an anecdotal level. If you can,
I'm waiting.
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5,763 | [stuff deleted]
Not only do you lose AccuColor, you also had to give up 1280x1024
non-interlaced mode, the wider 135 Mhz bandwidth and the Mac
and BNC inputs of the 5FG.
Personally I am not bothered at all by the two lines in
trinitron tube.
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1,656 |
#I use xwd/xpr (from the X11R5 dist.) and various programs of the
#ppm-tools to print hardcopies of colored X windows. My problem is,
I don't like xpr. It gives (at least, the X11R4 version does) louzy
output: the hardcopy looks very grainy to me.
Instead, I use pnmtops. This takes full advantage PostScript, and
lets the printer do the dirty job of dithering a (graylevel)
image to black and white dots.
So: if you have a PostScript printer, try:
xwdtopnm <xwdfile> | # convert to PPM
[ppmtopgm |] # .. to graylevel for smaller file to print
pnmtops -noturn | # .. to PostScript
lpr # print
pnmtops Has several neat options, but use them with care:
If you want your image to be 4" wide, use:
pnmtops -noturn -scale 100 -width 4
-noturn Prevents the image from being rotated (if it is wider than it
is high)
-width 4 Specifies the PAPER width (not the image width - see below)
-scale 100 Is used because if the image is small, it may fit within a
width less than 4", and will thus be printed smaller than 4" wide.
If you first scale it up a lot, it will certainly not fit in 4", and
will be scaled down by pnmtops automatically to fit the specified
paper width.
In short: pnmtops will scale an image down to fit the paper size,
but it will not blow it up automatically.
Hope this helps.
Marcel. | 1 | trimmed_train |
3,440 |
-- and --
Good grief; has no one ever heard of Biostatistics?? The University of
Washington (plus 3 or 4 others [Harvard, UNC]) has a department and
advanced degree program in Biostatistics. My wife has an MS Biostat, and
there are plenty of MDs, PhDs, and postdocs doing Biostatistical work.
People do this for a living. Really bright people study for decades to do
this sort of study well.
Anecedotal evidence is worthless. Even doctors who have been using a drug
or treatment for years, and who swear it is effective, are often suprised
at the results of clinical trials. Whether or not MSG causes describable,
reportable, documentable symptoms should be pretty simple to discover.
The last study on which my wife worked employed 200 nurses, 100 doctors,
and a dozen Ph.Ds at one University and at 70 hospitals in five nations. I
would think the MSG question could be settled by one lowly Biostat MS
student in a thesis. | 19 | trimmed_train |
9,297 | I've heard about Ottomenu which should be a good desktop
on Windows 3.0/3.1 .
Can anybody tell me where I can get it ?
It should be on CICA in /pub/pc/win3/util but it is not.
It is also not an WUSTL,SIMTEL and a great number of other
sites.
Just post it or mail me.
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Andreas Gloege
Kazmaierstr.48 (bei Klarmann)
8000 Muenchen 2
089/508336
email : [email protected] | 18 | trimmed_train |
985 | What is address interliving? and memmory modules interliving?
Thanks in advance for the info.
Robert.
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2,902 |
You and the Beav should lighten up (esp the Beav). I agree that
DUI/DWI is serious. We should have reasonable laws, strict
enforcement, and tough sentences. But, Andrew did not
post "looking for sympathy over the consequences." He posted
asking for advice because he had an extremely high quote. His
post was obviously valid because he later found insurance for LESS.
He noted why he was in his predicament but did not defend in
any way drunk driving (and has renounced drunk driving). There
are too many repeat offenders to worry about and other BDC.
Why try to make this person who is no longer part of the problem
an outcast? He has paid his debt to society. Step off the high
horse. We have all been irresponsible in the past.
With that said, I'm guilty of the same type of hostility towards
rapists. I think it comes because I feel the punishment is not
severe enough. The same may be true of DWI/DUI. If that is the
case, then it is our stinkin' gubment we need to change. If
we had a reasonable law about DWI/DUI with a stiff penalty
then fewer people would do it.
At any rate, Andrew as paid his debt as defined by the law.
If you think that debt is actually greater than the law mandates,
tell your 'representatives'.
Jack Waters II
DoD#1919 | 12 | trimmed_train |
10,371 |
If by that you mean anything on the GD approach, there was an article on
it in a recent Avation Week. I don't remember the exact date but it was
recent.
Allen
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5,959 |
We have plenty of computer labs where the computers are left on all the
time. I don't see any shorter lifespan than the ones we have in the
offices which does get turned off at the end of the day. In fact, some
of the computers in the labs have outlived some of the same ones in the
offices. But it goes both ways so can't conclude anything. | 3 | trimmed_train |
9,000 |
: I have seen these numbers quoted before, and I have seen very specific
: refutation of them quoted as well. If someone will be so kind as to
: email the relevant information, I will write a letter to the editor of
: the Co. Daily (which might get published) and send a copy to USN&WR as
: well.
Thanks to all who responded. The letter has been written (making liberal
use of info provided by various net.folks) and handed to the paper. I'll
post if it gets into the paper!
--Dan
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4,056 | I have been looking at buying a 1989 Jeep Laredo and was wondering
if anyone had any bad or good experiences with this model. Is it
all that much different than the other YJs?
It looks, feels and sounds like a nice vehicle even thought the
price is rather steep for an '89 (12K Canadian).
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43 | For the second straight game, California scored a ton of late runs to crush
the Brewhas. It was six runs in the 8th for a 12-5 win Monday and five in
the 8th and six in the 9th for a 12-2 win yesterday. Jamie Navarro pitched
seven strong innings, but Orosco, Austin, Manzanillo and Lloyd all took part
in the mockery of a bullpen yesterday. How's this for numbers? Maldanado has
pitched three scoreless innings and Navarro's ERA is 0.75. The next lowest
on the staff is Wegman at 5.14. Ouch!
It doesn't look much better for the hitters. Hamilton is batting .481, while
Thon is hitting .458 and has seven RBI. The next highest is three. The next
best hitter is Jaha at .267 and then Vaughn, who has the team's only HR, at
.238. Another ouch. Looking at the stats, it's not hard to see why the team
is 2-5. In fact, 2-5 doesn't sound bad when you're averaging three runs/game
and giving up 6.6/game.
Still, it's early and things will undoubtedly get better. The offense should
come around, but the bullpen is a major worry. Fetters, Plesac and Austin gave
the Brewers great middle relief last year. Lloyd, Maldanado, Manzanillo,
Fetters, Austin and Orosco will have to pick up the pace for the team to be
successful. Milwaukee won a number of games last year when middle relief either
held small leads or kept small deficits in place. The starters will be okay,
the defense will be alright and the hitting will come around, but the bullpen
is a big question mark.
In other news, Nilsson and Doran were reactivated yesterday, while William
Suero was sent down and Tim McIntosh was picked up by Montreal. Today's game
with California was cancelled. | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,513 | Here's a good one: Does anyone know of a product that allows
me to RACK MOUNT my 2CI (or maybe 650 if I blow some more
money...) ??? My application is music, and would like to be
able to haul it around (would probably plan to get an MO drive
or something so I don't have to depend on an internal fixed
hard drive - i.e., may be pretty rough on an internal HD...)
I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that matters.
Also, anyone have any info on 650's and Midi? And, would anyone
care to email me with the price they paid for their 650? Or if
there's a price list FAQ, never mind... Just curious about the
difference between the best retailers and the local university
pricing... | 14 | trimmed_train |
5,241 |
Hey, Dana! Long time, no read. I'm afraid the squid rating has
gone up slightly since getting the Ninja, but I'm trying very hard to restrain
myself--the bodywork is just too damned expensive (knock, knock).
At least it's quiet...
Later, | 12 | trimmed_train |
10,043 |
Compartment syndrome occurs when swelling happens in a "compartment"
bounded by fascia. The pressure rises in the compartment and blood
supply and nerves are compromised. The treatment is to open the
compartment surgically. THe most common places for compartment
syndromes are the forearm and calf. It is an emergency, since
if the pressure is not relieved, stuff will die.
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3,817 | # # # And now those "other options" don't exist. We probably agree on this
# # # more than you think--welfare was invented to solve a problem of the
# # # 30's, but the poverty is now so much worse, and our economic infra-
# # # structure has been so eroded, that it just can't keep up any more.
#
# # You mean, since your philosophy took over, the economy has almost
# # collapsed.
#
# Excuse me, *my* philosophy? You don't have any idea what *my* philosophy
# is. The American economy has had its ups and downs through a number of
# prevailing economic philosophies. But then, economics is hardly a science.
In my lifetime, your philosophy -- socialism masquerading as a liberal
welfare state -- has been in ascendancy.
# No, I mean exactly what I wrote--the welfare system of the New Deal is
# wholly inadequate to cope with the current state of affairs.
Absolutely. So the response of socialists is take us even further
into socialism.
# # # # # (2) Whether or not the fathers work
# # # # # is not germane to single mothers.
#
# # # # Very true. But the promotion of casual sexuality is something that
# # # # plays a part in the single mother problem.
#
# # # I'll buy that--and there's lots of reasons for it, extremely far down on
# # # the list being the flash-in-the-pan media attention a bunch of middle-
# # # class dropouts got for their philosophy and experimentation.
#
# # Flash-in-the-pan? No, your subculture has utterly dominated the
# # TV and movie industries for two decades now.
#
# *My* subculture? My, we're getting personal. The only subculture I see
# dominating the TV and movie industries is *money*. If you'll buy it,
# they'll sell it. And as recent movements to boycott TV advertisers have
# shown, they're *very* sensitive about what sells. Whatever happened to
# personal responsibility, anyway? Or am I personally responsible for
# the decline in that, too?
To the extent that people have been encouraged to NOT be responsible
for themselves, yes.
# # # # Come on. You and I both know that the major problem of this society
# # # # today isn't a lack of employment, it's a lack of people willing to work.
#
# # # Huh??? Tell that to the single mother I know who was laid off from
# # # her $10/hour job at a hospital and now works 2 full-time minimum-
# # # wage jobs to barely be able to support herself and her kid. *Barely.*
# # # Hey, she's too proud to go on public assistance, but the only jobs
# # # she can find are menial and with no benefits. And no career path
# # # either--they find excuses to lay people off and hire new ones rather
# # # than give raises and perks. And why not? It's a lot cheaper.
#
# # Oddly enough, all the unskilled or semiskilled people I know manage
# # to find employment almost immediately. Maybe she needs to move to a
# # cheaper part of the country, where jobs are plentiful, and the cost
# # of living is lower.
#
# The west side of Chicago is about as cheap as it gets--squalor city.
# Tell me about all these places where it's cheap to live and jobs are
# abundant--I'll pass them on.
Sonoma County.
# You live in a strange and wondrous place, sir. Inexpensive housing,
Not exactly cheap, but not Los Angeles, either.
# lots of employment, and utterly surrounded by socialists. Well, I suppose
# that's the sort of environment that would attract socialists, or at least
# not dissuade them.
No, it's that areas with a lot of wealthy breed socialists -- all the
spoiled rich kids, feeling guilty about their wealth. But not guilty
enough to give it away -- they just look for politicians to take MY
more limited wealth away.
# # # I see a lot of people willing--nay, eager--to work. What I don't see
# # # is a system that makes it at all feasible to do so. It's not just
# # # welfare, which nobody enjoys, but there just aren't the jobs any more.
# # # When the US was expanding industrial capacity there was always a mill
# # # to go work in--skills to learn, a future. Now there's only McDonalds.
#
# # Odd. Not the experience of anyone I know. Just the opposite.
#
# In California???
Yup.
# # # Mr. Cramer, I was there: Hippiedom was a very low-budget operation.
# # # Our drugs were cheap.
#
# # The money I was referring to was Aid to Families with Druggie
# # Cohabitators (AFDC).
#
# Well, I doubt that much of this goes to drugs--there isn't much left after
# buying food, and there is very little in the first place. Sure, you read
# about such cases now and then, but that's what makes them news. Show me
# your statistics about AFDC abuse.
I can tell you that relatives I have known, the drugs came first, the
food was secondary.
# Ken Perlow ***** ***** | 13 | trimmed_train |
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