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I'm writing an X server for some video-generation equipment. The
hardware is "truecolor" in YUV space; in X terms it has a 24-bit
static color visual. I would really like to have the server just
present this static visual, but I'm not sure if this will be
acceptable to "most" X clients. The three problems I see are:
1) The colormap, though huge, is static.
2) All pixels would be 3 bytes wide.
3) Because the hardware actually lives in YUV space, the
translation RGB->YUV will introduce some rounding error.
Being more of a server guy than a client guy, I ask: will these
limitations thwart many X clients? Or will most of the X stuff
floating around blithely accept what they're given? I could write
the server to also present a pseudocolor visual of, e.g., 8 bits,
but I'd rather avoid this if not necessary.
I know there are no absolutes, but I'd appreciate hearing people's
opinions and suggestions. Thanks!
| 5 | comp.windows.x |
[stuff deleted]
What's it gonna cost?
Ginny McBride Oregon Health Sciences University
[email protected] Networks & Technical Services | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Gosh, Jesse is that famous now? He was my intern. Landau not liking
it makes me like it out of spite. (Just kidding, Bill).
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Digi-Key also sells Quad Line Receivers, parts DS1489AN (68cents) and DS1489N
(48cents). A Quad Line Driver, part DS1488 (48cents), is also sold. I guess
if you don't won't to supply +12V, the chips with the pump-up circuitry might
be worth the extra cost. But 1488's and 1489's are available at your friendly
neighborhood RS, parts MC1488 (276-2520) for $1.29 and MC1489 (276-2521) for
$1.29. | 12 | sci.electronics |
The gravity maneuvering that was used was to exploit 'fuzzy regions'. These
are described by the inventor as exploiting the second-order perturbations in a
three body system. The probe was launched into this region for the
earth-moon-sun system, where the perturbations affected it in such a way as to
allow it to go into lunar orbit without large expenditures of fuel to slow
down. The idea is that 'natural objects sometimes get captured without
expending fuel, we'll just find the trajectory that makes it possible". The
originator of the technique said that NASA wasn't interested, but that Japan
was because their probe was small and couldn't hold a lot of fuel for
deceleration.
This from an issue of 'Science News' or 'The Planetary Report' I
believe, about 2 months ago(?).
| 14 | sci.space |
Hi !!! This is the response for Wayne Michael...and certainly for other-one :-)
I'm sorry for...
1) The late of the answer but I couldn't find xv221 for msdos 'cause
I forgot the address...but I've retrieve it..
2) Posting this answer here in comp.graphics 'cause I can't use e-mail,
not yet....
2) My bad english 'cause I'm a Swiss and my language is french....
After a long time I retrieve the address where you can find XV for Dos...
Site : omnigate.clarkson.edu
Aliases : grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
Number : 128.153.4.2
/pub/msdos/djgpp/pub
it's xv221.zip (?) I think...
Certainly you read the other answer from Kevin Martin... He write about DV/X
(?).
What is it ?????? Could Someone answer ????
Thanx in advance....
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I need the file format for cc:Mail file formats - it seems to be PCX-based,
but with a twist: only the first page of a multi-page fax will come out
readable. The other pages disappear. The format seems to be 'proprietary'.
Anybody got any clues? I have to give my email FAXes to my secretary in
order to get 'em unscrambled. I want a filter from cc:Mail to .p[nb]m.
Come to think of it, p[nb]m to cc:Mail would be nice too. | 1 | comp.graphics |
I'm all in favor of drug legalization, but I do see some problems with
it. My hope is that people disposed to doing so would simply overdose
quickly, and be done with it, before making a mess of thisgs.
| 18 | talk.politics.misc |
Imake support for xmosaic
=========================
Although xmosaic is a great program in general, it unfortunately comes
without Imake support. So I created one. Until Marc Andreessen finds the
time to incorporate it in an official xmosaic release, you can easily do it
yourself. Use anonymous FTP to get
ftp.germany.eu.net:/pub/X11/misc/xmosaic.Imake.tar.z
The file's size is 3200 Byte. You will need gzip to unpack it. Have fun!
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Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
D-W4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386 | 5 | comp.windows.x |
Wishful thinking mostly. It's more likely that the Moon will never
be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no
materials we can't get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids
and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low
grade fusion reactors. Exploring it would satisfy a curiosity itch,
and it's position in the gravity well of Earth coupled with it's heat
sink capacity could offer some military utility for "high ground" military
weapons systems, but it holds very minute commercial value. If space
travel becomes cheap enough, it might become a tourist attraction as
Mt. Everest and the Antarctic have become, but that's a very minor
activity in the global scope of things.
Luna has an inconvienent gravity field. It's likely too low to prevent
calcium loss, muscle atrophy, and long term genetic drift. Yet it's
too high to do micro-G manufacturing. Space based colonies and factories
that can be spun to any convienent value of G look much better. Luna
has a modest vacuum and raw solar exposure two weeks a month, but orbital
sites can have better vacuums and continous solar exposure. Luna offers
a source of light element rocks that can serve as raw materials, heatsink,
and shielding. The asteroids and comets offer sources of both light and
heavy elements, and volatile compounds, and many are in less steep gravity
wells so that less delta-v is required to reach them.
We don't use 2/3rds of the Earth now, the seafloors, and we virtually
ignore Antarctica, a whole continent. That's because we don't have to
deal with those conditions in order to make a buck. Luna is a much more
expensive place to visit, or to live and work. I think we'll use the
easier places first. That pushes Lunar development back at least a few
centuries, if not much longer.
Luna's main short term value would be as a place for a farside radio
astronomy observatory, shielded from the noisy Earth. Or as the site
of a laser, particle beam, or linear accelerator weapons system for
defending Earth, or bombarding it as the case may be. The first is
unlikely because of the high cost for such a basic science instrument.
The second is just as unlikely because conventional nukes are good
enough, and the military would really rather see the Earth safe for
conventional warfare again. There's little glory in watching from a
bunker as machines fight each other over continental ranges. Little
ultimate profit either.
Gary | 14 | sci.space |
RE: Red, wwhite, and black, the colors of the Imperial German war-flag -- | 19 | talk.religion.misc |
Hmmm...what about walks and SB? Baerga got clobbered by Alomar in OBP and
beat him in SLG by a lesser margin. Even putting aside any other factors,
a player with a 51 point edge in OBP is more productive than a player with
a 28 point edge in SLG. The issue has been studied before, and I doubt you
could come up with any convincing argument the other way.
People see the batting average and the HR, but they don't really know
their value is worth unless they've studied the issue closely. The fact is that
Baerga ate up a LOT more outs than Alomar; while Baerga was making outs,
Alomar was drawing walks and being on base for Carter, Winfield et.al. | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
While I don't read normally read this group, I was looking for Valentine radar
information (sigh, maybe in the FAQ) and came across your posting..
I bought a '93 Probe GT with the PEP 263A last July (now at 9500 miles)
after debating over the Sentra SE-R/NX2000, MX6, MR-2, Stealth, Prelude,
and Celica.
Check this month's Consumer Reports for previous Probe records.
My criteria: a "fun" car with ABS, airbag, over 130hp, and less than $25K.
I thought about a turbo, but checking with insurance people ruled that out.
The Tri-Star cars (Eclipse/Talon/etc) were out since they don't have an air bag.
Ditto for the Mustang(also no ABS).
The SE-R/NX2000/M20 fell into the pocket-rocket category. A good used car buy.
The MX-6 was almost there but rolled more than I liked.
I didn't like the Prelude dash/instrumentation at all. Too weird for me.
The MR2 has a much smaller non-passenger space than I needed, so out that went.
The Celica was "ok" but underpowered when loaded with options (and somewhat
overpriced too) in non-turbo form.
I never considered the 240SX since it didn't have an airbag. I did look at it
for its RWD virtues but that's it. The Corolla never entered my mind.
I should have looked at the Mitsubishi VR4/Dodge Stealth more.
Since my list was exhausted, I bought the Probe. :-)
The car design is different than earlier years, so it's too early to see its
reliability so far. For what it's worth, my comments:
My dislikes:
Shutting door with windows up from inside rarely makes good wind seal.
Headlights have "stuck" up a few times (weather?)
air conditioning broke ~4000 miles (pressure cycling switch)
condensation around rear washer fluid container doesn't drain completely.
crammed engine; little hope for do-it-yourselfers (typical)
parts somewhat more expensive than normal Ford parts
underside plastic doesn't like sharp driveways and speedbumps (typical).
assembly gripes: tape on radiator, screw fell out of dash, seat seams not
stitched properly. Hopefully just a fluke.
Ford only gives 1 key with the car. C'mon Ford, spend an extra few pennies!
Rear hatch has no padding on corners when up. I'm waiting for the day when
I bash my head on the corner.
horn buttons behind air bag in spokes and not in center (personal preference)
Tires fling dirt/mud onto side of car
My Likes:
engine (design/valves/sounds/smoothness/power/mileage/torque) -- definitely #1
handling (very good for FWD; understeer only at limits)
transmission (the 5 speed is a must)
usable instrumentation (lovely readable analog everywhere)
Very little torque steer at full power (much better than the '90 SHO I drive)
stability at 100+mph (high gearing though)
low cowl (good visibility in front)
Heated outside mirrors (nice in fog, never tested in freezing weather)
ABS/Air bag (see above)
rear seats fold down (I have few rear seat passengers so a trunk not important)
No shake/rattle noises when going over bumps/potholes (still!)
Tires: 225/55VR16 Goodyear Eagles (70% left; hoping for 30K :-)
As you can see, I'm primarily interested in the engine. While it doesn't
have the uummmph of a big-liter car or the turbo rush, the big selling
point for me was the all-aluminum 24 value 2.5 liter engine.
The overall car is a good buy for the money. That market segment hasn't changed
much since July (Prelude VTEC, Honda Del Sol??). I drive it to and from work
each day on relatively smooth roads, and most noticable thing is that the
Probe's suspension doesn't like potholes. When you test drive one, find a
potholed road somewhere around town and see if the jarring you get is tolerable.
If you have 3+ passengers, by all means bring them along too. They'll find
that they have no room in the back and you'll find that the car rides
differently (if that's "better" is up to you). Also, there's a lot of glass
around you which I wasn't expecting; the temperature inside the car gets pretty
hot in the summer. My back seat passengers (now very few) complain about
the lack of ventilation; you may want to consider that when combined with
the heat. I've heard that the exhaust system has trouble, but mine works fine.
Leather and the keyless entry system weren't available when I got the car so
I can't comment on them (I got the car before it was officially announced).
I prefer cloth to leather anyway.
I wouldn't want this car in the snow: The suspension is too rough for the
inevitable surprise potholes, tires aren't meant for snow, and the seats assume
that you're not wearing lots of thick clothing. Rain is much better: water
generally beads off the windshield at freeway speed, the windshield wiper
controls are easy and understandable, and I barely hydroplaned once with the
Eagles (and I was really trying).
There is also a definite lack of cup holder/small storage places. The GT
has map holders below the speakers in the door, but they're rigid plastic
that could fit two cassettes or CD's max. The center console/storage bin/arm
rest has *1* cup holder and the back of the front seats have a cloth "pouch"
but that's it. No change holders. Quite a let-down from the SHO.
And the Probe is definitely not a people-mover car or an econo-box car!
Lastly, don't store wet car covers in the back. The foam will soak the
water up and the result will *not* smell pleasant :-(.
Nathan
[email protected]
| 7 | rec.autos |
IBM 3510-001 cd-rom drive 350ms. drive only make offer or trade.
| 6 | misc.forsale |
I need (probably) to write one or more new Motif widgets on the HP-UX
platform. Do I need the Motif private header files and source,
or can I make do with the public headers that are provided?
"Motif" includes Xt in this context.
Yes. You'll find it almost impossible without the source
at this point. It does depend on how ambitious you are and
how concerned you are about compliance with the general
interface and items like traversal.
One widget is a multi-column list (which lots of people have
already written, I am sure), and would therefore be probably be
a subclass of List rather than something simple like an Xt class.
Is this more difficult (in principle, not lines of code)?
I'm not sure what you're asking. You could create something
which is very much like a true multi-column list by placing
several lists within a geometry manager, and putting that
manager within an automatic scrolled window. This wouldn't
be good for very large lists, but you might consider this
as an alternative.
Alternatively, if anyone has a multi-column list widget they
could sell me, this might save me from having to write one!
Does it by any chance exist in Motif 1.2 already (I do not
yet have the spec)?
Motif 1.2 does not have a multi-column list in it. Have you
looked at commercial sets? There are also some PD
widget sets, one of these might have a multi-column list
you could port.
| 5 | comp.windows.x |
I have $30,000 as my budget. I'm looking for a sports or GT car.
What do you think would be the best buy? (I'm looking for specific models)
Thanks,
Danny
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Someone tell me there's a :-) hidden here somewhere... ???
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I hope you're not going to flame him. Please give him the same coutesy you'
ve given me. | 0 | alt.atheism |
sorry about that last post, my server neglected to send the message: | 7 | rec.autos |
First let me correct myself in that it was Goerbels and
not Goering (Airforce) who ran the Nazi propaganda machine. I
agree that Arab news sources are also inherently biased. But I
believe the statement I was reacting to was that since the
american accounts of events are not fully like the Israeli
accounts, the Americans are biased. I just thought that the
Israelis had more motivation for bias.
The UN has tried many times to condemn Israel for its
gross violation of human rights. However the US has vetoed most
such attempts. It is interesting to note that the U.S. is often
the only country opposing such condemnation (well the U.S. and
Israel). It is also interesting to note that that means
other western countries realize these human rights violations.
So maybe there are human rights violations going on after all.
| 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
I have a Gateway 4DX-33V with my 3.5 inch floppy as drive A. I
accidentally discovered that if a have a floppy from ONE particular
box of diskettets in the A drive when I boot up, rather than getting
the "Non-system diskette" message, the machine hangs and the CMOS
gets overwritten (luckily, Gateway sends a print of the standard
CMOS settings with their systems). This only happens with a box
of pre-formatted Fuji disks that I have, no other disks cause this
problem. If I re-format one of the Fuji disks, the problem goes away.
I did a virus scan (scan v1.02) of the disks and found nothing.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? Hardware problem? A
virus that can't be detected? The system reading in garbage from
the boot sector?
| 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
>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.
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Robert I. Eachus | 11 | sci.crypt |
I'm thinking about upgrading my 030 50MHz to the 040 33version. Has anyone
had any experience with the accelerator, and if so - what do you think?
Any problems, what are the speedometer results?, is it much faster than
the 50MHz? Basically, I'd appreciate hearing all about this product. Please
respond via email, and I'll summarize if there's a big response. thanks
in advance, Andrew
| 4 | comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Stupid me. I believed the Democrats stood for principles of personal
privacy while it was the Neanderthal Republicans that wanted into every
aspect of our lives.
Clinton is just more clever than the other guy. Looks like gun control for
privacy technology. One small step at a time.
Remember "Defend Firearms - Defeat Dukakis", followed by Bush's soon-after-
election support for gun-control? This is the Democrats' version
"Defend Free Speech - Reject Republicans" followed by speech control.
Wait a minute.... Let me think about this.
Hmmm, I feel better now. I believe the White House when they tell us
this first step is, in fact, the final step. All is OK. We've nothing to fear.
They're here to help us. God bless America.
Hey, like the grrreat J.R. "Bob" Dobbs says, you've got to pull the
wool over your *own* eyes!
| 11 | sci.crypt |
I've just managed to get xdm running from an NCR 3000 (an SVR4 486 box
running XFree86 1.2) to my NCD XDisplay. It's pretty much working, but
I'm encountering a weird error. I'm attempting to start an xterm from
my .xsession file, but nothing happens. Redirecting stderr to a file
using 'exec 2>$HOME/.xerrors' in .xsession reveals the error message:
"xterm: Error 14, errno 1: Not owner"
Now, if I start xterm from the window manager, or from the command line,
it works fine. And starting other clients, like the window manager (mwm),
and a clock, from my .xsession also works.
Anyone encountered this? Suggestions?
aTdHvAaNnKcSe | 5 | comp.windows.x |
Am I glad you write that. I got flamed all along because I begged NOT to
crosspost some nonsense articles.
The problem with crossposting is on the first poster. I am aware that this
posting is a crossposting too, but what else should one do. You never know
where the interested people stay in.
To split up newsgroups brings even more crossposting.
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Jan Holler, Bern, Switzerland Good is not good enough, make it better!
[email protected] ((Second chance: [email protected])) | 1 | comp.graphics |
: I would like to get your opinions on this: when exactly does an engaged
: couple become "married" in God's eyes? Some say that if the two have
: publically announced their plans to marry, have made their vows to God, and
: are unswervingly committed to one another (I realize this is a subjective
: qualifier) they are married/joined in God's sight.
The way I read Scripture, a couple becomes married when they are *physically*
married, i.e. when they first have sexual intercourse.
e.g. the end of Genesis 2 (quoted from memory) ``for this reason, a man shall
leave his parents and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh''
(Jesus also quotes this scripture referring to marriage).
If you read through Genesis in particular, you will often come across the
phraseology: ``[man] lay with [woman], and she became his wife''. This
implies that she became his wife when they lay together, i.e. at the
point of intercourse.
Compare this with Jewish tradition: Joseph, when he heard that Mary
was pregnant, had it in mind to divorce her quietly -- but Mary and Joseph were
*betrothed*, not married. i.e., they were in a binding relationship (which
required a divorce to get out of), but *marriage* would not occur until Mary
and Joseph went to bed together.
Compare with Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5, Revelation 19): the church is
described as the ``bride'' of Christ, but the *marriage* of the Lamb takes
place when Jesus returns. i.e., we are in a binding love-relationship with
Jesus, but we are still looking forward to the time when the marriage will
take place. I see this as the spiritual equivalent of sexual intercourse,
because it represents the most intimate fellowship possible between man and God.
In summary, engagement should be honoured as a binding relationship, but it is
not marriage. A civil ceremony is not marriage either. Marriage occurs at the
point when the betrothed couple go to bed together. (I don't mean to demean the
civil or church ceremony -- ours was great! I don't mean to be too pedantic.)
Historically, I think I am correct in stating that the civil ceremony (i.e. a
marriage recognised by the state), has only been around in the West since
Napoleon, who introduced it to keep tabs on the people (although I'm ready to be
corrected on that point!)
This view obviously raises some questions:
What about those who have had sex with one or more partners, without considering
marriage. Are those people also ``married''?
If it is true that marriage occurs at the point of intercourse, is it necessary
to be married in the eyes of the state? (I would say Yes, because this honours
the laws of our nations in the West. Although it is not illegal to sleep
together though unmarried in most Western countries, I believe that it is God-
honouring to proclaim our marriage to the state and to our friends before
actually consummating our marriage. Its to do with our being salt and light, and
also to do with how people will perceive us; i.e. it is culturally insensitive
to declare yourself married without going through a civil ceremony.)
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Thanks to everyone who sent replies regarding this case. A few of them were
very informative and helped very much.
| 18 | talk.politics.misc |
The situation: running a Fortran executable that creats an Xterm. An option
in the menu contained in the Xterm runs a Fortran subroutine that creats
a Tektronics-mode Xterm for displaying some graphics. Typing a <RET> while
the Tektronics-mode Xterm (future reference to this will be "Tek-term") is
active makes the Xterm read future keystrokes but does not shift input focus
to the Xterm (I'm basing that statement on the fact that the border of the
Tek-term stays the highlighted color and that the Tek-term stays on top of
Xterm. If what I'm describing isn't input focus, let me know.)
The xterm can be brought to the top by clicking the mouse button on it.
Subsequent selections from the Xterm of the menu item that displays graphics
highlihts the border and displays the updated graphics, but does not move
the Tek-term to the top. If the Tek-term has been iconized to conserve
screen space, it stays an icon.
The desired behavior: one of two options -
1. Whichever of the windows that is active is always on top of the
inactive one.
2. Whenever the Tek-term is inactivated, it should revert to a icon
but when it is activated it should become a window on a higher
level than the Xterm.
What I think I need: a means of specifying that a Xterm or Tek-term will
be at the highest level and a way to iconify/expand a Xterm and Tek-term.
These commands, would, I'd guess, need to be in the Fortran or in the
command that starts up the Xterm and Tek-term.
Other information: All this is taking place on a VT-1300 (a DEC dumb
X-windows terminal) connected to a VAX running VMS and Motif.
Thanks for your time. If you've got any words of wisdom (other than
"give up" ;-), please send email to | 5 | comp.windows.x |
According to what reasonable principle of justice does standing in intimate
geographical and psychological relations to a league give one some privileged
right to play in it? | 10 | rec.sport.hockey |
Neither did he!
Overall? How do you figure?
So far my radio hasn't exploded from not being tuned to 660...
| 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
Does anyone have any experience using XRunner, CAPBAK/X, or PreVueX
as an automated test tool for X? Please email me directly with
opinions (both positive and negative).
Ann Freeman
Siemens Industrial Automation, Inc.
Johnson City, TN | 5 | comp.windows.x |
I have the March/April version of the X Journal open in front of me.
I'll be working on programming x-clients this summer, and since I don't have
much experience with programming X, I thought this issue might be helpful
as it has a section on debugging, and a section on the 40 most common errors
in programming X.
At the end of the errors section, there are the following references for
tutorials on X programming style. They are:
Rosenthal, David - A simple X11 client program
Proceedings of the Winter 1988 Usenix Conference, 1988.
Lemke, D., and Rosenthal, D. - Visualizing X11 clients
Proceedings of the Winter 1989 Usenix Conference, 1989.
Does anyone know where I could find these in printed or (preferably)
electronic form?
Or can you suggest any net resources devoted to the introduction to
programming X (I'll be looking at the bookstore for books, so I am really
only asking about what I can find on the net.)
Thanks,
David Simpson | 5 | comp.windows.x |
Greetings.
I am developing an application that allows a *user* to interactively
create/edit/view a visual "model" (i.e. topology) of their network, and
I was wondering if anyone knew of any builder tools that exist to
simplify this task.
In the past I have used Visual Edge's UIM/X product to develop other
GUIs, so I am familiar with UIMSs in general.
The topology will support objects and connecting links. Once the
topology is created, I want to provide the user with capabilities to
support grouping, zooming, etc.
I am looking for some form of a higher abstraction other than X drawing
routines to accomplish this. Specifically, the zooming and grouping
aspects may prove difficult, and certainly time consuming, if I have
to "roll my own".
Suggestions?
-greg | 5 | comp.windows.x |
Two LH Research SM11-1 power supplies (SM10 series).
1000W, 5V, 200A (currently wired for 115VAC)
Control lines: +/- sense, on/off, pwr.fail, high/low margin, and
current monitor.
(The list price from LH Research is $824.00 each for qty. 1-9)
Asking $500.00 for the pair. | 6 | misc.forsale |
A 1 of 4 decoder need not be the same as a 1 to 4 demultiplexer, although
many commercial SSI implementations allow you to use one as such. Strictly,
a 1 of 4 decoder need only take two lines in and make one output change
state, according to the inputs.
A demux, on the other hand, uses two control inputs to determine which
of four outputs will reflect the state of the input signal. So there are
three inputs required.
A decoder can be used as a demux if it is equipped with an output enable
input, since this can be used as the data input (e.g. when high, all
outputs are high; when low, only the selected (by control inputs) output
will be low).
An eight way decoder is created by using the high order bit (bit 2) to
select which of two four way demuxes is enabled. Thus you achieve your
aim of having only one output of eight reflecting the input bits. Note
that this method cannot be used to create a true eight way demux, since
you have no data input (the enable line on a four way decoder) left
once you commit the enable lines to their intended purpose.
A sixteen way decoder obviously requires four, four-way decoders, plus
a mechanism to enable only one of the four at a time. Therefore, use
the fifth decoder, attached to the two high order bits, to provide the
four enable lines.
Of course, the two low order bits must be connected in parallel to the
four final stage decoders.
Please give me the credit when you submit your homework.
JohnH
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| 12 | sci.electronics |
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"
| 8 | rec.motorcycles |
As a beginer, I just wonder how to transfer files from the Sun
system (which is on the network) to my PC at home (not connected
to the network). I tried to use 'COMit' to do so, but it was very
slow and it seemed that getting multiple files at the same time
was impossible. Could anybody give me some hints & infomation?
Thank you in advance. | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
There is a new DoD listing. To get a copy use one of these commands:
finger [email protected]
OR
mail [email protected]
If you send mail make sure your "From" line is correct (ie "man vacation").
I will not try at all to fix mail problems (unless they are mine ;-). And I
may just publicly tell the world what a bad mailer you have. I do scan the
mail to find bounces but I will not waste my time answering your questions
or requests.
For those of you that want to update your entry or get a # contact the KotL.
Only the KotL can make changes. SO STOP BOTHERING ME WITH INANE MAIL
I will not tell what "DoD" is! Ask rec.motorcycles. I do not give out the #'s.
| 8 | rec.motorcycles |
Off and on over the last several months, threads about RBIs and
related topics have gotten me to thinking about how well we can
predict a player's RBIs using information about his overall
performance and the number of runners in scoring position (RISP)
that he bats with. In the Brock2 model, Bill James calculated
predicted RBIs as RBI=.235*(Total Bases) + Home Runs. This
completely ignores the context, which was all that Brock2
could do, since context was unknown to it. So I thought I'd
take that idea as a starting point and look how good a fit to
the data you get by comparing (RBI-Home Runs) to SLG*RISP.
I've started with team data, using data from the Elias's that
I've picked up over the years when a) I could afford them and
b) I could stomach the thought of increasing Elias's profits.
That gave me the years 1984-1986, 1988, and 1990. (I don't
have team RBIs for '87 or I could add that year.) If you
run a simple least squares fit to the data you get
(RBI-Home Runs) = 0.81*SLG*RISP.
The correlation between the LHS and the RHS is 0.86, which is
significant at a ridiculously high level. So, I feel like the
fit is good at the team level. I've no started to move on to
the player level and have looked at 4 players (Will Clark,
Ozzie Smith, Joe Carter, and Don Mattingly). I hope to
add quite a few more during my copious free time this year.
It doesn't do too badly, except the equation underpredicts the
low HR hitter (Smith), which may be a fault of the model or it
could just be Ozzie. The results:
RBI-HR
Years Actual Predicted
Carter (84-88,90) 400 402.6
Clark (87,88,90,92) 269 269.6
Matt'ly (84-88,90) 471 460.8
Smith (84-88,90) 317 280.6
I think we can make a case (and I hope to make it stronger) that
RBIs can be predicted simply from knowing how a player slugs overall
and how many men are in scoring position when he comes up.
More later,
Harold | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
On export.lcs.mit.edu directory contrib, and avahi.inria.fr directory pub/xpm:
xpm-3.2f-to-3.2g.patch.Z
xpm-3.2g.tar.Z
/* Copyright 1990-93 GROUPE BULL -- See license conditions in file COPYRIGHT */
/**************************************************************************\
* *
* HISTORY of user-visible changes *
* *
\**************************************************************************/
3.2g (93/04/26)
ENHANCEMENTS:
- much faster close colors
- piping from/to compressed files now handles GNU's gzip (.z) format
- added XpmColorKey attribute - ability to specify which visual's
colors to use (ie: now it's possible to read in a pixmap in a
color visual, but use the colors specified for monochrome).
- added -mono, -grey4, -grey and -color options to sxpm to demonstrate
the XpmColorKey attribute.
- Jason Patterson <[email protected]>
BUGS CORRECTED:
- fixed bug where redefining "None" as a pixel stopped mask generation
- minor SVR4 defines for <string.h>
- fixed annoying closecolor bug related to read/write color cells
- fixed minor bug in color value -> pixel overloading
- manual updated to include new red/green/blue closeness attributes
- Jason Patterson <[email protected]>
- the top Imakefile was missing the depend target
- sxpm/Imakefile fixed so that -L../lib is set before the standard
library location.
- Vivek Khera <[email protected]>
- lib/xpmP.h now defines bcopy as memcpy for VMS (required by recent
versions of VMS)
- J. Daniel Smith <[email protected]>
- the lib/Imakefile didn't work with X11R4.
| 5 | comp.windows.x |
One more time...
If they released the algorithm, it would be possible for someone
to come up with an implementation which was identical, but
lacking an escrowed key.
Note that the press announcement mentioned that the algorithm was
being kept secret for security of the key escrow system. In this
case security means "an escrowed key for EVERY clipper chip".
Assuming you believed all that is said about the effective of
the algorithm, and the escrow system, which would you buy :
(a) Chip from firm A with the escrowed key
(b) Second source chip from reputable firm B with no key
in government escrow. | 11 | sci.crypt |
------------------------------
Wrong, if a bunch of faggots from the tenderloin decide to go straight
bashing and they selectively target a heterosexual man and beat the bloody
fuck out of him, they would get charged as well under all the federal laws
that exist about violation of civils rights. The focus of their intent is
his sexual orientation, and so the law applies to them as well. The
national government retains the right to make any laws necessary to
sufficiently deter and punish any crime against someone's civil rights
until that behavior becomes so well punished that nobody even tries it!
The fact is, that at last count, gays were not beating straights for their
sexual orientation. Thus, the law is getting applied only to the straights
who indulge themselves. The federal government or judiciary has the right
to enforce the 14th amendment guarantee of equal protection under law even
if it takes 1000 possible charges against people who would violate them. Go
read your constitutional law. We broke the back of the KKK's harrassment
campaign with the same strategy in the early 1900's. So many went to jail
and for so long that it cut the heart out of the KKK.
-RSW
----------------------------------------
This "mutation" as you call it, protects your little butt too, if you
happen to be somewhere where you're the wrong "shade" for somebody else's
taste. If it can be shown that the motive for the assault on you was
racially motivated, then the full power of these extra laws that bring more
charges and punishments will come against those who harmed you. The first
use of such laws was well over a hundred years ago, and constitutional
scholars of all conviction recognize that this right reserved to the
federal government is well established and not just some short-lived
peculiarity, too! Go read some constitutional law for awhile. Maybe you'll
get it.
-RSW
--------------------------
| 18 | talk.politics.misc |
It is illegal to perform acupuncture with unsterilized needles. No licensed
practitioner would dare do this. Also there is not a single documented case
of transmission of AIDS via acupuncture needles. I wouldn't worry about it. | 13 | sci.med |
I'm a biker and a dog-lover.
First and foremost, I want to mention some common sense. If it's a choice
between injuring/killing a dog or getting yourself injured/killed, there is
only one rational decision. Only the most insane animal rights kook would put
the dog first.
Second, it's useful to learn how to read a dog's body language. How you react
to a dog who is chasing you because he thinks it's a game (and that you're
playing with him) is completely different from how you react to a dog which
has hostile intent.
Third, it's useful to learn how to present yourself to a dog. Dogs are social
beasts, and recognize a domination/submission hierarchy. To a dog, there are
two types of fellow-creatures; that which he dominates, and that which
dominate him. You need to unambiguously represent yourself as being of the
latter class. You are God: you are easily angered and your anger is terrible.
But God is also amused by one who properly submits to His dominance, and may
even on rare occasions dispense a kind word, a kind word, or even (oh joy oh
rapture unforeseen) A Dog Bisquit!
Now, how does that all relate to biking? Well, first, it's a good idea to
assume that most dogs who chase motorcycles do so because they think it's a
game, and not out of overt hostility. The MSF suggestion is a very good one;
when you see the dog coming, slow down so he determines a particular place of
interception. Just before you (and he) reach that spot, punch the throttle so
that when he reaches it you're already long gone. Dogs take a few seconds to
react to new input, and definitely cannot comprehend the acceleration that a
motorcycle is capable of.
With a hostile dog, or one which you repeatedly encounter, stronger measures
may be necessary. This is the face off. First -- and there is very important
-- make sure you NEVER face off a dog on his territory. Face him off on the
road, not on his driveway. If necessary, have a large stick, rolled up
newspaper, etc. (something the beast will understand is something that will
hurt him). Stand your ground, then slowly advance. Your mental attitude is
that you are VERY ANGRY and are going to dispense TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT. The
larger the dog, the greater your anger.
Dogs will pick up anger, just as they can pick up fear. And, since you and he
are not on his home territory, it may suddenly dawn on the dog that perhaps he
is on your territory, and that you are prepared to fight to the death.
Most dogs will decide that it is a good idea to retreat to their own territory
where there is at least a home advantage. They'll also observe that you are
satisfied by that retreat (gesture of submission) and thus they have escaped
punishment. | 8 | rec.motorcycles |
Yes, and I do everyone else. Why, you may wonder, don't I do 'Fred'?
Well, that would just be too *obvious*, wouldn't it? Oh yeah, this
isn't my real name, either. I'm actually Elvis. Or maybe a lemur; I
sometimes have difficulty telling which is which.
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden | 14 | sci.space |
Actually, my atheism is based on ignorance. Ignorance of the
existence of any god. Don't fall into the "atheists don't believe
because of their pride" mistake.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine [email protected]
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea. | 0 | alt.atheism |
A couple of weeks ago I posted a question concerning
communicating
between VB and MSACCESS using DDE. The answers I received at
that time
allowed me to get a prototype of my project working. However,
during
this process I have come up with new problems.
1) There seems to be a limit of 255 characters for a DDE Topic
string. Is
this inherent in all DDE systems or just peculiar to MSACCESS
or VB?
2) It is easy to query an Access database from VB using the
DDE SQL command,
(provided the above limitation is overcome by using short
field and table
names) but how is one meant to update a database?
a) A DDE SQL UPDATE command does not seem to work.
b) Initiating an Access macro using a DDE Execute command
from VB cannot
be used because when the macro requests information from
VB using a
second DDE channel the programs dead lock until time-
outs occur.
(The VB to Access channel has to close before the Access
to VB channel
is initiated, I guess.)
c) Access does not allow VB to DDE POKE the information.
The way I eventually managed to update a database was by
sending key-
strokes from VB to Access using the SendKeys command. This
technique has
the problem that Access cannot be minimised and it must
always be in a
state ready to respond to the sequence of key-strokes VB
sends.
Are all the above statements correct or have I made incorrect
assumptions?
Are there any better work arounds to the above? Are there any
signs of an
ODBC driver for Access? | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Those areas became states.
Puerto Rico has the population needed to become a state. But the ethnic
mix there is such that Puerto Rico will probably never become a state.
I say we cut them loose. If they don't want to become a state, we
shouldn't continue to subsidize their existence. | 18 | talk.politics.misc |
Well I don't see any smileys here. I am trying to figure out if the poster
is a dog or a wordprocessor. Couldn't be neither. Both are smarter than
this.
"I might not be great in Math"
-- | 10 | rec.sport.hockey |
record
hand | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
I had the same problem with my 512 a long time ago. Resoldering
the joints on the motherboard (all of them) fixed it. Turns out
that continuous heating and cooling caused annular (ring-shaped)
cracks to develop in the solder, effectively cutting the video
circuitry off. If you're not a solder-jockey you might want to
have someone else do it -- I took mine to an electrical engineer
buddy -- but it was a 20-minute job, tops.
-Kelley-
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Thomas Kelley Boylan, PowerPC, IBM Austin, [email protected] | 4 | comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Philadelphia 1 1 2 1--5
Hartford 1 2 1 0--4
First period
1, Hartford, Nylander 10 (unassisted) 8:51.
2, Philadelphia, Recchi 53 (Lindros, Brind'Amour) pp, 19:59.
Second period
3, Hartford, Burt 6 (Cunneyworth, Kron) 2:00.
4, Philadelphia, Bowen 1 (Eklund, Recchi) 7:09.
5, Hartford, Nylander 11 (Zalapski, Sanderson) 9:38.
Third period
6, Hartford, Kron 14 (Sanderson, Cassels) pp, 1:24.
7, Philadelphia, Beranek 15 (Lomakin, Yushkevich) 3:11.
8, Philadelphia, Faust 2 (Brind'Amour, Roussel) 3:38.
Overtime
9, Philadelphia, Yushkevich 5 (Faust) 1:15.
Philadelphia: 5 Power play: 4-1
Scorer G A Pts
--------------- --- --- ---
Beranek 1 0 1
Bowen 1 0 1
Brind'Amour 0 2 2
Eklund 0 1 1
Faust 1 1 2
Lindros 0 1 1
Lomakin 0 1 1
Recchi 1 1 2
Roussel 0 1 1
Yushkevich 1 1 2
Hartford: 4 Power play: 4-1
Scorer G A Pts
--------------- --- --- ---
Burt 1 0 1
Cassels 0 1 1
Cunneyworth 0 1 1
Kron 1 1 2
Nylander 2 0 2
Sanderson 0 2 2
Zalapski 0 1 1
-----------------------------------------
New Jersey 0 3 1--4
NY Islanders 3 3 2--8
First period
1, NY Islanders, Turgeon 56 (unassisted) 4:11.
2, NY Islanders, Thomas 36 (Malakhov, King) pp, 5:58.
3, NY Islanders, Ferraro 14 (Dalgarno, Malakhov) 18:16.
Second period
4, New Jersey, Niedermayer 11 (Richer, Nicholls) 0:41.
5, NY Islanders, Mullen 18 (Vaske, Dalgarno) 1:15.
6, NY Islanders, Thomas 37 (Hogue, Norton) 2:12.
7, New Jersey, Zelepukin 23 (unassisted) 17:11.
8, New Jersey, Richer 38 (Nicholls, Daneyko) 17:23.
9, NY Islanders, Hogue 33 (Flatley, Ferraro) 18:42.
Third period
10, NY Islanders, Turgeon 57 (unassisted) 3:45.
11, New Jersey, Semak 37 (Lemieux, Driver) 9:06.
12, NY Islanders, Turgeon 58 (King, Pilon) 10:21.
NY Islanders: 8 Power play: 4-1
Scorer G A Pts
--------------- --- --- ---
Dalgarno 0 2 2
Ferraro 1 1 2
Flatley 0 1 1
Hogue 1 1 2
King 0 2 2
Malakhov 0 2 2
Mullen 1 0 1
Norton 0 1 1
Pilon 0 1 1
Thomas 2 0 2
Turgeon 3 0 3
Vaske 0 1 1
New Jersey: 4 Power play: 2-0
Scorer G A Pts
--------------- --- --- ---
Daneyko 0 1 1
Driver 0 1 1
Lemieux 0 1 1
Nicholls 0 2 2
Niedermayer 1 0 1
Richer 1 1 2
Semak 1 0 1
Zelepukin 1 0 1
-----------------------------------------
NY Rangers 1 0 1--2
Washington 1 1 2--4
First period
1, NY Rangers, Graves 36 (Zubov, Andersson) 6:17.
2, Washington, Ridley 26 (unassisted) 18:33.
Second period
3, Washington, Hatcher 34 (Johansson) 12:19.
Third period
4, Washington, Jones 12 (May) 2:49.
5, Washington, Cote 21 (Khristich, Pivonka) pp, 18:55.
6, NY Rangers, Gartner 45 (Amonte, Andersson) pp, 19:50.
Washington: 4 Power play: 7-1
Scorer G A Pts
--------------- --- --- ---
Cote 1 0 1
Hatcher 1 0 1
Johansson 0 1 1
Jones 1 0 1
Khristich 0 1 1
May 0 1 1
Pivonka 0 1 1
Ridley 1 0 1
NY Rangers: 2 Power play: 4-1
Scorer G A Pts
--------------- --- --- ---
Amonte 0 1 1
Andersson 0 2 2
Gartner 1 0 1
Graves 1 0 1
Zubov 0 1 1
| 10 | rec.sport.hockey |
Greetings from green New Zealand...
We are looking for a Windows 3.1 Font that will allow "macrons" (a hypen)
over vowels -- in both UPPER and lower cases. This is so we can use Maori
characters in Windows applications.
Thanks in advance
-Stuart Inglis | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
To following up my own note:
: :
: : It looks like everything works as advertised but I am disappointed
: : with the speed. I'm using an Intel 400 internal 14.4k modem in the PC
: : with Telebit 14.4k on the Unix end, which are currently limited to
: : 19.2Kbits by the Unix com link. To get a quantitative comparison, I
: : did 'cat file' where "file" is 20 kbyte uncompressed ascii text, and
: : it took 75 seconds to scroll through an X window over the modem link,
: : 270 chars/sec. Using the identical hardware and Procomm+FW the same
: : "cat file' takes 11 seconds, 1820 chars/sec. BTW, I use NCD PC XView
: : on my PC at work (HP) every day for the same Unix access from a PC over
: : a LAN and like that just fine. The same 'cat file' scrolls by in
: : ~2 seconds on the LAN connection.
I just tried a few experiments. I cat'd a 20261-byte file (471 lines)
under various scenarios:
PC-Xview for DOS in a full-screen OS/2 window (1024x768x16): 18 sec
Telix (DOS) in an OS/2 window (1024xs768x256): 107 sec!
Telix (DOS) is a full-screen OS/2 window (standard VGA): 11 sec
Telix (DOS) in a Windows 3.1 window (1024x768x256): 30 sec
UW/WIN in a seamless OS/2 window (1024x768x256): gave up after 4 min!
UW/WIN in Windows 3.1 (1024x768x256): faster, but gave up after 2 min
UW/WIN in a seamless OS/2 window using pg 30 sec, could have been a
little faster (I had to keep
hitting the space bar)
I was using an ATI Wonder XL video card, by the way.
So PC-Xview for DOS looks pretty good (and the line-by-line scrolling
in OS/2 desktop looks pathetic, although full-page redraws are pretty
good).
I tried it under PC-Xview using my normal (9x15bold or 10x20) font,
and with a very small font, and there was no difference in the times.
The modem receive light was on pretty solidly, so it looks like the
bottleneck was the 9600-baud modem, not the screen drawing.
| 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
I'm confused. How is it Hal McRae's fault that he can't win with a team
whose best offensive player is Phil Hiatt? I mean, let's be real. Kansas
City will have to get outstanding years from their entire staff just to end
up near .500; they have less offense than any other team in baseball, even
if you count the expansion teams.
| 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
I was out of date. VW is stealing execs directly from Opel,
independent of Lopez. Shameful. | 7 | rec.autos |
Attention hardware hackers and bargain seekers!
I just bought a 640x200 pixel LCD panel for 25 UK pounds. I have
a datasheet for a similar panel, but I'm looking for proper data.
If anyone can help with locating data for this device (before I start
with the routine on the phone to Hitachi and rummaging through the
library), then I'll pass on the source.
Type: LM225 (Hitachi)
Resolution: 640W x 200H (so can do 80x25 chars on 8x8 matrix)
Bought from:
Greenweld Electronics Ltd
27 Park Rd
Southampton SO1 3TB, UK
Tel. +44 703 23 63 63
Fax. +44 703 23 63 07
Email: Compuserve [100014,1463]
NB: I only just bought this! I don't even know if it works!
Price was 25 UK pounds including VAT (17.5%), which isn't
payable if you're outside the EC.
Thanks for any info!
Chris
| 12 | sci.electronics |
Hi all,
I would like to purchase CD-ROM drive. The specs I would like to have is:
* Applicable to Kodak multisession Photo-CD
* SCSI(2) Interface
* Compatible with Adaptec-1542B
* Does not need any caddies
* Cheaper ( < $500 if possible)
* Double Speeded
I believe there are no drives satisfying all of the above condition,
so I would like to know all of your opinion. The above conditions
are sorted by my priority.
I think NEC CDR74-1/84-1 is a little bit expensive, but it DOES satisfy
almost all of the above conditions. The problem is that I do not know
the compatibility with 1542B. Has someone succeeded to connect these
NEC drives to 1542B? I have heard a rumor that NEC drive is incompatible
with 1542B adapter.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. | 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
This posting is totally uncalled for in rec.scouting.
The point has been raised and has been answered. Roger and I have
clearly stated our support of the BSA position on the issue;
specifically, that homosexual behavior constitutes a violation of
the Scout Oath (specifically, the promise to live "morally straight").
There is really nothing else to discuss. Trying to cloud the issue
with comparisons to Blacks or other minorities is also meaningless
because it's like comparing apples to oranges (i.e., people can't
control their race but they can control their behavior).
What else is there to possibly discuss on rec.scouting on this issue?
Nobody, including BSA, is denying anybody the right to live and/or
worship as they please or don't please, but it doesn't mean that BSA
is the big bad wolf for adhering to the recognized, positive, religious
and moral standards on which our society has been established and on
which it should continue to be based. | 0 | alt.atheism |
That's absurd! That statement must therefore say that any argument in favor
of seatbelts or airbags is an argument against automobiles. Any argument
for lifeguards is an argument against swimming. It says that any agrgument
in favor of safety precautions is an argument for banning the activity to
which the precautions apply. Extrapolating to that degree is ridiculous,
there wouldn't be any normal human activity left to do; therefore it is
a non-seqitur.
Also, even though most people do not ride motorcycles, they do boat, sail,
jetski, climb, ski, fly parachute, hang-glide, glide, bungee-jump, bike,
skate, rollerblade, skateboard, play rugby (ouch), mow the lawn, rewire
the basement, operate heavy machinery, and do a host of other 'dangerous'
things that would all be as valid as motorcycling as activities to ban.
Your little homily applies to all those things, and the general public
buying into banning motorcycles without realizing that their activity
would be next is unlikely.
| 8 | rec.motorcycles |
All of the arguments concerning the Sabbath ought to make the point
pretty clear - anyone outside of the Catholic or Orthodox orAnglican or
Monophysite churches ourght to worship on Saturday if they are really
sola scriptura. Otherwise, they are following a law put into effect by
the Church, and only the above Chruches really recognize any power of
the Chruch to do so.
Andy Byler
[You will note that nothing in the FAQ said anything about the Church
establishing or changing a law. The argument against the Sabbath is
that it is part of the ceremonial law, and like the rest of the
ceremonial law is not binding on Christians. This argument is based
on Paul's letters, Acts, and in a more general sense, Jesus'
teachings. Further, most people argue that Scripture shows worship
occuring on Sunday, and Paul endorsing it. I understand that these
points are disputed, and do not want to go around the dispute one more
time. The point I'm making here is not that these arguments are
right, but that the backing they claim is Scripture.
Accepting the principle of "sola scriptura" does not commit us to
obeying the entire Jewish Law. Acts 15 and Paul's letters are quite
clear on that. I think even the SDA's accept it. The disagreement is
on where the Bible would have us place the line.
By the way, Protestants do give authority to the church, in matters
that are not dictated by God. That's why churches are free to
determine their own liturgies, church polity, etc. If you accept that
the Sabbath is not binding on Christians, then the day of worship
falls into the category of items on which individual Christians or
(since worship is by its nature a group activity) churches are free to
decide. | 15 | soc.religion.christian |
Comet P/Helin-Roman-Crockett also spent some time as a temporary
satellite to Jupiter a few years ago if you believe the calculations
by Tancredi, G., Lindgren, M. and Rickman, H.(Astron. Astrophys.,
239, pp. 375-380, 1990).
--
------------------------------------------------------------- | 14 | sci.space |
Hello Everybody!
I have a little question:
Due to more features (PEX, Drag&Drop) many applications when linked with for
example Motif 1.2 instead Motif 1.1 need more memory in the Xserver.
X-terminals only have limited memory (normally no swapping possible). So my
question:
Is there a possibility to determine via X protocol calls the size of free
memory available to the Xserver?
So one can determine for example whether to start a PEX application with the
CSS on client side or on server side (when there is enough memory).
Please reply via e-mail, I'll summarize!
Sincerly,
Matthias
| 5 | comp.windows.x |
Sorry, by "they" I meant autobahns, not US freeways.
Well, I've driven in every state but Alaska, and drive about 60k per year.
I take long cross country trips any chance I get - its fun for me and I
can get reimbursment.
My job allows me to drive rather than fly. Not to labor the point, but
I've driven just about every freewayin the US, Germany, UK and France plus
some in Mexico, which was surpisingly good.
Yes, but as a %age of the total freeway in the US?
All you have to do in this case is mark the hazard, advising people to
slow to 85 or so.
Texas freeways are varied, sometimes a good surface. Mostly flat. But,
I5 in CA is comparable and hilly.
Given the absence of other traffic and car built for 130 (e.g. 535)
most US freeways are just fine. The problem is other road users and
cops.
| 7 | rec.autos |
There's a program called "Icon Frightener" included with the book Stupid
Windows Tricks by Bob LeVitus and Ed Tittel (Addison-Wesley, 1992). It's
freeware. If it's not on the net anywhere, I'll happily email a copy to
someone who's willing to upload it (I can't upload through our Internet
firewall).
| 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
[4) "Nothing unclean shall enter [heaven]" (Rev. 21.27). Therefore,
babies are born in such a state that should they die, they are cuf off
from God and put in hell, which is exactly the doctrine of St. Augustine
and St. Thomas. Of coures, having only original sins on thier souls,
they suffer the lightest punishment, the loss of the vision oand
presence of God, but that does not change the undeniable fact that they
cannot possibly come to a forgivenss of original sin, nor can they
inherit eternal life. "That," as St. Augustine said, "Is what the
Pelagian heretics taught." Which is why he said later, "If you want to
be a Christian, do not teach that unbaptized infants can come to a
forgivenss of original sin."] | 15 | soc.religion.christian |
I am trying to build and use imake (X11R4) on an IBM RS/6000 running AIX V3.2.
I am having the following 2 problems.
(1) Many of my Imakefile's have contructs like
/**/#This is a makefile
at the start of lines to pass Makefile comments thru the C
preprocessor and into the Makefile. Most of the C preprocessors that
I have used will not treat such a # as appearing at the start of the
line. Thus the C preprocessor does not treat the hash symbol as the
start of a directive.
However the IBM cpp strips the comment and treats the hash symbol
as the start of a directive. The cpp fails when it determines
that "This" is not a known directive. I have temporarily hacked my
imake to handle this situation but would like to come up with a better
fix.
(2) Several Imakefiles use /**/ as a parameter to a macro when a particular
use of the macro does not need a value for the parameter. The AIX cpp
gives warnings about these situations but continues to work OK.
If you are familiar with these problems and have solutions, I would appreciate
information about on your solutions. (Perhaps, this is solved in a later
version of imake that I have not reviewed.) Also, do you know of other cpp's
that behave similarly? | 5 | comp.windows.x |
Hmmm. These don't look like references to me. Is passive-aggressive
behavior associated with weight rebound? :-) | 13 | sci.med |
Gee, I guess they should also have such a repository for house keys,
car keys, safety deposit keys, ... :-(
rdl | 11 | sci.crypt |
Can anybody name a player who was 'rushed' to the majors (let's, for
argument's sake, define "rushed" as brought up to the majors for more than
a cup of coffee prior at age 22 or younger, and performing below
expectations), whose career was damaged by this rushing? I'm serious; I
tend to agree with David that bringing the player up sooner is better, but
I'd like to look at players for whom this theory didn't work, if there are
any. I'd prefer players within the last 10 years or so, because then I can
look up their minor league stats. (It's important to distinguish between
players who legitimately had careers below what their minor league numbers
would have projected, as opposed to players who were hyped and failed, but
actually had careers not out of line with their minor league numbers).
Let's kick it off with an example of a player who was "rushed", although
there doesn't seem to have been any damage to his career. Jay Bell was
given 135 PAs in the major leagues at age 21, and performed well below what
you would expect from his AAA numbers the same season. He got 236 PAs the
next year at age 22, and still underperformed. However, the next year, at
age 24, his performance improved, and he won the everyday shortstop job,
and has been there ever since. It's really hard for me to see where he
would have been better off staying in the minor league (where he was
performed quite well in AAA) during this time, rather than being "rushed";
Cleveland might have been better off, I suppose, because they might have
been less likely to give up on him.
Yes, if you bring a player up early, he's likely going to struggle. But
does that delay the time at which he stops struggling, and starts
performing up to expectations? | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
930418
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. [Honestly.]
The word of Sin is Restriction. [Would I kid you?]
Does one man's words encompass the majestic vision of thousands
of individuals? Quoting a man is not the same as quoting the
Order. Taken out of context, words can be interpreted much
differently than had one applied them within the confines of
their original expression.
I think this is the case regarding Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior
of the Order to which I belong. When he included that bit
from Merlinus X' he did us all a service. He showed us the extremes
to which Order members have been known to go in their fervor.
I have little knowledge regarding Reuss' background, but surely
he was an unusual man, and he was an important force in the Order
for many years.
Yet as people change so do Orders change, and while we look back
so carefully at the dirty laundry of O.T.O. remember that this is
only the surface skim and that many perspectives are now encompassed
which extend beyond any one individual. I hope to show that there
was and is much room for a difference of opinion within the Order
itself, perhaps by testing the limits myself.
Let us examine this issue a bit more closely....
"In 1895, Karl Kellner (1850-1905), a wealthy Austrian industrialist
and paper chemist, as well as a high-grade Mason, founded the Ordo
Templi Orientis. Kellner had traveled widely in the East, where he
met three adepts who instructed him specific magical practices.
Kellner's efforts to develop the Order were later assisted by Franz
Hartmann, Heinrich Klein and Theodore Reuss, who had worked together
prior to joining the O.T.O. The Order was first proclaimed in 1902
in Reuss's Masonic publication, 'Oriflamme'. On Kellner's death,
Reuss succeeded him as Outer Head [O.H.O.]. The 'Jubilee' edition of
the 'Oriflamme', published in 1912, announced that the Order taught
secret of sexual magic.
"Theodore Reuss was an interesting character. Born June 28, 1855 in
Augsburg, he entered Masonry in 1876. He was a singer, journalist and
possibly a spy for the Prussian political police, infiltrating the Socialist
League founded by Karl Marx's daughter and her husband. Reuss was
later associated with William Wynn Westcott, a leader of the Golden
Dawn, who later introduced him to John Yarker. Yarker chartered Reuss to
found the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim in Germany. After several
attempts to concretize various Masonic Rites, Reuss settled on the
development of the O.T.O.
"The Order experienced reasonably steady growth under Reuss' leadership.
For example, he chartered Papus in France, Rudolph Steiner in Berlin
and H. Spencer Lewis in the USA. In 1912, the historic meeting between
Reuss and Crowley occurred. Crowley wrote that Reuss came to him and
accused him of revealing Order secrets. When Crowley looked at it afresh,
the initiated interpretation of sexual magick unfolded itself to him for
the first time. Reuss appointed Crowley as Supreme and Holy King of all
the English speaking world, and it was this authorization that he invoked
when publishing the material of the Equinox.
"Reuss resigned as Outer Head of the Order in 1922 after suffering a
stroke and named Crowley his successor. All was well until 1925 when
_The Book of the Law_ was translated into German. There was a break
in the continuity of the Order. Manyk members split with the new O.H.O.
over the book, which Crowley was actively promulgating through the Order.
He had earlier revise dthe Order rituals at Reuss's request, deeply
infusing the doctrines of the New Aeon revelation."
_An Introduction to the History of the O.T.O._, by Ad Veritatem IX'
Within _Equinox III:10_, Edited by
Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior, Rex Summus Sanctissimus,
Caliph of the United States of America,
Published by Samuel Weiser, 1990.
There are many possible reasons that our Frater Superior included this
material in _Equinox III:10_. And this is the real point, is it not?
Why did he wish to publish such things about the history of his own
organization? Does he represent a dogmatic threat to the principle
of Thelema? Or is he exercising his True Will and putting forth very
complex pictures with no easy answers? A picture which leaves room
for very many interpretations.
It is quite easy for me to see, for example, that all of O.T.O. derived
out of the dribble of faltering Masonry, purchased by clever hucksters
with an ounce of courage and some writing ability to aid them. And I
can take that all the way down to our present Caliph, whose feeble
support of the 'Law of Thelema' is laughable at best.
Would I be thrown out of the Order for speaking in this way?
Will I?
I think not.
Why? Because my Frater will see it as a perspective, an interjection
I am using as an example. My illustration shows that we may express things
in the context of a larger work and the true significance of this may be
quite difficult to apprehend at first.
So it may be with OTO and Merlinus X'. Please look O.T.O. more carefully.
I do not support Reuss's words myself, as I am not qualified to assess
them, and I am critical of their pomposity. If I who am a member of
the Order take such a stand and am allowed to continue doing so, then
what can this say about the health of the Order? Does it mean that
the Order has 'gone soft' and abandoned its moral principles? Or
does it mean that it is strong in its ability to let the will of
universal kinship arise on its own, not shackled by some dogmatic
requirement? How shall we resolve these two possibilities?
I find a high calibre of individual associated with Ordo Templi Orientis.
They are often quite intelligent and sometimes very well versed in arcane
or usual information. They are quite often artists and geniuses.
Having met some 20 longstanding members in the SF Bay Area (many who are or
were very heavily involved with the Order), I can vouch for the integrity
of the organization as it stands.
I have sometimes questioned the policy of Hymenaeus Beta. In these moments
I followed my intuition, and I've found little to stop me from requesting
a Second initiation from a different O.T.O. body. I'm happily participating
in social groups (Feasts or Initiations) and have come to know the Gnostic
Mass well enough for my tastes.
This doesn't make me an authority on Order politics and explanations, however.
I can only hypothesize and relay to you what I understand based on my
limited contact with other members.
I urge you not to take the words of Merlinus X too far. There are many
ways to interpret words, and many people who have become involved with
the Order feel very strongly about the sanctity of personal freedom
and the preservation of individual vision.
I welcome other comment on this issue and will be writing more in response
to other posts in this thread.
Invoke me under my stars. Love is the law, love under will.
I am I! | 19 | talk.religion.misc |
Yea, thanks to lots of good information in this newsgroup, I was prepared
for lots of details (even shipping time ... got my C610 8/230/CD in 5 weeks).
I guess my biggest disappointment is the lack of detail in the written
specs and documentation. The case load spec is an example -- the setup
section says Apple 14" and 16" monitors can go on top, but 21" and other
big ones can't. Why couldn't they publish a maximum load?
Now if I can figure out if there's any hope using the "partition" button
on the hard disk setup utility (do I dare just try it and see what happens?),
then maybe I can divide up the wealth among the family members a bit more
securly. The "getting more information" section of the manual suggested
trying other avenues before calling Apple, but didn't mention the net. | 4 | comp.sys.mac.hardware |
I tried mailing you but your domain seems not to exist, can't even get
sinet.slb.com to admit to knowing about geco, anyway here we go:
: Subject:GPz900 runs like a bitch.
: Anyone have a cure for sub zero running probs on a GPz 900.
: Anything below 3000 revs and the bike wants to cut out all the time,
: the recommended cure in the bike mags seems to be to switch off the engine
: for a minute to thaw the ice,but this is obviously not mutch of a cure.
: mine has had the kawasaki heated carb mod but the problem persists,
: i've covered the rad which makes the bike run warmer and moves the problem
: down the temp scale a degree or two.
: Has anyone tried a dynojet kit on the 900 or (getting desperate) different
: carbs or the fuel injection off the GPz 1100.
:
Have you talked to Kawasaki, maybe they did another version of the upgrade
kit. Got to be worth a phone call. Did you do the carb mod or did you buy it
secondhand from someone who said that it had been done.
Is that Orpington in Kent? If so have you heard of the Ogri mailing list
which I run? Its an email list for bikers in the UK and interested parties,
available live or as a daily digest. Let me know if you want to subscribe.
Good luck, Dave
| 8 | rec.motorcycles |
To all those out there wondering about who holds the record for three
homer games ina career, the answer is Johnny Mize in his career with the
Cards and the Yanks. He hit three 6 times. I am almost sure about this. In
case anyone is wondering, the record for two homer games is held by Babe
Ruth and is 72. Mize's record may not last for much longer because of Juan
Gonzalez. He has at least three games with three and maybe 4. I know that
he had at least two last year and one as a rookie. I don't have any record
books at college for me to check on though. Please let me know, okay, if I
am wrong.
Onto the Padres. Is there anyone out there who follows them?- especial-ly those with access to local news? I don't here anything in Los Angeles and I
can't get McPaper consistently around here.
comment: It looks as though San Diego has gotten the better of the two deals
that brought Bell and Plantier to the Padres. It has also forced the team to use Darrell Shermann. Of course, Plantier could get injured again or he could
hit with the power of 91 but with a lower average. Bell always could finish
with .240 and 15-18 hrs-essentially Jerald Clark's numbers.
leadoff comment: Craig Shipley?????? I get on base 29% of the time if I'm
lucky at leadoff? Hell, of the usual starters, use Gwynn. He's got 4 steals
already. Is Shipley starting because of an injury to Stillwell, though? I
haven't seen Stillwell's name in any box scores. Anyway unless you are going
to use Shermann at leadoff then use Gwynn. He at lesat gets on base and this
year is stealing bases.
Sheffield comment: Though the season is early and stats mean nothing.
Witness Phillips batting .500+ currently. But does Sheffield have an injury,
or anythingelse wrong with him. I just don't hear anything.
Andy Benes: Is he pitching like he did in the second half of '91? or is
this a flash of promise that he throws out evrey now and then? Has anyone
seen him pitch the two good games?
score for today, Sunday april 18: Padres 10, St Louis 6. Padres sweep the
Cardinals as Gwynn goes 5 for 5 with a homer. Sheffield and Tueful also homer
in a winning cause.
Thanks for listening-reading
any comments???? | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
Yes, I am very interested in this chip. Please follow up or email.
| 1 | comp.graphics |
We are developing an MS-Windows based product that uses a full screen window
to display ~24 rows of textual data. Is there any product for Microsoft Windows
that will enable blind individuals to access the data efficiently (quickly) ??
Please email responses and I will post a summary to this group. | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
An interesting interpretation of Revelation 17 and 18 has been given by
evangelist David Wilkerson. I am not saying that I totally agree with his
interpretation, but it is certainly believable and good food for thought. He
interprets the Babylon of Revelation 17-18 as being none other than the good
old U. S. of A. That's right, America. He supports his claim in several ways.
The Babylon of Revelation is THE world leader in trade and commerce, and the
WHOLE WORLD wept when Babylon fell. The American dollar, despite the Japanese
success of the 20th century, is STILL the most sought after currency in the
world. If the U.S. were destroyed, wouldn't the whole world mourn? The bible
also talks about Babylon being a home of harlots, sin, and adultery (I am
paraphrasing, of course). Babylon's sin affected, or should I say, infected,
the whole world. It doesn't take much looking to see that the U.S. is in a
state of moral decay. Hasn't the American culture and Hollywood spread the "do
it if it feels good" mentality all over the world. I think, though, that what
Mr. Wilkerson uses as his strongest argument is the fact that Revelation calls
Babylon "Babylon the Great" and portrays it as the most powerful nation on
earth. No matter how dissatisfied you are with the state of our country, I
don't think you would have too much trouble agreeing that the U.S. is STILL the
most powerful nation on earth.
Again, this interpretation is not NECESSARILY my own, but I do find it worthy
of consideration. | 15 | soc.religion.christian |
Maybe not to you. But to those who stand on this base, He is
precious. | 19 | talk.religion.misc |
[...]
You seem to be saying that a LIMITED government will provide MORE
opportunities for private interests to use it to pursue their own
agendas, and asking libertarians to prove that this will NOT happen.
While I can't offer such a proof, it seems pretty damn plausible that
if the government does not regulate a particular area, it cannot become
a tool of private interests to pursue their own agendas in that area.
I rather suspect that it's the sort of government we have NOW that is
more likely to become such a tool, and that it IS such a tool in many
instances.
I suspect that this is because "improvement in the human condition" as
you define it is not the primary goal of libertarianism, and would not
be the primary goal of a libertarian government. My impression of
libertarianism is that its primary goal is the elimination of
government coercion except in a very limited cases.
--
Ian Sutherland
[email protected] | 18 | talk.politics.misc |
: [first post I've seen from the ol' Bug-Zoo (BGSU)]
: > There is no means that i can possibly think of to prove beyond doubt
: >that a god does not exist (but if anyone has one, by all means, tell me
: >what it is). Therefore, lacking this ability of absolute proof, being an
: >atheist becomes an act of faith in and of itself, and this I cannot accept.
: > I accept nothing on blind faith.
: Invisible Pink Flying Unicorns! Need I say more?
There is also the question of what is meant by "atheist". A familiar
example of the importance of the meaning of the word is as follows.
The two statements following ARE consistent:
(1) I do not believe that you are wearing lilac socks
(2) I do not believe that you are are not wearing lilac socks
The two statements following are NOT consistent:
(3) I do believe that you are wearing lilac socks
(4) I do believe that you are are not wearing lilac socks
Statements (1) and (2) require no faith, they make no presumptions about
the nature of reality. Statements (3) and (4) require belief. Many
atheists (myself included) take the following position:
(5) I do not believe that there is a god.
(6) I do not believe that there is not a god. | 0 | alt.atheism |
10 | rec.sport.hockey |
|
Anyone have any information on the effects/origin of oxaprozin?
It's marketed under the name "DAYpro", and appears to be an
anti-inflammatory. Is it similar to naproxin? Stronger?
TIA | 13 | sci.med |
I have posted a DOS MPEG decoder/player to alt.binaries.pictures.utilities.
Here is a short description and some technical information, taken from the
accompanying documentation:
DMPEG V1.0
Public Domain MPEG decoder
by Stefan Eckart
0. Features
===========
DMPEG/DMPLAY is another MPEG decoder/player for the PC:
- decodes (nearly) the full MPEG video standard
(I,P,B frames, frame size up to at least 352x240 supported)
- saves decoded sequence in 8 or 24bit raw file for later display
- optional on-screen display during decoding (requires VGA)
- several dithering options: ordered dither, Floyd-Steinberg, grayscale
- color-space selection
- runs under DOS, 640KB RAM, no MS-Windows required
- very compact (small code / small data models, 16 bit arithmetic)
- real time display of the raw file by a separate player for
VGA and many Super-VGAs
...
4. Technical information
========================
The player is a rather straightforward implementation of the MPEG spec [1].
The IDCT is based on the Chen-Wang 13 multiplication algorithm [2]
(not quite the optimum, I know). Blocks with not more than eight non-zero
coefficients use a non-separated direct multiply-accumulate 2D-IDCT
(sounds great, doesn't it?), which turned out to be faster than a 'fast'
algorithm in this (quite common) case. Dithering is pretty standard. Main
difference to the Berkeley decoder (except for the fewer number of supported
algorithms) is the use of 256 instead of 128 colors, the (default) option to
use a restricted color-space and the implementation of a color saturation
dominant ordered dither. This leads to a significantly superior quality of
the dithered image (I claim, judge yourself).
Restricted color-space means that the U and V components are clipped to
+/-0.25 (instead of +/-0.5) and the display color-space points are distributed
over this restricted space. Since the distance between color-space points
is thus reduced by a factor of two, the color resolution is doubled at the
expense of not being able to represent fully saturated colors.
Saturation dominant ordered dither is a method by which a color, lying
somewhere between the points of the display color space, is approximated
by primarily alternating between two points of constant hue instead of
constant saturation. This yields subjectivly better quality due to the
lower sensitivity of the human viewing system to saturation changes than
to hue changes (the same reasoning as used by the PAL TV standard to improve
on NTSC). The improvement is particularly visible in dark brown or redish
areas.
...
| 1 | comp.graphics |
No. The christians were leary of having an atheist spokesman
(seems so clandestine, and all that), so they had him removed. Of
course, Keith is busy explaining to his fellow captives how he
isn't really being persecuted, since (after all) they *are*
feeding him, and any resistance on his part would only be viewed
as trouble making.
I understand he did make a bit of a fuss when they tatooed "In God
We Trust" on his forehead, though.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine [email protected]
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea. | 0 | alt.atheism |
Trade your old PC for my new modem.
Modem comes with coupond good for travel to/from Europe.
14.4 v.42bis modem
MODEM FEATURES:
MNP5 2-to-1 Compression & Error Correction
V.42bis 4-to-1 Compression & Error Correction
CCITT V.32bis Compatible (14.4k bps)
CCITT V.32 Compatible (9.6k bps)
CCITT V.22bis Compatible (2.4k bps)
AT Command Set Compatible
Compatible with IBM PC/XT/AT/386's and Compatibles
Bundled with Communications Software
PC Bus interface
Two RJ11C Connectors: Phone and Line | 6 | misc.forsale |
See, we are disagreeing on the definition of moral here. Earlier, you said
that it must be a conscious act. By your definition, no instinctive
behavior pattern could be an act of morality. You are trying to apply
human terms to non-humans. I think that even if someone is not conscious
of an alternative, this does not prevent his behavior from being moral.
I try to show it, but by your definition, it can't be shown.
And, morality can be thought of a large class of princples. It could be
defined in terms of many things--the laws of physics if you wish. However,
it seems silly to talk of a "moral" planet because it obeys the laws of
phyics. It is less silly to talk about animals, as they have at least
some free will. | 0 | alt.atheism |
I just got off the phone with Mathsoft technical service. They
are now admitting a problem of unknown nature with Maple and
Norton Desktop for Windows. They have no clue at this time
and are collecting configuration information on the systems
which exhibit the problem. Anyone having problems loading the
Maple solver in MathCad 4.0 under NDW shoud call technical
support at 617-577-1017. They made no schedule promices,
but are actively working on the problem.
In the meantime, the workaround is to provide a configuration
selection in autoexec.bat to use PROGMAN (yuk, pew) whenever
you plan to use the Maple solver and NDW otherwise. I am using
Norton BE to place a little menu on the screen with a 5 second
timeout to auto boot NDW. | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
I just purchased The Norton Desktop for windows, and I also have
Norton Utilities. When I installed NDW, it wanted to rem out the line
that installed EP (EP /ON) and the command to invoke the Image utility.
It replaced the Image command with a new image command that invokes the
version of Image that came with NDW. This makes sense, as presumably the
Image version with NDW is newer than the one with NU. It did not, however,
install smartcan in the autoexec. Now two questions:
1: Will NU use the image data saved by the newer version of image invoked.
i.e. Are the two version of Image compatable?
2: Will erase protect use the info from smartcan, and vice versa?
I use both dos and windows, and I want to make sure that when I
erase files in either environment, they are going to be protected.
From the experiments I have run, The two programs (Erase Protect and
smart Erase) don't use each others info.
I currently have both EP and smartcan loading within my autoexec, and
I don't see any conflicts;
FYI : Norton Desktop for Windows version 2.2
Norton Util's version 6 | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Over the years, I have met Christians who are not associated with
any local church and are not members of any local church. This is
an issue that may be very personal, but is important. What does
the Bible say about this and how can we encourage our friends with
regard to this issue? | 15 | soc.religion.christian |
I caught up a mailmessage from an NCD guy, who stated that Tek
might be quitting it's X terminal activities and would be looking
for an interested buyer.
Since the source of this message is NCD, THIS MIGHT ONLY BE NASTY
GOSSIP !!!
Can anyone say more about this??
Dick. | 5 | comp.windows.x |
It already does.
| 11 | sci.crypt |
Pardon me?
"Greece Government Rail-Roads Two Turkish Ethnic Deputies"
While World Human Rights Organizations Scream, Greeks
Persistently Work on Removing the Parliamentary Immunity
of Dr. Sadik Ahmet and Mr. Ahmet Faikoglu.
Dr. Sadik Ahmet, Turkish Ethnic Member of Greek Parliament, Visits US
Washington DC, July 7- Doctor Sadik Ahmet, one of the two ethnic
Turkish members of the Greek parliament visited US on june 24 through
July 5th and held meetings with human rights organizations and
high-level US officials in Washington DC and New York.
At his press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC,
Sadik Ahmet explained the plight of ethnic Turks in Greece and stated
six demands from Greek government.
Ahmet said "our only hope in Greece is the pressure generated from
Western capitals for insisting that Greece respects the human rights.
What we are having done to ethnic Turks in Greece is exactly the same
as South African Apartheid." He added: "What we are facing is pure
Greek hatred and racial discrimination."
Spelling out the demands of the Turkish ethnic community in Greece
he said "We want the restoration of Greek citizenship of 544 ethnic
Turks. Their citizenship was revoked by using the excuse that this
people have stayed out of Greece for too long. They are Greek citizens
and are residing in Greece, even one of them is actively serving in
the Greek army. Besides, other non-Turkish citizens of Greece are
not subject to this kind of interpretation at an extent that many of
Greek-Americans have Greek citizenship and they permanently live in
the United States."
"We want guarantee for Turkish minority's equal rights. We want Greek
government to accept the Turkish minority and grant us our civil rights.
Our people are waiting since 25 years to get driving licenses. The Greek
government is not granting building permits to Turks for renovating
our buildings or building new ones. If your name is Turkish, you are
not hired to the government offices."
"Furthermore, we want Greek government to give us equal opportunity
in business. They do not grant licenses so we can participate in the
economic life of Greece. In my case, they denied me a medical license
necessary for practicing surgery in Greek hospitals despite the fact
that I have finished a Greek medical school and followed all the
necessary steps in my career."
"We want freedom of expression for ethnic Turks. We are not allowed
to call ourselves Turks. I myself have been subject of a number of
law suits and even have been imprisoned just because I called myself
a Turk."
"We also want Greek government to provide freedom of religion."
In separate interview with The Turkish Times, Dr. Sadik Ahmet stated
that the conditions of ethnic Turks are deplorable and in the eyes of
Greek laws, ethnic Greeks are more equal than ethnic Turks. As an example,
he said there are about 20,000 telephone subscribers in Selanik (Thessaloniki)
and only about 800 of them are Turks. That is not because Turks do not
want to have telephone services at their home and businesses. He said
that Greek government changed the election law just to keep him out
of the parliament as an independent representative and they stated
this fact openly to him. While there is no minimum qualification
requirement for parties in terms of receiving at least 3% of the votes,
they imposed this requirement for the independent parties, including
the Turkish candidates.
Ahmet was born in a small village at Gumulcine (Komotini), Greece 1947.
He earned his medical degree at University of Thessaloniki in 1974.
he served in the Greek military as an infantryman.
In 1985 he got involved with community affairs for the first time
by collecting 15,000 signatures to protest the unjust implementation
of laws against ethnic Turks. In 1986, he was arrested by the police
for collecting signatures.
Serdar Argic | 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
Actually this stuff from Mogilny doesn't surprise me all that much. About 4
or 5 weeks ago I read in the Toronto Sun a quote from Alex; it went something
like [sarcastically]:
"Yep, Patty's the man. He's responsible for the team's success...I'm a
nobody around here."
I was going to post it at the time...I must have forgot since nobody else
was talking about him being a problem.
Yep, I'd beat the shit out of him too. LaFontaine really must be a team
player...makes you wonder what the Islander management was thinking.
My question is what the hell is Muckler doing? Whether he wishes to admit it
or not, the team is his to coach, and if he can't do the job then maybe the
job should be given to somebody who can.
Gee, kinda like Alex's spot on the team, isn't it? | 10 | rec.sport.hockey |
I am hoping to produce the first update of the BB DDD this week;
please send info about the most significant (longest, most critical,
etc.) home run that you have seen yet this season. | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
: Am I justified in being pissed off at this doctor?
:
: Last Saturday evening my 6 year old son cut his finger badly with a knife.
: I took him to a local "Urgent and General Care" clinic at 5:50 pm. The
: clinic was open till 6:00 pm. The receptionist went to the back and told the
: doctor that we were there, and came back and told us the doctor would not
: see us because she had someplace to go at 6:00 and did not want to be delayed
: here. During the next few minutes, in response to my questions, with several
: trips to the back room, the receptionist told me:
: - the doctor was doing paperwork in the back,
: - the doctor would not even look at his finger to advise us on going
: to the emergency room;
: - the doctor would not even speak to me;
: - she would not tell me the doctor's name, or her own name;
: - when asked who is in charge of the clinic, she said "I don't know."
:
: I realize that a private clinic is not the same as an emergency room, but
: I was quite angry at being turned away because the doctor did not want to
: be bothered. My son did get three stitches at the emergency room.
Speaking as a physician who works in an urgent care center, the above
behavior is completely inappropriate. If a patient who requires extensive
care shows up at the last minute, we always see them and give them appropriate
care. It is reasonable for a clinic to refuse to see patients outside of its
posted hours, but what you describe is misbehavior. Ask to speak to the
clinic director, and complain. Whatever their attitude, they have nothing to
gain from angering patients. | 13 | sci.med |
The big win with the V-1 is not its range but rather its
directionality and multiple-transmitter tracking (which you later
called a "gimmick" -- a conclusion I disagree with). Since the
detector incorporates multiple receivers it's not surprising that it's
significantly more expensive. While the added capabilities may not
help you, there is added value for those of us who live in areas where
there are a lot of false-alarms.
I certainly call it "interesting" but I'm another person who thinks
that the added value might be coming at too high a cost. Very
adequate radar detectors are available for less than half the cost and
one of them has suited me rather well. If I did more long-distance
travelling in areas I'm not familiar with I'd probably consider
getting the V-1 because it's additional information would be useful in
discriminating false alarms. | 7 | rec.autos |
Let's see if I have this straight. A law is created that says "you can not
have a automatic weapon" and therefore it's ok for the government to use
any level of force to enforce that law. Doesn't matter if the entire
population of the planet is destroyed as long as that law is obeyed. | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
That's open for debate. Certainly, an excessive number of people are
murdered every year but people also do save innocent lives with firearms.
The media just don't tell us when it happens...
I think there are more of us than there are federal marshalls...
Crap. It's simplistic thinking on the part of feather-headed dolts.
Nuts. | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
On my 59 sporty I had some pinhole leaks open up on the back seam. I kreme
it about a year ago and have had no problems at all. Be real careful as
the cleaning part of the solution is hell on paint.
-Jim
| 8 | rec.motorcycles |
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