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In article <May.12.04.29.37.1993.10035@athos.rutgers.edu> gt7122b@prism.gatech.edu (Randal Lee Nicholas Mandock) writes:
...
> safety. To the degree that means other than the death
> penalty and military operations are sufficient to keep the
> peace, then these non-violent provisions are to be preferred
> because they are more in proportion and in keeping with the
> final goal of protection of peace and human dignity.
Thanks for posting the exact wording which I had not seen
previously. The part I quote above seems to me to indicate
disapproval of capital punishment - it is to be used only when
other means are not sufficient; I would say this is a stronger
restriction than saying that capital punishment is useable when
justifiable. I would certainly say there are cases where a
crime justifies death (perhaps this is the Old Testament
interpretation), but my reverence for life would say that I
would oppose the actual infliction of the death penalty (a New
Testament interpretation?). It is a matter for debate whether
the death penalty works to keep the peace in a way that
non-violent provisions do not. I don't believe it does, and I
would certainly observe that in the USA, where you have the
death penalty, there is a far higher murder rate than here in
the UK, where we do not.
Matthew Huntbach
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----- Begin Included Message -----
The following teaching is brought to you on behalf of Malcolm Smith
Ministries, a ministry dedicated to leading believers everywhere into a
knowledge of the love of God. If you would like more info on the ministry,
and/or would like to comment on whether you found this teaching beneficial,
e-mail to Randy Hunt at rlhunt@hou.amoco.com.
LOVE IN THE MORNING (Psalm 90:14)
by Malcolm Smith
Moses wrote this prayer at a weary time in the history of Israel. A generation
before the time of its writing, the people of Israel had stood at Kadesh,
gateway to Canaan, and made the fateful choice to go their own way rather
than God's way. They refused an adventure of faith in God which would
have given them Canaan, the homeland of promise. God honored their
decision, and said they would wander in the desert only a few miles from the
land of promise until they were all buried in the sand. The young decision-
makers of that fateful day were between twenty and thirty years old, and
destined to be dead within forty years... bleached bones in the desert by the
time they were seventy-- eighty, at the most. The lives of these wanderers
had been unending sadness. Moses described it as ending each year with a
sigh (v. 9). The fact that they knew, give or take a few months, when they
were going to die, underscored the meaninglessness of their existence.
Whatever heights of success they reached, they would be a heap of bleached
bones within forty years. The only ones to live outside of that depression of
hopeless disbelief were Joshua and Caleb, who had stood against the nation
at Kadesh and had God' s promise of one day entering the land. The
forty-year period was finally drawing to an end. The new generation, those
who were children at Kadesh, were now grown and eager to take the
inheritance their parents had refused to enjoy. In the light of this, Moses
prays...it is time for a new day to begin and the days of misery to be over.
All these years, as Moses had walked with these moaning and complaining
people through the wilderness of their exile, he had carried a double burden.
His was not only the sadness of living in less than what could have been; but
he also knew why they had chosen as they had at Kadesh. The problem was
that they were ignorant of the character of their God. If asked. "Who is your
God?" they would have described Him as the God who is Power. When
Aaron had created their concept of God in an idol. he chose a calf. or young
bull--a symbol of power, of virility. In their minds, God was the young bull
who had impaled Pharaoh on his horns and gored Egypt's gods as He led
Israel to Sinai. But when man worships a God of power, His miracles grow
thin and even boring. After miracle food on the desert floor and water
gushing miraculously from the solid rock through the desert wasteland, the
God of Almightiness becomes "ho-hum --What' s next on the miracle menu?"
And a God of power can be as unpredictable as a young bull calf. He might
be all they need, but then...who knows? If He has all power, He has a right
to do whatever He wants, whenever He wants. The only person these people
had known who had absolute power was Pharaoh, and men's lives had hung
on the whim of his moods, which could change with the wind. They believed
God could work His wonders on their behalf, but they did not know HIM
and, so, could not trust Him. Israel had a God based on what He DID, His
acts; Moses knew the heart of God, the motivation behind the acts. From the
day of his encounter at the burning bush, Moses had been fascinated by God.
At Sinai, he asked to be shown His glory...to know who He really was. He
had seen what God had done; he wanted to know who God was. This
request was granted, and Moses was given a glimpse of God's glorious
Person. He had come to know the heart of God as compassion and
lovingkindness (Exodus 34:6,7). The word "lovingkindness" is not to be
understood as a human kind of love. It speaks of the kind of relationship
arising out of the making of a covenant. It can only be understood as the
love that says, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." Lovingkindness is as
tenacious as a British bulldog; when the world walks out, this love digs in its
heels and refuses to leave.And it is not human romantic love, based on
feelings and rooted in emotions. It is a love of covenant commitment and,
therefore, operates quite apart from feelings. God's love is not an emotion
that wavers day by day; it is the total commitment of His Being to seek our
highest and best, and to bring us to our fullest potential as humans. God
does not see something good and beautiful in us which arouses His feelings
of love toward us...we do not woo Him and cause Him to fall in love with
us! If that were the case, the first ugly, sinful thing we did would cause Him
to reject us. He is Love, and He loves us because of who He is-- not
because of who we are. He does not love what we do, but He is committed
to us, pursuing us down every blind alley and bypath of foolishness. He will
not let us go. His is a love that is not looking for what it can get out of us--
but a committed love that searches for opportunities to give to us. It is
saying to the recipient, "For as long as we shall live, I am for you." The God
who has revealed Himself to man through Scripture and, finally, in Jesus--in
His coming, and in His death and resurrection--is the God who is
lovingkindness. Thus He loves us and gives Himself to us...He will never
leave us nor forsake us. Tragically, many believers have never seen Him as
love; they see Him as power. No one will come to faith by just seeing
miracles. Miracles point to who He is, and that is when faith springs in the
heart. Israel did not see God as lovingkindness; they saw His acts of power.
Moses knew His ways, the kind of God He was, and the love that He had for
these people. Because of their total lack of understanding of His love, they
could not trust Him to be their strength in taking the land. Faith is born out
of knowing the love He has for us; it is the resting response to the One who
gives Himself to us. He is not the force, and to call Him the Almighty is to
miss His heart. He is Love who is the Almighty and the Infinite Force. If
man is to make force or raw power work for him, he must depend on
knowing the forrnula and have faith in it. But the power that issues from
love demands faith in the Person of love Himself. The forty years of
meaningless wandering was a monument to a people who had never come to
know the God of love. At this point, with the new generation and the
possibility of enjoying all that God promised, Moses prays verse 14. The
language Moses uses is reminiscent of a baby having slept secure in its
mother's love, now waking to look up into the delight of her eyes. It is
waking to the consciousness of being loved... watched over, cared for,
protected, fed, and cleaned, day and night, by the mother. Suppose we were
to ask, "What has the baby done to deserve this?" or, "Have arrangements
been made for the child to repay the parents for this inconvenience?" Our
questions would be considered unnatural, even immoral. The child was
conceived in love, anticipated and prepared for with love's excitement, a love
that has been to the gates of death to bring it into being. The parents' love is
unconditional, spontaneous...it has nothing to do with the looks of the child
or its performance. So God is love. He loves us unconditionally,
spontaneously. We were conceived in His imagination and fashioned after
His image, to be brought to where we are at this moment by the blood of the
Lord Jesus. It is slanderous, and immoral, to even ask what we must do to
earn and deserve that love. The child discovers its personhood and identity
through the eyes and touch, through the cuddles, of its parents' love. It is a
scientific fact that a baby who is not touched and held will probably die or, if
it survives, will have severe emotional problems. And a person who has been
held and loved will still never know the true meaning of life without the
embrace and knowledge of love from God. Moses prays that the new
generation will learn to wake every morning, resting with total confidence in
the love of God. and will receive all His promises and blessings with joy and
gladness. Significantly, Moses prays that they will be SATISFIED with His
love. "Satisfied." in the Hebrew language. is a rich picture word describing
being filled with an abundance of gourmet food. It is also used to describe
the earth after the rain has soaked it and all the vegetation has received
enough water. Moses prays that they will awaken every morning to be
drenched in the life-giving love of God. That sense of satisfaction is the
lifelong quest of every man and woman. When we are satisfied in our
deepest selves, many of our emotional--and even our physical--problems
disappear. Man seeks that sense of satisfaction which comes from feeling
that he is fulfilled as a human being...his hours have meaning, which make
sense out of the ordinary and mundane. Apart from God, man seeks this
satisfaction through intellectual pursuit, through the exciting of the
emotions, and through the feeding of his body...he will even seek it in
religious exercise. But man will always be dissatisfied until he is responding
to the love of the living God. Only in knowing God's love will the rest of life
make sense. As the forty years drew to a close and the land of promise again
became the inheritance to be taken, Moses prayed this psalm. I find it
fascinating that he should pray and ask God for a daily revelation of His
love. Considering the awe with which the people held Moses. one would
think he could have lectured them on the subject of lovingkindness and, by
the knowledge they gained, they would live in it. But Moses knew
better. God is the only one who can make known to us His love. We won't
find it in a religious lecture or a formula which we can learn and use to
manipulate Him. Nor is it in a beautiful poem to titillate our emotions and
give us God feelings. It is God, himself, the Lover, who must open our eyes
and satisfy us with His love. This prayer is man, in helplessness, asking God
to make the love He is real in our hearts. Moses' prayer was partially
answered in the next generation and seen in the exploits of faith which
worked by love in The Book of Judges. But it would not be answered in its
fullest dimensions until the coming of the Holy Spirit, who pours out the
love of God in our hearts (Romans 5:5). In the history of the early Church,
we read of the Holy Spirit "falling upon" the believers. This is an ancient
expression that, in modern English, means to give a bear hug. It is used in
Luke 15 to describe the father running to the prodigal and "falling on his
neck and kissing him." The Holy Spirit is God hugging you in your deepest
self and smothering you with divine kisses at the deepest level of your
being. This is not a one-time experience to be filed in our spiritual resumes.
Moses prayed that morning by morning we would awaken to the realization
that we are loved. The world, and much of our religious training, has taught
us to perform in order to be accepted. We have spent far too long living in a
state of doing in order to find satisfaction for ourselves...to find acceptance
and love from others, and from God. We now come humbled to receive love
we cannot earn...to be still and let Him tell us we are loved: to let the Holy
Spirit descend into us, pouring out the love of God. We come in stillness to
think on and repeat His words of love to our minds. which have been jaded
with the doctrine of "perform to be accepted." We begin to realize that He
loves us as we are, and gives meaning and purpose to all of life. I challenge
everyone reading this to begin each day, from the moment you open your
eyes, by celebrating the God of love and praying this prayer. You may not
feel anything, but SOMETHING ALWAYS HAPPENS. I was X-rayed the
other day. I did not see or feel anything, but I noted that the technicians kept
behind protective walls. They know you cannot be exposed to those rays
without being affected. So it is as we consciously begin our day knowing
that we are loved. Such experiential knowledge will produce, according to
Moses, "joy and gladness all our days." Joy is the result of a life that is
functioning as God intended us to function when He made us. You might say
that joy is the hum of an engine that is at peak performance. Man' s highest
performance is to rest in the love God has for him... the hum will be joy, and
the result will be endless creativity arising from the sense of meaning he now
has in life. Stop wandering in the wilderness. Be satisfied with His love and,
in joy, day by day, receive all His promised blessings.
----- End Included Message -----
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At 50 miles, a conventional set of TV antennas on a pole (one aimed
at each transmitter location) should work well.
"Rabbit ears" inside the house are probably not adequate.
Gadgets to plug into your house wiring are even worse.
At VHF, you don't want a _big_ antenna, you want a _resonant_
antenna.
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More people have been asking for information on the Kubota graphics
workstations, so here is some more info on the Kenai/Denali vs. the
E&S Freedom.
Here is the text of a Denali vs. E&S Freedom done by D.H. Brown Associates.
------
Denali bears a strong resemblance to Evans and Sutherlands Freedom graphics
subsystem in several aspects of its high-level design. Both products use
a parallel array of 29050 processors for geometric computations. Both
have a pixel router to connect this front end to a second array of
pixel processors. As a result, Denali and Freedome overlap significantly
in performance and functionality. Both design teams also appear to have
similar philosophies with respect to modularity, scalability, and market
penetration.
There remain, however, several important differences between the KPC and
E&S products. Evans and Sutherland designed Freedom as a high-end
developer's dream system with plenty of performance potential and
flexibility. In its favor, Freedom has configurations from two to
sixteen floating point units, a border range that starts and ends at
a higher price and performance levels than Denali. All Freedom
systems include a large, fixed number of pixel processors that
support a broader variety of color blending functions. The Freedom
design treats its entire image memory as general-purpose memory, allowing
developers to allocate it on a flexible basis to a number of special-purpose
applications. Finally, E&S provided Freedom with very flexible otput and
video integration features for multimedia and simulation applications. Note
that KPC is working an auxiliary board for NTSC and PAL output that will not
require an external video encoder. E&S programmable output features,
however, will remain much more flexible.
The KPC design team, in contrast, made Denali more of an end-user's system.
Entry version have better performance range and flexibility than low-end
Freedom configurations, and come in at more realistic mainstream price
points. Denali does not need as many 29050 modules as Freedome because
it uses a deeper scan-conversion pipeline to support each one, resulting
in better cost/performance characteristics. Although both products provide
strong support for 3D, imaging, and volume rendering, KPC recognized that
not all users will want an even mix of these capabilities. Denali's
configuration flexibility allows customers in effect to purchase
geometric and pixel processing capabilities separately, and to upgrade
them separately as needed.
Both companies have implemented hardware texture mapping at
workstation price levels as a way to attack SGI's more expensive
VGXT and RealityEngine systems -- the only other products to provide
this capability. KPC supports point sampling and bilinear interpolation
of textures in hardware, but provides only software support for the higher
qualtiy tri-linear interpolated mipmapping method. On balance, however, Denali
provideds bettern overall texturing capabilities than E&S for most applications.
Aside from being much more affordable, KPC solutions deliver more parallelism
for texture processing and more off-screen memory for general graphics
data storage. By implementing texture mapping on its transformation
modules, E&S foces customers to move very quickly to higher price levels
to obtain better texturing performance. Kubota avoids this problem by linking
texturing to its Frame Buffer Modules, providing a lower-cost, more scalable
solution.
Hope this helps,
Brian
PS This was reprinted without permission. For the full text, please contact
Kubota 408-727-8100.
| 1comp.graphics
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Hi all,
I'm an assistant manager at a local art theater here in Columbus. I'd
like to expand our show automation a bit- namely add the capability to
use cue tapes to bring the houselights up. Our current automation
consoles date from the early 60's and don't provide this function.
We already have the combo failsafe/contact rollers to read the cuetapes,
and our dimmer system will raise the houselights when its fade-up control
circuit (120 VAC) is momentarily closed, for at least 0.5 second.
I've tried wiring the dimmer control to a 12V relay, activated when the
cue tape completes the circuit. Low tech and simple, but there's one
problem: In order to get the 1/2 second pulse, there needs to be
a sh**load of cuetape on the film. (35mm runs at 90 feet per minute,
so to get a 1/2 second pulse, there needs to be at least 9 inches of solid
cuetape!)
Ideally, I would like to use a single cross-cue to accomplish this function.
(A single strip of cuetape perpendicular to the length of the film)
This would give a pulse of approximately 1/100 of a second.
What I need is a circuit to detect the short cue and activate the relay
for around 1/2 second. The ability to adjust how long the relay
is activated would be nice. I figure this would require an RC circuit
of some sort. I'm sure some of you already have the solution figured
out in your heads. Any suggestions and schematics would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Mark Fontana
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"Of all the arts, the cinema is | Mark A. Fontana
the most important." | Computer and Information Science
--V.I. Lenin | THE Ohio State University
| 12sci.electronics
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In article 734849678@saturn.wwc.edu, bissda@saturn.wwc.edu (DAN LAWRENCE BISSELL) writes:
-> First I want to start right out and say that I'm a Christian. It
->makes sense to be one. Have any of you read Tony Campollo's book- liar,
->lunatic, or the real thing? (I might be a little off on the title, but he
->writes the book. Anyway he was part of an effort to destroy Christianity,
->in the process he became a Christian himself.
Sounds like you are saying he was a part of some conspiracy. Just what organization did he
belong to? Does it have a name?
-> The book says that Jesus was either a liar, or he was crazy ( a
->modern day Koresh) or he was actually who he said he was.
Logic alert - artificial trifercation. The are many other possible explainations. Could have been
that he never existed. There have been some good points made in this group that is not
impossible that JC is an amalgam of a number of different myths, Mithra comes to mind.
-> Some reasons why he wouldn't be a liar are as follows. Who would
->die for a lie? Wouldn't people be able to tell if he was a liar? People
->gathered around him and kept doing it, many gathered from hearing or seeing
->someone who was or had been healed. Call me a fool, but I believe he did
->heal people.
Logic alert - argument from incredulity. Just because it is hard for you to believe this doesn't
mean that it isn't true. Liars can be very pursuasive, just look at Koresh that you yourself site.
He has followers that don't think he is a fake and they have shown that they are willing to die.
By not giving up after getting shot himself, Koresh has shown that he too is will to die for what
he believes. As far as healing goes. If I rememer right the healing that was attributed is not
consistent between the different gospels. In one of them the healing that is done is not any more
that faith healers can pull off today. Seems to me that the early gospels weren't that compeling,
so the stories got bigger to appeal better.
-> Niether was he a lunatic. Would more than an entire nation be drawn
->to someone who was crazy. Very doubtful, in fact rediculous. For example
->anyone who is drawn to David Koresh is obviously a fool, logical people see
->this right away.
-> Therefore since he wasn't a liar or a lunatic, he must have been the
->real thing.
Or might not have existed, or any number of things. That is the logical pitfall that those who
use flawed logic like this fall into. There are bifurcations (or tri, quad, etc) that are valid, because
in the proceeding steps, the person shows conclusively that the alternatives are all that are
possible. Once everyone agrees that the given set is indeed all there are, then arguments among
the alternatives can be presentent, and one mostly likely to be true can be deduced by excluding
all other possible alternatives.
However, if it can be shown that the set is not all inclusive, then any conclusions bases on the
incomplete set are invalid, even if the true choice is one of the original choices. I have given at
least one valid alternative, so the conclusion that JC is the real McCoy just because he isn't one of
the other two alternative is no longer valid.
-> Some other things to note. He fulfilled loads of prophecies in
->the psalms, Isaiah and elsewhere in 24 hrs alone. This in his betrayal
->and Crucifixion. I don't have my Bible with me at this moment, next time I
->write I will use it.
JC was a rabbi. He knew what those prophecies were. It wouldn't be any great shakes to make
sure one does a list of actions that would fullfill prophecy. What would be compeling is if there
were a set of clear and explicit prophecies AND JC had absolutely NO knowledge of then, yet
fullfilled them anyway.
-> I don't think most people understand what a Christian is. It
->is certainly not what I see a lot in churches. Rather I think it
->should be a way of life, and a total sacrafice of everything for God's
->sake. He loved us enough to die and save us so we should do the
->same. Hey we can't do it, God himself inspires us to turn our lives
->over to him. That's tuff and most people don't want to do it, to be a
->real Christian would be something for the strong to persevere at. But
->just like weight lifting or guitar playing, drums, whatever it takes
->time. We don't rush it in one day, Christianity is your whole life.
->It is not going to church once a week, or helping poor people once in
->a while. We box everything into time units. Such as work at this
->time, sports, Tv, social life. God is above these boxes and should be
->carried with us into all these boxes that we have created for
->ourselves.
Here I agree with you. Anyone who buys into this load of mythology should take what it says
seriously, and what it says is that it must be a total way of life. I have very little respect for
Xians that don't. If the myth is true, then it is true in its entirity. The picking and choosing
that I see a lot of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Jim
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I need help identifying this board that I found stuffed away in a corner.
As the title says, all that is printed on it is NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS NB-DMA-8.
It fits fine in my Mac IIci and snooper gives the very same name for the
board. It looks like it has an HP-IB connector on the back of it and
another connector on the top (2 rows by 25 pins). It also looks like
it has an Intel processor on it (#A82380-16 Intel '86)
On an EEPROM there is a sticker with the P/N 700584-01.
Anybody ever seen or heard of one? Or better yet, do you know what it does?
We are all clueless here. Our last option is to hook it up to our HP
workstations and see if any smoke comes out.
Thanks a lot!
Kevin
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>Why should a good driver be terrified at 130mph? The only thing I fear
>going at 130 are drivers, who switch to the left lane without using
>either rear-view-mirror or flashers. Doing 130 to 150 ain't a rush
>for me, but it's fun and I get where I want to go much faster.
In defense of the drivers, who are in the right lane. Here in the states, people simply do not expect when they are driving to be overtaken at a speed differential of 50+mph. I don't think this is because they are stupid (of course, there are exceptions), they are just programmed because of the 55mph limit. Do you (in the states) when you look in the rear-view ALWAYS calculate future positions of cars based on a 50+ speed differential.
Dont get me wrong, I love to drive in the left lane fast but when I overtake
cars who are on the right, I slow down a tad bit. If I were to rely on the judgement of the other car, to recognize the speed differential, I would be the stupid one.
BTW, If no one else is around, then GO FOR IT!.
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In article <1r7bh0$cc2@nwfocus.wa.com>, turmoil@halcyon.com (Tim Crowley) writes:
|>goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring) writes:
|>
|>>In article <16BB87EF1.V2110A@VM.TEMPLE.EDU> V2110A@VM.TEMPLE.EDU (Richard Hoenes) writes:
|>>>
|>>>Yes we've heard that the survivors are now saying that. We've also
|>>>seen the videotape which shows that the fire started in two or
|>>>three different places which weren't near the tank.
|>
|>> I have not seen the tape on CNN. Which network did you see it on?
|>
|>I saw the film on CNN *as* it happend. It was clear from that tape that
|>the fire started in ONE location. Right where the tank was attacking,
|>and then had pulled back.
No, this is not true. the CNN pictures show two sites clearly and a third is
barely distinguished.
If you have a tape you should note that there are two towers at either end
of the building, a big one and a little one. What appears to be merely a
long shot of the big tower with the tank in front is in fact the little
tower. You can tell beacuse the flag in the foreground switches sides from the
right of the picture to the left.
The third site is visible as the flames clearly come from a point obscured by
the small tower. You need a tape and a good slow motion video to see this.
Phill Hallam-Baker
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In article <C5sK1D.C1p@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> frankb@sad.hp.com (Frank Ball) writes:
>VIDAR OLAF SOLBERG (vidaros@dhhalden.no) wrote:
>& Can somebody tell me what all the letter spesifications on motorcycle models
>& really mean.
>"CB" is a street bike with an parallel twin or inline 4-cylinder engine.
>Frank Ball 1UR-M frankb@sad.hp.com (707) 794-4168 work,
Hmmm ... . my first bike, a CB125S, was a single . . .
| 8rec.motorcycles
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I have a Standard Computer 486DX2/66mhz EISA Tower with 16MB RAM, a Quantum 240MB Hard Drive, 1.2 and 1.44 MB floppies and a Colorado 250MB tape drive. I also have a Sound Blaster Pro and a 3COM Ethernet card (3C507) installed. The machine is completely stable in non-Turbo mode. In Turbo mode, Windows for Workgroups crashes or won't come up at all. If Windows does come up, I get General Protection Faults and Divide by Zero System Errors. Is there a problem with memory keeping up with the speed of the CPU o
n these machines?
I have tried to reach Standard Computers, but their phones have been disconnected.
Does anyone know what happened to this company?
YAMOHS- Yet Another Mail Order Horror Story!
I'd prefer e-mailed responses as I don't get to read this newsgroup often.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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Chris Cooke (cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <15440@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
:
: When you force people to associate with others against their will,
: yes.
:
: People are *forced* into the USA armed forces?
They were in the recent past, maybe someone knows for certain if the
usa has decided if it wants a conscript army (as they sent into south
east asia) or a volenteer one?
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aguilar@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (christopher j aguilar) writes:
]In article <1993Apr21.193916.26597@gtephx.UUCP> forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona) writes:
]>
]> [Stuff about crime deleted...]
]>
]>BTW, PHX, like LA, has large hispanic and black communities.
] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
] Now what in the world does this have to do with anything?
Because the hispanic communities in Phoenix are high crime areas.
Likewise, in LA, CERTAIN hispanic communities (with immigrants from certain
countries) had high participation in the looting after the riot. Others,
which comprise hispanics with several generations of residency in the US,
were peaceful.
]Now, check out my .sig (or are you too stupid to learn spanish?)
What is this.... a bit of pro-hispanic bigotry? Want me to put a .sig
in morse code and challenge you to learn it?
Get a life.... give up on the victimology trip!
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Can anyone explain the polygon fill rules for X? I know about the even-odd
rule but what is the nonzero winding number rule? What happens when the
left and right boundary lines have many pixels on a given scanline? What
are the rules concerning abutting polygons?(Are they the same as the
join-style in the GC?)
I've read the X pixelization rule but how does the X server determine the
center point of a pixel? Is there any support for shading?(color interpolation)
Can someone point me to a definitive book that discusses these issues?
Thanks in advance to the Gurus for there responses
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|Any opinions expressed here are my own, but you're welcome to share them! |
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In article <16BB8E4C0.R1328@vmcms.csuohio.edu> R1328@vmcms.csuohio.edu writes:
>In article <1r6qqcINN8j4@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
>>Any death is serious. Wanna discuss match control? Firearms related
>>unintentional deaths among children ages 14 and under are the fault of one or
>>more negligent persons, not the gun.
>
>No, I don't want to discuss match control. I don't equate a book of matches
>to a loaded 9 millimeter either.
And you shouldn't, as the matches kill more kids. So why are you bleating
about guns?
>say that tired old NRA line "Guns don't kill people, people kill people".
It may be tired, but it is true.
>Sure, people can kill people without guns. But easy access to guns makes it
>a lot more convenient. "Guns don't kill people, People with easy access to
>guns kill people".
No, that's not right either. People who have both easy access and the
desire to kill, kill people. Considering that people who have the
desire to kill turn that into easy access .... (Haven't you folks
learned anything from either Prohibition or the war on drugs?)
If you don't affect the desire, you're wasting your time, not to
mention the other costs incurred.
> Jim, I'm just saying how it is. I'm not saying if that is a good thing
>or not. From the police who I have talked with who run some of these gun
>buyback programs, I get the impression that they really think they are
>having an impact on the community.
Good for them. I note that the TM folks make the same argument. If
you'll pay their expesnses ($21 million for a reasonable size city),
they promise to meditate away all crime, disease, etc. At least
they're not promising to jail me if I don't go along with their little
plan - they're going to just sit in a room and fly, leaving me alone.
>gun violence whether its effective or not. Look, if you can't measure
>the impact of these programs using some sort of pre-test and post-test
>evaluation, what is the point? It must be symbolic in nature.
Ah, but we have evaluated gun control using before-after and it
doesn't work to reduce crime. What is the point? We can't claim that
it is symbolic, as people do get jailed.
>The police are
>essentially saying "look, if you have a gun lying around and you don't
>want it, we'll give you $50 for it...because we care about the community".
No, they're essentially saying "we hope this will keep you from
noticing that we're not doing anything useful". Pissing away
resources isn't "caring".
>If you, I and Joe could think of a way to measure the effectiveness or
>ineffectiveness of these programs we could become rich and famous.
Nope, you'll merely be ignored, as Wright, Rossi, and Daly were after
finishing "Under the Gun". They were supposed to prove that gun
control worked, so ....
>> Jim, listen to me, I said I'M NOT RELIGIOUS WHATSOEVER, do you understand?
>
> Religion has nothing to do with this. I could care less what religion
>they were okay? To put children in that situation is wrong, pure and
>simple. Difference is good Jim, I am the most progressive and diverse
>person in the world. But, if different is allowing kids to be exposed
>to tanks and tear-gas, then yes Jim, DIFFERENT IS WRONG.
So, who gassed them? Given their previous experience with thugs who
threw grenades before yelling "we're from the govt and we're here to
help you", would a rational person think that the feds had their best
interests at heart? Would you "know" that the gas was "non-lethal"?
-andy
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There were a few people who responded to my request for info on
treatment for astrocytomas through email, whom I couldn't thank
directly because of mail-bouncing probs (Sean, Debra, and Sharon). So
I thought I'd publicly thank everyone.
Thanks!
(I'm sure glad I accidentally hit "rn" instead of "rm" when I was
trying to delete a file last September. "Hmmm... 'News?' What's
this?"....)
-Brian
| 13sci.med
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Any lock including the Kyptonite utypes are EASY to break into if the person has
the proper supplies and/or motivation. 3 minutes and your bike is gone!
I would be glad to explain but I dont want to contribute to any unlawful
activities. Especially since I have a bike that I would hate to see ripped off
by such a trival tactic. WARNING NO lock alone is a safe deterent against theft,
the thief doesnt need to be a locksmith or a lock-picker to walk away with your
property! I personally think motion alarms in combination to a lock
of this type is the way to go if in fact you are that concerned.
Bill
| 8rec.motorcycles
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My schedule is flexible so any games are candidates
AC>(though I'd prefer to see Texas.)
Hi Tony.I think that I might be able to help you out!The Rangers are
here in Toronto Thursday July 8th through Sunday July 11th and
tickets should not be hard to find if you order them far enough in
advance.Although I don't have a ticket broker's telephone number off
hand if you give me a couple of days I will be able to get a hold a=
of a couple.The Blue Jays ticket info # is (416)341-1111 or if you
want to order by credit card,call (416) 341-1234.If you let me
know,when you want the tickets I can save you a possible long
distance call.If all else fails I might be able to pull a few strings
and get you a pair.Let me know whats happening.
Drew Carley,Toronto Canada
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| 9rec.sport.baseball
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I am looking for a shareware graphics package called NeoPaint v1.1. I
saw it in a shareware catalog and was hoping that I could FTP it from
the net but have been unable to locate it. I have tried Archie and I
have gone through the entire comp.graphics newsgroup looking for some
reference to it and have found none. I have also looked through the
FAQ and also no reference. The program is called NeoPaint v1.1 and if
anyone has heard of it or knows where I can get it I would appreciate
it.
Suggestions for other PC based shareware paint programs would also be
appreciated. Email me your responses.
Much thanks,
Sean
| 1comp.graphics
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Mike_Peredo@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Peredo) writes:
>The most ridiculous example of VR-exploitation I've seen so far is the
>"Virtual Reality Clothing Company" which recently opened up in Vancouver. As
>far as I can tell it's just another "chic" clothes spot. Although it would be
>interesting if they were selling "virtual clothing"....
>E-mail me if you want me to dig up their phone # and you can probably get
>some promotional lit.
I understand there have been a couple of raves in LA billing themselves as
"Virtual Reality" parties. What I hear they do is project .GIF images around
on the walls, as well as run animations through a Newtek Toaster.
Seems like we need to adopt the term Really Virtual Reality or something, except
for the non-immersive stuff which is Virtually Really Virtual Reality.
etc.
>MP
>(8^)-
___Samuel___
--
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Guildenstern: Our names shouted in a certain dawn ... a message ... a
summons ... There must have been a moment, at the beginning,
where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
| 1comp.graphics
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In article brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
[...]>
>The greatest danger of the escrow database, if it were kept on disk,
>would be the chance that a complete copy could somehow leak out. You
[...]>
>Of course then it's hard to backup. However, I think the consequences
>of no backup -- the data is not there when a warrant comes -- are worse
>than the consequences of a secret backup.
If the data isn't there when the warrant comes, you effectively have
secure crypto. If secret backups are kept...then you effectively have
no crypto. Thus, this poster is essentialy arguing no crypto is better
than secure crypto.
If the data isn't there when the warrant comes, then the government will
just have to use normal law enforcement techniques to catch crooks. Is
this so bad? BTW, bugging isn't YET a normal law enforcement technique.
With the privacy clipper, it WILL become a normal technique.
/Jim
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| 11sci.crypt
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In article <4378@creatures.cs.vt.edu>, ramakris@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (S.Ramakrishnan) writes:
>
> 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
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National Center for Atmospheric Research * but thinking makes it so. *
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| 5comp.windows.x
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In article <22APR93.23368145.0079@VM1.MCGILL.CA> B8HA <B8HA@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA> writes:
> For your information, Islam permits freedom of religion - there is
>no compulsion in religion.
I wonder if the seven Islamic fundamentalist who have just been sentenced
to death in Egypt would agree with this assessment of Islam. Certainly they
don't feel like Jews have the right to practice Judaism in Israel. Let's not
forget that during the Jordanian occupation (1948-1967) of the West Bank and Jerusalem,
Jews were not allowed into Jerusalem even to pray at the Western Wall (the most
holy site to Jews).
>Does Judaism permit freedom of religion
>(i.e. are non-Jews recognized in Judaism). Just wondering.
What are you talking about?
-Adam
adams@robotics.berkeley.edu
| 18talk.politics.misc
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Sorry for asking a question that's not entirely based on the
technical aspects of space, but I couldn't find the
answer on the FAQs !
I'm currently in the UK, which makes seeing a Space Shuttle
launch a little difficult.....
However, I have been selected to be an exchange student
at Louisiana State Uni. from August, and I am absolutely
determined to get to see a Space Shuttle launch sometime
during the year at which I will be in America.
I hear there's a bit of a long mailing list, so if someone
can tell me how to get tickets and where to get them from, then
please E-mail me !
Thanks very much for your patience....
(And if anyone else wants to know, tell me and I'll summarize
for you - just to save all those poor people who have to
pay for their links !)
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| 14sci.space
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An aquaintence has a 87 Accord. The driver's side headrest was
accidentally put in backwards and has jammed. According to the
dealer, the only way to get it out is to spend several hours
disassembling the seat. This is the second time I have heard of this
happening, and I wonder whether there's an easier way to get the
headrest back out. Has anyone else ever dealt with this problem?
Your advice would be appreciated!
Please email, and I will summarize if there is interest.
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> If the crooks use an innocent person's clipper phone on the tapped line
>there's no problem. The Feds don't care whose phone instrument is used, just
>that the conversation is by the suspect on the tapped line. They get the
>serial number, get the keys, and they are in business.
So, you admit that Clipper opens the doors wide for the following scenario:
FEDS: We need the keys to Joe Blow's phone.
ESCROW AGENT: Joe Blow? You have a warrant to tap his line?
FEDS: Well, no, but we have a warrant to tap Carlos "Slime-Devil" Gonzales'
line, and our tap shows that Mr. Gonzales is using Mr. Blow's phone.
ESCROW AGENT: Well, OK....
| 11sci.crypt
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I just overheard that San Jose Coach George Kingston was officially
terminated today... Maybe good news, maybe bad. I kinda liked him, but he
seemed to lack a certain fire.
Bill Gibson : Gibson.Bill@applelink.apple.com
Chief Technical Sponge : AppleLink: GIBSON.BILL
Apple Computer, Inc. : Just say: SHARKS!!!
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dhk@ubbpc.uucp (Dave Kitabjian) writes:
>I'm sure Intel and Motorola are competing neck-and-neck for
>crunch-power, but for a given clock speed, how do we rank the
>following (from 1st to 6th):
> 486 68040
> 386 68030
> 286 68020
Not a good idea to compare processor power. Doesn't make sense for real
world applications. At least not for totally different lines of processors.
>While you're at it, where will the following fit into the list:
> 68060
> Pentium
> PowerPC
>And about clock speed: Does doubling the clock speed double the
>overall processor speed? And fill in the __'s below:
> 68030 @ __ MHz = 68040 @ __ MHz
At least for x86 systems doubling the clock speed increases performance
by about 70% .
>Thanks very much. I'd appreciate hearing any further explanations
>from any experienced folks out there, too!
>
>P.S. Folks have been having trouble replying to me lately with the "reply"
> command. Try typing my address by hand and it should work. Thanks!
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>DAVE KITABJIAN (kit-ahb'-jyin) Vital Statistics:
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A pun is a no' blessed form of whit.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
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As a matter of interest does anyone know why autos are so popular in the US while
here in Europe they are rare??? Just wondering.....
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| 7rec.autos
|
In article <66014@mimsy.umd.edu>
mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) writes:
>>And what about that revelation thing, Charley?
>
>If you're talking about this intellectual engagement of revelation, well,
>it's obviously a risk one takes.
>
I see, it is not rational, but it is intellectual. Does madness qualify
as intellectual engagement, too?
>>Many people say that the concept of metaphysical and religious knowledge
>>is contradictive.
>
>I'm not an objectivist, so I'm not particularly impressed with problems of
>conceptualization. The problem in this case is at least as bad as that of
>trying to explain quantum mechanics and relativity in the terms of ordinary
>experience. One can get some rough understanding, but the language is, from
>the perspective of ordinary phenomena, inconsistent, and from the
>perspective of what's being described, rather inexact (to be charitable).
>
Exactly why science uses mathematics. QM representation in natural language
is not supposed to replace the elaborate representation in mathematical
terminology. Nor is it supposed to be the truth, as opposed to the
representation of gods or religions in ordinary language. Admittedly,
not every religion says so, but a fancy side effect of their inept
representations are the eternal hassles between religions.
And QM allows for making experiments that will lead to results that will
be agreed upon as being similar. Show me something similar in religion.
>An analogous situation (supposedly) obtains in metaphysics; the problem is
>that the "better" descriptive language is not available.
>
With the effect that the models presented are useless. And one can argue
that the other way around, namely that the only reason metaphysics still
flourish is because it makes no statements that can be verified or falsified -
showing that it is bogus.
>>And in case it holds reliable information, can you show how you establish
>>that?
>
>This word "reliable" is essentially meaningless in the context-- unless you
>can show how reliability can be determined.
Haven't you read the many posts about what reliability is and how it can
be acheived respectively determined?
Benedikt
| 0alt.atheism
|
Russell Turpin, as is his wont, has raised some interesting issues
in his struggle with the Christian texts and the Christians.
Unfortunately, he seems to be hoping for simplicity where it is
not available. The lukewarm stew he detects may well be an inevitable
result of the divine mixing himself up with a bunch of losers such
as humanity.
Also unfortunately (perhaps) I have a deadline in two weeks, the
responsibility for which prevents me, in good conscience,
from writing a more considered response and fully entering the
fray, as it were.
Let me then say what I can, briefly.
-----
>The two commandments *are* rules; they are merely rules that are
>so vague that they are practically devoid of meaning.
This point, for the net.browsers who also still read books, is
pursued throughly in Kaufmann, Critique_of_Religion_and_Philosophy.
>The commandment to love your neighbor as yourself can be viewed,
>in part, as reminding man that he is not God and cannot act as if
>he has "ultimate responsibility."
This is a theological statement worthy of Barth.
Dr Turpin (DD) may wear the black robe of Geneva yet! :-)
>Indeed, many traditions present
>an interpretation where believers are supposed to interpret
>loving one's neighbor as following various other rules, and
>relying on their god to make things come out right, precisely
>because it would be wrong for man to assume such "ultimate
>responsibility." Once again, we are confronted with good sounding
>goo that means whatever the reader wants it to mean.
This requires the assumption that all interpretations are
equally valid, that there is no way of reasonably distinguishing
among them. I wouldn't make that assumption; I don't think it is
a reasonable assumption.
>And who is to say that this interpretation is "twisted"? There
>are many passages in the Bible that in their most straightforward
>reading show the Christian god behaving in just this way.
Michael, and I, and others, read 'the Bible' with Christian
glasses. Among the things that this should imply is that the
NT informs the OT, even to the point of dominanting it. Some
points in the OT (ceremonial & dietary laws) are explicitly
abrogated by the NT texts. To drive Russell Turpin's point with
adequacy, one needs to begin with NT texts (probably from Matthew,
and probably about damnation) (Just trying to help :-) )
This part is, I discover, what most moves me to post:
mls> I am a "radical" Christian *only* in that I take the gospel seriously.
>No, Michael, the conservative Christians also take the gospel
>seriously. What differentiates you is the way you interpret the
>gospel.
Russell Turpin's 'No' here is misplaced, not to say inappropriate.
Michael's self-description much govern. The equation of radical = liberal,
which seems implied by Russell Turpin is wrong. Radical conservatives are
possible (if sadly lacking in numbers at present). Thomas Merton
was a radical, even though conservative in some ways. St Francis
was a radical, similarly. How many examples are needed?
mls> ... Why don't I and the (myriads of) other Christians like me
mls> tell you something about Christianity? ...
Michael's question gets to a heart of the matter (Klingons have
two hearts, so my metaphor is not mixed, just extraterrestrial :-) )
Russell Turpin (in an earlier post) had said that Michael (Michael's
theological positions, actually) didn't tell him much about Christianity;
Dean Simeon responds (this time gently): 'What do you mean?' More
direct, perhaps, would have been: 'What could you possibly mean?'
The implied rhetorical effort, to separate Michael from the
tradition, is a failure. Michael is in the tradition. If your idea
of the tradition doesn't include him, Change your idea of the tradition!
>The irony here is that there is *nothing* in Christianity per
>se that Michael can use to support the cause of lesbians and
>gays.
How can one answer this while staying on the more general issue?
I'm on the other side of the interpretive fence (from Michael)
on this issue, yet '*nothing*' is a hideous overstatement.
One verse is enough to refute it; I'll offer two, from
Paul (of all people):
'In Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female...'(Galatians 3:28
{I don't quote single verses as a rule, and I don't carry
them in my head}) and '*Nothing* shall separate us from the glory of God...'
(roughly, from Romans). [If Russell would promise to convert based
on these or any other verses, I'd promise to get the full context
for any that he requires :-) :-)]
>In short, it is the extra-Christian principles that
>make Michael's Christianity beneficial, and I suspect they would
>be as beneficial, perhaps moreso, without being filtered by
>Christian interpretation.
This conclusion does not follow, even in short, from the
argument that goes before. A surprising logical ellipsis.
Dave Davis, ddavis@ma30.bull.com
These are my opinions & activities alone
QOTD:
"Wild beasts trapped in their cages are not so fierce
as are the Christians to each other."
Julian the Apostate, c.361
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NHL RESULTS FOR GAMES PLAYED 4/05/93.
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STANDINGS
PATRICK ADAMS NORRIS SMYTHE
TM W L T PT TM W L T PT TM W L T PT TM W L T PT
xPIT 53 21 6 112 yMON 47 27 6 100 yDET 44 28 9 97 yVAN 42 28 9 93
WAS 40 31 7 87 yBOS 46 26 7 99 yCHI 43 25 11 97 yCAL 40 29 10 90
NJ 38 35 6 82 yQUE 44 25 10 98 yTOR 42 26 11 95 yLA 37 33 9 83
NYI 37 34 6 80 yBUF 38 31 10 86 STL 35 34 10 80 yWIN 37 35 7 81
NYR 34 33 11 79 HAR 24 49 5 53 MIN 34 35 10 78 EDM 26 45 8 60
PHL 30 37 11 71 OTT 9 66 4 22 TB 22 51 5 49 SJ 10 68 2 22
x - Clinched Division Title
y - Clinched Playoff Berth
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Hartford Whalers (24-49-5) 1 1 3 - 5
New York Rangers (34-33-11) 1 2 1 - 4
1st period: HAR, Cunneyworth 5 - (Janssens, Greig) 12:21
NYR, Graves 34 - (Turcotte, Zubov) 18:39
2nd period: NYR, Kovalev 19 - (Turcotte, Graves) 2:12
HAR, Sanderson 44 - (Cassels) (pp) 4:54
NYR, Amonte 30 - (Andersson, Vanbiesbrouck) (pp) 19:13
3rd period: NYR, M.Messier 25 - (Amonte, Andersson) 2:26
HAR, Sanderson 45 - (Cassels) (sh) 5:23
HAR, Nylanders 6 - (Ladouceur) 8:35
HAR, Verbeek 36 - (Zalapski) 17:43
Powerplay Opportunities-Whalers 1 of 4
Rangers 1 of 4
Shots on Goal- Whalers 7 8 8 - 23
Rangers 9 10 12 - 31
Hartford Whalers--Gosselin (4-7-1) (31 shots - 27 saves)
New York Rangers--Vanbiesbrouck (20-18-7) (23 shots - 18 saves)
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| 10rec.sport.hockey
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davide@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) writes:
> Dave Tharp CDS (davet@interceptor.cds.tek.com) wrote:
> : In article <kmR91B1w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca writes:
> : >
> : >One of their main designers, Bert Le Vack, broke many records at
> : >Brooklands in the late '20's.
>
> : In the early 20's Bert Le Vack set records on INDIANS, including
> : 107.5 MPH at Brooklands in November of 1921, on a 61 in^3 Powerplus
> : racing model.
>
> Must have been a busy lad, he was also a tuner and all round guru at JAP and
> worked with George Brough.
>
> Can someone post me details of "The illustrated Ecyclopedia of Motorcycles",
> sounds like a book I ought to have a copy of.
>
Sure, I can. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles, edited by Erwin
Tragatsch, was published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited,
Astronaut House, Hounslow Road, Feltham, Middlesex, England.
It was first published in 1977, and mine was reprinted in 1978. Cost then
was Pounds 5.95 in the UK, though I paid 18.50 for it in Canadian
dollars. I have no idea whether it's still in print. Perhaps you could
let the net know.
Bob.
Robert Smits Ladysmith BC | If Lucas built weapons, wars
emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca | would never start, either.
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
Jon Ogden (jono@mac-ak-24.rtsg.mot.com) wrote:
: It is a dead and useless faith which has no action behind it. Actions
: prove our faith and show the genuineness of it.
A good example of this is Abraham (referred to in the James passage). Hebrews
says that Abraham was justified by faith -- but his faith was demonstrated
through his works (i.e., he obeyed what God told him to do).
Reading Abraham's ``biography'' in Genesis is very instructive. He was a man
beset by *lack* of faith a lot of the time (e.g. lying about Sarah being his
wife on 2 occasions; trying to fulfil God's promise on God's behalf by
copulating with Hagar). . . yet it seems that God didn't evaluate him on the
basis of individual incidents. Abraham is listed as one of the ``heroes of
faith'' in Hebrews 11. i.e., when it really came to the crunch, God declared
Abraham as a man of faith. He believed God's promises.
This gives us confidence. Although real faith demonstrates itself through
works, God is not going to judge us according to our success/failure in
performing works.
``Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy
he saved us, through the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Spirit.'' (Titus 3.5)
Amazing Grace! Hallelujah!
--
Michael Davis (cs89mcd@brunel.ac.uk)
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In article <1993Apr19.121340.3133@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes:
|> In <1qi191$jkj@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
|>
|> My understanding is that UK blasphemy laws (yes, they exist in the UK,
|> although they are little-used) apply only to _Anglican_ Christianity.
|>
|> How does this fit in with your claim that there is no state religion in
|> the UK?
Why don't you ask the approx. two million British Muslims who break
it five times a day and have never ever been prosecuted under it?
Then ask how easy it is to hold a Christian church service in Saudi
Arabia.
jon.
| 0alt.atheism
|
;^)
Kevin L. Stamber
Purdue University
...and Phil Kirzyc (The Kielbasa Kid) will roam the Arena for interviews.
| 10rec.sport.hockey
|
In article <930421105641.100043a@TGV.COM>, mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan) writes:
|>
|> #
|> #Do anyone know about any shading program based on Xlib in the public domain?
|> #I need an example about how to allocate correct colormaps for the program.
|> #
|> #Appreciate the help.
|> #
|>
|> I don't know if this might help, but I've just started playing with a program
|> called POVRay (Persistance of Vision Raytracer) that also displays its output
|> via X Windows. It does a fairly good job of allocating the colormap on my
|> Psuedo-Color 8-plane display. I got the source from from a site in Canda.
|> The person I retrieved them from was David Buck (dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca).
|>
I think the original post was searching for existing implementations of
f.i. Gouroud-shading of triangles. This is fairly complex to do with plain
X. Simpler shading models are implemented already, f.i. in x3d (ask archie
where to get the latest version).
For Gouroud, a fast implementation will be possible utilizing some extension
only, either MIT-SHM to do the shade in an image and fast update the window
with it, or PEX/OpenGL which should be able to shade themselves. The portable
'vanilla X' way would be to shade in a normal XImage and use XPutImage(),
what would be good enough to do static things as f.i. fractal landscapes
or such stuff.
To speak about POVRay, the X previewer that comes with the original source
package is not that good, especially in speed, protocol-friendlyness and
ICCCM compliance. Have a look on x256q, my own preview code. It is on
141.76.1.11:pub/gfx/ray/misc/x256q/
The README states the points where it is better than xwindow.c from
POVRay 1.0
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In article <1993Apr20.152819.28186@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
> be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no
> materials we can't get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids
> and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low
> grade fusion reactors.
I don't know what a "low grade" fusion reactor is, but the major
problem with 3He (aside from the difficulty in making any fusion
reactor work) is that its concentration in lunar regolith is just so
small -- on the order of 5 ppb or so, on average (more in some
fractions, but still very small). Massive amounts of regolith would
have to be processed.
This thread reminds me of Wingo's claims some time ago about the moon
as a source of titanium for use on earth. As I recall, Wingo wasn't
content with being assured that titanium (at .5% in the Earth's crust,
average) would not run out, and touted lunar mines, even though the
market price of ilmenite concentrate these days is around $.06/pound.
This prompted me to look up large potential terrestrial sources.
On the moon, titanium occurs in basalts; "high-Ti" basalts (Apollo 11
and 17) have 8-14% titanium dioxide (by weight). This is nice, but...
terrestrial continental flood basalts are also typically enriched in
titanium. They very often have 3% TiO2, frequently have 4%, and
sometimes even 5% TiO2 (again, by weight). These flood basalts are
*enormous* -- millions of cubic kilometers, scattered all over the
world (Siberia, Brazil, the NW United States, Ethiopia, etc.). If
even 1% of the basalts are 5% TiO2, this is trillions of tons of TiO2
at concentrations only a factor of 2-3 less than in lunar high-Ti
basalts. It is difficult to see how the disadvantages of the moon
could be overcome by such a small increase the concentration of the
ore (never mind the richer, but less common, terrestrial ores being
mined today).
Paul F. Dietz
dietz@cs.rochester.edu
| 14sci.space
|
pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
>How fast do the fastest modems go?
The Shannon limit for voice lines is likely somewhere around 25kbps.
We are rapidly approaching it. The fastest affordable full-duplex
modems currently on the market are V32bis, which is 14400bps.
>How far can voice be compressed?
CELP manages to sound decent at 4800 bps.
In theory, if you built a speech recognition system that turned voice
into ASCII, and a perfect synthesis system on the other end that
sounded just like the person you were speaking to, you could get it
down to the information content of the speech.
With various kinds of LPC, you can get it down to 2400 bps or prehaps
even less, at which point it sounds horrible.
4800 bps is more than adequite for our purposes.
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
--
Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
| 11sci.crypt
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After the marvelous "time-out" call by Chris Webber (which resulted in
a technical foul, since his team had no time-outs left) perhaps Webber
will take the place of Bill Buckner as the master of choke. At least
this Red Sox fan hopes so.
Ted
--
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duty soldier she objected on the grounds that her family dislikes the military.
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|
In article <1993Apr20.224730.2098@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>: My comments were directed against those who see these sorts
>: of incidents as proof that rights as we know them are about to
>: vanish.
>
>Many rights have disappeared. For example, the right to destroy your
>own body in any way you desire (as long as you do not injure others
>or their property in the process) is just about gone.
And what's your evidence that you had more such rights in 1932?
In those days people were ROUTINELY sent off to the county home
for the feeble-minded/confused if they showed the slightest weirdness.
Remember all the jokes people used to make about "the guys in the
white coats and the big butterfly net" coming to "take you away"?
That sort of thing used to really happen. Nowadays you can be a
total loon and end up living, and dying, on the street.
---peter
| 18talk.politics.misc
|
Andrew Lewis Tepper <at15+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>I don't know if this routine is "standard", I just came up with it recently:
>For a polygon of points p1...pn, and a point P, make a table as follows:
>T(1)= angle from p1 to P to p2
>T(2)= angle from p2 to P to p3
>...
>T(n)= angle from pn to P to p1
>express all angles as: -PI < angle < PI.
>Add all entries in the table. If the sum = 0, the point is outside. If
>the sum is +/- PI, the point is inside. If the point is +/- xPI, you
>have a strange polygon. If ANY angle was = +/-PI, the point is on the
>border.
I think it's known, but it's neat.
Can it be extended to 3D?
John Nagle
| 1comp.graphics
|
I had a deal on one, but the buyer disappear, so here we go again:
I am in the market for an inexpensive accelerator for 500-2000 series.
Lucas/Frances, A2620 or similair preferred. If you have something
like this, please offer me. My address is hsneits@nyx.cs.du.edu,
and you propably can reach me at my home: +358-0-802-6747 too.
| 6misc.forsale
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I have two Motif Widgets. I would like to control one of them via the
keyboard and the other with the mouse. I set the keyboard focus on the first
widget, but as soon as I click the mouse on the second one, I lose the
keyboard focus on the first one.
Could some kind soul show me how to do this?
Thanks
DM
dev@hollywood.acsc.com
| 5comp.windows.x
|
aardvark@cygnus.la.locus.com (Warren Usui) writes:
|>>>So, Alfredo Griffin is better than Barry Larkin.
|>
|>If rings is what you're judging by, then I don't see your point, since Barry
|>has one (1990).
|Yes but Alfredo has at least two!! (1988 Dodgers and 1992 Blue Jays).
|Not only that, he has won World Series rings for more different teams than
|Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig combined!! (how do we know that the Yankee dynasty
|was not due to Lazarri being at third?)
Warren, I agree with your premise... but... The Babe won on
two teams. That's right, he was part of the Red Sox Dynasty of the
1910s. And everyone knows that the Yankee Dynsaty wouldn't have
happened without thier famous bullpen catcher whose name escapes me at
the moment.
-Cuz
| 9rec.sport.baseball
|
Boy, hats off to any Cubs fan who can actually muster up the courage to put
down Braves fans. I mean, all the Braves have done is gone to two consecutive
world series. Also, being the Cubs fan that I am, I really have to hand it to
all the Braves fans out there that are capable of driving me crazy with that
infernal cheer that they have.
However, I do have to protest anyone saying that all Cubs fans are stupid. The
way I see it, either I'm just too stupid to acknowledge it, or that observation
was just plain wrong. You might have us confused with Bear fans. ;)
Anyway, about a two weeks ago just about everyone was saying that the Cubs
would finish up last in their division. (Even behind Florida?!? Sheesh!)
These same people were predicting the Braves to clean up in their respective
division. Well, we're ten games into the season and these people are a little
less vocal now. I wonder why.
Well, the way I see it, the East is up for grabs, and whoever wants it most is
going to take it, with the exception of Florida. Every team seems to have
good batting and pitching, with Philly presently leading the pack. But, I just
have to point out, if the Cubs do take the East, they'll do it without the
benefit of a competent manager. However, and it pains me to say it, the
pennant is going to go to the West.
Just had to get that off my chest.
Doc
bem
benefit of a compee
| 9rec.sport.baseball
|
[William Christie asked about the Essene NT.
Andrew Kille reponded
>There is a collection of gospels which usually goes under the name of the
>"Essene Gospel of Peace." These are derived from the gnostics, not the
>essenes, and are ostensibly translations from syriac texts of the fourth
>and fifth centuries (I vaguely recall; I can't find my copy right now).
--clh]
There had been recent criticism of this in a listserv for academic
Biblical scholars: they all say the book(s) are modern fakes.
D.H.
| 15soc.religion.christian
|
In article <kaz.736031654@vincent1.iastate.edu> kaz@iastate.edu (Errington Shroud) writes:
>Recently, Windows has starting giving me the error "Sound Blaster Pro:
>Requires newer version of Windows 3.1." It has worked correctly for a long
>time, and don't know what the problem could be. Thanks!
I had this problem when I initially installed my sound blaster pro and here's
what the tech support told me.
They told me to look for the files that are stated in the readme file from
the win31 subdirectory of the soudblaster directory. Now look in the system.ini
file and if any of them say device=xxxxxxx.386 than change it to
device=*xxxxxxx
Thats should work. Was your system.ini file erased for some reason? That would
be the only reason that I would think that Windoes is giving you the error now.
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The term "stopper" is generally used to refer to a pitcher, one
who can be counted on to pitch a strong game to keep his team from going
on a losing streak.
The Braves have plenty of pitchers to fit this description,
although right now I'd expect Smoltz or Glavine to take the mantle.
What the Braves lack, however, is an offensive stopper,
somebody they can look to to bring them out of their hitting slump.
There's just no one there. The Braves got rid of their best pure
hitter, Lonnie Smith, and only Terry Pendleton on the current roster
has ever shown more than a cursory ability to hit.
Oh, and another thing that worries me. Ron Gant seems to have
slowed down a step. That's scary. A slow Ron Gant doesn't have much going
for him.
--
@econ.duke.edu fls@econ.duke.edu fls@econ.duke.edu fls@econ.duke.
s To my correspondents: My email has been changed. e
l My new address is: fls@econ.duke.edu d
f If mail bounces, try fls@raphael.acpub.duke.edu u
| 9rec.sport.baseball
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In article <93109.184451RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>, RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu writes...
>ok, there are three balls on this batter. the pitcher proceeds to
>bean the batter.
>
>is that a walk or a hit by pitch?
>
>bob vesterman.
A HBP, but it reminds of my favorite (apochryphal ? sp ?) Don Drysdale story.
When ordered to intentionally walk a batter who had hot-dogged on him in
two previous at-bats, Drysdale reared back with the first pitch and
drilled him right in the ribs.
His manager came storming out of the dugout and yelled "What did you do that
for ?"
Drysdale growled back, "What are you complaining for ? I saved you three
pitches !"
Incidentally, if this is true, I'd love to know the other people involved.
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SUNY at Buffalo | cracks... and the wall, cracks... and the wall comes
Dept. of Economics | crumbling down." - Anthrax
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I posted about this a while ago but without code excerpts noone was
able to help me.
The problem is that main_win.win is doing fine, but when I create
detail_win.win, it does not receive it's initial expose events until
main_win.win receives an event. Here are the relevent calls:
main_win.win = XCreateSimpleWindow (mydisplay, DefaultRootWindow(mydisplay),
myhint.x, myhint.y, myhint.width, myhint.height,
main_win.line_thick, fg, bg);
XSetStandardProperties(mydisplay, main_win.win, main_win.text,
main_win.text, None, argv, argc, &myhint);
main_win.gc = XCreateGC (mydisplay, main_win.win, 0, 0);
XMapRaised (mydisplay, detail_win.win);
XMapSubwindows (mydisplay, main_win.win);
The event mask for main_win is:
PPosition | PSize | StructureNotifyMask | ExposureMask| KeyPressMask |
EnterWindowMask | LeaveWindowMask;
The flags are
PPosition | PSize
I then create detail_win.win with the following calls (hints has new values):
detail_win.win = XCreateSimpleWindow (mydisplay, DefaultRootWindow(mydisplay),
myhint.x, myhint.y, myhint.width, myhint.height,
detail_win.line_thick, fg, bg);
XSetStandardProperties(mydisplay, main_win.win, detail_win.text,
detail_win.text, None, argv, argc, &myhint);
detail_win.gc = XCreateGC (mydisplay, detail_win.win, 0, 0);
XMapRaised (mydisplay, detail_win.win);
Event Mask and flags are identical to main_win's flags and event mask.
If anybody has any idea why the initial expose events of detail_win.win
are not received until main_win.win receives an event I'd love to hear
from them. Other that that everything works great so there must be some
detail I'm overseeing.
Thanks for any tips
---> Robert
rgasch@nl.oracle.com
| 5comp.windows.x
|
Since the law requires that wiretaps be requested by the Executive
Branch and approved by the Judicial Branch, it seems clear that one
of the key registering bodies should be under the control of the
Judicial Branch. I suggest the Supreme Court, or, regionally, the
Courts of Appeal. More specifically, the offices of their Clerks.
Courts already operate substantial record-keeping operations. Some
of these records are confidential. So the concept of a court holding
information in confidence in accordance with law has longstanding legal
precedents. The judiciary is more immune to pressure from the executive
branch than any executive branch agency or contractor can be. So judicial
control of keys is appropriate.
For the other half of the key, I suggest a unit of Congress, the
General Accounting Office. The GAO is Congress's staff unit for keeping
tabs on the Executive Branch, and has an excellent reputation. It's
controlled strictly by Congress; the Executive Branch has no authority
over it.
With keys split between the Legislative and Judicial branches,
we might have a chance of this system working honestly. If, of course,
a way can be found to keep the keys from being siphoned off before
they reach the repositories.
This should not be construed as an endorsement by me of the
whole Clipper concept. But if we have to have it, splitting control
across all three branches of government might make it work.
John Nagle
| 11sci.crypt
|
In article <1993Apr16.060010.10012@ncsu.edu>, cdkaupan@eos.ncsu.edu (CARL DAVID KAUPANG) writes:
>
> It is really annoying to see all of these
> predictions on the Net. Who really cares
> who you think will win? Please stop with
> the predictions, we all know the Caps are
> going to win the Cup, so let it go at that.
>
>
In the words of Doktor Kultur, in the Ottawa Citizen,
"Remember to unhook the Nitrous Oxide before you leave
the Dentist Chair!" 8^)
GO JETS (for once, in the playoffs, please, I beg of you...)
Paul Badertscher
35002_2765@uwovax.uwo.ca
| 10rec.sport.hockey
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Does anyone know what the differences are between the Stylewriter
and the Stylewriter II?
Please respond via e-mail to:
l.d.sanders@larc.nasa.gov
Thanks.
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reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei
______________________________________________________________________________
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
Many (all?) XT drive controllers have their own BIOS on board to handle low-
level formatting. The BIOS also allows you to set up the drive properly
(# of cylinders/heads/etc).
--
-- Andy
robinson@cs.psu.edu
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
April 19, 1993
As William O. Douglas noted, "If a powerful sponsor is lacking,
individual liberty withers -- in spite of glowing opinions and
resounding constitutional phrases."
The legislative scorecard outlined below resulted from subcommittee,
committee, and floor action. Many important victories, however, come
from coordinating with legislators to ensure anti-gun/anti-hunting
legislation is either amended favorably, rejected, or never voted.
These quiet victories are no less impressive in protecting our
fundamental civil liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.
****
Arizona - SB 1233, NRA-supported legislation concerning minors in
criminal possession of firearms passed the House 36-18, is currently
awaiting action by the Governor.
Arkansas - HB 1447, Firearms Preemption Legislation was signed by the
Governor making this the forty-first state to pass preemption.
Preemption had passed twice in previous sessions only to be vetoed by
then Gov. Bill Clinton. HB 1417, mandatory storage of firearms,
amended and then killed in committee.
Colorado - SB 42, mandating the storage of firearms with a
trigger-lock, killed in committee. SB 104, prohibiting the sale of
certain semi-auto firearms was killed in committee. SB 108,
so-called Colorado Handgun Violence Prevention Act, including a
provision for a 10-day waiting period, killed in committee.
Connecticut - Substitute Bill No. 6372, imposing a 6% tax on all
firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment killed in Environment
Committee.
Florida - A bill to require a 3-year license at a cost of $150 to own
or possess semi-automatic firearms with a second degree felony
provision (15 years in prison) died in committee along with numerous
other anti-gun owner bills. No anti-gun legislation passed in
Florida this year.
Georgia - SB 12, supposed instant check with provision allowing for
up to a 7-day "waiting period," defeated in House Public Safety
Committee and sent to Interim Study committee. Mandatory storage
bill -- SB 247 -- was defeated 39-15 in the Senate. The same bill
passed the upper-House 52-2 in 1992.
Illinois - HB 90, prohibiting the sale, possession, manufacture,
purchase, possession, or carrying of certain semi-auto firearms, was
defeated in House Judiciary II Subcommittee on Firearms. HB 91,
mandatory storage legislation, failed in House Judiciary Subcommittee
on Firearms. HB 1550, repeals FOID and makes FTIP, point of sale
check permanent, passed out of Judiciary Committee by a 10-4-2 vote.
Presently on the calendar for third reading in the House.
SB 40, mandatory storage bill, defeated in committee.
SB 265, imposing a handgun excise tax, failed in Senate committee on
Revenue's Subcommittee on Tax Increases.
SB 272,imposing a tax on all persons engaged in the business of
selling firearms, failed in Senate Revenue Committee's Subcommittee
on Tax Increases.
Indiana - SB 241, Statewide Firearms Preemption, passed in the Senate
34-16, and in the House 77-22. Twelve amendments were introduced on
the House floor to SB 241. Among these amendments were a ban on
certain semi-auto firearms, Mandatory Storage, Trigger-Lock, a ban on
"Saturday Night Specials" (Similar to 1988 Maryland Bill), and
Handgun Rationing (one handgun per month). All were defeated.
[I read this morning (4/20) S.B. 241 was defeated -- lvc]
Kansas - HB 2435, providing for a 72-hour waiting period on all
firearms was defeated in committee. HB 2458, presently on the
Governor's desk, HB 2459 and SB 243 and 266 all relating to victims'
rights, are expected to be enacted into law.
Maine - Funding for the Department of Fish and Wildlife 1993-94
budget, was restored following severe reductions in the Governor's
proposed budget. LD 612, an anti-hunting bill which included reverse
posting and 1000 yard safety zones, killed in committee.
Maryland - SB 6-(Firearms Incendiary ammunition) died in committee on
a 8-3 vote, SB 41 (Reckless Endangerment - Firearms - Sale or
Transfer) died in committee on a 11-0 vote, SB 126 (Gun Control -
"Assault Weapons") died in committee on 9-2 vote, SB 182 (Weapons
-Free School Zone) was withdrawn, SB 185 (Weapons on School Property-
Driver's License Suspension was withdrawn, SB 265 ("Assault Pistols"
- Sale, Purchase or Transport) died in committee on 8-3 vote, SB 328
("Assault Pistols" Act of 1993) died in committee on a 8-3 vote, SB
682 (Baltimore City-Firearms-Rifles and Shotguns) died in committee
on a 9-2 vote.
HB 274 (Pistol and Revolver Dealers Licenses - compliance with zoning
laws) was withdrawn, HB 366 (Regulated Firearms-sales and transfer)
died on the Senate Floor, HB 374 (Handguns and "assault weapons" -
Advertising for sale or transfer) died in committee, HB 384 (Handguns
and "Assault Weapons" - Exhibitors) died in committee, HB 495
("Assault Pistols" Act of 1993) died in committee on a 14-9 vote, HB
496 (Gun Shows-Sale, Trade, or Transfer of regulated firearms) died
in committee on a 19-6 vote, HB 601 (Firearms - Handguns - "Assault
Pistols" - Handgun Roster Board) was withdrawn, HB 683 (Rifles and
Shotguns - Registration) was withdrawn, HB 945 (Pistols and Revolvers
- Private sales or transfers- required notice) died in committee,
and HB 1128 Prince Georges County -
Weapons - Free School Zone) was withdrawn.
Mississippi - HB 141, closing a loophole allowing felons to possess
firearms, passed both Houses and signed by the Governor. The bill
codifies into law mechanism for certain felons to have their Second
Amendment liberties reinstated.
Nebraska - LB 83 and LB 225, mandatory trigger-lock bills, killed in
committee.
New Hampshire - H.B. 363, providing for reciprocity for concealed
carry licenses passed. H.B. 671, increasing the term of a License
to Carry Loaded Handguns passed.
New Mexico - SB 762, imposing a 7-day "waiting period," defeated in
Senate committee (0-5) and then on floor of the Senate (15-24). HB
182, mandatory storage legislation, was killed by a vote of 1-8 in
committee. HB 230, legislation safeguarding sportsmen in the field
from harassment by animal rights extremists, signed into law by the
Governor on March 30.
New York - Seven-day waiting period was defeated in the City of
Buffalo. Ban on certain semi-autos was defeated in Monroe County.
The tax and fee bills to be imposed on guns and ammo were not
included in the 1993-94 budget. SB 207, making pistol licenses
provides for validity of pistol license throughout the state, passed
Senate. Currently awaiting action in Assembly committee.
North Dakota - HB 1484, granting victims compensation in certain
circumstances, was signed into law by the Governor on April 8.
Oregon - SB 334, banning firearms on school grounds and in court
buildings, withdrawn as a result of gun owners opposition.
Rhode Island - HB 5273, mandatory firearms storage legislation,
defeated in committee by a vote of 8-5. HB 6347, an act prohibiting
aliens from owning firearm; defeated by unanimous vote in committee.
HB 5650, excepting NRA instructors from the firearms safety
requirement, reported favorably. HB 5781, exempting persons with an
Attorney General's permit from the 7-day waiting period, reported to
the floor by a vote of 11-1.
HB 6917, extending the term of a permit to carry from two years to
three years, reported to the floor unanimously.
Utah HB 290, reforming the state's concealed carry statute, passed
out of House committee. SB 32, creating civil liability for
so-called negligent storage of a firearm, and SB 33 creating the
offense of "reckless endangerment" with a firearm, killed on Senate
floor.
Virginia: S.B. 336, and S.B. 803, requiring proof of state residence
to obtain Virginia Driver's License passed. S.B. 804, which
increases the penalty and imposes a mandatory minimum sentence for
"straw man" purchases of multiple firearms passed. S.B. 858,
allowing possession of "sawed-off" rifles and shotguns in compliance
with federal law passed. S.B. 1054, making it a felony for first
offense of carrying a concealed firearm without a license (which the
NRA opposes until law-abiding citizens can acquire a concealed carry
license for self-defense), was defeated. H.B. 1900, increasing the
penalty for use of a firearm in committing a felony was passed. H.B.
2076, requiring proof of residence to obtain a driver's license
passed. H.B. 2272, providing for a referendum on the imposition of a
statewide three- day "waiting period" in handgun purchases was
defeated.
Washington: SB 5160, calling for waiting periods and licensing for
all semi-automatic firearms, died in committee.
West Virginia - S.C.R. 18, which calls for a study to control
transfers of handguns and "Assault Weapons" was defeated in the
Senate 24-10.
Wisconsin - In a referendum up against all odds, the determined
efforts of the Madison Area Citizens Against Crime paid off on April
6 when a nonbinding referendum banning the possession of handguns in
Madison, Wisconsin, was defeated. Despite opposition to the ban --
aired largely by firearms owners at a series of public meetings on
the issue -- the Common Council voted on February 17 to place the
referendum on the ballot, allowing only seven weeks of campaigning to
reverse public opinion on the controversial issue.
An October 1992 poll conducted by the Wisconsin State Journal found
57% in support and 38% opposed, with 5% expressing no opinion. By
election day, of the more than 56,000 voters who went to the polls,
51% cast ballots in opposition to the proposal while 49% voted to
have the Madison Common Council enact such a ban. The campaign
committee, spearheaded by the Wisconsin Pro-Gun Movement and NRA-ILA,
relied on neighborhood canvassing, direct mail and radio/TV
advertising to educate voters on the civil liberties implications
raised by enforcement of the ban if the referendum was approved.
Despite the surprising defeat, it is expected that the Madison
initiative's chief proponent, Mayor Paul Soglin, will attempt to have
the Common Council enact an ordinance banning handguns.
Downloaded from GUN-TALK (703-719-6406)
A service of the
National Rifle Association
Institute for Legislative Action
Washington, DC 20036
--
Larry Cipriani -- l.v.cipriani@att.com
| 16talk.politics.guns
|
A few weeks ago I saw an ad in the German magazine c't
about a so-called Videostreamer. This is an interface
between a PC's parallel port and any video-recorder for
backing up your data on a videotape. The company (DataSave?)
claims that it can store up to 7 GB on a 300 minutes tape.
^^^^^^^^^^
It costs DM 250.- (about USD 200, I think)
My question is:
Does anybody use this product, if yes, how many bytes
REALLY fit on a 300 minutes tape (7 GB sounds quite
unbelievable to me).
However, any comments on the interface are appreciated.
Please mail your replies directly to me, I will sum up
if neccesary. Thanks in advance...
-Gerhard
(gwesp@cosy.sbg.ac.at)
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
In article <bskendigC5rCBG.Azp@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) writes:
>>
>> They cut off the water, there were no fire trucks present
>
>They refused to bring in fire equipment for fear that the firemen
>would be shot at.
>
>>and the FBI/ATF go blasting holes into the builing and firing gas munitions.
>
>They used a tank to knock a hole in the wall, and they released
>non-toxic, non-flammable tear gas into the building.
Non-toxic tear gas?!? Do you know what tear gas is?
I do: once upon a time I happened to be in a room when someone threw
a tear-gas grenade in (that was supposed to be a joke:). The sensation
was incredible: I felt my eyes and nostrils were being torn apart.
I remember us - a bunch of young men in our early 20's - running out
like a herd of wild animals, knocking down the door and jumping
out of the windows (thank G-d we were on the first floor).
I can't imagine this kind of stuff being used against children.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.
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| 18talk.politics.misc
|
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DAK988S@vma.smsu.edu writes:
>No....Hal McRae is the worst manager in baseball.
I haven't seen enough Royals' games to judge his tactics, so you may have
a point here. But:
>I've never seen a guy who can waste talent like he can. One of the best
>raw-talent staffs in the league, and he's still finding a way to lose.
IMO, the Royals don't have a chance to win the pennant even if McRae
suddenly began channeling for John McGraw. OK, they have some decent
pitchers. But when your offense consists of bums like Gagne and Lind
and McReynolds and McRae and an over-the-hill Brett, you're not going
to finish .500 unless McGraw brings Christy Mathewson back with him.
I'd say it is hard to evaluate a manager when all of his hitters suck.
Bob Davis rbd@thor.ece.uc.edu
| 9rec.sport.baseball
|
Does anyone have any information/advice on large color monitors
(17"-21") to use with a 486 system running X server software?
I maining looking for quality information and price, but all
information is welcomed.
Thanks,
David
--
"It's all ball bearings!"
-- Fletch
| 5comp.windows.x
|
In a previous article, adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack) says:
>In article <2BDAD779.24910@news.service.uci.edu> tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock) writes:
>>In article <AMOSS.93Apr25163327@shuldig.cs.huji.ac.il> amoss@shuldig.cs.huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira) writes:
>>>cy779@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Anas Omran) writes:
>
>>>Eh???? Could you please give me details about an event where a "Neutral
>>>Observer" was killed by purpose by an Israeli soldier?
>
There are many cases, but I do not remeber names. The Isralis shot and killed
a UN observer in Gaza in the first half of Intifada.
I believe that most of the world has seen pictures of Israeli soldiers who
were breaking the cameras of the reporters, kicking reporters out, confiscating
cassettes, and showing reporters militery orders preventing them from going
to hot areas to pick pictures and make reports.
| 17talk.politics.mideast
|
I recently got a Centris 610 4/230 on my desk. It's a vast improvement on
my previous machine (a IIsi 5/40). However .....
I've encountered a problem with fonts ..
Entries in a Filemaker 2.0 database which looked fine when printed from my
previous mac using System 7.01 now look wierd !
Spacing between characters has increased greatly - causing lines to be
truncated. I'm using plain and bold Helvetica in various sizes - the
increase in character spacing seems to occur for all sizes and styles.
I'm using a mixture of TrueType and Fixed-Size fonts - exactly as on my
IIsi - when things worked perfectly.
We've managed to get similar behaviour using Word 5.1.
Apple UK adopted their usual "friendly" approach and told us to call our
local dealer - God help us !!
Any ideas ??
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr Pete Edwards
Department of Computing Science
King's College
University of Aberdeen Tel. +44 (0)224 272270/96
Aberdeen, AB9 2UE Fax +44 (0)224 273422
SCOTLAND Email pedwards@csd.abdn.ac.uk
ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS: Pieces of plastic and metal, crudely fashioned to
bear a limited, superficial resemblance to real flowers, but with no
credible attempt to match their internal complexity in terms of form,
function, or behavior.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Really smart computers.
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| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey) writes:
>>rdk2@cec2.wustl.edu (Robert David Klapper) writes:
>>> I also believe that the 950 fixed a bug in the CPU which screwed up
>>>some floating point calculations.
>>>--
>>>Robert D. Klapper
>>>Washington University in St. Louis
>>>rdk2@cec2.wustl.edu
>>>Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.
>>Does someone have any definite information on this. This is the
>>first I've heard of it. How does the CPU get fixed by a hardware
>>upgrade? This doesn't make much sense to me.
>Let's see now... The differences between the 950 and 900 are
>basically:
> 1. Runs at 33MHz, not 25MHz
> 2. Has 25MHz I/O bus, not 16MHz
> 3. Upgraded Graphics controller
> 4. #3 results in Q950 requiring 80ns VRAM, not 100ns
> 5. ROM fixes:
> a. rounding errors in floating point calculations
> at 15th digit
So patch the ROMs with the latest OS version. I don't see
how this is a problem.
> b. Ethernet problems with more than 16 buffers
>So, no doubt, the person was refering to 5a, hardly "screwing
>up" though :)
>--
> Jim Jagielski | "And he's gonna stiff me. So I say,
> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | 'Hey! Lama! How about something,
> NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4 | you know, for the effort!'"
> Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
In article <1993Apr6.154544.28595@rd.hydro.on.ca> jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
>In article <1ppvds$92a@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> egreen@East.Sun.COM writes:
>>In article 7290@rd.hydro.on.ca, jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
>>Every bit as fast as a dirtbike, in the right terrain. And we eat
>>flies, thank you.
>Who mentioned dirtbikes? We're talking highway speeds here. If you go 70mph
>on your dirtbike then feel free to contribute.
Obviously never rode a good 250 or open-class bike!
--------======= I am not paid to have an opinion! =======--------
Dr. Speed Suzuki GS850G
DoD #8177
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
In <93721@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastco@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas) writes:
>In article <C5qLr8.DJL@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> slg@slgsun.att.com (The Idealistic Cynic) writes:
>>Can someone out there tell me how to switch Window's screen resolution
>>quickly and easily? I know that I can go back into install to do it,
> Take a look at ftp.cica.indiana.edu at pub/pc/win3/(util?misc?)
>for a program caleld vswitch.zip.It's as close to want you want as you can
>get in WIn3.1 ...
I think George is referring to switch.zip in the ~ftp/pub/pc/win3/drivers/video
directory. Description reads -- Switcher: Windows Video Mode Switcher.
--
david white (engineer, Goon fan & son of my Dad)
Internet davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz Fax +64 9 443-4737
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc
|
I may not be the world's greatest expert on chiggers (a type of
mite indigenous to the south), but I certainly have spent a lot
of time contemplating the little buggers over the past six years
(since we moved to N.C.). Here are some observations gained from
painful experience:
1. Reactions to chiggers vary greatly from person to person.
Some people get tiny red bites. Others (like me) are more
sensitive and get fairly large swollen sore-like affairs.
2. Chigger bites are the gift that keeps on giving. I swear
that these things will itch for months.
3. There is a lot of folklore about chiggers. I think most of
it is fiction. I have tried to do research on the critters,
since they have such an effect on me. The only book I could
find on the subject was a *single* book in UNC's special
collections library. I have not yet gone through what is
required to get it.
4. Based on my experience and that of my family members, the old
folk remedy of fingernail polish simply doesn't work. I recall
reading that the theory upon which it is based (that the chiggers
burrow into your skin and continue to party there) is false. I
think it is more likely that the reaction is to toxins of some
sort the little pests release. But this is speculation.
5. The *best* approach is prevention. A couple of things work well.
A good insect repellent (DEET) such as Deep Woods Off liberally
applied to ankles, waistband, etc. is a good start. There is
another preparation called "Chig Away" that is a combination of
sulfur and some kind of cream (cortisone?) that originally was
prepared for the Army and is not commercially available. In
the summer I put this on my ankles every morning when I get
up on weekends since I literally can't go outside where we
live (in the country) without serious consequences. (They
apparently don't like sulfur much at all. You can use sulfur
as a dust on your body or clothing to repel them.)
6. No amount of prevention will be *completely* successful. Forget
the fingernail polish. I have finally settled upon a treatment
that involves topical application of a combination of cortisone
creme (reduces the inflamation and swelling) and benzocaine
(relieves the itch). I won't tell you all the things I've tried.
Nor will I tell you some of the things my wife does since this
counts as minor surgery and is best not mentioned (I also think
it gains nothing).
7. The swelling and itching can also be significantly relieved
by the application of hot packs, and this seems to speed recovery
as well.
Doctors seem not to care much about chiggers. The urban and suburban
doctors apparently don't encounter them much. And the rural doctors
seem to regard them as a force of nature that one must endure. I
suspect that anyone who could come up with a good treatment for chiggers
would make a *lot* of money.
--
Gary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]
SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000
sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm
| 13sci.med
|
In article <May.13.02.29.39.1993.1505@geneva.rutgers.edu>, revdak@netcom.com (D. Andrew Kille) writes:
> Of course the whole issue is one of discernment. It may be that Satan
> is trying to convince us that we know more than God. Or it may be that
> God is trying (as God did with Peter) to teach us something we don't
> know- that "God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears
> him and does what is right is acceptable to him." (Acts 10:34-35).
>
> revdak@netcom.com
Fine, but one of the points of this entire discussion is that "we"
(conservative, reformed christians - this could start an argument...
But isn't this idea that homosexuality is ok fairly "new" [this
century] ? Is there any support for this being a viable viewpoint
before this century? I don't know.) don't believe that homosexuality
is "acceptable to Him". So your scripture quotation doesn't work for
"us".
-jeff adams-
| 15soc.religion.christian
|
>In article <1993Apr21.160341.24707@westminster.ac.uk>, jkjec@westminster.ac.uk (Shazad Barlas) writes:
>|> I just wanted to know:
>|>
>|> To wheelspin in an auto, you keep the gear in N - gas it - then stick the
>|> gear in D... I've never tried this but am sure it works - but does this screw
>|> up the autobox? We're having a bit of a debate about it here...
>
>
>Ah yes, the neutral slam.
>
>I know that GM tested the old th400's and th350's by shifting from reverse to
>forward gears repeatedly while holding the engine at high rpms. the units hold
>up incredibly well. This is also the recommended technique to "rock" a stuck
>vehicle out of the mud. I think the hydraulics are up to the task, but the
>mechanicals of the driveline may object by breaking something.
>
>$0.02
>
>Ericy
I agree about the durability of the old TH400 trannies from GM. While I
never intentionally slamed my '68 Firebird 400 ci Conv. into gear, I would leave
the trannie in Low (read 1st), grab hold, hit the pedal, and once the tires
grabbed, take off. When I reached about 57-60mph the turbo 400 Auto would
shift to S (read 'super' or 2nd) and leave about 10 to 15 foot of double
stripped rubber on the ground. Most everyone I knew at the time was quite
impressed with 'peeling' out at 60 MPH. The trannie held up just fine.
Motor mounts would last about a year until I tied the motor down with large
chains. Oh yea,FYI: Pontiac 400 ci bored 0.04 over
Large Valve heads
Holley 650 Spread bore
Crain 'BLAZER' cam (don't remember the specs)
PosiTrac, Hooker headers, Dual exhaust
Get this (Conv., leather seats, power windows
power top, AC, Cruise etc.)
Oh yea, I also pulled the 'Cocktail shakers' (weights) from the front
and removed the lead pellet from the accelerator pedal. (Damn US regulations)
OH, HOW I MISS THAT CAR!!!
-- 0-60 under 6.7 sec and about 6 to 14 mpg (well I don't miss the mpg)
-- front wheels 4" off the ground with three quick jabs at the pedal.
-- bent pushrods, stripped rocker studs, every 6-12 months
( I really wonder what kind of rev's I was turning - no tach)
Re: Improvements in Automatic Transmissions
Anyone seen one of these lately? I'd buy it back in a sec!!!
OPEN TOP Brent
| 7rec.autos
|
In article <1993Apr20.132914.907@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>In article qfe00WB2QzZ7EZ@andrew.cmu.edu, Wilson Swee <ws8n+@andrew.cmu.edu> () writes:
>|> I have a piece of X code that compiles fine on pmax-ul4, pmax_mach, as
>|>well as sun4_mach, but whenever it compiles on sun4_411, it gives me
>|>undefined ld errors:
>|>_sin
>|>_cos
>|>_pow
>|>_floor
>|>_get_wmShellWidgetClass
>|>_get_applicationShellWidgetClass
>|>
>|>The following libraries that I linked it to are:
>|>-lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11
>|>
>|>The makefile is generated off an imake template.
>|>Can anyone give me pointers as to what I'm missing out to compile on
>|>a sun4_411?
>
>Well, the first 2 are easy. You need the math library. Try adding -lm after
>-lX11. Don't know if that's the whole problem but it's a start.
>
>---
I "think" you should try linking to /usr/lib/libXmu.a instead of
-lXmu. At least that solved the problem for me!
| 5comp.windows.x
|
In article <1r941o$3tu@menudo.uh.edu> inde7wv@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:
>
>I understand why you theoretically stop so far behind a car but can you
>really in actuality avoid such an incident? Suggestions?
If you had been looking in your mirror, you would have seen the guy coming
before you heard the screeching tires.
When you're stopped at a light:
1) Stop so that you're got space in front of you, and a quick easy escape
route (between lanes, into a crosswalk, up a driveway, somewhere) if someone
decides they want to plow into you.
2) Keep the bike in first with the clutch in until at least a couple of cars
are stopped behind you, so you don't have to waste a second you don't have
trying to get it in gear if you need to move.
3) Watch your mirrors. In that situation, most of the hazards you are
trying to avoid are coming from behind you. SIPDE (<-- msf-geek-speak)
isn't just for when you're moving. And you're less likely to panic and stall
the bike if you've got time to prepare before the guy's tires lock up behind
you. (You still get the bejeezus scared out of you, but it's more a feeling
of quickly-rising dread than a sudden jolt.)
--
Ray Shea
UniSQL, Inc.
unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu
DoD #0372 : Team Twinkie : '88 Hawk GT
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
I have heard that the version 7.2 printer driver is out for the apple laserwriter ls. Has ayone heard of how or where to get this driver.
Please email
Thanks!
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
Radius 24X accelerated graphics adaptor. Supports multiple resolutions and
allows on-the-fly changing of resolution or bit depth. MSRP $1999, street
price $1700, your price: best offer over $800.
Scott (303)962-9473 x9779
| 6misc.forsale
|
In article <Apr.6.00.33.22.1993.26417@pilot.njin.net> gajarsky@pilot.njin.net (Bob Gajarsky - Hobokenite) writes:
>ok - sorry about that...i didn't realise he was being sarcastic about
> those sort of things.
>
>but i'll tell you, mike lupica (daily news) usually says some pretty
> funny things in his "shooting from the lip" columns...
>
>- bob gaj
Y'know, if current trends continue, the Florida Marlins will be the first
expansion team to go 162-0 and outscore their opponents by 486 runs.
--
ted frank | "However Teel should have mentioned that though
thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu | his advice is legally sound, if you follow it
the u of c law school | you will probably wind up in jail."
standard disclaimers | -- James Donald, in misc.legal
| 9rec.sport.baseball
|
strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
> Nothing I'm doing would be of the slightest interest to President Nixon .
A typical example of seep-minded thinking. We all know that David
Sternlight is a jerk, but I'm afraid that in this case 90% of the
population will think like him. Realize it guys - NSA, Dorothy
Denning, and the US government have already won the battle...
Unless... unless you succeed to wake up the people... but nah, that's
too unlikely... The events are happening too fast, cryptography is a
too sophisticated issue, and almost nobody cares anyway... A few
thousand of net.readers won't make the difference, if millions are
caught asleep... Too sad... :-(((((
Regards,
Vesselin
--
Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.2 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
| 11sci.crypt
|
You're right ... I'm sick of seeing all those white guys on skates
myself ... the Vancouver Canucks should be half women, and overall
one-third Oriental.
(-; (-; (-; (-; (-; (-;
And I'll gladly volunteer myself for the overage draft. (-;
gld
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gary L. Dare
> gld@columbia.EDU GO Winnipeg Jets GO!!!
> gld@cunixc.BITNET Selanne + Domi ==> Stanley
| 10rec.sport.hockey
|
In article <1993Apr15.163923.25120@microsoft.com>, tomca@microsoft.com (Tom B. Carey) writes:
|> OK, just for grins:
|> - Kekule hypothesized a resonant structure for the aromatic benzene
|> ring after waking from a dream in which a snake was swallowing his tail.
|> - Archimedes formalized the principle of buoyancy while meditating in
|> his bath.
Well, certainly in Archimedes case the description "while observing the
phenomena in his bath" seems more accurate than "while meditating in
his bath" -- it was, after all, a rather buoyancy intense environment.
--
Gary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]
SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000
sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm
| 13sci.med
|
hi folks
i have a 386 25 mhz and now i'm buying a new 486
first question) which is the best way to share hard disks
and printer
p.s. my two pc will be far about 10 meter and i like to use
a parallel port or ethernet card and i like to share resource
under dos linux os2.1 and windows 3.1 & nt
2) which 486? i think to buy 486 dx2 50mzh local bus
but i heard that some board coulnd't work properly
cause some incompatibilites is that true?
should a 486 dx 50 mhz a better solution
in case i buy local bus it's better to buy an accelerated
svga card with a normal local bus ide controller
or it is better to buy a local bus svga card non accelerated
with a normal ide controller?
3) is there any accelerated local bus and possibly true color
svga card? at which price?
4) i need to buy a cd which is the cheapest that is able to read
musical photo kodak and computer cd rom
i have heard about a sony and a mitsumi which is best?
and which controller work with its?
thank to everyone anserw me
rosa@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
Yeah, diesels are cleaner than petrol powered cars. They even have catalysts
fitted to disels now! Oh and Citroen have even launched the 'First sports
diesel car in the world'. Which is probably true if you assume if its for
production purposes (Merc-Benz had a prototype which runs on diesel back in
around 1968..... it did - and read this! - 200 MPH!!!)
....Shaz....
| 7rec.autos
|
In article <1qmq7tINN9l@tamsun.tamu.edu> dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>Another user recently requested info about the Shadow/Sundance
>cars, but I haven't seen any public responses.
>
>What are people's experiences with these cars?
>
>Daryl
>
they are pretty much junk, stay away from them. they will be replaced next
year with all new models.
| 7rec.autos
|
In article <1r22qp$4sk@squick.eitech.com> ekr@squick.eitech.com (Eric Rescorla) writes:
#In article <1r0m89$r0o@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
#>In article <1qvu33$jk3@kyle.eitech.com> ekr@kyle.eitech.com (Eric Rescorla) writes:
#>#In article <1quokn$c49@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
#>#>In article <1qktbg$bmh@squick.eitech.com> ekr@squick.eitech.com (Eric Rescorla) writes:
#>#>#No, I don't see what the popularity of a value has to do with whether
#>#>#it is objective or not. Pls. explain.
#>#>If almost all people agree that the sun exists (in the usual, uncritical sense),
#>#>and almost all people agree that a deal is bad, it's a reasonable
#>#>conclusion that the sun really does exist, and that the deal really is bad.
#>#I disagree completely. Until rather recently, most people did not
#>#believe in evolution or the possibility of the atom bomb. Popular
#>#opinion is notoriously wrong about matters of fact.
#>True, but nevertheless the basis of all "matters of fact" is overwhelming
#>popular opinion, and some overwhelming popular opinion *is* fact ("the
#>sun shines"). If it were not so, physics would be a personal matter,
#>assumed to be different for each of us. There would be YourGravity and
#>MyGravity and no theoretical framework to encompass them and predict
#>both.
#This is simply complete nonsense. The basis for 'matters of fact' is,
#if any class of opinion, the majority of INFORMED popular opinion
#for some value of informed. I would really hate to base my knowledge
#of, for instance, QM on what the overwhelming popular opinion is.
The *basis*, Eric, is people peering at the world and saying what
they see. I'm talking about uninterpreted facts - observations. _People_
do those. Agreement on some observations is a prerequisite for a theory
that is more than personal.
#>about *raw* observations ("the dial reads 1.2") matter, in other words, though
#>they can surely be mistaken (or even lying) there too ("I saw the statue
#>move!"). Getting to theories from raw facts is certainly error-prone, but
#>one assumes that the raw facts are usually as reported, otherwise science
#>is impossible.
#Opinions about 'raw facts' as you call them are somewhat different
#than interpretations of those raw facts.
I know this. You know this. Can we proceed?
#>Now I take an experience of good/evil to be every bit as raw a fact as an
#>experience of pain, or vision.
#That might seem like a good first pass guess, but it turns out to
#be a pretty cruddy way to look at things, because we all seem to
#have rather different opinions (experiences) about what is good
#and evil, while we seem to be able to agree on what the meter says.
You're not comparing apples with apples. If we all look at the same meter,
we'll agree. If we're all in the same situation, that's when we'll
agree on fundamental values, if at all. People who say that nobody agrees on
values to the same extent that they agree on trivial observations seem
to be unaware of the extent of agreement on either.
#> For me, an ethical standard can be nothing
#>more than a hypothesis about the modification of observed value through
#>human actions ("It will be better if..." == "You ought").
#See above. We can't seem to agree on what's better.
See above. We sometimes can. There is also the matter of inertia
against experimentation. Most, if not all, moral hypotheses are necessarily
tested by way of thought experiment. Few people will attempt genocide
or experience a lifetime in jail to find out if it's really as bad as
all that.
#> In that context,
#>then I see the choice as being between scepticism, relativism, and
#>objectivism. IMO, the existence of supermajority experiences of
#>good (life, freedom, truth, peace, love, intelligence) testifies that
#>objectivism is true for fundamental values - and this in turn is weak
#>evidence that objective ethics may be possible.
#I don't see that it's any evidence at all.
#As I point out above, I'm really not interested very much in
#what the popular opinion is. I'm prepared to trust--to some extent--
#the popular opinion about direct matters of physical observation
#because by and large they accord with my own. However, if everyone
#else said the dial read 1.5 and it looked like a 3 to me, I would
#hope that I would believe myself. I.e. believing other people about
#these matters seems to have a reasonable probability of predicting
#what I would believe if I observed myself, but the possibility exists
#that it is not. Since I know from observation that others disagree
#with me about what is good, I believe I can discount popular opinion
#about 'good' from the beginning as a predictor of my opinion.
#I would say that the fact that it seems almost impossible to get
#people to agree on what is good in a really large number of situations
#is probably the best evidence that objective morality is bogus, actually.
Firstly, if everyone else said the dial was 1.5 and I saw 3, I'd check
my lens prescription. Secondly, your observation that people
disagree shows nothing - people may be looking at different things,
by virtue of being in different situations. If I look at an elephant, I'll
see an elephant. That doesn't imply that you will see an elephant if you
look at an iguana. Thirdly, I question your assumption that when
people disagree about how to achieve fundamental or secondary goals, that
they therefore do not have the same fundamental goals (that seems to be the
disagreement you refer to).
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MLB Standings and Scores for Satruday, April 17th, 1993
(including yesterday's games)
NATIONAL WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road
San Francisco Giants 07 04 .636 -- 6-4 Won 2 04-01 03-03
Houston Astros 06 04 .600 0.5 6-4 Won 1 01-03 05-01
Atlanta Braves 06 06 .500 1.5 5-5 Lost 3 04-03 03-02
Los Angeles Dodgers 04 07 .364 3.0 4-6 Won 1 01-03 03-04
Colorado Rockies 03 06 .333 3.0 3-6 Lost 1 03-03 00-03
San Diego Padres 03 07 .300 3.5 3-7 Won 1 01-04 02-03
Cincinnati Reds 02 08 .200 4.5 2-8 Lost 4 01-03 01-05
NATIONAL EAST
Philadelphia Phillies 08 02 .800 -- 8-2 Lost 1 05-01 03-01
Pittsburgh Pirates 07 03 .700 1.0 7-3 Lost 1 03-02 04-01
St. Louis Cardinals 07 03 .700 1.0 7-3 Lost 1 04-02 03-01
New York Mets 05 04 .556 2.5 5-4 Won 1 02-03 03-01
Chicago Cubs 05 05 .500 3.0 5-5 Won 2 02-02 03-03
Montreal Expos 05 05 .500 3.0 5-5 Won 2 02-02 03-03
Florida Marlins 03 07 .300 5.0 3-7 Lost 1 02-04 01-03
AMERICAN WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road
Texas Rangers 06 03 .667 -- 6-3 Lost 2 04-02 02-01
California Angels 05 03 .625 0.5 5-3 Lost 1 03-02 02-01
Chicago White Sox 05 04 .556 1.0 5-4 Won 2 02-03 03-01
Minnesota Twins 05 04 .556 1.0 5-4 Won 1 02-02 03-02
Oakland Athletics 04 04 .500 1.5 4-4 Lost 2 04-02 00-02
Seattle Mariners 04 05 .444 2.0 4-5 Lost 2 03-02 01-03
Kansas City Royals 02 08 .200 4.5 2-8 Lost 1 01-05 01-03
AMERICAN EAST
Boston Red Sox 07 03 .700 -- 7-3 Lost 1 03-01 04-02
New York Yankees 06 04 .600 1.0 6-4 Won 1 03-01 03-03
Detroit Tigers 05 04 .556 1.5 5-4 Won 3 03-00 02-04
Toronto Blue Jays 05 04 .556 1.5 5-4 Lost 1 04-02 01-02
Cleveland Indians 04 06 .400 3.0 4-6 Won 1 03-01 01-05
Baltimore Orioles 03 06 .333 3.5 3-6 Won 2 01-02 02-04
Milwaukee Brewers 02 05 .286 3.5 2-5 Lost 4 00-02 02-03
YESTERDAY'S SCORES
(IDLE teams listed in alphabetical order)
NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York Mets 3 Chicago White Sox 9
Cincinnati Reds 1 Boston Red Sox 4
Florida Marlins 3 California Angels 1
Houston Astros 9 Baltimore Orioles 4
Philadelphia Phillies 1 Kansas City Royals 3
Chicago Cubs 3 Minnesota Twins 4 (10)
Colorado Rockies 2 Seattle Mariners 0
Montreal Expos 3 Detroit Tigers 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 4 Toronto Blue Jays 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 7 Cleveland Indians 13
Atlanta Braves 0 Texas Rangers 3
San Francisco Giants 1 New York Yankees 5
St. Louis Cardinals 1 Oakland Athletics PPD
San Diego Padres 5 Milwaukee Brewers RAIN
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In article <1993Apr21.053721.551@bnr.ca> MBEAVING@BNR.CA writes:
>I can't help myself.
>I've tried to be rational,
>to look the other way,
>but everytime it happens,
>its uncontrollable.
>
>I hate pre'80s motorcycles.
>
crud deleted...
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>= The Beav |Mike Beavington| Dod:9733 =
>= V65Sabre mbeaving@bnr.ca =
>= My employer has no idea what I'm talking about! =
>===================================================
You are missing out on a lot of neat old rides.
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In <1993Apr28.141606.17449@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> bday@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Brian Day) writes:
>rdouglas@stsci.edu (Rob Douglas) writes:
>>[...] But try to land a shuttle with that big huge telescope in the
>>back and you could have problems. The shuttle just isn't designed to land
>>with that much weight in the payload.
>Is HST really _that_ much heavier than a Spacelab ???
I can't speak to sheer mass, but part of the problem is that HST
wasn't built to ever be brought back down. It's not built for those
kinds of 'jolt' forces and there is no support cradle for it (which is
additional weight that would be required.
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| 14sci.space
|
In article <1qqikr$sd1@morrow.stanford.edu>, XA.U20@forsythe.stanford.edu ( writes...
>In article <1993Apr17.033050.24901@pony.Ingres.COM>,
>garrett@Ingres.COM (GREP A FRIEND) writes:
>>In article <1993Apr17.023116.23031@eecs.nwu.edu>, ian@epsilon.eecs.nwu.edu (Ian writes...
>>>I couldn't disagree with you more strongly. It sounds good, but in
>>>practice it too often becomes tyranny, because there are too often
>>>conflicting ideas of what constitutes "improving the human condition".
>>>Far better to let people and their organizations pursue whatever goals
>>>they think best, and let "the human condition" be improved by those who
>>>are willing to do so without coercion.
>>
>>There will always be conflicting ideas on what constitutes "improving the
>>human condition", that's humanity. You seem to believe that libertarianism
>>will improve the human condition by lifting all constraints, and that
>>people will have a better chance of improving themselves in that environment.
>
>Let me try to put it another way. Libertarians believe that an
>unconstrained environment provides the best chance of solving any
>problem because it maximizes creativity. However, there is never
>any guarantee that a really good solution will ever be found to any
>particular problem. "Utopia is not an option."
Utopia is a myth (although we can do a lot better than what we have today).
But I think that you must pitch Libertarianism as a progressive agenda
(ie You can do better under our style of system).
>> I admire a lot of what the Libertarians stand for, but you
>>guys are some of the worst salesmen I have ever seen. And when it comes to
>>politics, you need salesmen whether you want them or not.
>
>What we need are more people who agree with us, know something
>about marketin, and are willing to both do that marketing and teach
>others how to. Are you in?
I'm flattered by your invitation, but I'm afraid you have the wrong person.
Although I completely agree with your civil liberties agenda, I'm not
in support of your economic agenda. What I DO like about the Libertarian
party is that you guys are so good at shaking up the tired ideas of the
past. I encourage you guys to continue your crusade, but I'm afraid I
can't ride along.
>
>>>Ian Sutherland
>>>ian@eecs.nwu.edu
>
>>"Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has Garrett Johnson
>> come." --Tussman Garrett@Ingres.com
>
>/June
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A surplus-dealing buddy of mine came up with two emulator pods:
HP64220C (for HP 64100 development station). 8086 target
processor. DIP head. Does not include board that plugs into
the 64100.
Applied Microsystems 80C186/188 pod, LCC head.
If you have an interest in either, let me know. They look to
be in excellent condition. He doesn't know what to do with them, which
may mean that they'll be cheap.
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>Cutsie little Macintrash-like icons that are an instant recipe for
>mousitis IMHO. System 7 is undoubtedly the worst GUI I have used (out of
>that, RISCOS, MSWombles, and X11) simply because it does not provide enough
>keyboard shortcuts. Windows I must confess I quite like (cover your ears
>:-) ) because you can actually use it without having to ever touch the
>mouse.
[stuff delete]
>the user rather than making things _easier_ - and there should always be
>the option to do it your way if you want to, which is why I like the
>UNIX/X combination so much - it's so customizable.
Hear! Hear! I agree completely. One thing I can't stand about
the Mac interface is its shear determination to FORCE you to use
the mouse(what if your mouse breaks--your whole system is
down!). I like the mouse--it is handy on some occassions such
as cut and past and moving icons around, etc. But for most
work, the keyboard and hot keys are 10-20 times faster than
using the mouse. Sure it is a plus to be able to do something
simple if you are an inexperienced user, but how long is it
before your are experienced? A month? Two? (Speaking of PCs at
the moment.)
I don't think it is too much to ask that window
programmers provide not only a menu/mouse interface but also
look forward to those who would like to move on to hot keys and
command line interfaces, which usually allows you to do more in
less time IF you are experienced.
All of the above equally applies to windowing systems on
UNIX (especially since Unix is at least 500% more powerful than
DOS).
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| 5comp.windows.x
|
In article <mssC5Mx2v.C44@netcom.com>, mss@netcom.com (Mark Singer) says:
>
>Lasorda juggled his lineup against the Pirates Friday night, and from
>the results one might conclude that he will stick with the changes
>for a while.
>
>Butler reclaimed leadoff spot, probably for the whole season
>Davis wants to get his speed into play. 4-for-4 last night
>Piazza the kid is doing *everything* well. very well.
>Strawberry the primadonna insists on batting cleanup
how do you know this? did lasorda say, before the game, "here's the
lineup i'm using. i'm batting strawman fourth because the primadonna
insists on batting cleanup"?
if this is true (note that i don't think it is), lasorda should be
fired for at least two reasons:
1) publicly humiliating his players;
2) knuckling under to his players wishes.
however, i think that the more likely explanation is that lasorda
wanted strawberry to bat fourth, and that you hate strawberry.
bob vesterman.
| 9rec.sport.baseball
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In article <15457@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>The Waco/Whacko Bar-B-Q caused me to remember an official explanation
>from the Vietnam War. The 90s, liberal version is:
> "It was necessary to incinerate the children in order to save them."
And yet this callous incident of disregard for life you call a "Bar-B-Q".
| 18talk.politics.misc
|
In article <1993Apr22.153000.1@vms.ocom.okstate.edu>
banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu writes:
>poster for being treated by a liscenced physician for a disease that did
>not exist. Calling this physician a quack was reprehensible Steve and I
>see that you and some of the others are doing it here as well.
Do you believe that any quacks exist? How about quack diagnoses? Is
being a "licensed physician" enough to guarantee that someone is not
a quack, or is it just that even if a licensed physician is a quack,
other people shouldn't say so? Can you give an example of a
commonly diagnosed ailment that you think is a quack diagnosis,
or have we gotten to the point in civilization where we no longer
need to worry about unscrupulous "healers" taking advantage of
people.
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| 13sci.med
|
In article <1993Apr22.175410.23214@starbase.trincoll.edu> () writes:
> "Freed om of Religion" has absolutely nothing to do with building a small
> arsenal and grooming 10-year old children to be your wife. "I'll come out
> as soon as I finish my manuscript on the Seven Seals." Oh, OK, David.
>
> I agree that Koresh was as much of a victim as a perpetrator; this because
> he grew up inside the cult, and engaged in a power struggle where his
> supporters helped inflate his ego.
>
> That doesn't change the fact that he was a loose fucking cannon with a
> shitload of serious weapons. Or that he was banging thirteen year olds and
> twisting their impressionable little minds.
>
> This was no MOVE fuck-up. A helicoptor was thermal-imaging the compound
> that afternoon and detected three fires erupting almost simultaneously.
> There were no CS CANISTERS... a specially modified Abrams was pupming the
> stuff in. No chance of starting a fire there. Kerosene lamps? Maybe one,
> but not three fires. No way. Koresh wasn't just talking out of his ass. I
> expected this to happen.
>
> Maybe they WANTED it to look like murder. He had 50+ days. I think this was
> coming the whole time. He didn't even put the children in the buried bus or
> the underground bunker during the CS seige. He put them up into the tower
> to die. Fuck all of you "Big Brother" paranoid freaks. The only good thing
> to come of any of this is that there will be one less group of crazoids to
> attract some of the more rootless members of our society.
>
> joe.kusmierczak@mail.trincoll.edu
I have not made up my mind about Waco, but there sure seems to be a group of
devoted government following fanatics willing to believe whatever that
government wants to tell them, without any shred of doubt, nor thought of thier
own. They sure get shrill whenever their belief structure is being shaken.
Kinda reminds you of the BDs, doesn't it?
Jim
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that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed
in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
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| 16talk.politics.guns
|
Why is Win 3.1 sometimes so finicky?
I have a new DELL 486DX2/66mhz 8 megs RAM.
Windows was working just great. I had a Bus mouse and mother board problem.
DELL replaced the mouse, gave me a newer mouse driver for windows
and replaced the motherboard. Just prior to this problem windows would
]only load up every other time. I would get the LOGO and either it would
go on into windows or LOCK UP. This was very consistent EVERY OTHER TIME.
Now with the new motherboard and all, it still does the same thing.
The computer is less than one month old. At first it worked FINE!
I can get into windows each time now with the win/s command.
This forces Standard mode. Things seem to run slower. I mainly
use windows apps, but in standard mode there is no virtual mem.....
plus it is slower.
I re-loaded windows, it still does the same thing. Should I first delete
everything in all windows dir's? I did not because I have so much
added in sub dir's etc.
Really puzzling why ENHANCED MODE would not load each time but consistently
every other time. Standard mode each time......
ANY THOUGHTS OR COMMENTS ???
C-ya..... /\/\artin
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In article <1993Apr19.193331.11327@sarvax.cmhnet.org>, frog@sarvax.cmhnet.org (Jeff 'Frog' Campbell) writes:
|> From article <C5px3n.Kw0@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, by cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Dances With Federal Rangers):
|> >
|> > ObMotoWashing: Is it just me, or does everyone cut their finger(s) on the
|> > Evil Cotterpin (tm), lurking somewhere in the dark recesses of the back end
|> > of the bike, when giving the prized moto a bath? I seem to slice the pinkie
|> > of one hand or the other *every* time (*both* of them this time!).
|>
|> It's you. Beemers have no EC (tm).
OH yes they do! but considering i never wash my BMW (unless i need
to work on it) i never get cuts untill the tools come out.....
altho the best scar (now faded) was from the exhaust piper,
while try to change the oil, after overheating the engine (watch
out for idiot drivers that won't let you pass in the mountains
when you have a rider, case of oil (it was on sale), and case of
beer), with a drain bolt that decided to seize.
just how does everyone else clean out the area under the transmission
on a BMW R bike? they only way i have found is to remove the
engine and transmission. that and the clutch arm are impossible to
clean (which is wear one of the EC (s&m) are located).
laz
Ps anyone know where i can get the heads polished and ported
cheap. also how much should that run.
| 8rec.motorcycles
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In article <Apr.10.05.31.34.1993.14365@athos.rutgers.edu>
rolfe@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Tim Rolfe) writes:
>
>My guess is that the "Lazarus, come out!" was also for the sake of the
>crowd.
I read somewhere, I think in Morton Smith's _Jesus the Magician_, that
old Lazarus wasn't dead, but going in the tomb was part of an initiation
rite for a magi-cult, of which Jesus was also a part. It appears that
a 3-day stay was normal. I wonder .... ?
[I haven't read that book, but another one by Smith in which similar
claims were made about Jesus. While I'm sure Smith knows more about
early Chrisitanity than I do, I found his arguments similar to those
of books like "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" -- building conjectures on top
of other conjectures. There was no direct evidence. If you'd like
to summarize the argument for us, I'd be happy to see it. But in
doing so, I'd like you to pay careful attention to the nature of
the evidence. --clh]
| 15soc.religion.christian
|
If one reasons that the United States of America at one time represented
and protected freedom << individual liberty and personal responsibility >>
(and I do, in fact, think that this is true) and that totalitarianism <<
absolute government control and tyranny >> represents freedom's opposite
(which it does), did the USA really win the cold war?
Standard disclaimers ALWAYS apply!
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| 16talk.politics.guns
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wellison@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I have a project that was drooped in my lap that is somewhat a pain to design.
>What I am looking for is a stable ultra-long solid state timer. What they want
>to do is to place this thing on the Antartic ice shelf and measure the amount
>of snow fall over a period of six weeks. Every two weeks, they want to trip a
>selonoid to discharge different colored pellets by gas pressure out across the
>snow. Then by digging down into the snow, the snow fall amount can be measured
>as they come to the different color pellets.
>The problem is trying to build a timer that would stand the cold (-40 degrees)
>and a power source that wouldn't drain. I have looked at the XR-2204 timers and
>the standard NE556 dual timers, but thier temp specs won't go that low. Also,
>two weeks equates to 1,209,600 seconds per firing, which means one big timing
>cap ! I have found 2.2 farad (yes, Farad !) caps that have a working voltage of
>5 volts and are small in size.
Why are you fooling around with analog for this job? A single chip
micro and a crystal will do the job reliably and easily. An 8748 only
costs about $5. That and a $1 crystal and you're in business. Embed
the whole thing in a foam insulated blanket, power it from a solar cell,
use the excess power to heat the assembly during the day and rely
on the insulation to hold the heat during darkness. If you don't want
to try thermal management, contact someone like ICL and have them cut
you a special low temperature crystal. It'll cost at most $20.
If you use a single chip micro, you're looking at a parts count of
maybe 7. A processor, a crystal, two caps on the crystal, a power FET
to fire the solenoid a flyback diode and a battery. This is fewer parts than
you can build an analog timer for and is infinitely more reliable. Add
a power zener diode (for heat) and a solar cell and the parts count
screams up to 9.
PD assemblers are available for all the common single chip micros. This
application is so trivial you could even look up the op codes in the
programmer's guide and create the binary with a hex editor.
John
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> Also if anyone else is doing what I am planning I would be happy to hear
>from you with any advice you might provide as to the computer system you
>use and/or any peripherals or software. It seemed the Quadra 800 would be
>my best bet to modify photographic images. I am planning on buying a Quadra
>800 with 32Megs of RAM, a 510Meg Hard Drive, a 1200 dpi scanner, 17" Sony
>monitor and a 88Meg cartridge drive and perhaps a CD ROM. I am new to
>computers and any advice would be great.
well, i have lots of experience with scanning in images and altering
them. as for changing them back into negatives, is that really possible?
scanning and altering is no big deal. i don't know what types of
features you have in your version of photoshop. but the one i use
(which, incidentally is on a quadra) has gallery effects and all types
of other neato stuff.
i'm just wondering why you would want to put your images back into
negatives, because once you print the image out-that's your print.
do you know what exactly your aim is in all of this? like, are you
doing this just for fun, for a business, to gain more computer
knowledge, for a project you're working on....
otherwise, i guess i don't know if i'd be helping or not by posting info
on scanning and stuff.
ok? cool.
seeya
jennifer urso: the oh-so bitter woman of utter blahness(but cheerful
undertones)
| 1comp.graphics
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I'm thinking of splashing out on a new motherboard for my PC. I am
running Linux as my main OS, with a small DOS partition left for my
flatmates' games.
My current setup is a 386SX-25 (AMD) with 387SX-25 (ITT - I think) and 9
Mbytes of 70ns SIMMS, and (120+100)Mbyte IDE.
Basically I have two choices
1) Get a 386DX-40 + 387DX-40 or
2) Get some sort of 486.
Unfortunately I live in the UK where computer prices are far too high.
The first option works out at about \pounds 200. 486 m/boards start at
this price for a SX-25.
I have a couple of questions.
1) How much of an improvement in speed should I notice if I get a
386DX+copro. Remember I'm using a 32 bit OS, and alot of Floating Point
operations.
2) How much faster would a 486DX-33 be than the 386DX-40+copro ?
Should I get an upgradeable m/board with a 386DX-40 and wait for
AMD/Pentium price pressure to reduce the costs of the 486 ?
Any experiences will be most helpful ...
Kenny.
PS. Example prices:
386DX-40+copro M/board ~$270
486DX33 M/board ~$580
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Kenneth MacDonald E-mail kenny@castle.ed.ac.uk
Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
University of Edinburgh Scotland
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In article <23APR199317325771@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
> Using a model of Mars Observer, Albee spent several minutes
>describing the project and the spacecraft's features. In answer
>to a question from Hawking, Chahine described a proposed
>drag-free satellite, but confirmed that at this point, "it's only
>a concept." Chahine, who had met Hawking at Caltech about five
Too bad they didn't give him a tour of the CGRO data?
I think he'd be fascinated by the Gamma ray bursters. The mind of
hawking might even propose a mechanism.
SO what's a drag free satellite? coated with WD-40? carries an
aluminum-gold set of grateful dead albums? inquiring minds
want to know?
And why would MO carry any features for being drag free? I thought
aero-braking was a possible MO experimental activity?
pat
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