molecules has evolved from an esoteric academic subject into
a  international  industry. Computer  graphics has played  a
decisive role in this transformation by allowing chemists to
build, visualize and interact with complex geometrical objects.

While computer scientists are conversant in the language of their
own discipline, they are often unfamiliar with the terminology,
simulation techniques and practical needs of research chemists.
Similarly, chemists are often unfamiliar with the latest paradigms
and technological advances in graphical computing.

This interdisciplinary course is intended to bridge the gap
between computer science and chemistry and to equip chemistry
researchers who wish to be more than just casual users of
prepackaged graphics software. Although this is not intended to
be a course in computational chemistry or drug design, data sets
from chemical research problems will be used in lab and students
will be encouraged to bring data sets of their own. Lab exercises
and projects will be carried out using data-flow programming
(IBM Visualization Data Explorer software) and students will have
access to Cornell Theory Center computing resources, including video
recording equipment.

Audience:  researchers and students in the chemical and biological
           sciences interested in integrating state-of-the-art
           computer graphics into their research; computer scientists
           wishing to gain familiarity with a major application of
           scientific visualization.

           The class size will be limited to 25 participants on a
           first-come first-served basis.

Level:     Graduate/advanced undergraduate, 1 or 2 Credits. May be taken
           without credit as a workshop. Calculus, linear algebra
           and introductory chemistry required. Familiarity with Unix,
           X-windows and C is useful but not required.

Date:   June 14-25, 1993  (2 Credits)
        June 14-18, 1993  (1 or 0 credits)

Time:   Mon-Fri 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Cost:   0 or 1 credit       $410
        2 credits           $820

Format

The course will be held in the Theory Center training facility
where computer workstations will be available.  Daily lectures will be
interspersed with laboratory exercises and ample time will be provided
for project enablement and familiarization with the new computing
environment. Students enrolled for one credit will be graded on the basis
of their laboratory exercises and short final project. Those enrolled
for a second credit will receive more advanced lectures, be given
more time for project development and meet daily to share experience
and discuss problems encountered.

Content (may vary)

    Elements of computer graphics
         polygonal rendering, lighting models, ray tracing, volumetric
         rendering, stereo graphics, animation, introduction to data-flow
         programming (DX), interactivity.

    Representing the atom
         size, time and energy scales
         basic classical and quantum mechanics

    Important categories of molecules
         small molecules, biopolymers, surfaces and catalysts,
         miscellaneous current applications

    Data formats and conversions

    Advanced molecular graphics techniques

    Types of simulation and experiment
         electronic structure, molecular dynamics/mechanics
         electrostatics, X-ray crystallography, NMR, quantum
         dynamics and spectroscopy.

Instructors

The course will be taught by two instructors. Topics related to computer
graphics will be handled by Dr. Bruce Land, Project Leader of Visualization,
Cornell National Supercomputing Facility. Chemistry-specific aspects
of the course will be handled by Dr. Richard E. Gillilan, Visualization
Specialist and Research Scientist, Cornell National Supercomputing Facility

TO REGISTER:  mail completed form to

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IMPORTANT: Acceptance will be first-come, first-served and based
           on a target class size of 15 full-credit and 10 single
           or non-credit participants.

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Hi people!:

  I'm looking for X Servers for DOS or Windows.

  I've already seen Desqview/X and XVision but I'd like to be
 aware of other choices.

  Is there anything on the public domain or shareware ?

  And in the commercial area is there anything with aggressive
 pricing ?

  What about incompatibilities ? Window managers ?

  Any info is welcome.

  Thanx in advance.

  C U!

  By(e)


Actually, you might be surprised to find that not everyone who develops
mainstream DOS and Windows apps develops them under DOS or Windows.  PC
Week recently printed a rumor that Microsoft's Excel development group
does its development under OS/2.  Another trade rag did an article
recently about a group doing Windows development on Sun SPARCstations
with SoftPC to test out their work.  SCO Unix is and has been a
reasonably popular development platform for DOS, Windows, and even OS/2
apps.  DOS and Windows are simply not robust or stable enough for
development work, IMHO, and apparently others agree.


Hi there,

Does anyone know whether the PUFF RF design package is available
via ftp from any site? As I understand it, it is in the public
domain - please correct me if I'm wrong on this one.

Any other PD RF design tools out there that can be recommended?
Especially microstrip filter tools...

73's
Lehane


Yep.  And the Ks don't have to denote a slow game, either.  Last night,
Sid Fernandez was mowing the Giants hitters down (14 Ks in 8 innings),
yet the first 7 1/2 innings of the game were quite brisk.

He also threw 119 pitches, leading me to believe it isn't just the
number of pitches that determines the length of a game, but the
behavior *between* pitches.


I've done some ASIC and digital design, but not any CPU design.
It would seem to me that on a 486, the FPU is not being used, most of
the cache is not being accessed, the off chip buffers/drivers are idle,
the multiplier isn't multiplying, the barrel shifters aren't shifting,
microcode isn't microcoding, etc.  This means transistors aren't
switching which means less power dissipated (in CMOS), which means
less heat.\

From what I understand, the Pentium shuts down those sections of the
CPU which aren't being used in order to cut down on heat/power.


I think the subject title says it all. Anybody that relies on a SCSI dick
for stoarage is a pain in the ass!!


o Denon DCR 5490 (high power pull out cassette deck with CD changer control)

  Features:

  - 18 W X 4
  - Theft Prevention Chassis (pull out)
  - 24 station-presets (18 FM, 6 AM)
  - Denon Optimum Reception System IV (FM circuitry-Auto high blend and FM
    pulse noise cancellor)
  - Dolby B NR
  - Key off head release
  - Flexible fader-internal front amp to rear amp and/or internal front amp
    to internal rear amp
  - Auto reverse cassette mechanism
  - Up/down manual & seek tuning
  - Music sensor
  - Stereo/Mono (FM), local switches
  - Metal tape switch
  - DIN "E" with easy installation lock-in sleeve
  - Night illumination with dash light dimmer lead
  - Preset scan
  - CD changer control
        Random play: all of tracks on a disc
        Automatic/Manual search

  Excellent condition with Manual.

  Asking $220.00 + shipping

o Yamaha YPA-300 power amplifier (car audio)
  Features:
        - SELECTABLE 2-MODE POWER OUTPUT:
          40W x 2-ch or 90W x 1-ch - all w/ extremely low distortion (0.1% THD)
        - LOW RFI CIRCUIT effectively eliminates radio frequency interference
          which might arise from DC-DC conversion
        - FULL PROTECTION CIRCUITRY protects amplifier from potential damaged
          caused by overload, short circuiting, DC leakage, excessive heat
          or mis-wiring.
        - INPUT LEVEL ADJUSTMENT allows you to complement your system with any
          audio component
        - GOLD-PLATED RCA JACK ensures a durable, optimum contact, even under
          rugged road conditions.
        - REMOTE POWER links the entire system's ON/OFF with the cassette
          receiver's ot tuner's power switch.
        - SCREW TERMINALS allow simple wiring connections
        - POWER FUSE REPLACEMENT is a simple, one-step operation.
        - ALTERNATER NOISE REDUCTION CIRCUITRY is effectively suppressed
          during driving.
  Specifications:
    Continuous Power Output
          (per channel, 4 ohms, 2 channels driven.)
          with 0.1 % THD, 20 Hz ~ 20kHz .................35W/35W
          with 0.1 % THD, 1 kHz .........................40W/40W
          (per channel, 4 ohms, 1 channels driven.)
          with 0.1 % THD, 20 Hz ~ 20kHz ................80W(BTL)
          with 0.1 % THD, 1 kHz ........................90W(BTL)
    Speaker Impedance................................4 to 8 ohms
    Frequency Response (at 1W, 4 ohms)......10 Hz to 100 kHz (+0, -1.5dB)
    Signals-to-Noise Ratio ...............................105 dB
    Total Harmonic Distortion
        - (at 20W + 20W, 1 kHz, 4 ohms, 24 kHz, LPF)......0.005%
    Dimensions (W x H x D).....................200 x 50 x 156 mm
    Weight..........................................5 lbs. 15 oz

    List price: $250.00

    This is one of the nicest/cleanest amp that I have even owned.
    I am using two of these in my car, this is just an extra one that
    I don't really need.  If you are in the bay area, and like to listen
    to it first, let me know.

    Asking $150.00 firm + shipping (brand new in box, never been installed)

o Boston Acoustic 861 seperates (car audio speakers), 6" woofers
  with seperate tweeters and crossovers.
  Brand new in box, never been installed, $259.00 at Good Guys
  Asking $199.00 firm

o 2 8" MTX free air woofers, new in box, never been installed.
  Paid $49.00 each at Good Guys
  Asking $70.00 firm


Hi,

	I've got an older 386/25 motherboard (old as in, uses a 1988
keyboard controller, and uses memory interleaving rather than caching).
It has developed a problem where trying to copy files from floppy cause
the machine to lock up (reset button required), but only when in 386
enhanced mode.  This occurs in Norton Desktop, File Manager, and when
trying to install software.  Running Win 3.1 in standard mode works fine.

	Has anyone run into this?  Any ideas?  Much thanks appreciated.


Okay, here's what to do.   Get a drill and a sanding disk. Use, say a
100 disk and go at it at a very low rpm.  If you don't have a drill, try
coarse steel wool and brake fluid.  Dot 4 has an uncanny knack for removing
_any_ paint imperfections.

Oh, I'm not responsible for misuse or miapplication of either of these
techniques.


Greg,
No flame intended, but I think you just missed one of the rare attempts of
humor in sci.skeptic.
"Krillean" against "Kirilian". Get it?
;-)

BTW, I think you're a bit of base yourself, since, to my knowledge, the
electromagnetic field around a stone is rather abscent. But still, a stone
has a nice "aura" on the Kirilian photographs.

Don't remember excactly, but "corona discharge" I think is a more fitting
expression than aura. Think you'll find something on this in the skeptic-faq.


To those who own CMS's Trakkers...please email me with your thoughts on your
machine...and specifics such as avg. file access..etc


=>Greg:Flame definitely intended here.  Bill was making fun of the misspelling.
=>Go look up the word "krill."  Also, the correct spelling is Kirlian.  It
=>involves taking photographs of corona discharges created by attaching the
=>subject to a high-voltage source, not of some "aura."  It works equally well
=>with inanimate objects.
=
=True.. but what about showing the missing part of a leaf?  Is this
="corona discharge"?

Yup.  The demonstration to which you refer consists of placing a leaf between
the plates, and taking a Kirlian photograph of it.  You then cut off part of
the leaf, put the top plate back on, and take another Kirlian photograph.  You
see pretty much the same image in both cases.  Turns out the effect isn't
nearly so striking if you take the trouble to clean the plates between
photographs.  Seems that the moisture from the leaf that you left on the place
conducts electricity.  Surprise, surprise!
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Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL


[stuff about Mithras deleted]


Gerry Palo wrote that there is nothing in Christianity that excludes
the theory of a succession of lives.

I wrote that the Apostle Paul, in Romans 9, speaks of God as
choosing Jacob over Esau, and adds that this is not as a result of
anything that either child had done, since they had not been born
yet.

Clearly, Paul does not believe that they had had previous lives, nor
does he suppose that his readers will believe it. For if they had
had previous lives, it would not make sense to say, "Neither of them
has done anything good or bad as yet, since they are not yet born."

Daniel Cossack writes to ask whether it is fair for God to hate
Easau when Esau has done nothing bad?

I reply that in Hebrew it is standard usage to speak of hating when
what is meant is simply putting in second place. As an example,
consider the saying in Matthew 6:24

 + No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one
 + and love the other, or....

Now, it is obviously false that a man with two masters must hate one
of them. But it is obviously true that he must put one of them in
second place. A dog that always comes when either Billy or Bobby
calls will have a problem if they stand in different places and call
simultaneously. It cannot give first priority to both. One must take
second place. In our original example, second place means that
Jacob, not Esau, is chosen to bear the covenant blessing and
obligation, and to be the ancestor of Christ.

     *****     *****     *****     *****     *****

Eugene Bigelow mentions Matthew 11:14 which says of John the
Baptist:

 + And if ye will receive it, this is ELijah, who was to come.

I take this to mean that John was an Elijah-like figure, dressing
and living like Elijah, preaching like Elijah, and fulfilling the
prediction that Elijah would prepare the way for the Messiah.  I do
not think that he was Elijah in a literal sense, and, appareently,
neither did he (John 1:21).


&
& If this is the same as adjusting the shims between cam and valve, I have
& the same question.  Do you buy a FULL set of shims before starting the
& adjustment process, or do you calculate the shims you need and then run
& off to the dealer in the cage to see if the right shims are in stock?
& Obviously the latter would be cheaper (what do shims cost?), but are
& measurements of the shim need reliable enough to buy only the indicated shims?

Only buy what you need.  It would cost a lot to buy a full set, and
you won't ever use most of them.  I have had good luck with the
calculation method.  I have never had to change more than one size
increment at a time (I never needed a change larger than the next
size up/down, usually down).  They cost a few $ each for a Yamaha.


MLB Standings and Scores for Wednesday, April 21st, 1993
	                   (including yesterday's games)

NATIONAL WEST	      Won  Lost   Pct.    GB   Last 10  Streak    Home   Road
San Francisco Giants   09   05    .643    --     8-2     Won 2   05-02  04-03
Houston Astros         07   06    .538   1.5     7-3    Lost 1   02-04  05-02
Atlanta Braves         08   07    .533   1.5     4-6     Won 1   04-03  04-04
Los Angeles Dodgers    06   08    .429   3.0     4-6    Lost 1   03-03  03-05
San Diego Padres       05   08    .385   3.5     4-6    Lost 1   03-04  02-04
Colorado Rockies       04   08    .333   4.0     4-6    Lost 2   03-03  01-05
Cincinnati Reds        04   09    .308   4.5     3-7     Won 2   02-04  02-05

NATIONAL EAST
Philadelphia Phillies  10   03    .769    --     7-3     Won 2   06-01  04-02
St. Louis Cardinals    08   05    .615   2.0     6-4     Won 1   05-02  03-03
Chicago Cubs           07   06    .538   3.0     6-4     Won 1   04-03  03-03
Montreal Expos         07   06    .538   3.0     5-5     Won 2   04-03  03-03
Pittsburgh Pirates     07   06    .538   3.0     4-6    Lost 4   03-03  04-03
New York Mets          06   06    .500   3.5     4-6    Lost 2   02-04  04-02
Florida Marlins        04   09    .308   6.0     3-7    Lost 2   02-05  02-04

AMERICAN WEST         Won  Lost   Pct.    GB   Last 10  Streak    Home   Road
Texas Rangers          08   04    .667    --     6-4    Lost 1   04-02  04-02
California Angels      07   04    .636   0.5     6-4     Won 1   04-02  03-02
Minnesota Twins        07   05    .583   1.0     6-4     Won 1   04-03  03-02
Chicago White Sox      06   07    .462   2.5     4-6     Won 1   02-03  04-04
Oakland Athletics      05   06    .455   2.5     4-6     Won 1   05-02  00-04
Seattle Mariners       05   08    .385   3.5     3-7    Lost 1   03-03  02-05
Kansas City Royals     04   09    .308   4.5     4-6     Won 2   02-05  02-04

AMERICAN EAST
Boston Red Sox         11   03    .786    --     8-2     Won 4   06-01  05-02
Detroit Tigers         08   05    .615   2.5     7-3     Won 1   06-01  02-04
Toronto Blue Jays      07   06    .538   3.5     5-5    Lost 1   04-02  03-04
New York Yankees       06   07    .462   4.5     5-5    Lost 3   03-03  03-04
Milwaukee Brewers      04   06    .400   5.0     4-6    Lost 1   02-02  02-04
Cleveland Indians      05   09    .357   6.0     3-7    Lost 2   04-03  01-06
Baltimore Orioles      04   08    .333   6.0     4-6    Lost 1   02-04  02-04

			     YESTERDAY'S SCORES
                  (IDLE teams listed in alphabetical order)

NATIONAL LEAGUE				AMERICAN LEAGUE

Houston Astros	        1		Chicago White Sox	2
Chicago Cubs	        2		Baltimore Orioles	1 (14)

Los Angeles Dodgers	3		Texas Rangers		1
Montreal Expos		7		Detroit Tigers		3

Cincinnati Reds		5		Milwaukee Brewers	0
Pittsburgh Pirates	0		Minnesota Twins	       10

Atlanta Braves		5		Toronto Blue Jays	2
Florida Marlins		4		Kansas City Royals	8

San Diego Padres	3		Cleveland Indians	2
Philadelphia Phillies	4 (14)		California Angels	7

San Francisco Giants	4		New York Yankees	7
New York Mets		1 (11)		Oakland Athletics	9 (10)

Colorado Rockies	0		Boston Red Sox		5
St. Louis Cardinals	5		Seattle Mariners	2
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Well they could unseal the original warrent (Why was i sealed in the
first place?), release their video & tapes (from their listening devices
inside the compound) and quit makeing contradictory statements.

Do you believe their statement that the children were killed by
lethal injection?  They later stated that the childrens bodies
were burned to the point the would be hard to identify.  So
how did they come up with the lethal injection theory?

Unless the evidence was destroyed or other evidence planted.

You mean "Magic bullet" Spector?

I know, a lone gunman killed all the Branch Davidians.   :-) || :-(


Can a theist be truly objective?  Can he be impartial
     when questioning the truth of his scriptures, or
     will he assume the superstition of his parents
     when questioning?

I've often found it to be the case that the theist
     will stick to some kind of superstition when
     wondering about God and his scriptures.  I've
     seen it in the Christian, the Jew, the Muslim,
     and the other theists alike.  All assume that
     their mothers and fathers were right in the
     aspect that a god exists, and with that belief
     search for their god.

Occasionally, the theist may switch religions or
     aspects of the same religion, but overall the
     majority keep to the belief that some "Creator"
     was behind the universe's existence.  I've
     known Muslims who were once Christians and vice
     versa, I've known Christians who were once
     Jewish and vice versa, and I've even known
     Christians who become Hindu.  Yet, throughout
     their transition from one faith to another,
     they've kept this belief in some form of higher
     "being."  Why?

It usually all has to do with how the child is
     brought up.  From the time he is born, the
     theist is brought up with the notion of the
     "truth" of some kind of scripture-- the Bible,
     the Torah, the Qur'an, & etc.  He is told
     of this wondrous God who wrote (or inspired)
     the scripture, of the prophets talked about in
     the scripture, of the miracles performed, & etc.
     He is also told that to question this (as
     children are apt to do) is a sin, a crime
     against God, and to lose belief in the scrip-
     ture's truth is to damn one's soul to Hell.
     Thus, by the time he is able to read the
     scripture for himself, the belief in its "truth"
     is so ingrained in his mind it all seems a
     matter of course.

But it doesn't stop there.  Once the child is able
     to read for himself, there is an endeavor to
     inculcate the child the "right" readings of
     scripture, to concentrate more on the pleasant
     readings, to gloss over the worse ones, and to
     explain away the unexplainable with "mystery."
     Circular arguments, "self-evdent" facts and
     "truths," unreasoning belief, and fear of
     hell is the meat of religion the child must eat
     of every day.  To doubt, of course, means wrath
     of some sort, and the child must learn to put
     away his brain when the matter concerns God.
     All of this has some considerable effect on the
     child, so that when he becomes an adult, the
     superstitions he's been taught are nearly
     impossible to remove.

All of this leads me to ask whether the theist can
     truly be objective when questioning God, Hell,
     Heaven, the angels, souls, and all of the rest.
     Can he, for a moment, put aside this notion that
     God *does* exist and look at everything from
     a unbiased point of view?  Obviously, most
     theists can somewhat, especially when presented
     with "mythical gods" (Homeric, Roman, Egyptian,
     & etc.).  But can they put aside the assumption
     of God's existence and question it impartially?

Stephen

    _/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/   _/       _/    * Atheist
   _/        _/    _/   _/ _/ _/ _/     * Libertarian
  _/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/   _/   _/  _/      * Pro-individuality
       _/  _/     _/  _/       _/       * Pro-responsibility
_/_/_/_/  _/      _/ _/       _/ Jr.    * and all that jazz...


...

Apologies, I've not been paying attention.


  Lawson was on the Yamaha.

Not taking anything away from Russel, but, well...

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   Arch. & Eng. Services   |"Lost Horizons"  CR500 | I think I am.
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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....


Indirect compared to what?  Did Voyager 2 traverse a substantially greater
distance than, say, a Hohmann orbit?  I've never heard Voyager's path
described as "indirect" before...


Just because those  "marriages" are more stable and loving and long-lasting,
doesn't make it right.  Same-sex partners could have been best friends,
without getting sexually involved with each other.


I'm looking for a copy of "Bela Lugosi's last film." If anyone has a copy
of this stinker, please e-mail me. (Also, if anyone knows a better place to
post this, please tell me).


I think you're both right.  Teflon was actually discovered by accident
before WWII.  From what I've heard, they had some chemical (I assume it
was tetrafluoroethylene) in a tank and but the valve got gummed up.
Cutting it open revealed that it had polymerized.

The material was useful for seals, but it had a major problem for, say
the linings of vessels: it wouldn't stick to metal.  What the space
program did was to find a way to get it to stick.  Thus we had no-stick
frypans on the market in the late '60s.


This is certainly not the case.  There is no significant *ability* toi
perform in the clutch, but clutch performance certainly happens every
time there is a game-winning hit.  The "clutch pitching" quoted above is
something which happened, not a claim that any particular player should
be expected to be a clutch pitcher.

Simple statistics tell me that there is a 2% chance an average clutch
hitter would have this large a split (the average decrease is 7 points,
standard deviation about 30).  There will be such hitters in any league,
just as there will be hitters who hit poorly on Tuesdays.

And there is only a very weak correlation (.01 in my best study) between
clutch hitting in the last four years and clutch hitting this year,
probably because most of the clutch data is determinaed by luck rather
than any ability.  *Based only on this data*, I don't see any reason to
pinch-hit for Sabo, or any other player who had been a poor clutch
hitter in the past.

But there are many other factors involved in a decision to pinch-hit.
Does the pinch-hitter give you a platoon advantage?  (Any portion of
Sabo's clutch split that results from his platoon split is certainly a
real ability, even if it has nothing to do with clutch hitting.)  Do you
have a singles hitter at the plate when you need a home run?  Do you
have a curveball pitcher facing a batter who has trouble with curves?


I don't have a stat, but, unfortunately, I did read generally that both smoking
and belief in the supernatural (occultish garbage) is on the rise here.

This is very interesting.  I thing the principle is sort of the same though:
all "philosophical" ideas are generally tried out and tested mostly during
college years.  Whether the idea is christian or atheist doesn't always matter.
But I'd like to say it's because atheists are more intelligent  :)

--

regards,

--Adam


#Really?  I thought that insurance companies hired all of
#their actuarial staffs to determine the risks correlated
#with all groups of people, and that gays are more likely
#to have AIDS than are those of other sexual orientations.

Correlation != causality.

The risk factor is having non-monogomous unprotected sex, not being
homosexual.


The Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) documentation (blurb)
states that the user must separately acquire the Microsoft Windows
Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the Windows tools
to build the drivers. If we are using Borland C++ with Application
Frameworks, is this necessary? We also have a copy of the Microsoft
Press Programmer's Reference Library (books) which normally comes
with the SDK, and Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.0. Why is the SDK
neccessary for development of Virtual Device Drivers?


         Please replay to : yxy4145@usl.edu
                                  Thanks a lot


"Muslim" in ex-Yugoslavia was a *nation* not a religion.  In fact, not
all Muslims in B-H are followers of Islam.  Therefore, there do (did?)
exist in ex-Yugoslavia "Christian Muslims."  Tito defined the Muslim
nation constitutionally, adding Muslims to Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes,
the three founding nations which entered into a voluntary union at the
end of WWI.  In addition, Tito added two other nations constitutionally:
Montenegrins, and Makedonijans.

Nations had the right of secession, but republics did not.  So, "Muslim"
is much more a political term than a religious term (for those who
differentiate between religion and politics, that is) in B-H.  It was not
a "Christo-Slavic" ideology that made a Muslim nation in Yugoslavia, it
was the "Atheist Communist" ideology of Tito.  Before Tito, there was
no Muslim nation in Yugoslavia.

The war is not a religious war, and it is not an ethnic war.  It is a
civil war in which the terms of secession are being negotiated with guns
instead of pens.  The Croat, Muslim, and Serb political leaders *all*
chose to fight over the terms of secession instead of compromising and
peacefully negotiating multilateral secession agreements.


Another tip is to make sure you keep well to one side of the lane. This gives
you a quicker escape route.


	Hello *.*,
I'm looking for a good explanation and example of the usefulness of the -S
option for xterm: slave mode on file descriptor xxx. Sure, but xterm -Sp00
does not seem to grab what arrives on my window. Where is my misunderstan-
ding ? TIA.
Fred.
 ===========================================================================
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 Tel: (33) 88 35 80 84 Fax: (33) 88 35 31 76 e-mail: fred@sobel.u-strasbg.fr
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Attention Penguins fans once again, apparently 99.999% of you understand that
this was just a joke (Hence the :-) next to it) but one idiot on here doesn't
as he got pissed at me and sent me two hate e-mails telling me that this is
wrong.  I have no intentions of sending e-mail to anyone should the Pens win
tonight, and I really do not expect/do not intend to lead any of you to send
this poster e-mail either.  It was NOT a serious request.  If you didn't know
that (which you probably did) then don't do it.  Thanks.


Using the usersub stuff in perl, you can incorporate things like curses for
use in perl.  I was wondering if anyone had done this with X (preferably
Motif), and if so, where I could get the source for it?


	It is far from new.  It's been around almost as long as dirt.

	I had one for one of my old bikes.  Worked fine.  I'm sure, being
rigid and nonflexible, that the "Cyclelok" would yield instantly to the freeze
and break routine.

	But then, for $40, what do ya want?

Later,


Heavens!  Everybody but Phill is out of step!

Once again, Phill lets us all know that might makes right -- but ONLY for
the all-sacred government.
--


I want to subscribe, I am located in Israel and my name is David Gotlieb


Re; Response from CoB of Boeing on SSTO ...

   Boeing has been looking at several TSTO vehicles and has carried
out extensive conceptual studies of advanced launch systems for some
time.  A good reference on this might be: "Comparison of Propulsion
Options for Advanced Earth-To-Orbit (ETO) Applications (IAF-92-
0639)." by V.A. Weldon and L.E. Fink from Boeing.   The paper
describes a propane-fueled TSTO launch system claimed to achieve
aircraft-like operational efficiencies without the problems
associated with liquid hydrogen fuel.  Basically, it's a high-speed
airplane launching a Hermes-type spaceplane
   The design (the concept is also called "Beta") as laid out in the
paper can launch at least 10,000 pounds into polar orbit, or 20,000
pounds to space station orbit including a crew of eight persons and
life support.  System design reliability is .9995.
   Beta is a 360-foot-long first stage powered by two large ramjets
and 12 high- speed civil transport (HSCT) turbofans.  A 108-foot-
long reusable orbiter is trapeze-mounted in the belly of the first-
stage aircraft, which also could accommodate a longer and heavy
payload on an expendable second stage.
   To launch the orbital vehicle, the first stage takes off like a
normal HSCT and accelerates to Mach 3.  At that point the turbofans,
modified to burn catalyzed JP-7, would shut off and the ramjets,
would take over.  At Mach 5.5 the orbiter or the ELV would swing
out, ignite and proceed to orbit. Both vehicles would land like
aircraft at the conclusion of their respective missions.
   Estimated total weight of the combined configuration at takeoff
is about 1.5 M lbs, roughly equivalanet to a fully loaded An-225.
The orbiter stages weighs about 400,Klbs including 335 Klbs
of LOX and subcooled propane to power two 250 Klbs vacuum thrust
rocket engines. Propellants would be stored at 91 degrees Kelvin,
with the propane in a spherical tank mounted forward of the 15-by-
25-foot cargo bay and the two-seat orbiter crew station. LOX would
be stored aft.  Weldon and Fink claim the key to this design's
success is the structurally efficient airframe and the compact
tankage allowed by the high-density supercooled hydrocarbon fuel.
     The paper compares TSTO design to SSTO design.  They conclude
while a SSTO has a slightly lower recurring cost, a TSTO is easier,
cheaper, and less risky to develop, simpler to build, has greater
safety and mission versatility and doesn't carry the hard-to-handle
and bulky hydrogen fuel. The conlcude "In conjunction with its major
use of airplane type engines and fuel, as well as its inherent self-
ferry capability, it is probably the system most likely to provide
as close to airline-like operations as possible with a practical
configuration, until a single stage airbreather/rocket concept can
be shown to be operationally viable."

   Weldon and others at Boeing have been working on TSTO designs for
some time.  I expect this, or a similar concept (perhaps the HTHL
SSTO they proposed for the SDIO SSTO first phase) is being re-
examined as a basis for a bid on the first phase of SpaceLifter.
   Does it threaten DC-???.  Possibly -- There is a set of on-going
studies trying straighten out the government's future space
transportation strategy.  MDC and Boeing (as well as other firms)
are providing data to a joint study team back in DC.  There are
various factions and options vying for attention -- including
shuttle upgrades, shuttle replacement (what was called the "4-2-3"
architecture), SpaceLifter, ELV upgrades, and various advanced
vehicles (ALES, Beta, DC-??, NASP, FSTS, SSTOs of several types,
etc.)  NASA/DOD/DOT are trying to put together a coherent strategy
for future US gov't space transportation systems, and trying to
juggle near-term launch needs (like for DoD and NASA) against
medium-term needs (including commercial considerations), and against
the investment and risk of going to "leap frog" new technologies
like SDIO/SSTO and NASP and Beta.
   It's a heck of a problem.  The worst part of the problem isn't
that there aren't promising ideas and concepts -- there are dozens
of them -- but how they balance cost and risk versus real needs in
the near term.  They should have a draft report in mid-June, with a
final report coming by the end of the fiscal year.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wales Larrison                           Space Technology Investor


I am writing this to find out the following:

1.)	Any information on surgery to prevent reflux esophagitis.

2.)	The name(s) of a doctor(s) who specialize in such surgery.

3.)	Information on reflux esophagitis which leads to cancer.

My boyfriend, age 34 and otherwise in good health, was diagnosed with
reflux esophagitis and a hiatal hernia about 2 years ago.  At that time he
saw a gastroenterologist and has tried acid controllers (Mylanta,
Tagamet), as well as a restricted diet and raising the head of his bed.
These treatments were not effective and because the damage was
worsening, he opted for a surgical repair 3 months ago.  He was told
there were two repair techniques that could fix the problem; a Nissen
wrap and a "Hill Repair".  He opted for the "Hill Repair". He recovered
very well from the surgery itself but the pain he had originally is worse
and in addition he now has trouble swallowing (including saliva).

The doctor now wants to do an endoscopy and has also informed him
that a biopsy might be necessary if he has a pre-cancerous condition
which he called "Barrett's Syndrome". If he can't avoid having reflux will
he necessarily get cancer?

Basically, if anyone has any information on what he should do now, I'd
appreciate it.

Thanks,


ESPN has been trying various things to get away from the
follow-the-puck concept of televising hockey games.  One of the main
problems with hockey is that it is very difficult to show everything
that is going on -- more happens away from the puck than in any other
sport except maybe football and they can do iso's on football players
to be shown between plays.

The problem of course is that sometimes you get something worthwhile,
other times you get burned.


Brian, does all this mean that you have to be well versed in ancient
Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic in order to understand the core of
Christianity? I hope you are not Catholic, because my Christian
upbringing was based on the teachings of Luther, and the one of
the core messages was basically that you don't need to know latin
in order to learn about salvation.

BTW, your statement would also eliminate about 99.5% of all the Christians
in the world, as well.

Cheers,
Kent


	.DXF can not be changed over to .IFF format what it can be changed
to is an object format used by one of the 3D programs on the Amiga. The
only tools around are comercial for that conversion.


CNN reported tonight that some bodies were found with bullet holes in their
heads.  However, I have no information on the possible causes.

This is not to say that Government stories are to be taken at the face value in
this case, but to jump to conclusion at this stage may be the source of
embarrassment in the future.  Let's be paranoic, this may be a ploy to smoke
out the opposition and decredit them.  :-)

Comparison of this incidence to Tienanmen Square is made in soc.culture.china.
Just in case you need more ammunition to shoot at each other.  :-)

No matter which side you are on this Waco issue, are you ready to die defending
your cause?

Peace be with you.


Robert,

I'm *so* glad that you posted your Biological Alchemy discussion.  I've
been compared to the famous Robert McElwaine by some readers of Sci. Med.
I didn't know how to respond since I had not seen one of your posts(just
like I haven't read "The Yeast Connection").

Let me just start by stating that the authors of the "Cold Fusion" papers of
recent years are now in scientific exile(I believe that one has actually
left the country).  Scientific fraud is rare.  I'm still not sure that if a
review of the research notes of the "cold fusion scientists" actually
proved fraud or just very shoddy experimentation.

Your sources do not seem to be research articles.  They are more like lay
texts designed to pique human interest in a subject area(just like the food
combining and life extension texts).  Robert, I try to keep an open mind.
But some things I just can't buy(one is taking SOD orally to prevent
oxidative damage in the body).

Your experiment, if conducted by readers of this news group, would prove
that you are right(more ash after seed sprouting than before).  Unless you
use a muffle furnance and obtain a very high temperature(above 600 degrees
I believe), you will get organic residue in the ash.  Even the residue in
commercial incinerators contains organic residue.  I remember doing this
kind of experiment in my organic chemistry couurse in College but I
couldn't find a temperature for mineral ash formation so I'm really
guessing at 600 degrees F, it may actually be much higher.  The point is
that no one in their home could ever get a high enough temperature to
produce *only* a mineral ash.  They also could not measure the minerals so
they could only weigh the ash and find out that you appear to be correct.

Chemical reactions abound in our body, in our atmosphere, in our water and
in our soil.  Are these fusion reactions?  Yes many of them do involve
fusing oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur to both organics and inorganics.  Do we
really have the transformation of silicone to calcium if carbon is fused with
silicon?  Not in my book Robert.

Silicon is the most abundant mineral on our planet.  I've seen speculation
that man could have evolved to be a silicon based rather than a carbon
based life-form.  I like reading science fiction, as many people do.  But I
know enough about biochemistry(and nutrition) to be able(in most cases) to
separate the fiction from the fact.

Silicon may be one of the trace elements that turns out to be essential in
humans.  We have several grams of the stuff in our body.  What's it doing
there?  Only the Lord knows right now.  But I will tell you what I do know
about silicon and why, as you state, it helps bone healing(and it is not
because silicon is transformed into calcium).

Almost all of the silicon in the human body is found in the connective
tissue(collagen and elastin).  There have been studies published which show
that the very high silicon content in elastin may be an important protective
factor against atherosclerosis(the higher the silicon content in elastin,
the more resistant the elastin is to a an age-related loss of elasticity
which may play a role in the increase in blood pressure that is often seen as
part of the ageing process in humans).

For bone fracture healing, the first step is a collagen matrix into which
calcium and phosphate are pumped by osteoblasts.  A high level of silicon
in the diet seems to speed up this matrix formation.  This first step in the
bone healing process seems to be the hardest for some people to get going.
Electriacl currents have been used in an attempt to get the matrix forming
cells oriented in the right direction so that the matrix can be formed in
the gap(or gaps) between the ends of the broken bone.  A vitamin C deficiency
(by slowing collagen formation as well as causing the prodcution of
defective collagen) does slow down both bone and wound healing.  Zinc is also
another big player in bone and wound healing.  And so is silicon(in an
undetermined role that most likely involes matrix formation and not
transformation of silicon to calcium).  For you to take this bone healing
observation and use it as proof that silicon is transformed into
calcium is an interesting little trick.

But Robert, I have the same problem myself when I read the lay press(and
yes even some scientific papers).  Is the explanation reasonable?  Without
a very good science knowledge base, you and most readers of this news group
are flying blind(you have to take it on faith because you don't know any
better).

If the explanation seems to make sense to me based on my knowledge base,
I'm inclined to consider it(this usually means trying to find other sources
that come to the same conclusion).  If the idea(like a candida bloom) seems
to make sense to me, I tend to pursue it as long as any advice that I'm
going to give isn't going to really mess somebody up.  If this makes us
kindred souls Robert, then I guess I'll have to live with that label.

For the physicians who have decided to read my response to Robert's
interesting post, I hope that you saw the segment on the pediatric
neurosurgeon last night on U.S. TV.  I can't remember the network or his
name(like many nights, I was on my computer and my wife was watching TV in
our Den where I have my computer setup).  This neurosurgeon takes kids with
brain tumors that everyone else has given up on and he uses"unconventional"
treatments(his own words).  He says that he has a 70% success rate.  The one
case that I heard him discussing would normally use radiation(conventional
treatment).  He was going to go in and cut.  You guys complain about the
cost of the anti-fungals.  What do you think the cost difference between
radiation treatment and surgery is guys?

I'm going to ask you guys one more time, why blast a physician who takes the
chronic sinus sufferer(like Jon) and the chronic GI sufferer(like Elaine)
and tries to help them using unconventional treatments?  Treatments which
do not result in death(like those that the neurosurgeon uses?).  Is it
because candida blooms are not life-threatening while brain tumors are?
How about quality of life guys?  May the candida demon never cross your
sinus cavity or gut(if it does, you may feel differently about the issue).


Hello everyone,
   I have an insurance question.

Allstate insurance

SITUATION: Person wrecks car. Car is drivable to dealer. Person
reports accident (no other cars involved). Driver estimates damage cost
exceedes cost of car. Insurance people claim car is "totalled" because of
exceeding repair costs.
Person says "WWHHHAATTTT!!!! But I drove the car here!" and takes it to
another place. Other place estimates 2,101.00 in damage. 2,000 less than the
dealer.
One more hitch... The car is registered in Florida but the accident occurred
in Pennsyvania.

QUESTION: Should the insurance recognize and pay for the damages of this,
now fixable, car even though they prematurly declared totalled?

Please respond via E-Mail if you think you know anything about this sort of
thing.

chris@camp.wpic.pitt.edu


OK, OK, OK. First, my apologies for perhaps being untimely with this subject material and perhaps overly optimistic in my request, but here goes anyhow:

I'm *very* interested in finding out how I might be able to get two tickets for the All Star game in Baltimore this year. My very aged folks live about 50 miles away and I know it would be a great thing for them to attend the game. I went with them, and my grandfather who got me into baseball as a small child, to the All Star game in DC many years ago. Although I'm now in the SF Bay Area, I'd *love* to be able to treat my folks to this game; it's absolutely the last chance they'd ever have to attend this g

ame locally.

Any info would be greatly appreciated!!!!


Yeah, right, and if the ATF trashes your place on a bad tip they have
to pay to repair it, sure.  And if your computer equipment is
confisticated in a raid they have to charge you with a crime within,
say, 90 days.  You're stretching the naivete bit on this one.


   Good question!  I kind of wondered about this myself.  Just one
thought I had on it  -  the Babe himself was IN "Pride of the
Yankees", which made me think

a) that version may be closer to the truth, and
b) the Babe must have been a pretty good gut to be in the movie even
though some of the scenes didn't make him look completely flattering.


I have a DFI Handy Scanner Model HS-3000Plus and a little bit of
software running under dos to use it. I'd like to make more extensive
use of this device (in particular, write a driver for it on unix).

So, can anyone give me a description of how to talk to this device. It
connects to the system via it's own interface card.

Any info would help, it can't be too difficult to talk to :-)


Does anyone know if there is a carrying case for the Centris 610?

Thanks for any info.


We are looking for a public domain or low price CASE , running on
AIX/6000 3.2 and/or SOLARIS 1.1 and/or SUN/OS 3.1, for X/Motif and/or
X/OpenLook.

I'm not a regular follower of these groups, so I would prefer an
answer to this e-mail. Thanks in advance, Regards, --Osvaldo


Whatever.
Anyway, Elias should take a look at my quotes to find real, effective
ways of getting your point across.  Notice that all the quotes are
recent.  Buy a clue, Nazi man from up north.


*** On 04-20-93  21:56, Tim King had the unmitigated gall to say this:

 TK> accidentally discovered that if a have a floppy from ONE particular
 TK> box of diskettets in the A drive when I boot up, rather than getting
 TK> the "Non-system diskette" message, the machine hangs and the CMOS
 TK> gets overwritten (luckily, Gateway sends a print of the standard

Just a wild thought here, but how about this: there is a small boot program
on every formatted diskette, whether or not it contains system files.  It is
this small program that prints the "Non-System Disk" error, not DOS.  If
this program tries to transfer control to a BIOS location that is
nonstandard on the Gateway, then it could clear the BIOS.

I don't think that the BIOS is overwritten, there is usually a small routine
to clear the CMOS area, in case an invalid configuration prevents the
machine from booting.  I think that the boot code on the Fuji disks may
inadvertantly call this routine.

Just a thought.

... Don't hit me, Mr. Moderator... I'll go back on topic... I swear!
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


I tried Prozac a few months ago, and had some insomnia from it, but no
anxiety or jitters.  I probably could have lived with the insomnia if the
Prozac had done any good, but it only provided a tiny benefit.  Maybe
because the person who prescribed it didn't know much and gave up after a
20mg dose didn't work.

Now I'm seeing a psychiatrist who has put me on Zoloft (another serotonin
reuptake inhibitor like Prozac).  One pill/day (50mg) seemed to help some.
Now I'm trying 100mg/day.  Zoloft has fewer and milder side effects than
Prozac.  I think my doctor said that only 4% of the people taking Zoloft
have to discontinue it because of side effects.  The only problem I'm
having is some minor GI distress, but nothing too annoying.  Hopefully the
Zoloft will work.  Maybe your friend should try this one next.

My psychiatrist's strategy seems to be to first try one of the serotonin
drugs, usually Prozac.  If that works, great.  If it works but has too many
side effects, try Zoloft or maybe Paxil.  If the serotonin drugs don't work
at all, try one of the tricyclics like desipramine.

Having a doctor who knows something about antidepressants can make a big
difference.  My psychiatrist claims that most GPs and FPs don't have much
experience in this area, and from what I've seen I'm inclined to believe
him.  I think I know more about antidepressants than the people at my
family practitioner's office.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor; what I know about this comes from talking to
my psychiatrist and reading sci.med.


Would someone please post or email the feature connector pin assignments?
This is sometimes referred to as the aux video connector in some
documentation.
Thanks
astrachan@austlcm.sps.mot.com


As we see right now, the position of influence enjoyed by parties favoring
the negotiation process is tenuous at best. The local "elections" in Hebron
that the PLO was expected to win (perhaps adding a bit to its flagging
position of "legitimacy" in the eyes of Palestinians and the Middle East)
have been disrupted by Hamas actions overtly directed towards
undermining those (and all West Bank) elections. The present ruling Israeli
Labor coalition seems to be one rather thin political ice. The Palestinian
delegation has been reduced from 14 to three to protest Israel "lack of
seriousness" in the talks and refusal to reverse all the deportations
immediately.

Hopefully, however, each of the parties will begin to learn that just
the fact that negotiations are taking place *does not mean* they are giving
anything away to "the other side" (which was/is the favorite argument of
the "rejectionists"). Let's hope that discusion and inevitable disagreement
on major issues leads at the same time to some agreement on smaller
"interim" ("phase", whatever term we prefer) steps to be taken.


Actually I am entering vet school next year, but the question is
relevant for med students too.

Memorizing large amounts has never been my strong point academically.
Since this is a major portion of medical education -- anatomy,
histology, pathology, pharmacology, are for the most part mass
memorization -- I am a little concerned.  As I am sure most
med students are.

Can anyone suggest techniques for this type of memorization?  I
have had reasonable success with nemonics and memory tricks like
thinking up little stories to associate unrelated things.  But I have
never applied them to large amounts of "data".

Has anyone had luck with any particular books, memory systems, or
cheap software?

Can you suggest any helpful organizational techniques?  Being an
older student who returned to school this year, organization (another
one of my weak points) has been a major help to my success.

Please no griping about how all you have to do is "learn" the material
conceptually.  I have no problem with that, it is one of my strong
points.  But you can't get around the fact that much of medicine is
rote memorization.


there is NO evidence of effect of gun buyback programs but hopefully if
there is any effect it may prevent injuries or deaths in one of these types
of common incidents.

 Firearms are the fifth-leading cause of unintentional deaths among children
ages 14 and under.  I don't understand how the ratio to other accidental
deaths is important.  So guns don't kill as many children as car accidents.
What is the difference in severity between 1,000 deaths and 10,000 deaths?
I am not trying to use accidental gun-related deaths among children as a
justification for gun control.  Who needs to be convinced that accidental
gun deaths of children is a serious problem?  I assumed that any humane
person would be concerned when any 10 year old got hold of their parents
gun from their bedroom drawer and accidently blew away one of their friends.

 My point was, gun buyback programs which are almost always run by police
departments MIGHT (I stress might) do a LITTLE (I stress little) good by
giving people the impression that the police are attempting to respond
to interpersonal gun violence in a unique way.  Overall, I thought that I
had made it clear that I did not think that gun buyback programs were
useful.

 Well Joe, I suggest that you talk to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
or the Centers for Disease Control.  If YOU look carefully you will see
that YOU greatly underestimate the presence of guns in the lives of youths.
The CPHV reports that 135,000 youth bring GUNS to school DAILY and that
400,000 bring GUNS to school at least once a year.  The CDC estimates
that 1 out 0f 25 high school students carried a gun to school at least once
in 1990.  The CDC also says that 1.2 million elementary-aged, latch-key
children (kids who come home from school to an empty house), have access
to guns in their home.  California schools reported a 200% increase in
student gun confiscations between 1986 and 1990, and a 40% increase between
1988 and 1990.  Florida reported a 61% percent increase in gun incidents in
schools between 1986/87 amd 1987/88.  These are the "statistics".

 Okay, maybe I worded it wrong...DAD.  I meant that to put children in a
situation (fortified compound) where harm could come to them is not the
act of a Messiah in my opinion.  I'm not saying that Koresh had control over
these children directly, but I would hope that whatever Messiah there is
would not let innocent children die.
If as he claimed he was the Messiah and people followed him as such, why
did he not tell their parents to free the children instead of letting them
burn alive?  Thanks for the reality check Joe, its been real.


The FT-500 is a good beginner's bike with:
  *  a reasonable seating position
  *  enough power to get you up and around, but
       not so much it'll scare the bejeebers out of you
  *  tips over well, and easy to pick up
       (don't ask)
  *  simple maintenance

I've had mine for four or so years, and haven't had any
serious problems with it.  I bought it used for $750 with
about 8000 miles on it.

Just last week, someone in the neighborhood stopped by to
ask me about it; whether I thought it was a good beginner's
bike, is it comfortable and powerful enough, blah blah blah...
Seems he found one used for < $500 with about 3600 miles on it.

The reall "trick" mod I've heard was to take the front end from
a 600 hurricane and slide it in.  This was from a guy who
campaigns two Ascots in SOS racing.  He says they do pretty
well too, once you strip off the starter, lights and other
assorted street paraphernalia, its a pretty fast and light bike.


    Not without replacing most of the chips on the motherboard. The C610
isn't like the IIsi was, meaning that the motherboard of the C610 is
actually designeds to run at the speed of the CPU, and not designed to
run at a higher speed (like 25MHz) but be forced to run at the speed of
a slower CPU (20MHz).

    There is more than one oscillator. If you are talking about the CPU
oscillator chip, I think that it is located under the socket for the
'040. At least this is what I have read in some other posts in this
group.


Yes, 4 points, in really big holes which are fairly clear of most of
the other stuff on the board.  If you can replace the battery, you
can install the battery holder.


I believe that this is not quite correct. My understanding is that LDS is
engaged on a project to "convert" the souls of deceased persons of other
religions, in order to spare them from damnation and gain them entrance into
heaven. To this end, the Church has compiled extensive genaeological records, so
that they will know the names of people to convert. A long article in the New
Yorker a few years ago described the LDS research methods in some detail (for
example, some researchers pay visits to local native storytellers to learn the
names of people long dead). This sounds like just the sort of lie that would be
made up about any unusual religion, but the New Yorker story convinced me that
there is some truth to it (the New Yorker used to do extensive fact-checking, and
the story was quite detailed).


Do not presume to tell me what I have and have not read.  The system may
not rely upon registering people as owning particular phone units, but
it is necessary to know which phone units are likely to be used for some
suspected criminal communication before you can obtain their unit keys
from escrow.  This necessity raises the stakes in favor of a criminal's
coercing or colluding use of some other person's Clipper phone.

I will restate my assumptions more explicitly and amplify my argument.
The original title perhaps should have been "Distinction between legal
and illegal cipher systems considered harmful", but "Clipper considered
harmful" is not inaccurate, and is more eye-catching in the current context.

Assumptions:

  1.  Clipper is made available.

  2.  Laws are passed to make use of cipher systems other than Clipper illegal
      (either on radio systems, or on any common carrier system).  These laws
      also include enforcement authority to listen across the relevant radio
      spectrum (or other medium), characterize signals, validate Clipper
      wrappers, detect probable use of non-Clipper ciphers, and make such
      detection a cause for further action.

  3.  For escrowed keys to be useful, some specific Clipper chip must be
      associated with a suspected criminal.  This means that at a minimum
      some association between the common carrier's unique phone ID (ESN) and
      the Clipper chip serial number N will be stored in a government database.
      An observed pairing of N and ESN other than the one recorded raises a
      red flag.

  4.  To reduce ordinary fraud, the cellphone system which offers Clipper
      will also be constructed with an ESN mechanism much more tamper-proof
      and much less spoofable than today's cellphones.

  5.  Criminals want inscrutable communications.  Some criminals are not
      entirely stupid or ignorant, and will figure out both that Clipper
      cellphones offer excellent security in normal circumstances, and that
      they offer no security against law enforcement once a (presumably
      legitimate) wiretap order exists.  They will also figure out that the
      wiretap order must necessarily be against a specific cellphone, because
      each one has a unique unit key.

  6.  Criminals do not want to call attention to themselves.  Because they
      are not stupid or ignorant (or because they read netnews), and because
      they know that their open use of a non-Clipper cipher is likely to be
      detected, they will generally avoid using non-Clipper ciphers directly
      on some monitorable/tappable channel.  They know that do so would raise
      a red flag, putting a given cellphone (if not a given person) under
      immediate suspicion.

  7.  It is impractical to reverse engineer Skipjack, discover family key F,
      and construct a functional clone of a Clipper chip.

By #2, #3, #4, and #7 it will be very difficult to spoof a given Clipper
phone without immediate detection.  Because it is difficult to obscure one's
association to a specific phone by reprogramming or changing chips
around, the criminal will be motivated to find an intact phone which is
associated with someone else.

A non-stupid criminal will conclude that they can have Clipper-secure
communications, at least for some limited time T, if they buy, beg, borrow,
or steal use of someone's phone in a way that prevents that person from
reporting compromise of the phone for at least time T.  The encrypted
communications might have been recorded, and thus be retrievable later,
but the criminal can delay, and quite likely evade, discovery by destroying
or abandoning the phone before T elapses.

It would be unusual for an innocent person to volunteer use of their Clipper
phone to someone else.  The honest subscriber doesn't want to pay someone
else's bill, and he doesn't want to fall under suspicion.

This leaves two sources of Clipper phones for criminal use: coercion
and collusion.

Coercion first.  Theft bears a relatively low risk, but also sometimes
a low time until detection (a few minutes if a phone is stolen from
a car parked in front of a store, a couple of weeks if a phone is stolen
from someone who is away on vacation).  Criminal commerce is likely to
arise in stolen Clipper phones, with phones coming from risk-inured poor
criminals, and cash coming from risk-averse wealthy criminals.  Someone
who is extraordinarily motivated to gain a day or two of undetected
communication (like a terrorist) could kill a person or hold them hostage.
The limited time (before detection) that a coerced phone is useful means
that continuing criminal enterprises require a continuing supply of
freshly coerced phones.

There would also be created a collusive commerce between relatively
wealthy criminals, and ignorant or don't-care patsies who need money,
and who will submit to being paid in return for subscribing to Clipper
phone service for someone else's use.

Criminals will learn that it is more to their advantage to coerce use of a
Clipper cellphone than it is to apply a non-Clipper cipher to a normal
cellphone.  They will call much less attention to themselves (or at least to
their stolen phone) this way.  The fact of a phone's use being coerced must
first be reported before it can be identified as an interesting phone, and
have its keys obtained from escrow.

Clipper also allows an extraordinary opportunity for the criminal to
conceal use of super-encryption.  An automated full-system surveillance
mechanism (quite feasible across radio bandwidth) which knows family key F,
can validate Clipper wrappers and N:ESN associations, but it cannot reveal
in realtime the use of super-encryption, unless it knows all unit keys,
which we are being assured are only to be made available in two separate
pieces, upon specific wiretap-like order.

Whereas a criminal's use of any cipher within a normally cleartext medium
would stand out, a criminal's use of a non-Clipper cipher within a Clipper
medium would be very difficult to detect, even ex post facto in bulk
recordings, as long as the association between criminal and specific Clipper
chip is fractured.

If you make use of this other cipher illegal per se, then you can charge
the criminal with this (if you can identify the true criminal - he'll be
using someone else's phone), but you'll have no evidence to help you against
whatever traditional crime he might have been planning.  You will not even be
able to detect that unusual (encrypted) communications are occurring until you
identify specific phones and obtain their keys from escrow.

The gangster and terrorist are thus arguably more, not less, secure than
they were before Clipper came along.

I therefore consider Clipper harmful because:

  1.  It does not provide absolute privacy to the honest public against
      aggressive or dishonest government.

  2.  If other ciphers are proscribed, it engenders new types of direct
      criminal threat to the honest public.

  3.  It provides an extraordinarily effective mechanism for criminals to
      hide their use of some other cipher, making it more difficult than
      ever even to gain notice that unusual communications are occurring
      and that plans for some criminal act might be in progress.

  4.  If other ciphers are proscribed, lazy investigators and prosecutors
      are more likely to pursue the easily quantifiable cipher-use crime
      than they are the traditional and directly harmful crimes which key
      escrow is claimed to help against.

  5.  If other ciphers are proscribed, the stage is set for witch hunting
      of "illegal" cipher use.  Because any computer can be used as a cipher
      machine...


Considering how often and how badly he has slammed the Pens on Coach's
Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, it would surprise me as well.  But then,
people will do anything for money, won't they?


 >supposed to develop cryptosystems. If the government chooses to go
 >ahead and sell those cryptosystems to the masses, so be it.


I am boring my sister HP DeskJet 500C for the weekend and I was wondering
in their was any drivers for it available some where that would allow
me to use it with my Mac SE/30.  I have a copy of MacPrint but I do think
that I have a driver for the 500C.  I would be happy to get it working
in black & white, but if there is away to get the color working that would
be better.  Any ideas someone?

Regards,


	May I ask why they are afraid to do so?

---

  Speaking of proofs of God, the funniest one I have ever seen was in a
  term paper handed in by a freshman.  She wrote, "God must exist, because
  he wouldn't be so mean as to make me believe he exists if he really
  doesn't!"  Is this argument really so much worse than the ontological
  proofs of the existence of God provided by Anselm and Descartes, among
  others?


Is it just me or is the camera work on some of these games really sad??  I
can't remember how many times during the Penguins-Devils game they showed some
guy (without the puck) being checked in the corner while the puck was being
fired on goal.  In fact, I think they even missed one goal completely because
they were showing two guys holding each other in the corner.

Now the last time I watched a football game, they didn't show the lineman going
at it while the running back turned the corner for a touchdown . . . .

Is it just me??


Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find my way to God, but find it difficult as I can't hear
God talking to me, letting me know that he exists and is with me and
that he knows me, and I feel that I can't possibly get to know him until
he does. Maybe he _is_ talking to me but I just don't know or understand
how to listen.

Some Christians tell me that (in their opinion) the only way to find God
is to take a plunge and commit your life to him, and you will discover.
This idea of diving into the totally unknown is a little bit
frightening, but I have a few questions.

1) How do you actually commit yourself? If I just say, "OK God, her you
go, I'm committing my life to you", I wouldn't really feel that he'd
listened - at least, I couldn't be sure that he had. So how does one (or
how did you) commit oneself to God?

2) In committing myself in this way, what do I have to forfeit of my
current life? What can I no longer do? I feel that I'm as 'good' as many
Christians, and I try to uphold the idea of 'loving your neighbour' - I
don't go round killing people, stealing, etc., and I try not to get
jealous of other people in any way - and I would say that I keep to the
standards of treating other people as well as many Christians. So what
do I have to give up?

3) When committed, what do I have to do? What does it involve? What (if
any) burdens am I taking on?

4) So then, what's the general difference before and after? I assume,
that (like on your birthday you don't suddenly feel a year older) it
won't suddenly change my life the day I commit myself. So what happens?

5) How can I be sure that it is the right thing to do? How can I find
out what the 'it' in the last sentence actually _is_?!

Thanks very much for all your help in answering these questions. Perhaps
e-mail would be a better way to reply, but it's up to you.


I have been checking out bikes (hoping for lowish seats) for a few weeks.  A
Honda Twinstar (250cc) fit me well, a Honda Hawk (400cc) did not, the
Kawasaki 250HB/SB/SH? (can't remember) looked like it would fit me well but
the price tag was way too large...

Please post this list or mail me one too!

(:


Stuff deleted

I reiterate that I would agree with you that there is little
justification for the punishment of apostasy in the Qur'an.
In Islamic history, as well, apostasy has rarely been punished.
Belief is considered a matter of conscience and since there
is to be no compulsion in the matter of belief, apostates have
been generally left to believe or not believe as they will.

However, when an apostate makes attacks upon "God and
His Messenger" the situation changes. Now the charge of
apostasy may be complicated with other charges - perhaps
charges of sedition, treason, spying, etc. If the person
makes a public issue of their apostasy or mounts public
attacks (as opposed to arguement) against Islam, the
situation is likewise complicated. If the person spreads
slander or broadcasts falsehoods, again the situation
changes. The punishments vary according to the situation
the apostate is in. Anyhow, the charge of aggravated
apostasy would only be a subsidiary charge in Rushdie's case.

There is a distinction in the Qur'an between a formal war situation
and being in the situation where someone unilaterally
wages war (by their actions), creates disorder, makes mischief,etc.
against the Muslims and creates a situation that results in harm
to Muslims. Here, a small group or even a single individual could
be said to be engaged in such a practise. In other words, there is
a clear difference between a formal war situation (where two
clearly defined parties wage war, conclude treaties, exchange
prisoners, etc.), and dealing with attacks that come from isolated
individuals or groups against Islam. It is the second situation,
the unilateral attack and the spreading of "fasad" that
would apply in the case of Rushdie.

The matter of Rushdie is not a simple matter of banning an
offensive book (banning the book is secondary) -
a full set of circumstances following the publication of
the book come into play as well, including the deaths of many
Muslims, and Rushdie's (and his publishers) Media games.

I am not sure which hadith you are referring to above. I believe
that one of the Qur'anic verses on which the fatwa is based is 5:33.
Every verse in the Qur'an has a corresponding "circumstance of
revelation" but in no way is the understanding (the tafsir) of the
verse restricted solely to the particular historical circumstance
in which it was revealed. If this was the case then we could say
that all the laws and regulations that were revealed when the
Muslims were NOT involved in conflict, should be suspended when
they were at war. The logic does not follow. In complex, real-life
situations, there may be many verses and many hadiths which can
all be related to a single, complicated situation. The internal
relationships between these verses may be quite complex, such that
arriving at an understanding of how the verses interlock and how
each applies to the particular situation can be quite a demanding task.
It is not necessarily a simple "this or that" process. There may
be many parameters involved, there may be a larger context in
which a particular situation should be viewed. All these matters
impinge on the situation.

In other words there is a great deal involved in deciphering the Qur'an.
The Qur'an asks us to reflect on its verses, but this reflection must
entail more than simply reading a verse and its corresponding hadith.
If the reflection is for the sake of increasing personal piety, then each
person has his own level of understanding and there is no harm in that.
However, if the reflection is in order to decide matters that pertain to
the
State, to the gestation of laws and rulings, to the gestation of society,
the dispensing of justice, the guidance of the community, then there
are certain minimum requirements of understanding that one
should achieve. Jaffar Ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq(a.s.) relates some of
these requirements, as taught by the Prophet(S.A.), in a hadith:

"...he who does not distinguish in the Book of Allah the abrogating
verse from the abrogated one, and a specific one from a general one,
and a decisive from an ambiguous; and does not differentiate between
a permission and an obligation, and does not recognize a verse of
Meccan period from a Medinite one, and does not know the circumstances
of revelation, and does not understand the technical words of
the Qur'an (whether simple or compound); and does not comprehend the
knowledge of decree and measure, and is ignorant of advancing and
delaying (in its verses); and does not distinguish the clear from
the deep, nor the manifest from the esoteric, nor the beginning
from the termination; and is unaware of the question and the answer,
the disjoining and the joining, and the exceptions and the all-inclusive,
and is ignorant of an adjective of a preceding noun that explains the
subsequent one; and is unaware of the emphasized subject and the
detailed one, the obligatory laws and the permissions, the places of the
duties and rules, and the meaning of the lawful and the unlawful; and
does not know the joined words, and the words that are related to those
coming before them, or after them - then such a man does not know
the Qur'an; nor is he among the people of the Qur'an....".

Based on these and other hadiths, and in accordance with many Qur'anic
verses ("Why should not a company from every group remain behind
to gain profound understanding (tafaqquh) in religion and to warn
people when they return to them, so that they may beware." (9:122)),
a science of jurisprudence arose. The requirements
for a person to be considered a mujtahid (one who can pronounce on
matters of law and religion) are many. I've listed a few major
divisions below - there are, of course, many subdivisions within these
headings.

- Knowledge of Arabic (syntax, conjugation, roots, semantics, oratory).
- Knowledge of tafsir and principles of tafsir.
- Logic (mantiq)
- A knowledge of Hadiths
- A knowledge of transmitters (rijal)
- Knowledge of the principles of juriprudence (Qur'an, Sunnah, Consensus,
Reasoning)

The study of Qur'an and sunnah for purposes of law involves:
- discussion of imperatives (awamir)
- discussion of negative imperatives (nawahi)
- discussion of generalities and particularities (aam wa khas)
- discussion of unconditional and conditional
- discussion of tacit meanings
- discussion of the abstract and the clear
- discussion of the abrogator and the abrogated

The principles of Application of the law involves:
- principles of exemption
- principles of precaution
- principles of option
- principles of mastery

The jurisprudent is bound to go through a very rigorous process
in pronouncing judgement on a given situation. It is not a matter
of looking at one verse and one hadith.

Now no one should blindly follow anyone, but there is a difference
between blind following and acceding to the opinion of someone who is
clearly more knowledgeable and more qualified than oneself. There is the
"The fuqaha (religious scholars) are the trustees of the Prophet, as
long as they do not concern themselves with the illicit desires, pleasures,
and wealth of this world." The Prophet (S.A.) was asked: "O Messenger
of God! How may we know if they so concern themselves?" He (S.A.) replied:
"By seeing whether they follow the ruling power. If they do that, fear for
your religion and shun them." I do not yet know enough about the Imams
of the four Sunni madhabs to comment on how this hadith applies
to them or to the contemporary scholars who base themselves upon them.

The Prophet also refered to the fuqaha as "The fortress of Islam". My only
point is to make it clear that arriving at a legal judgement calls into
play a certain amount of expertise - the specifics of this expertise is
delineated in the Qur'an and hadith. Those who acquire this expertise
are praised in both the Qur'an and hadith - those who without the requisite
knowledge pronounce on matters that affect society, state, and religion
are cautioned.

The only reason I said anything at all about the Rushdie affair in this
group, is because the whole basis for the discussion of the fatwa (that is,
apostasy), was wrong. When one discusses something they should at least
base their discussion on fact. Secondly, Khomeini was condemned as a
heretic
because he supposedly claimed to be infallible - another instance of
creating a straw man and then beating him.

I agree that we should move the discussion to another newsgroup.
Unfortunately,
I do not have any access to email, so private discussion or a moderated
group
is out of the question (I cannot post to a moderated group like
soc.religion.islam. How about soc.culture.arabic or talk.religion.misc?


I am one of those folks who traded UP from a 500 to an Audio Research SP9 II!

:-)


	The subject line says it all. What is the rule that qualifies
a pitcher as making a save?


Below is the list of large (at least 18 inches diagonal) monochrome
monitors which Computer Shopper lists as PC compatible.  I've omitted
Radius because Radius states that they no longer support the PC.

You will notice that Nanao is the only one which supports a 31.5Khz
horizontal frequency, which is the frequency normally used by VGA cards
at boot up.  My guess is that all the other monitors come with their
own graphics cards.  I've left voice mail with Nanao asking them to
send me some literature, and will report back to the net after I've
studied it.

The prices given appear to be list prices and have little relationship
to reality.
					Kenneth Almquist

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Cornerstone Technology
1990 Concourse Dr.
San Jose, CA 95131
408-435-8900

  DualPage 120:
    Diagonal:        19 inches
    Max Resolution:  1600x1280
    Frequencies:     105Khz horizontal, 76Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      19x18x17 inches
    Price:           $1495
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2

  DualPage 150:
    Diagonal:        19 inches
    Max Resolution:  2048x1538
    Frequencies:     105Khz horizontal, 67Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      19x18x17 inches
    Price:           $1595
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2

Ikegami Electronics (U.S.A.), Inc.
37 Brook Ave.
Maywood, NJ 07670
201-368-9171

  DM-2010AD:
    Diagonal:        20 inches
    Max Resolution:  1280x1024
    Frequencies:     48-64Khz horizontal, 59-80Hz vertical
    Price:           $995
    Compatible with: PC

Image Systems Corp.
11595 K-Tel
Hopkins, NM 55343
800-462-4370 or 612-935-1171

  M21LMAX:
    Diagonal:        21 inches
    Max Resolution:  2048x1536
    Frequencies:     48-108Khz horizontal, 60-80Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      17x20x19 inches
    Price:           $1995
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac

  M21LV-65MAX:
    Diagonal:        21 inches
    Max Resolution:  1280x1024
    Frequencies:     15-65Khz horizontal, 55-90Hz vertical
    Price:           $4695
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac

  M21PMAX :
    Diagonal:        21 inches
    Max Resolution:  1280x1664
    Frequencies:     48-108Khz horizontal, 60-80Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      19x15x17 inches
    Price:           $2500
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac

  M24PMAX :
    Diagonal:        24 inches
    Max Resolution:  1280x1664
    Frequencies:     48-108Khz horizontal, 60-80Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      22x18x18 inches
    Price:           $2600
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac

Nanao USA Corp.
23535 Telo Ave.
Torrence, CA 90505
310-325-5202

  FlexScan 6500:
    Diagonal:        21 inches
    Max Resolution:  1664x1200
    Frequencies:     31.5;56-80Khz horizontal, 55-90Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      18x20x17 inches
    Price:           $1989
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac

Ran-Ger Technologies, Inc.
[Address unknown]

  The Genuis Model 1920M:
    Diagonal:        19 inches
    Max Resolution:  1280x1024
    Frequencies:     64Khz horizontal, 60Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      17x19x17 inches
    Price:           $950
    Compatible with: PC

Sampo Corp. of America
P. O. Box 105084
Atlanta, GA 30348
404-449-6220

  ImagePRO 120:
    Diagonal:        20 inches
    Max Resolution:  1600x1280
    Frequencies:     81Khz horizontal, 72Hz vertical
    Price:           $1995
    Compatible with: PC

  OfficePRO IIe:
    Diagonal:        20 inches
    Max Resolution:  1280x1024
    Frequencies:     75Khz horizontal, 70Hz vertical
    Price:           $1549	(Advertized $999 pg. 390 April Shopper)
    Compatible with: PC

Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
[Address unknown.  You could try
	Samsung Information Systems, Inc.
	3655 N. 1st. St.
	San Joes, CA 95134
	408-434-5400]

  PageMaster 2 (MU9511A/AM):
    Diagonal:        20 inches
    Max Resolution:  1280x1024
    Frequencies:     66Khz horizontal, 63Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      18x18x15 inches
    Price:           $899
    Compatible with: PC;Mac

Sigma Designs, Inc.
47900 Bayside Pkwy.
Freemont, CA 94583
510-770-0100

  L-View:
    Diagonal:        19 inches
    Max Resolution:  1664x1200
    Frequencies:     75Khz horizontal, 60-92Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      18x19x17 inches
    Price:           $1099
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac

  L-View Multimode:
    Diagonal:        19 inches
    Max Resolution:  1664x1200
    Frequencies:     75Khz horizontal, 60-92Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      18x19x17 inches
    Price:           $1299
    Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac

  MultiMode 120:
    Diagonal:        19 inches
    Max Resolution:  1664x1200
    Frequencies:     94.7Khz horizontal, 76-116Hz vertical
    Dimensions:      18x19x17 inches
    Price:           $1299 (min)
    Compatible with: PC


How can one dump to the printer, the content of a VGA screen. If it were
a text screen, we can execute a shift printscr. but with graphics, we have
to do a pixed by pixel print. It would be greatly appreciated if someone can
supply source code for this. Alternately, are there commercial or shareware
programs that are available to do this. I must be able to shell out of my
program to execute this print screen.  Therefore, it would be prefferable to have source code.

Thank you in advance

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Programmer/Analyst Project ZE    | UUCP          : ...!uunet!uupsi2!aruba!rickt


mcsdc1jpb@dct.ac.uk (John Bell) babbles from Scotland, one of England's
last remaining colonies:

People who were dumb enough to believe Klinton was a moderate deserve what
they get too.  It's a real laugh to hear them try to justify this massacre
with bullsh*t about how concerned they were about how our tax money was
was being spent.  (Wasting money keeping Texans alive?  Hell no. let's
spend it to import Haitians with AIDS so we can treat them at taxpayer
expense.  %^P  )

So what?  The Feds killed 90+ civilians when they "ran out of patience", to use
their own phrase.  If the Feds hadn't attacked them, they'd all be home eating
dinner with their families tonight.  Too bad, but they started it.  Maybe
next time they'll think twice.  That's worth 4 stormtroopers.

Nobody says he is.  What he was was a victim of a left-wing government,
that violated its pledge to protect and uphold the Constitution, run amok.
Don't worry, though dweeb, we're gonna take it back.  (Hey, I'm a white guy,
but would it be OK if I quoted Malcolm X here, and said "by any means
necessary"?  Nah, never mind.  We can do this legally...

NO, you're just a brainless f*cking trogladyte.  Go beat up some soccer
fans.  Ignorance is bliss, so drool on with that stupid smile on your
face when people die needlessly. I hope a badger climbs up your kilt.

(Don't expect these UKies to care about this, folks...  these bastards
never did like the idea that we Americans had the means to defend ourselves
and wouldn't stand for tyranical governments, which is why we sent them packing
back to their dreary little island with their tails between their legs twice.)


I am considering the purchse of a 1987 VW Jetta GLI with 87k miles on it.
I recently found out that there are two versions of the GLI -- 8v and 16v.
I know of three differences between the two cars that both carry the same
name:  the 16v version has 20 more horsepower, 4 wheel discs, and a standard
sunroof.
Oops, that's the difference between the GLI 16v and the regular GL !!
So in addition to the engine, what other differences exist between the
two models of the Jetta GLI ?
More importantly, how can I tell which version this one is ?  There are
no badges that said "16v" so I am inclined to think that is the 8v version.
Assuming this one (the one I looked at) is the 8v version, is there a valid
reason to buy it instead of a comparably equipped GL which would cost less ?
(Of course I would love to get the 16v version, but money talks.)


	Actually, for digital HDTV systems that's far higher bandwidth than
you need, unless there's some reason you must work in fully-uncompressed
HDTV.  Also, my calculations is that each frame should be well under 6MB,
even using 24 bits/pixel (which is more bits than you actually need - 15 or
18 should be enough for a moving picture).  1600x1100x16bits is 3.5MB (I'm
guessing at HDTV resolution - it may be a bit wider than 1600, I'm fairly
sure of the 1100 number for most of the digital proposals).

	I hope you have a very fast memory system as well - 180MB/s while
displaying will require a heavily interleaved VRAM system.

	Unless you have a _very_ compelling reason, I'd advise trying to use
at least somewhat compressed data.  You don't have to go to full compression
to get to a level where the data IO requirements are much cheaper and easier
to deal with.

--
GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor.
 - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch


)Many high-end graphics cards come with C source code for doing basic graphics
)sorts of things (change colors, draw points/lines/polygons/fills, etc.).  Does
)such a library exist for generic VGA graphics cards/chips, hopefully in the
)public domain?  This would be for the purpose of compiling under a non-DOS
)operating system running on a standard PC.

Check the server code for X11R5.  (or "XFree86")


No wonder you clown are in such a mess. Let's take Sarkis Atamian's (an
Armenian Dashnak sociolog) book, "The Armenian Community", pages 97 and
105. Atamian quotes:

 "... the immediate question concerned itself with the organization and
 tactics of revolution. The liberation of Armenia, the immediate aim of
 the Party, was to be attained by:

      1. Oral and written propaganda.
      2. Terrorism - both as punishment against the enemy and as a measure
         of self defense.
      3. The creation of an avant-garde of revolutionary groups to be
         equipped and prepared for action when other nations were prepared
         for a general uprising.
      4. The organization of larger committees to be in constant contact with
         each other and subject to a central body.
      5. Organization of units of guerilla fighters."

Now, on page 105, Atamian's book quotes of Armenian constitution:

 "... If the means was revolution, how was the revolution to be attained?
 By:

      1. Propaganda
      2. Preparation of combat units and their indoctrination
      3. Encouragement of the revolutionary morale of the people
      4. The arming of the people
      5. Organization of revolutionary committees
      6. Espionage throughout the country and the exchange of information with
         the official bodies and journals
      7. Organization of financial zones for public collection
      8. 'Fighting and using' the weapon of the terror on corrupt government
         officers, spies, traitors, grafters, and all sorts of oppressors
      9. Defense of the people against attacks from the brigandry
     10. Building of roads for the transport of arms
     11. Wrecking and looting of governmental institutions."

Many of the recent Armenian terrorist acts against the Turkish people
were committed by the brainwashed members of the "Tzeghagron", namely,
"race-worshipers" of the Dashnag Youth Organization. Ironically, again,
Tzeghagron was set up by an undisputed Armenian Nazi, Karekin Nejdeh,
in 1941 (see Atamian, loc cit, page 389).

Serdar Argic


Have you tried having your scsi bus balanced?


That would be nice, but considering professional diplomats between Israel and
Athe Arabs have been unable to do so for 45 years, I can't see us starting.
But hey - as soon as anyone wants to discuss things reasonably and in a
scholarly manner, count me in.

Anyway the responses were mostly negative and I've been

People have very strong opinions and you need to be careful regarding what
you say - if you say, make it factual and be able to back it up.

Thanks for teaching us about the civilized world, Andi.  I guess we all just
came out either the desert or the ghetto, right?  And no, we are not paid
Israeli lobbyists nor are we conspirators of the ZOG - we are just people who
believe in our cause and find offense when people imply some sort dirty dealing
or disloyalty due to our love of Israel (disguised as "paid Israeli lobbyists" -
what kind of image is that?)

Oh!  Thank you!  I needed your approval of my heritage.  I guess I can go home
and feel good now and sleep comfartably knowing that Jews _really_ aren't
worse people than anyone else, contrary to what we all _know_ is true.


Yes, Matt, dear Newbie, best advice is read here foe a few days.
This is your best source of info.

(Kinda makes me glad that I discovered r.m well after I got into riding--
 could I have possibly sounded like *that* otherwise?  --eesh.)

BTW Matt, despite the insults you are destined to face, great move
on taking the MSF course.  It will save your butt.

Good Luck,


Looking for a Mac PB 100 that's in good condition (brand new, w/warranty
would be ideal).  It should also include the external floppy drive and have
at least a 40 MEG internal hard drive with 4 MEG of RAM.

So... if you have a PB100 that you'd like to turn into cash, please write me.

Thanks, very much.


["it" is Big Bang]

Since you asked... from the Big Bang to the formation of atoms is about
10E11 seconds. As for the "color": bright. Very very bright.

I don't. I believe the current theory of cosmology because it is fairly
well supported by observational evidence (not as well supported as, say
evolution or relativity, but that's another matter). You're the one who
proposes unquestioningly accepting religious dogma as fact (apologies if
you're not actually a creationist).

The line is broader than you think. Theories are supported by evidence.
Miracles are supported by someone's say-so.


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Ok, so those scientists can get around the atmosphere with fancy
computer algorythims, but have you looked ad the Hubble results, the
defects of the mirror are partially correctable with software (see
those jupiter pictures for results), but is the effects are completely
reversable, why is there going to be a shuttle mission to fix it?

The way I see it (and please, astromomers give me a swift net-kick in
the butt if i'm out of the ball park), the astromers are making the
best of limited possiblities, there's only one hubble, and the shuttle
makes another in the near future a non-thought.  Perhaps those self
same billboards could have small optical receptors of a limited kind
mounted on the reverse sides of the mirror's (if that is what is used)
and then the whole thing becomes a giant array telescope...

--


Hi everybody out there,
I just got the third beta release disk (march 93) of WindowsNT
and still am not able to boot up that system. The final step
achieved is the display of IO-error 0x0069. But, since this is
the beta release of the SDK for NT and not of NT, Microsoft does
not include a manual on the OS itself, explaining what this
error means of what I can do to get rid of. My configuration
is:
Mainboard     Hauppauge 4860-25, rev. A7 (a 486 with socket for i860)
              28megs of memory (512k*36,1M*36,2M*36)
AMI EISA SCSI controller (15series), latest bios, 16MB cache
              ST41200N hard disk
              Syquest 555 removable disk
              Toshiba 3301 CD ROM drive
ProAudio Spectrum Plus 16
Longshine Ethernet card LCS8634 (NE2000 comp.)
ET4000 graphics card, 1Meg (ColorImage5)
The system is running fine under DOS and Windows 3.1 etc, but
trying to do the setup for NT,
- automatic setup does not recognize controller (AHA1542-compat.)
  when adding manually, NT complains not finging any CD-ROM drive
- the manual setup (WINNT) does not copy everything from CD to HD,
  does not recognize controller, but takes it manually.
  Setup continues until it tries to boot. Then it starts loading
  several stuff from disk (seems to fing the HD), but messing up
  with that damned IO-Error 69.
I took away all IO cards not essential, but that did not make any
effect.
Anybody got any ideas? Help would be greatly appreciated.


Fiberglass boards are available in several colors.  Sitting right
here, I have unetched board stock that is white, blue, green and
yellow respectively.  I've also seen black boards.

Solder mask is available in a variety of colors too.  Depending on
the supplier, the color helps indentify the material.

Don't forget conformal coating.

I don't think I've seen phenolic impregnated paper boards in
anything other than the familar brown, but it would not be
difficult to add a dye to change the color.


From what I saw of the videotape, there was an explosion which looked
more like one due to propane rather than (official version)
ammunition.

If only we could be certain that the hard evidence will be released.


"They're real and they're spectacular", the Blues shutout the Blackhawks in
consecutive playoff games.

If the Blues sweep the Hawks on Sunday, I will launch a broom onto the ice
in the last seconds of the game. "Not that there's anything wrong with that."

Curtis Joseph has been the "master of his own domain", and the Hawks have
been shooting the puck like a bunch of "chuckers". Not even "Superman" could
play any better in goal. Joseph must have been eating his "cereal."

"It's like a sauna in here" said a spectator about the hot atmosphere and
the wild crowd at the Arena.

It was "very refreshing" to see the Blues "double-dip" the Hawks.

The Hawks goons tried to "pick" on Hull, Janney, and Joseph but the Blues
checking line "nipped" those Hawks real well.

The fat "Yoyoma" will sing on Sunday, and the Hawks will head to the "beach".
The Hawks' trip back to Chicago will feel like a long "journey from Milan
to Minsk"

Enjoy Sunday's game with some Junior Mints and wash them down with a Snapple.

Just a little fun.


No, Fuhr's 5 rings out sparkle Errey's. And doesn't Bob have 2 rings?


Shit, i'm going to be a lot more carefull filling by income tax!


I am saving an image on one machine and redisplaying the image on
another machine (both are HP 9000 Model 750s).  The image is created
using XCreateImage and XGetImage and displayed with XPutImage.  The
image is redisplayed correctly except that the colors are wrong because
the server on the other machine is using a different colormap.

I tried saving the colormap (pixel and rgb values) and on the redisplay,
performed a table lookup against the new colormap.  This didn't work
because some rgb combos don't exist in the new colormap.

Is there a way to force the server to load colors into set pixel values, or
is there a simpler way to solve this problem?  I tried using xinitcolormap
but couldn't get that to work either.

Any help would be appreciated.