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Although simplistic I have always liked the fact that "a Christian is one who not only believes in God, but believes God." After all the name was first given externally to identify those who "preached Christ and Him crucified" to pay the price of their rebeliion and shortcomings before God. God said this was His son -- I belive Him. -- Scott Dittman email: sdittman@wlu.edu University Registrar talk: (703)463-8455 fax: (703)463-8024 Washington and Lee University snail mail: Lexington Virginia 24450

Just to clear things up (as to why I posted the question that way)... I was debating with a co-worker about diesels. I claimed they were cleaner-burning than gas engines. He said the extra "junk" put out by them was offset by the savings in greenhouse gasses. I made all the SAME claims you did. But, one question of his was what about the carbon? I said it was harmless, but he wanted to know how to get rid of it. I suggested scrubbers. (I figured it would be no harder or more expensive to install than "cats".) Does there exist any designs for a scrubber? (I'd like to know just to answer his final question.) I convinced him that diesels are cleaner otherwise. BTW, (I named my subject "Dirty Diesels" because I knew it would get a reaction out of people who knew they were cleaner than gas engines and that they'd read it...) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Vel Natarajan nataraja@rtsg.mot.com Motorola Cellular, Arlington Hts IL --

[... other info deleted ...] Are you sure it's not a problem caused by software? I've seen this sort of effect when a runaway program (which could be caused by an INIT conflict, for instance) accidentally wacks on a register in the video hardware. Have you tried booting with no extensions and then letting the Q950 just sit there in the Finder? You might also want to try changing to 24-bit addressing (yes, I know you can't access your full 64 MB of RAM - it's just an experiment) as the video hardware registers can't be accessed then. Another thing to try as a 'recovery' measure is to use something like QuickKeys to change the pixel depth of the display. This reprograms (some of) the video hardware registers and may allow sync to be restored.

Acorn Software, Inc. has 3 tape drives (currently used on a VMS system) for sale. These are all SCSI tape drives and are in working condition. WangDat 1300 4mm $500.00 WangDat 2600 4mm (compression) $650.00 Exabyte 8200 8mm $650.00 (SALE PENDING) Plus shipping and COD. Certified checks only, please. These units are sold as is and without warrantee. Contact me if you're interested. -- Dick Munroe Internet: munroe@dmc.com Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc. UUCP: ...uunet!thehulk!munroe 267 Cox St. Office: (508) 568-1618 Hudson, Ma. FAX: (508) 562-1133

Enclosed is an advertisement for the Defending the Faith IV conference to be held at Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio) June 25-27. I attended DTF III last year, and plan to go again this year. I would recommend it highly to Catholic interested in apologetics. There will be lots of music, well-known Catholic speakers, fellowship, as well as Eucharistic Liturgies Friday and Sunday. Registration is $85 per person, but I believe financial aid is available if you need it. Housing in residence halls (each of which has its own Blessed Sacrament chapel), if desired, is $30/person for double occupancy for two nights ($30 total). Reservations can also be made for you at the very nearby Holiday Inn. I think it was $47 a night there for my single room. Meals are available at the cafeteria (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch) for $38 or $32, with or without breakfast, respectively. Franciscan University of Steubenville is located in eastern Ohio on US Route 22, 1/2 mile west of the Ohio River and Ohio Route 7. Greater Pittsburgh International Airport is less than one hour (35 miles) from campus. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any question I can answer. Here is the agenda, as typed in by a friend of mine: Friday afternoon special: Reflections on C.S. Lewis, a preliminary session with Walter Hooper. Walter Hooper is one of the foremost international experts on the writings of C.S. Lewis. In 1963, he served as secretary to C.S. Lewis, and he has since edited 18 of Lewis' literary works for publication. Walter was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1965, serving in Oxford, England, until he entered the Catholic Church in 1988. ---------------- Friday evening, opening session: In Search of the Truth: Finding the Fullness of Faith Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz. Know Your Rites Kimberly Hahn. ------------------- Saturday Morning Apologetics Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry Karl Keating C.S. Lewis: My Signpost to the Catholic Church Walter Hooper Mass Bishop Bruskewitz, celebrant Fr. Ray Ryland, homilist --------------------------- Saturday afternoon: The Mystery of Femininity: Why It Excludes the Priesthood Dr. Alice von Hildebrand Men Make Better Fathers: Masculinity and the Male Priesthood Dr. Peter Kreeft ---------------------------- Saturday evening: When Do Catholics Hear the Gospel? Dr. Thomas Howard The Catholic Gospel: Not Just Saving Sinners Scott Hahn ----------------------------- Sunday morning: There's No Place Like Rome: The Pilgrimage of Two Protestant Pastors Panel. Mass Fr. Ray Ryland, celebrant Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR, homilist - - - - - - - - - - Here is the ad that appeared in _The Catholic Answer_: DEFENDING THE FAITH IV CONFERENCE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHING: KNOW WHY YOU BELIEVE June 25-27, 1993 Times have changed. Major Catholic doctrines are misunderstood and attacked. Like never before, believers need to know the reasons behind the Catholic Church's teaching. As our first pope urged: "Always be ready to give a defense for the hope that is within you" (I Peter 3:15). Grab your notebooks and get ready for an unforgettable spiritual and intellectual weekend. This year's conference will candidly confront the hardest questions and objections about the Catholic faith. Deepen your understanding of Church teaching with _Scott_ and _Kimberly Hahn, Dr. Thomas Howard, Karl Keating, Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, Dr. Peter Kreeft,_ and _Fr. Ray Ryland_. Cut throught the confusion and doubt, and be better equipped to give a defense for the hope that is within you. Join us at _Defending the Faith IV_, the fourth in a series of annual conferences designed to strengthen the life of Catholics and others interested in the Catholic faith. It can help _you_ know why you believe. Call toll free today: Franciscan University 800/437-TENT of Steubenville or 614/283-6314 Steubenville, Ohio 43952-6701

Is there a readily available solvent that does a good job at removing the corrosion/encrustation that collects on the battery terminals (usually the cathode) when using alkaline batteries (or more accurately, when NOT using them for a long time)?

I didn't say that. Did you say that? Wow, I can't believe that anyone would think that the Braves (or any other team, for that matter) should get the title for free. What a dolt that person would be, if that was what they thought. Incredible. --

I worked in support for a while at a company and we had problems with several Toshiba 1600's in a short space of time. They were all around 2 years old. Some screens went completely (as above), others were just "dodgy". This happened to about 5 or 6 out of, maybe 100. They were fairly reliable up to then and I don't think it was a special problem with Tosh's (no link to the company). So I would think that 21 months may not be unreasonable - just unlucky! Regards, Kate. :)|

Unlikely. Ammunition is not as dangerous when simply burned as it is when fired from a gun. The brass case is not capable of holding the pressure generated by burning powder, and will (unless supported by the walls of a gun barrel or chamber) simply split open. While this may cause small pieces of brass to fly around, it will not propel the bullet with any significant velocity. In fact, it was not uncommon in years past to dispose of old loaded cartridges by burning them. As long as you were not close enough to take a piece of flying brass in the eye, you were reasonably safe. Thus, the detonation of loaded magazines or loose rounds might cause slight injury but would be unlikely to cause fatal bullet wounds.

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

om> Cliff, do you know the difference between "Windows" and "Win-OS/2"? Here's a helpful hint: Running "Windows" under OS/2 2.0 is only possible in real mode, in a DOS box. Of course, this is only possible with Windows 3.0, since Windows 3.1 no longer has a "real mode". The ability to run standard mode, the ability to have an OS/2 <-> Windows clipboard, the ability to run seamless, and a few other things were all added by IBM to "Win-OS/2". Now, everybody who is running "Windows" in real-mode in a DOS box under OS/2 2.x raise your hand. Finally, everybody who is running "Win-OS/2" under OS/2, raise YOUR hand. Get the picture, Cliff?

If this man Clark is a NASA administrator then god save NASA. Of course the Shuttles record is unrivaled ! There is only one Shuttle. Furthermore, there is only likely to be one Shuttle now that Hermes and Boron are effectively cancelled. These officials should spend more of their time explaining to their European and Asian partners how we are expected to believe in them when their paymasters change their minds on major international projects everytime a new US administration takes office (considering the major impacts this has on the European and Asian (Japanese) industry). It is also appreciated how this affects American industry. I am of course talking about Space Stattion Freedom.

We are interested in constructing a reentry vehicle to be deployed from a tether attached to an orbiting platform. This will be a follow on to our succesful deployment of a 20 kilometer tether on the March 29 flight of SEDS (Small Expendable Deployment System), which released an instrumented payload that reentered the earth's atmosphere and burned up over the west coast of Mexico. This time we want to make a payload that can be recovered. We want to build it from "off the shelf" technology so as to do this as quickly and inexpensively as possible. We want to be able to track the payload after it has deployed its parachute. An idea we have is to put the same kind of radio beacon on it that is used with SARSATs (Search and Rescue Satellites). It would turn on with the opening of the parachute and aid in tracking. These beacons are known in the marine industry as EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon). They are rugged (they have to be to survive a ship wreck!) and cheap. We have several questions: 1. What is the world authority regulating the use of SARSAT beacons. Are there multiple authorites, i.e. military and civilian? 2. What are the regulations regarding the use of SARSAT signals. Can they be used for one of a kind situations with a long lead time of warning the relevant authorities, or are they strictly reserved for life threatening emergencies? 3. What is the coverage of SARSATS? Are they in LEO with only intermittant coverage of a fixed position on the earth, or are they in geosynchronous orbit? 4. Is there an industry organization governing the use and manufacture of these transponders? Please post replies here or send E-mail to me at: fennell@well.sf.ca.us Thanak you very much for any assistance you can provide.

The FBI has claimed from the begining that it wasn't standard use tear gas. How do you know it was? Or do you just assume it was for flamebait?

HELP! I am trying to find software that will allow COM port redirection under Windows for Workgroups. Can anyone out there make a suggestion or reccommend something. I would really hate to have to write some driver for the serial port that would support the network, but that is my next step. Thanks in advance.

: My wife wants to publish a newsletter. She's no artist, so she intends to : use comercial clipart and customise it a bit by drawing a circle or a box : around it etc. : : We have MSPublisher for manipulating text, but it is not suitable for doing : much with graphics, so she needs a more specialised tool. Right now she's : looking at Corel Draw and Harvard Draw. There seem to be more books in the : stores on Corel than on Harvard, so she's inclined to go with Corel on the : basis of popularity. Can anyone give us an informed opinion on which : package would be more suitable or if there is an even better alternative : available? If this is a FAQ, please withhold the flames and just send the : location of the FAQ document. Thanks. : Go with CorelDraw. PCMag just did a review a couple of issues ago and Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw were picked as the best. : Three PS's: : : 1) Is it ok to use clip art from Harvard Draw or whatever for commercial : purposes? (other two deleted...) As far as I know it's okay. You'd have to read the licence agreement that comes with the package to be sure. --

I believe that Phil Esposito was the first to wear #77 when he played with the Rangers in the '70s. This was the season that they put the Rangers crest and "modern-style" numbers on the jerseys instead of the "NEW YORK" or "RANGERS" block letters and two-colour numbers. He took #77 because the Rangers already had a #7. (Hockey Night in Canada made a big thing out of it, saying it was the biggest uniform style change in a long time. This was before Pittsburgh and Vancouver changed their colours.) dwarf

Please do not do this! I don't know how the rest of you read news, but here's how I do it: I subscribe to an "outernet" system which allows me to dial up via modem and download e-mail and news articles automatically. When someone posts a huge attached binary file, I have no choice but to receive it along with all the other new articles in the groups I subscribe to. I also pay for the connect time, which is normally not a problem because I have a 14.4K modem and each day's upload/download session takes only 5 minutes or so. Today's session, however, lasted about 25 minutes because of ROMAN.BMP. Consequently, it cost me about $3.00 extra just to receive a file that I didn't want in the first place. If you have cool bitmaps that you want to make available, there are other ways to do it: either upload the file to an ftp site (like ftp.cica.indiana.edu, which has a complete Windows section) and tell people how to get to it, or use one of the newsgroups like alt.binaries.pictures (or something like that), which are file archives rather than discussion groups. Don't use discussion groups like this one to send out attached files, especially when they're 600K in size.

[...stuff deleted...] As many posters have said in as many posts lately, this is just not true. For to show no interest in the existence of god takes no faith at all. You make the presumption that the _knowledge_ of the _possibility_ of something is enough to require faith to render that possibilty of no interest. It is a very different thing to say that you don't believe something than it is to say that you don't have sufficent reason to believe something is even interesting to think about. It's not either or. Sometimes is just something else more interesting that occupies your mind. I agree that faith and dogma are inevitable, but not necessarily applied to god and religion. It takes both faith and dogma to expect the sun to come up every morning, but there is overwhelming reason every single day, day in and day out, for _everyone_ to put his faith and dogma there. Not so with the christian religion.

Well, an LT1 Blazer wouldn't come close to a GMC Typhoon in speed, I think its too heavy. As it is right now, the normal 210HP 5.7 engine has plenty of power for a full size Blazer. Of course, I'm not saying GM shouldn't put the LT1 in it :). It seems like they have a real winner with that engine. Why spend so much more money into getting a 32 valve DOHC V8 when you can take an LT1? It even seems to get pretty good gas MPG (for a 5.7, that is.) [talking about Impala SS] Yeah, it's a flat black, lowered 4 door Caprice riding on 17" aluminum rims and Eagle GS-C tires. The rest of the car is basically a Caprice LTZ (read: plush police package) with 300 horsepower. I heard that Chevy is resurrecting the Monte Carlo but that's going to get their 3.4 DOHC V6 and not the LT1. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Krenz -- uznerk@mcl.ucsb.edu | krenz@engrhub.ucsb.edu

What a load of crap ! The BDs had absolutely NO RIGHT to fire upon the BATF agents. If they didn't know who they were at first, then they should have surrendered immediately when they did realize who they were dealing with. Little groups of loonies do not get to decide just what laws they will obey or disobey or what sorts of warrants are justified. Like the rest of us, they get their say at the voting booth and if their personal wants are not backed by the majority of voters, then too bad. If they wanted to keep automatic weapons, then they could apply for the proper permits. If they had a problem with the warrant then they get to argue that in court. In no event do they get to establish their own little nation inside our own and pretend that our laws and law-enforcement personel have no jurisdiction within their borders. You live on US territory, you live by US laws - period. (unless you are a congressman) Sure, the situation was handled badly by both the BATF and the FBI. It would have been all so easy to detain Koresh and his core members while they were out in the streets of Waco. The BATF, threatened with budget cuts, was trying for a propaganda coup ... and dragging the press along for the big commando-style assault is proof of that. They should be roasted for both their imcompetance and their mindset. On the other hand, they DID have the legal right to do what they did. Once the attack was begun, they should have pressed on and finished it rather than let an interminable situation like that take root.

If you put another computer on the port instead of the key, you can hack them by reading what happens. So I've been told, I've never seen this done but I think it's possible. You'd need some hardware knowledge and some software to read the port! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guido Klemans Internet: rcstage1@urc.tue.nl valid until 16 may 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Listen very carefully, I will say this only once.' Michelle of the resitance

I get the picture, I just find it humorous that Running Windows 3.1 apps ( 3.0 for 2.0 ) is what makes os/2 more credible...

#@$#%$!! I *have* a copy of Allen, and it never occurred to me to look in there... I must be getting old... I'll look it up when I get home. Thanks. I'd remembered a rather higher number, but that may have been for the lunar nearside, where the Earth is a significant heat source.

I>From: ccastco@prism.gatech.EDU (Costas Malamas) ssupports pkzip 2.04. It does NOT require pkz/unzip in order to work, and ccosts only $10 to register.

[much BS deleted for brevity] It certainly smacks of that! Remember the "POLL" that you quoted saying that you had seen a 95% of users being satisfied with DOS 6.0? Care to recall how unbiased the sample set was? That post sure looked like FUD....and coming from a microsoftie .... well, it sure seemed like something was not on level. Advocacy is GOOD - but spreading FUD to advocate your favorite OS is very unethical - especially when you have a vested interest in the success of that OS. That is because their actions seem to invite this opinion - never seen more defensive people in my life. Moreover, many of their posts seem to encourage this too, IMHO. Seriously speaking, it is a shame that MS techie employees get the heat for MS's actions - most of which are perpetrated by the Management and marketing. I am sure that they ARE very talented etc ... I have not doubts about their abilities, just about the ethics of their marketing practices. Divya -- Divya

export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/R5.SunOS5.patch.tar.Z Get Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z while you're at it.

It seems that there are more and more "bands" available for police radar each month. I have recently purchased (within the last 8 months) the BEL 966STW. While it is not a perfect detector by any means, it does do the job fairly well. Now, however, I pick up a car magazine at the airport and read about this Super Ka Wideband which is a superset of the Ka Wideband that this latest generation of detectors was touted as covering. So now BEL has a NEW series of detectors out that cover all the usual bands (X, K, Ka photo, Ka wideband) as well as the new Super Ka wideband. Just as there comes a point of diminishing returns when chasing increased PC computing power with faster and faster CPUs (for the average home consumer, at least), it seems that there is now the same concern with radar detectors. Does it make sense to upgrade just 8 months after purchasing my "new" detector? Is Valentine upgrading their equipment? If so, it might be worth it for me to upgrade to the Valentine. I was in the market for a Valentine when I purchased the BEL but the 3-4 month waiting time was just too much for me since I had inadequate protection with my Passport. Life was much simpler when there was just X and K band and Escort has the best equipment on the market and there was no need to continuously shop for a new detector. I hope that the flood of new radar bands ceases with this new Super Wideband business.

It is easy for Sen. Biden to say that when there are no US troops in Zepa or Srebinica or Sarejevo... The existing UN policy may certaining be wrong, but the US wants to dictate policy, and make Europe responsible for the consequences of that policy... ...Bosnia is a big enough problem for the US to preach about what other countries should be doing with their forces...but its forces are safely tucked away at home in the US.

I am trying to define my own class derived from the Object class so that I may insert them into a HashTable (a class provided by the Container class library). I have defined all of the pure virtual functions of Object, but I still get an error when I attempt to allocate a HashEntry object: Cannot create instance of abstract class HashEntry Has anyone derived from class Object before? What have I left out? Here are the virtual functions that I defined from Object: virtual classType isA() const { return hashEntryClass; } virtual Pchar nameOf()const { return "HashEntry"; } virtual hashValueType hashValue() const { return hashValue(hWindow); } // Note: hWindow is defined in HashEntry virtual int isEqual (const Object _FAR &obj) const { return this == &(HashEntry&) obj; } virtual void printOn( Rostream os) const { os << "[ HWindow is " << (void _FAR *) hWindow << " ]\n"; } --

There is a bancrupcy sale coming up soon, and I wonder if anyone know about these printers: Olivetti PG-306, Canon LBp-8R, Nec silentwriter 2 S60, Kyocera Laser F3000. Which of the above, if any, has Postscript, and an appletalk interface builtin. Please reply by E-mail. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tommy Nordgren "What is a woman that you forsake her Royal Institute of Technology and the hearth fire, Stockholm and the home acre, f85-tno@nada.kth.se to go with the old grey widow maker."

What say you and Nick go somewhere else with this shool yard crap.

Early in Church history, the catechumens were dismissed prior to the celebration of the Eucharist. It WAS secret, giving rise to the rumors that Christians were cannibals and all sorts of perverse claims. The actions were considered too holy to be observed by non-Christians, as well as potentially dangerous for the individual Christian who might be identified. Larry Overacker (llo@shell.com) --

I have an Ethernet card that i took out off an old LC. The card is manufactured by Asante. On it i can read: "Asante Tech, inc. Copyright 1991. MACCON + LC REV.B". The card has an fpu socket on it. It provides thin Ethernet connector and there's another connector on it which resembels to phone connectors. My questions are: - Will this card work on any other model than LC-serie ?, given that it's a PDS card, will it work with the IIsi PDS slot ?. I think there may be a probleme because the LC has 16 bit wide slots. - What's that other conncetor on the card ?. _ Is anyone interested in it ?. I can ship it to any CEE country.

no I'd recommend reading _Mormonism and Early Christianity_ by Hugh Nibley, particularly the articles on Christ's forty-day (post-resurrection) mission, baptism for the dead, early Christian prayer circles, and temples (2 articles). ..bruce.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce F. Webster | A religion that does not require the sacrifice CTO, Pages Software Inc | of all things never has power sufficient to bwebster@pages.com | produce the faith necessary unto life and #import <pages/disclaimer.h> | salvation. -- Joseph Smith

Minor point: Shea Stadium was designed as a multi-purpose stadium but not with the Jets in mind as the tennant. The New York Football Giants had moved to Yankee Stadium (from the Polo Grounds) in 1958 and was having problem with stadium management (the City did not own Yankee Stadium until 1972). The idea was to get the Giants to move into Shea. When a deal was worked out between the Giants and the Yankees the new AFL franchise, the New York Titans, approached the City about using the new stadium. The Titans were playing in Downing Stadium (where the Cosmos played soccer in the 70s). Because Shea Stadium was tied into the World's Fair anyway, the city thought it would be a novel idea to promote the new franchise and the World's Fair (like they were doing with the Mets). So the deal was worked out. I'm under the impression that when Murph says it, he means it! As a regular goer to Shea, it is not a bad place since they've cleaned and renovated the place. Remember, this is its 30th Year!

Diplomatic :-) I realize I'm fighting Occam's razor in this argument, so I'll try to explain why I feel a mind is necessary. Firstly, I'm not impressed with the ability of algorithms. They're great at solving problems once the method has been worked out, but not at working out the method itself. As a specific example, I like to solve numerical crosswords (not the simple do-the-sums-and-insert-the-answers type, the hard ones.) To do these with any efficiency, you need to figure out a variety of tricks. Now, I know that you can program a computer to do these puzzles, but in doing so you have to work out the tricks _yourself_, and program them into the computer. You can, of course, 'obfuscate' the trick, and write the program so that it is uncovered, but as far as I can see, the trick still has to be there in some form to be discovered. Does this mean that all the ideas we will ever have are already pre-programmed into our brains? This is somewhat unlikely, given that our brains ultimately are encoded in 46 chromosomes worth of genetic material, much of which isn't used. One way around this is to bring the environment into the equation, but (again, as far as I can see) this still has an air of 'if you see object X, then perform action Y,' and we don't seem to get anywhere. The algorithm has to anticipate what it might see, and what conclusions to draw from it's experience. The other problem with algorithms is their instability. Not many algorithms survive if you take out a large portion of their code, yet people survive strokes without going completely haywire (there are side-effects, but patients still seem remarkably stable.) Also, neurons in perfectly healthy people are dying at an alarming rate - can an algorithm survive if I randomly corrupt various bits of it's code? The next problem is the sticky question of "What is colour?" (replace 'colour' with the sensation of your choice.) Presumably, the materialist viewpoint is that it's the product of some kind of chemical reaction. The usual products of such a reaction are energy + different chemicals. Is colour a mixture of these? If this is so, a computer won't see colour, because the chemistry is different. Does an algorithm that sees colour have a selective advantage over an equivalent that doesn't? It shouldn't, because the outputs of each algorithm ought to be the same in equivalent circumstances. So why do we see colour? A bit of idle speculation... If I remember correctly, quantum mechanics consists of a wavefunction, with two processes acting on it. The first process has been called 'Unitary Evolution' (or 'U'), is governed by Schroedinger's equation and is well known. The second process, called various things such as 'collapse of the wavefunction' or 'state vector reduction' (or 'R'), and is more mysterious. It is usually said to occur when a 'measurement' takes place, although nobody seems to know precisely when that occurs. When it does occur, the effect of R is to abruptly change the wavefunction. I envisage R as an interaction between the wavefunction and 'something else,' which I shall imaginitively call 'part X.' It seems reasonable to assume that _something_ causes R, although that something might be the wavefunction itself (in which case, part X is simply the wavefunction. Note, though, that we'd need more than U to explain R.) Anyway, I'm speculating that minds would be in part X. There seems to be some link between consciousness and R, in that we never see linear superpositions of anything, although there are alternative explainations for this. I've no idea how a brain is supposed to access part X, but since this is only speculation, that won't matter too much :-) My main point is that there might be a place for minds in physics. I'll go back to my nice padded cell now, if that's OK with you :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Anthoney kax@cs.nott.ac.uk Don't believe anything you read in .sig files.

Then what is a "Flat-" engine???

Has anybody seen empty Everex's being sold ? I want the cube. Not the computer inards. Will it take standard AT-size motherboards ? Thanks. e-mail please. --

Ahh Broncos. Well personally, I have a '78. The blue book is just a hair over 3 grand. I bought it for 2500 and then bought new tires 650 front end rebuild 350, carb rebuild 130. Then i did the unthinkable and blew the engine (not bronco specific, unmaintained engine with 168,000) 2400 more bucks there, now it is in nice condition, well after new seats out of a t-bird, radio, 2 amps, speakers, alarm, well the radio and amps were free and i bought the speakers used for 40 bucks, and the other speakers i took out of my old jeep (Sell a Jeep for a bronco you might ask, but it was a Wagoneer). Its a lovely specimen, solid front and rear axels, ford 9" and a dana 44 up front. Watch the rear axel wrap, i busted off my u-bolts ONCE, i added traction shocks after that and haven't had a problem since. Also the bottom of the doors tend to rot, bottom of the tailgates likes to rust right up to the new ones that might be in your budget. The post 80 broncos have that sickly TTB front end and little stamped and folded steel radius arms were as the 78-79 have nice big cast iron longer radius arms(ie more prspective wheel travel). The only rust i have is on my doors and a few dings in the sheet metal. I don't know when the removeable tops were discontinued but they are fun. I just ordered a full convertable top for 400$ for mine(credit card). Don't ever break the window if you have the double laminated bronzed privacy glass in your cap it is over 400 bucks to replace. My bronco also does pretty good offroad, i haven't bottomed out my suspension, YET, and have crossed over 3 foot deep of water with no problems, handles rocks like a charm too. One problem is it is WIDE and you sometimes can't follow a CJ or a Toyota, between two rocks or trees, and your grandmother will have a hard time getting up into it.

One point not yet mentioned: Hands on the driver's shoulders are a definite no-no. It feels good for the passenger to stretch her arms, and a shoulder massage feels good too, but the shoulders are connected to the arms, and the arms to the handlebars... Should you hit the brakes, the pressure on the shoulders can make steering interesting. Bundle her up if it's cold, make sure she has good gear (say it again), an pat her thigh to let her know all is great.

That would be Clint Malarchuck. It was speculated at the time, that the injury was so serious that had he been playing at the other end of the rink at the time (he was playing in the same end as the ambulence is parked), he never would have survived. Ditto, if he were playing anything other than a league with an ambulance on standby. If you've seen video tape of the incident, it is amazing how much blood there was. It was literally spurting out all over the ice, as Clint grabbed his neck and watched the puddle in horror. Amazingly enough, he made a full recovery, and played again in the NHL. He was getting on in years at the time of the incident anyway, and didn't play for too long afterward. Some people speculated that he just couldn't get himself back together after the incident, and I think he had a bunch of other personal problems dogging him afterward. He did eventually get back to form, and played another year or so after that, and then I believe he retired. Anyone else? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carol Boudreau #44 a.k.a. The X-Terminator boudreau@athena.mit.edu Go Flames! Rock the Kings!

You don't *need* to, but it's desirable. HST, like all satellites in low Earth orbit, is gradually losing altitude due to air drag. It was deployed in the highest orbit the shuttle could reach, for that reason. It needs occasional reboosting or it will eventually reenter. (It has no propulsion system of its own.) This is an excellent opportunity, given that there may not be another visit for several years.

I once wrote such a program (in BBC basic...) It was very crude, and took around 5 seconds to do an exhaustive search (with a small amount of intelligence), and told you the best combination >Rq and the best below Rq. If you want to write one, just store the prefered values in an array, and then search the solution space using three nested loops. I'm sure you could knock this up in an hour. Christopher

Heck, some of his ships were loaners. One was owned by a Basque... (you know, one of those groups that probably crossed the Atlantic _before_ Columbus came along).

Back in high school I worked as a lab assistant for a bunch of experimental psychologists at Bell Labs. When they were doing visual perception and memory experiments, they used vector-type displays, with 1-millisecond refresh rates common. So your case of 1/200th sec is quite practical, and the experimenters were probably sure that it was 5 milliseconds, not 4 or 6 either. Steve

Taking this at face value (though it seems quite dissonant with much else that has been published here about brute force DES cracking, unless Russell was lucky with respect to the key), I'd be very interested in whether the program Russell used is available? In whether he used a cleartext recognition algorithm in the program or whether he had to examine each decryption by hand? In whether he used a known plaintext attack? He probably should also tell us, given his address, what machine he used--a desktop, workstation, or super-computer. Depending on his answer, this could be an appalling development calling into question both DES and RSA/DES. Dunno about RSA/IDEA. If any bright programmer with a little idle machine time can crack a single DES message in a couple of days (assuming no tricks that are message-specific), then here's my Clipper key, NSA; give me the chip at once. :-) David

OOOoooh, complaining about my spelling. I'm _so_ hurt. No I'm not a student. I'm an alumnus. And an employee. So I can get my money _back_ from these grubs. BNR, huh? I hope you're not a permanent, they'd be wasting benefits on you. pthptptphhph!

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. Colossians 3:16 A reminder: These verses are from the New International Version. As with any translation, faithfulness to the original Hebrew and Greek may vary from time to time. If a verse sounds a little off occasionally, compare it with another translation or with the original texts, if you are able to do so.

I HAVE A TANDY WP2 WORDPROCESSOR FOR SALE. IT HAS 148K (DUE TO A 128K DUE TO A RAM DISK), A WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM, A 200,000 WORD SPELL CHECKER, A THESAURUS, IS 1" THIN AND WEIGHS 3 LBS. IT TAKES 4 AA BATTERIES (ALKALINE OR NI-CAD RECHARGABLE) OR USES AN AC ADAPTER (IN- CLUDED). IT IS A FULL SIZE QWERTY KEYBOARD WITH AN 80 CHARACTER BY 8 LINE LCD SCREEN. IT ALSO HAS A TELCOM PROGRAM WHICH ALLOWS TRANSFERS OF FILES TO AN IBMPC WITH A NULL MODEM CABLE AND SHAREWARE TRANSFER PROGRAM (ALSO INCLUDED). IT HAS A 9 PIN SERIAL PORT, A PARALLEL PRINTER PORT, AND A TAPE RECORDER FILE SAVE PORT. THE TELCOM PROGRAM CAN ALSO BE WITH A MODEM (NOT INCLUDED) TO ACCESS SERVICES LIKE COMPUSERVE. THIS IS GREAT UNIT FOR A HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE STUDENT TO WRITE PAPERS AND REPORTS ON. IT COMES WITH THE ORIGINAL MANUAL. YOU GET ALL THE ABOVE FOR $125.00 PLUS SHIPPING AND COD CHARGES. SEND E-MAIL INQUIRIES TO: ______________________________________________________________________

No. I recently bought an LC II with a 14" monitor. The monitor comes with the type of power cable that plugs into the switched outlet on the back of most larger Macs. Since the LC II doesn't have one of these outlets, there was an extra standard power cable included with the computer for use with the monitor. But it was in the computer box, not the monitor box. It's not as if the cables are particularly expensive, though. $10-$15 at the most.

Hello. I am the David Sternlight keeper of the FAQ. Unfortuantely I cannot find it at the present time. From the original FAQ: Question: Does anyone take David Sternlight serious? Fact: No one takes David Sternlight serious. They review his opinions and in most cases immediately discard them or jerk them over to alt.fan.david-sternlight which actually should be alt.flame.david-sternlight. A photograph of David Sternlight for the curious: |\/\/\/\| | | | (o)(o) C _) David Sternlight | ,___| Net.Police | / a.k.a. PROUD _0--------/\/----\/\-------0_ DICK OF / /0 \----/ 0\ \ THE INTERNET / | \ \||/ / | \ / /|DAVID || POLICE|\ \ _/_____/ || ] || | [#] || \_____\_ |_______/ |\____/ || \__*_/| \_______| Question: Why does David continue to relate mis statements regarding encryption and other topics? Fact: David Sternlight has a chemical imbalance of the right side of his brain.

: > : >I just wanted to let you know that there are a few honest and good people out : >there (even outside of Iowa). I'm sorry if anyone thinks that I am wasting : >space, but I thought you might want some relief from the "So-and-so is a thief" : >posts. Not that I think we shouldn't hear about the bad deals, but it would be : >nice to hear some good news once in a while. : : This was nice of Kevin to post this. But just so no one is misled, the : VAST MAJORITY of usenetters are "honest and good people." In fact, in : the latest study, 99.7% of all net.deals went off smoothly without a : hitch. It's just that the few bad ones are what get all the publicity. Agreed. I have yet to run into a problem in deals over the net and I have bought things from CDs (plenty!) to a full computer. The only small problem that I have had was with UPS rather than the seller. Besides, complaints are always what get the publicity....when something goes wrong, people complain. Rarely have I seen posts stating how well a deal went through. I guess Kevin is practically a first!

In the following report: _Turkey Eyes Regional Role_ ANKARA, Turkey (AP) April 27, 1993, we find in the last paragraph: [Turanist] Although Premier Suleyman Demirel criticized Ozal's often [Turanist] brash calls for more Turkish influence, he also has spoken [Turanist] of a swath of Turkic peoples "stretching from the Adriatic [Turanist] Sea to the Great Wall of China." Who does Demirel think he is fooling? It seems at both ends of his envisioned pan-Turkic Empire -- the Balkans and the Caucasus -- Turkey's fascist boasts are being pre-empted. I would suggest Turkey let the world feel some of their "Grey Wolf Teeth", and attempt to stretch from the Adriatic to China! Turkey will have cried "wolf" just once too much!

When do the new M.benz "C" class cars come out? The new nomenclature that MB has adopted will it only apply to the "c" class cars or will it also apply to the current "s" class cars. Does any one know what will replace the current 300 class since the "c" class will be smaller and more in line with the current 190. Another question, Is BMW realising a new body style on the current 7 series and 5 series. They seem to be a bit dated to me.

Most bikes I've seen that use a dipstick rather than a sight glass are designed to check it without screwing it in. In the manual for my CBR900RR, they specifically state it should be done this way. Michael

-=> Quoting Bill Gregory to All <=- BG> hey I saw that game! I thought the Sabres looked better that you BG> described. It's Boston that looked weak and unsure of themselves. Even BG> if (big if) they (bruins) win the third game what's that going to BG> prove? They be lucky! Well now the Sabres are up 3 - 0 in games, and its to bad that Boston isn't putting up more of a fight as that could have been the best series of the playoffs, I think Boston will come out smoking in the next two games and that Buffalo will end the series in game six back in Buffalo, and say, how about those Islanders? they are up 2 - 1 on the Capitals and will probably win the series, only to be clobbered by the Penguins who should eliminate the Devils in the next game. I cannot see (i'm sad to say) anyone beating the Penguins this year (again) and they will take cup # 3 I'm afraid. well talk to ya later. Steve

Local LA stores have already reduced prices by $200 on most Duo configurations (although Apple dropped the list price by $310).

There are some tricks to installing ATM to windows... install them first to dos, then run the ATM control panel to get them into windows. The best reason for ATM is that Adobe IS the standard. Truetype is a failed MS venture to undercut Adobe when Adobe was being nasty about keeping their formats proprietary. Just about any service bureau or print shop will smirk and send you on your way if you bring a TrueType document to them for high resolution printing or ripping. Although there are lots of pretty TT fonts floating around, they are really for dot matrix or your own lazer printer. However, you can convert your TT fonts with Fontmonger or some similar program to ATM fonts for high end stuff. If you are using dot matrix for all your printing, you may have wasted your money!

The patches for xv.h need to use ``#ifdef SVR4'' rather than the overly complex ``#if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)'' in order to generically compile XV on i386SVR4Architecture. Also, rand and srand don't work very well--use lrand48 and seed48 to get better results. Otherwise, xv-3.00 compiles just fine on my Esix System V 4.0.4 box with XFree86 and gcc-2.3.3. I just uncommented the gcc definition in the Makefile, added -L/usr/X386/lib -I/usr/X386/include to the COPTS line and modified LIBS to include -lsocket -lnsl. Really John, if you just use the Imakefile things like this don't even have to get mentioned... *** 1.1 1993/04/28 08:33:13 --- xv.h 1993/04/28 17:47:38 *************** *** 284,292 **** --- 284,298 ---- /* signal macros */ + #ifdef SVR4 + #define HOLD_SIG sighold(SIGALRM) + #define RELEASE_SIG sigrelse(SIGALRM) + #define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(SIGALRM) + #else #define HOLD_SIG sigblock(sigmask(SIGALRM)) #define RELEASE_SIG sigblock(0) #define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(0) + #endif

This was a recent discussion on rec.martial-arts. Humans definitely don't have all the advantages. Dogs are deceptively strong and often bred for fighting of one sort or another.

+In article <1993May7.211312.10403@bert.eecs.uic.edu>, rsc@siggraph.org +|> Computer Graphics experimental special online issue +|> May 1993 +|> +|> The May 1993 experimental special issue of Computer Graphics is online +|> as a set of files on the siggraph.org system in the directory +|> ~ftp/publications/May_93_online +|> This is made available to the computer graphics community by ACM +|> SIGGRAPH. The general theme of this issue is electronic documents, and +|> the Table of Contents in the AboutThisIssue files will tell you more +|> about this publication and its contents. + + I ftp'd here, but found nothing. Has this been removed? Nope, it's still there:

It's possible to make boards in other colors, and I have an ad for laser light-show equipment which offers the circuit boards in your choice of Day-Glo (tm) colors. The usual light green color is just the natural color of Fiberglas. The dark green or blue is the solder mask layer, and I suspect that color is a dye.

I'm going to be mixing together here stuff from two of Ted Frank's articles, <1993Apr15.143623.25813@midway.uchicago.edu> (which was a response to me) and <1993Apr16.011455.20518@midway.uchicago.edu> (a response to Tim Smith)... Eminent domain is a state-mandated transaction in which one party is required to sell a piece of property which it owns to another party, regardless of whether the first party wishes to sell at all, at a price which is set by the state. I fail to see how this doctrine can be found in tort, bankruptcy or contract cases in general. Well, okay, sort of in bankruptcy... * * * * * Bang. Here's one of the places where we widely diverge. You believe that the courts, in deciding a civil dispute between two parties, should consider as a factor -- perhaps as an overriding factor -- issues which I believe the court should ignore as being irrelevant to the dispute. _Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co._ was an action brought by one party, Boomer, whose property rights were being violated on an ongoing basis by another party, the Atlantic Cement Company. The facts supported Boomer's contention that Atlantic Cement was wrongfully damaging his property, and Boomer asked the court to order Atlantic Cement to stop doing so. End of story. There was no reason for the court to consider such issues as what a capitalistic society would want Atlantic Cement to do or whether the cost of compliance was disproportionate to the damage faced by the plaintiffs. Those issues had nothing to do with the case before the court. I'd be up in arms? Why do you assume that? Quite the contrary, I'd probably support the action, since it would be based on the same general doctrine as the decision that I believe would have been correct in _Boomer_: the idea that people's property rights should not be violated for reasons of economic efficiency. In _Boomer_ it was Boomer's property rights which I believe the court should have protected; in the hypothetical EPA ruling you've presented, it's the American people's collective property rights in a healthy physical environment. What good is cost-benefit ratio of 15+:1 if you wind up with cement dust in your air? * * * * * Yes. So what? The courts are supposed to protect the specific rights of individuals, not the general interests of some nebulous society. If society can have its cement plant without violating anyone's rights, fine. Otherwise society will somehow have to limp along with one less cement plant. (See, Ted, I really _am_ a libertarian after all! :-) "One wants the legal regime to approximate the end result to begin with, in order to minimize the transactions costs."??? Which "one" are you speaking of? _I_ want the legal regime to protect people's rights. Besides, Coase's Theorem only has real application in the never-never land of perfectly rational actors. In the real world (1) some people are going to be stubborn, ornery, spiteful or otherwise "irrational" from a economic point of view and (2) the purpose of the courts is to protect their right to be so. I don't care if you can show me logically that your cattle are only doing $100 of damage to my property per head, so I should rationally sell you grazing rights to my land for, say, $150 per head -- I still retain the right to tell you that I just plain don't want any damned cattle on my property, not at any price. * * * * * Last question first: For the same reason as in contract law -- because to do so would come dangerously close to treading on the Thirteenth Amendment. As to your "Then, by your argument, no tort plaintiff is ever made whole, because the award of damages in involuntary" claim, you're at least partially right. Faced with situations in which the wrong has already been done and the damage to the victim has already taken place and cannot be reversed or undone, courts will try to set an equitable price tag on the loss suffered by the victim and require the wrongdoer to pay this price (rather than an inflated price which the victim might prefer). In these cases, the "sale" has already taken place and is irreversible, and the court simply tries to ensure that a fair price is paid, under the doctrines that (a) only in certain circumstances should even a civil wrongdoer be forced to pay punitive or excessive prices and (b) even a genuine victim should not profit in an unjustified or inequitable manner from his victimhood. Both of these doctrines may be worth discussing or debating elsewhere, but neither is relevant to cases like _Boomer_ in which the wrongful act and the loss stemming from it are still in the future and _can_ be reversed/undone (i.e., prevented from happening at all) by order of the court. In these types of cases, all the court has to do is require that the potential victim's property rights are protected until and unless he agrees to sell them at a mutually-acceptable price. There is no need for the court to guess at the equitable value of the loss and force both sides to accept its finding. It can leave that operation up to the parties themselves. In cases like _Boomer_, they're simply a cost of doing business. The fact that the proprietors of the Atlantic Cement Co. got themselves into a position in which they found themselves over this barrel is simply a result of their own poor business decision to start up a cement plant without _first_ trying to negotiate with Boomer and everyone else whose property rights they'd be violating via the operation of their plant. There's nothing punitive or unjust about it. Anybody who wants to commit a wrongful act in the future should be required to buy the right to do so from the victim, in advance. And the seller should be allowed to set his or her price for the privilege. No injustice, no punitive damages. * * * * * Doesn't sound very much like a libertarian to me. Libertarians tend to believe in the rights of individual people, not societies. * * * * * As stated above, the tort was _ongoing_. Atlantic Cement wanted to be able to _continue_ to violate Boomer's rights. While the court may have been justified in setting an equitable price tag on the damage already committed, it had no reason and no need to set a price tag on the _future_ violations of Boomer's rights and to then force Boomer to sell at that price.

From: thomas@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities Subject: DIB/BMP CREATION GUIDE, as requested. Keywords: DIB BMP Bitmaps File Formats Message-ID: <1992Dec23.214432.18764@kodak.kodak.com> Date: 23 Dec 92 21:44:32 GMT Sender: news@kodak.kodak.com Organization: Precambiran Electronics, Rochester, NY Lines: 484 Xref: cradle.titech comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc:3609 GUIDE TO CREATION OF DIB IMAGES Thomas B. Kinsman Precambrian Electronics 29 Falstaff Rd. Rochester, NY 14609 thomask@kodak.com Copyright March 15, 1991 ABSTRACT The format of images created for use by MS Windows 3.0/3.1 applications is documented in the MS Windows Programmer's Reference guide. This guide is intended as a clearify some wording of the specifications, and to put forth a recommendation among the various alternatives. Please send updates/corrections/suggestions and revisions to me. Please thank me for writing this on my own time by keeping my name with the document. Thank you for your respect. This document Copyright, 1991, by Thomas B. Kinsman. If desired, a PostScript version of this document is available. This information is free. You get more than what you pay for. Don't sue me if I'm wrong. OVERVIEW The DIB image file format is intended to be a "Device Independent Bitmap" file format. (What Microsoft means by "Device Independent" is unclear to me.) Four pixel resolutions are supported: 1 bit, 4 bit, 8 bit, and 24 bit pixels. These images were intended for use on DOS (IBM, or Little-Endian) systems. If you are creating them on another architecture you will have to byte- swap all short and long integer values. By convention, DIB images end in the extension ".BMP". This is because March 15, 1991 - 2 - they are a super-set of earlier "bitmap image files". Consequently you will sometimes hear DIB files referred to as "BMP" files. Since DIB images files are a super-set, there are three "flavors" of DIB images: o DOS DIB images. These are the recommended convention, and the form which I will describe how to create. They are intended for applications running under MS Windows /3.0 in a DOS environment. o OS/2 DIB images. My understanding is that these are the flavor of DIB images that were used by the Presentation Manager. o Old-style Bitmap images. March 15, 1991 - 3 - DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FLAVORS The DOS DIB images consist of: 1. A "BITMAPFILEHEADER" file header which identifies the file as a DIB file. This header also gives the total size of the image file, and the offset to the image data. 2. A "BITMAPINFOHEADER" image header which specifies the image attributes. 3. An optional palette of colors used by the image. If it exists, this may contain 2, 16, or 256 entries. Each entry is a Windows RGBQUAD structure. 4. The image data itself. The OS/2 DIB images consist of: 1. The same "BITMAPFILEHEADER" file header which identifies the file as a DIB file. This header also gives the total size of the image file, and the offset to the image data. 2. A "BITMAPCOREHEADER" image header which specifies the image attributes. 3. An optional palette of colors used by the image. Again, if this exists it may contain 2, 16, or 256 entries. Each entry is a Windows RGBTRIPLE structure. 4. The image data itself. The Old Style image bitmap consists of: 1. Either a BITMAPINFOHEADER or a BITMAPCOREHEADER. Which header type is determined by the first long integer (DWORD) value. 2. An optional color palette. This palette may be composed of either Windows RGBQUAD structures (if the header was a BITMAPINFOHEADER) or Windows RGBTRIPLE structures (if the header was a BITMAPCOREHEADER). 3. The image data itself. CREATING DIB IMAGE FILES. Creating a DOS DIB image file consists of several straight forward steps. The headers need to be created and then written to the file. These header structures are defined in the MS Windows/3.0 "windows.h" include file. Palette information needs to be stored for images that are not 24-bit images. The five general steps are: 1. Filling in the BITMAPFILEHEADER and the BITMAPINFOHEADER structures the basic image information. 2. If the image is a 1-bit, 4-bit, or an 8-bit image, creating the color palette of RGBQUADS. 3. Calculating the total file size and putting this information in March 15, 1991 - 4 - the "bfSize" field of the BITMAPFILEHEADER. 4. Calculating the offset to the image data from the start of the file, and putting this in the "bfOffBits" field of the BITMAPFILEHEADER. 5. Writing to the file the BITMAPFILEHEADER, the BITMAPINFOHEADER, the color palette, and the image data (in that order). The following sections describe structures in terms of MicroSoft C type- defined keywords. The following table describes these keywords for those not familiar with MicroSoft C. _______________________________________ | | | Type-defined keywords in MicroSoft C.| |______________________________________| | typedef | meaning | |_________|____________________________| | BYTE | unsigned character | | WORD | two byte unsigned integer | | DWORD | four byte unsigned integer| |_________|____________________________| March 15, 1991 - 5 - THE BITMAPFILEHEADER This structure is defined in "windows.h" as: typedef struct tagBITMAPFILEHEADER { WORD bfType; DWORD bfSize; WORD bfReserved1; WORD bfReserved2; DWORD bfOffBits; } BITMAPFILEHEADER; The "bfType" field is the two ascii characters 'B' and 'M'. This serves to identify the file as a DIB image file. On an intel byte ordered machine (IBM or a compatible), this constant can be formed in C as the quantity ('M' << 8 | 'B') == 0x4d42 on an intel system. The "bfSize" field is the total size of the file. For our purposes this field is equal to: the size of the BITMAPFILEHEADER, plus the size of the BITMAPINFOHEADER, plus the number of entries in the color palette times the size of a RGBQUAD, plus the number of bytes of image data. If the image data is being written out in an uncompressed form, this value can be calculated ahead of time. Otherwise, this field needs to be filled in later. Both the "bfReserved1" and the "bfReserved2" fields are always set to zero. The "bfOffBits" field is set to the offset to the start of the image data from the start of the file. For our purposes, this field should be set to: the size of the BITMAPFILEHEADER, plus the size of the BITMAPINFOHEADER, plus the number of entries in the color palette times the size of a RGBQUAD. This works out because the image data is written write after the color palette if one exists. March 15, 1991 - 6 - THE BITMAPINFOHEADER This structure is defined in "windows.h" as: typedef struct tagBITMAPINFOHEADER{ DWORD biSize; DWORD biWidth; DWORD biHeight; WORD biPlanes; WORD biBitCount; DWORD biCompression; DWORD biSizeImage; DWORD biXPelsPerMeter; DWORD biYPelsPerMeter; DWORD biClrUsed; DWORD biClrImportant; } BITMAPINFOHEADER; The "biSize" field is set to the size of the BITMAPINFOHEADER structure itself. When reading the image file, this value is what is used to determine that the image contains a BITMAPINFOHEADER and not a BITMAPCOREHEADER. The "biWidth" field is the width of the image in image pixels. The "biHeight" field is the height of the image in image lines. The "biPlanes" field should always be set to 1. This data is written out as if there was one color plane. The "biBitCount" field is the bit-depth of the image. This must be either 1, 4, 8, or 24, depending on the bit-depth of the image data. The "biCompression" field tells how the image data is compressed if it is compressed. DIB images support two forms of run-length encoding. However, I have never seen any images which use it, and don't know yet how it works. Set this field to zero (long zero, or 0L), to indicate that the data is not compressed. All subsequent fields of the BITMAPINFOHEADER structure may be set to zero. A requirement of the interpretting software that it be able to compute these fields as necessary from the previous information. The field which you might want to explicitly specify might be "biClrUsed". For 4-bit and 8-bit images this field indicates that not all of the possible color entries are used and that the image contains "biClrUsed" colors. If you are using only 32 colors with an 8-bit image, then you may only want to save 32 of the possible 256 palette entries. Generally, set this field to zero. March 15, 1991 - 7 - COLOR PALETTES Each entry of a color palette is a RGBQUAD structure. The RGBQUAD structure is defined in the "windows.h" include file as: typedef struct tagRGBQUAD { BYTE rgbBlue; BYTE rgbGreen; BYTE rgbRed; BYTE rgbReserved; } RGBQUAD; The "rgbReserved" field is always zero. For each color used, the amount of Blue, Green, and Red are filled into the structure and the structure is written to the file. A value of zero in the "rgbBlue", "rgbGreen", or "rgbRed" fields indicates that that particular component does not contribute to the color composition. A value of 255 in any of these fields indicates that the component contributes fully to the color composition. IMAGE DATA There are three surprises about the ordering of image data in DIB image file. The creator of this format was determined to be creative, and certainly was. Within the image data, each line written out is padded to the next four byte quantity. So, if you had an 8-bit image which was only one pixel wide, you still have to write out four bytes for every image line. The number of bytes per line can be calculated as: bytes_per_line = (width_in_pix * bit_depth + 31 ) / 32 * 4; ---or, in terms of the fields of the BITMAPINFOHEADER structure--- bytes_per_line = (biWidth * biBitCount + 31 ) / 32 * 4; When writing out your image data, you must write it out bottom line first. The bottom line of the image as you would look at it on the screen is the first line of image data in the file. For 1-bit, 4-bit, and 8-bit images, information is written as you would expect. One bit images are padded eight pixels to a byte. Four bit images are padded two pixels to a byte. Eight bit images are written one pixel per byte. Twenty-four bit images are written three bytes per pixel. However, for 24-bit images the information must be written out in the order blue, green, red. While most image file formats write data out in March 15, 1991 - 8 - an "RGB" ordering, a DIB image file writes the data out in an "BGR" ordering. SUMMARY This should provide enough information to create DIB images from applications such as scanners or for image exporting routines. If you find out any more about DIB images, please pass the information on to me so that I can modify this document accordingly. March 15, 1991 -- Thomas B. Kinsman, Rochester, NY, thomas@acadia.kodak.com "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." -anon

I don't have any evidence against water from Lourdes curing MS -- I'm sure there is anecdotal evidence that it does. Do you really think that in the absence of a double-blind study I should be indifferent to the hypothesis that water from Lourdes cures MS? For what it's worth, I know of only one double blind study of Nystatin for "candida hypersensitivity syndrome." It was published in the New England Journal (I think 1990) and showed no benefit on systemic symptoms (though I think it reduced vaginal yeast infections, not surprisingly). As I recall, the yeast crowd had some major objections to the study, though I don't remember what they were.

Can some kind soul provide me with information on LDRs that contain an onboard light-source, in a totally integrated and light-shielded unit. I have seen a VTL5C LDR in some schematics. So who are the manufacturers of these devices, and what are the different types. Thanks very much in advance, Jim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Trivellas. Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering. The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia. | | | Telephone: +61 3 3447976 ***** Email: jimt@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au _______*************_______ _|_____*****************_____|_ _|_|_____*****************_____|_|_ "Hello, is that the front desk?" | The SPID |

I'm not sure how far standardisation went, but on two of my bikes (the GS550B and, I think, the GT380M) I was able to pop a Cibie' insert directly into the original housing (held in by those roughly W-shaped springs). The inserts used 55/60W halogen bulbs, and were great, although Mr Bill later indicates that this may be too much of a drain on your charging system.

Assuming the fire was caused by lanterns and stoves being knocked about by the tanks pushing on the walls (would shake a building pretty good) perhaps they didn't flee because fleeing would have meant ENTERING the fire from the other side? Like they were surrounded by the fire, and rubble, which finally (combined with teargas, and combustion gasses) overcame and enveloped them? In other words they were TRAPPED by the flames, heat, fumes and rubble? Does that sound plausable? Not as dramatic as Korash forcing them to stay, or shooting them (no shot victims found yet), but plausable...

As you're no doubt aware, Phill, there are probably five or six different, mutually contradictory versions of the events in Waco on Feb. 28 all of which are from reputable news sources, ranging the the Associated Press to TIME to Newsweek. Some of the earliest reports issued by the AP were not at all flattering the to BATF, and produced some question as to who fired first. Now, for all I know, you were there to witness it. But I kind of doubt that. The BATF, in a letter they've been sending out to people, says both that they were ambushed because they lost the element of surprise, and that they went up and knocked on the door and had it slammed in their faces. It strikes *me* as kind of strange to rely on surprise to serve a warrant by knocking on the door. There are at least questions that need to be answered. This paranoid assertation was made by witnesses to the original assault who stated that the BATF initiated hostilities by throwing concussion grenades and reported by the Associated Press. Phill, the BATF were in a firefight with the BD for *forty-five* minutes. I find it hard to believe that if they were expecting peaceful citizens they *wouldn't* have shown up in live-stock trailers and would have retreated immediately. If they *were* expecting peacful citizens, why show up with over a hundred officers, some of which clearly visible on video to be carrying sub-machineguns, and *3* National Guard Helicopters? I don't know who did what, but, as I said, there are questions that need to be answered.

"In Dog We Thrust"

Hi! I am looking for a source of lithium batteries for an original Mac II. The number on the battery is ER 1/2 AA. Local electronic shops & computer stores freak when inquire. The fastest any of them can get a battery to me is 2-3 weeks for about $20. Anything faster and/or cheaper is welcome! Please respond to me via e-mail and I will summarize to the net. Note my e-mail address differs from the return address of this posting. Thanks in advance for your help!

Maybe before Babel,everyone including angels spoke the same language,so at Babel, God punished us by giving us languages different from the original one. So if that's the case,then angels now would be speaking in the tongue mankind spoke before Babel.

Hi, I'm trying to get my program to monitor resize/position events, so that when the program exits, I can save the last known geometry in some sort of 'preferences' file. I am adding an event handler for StructureNotify to the TopLevelShell: XtAddEventHandler(topLevel,StructureNotifyMask,False,configureCB,myData); This works fine, and my callback is called whenever the window is resized or repositioned using the window manager (mwm). However, when I'm just resizing the window, using any resize handle on the window manager resize decoration, the x and y are set to zero in the XEvent passed to the event handler callback. I'm accessing the xconfigure structure, like the X11 manual says. (xev->xconfigure.x, xev->xconfigure.y). The width and height memebers are correct. When I reposition the window, using the window manager, the xevent's xconfigure structure contains all the correct x, y, width, height member settings. Q1: Anybody know why, when just resizing, the x and y are being set to zero? Q2: Any other way to handle detecting and saving geometry changes? I've tried using XtGetValues() on the topLevel widget when exiting my application (before destroying any widgets) and all I get is garbage values for the x, y, width, height resources. Thanks --

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:I tried this code yesterday. On my Sparcstation ELC it takes over :300 seconds to compress 22 seconds' worth of speech. This means that it :needs to be "optimized" by over a factor of 10 before it will be usable :in even a half-duplex mode. Ouch! Thanks for trying it. :I question whether CELP is the best approach for this application. It produces :great compression but at the expense of tremendous CPU loads. We want :something that can be run on ordinary workstations or even high-end PC's :without DSP cards. My guess is that some other algorithm is going to be :a better starting point. Yes. I'm not sure if my xposting to comp.speech made it to here too, but I've found that a low sample rate (3300 samples/sec at 8 bits per sample) plus the pd 'shorten' lossless sound compression code actually does get speech into 14.4K with a simdgen left over. This is *definitely* worth working on, folks. And shorten works in well under real-time.

HELP! I am trying to view .JPG files with my 386SX, 20MHz machine . I have a STB-POWERGRAPH graphics card with 1024 X 768 by 256 colors, with 1Meg RAM on it. I have tried CVIEW097 (with windows-- EXTREMELY SLOW), and DVPEG24. DVPEG24 doesn't work! Even if I pick a lot of the "modes" that are supported by POWERGRAPH (so it says in the manual), it doesn't work when I try to view a picture... it only buzzes. Anyone out there that can help me; give me suggestions? I would really appreciate it!

The problem with this view is that the topic under discussion in this passage *is* marriages that were performed on earth. Jesus' words seem to me to indicate that He regards His response as the answer to their question about which earthly marriage would be valid after the resurrection. This being the case, the most straightforward interpretation, in my opinion, is that marriage does not exist in the next life because those who are raised are of a different nature than what we are now. Other- wise, why would Jesus offer "but are like the angels in heaven" as a contrast to the idea of the resurrected marrying and being given in marriage? We do not have angel-like natures now, but someday we shall, and when we do, our earthly marriages will be irrelevant. Or at least, that's what I think Jesus is saying about the post-resurrection validity of marriages performed on earth. Your mileage may vary. :)

1993 World Championships in Germany: ==================================== Group A standings (Munich) Group B standings (Dortmund) -------------------------- ---------------------------- GP W T L GF-GA +/- P GP W T L GF-GA +/- P Canada 3 3 0 0 17- 1 +16 6 Czech republic 3 2 1 0 8- 1 +7 5 Russia 3 2 1 0 12- 4 +8 5 Finland 3 2 1 0 5- 1 +4 5 Sweden 3 2 0 1 8- 6 +2 4 USA 3 1 2 0 8- 3 +5 4 Italy 3 1 1 1 5- 8 -3 3 Germany 3 2 0 1 11- 8 +3 4 ---------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Switzerland 3 0 0 3 0- 9 -9 0 France 3 0 0 3 4-13 -9 0 Austria 3 0 0 3 2-16 -14 0 Norway 3 0 0 3 0-10 -10 0 April 18: Italy - Russia 2-2 Norway - Germany 0-6 Sweden - Austria 1-0 USA - Czech republic 1-1 April 19: Canada - Switzerland 2-0 Russia - Austria 4-2 Finland - France 2-0 April 20: Sweden - Canada 1-4 Czech republic - Germany 5-0 Switzerland - Italy 0-1 Finland - USA 1-1 April 21: Germany - France 5-3 Italy - Sweden 2-6 Czech republic - Norway 2-0 April 22: Switzerland - Russia 0-6 USA - France 6-1 Austria - Canada 0-11 Norway - Finland 0-2 April 23: Switzerland - Austria Germany - Finland 20:00 April 24: Russia - Sweden Czech republic - France 15:30 Canada - Italy USA - Norway 20:00 April 25: Sweden - Switzerland Finland- Czech republic 15:30 Russia - Canada Germany - USA 20:00 April 26: Austria - Italy France - Norway 20:00 PLAYOFFS: ========= April 27: Quarterfinals A #2 - B #3 15:30 A #3 - B #2 20:00 April 28: Quarterfinals A #1 - B #4 15:30 A #4 - B #1 20:00 April 29: Relegation A #5 - B #6 15:30 A #6 - B #5 20:00 April 30: Semifinals A #1/B #4 - A #3/B #2 15:30 A #4/B #1 - A #2/B #3 20:00 May 1: Relegation 14:30 Bronze medal game 19:00 May 2: FINAL 15:00

I am thinking about buying a new motherboard and a cyrix 486dlc 40 or 33 Mh z. It will be an upgrade from a 386sx 25. I was wondering if anybody has any FACTS they can fill me in on. If anybody has one what do you think about it? I will also get a cyrix math co with it. I have benchmarks for the two chips a nd they look very good for the price. If anybody responds please send me email because I usually don't check the mail very often but I check my reader daily. Thanks for your info, and remember only respond if you have legitimate comp laints or praise, not just to Cyrix/AMD bash. I know about what Byte, computer shopper, pc computing and etc... have said and that is why I am considering the Cyrix chip. Thanks.........

This may work, but won't it involve invoking the applications, e.g. if you drag a .bmp or .txt file to the min. Print Manager icon, won't it RUN Notepad and Paintbrush before printing? If you just want to drag a file (.txt or .bmp) to a print server icon, with stay at front attributes, you need an intelligent Print Manager drag and drop client like Amish Print 2.0.

There would be some point to doing long-term monitoring of things like particles and fields, not to mention atmospheric phenomena. However, there is no particular plan to establish any sort of monitoring network. To be precise, there is no particular plan, period. This is a large part of the problem. In this context, it's not surprising that unexciting but useful missions like this get short shrift at budget time. The closest approach to any sort of long-term planetary monitoring mission is the occasional chance to piggyback something like this on top of a flashier mission like Galileo or Cassini. It is most unlikely that there is much happening on Pluto that would be worth monitoring, and it is a prohibitively difficult mission to fly without new propulsion technology (something the planetary community has firmly resisted being the guinea pigs for). The combined need to arrive at Pluto within a reasonable amount of time, and then kill nearly all of the cruise velocity to settle into an orbit, is beyond what can reasonably be done with current (that is, 1950s-vintage) propulsion. Most of this can be done just about as well from Earth. The few things that can't be, can be done better from a Voyager-like spacecraft that is *not* constrained by the need to enter orbit around a planet.

It sounds as though you might want to try a product such as "super-glue". The active ingredient is cynoacrylate, the same compound used to reconstruct bones. I have successfully used superglue for a number of procedures on many different species of animal. If you are simply trying to adhear something to bone for several months, this would be ideal. It bonds almost immediatly, is resistant to infection, and is non-irritating to surrounding tissue. Phil Bowman, Manager Lab Animal Resources University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 larpjb@selway.umt.edu :wg --

Owwww!! Mr. Jefferson would be clearly disappointed in your designation of him as author of the bill of rights. And your reference to those in Israel was condesceding and inappropriate. The Declaratio of Independence of 1776 was written by Thomas Jefferson. In 1787, the Constitution was drafted by 55 men in Philadelphia. In 1791, the Bill of Rights was added. Well, maybe Jefferson would be flattered. As to you guys at UVA, your right, not all of you are anti-Jewish, or self-hating. But when I visited Charlottesville, I noticed a distinct lack of diversity, from which I must assume you garner your inability to perceive the reality of the outside world.

(Anthony If she doesn't welcome the excruciating pain of labor, the selfish bitch deserves to die in childbirth. She was probably lying about the rape anyway.

I have the following complete camera kits for sale: Minolta with three lenses. Ricoh with zoom lens. Nikon 35 mm autofocus. $50. Nikkor 50/1.8 MINT. $60.

Sorry, but this is a red herring. Are you contending that the "mountain of forms" are processed by Blue Cross? Having had Blue Cross insurance both as a government employee and as an employee of a private corporation, I saw no difference between the two sets of forms. Moreover, the administrative costs associated with Medicare/Medicaid, the two primary forms of "government" insurance are considerably lower than the average for private insurance companies. (5% versus 14%-16%). If you have any evidence that Blue Cross bears a heavier burden in insuring government employees than private employees, post it. Otherwise, try to stick to factual assertions. Well now, that's an interesting defense of the "free enterprise" system. Are you contending that it is government intervention that prevents private insurance companies from "standardizing?" In fact, it is true that some of the red-tape burden stems from the lack of standardization among the 1500 or so private insurers in the US, but it's a little difficult to understand how this is anything other than "free enterprise" at work. By the way, Barron's, the bible of Wall Street, this week admitted that administrative costs were significantly lower in Canada because "....a single-payer system is always cheaper...". Guess even the "free enterprise advocates" are beginning to see the light. Sorry, but you seem to be confusing proposals with health care reform with the Bush administration's gag order on federally funded family planning clinics. There are no proposals that would control what your "doctor...can and cannot say about medical procedures." Try again. jsh

I have a Uniden visor clip sized radar detector with x, k, and ka band forsale. Has city/highway and audio/mute options and comes with cigarette lighter attachment. I'm asking $50. Please e-mail replies to jth@bach.udel.edu

I just bought a new AMIECU EISA motherboard and an Adaptec 1742A fast-SCSI controller. I wanted to install the AHA-1742A and did as written in the AMIECU manual. But the CFG-utility told me to get a newer version of the Adaptec configuration overlay file named 'adp0000.ovr', because the old one is not compatible to my motherboard. The adaptec driver utility is version 3.0. CAN YOU HELP ME ? PLEASE DO SO.

Like we have never heard of, or read these verses before? How about you read them in context, taking into consideration the times and places in which they were written; the local customs and pagan rituals; what the surrounding verses are talking about and how they interact with the rest of the Bible. There are many issues in the Bible that are argued, and can be argued successfullly from both sides of an issue. Some examples that come to mind are Gifts of the Spirit when the Rapture will occur(pre or post tribulation) how people should be baptized to name a few. I have found nothing in scripture that condemns me, or anyone else, for having a monogamous relationship with the person whom I love, even if we are the same sex. I'm sorry if I am coming across as heated. It's just that the Lord has been so dear to me the last several years and I'm tired of hearing this same old thing from people who believe what their told rather than finding out for themselves. Check it out for yourself. Invite the Holy Spirit to guide you. If I weren't confident of this I wouldn't invite you to do this.

I doubt his trans uses standard syncros. There are several mechanisms for coupling a gear with the transmission output shaft, some of which are fine for racing and unsuitable for street use.

For those who pray in tongues, When is it appropriate for you to pray/speak in tongues and why? I just would like to gain more knowledge about this subject.

How much do you watch and follow hockey? The Pens and Bruins will be in the same division next season, which will give Neeley plenty of opportunity to whine about Ulf.

Driving While Impared. It allows for prosecution of drivers under the influence of a variety of drugs.

I am currently managing, among many other labs, a lab with three LC IIs, a Mac Plus with 45 MB external HD, and a LaserWriter II NTX. My problem? The LC IIs seem to intermittently slow to a snail's pace. These LC IIs have 4 MB RAM, 256K VRAM, and a Quantum LP105S HD installed. I have reformatted the drive with Hard Disk Toolkit 1.3, and it gives a very respectable 2.9 overall rating to this drive, so it's not the drive. I have reinstalled System 7.1, MS-Word 5.1a, MS-Works 3.0, and so on, all from the master disks. In short, I have done everything I can think of in software. I am *not* a hardware hacker, though I pop cases fairly often. But nothing works. The problem is intermittent and unpredictable. The mouse always moves smoothly, floppies always run at the same speed, but occasionally, for about 1-2 hours at a time, a machine will run like it was running on a 4 MHz 68000, not a 16 MHz 68030. It is VERY frustrating and makes it nearly unusable. It does seem to worsen with increasing disk activity. Has anyone encountered this problem before? Has anyone got any ideas? They would be much appreciated. -- Andrew Geweke

[...] You could be right. Then again, you could be wrong. This claim is completely unverifiable and untestable. I'd wager most of the Braves fans on the net could name more than 3 players from their 1988 season. You could give away tickets to Braves games. However, my Dad and I were able to get great seats from scalper for face value, which isn't exactly the sign of a hot ticket... This is *precisely* why they were considered America's team. Even (especially?) when they were bad, you could see most of the Braves games on cable. You could do that for the Cubs as well, but the Braves had better camerawork, better announcers (what would you rather listen to -- Harry discuss the game, or Skip and Pete discuss motoball?), and teams that weren't *too* much worse. Because of TBS, the Braves had a lot of fans outside of Georgia. At home in Kentucky, even though we were much closer to Cincinnati there was as many Braves fans as Reds fans, even in 1990. You could actually watch the Braves play -- you had to go to Cincinnati to watch the Reds. I can go anywhere in America and watch the Braves. Why? I'd guess that Braves fans are more widely distributed than Toronto fans. -- Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Baseball fanatic

See the rec.pets.cats FAQ or any doctor or vet for more information. I am not any of the above, but we do have a couple of cats. It is transmitted through the fecal matter, so a pregnant woman should avoid cleaning the cat tray and you should both wash hands before preparing or eating meals. The latter is sound advice at any time of course. Apart from that, its no great problem. You certainly do not need to get rid of your cats. Paul.