[4106] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Feb 23
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Feb 23 01:29:29 1992
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 92 01:28:38 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
Article: 1028 of clari.tw.computers
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.tw.computers
Subject: IBM switch doubles data transfer speed
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 10:15:18 PST
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. -- (UPI) -- Researchers at IBM said Friday they
have devrloped an ultra-fast switching chip that more than doubles the
speed at which data can be moved between different components in a
computer system or network.
IBM said the new chip can move data at the rate of 5 billion bits per
second -- more than double any previously reported rate -- in each of 16
channels at the same time. That provides an overall rate of 80 billion
bps. e
The 80 billion bps data exchange rate means the chip can transfer the
entire contents of the hard drives of 16 computers -- each with a
capacity of 60 metabytes -- to 16 other computers in one tenth of a
second. That's equivalent to transferring the text in more than 18,000
average-sized novels in one second.
In networks consisting of multiple processors, storage devices like
hard disks and tape drives, and input and output devices, like scanners
and printers, the switch chip can function as a central high-speed data
traffic controller.
Also, in digital networks that will distribute multiple voice, data
and video services through telephone lines in homes of the future, the
switch chip could allow linkage to several selected services.
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fallas:
Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing
I'm very scared for this world
I'm very scared for me
Eviscerate your memory
Here's a scene, you're in the back seat laying down
The windows wrap around you, the sound of
The travel and the engine
All you here is time stand still in travel
You feel such peace and absolute the stillest still
That doesn't end, but slowly drifts
Into sleep, the stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen
And they're there for you
For you alone, you are the everything.
I think about this world, and I cry
And I've seen the films and the ice
I'm in this kitchen
Everything is beautiful, and she is so beautiful
She is so young and old
I look at her, and I see the beauty of the light of music
The voices talking somewhere in the house, late spring
And you're drifting off to sleep
With your teeth in your mouth
You are here with me.
You are here with me.
You have been here, and you are everything.
Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing
I'm very scared for this world
I'm very scared for me.
Eviscerate your memory
Here's a scene, you're in the back seat laying down
The windows wrap around you, the sound of
The travel and the engine
All you here is time stand still in travel
You feel such peace and absolute the stillest still
That doesn't end, but slowly drifts
Into sleep.
The greatest thing you've ever seen, and they're there for you
For you alone, you are the everything.
For you alone,
You are the everything.
"You Are the Everything"
--REM
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gronk (Kyung S Choi):
To become a total Computer Science geek. NOT
To buy myself a Quadra 900 4/400...you know the story.
What the hell? Do I HAVE to answer now? Geez, man.
butt Butt bUtt buTt butT BUtt BuTt ButT bUTt bUtT buTT BUTt BuTT BUtT bUTT BUTT
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jcbourne (Julie Bourne):
I don't care if you don't / I don't feel if you don't
I don't want it if you don't / I won't say it if you won't say it
("Let's Go to Bed", The Cure)
---
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
("Closer to Fine", Indigo Girls)
---
Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with
and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone
to hold your hand -- these things are "marriage," and sex is but the
icing on the cake. (Lazarus Long)
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livewire (Live Wire):
GETTING SOME SLEEP, @#$%^&*!!!!!!
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lwvanels (Lucien W. Van Elsen):
Beware of strong drink, for it may make you shoot at tax collectors-
and miss.
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mczody (Michael C. Zody):
Stratomatic Hockey 1991-92
Team W L T Pts GIH Projected
Chicago 24 12 3 51 - 52.3
Boston 14 11 1 29 13 44.6
Montreal 15 11 3 33 10 45.5
NY Rangers 12 19 3 27 5 31.8
Los Angeles 9 12 1 19 16 34.5
Detroit 3 12 1 7 23 17.5
Missing Stats:
DET 0 @ CHI 4: DET stats
CHI 3 @ DET 2: CHI stats
MON 3 @ BOS 4: MON stats
DET 6 @ MON 1: MON stats
MON 4 @ DET 3: MON stats
MON 4 @ CHI 4: MON stats
CHI 0 @ MON 4: MON stats
CHI 3 @ DET 1: DET stats
CHI 3 @ MON 2: MON stats
BOS 5 @ MON 3: MON stats
CHI: two games, probably the unknown MON games
MON: two games, probably the unknown CHI games
Away: BOS CHI DET LAK MON NYR Record
Home: -------------------------------------------
BOS 4-0 5-2 3-1 5-8 0-3 6-7-0
1-2 4-2 5-8
2-3 3-4 4-2
7-4 3-2
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CHI 3-1 2-7 0-4 4-2 3-2 8-8-3
6-1 3-1 5-6 MdC 1-4
4-1 0-4 3-4 3-2 4-4
3-3 2-3 4-4 3-7
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DET 7-3 2-0 3-3 6-3 0-8-1
3-2 4-3
5-2 3-2
3-1
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LAK 3-4 6-3 1-7 4-1 3-3 4-7-1
5-3 7-0 0-1
3-0 5-4
3-2 3-4
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MON 0-1 3-2 6-1 3-2 5-4 5-7-1
3-2 MdC 1-4
5-3 0-4 1-2
3-2 5-5
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NYR 2-1 6-2 2-4 2-3 3-2 6-11-0
3-2 5-1 5-2 2-4
3-4 2-1 5-2 2-7
3-5 2-0 3-1 2-0
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BOS CHI DET LAK MON NYR
Record 8-4-1 16-4-0 3-4-0 5-5-0 10-4-2 6-8-3
League-wide: 48 road wins, 29 home wins, 6 ties
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rlk (Robert L. Krawitz):
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
From: howell@psikey.dnet.nasa.gov (_2-D PHOTOMETRY)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Message-ID: <S397.4ce7@looking.on.ca>
Date: 22 Feb 92 09:30:05 GMT
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HEAVY BOOTS
About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching
assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things
don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that,
while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just
float away if you let go of it on the Moon.
My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?!" Looking around the room,
I saw that only my friend Mark and one other student looked confused
by the TA's statement. The other 17 people just looked at me like
"What's your problem?"
"But a pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more
slowly." I protested.
"No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far
away from the Earth's gravity."
Think. Think. Aha! "You saw the APOLLO astronauts walking around on
the Moon, didn't you?" I countered, "why didn't they float away?"
"Because they were wearing heavy boots." he responded, as if this made
perfect sense (remember, this is a Philosophy TA who's had plenty of
logic classes).
By then I realized that we were each living in totally different
worlds, and did not speak each others language, so I gave up. As we
left the room, my friend Mark was raging. "My God! How can all those
people be so stupid?"
I tried to be understanding. "Mark, they knew this stuff at one time,
but it's not part of their basic view of the world, so they've
forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake."
To prove my point, we went back to our dorm room and began randomly
selecting names from the campus phone book. We called about 30 people
and asked each this question:
1. If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go,
will it a) float away, b) float where it is, or c) fall to the
ground?
About 47 percent got this question correct. Of the ones who got
it wrong, we asked the obvious follow-up question:
2. You've seen films of the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the
Moon, why didn't they fall off?
About 20 percent of the people changed their answer to the first
question when they heard this one! But the most amazing part was that
about half of them confidently answered, "Because they were wearing
heavy boots."
I say, science education must be at an all time peak !!!
--
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
In Super Squadron (Adventure Simulations), when rolling on the "Job
Positions" table, your superhero character may end up as "God."
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
At the still point of destruction
At the centre of the fury
All the angels all the devils
All around us can't you see
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand...
- Sting,
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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