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(...) And, BTW, isn't this intuitively obvious, since CPUs are, in fact, iterative? Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
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(...) I seem to remember the point of the Ackermann function is that the amount of computation required to evaluate it explodes very rapidly with small changes in parameter values, and it is recursive and rather simple. I also seem to remember "so (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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(...) Yeah - but I think it is a bit different in the US. I've only been to the USA once - and I don't know if other people have found the same thing - so tell me if anyone else disagrees... but one of the overwhelming things I found in the USA was (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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(...) Very easily I'd say - that's happened to me at first. When I was new to lugnet one of the first things I did was look for local groups near to me - I found the section for my part of the UK - I think it was the London list and found it was (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Request regarding "Spoilers"
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(...) Maybe not. If the existence of Luke and his sister were kept secret from Vader, then he could well assume that Luke was the son of Uncle Owen. -- Terry K -- (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Sith Infiltrator
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I've also noticed that before, when a guy posted a scan from newly printed EP1 cutouts book, featuring Infiltrator's inside look (1). Its size looks very close to Falcon, and this just gives some clues about "long awaited" Falcon set of future. I (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: What do the set numbers mean?
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(...) What do I look like, a numerologist? -- Terry K -- (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: You know, all this computer science talk doesn't really belong here.
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(...) Of course it's okay. Actually, it was because of a concern I had for newbies that I suggested the computer science talk be moved to a more relevant group, or at least off of this one. Most of the computer threads here have digressed from Lego (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Chris, you seem to by the "torso guy" around here, so if you have a good plan for those pieces, then go for it. And on another note, it has come to my attention that 9326 is NOT the torso number. I really hate to say this, but we need to move (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 99-03 Voting: Quick Comments
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(...) That is the same question I had about the construction. :-) And I liked Joshua's logic about the number. It groups them numerically very nicely, and saves using 3-digit #'s, so why not? (...) I would think so - without actually seeing the (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Discussion-Large Technic Shock 2909c01.dat
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(...) Why not post it to dat.parts? -- Terry K -- (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Bad quality of stickers
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Yesterday I purchased two Extreme Team sets (mainly for parts) and was very negative surprised. Both of them (i.e.6567 Speed Splasher and 6580 Land Jet 7) had stickers of very bad quality: stckers partially come unstuck from paper background. (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDLite question
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(...) Screen capture from an imaging program like PSP works pretty well. But having a little camera button on the toolbar would be great. Right next to a Stop button. (hint, hint) -- Terry K -- (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Building exhaustion
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(...) I have reached that point. Buckets of "excess" pieces. But I wager my problem pales in comparison to Gary's. (...) Amen to that. In fact, the prospect of sorting often discourages me from getting pieces out to build with. That can't be good. (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: What do the set numbers mean?
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Hi Joshua, I've the admin right to the lugnet database, too, but have not much time to enter the missing sets/pictures to the database recently, and this seems to be continuing for a while. I have more than 600 pics (of sets already in database but (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.database)
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Perhaps I should not have stripped all the comments for speed :) \ The rationale for the delay above and the delay after the IR flash is \ that the message is 77 bits of 417 microseconds each, a total \ transmission time of 32 milliseconds, the (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Multitasker test script
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(...) It was this line that trashed the task chain when the power button was pressed, I thought I'd checked it a few times but perhaps it was something else. (...) Yes. What I really want is an equivalent of SendMessage in NQC (which maps to opcode (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Technically, you did break a rule of the LUGNET Terms of Use. But I think it's obvious to everyone here that you had no malicious intentions; your actions were with decent and innocent intentions. I wrote a script to go through and cancel all (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Racers screenshot
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(...) The one at (URL) really freaky (to me). Seeing a Mini-Figure with his arms out like that -- it just ain't right! :-) That's gotta hurt. -- joshua (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What do the set numbers mean?
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(...) <big ol' snip> (...) Hmm. I am uncomfortable with the term "discovered". Let's say I recently _entered_ them. (...) There are the original "Universal" building sets, from the very beginning of LEGO releases. Surf here for more... (URL) see (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.database)
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