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(...) NL and NZ are the only certainties at the moment. (...) Last time in the UK they were phased 1 set a week. Henk says you need tokens for them in NL this time. Huw (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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Sorry if this has been asked already. Does anyone know if there will be Halloween buckets in the USA for 1999? If/when anyone sees them, I'd sure like to hear about it. ..joseph g (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Crossbow (...) but (...) There's a list online, linked to from the main page of our wants. Huw (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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dkrenz <dkrenz@mc.net> wrote in message news:37E020A3.1CE372...@mc.net... (...) hope (...) It'll be as worldwide as the last Shell promotion, I expect. That is, almost everywhere *except* the US :-) The only countries we know for certain are (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Of course, I really shouldn't post this because I haven't used anything other than LeoCad... I'm not sure how other CAD programs handle it, but here goes... For manual piece manipulation (I.E. with the mouse): -- For a left-button-mouse-drag, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) With regard to posting pictures, I don't know if that's true. The fact that the newsserver rejects binaries has never stopped anyone from simply posting the URL of a picture on their website. That's better for people anyway, because they don't (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is possible, but you would loose most of the benifit of "caching" the previously rendered images, since there would be so much freedom. I'll start with adding larger jump options for the movements. By keeping those factors of 50 it won't (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Does anyone know if they will be available in Canada. I live about an 1.5 hours from Canada and it might be worth the drive up there. Paul (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've only been in it maybe four times in the last 5 years. (...) Yup, I knew about the star wars sets and plates and etc. The sets in question contain very few orange elements, and the model I was looking at had hundreds of orange bricks! A (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, it sounds like our algorithms are more similar than you think. My assumption was that the robot would cross the line in a zig-zag motion, driving off the line on alternate sides. Based on this assumption, I remember the last (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Just remember, you must it very easy to post code and pictures or people will not end up using it a lot. Last time I went to the LDraw CAD group (months ago) it still had a few problems. I'm talking about no support for attachments (how can we post (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm developing a new Windows-based Lego CAD program to overcome some of the shortcomings of similar programs, with emphasis being placed on ease of use while allowing a great deal of flexibility. Details are available at (URL) I welcome (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Patent != trademark. (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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(...) As LDraw enthusiasts have discovered (via the lugnet.cad.dat.* hierarchy), having special newsgroups for these sorts of things really makes it nice to follow discussions that pop up as well, since they're simply lower-level nodes in the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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Gary Istok wrote in message <37E0FDF8.5D59672@umich.edu>... (...) Once again it appears that the greater Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) area has skirted a major hurricane. Although we had a ton of rain, the winds never (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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From: "Laurentino Martins" <lmartins@marktest.pt> (...) If the scripts are on their own pages then it is trivial for someone to right click and do a "save as" to download the file to their computer. If they want to view it then they could normally (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Microsoft, grumble grumble, monopolists, grr...., boardwalk, park place... grumble grumble... >:( Using Front Page to generate pages makes 'em look great in MIE.... but Netscape is another story... just another excuse to code your own HTML :) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | 8480 in the US... anyone, anyone?
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okay.. so after posting a request for the 5571 and/or 8480, i was pointed to DYA (thank you very much, John Neal!).. and one is on the way.. i also received lots of nice offers to get me a 5571 at a decent price.. but that's been taken care of.. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Thanks for the encouragement. The idea is to have 3 trucks (Larry was right) with the power truck in the middle. Since the center is short the power truck will be fixed (not swivel) which makes it easier to hide. As for the end trucks I will try (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Brian, Yea, if someone wanted to be an editor of the /robotics/rcx/nqc/ area of the www.lugnet.com website, a code repository would be very easy indeed to set up on LUGNET. For example, John VanZwieten is editor of the /cad/datsville/ area (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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