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| In lugnet.admin.general, Kyle Beatty writes: [lots of snipping here...] (...) Hmm...I agree the front page could use a few modifications here and there, but overall, I think it is easily navigatable (on the contrary to the original home page), and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Stealing Brickshelf MOC's
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| (...) Probably to ensure that links wouldn't go dead. The easiest way to ensure that is to have the images in your control--divided sourcing has a tendency to fray the tree very quickly. LFB (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I never mentioned the chatroom in my original post. You're the one that brought it up. (...) Correction: When I try to discuss castle, you and others felt the need to put it down. Constantly. It wasn't an occasional thing, it was virtually (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I was inspired to create figs of the Greek deities. The folder is at: (URL) tried to give a hint of their personality and match characteristics. Descriptions and direct links: A group shot of the Olympian gods: (URL) king of the gods and lord of the (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.build.minifigs) !
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| (...) Correct - but I heard (pron.) si-dio-ti-us. To me, sounds like Sidious, and, though we haven't yet discovered the truth, the dead Jedi is probably Sidious, who faked his death after being seduced by the dark side and hatched his evil plan. Or, (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I'll feild these questions and the regulars of this newgroup can correct me if I'm wrong. Warning SPOILER INFO>>> (...) Padme was an elected Queen and had a two term limit. Her next position was as senator appointed by the new queen. (...) Chances (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Queens on Naboo apparently serve brief terms, not for life. Padme's an ex-Queen who's been elected Senator, something akin to a politically active ex-President. (...) That's my best take on it...of course, why Boba would remove a couple (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I didn't really mean to exclude anything, I really just meant to raise the idea that character advancement isn't really an absolute necessity. The game would be a lot simpler if it were left out; in any case, with only four possible ratings (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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| (...) It somewhat depends on how rapidly the tilt can change - and whether you intend to try to keep the robot level or just to know how much it's tilted by. For relatively slow rotation speeds, you can use a pendulum with a rotation sensor at the (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) John--which Arab governments are based on religion? In fact the most secular government in the region is Saddam Hussein's Iraq-- which is why he was our proxy against the Islamic theocratic Republic of Iran. Now, that *is* a religious (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| <snip> (...) I can't agree HK is all that good a comparator. The cold war also had a huge impact in the ME… this was less true of HK. (...) What if the wrong, which happened so many years ago, is continuing? (...) You are using the actions of a (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hmm. I'm not sure about giving a full code set to "Wild West" - it's a dead series, unlikely to generate more patterned elements. Can you do a quick count/survey of the various patterned parts, so we can see how many different codes are (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dead reckoning (was Re: Rover Programming)
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| Hi Simon, In my experience casters can introduce errors in the navigation since they tend to not be in the correct position following a turn. Over time this small error can add up. I have had some success by rebuilding my bot to center as much of (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I got the following in email from Larry. He also sent this to lugnet.org.us.smart@lugnet.com but it does not seem to appear on the lugnet smart page. Larry, you may want to check your registration on lugnet. | Please don't laugh if I'm way off base (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| (...) Yes - managing accelleration is a 'must'...both in speeding up and slowing down - and easing into turns. An abrupt change of speed will generally result in wheel slip. (...) It was good in a straight line - but *hopeless* in a turn because the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) WOW! That's impressive - but I can't help but get the impression that it's heavily optimised to going around that particular track. Getting that good positioning on the straight sections is impressive - but I wonder how it would have fared in (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Dead reckoning (was Re: Rover Programming)
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| (...) A systematic search pattern is one solution. Not being too anal about it is another - random walking the domain will eventually explore the whole of it, although increasingly inefficiently as time goes on. (...) It's killing me. My first (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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