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Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:12:55 GMT
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Shiri Dori wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Tom Stangl writes:
> > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- • bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/02/29/financial2038EST0280.DTL
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> > Unfortunately, they haven't added the pics they took :-/
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> This is great! Good publicity never hurts! Tom, how did you get into this
> article? I mean, how did the newspaper find you?
The reporter read Lugnet for a while, noticed I posted a lot, then saw the
pics of my cube I have on my work site ;-)
I sure wish I knew where the pics ended up from the photo shoot, though -
they only took about 10-15, and when I dumped them from his camera to my
laptop, they were TIFs that only show as 100dpi, 256 color, GREYSCALE pics in
PaintShop Pro. So obviously the camera saves a type of TIF not supported by
PSP6 (it supports a LOT of types). There's no way they'd take such poor
resolution shots.
> Although I'm not into mindstorms so much, this is interesting - I didn't
> realize that mindstorms helped TLC recover it's 1998 losses...
Bah! It's not like Mindstorms WAS the turnaround. Even if TLC made $100 per
set (I doubt it), we're only talking a few tens of millions in sales at most
in 99, out of over one billion.
--
Tom Stangl
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