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Re: Need opinions about a new lego site
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:15:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Nelson writes:
People could get user accounts on it and share their models. For instance,
users could submit MPD/DAT files and the server would convert them to
raytraced rotating animations.

That will requires lots of CPU resources.  It make more sense to let the user
do their own rendering.

[...]

It is a nice idea.  However if you are going to host the pictures be prepared
to pay for the high bandwidth.  For example
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/brickshelf/?n=27
Even with say 1/10 traffic of brickshelf, that would still be one gigabyte of
traffic per week.  It can get very expensive.



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  Need opinions about a new lego site
 
Hey, my brother and I have an idea for a Lego site but I want to know if anybody thinks it's cool. I'd like it to be called legoshowntell.org. People could get user accounts on it and share their models. For instance, users could submit MPD/DAT (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)  

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