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Interesting.... the gif that is the minifig/jetpack thing said mascot_hover on it. Very interesting, though I doubt TLG (LG) would publish something on BF so early, unless they are especially evil! Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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I'm not sure if it is Boba Fett, compare the image from (URL) the silhouette on (URL) the head shape looks different. Of course we are speculating on an image that is only about 8 pixels high. ;P Peter (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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Peter Abrahamson wrote (...) pixels (...) I think it looks like the old THX Logo Man from the earliest trailers from THX. But then, it's Lucas as well. ;-p // Eric (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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Currently, it's at 33000 seconds - about 23 days away. Sounds to me that it's the Y2K set releases, the timing would be about right. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) ?!? That must be the new math. :) 33000 seconds is a little over 9 hours. 23 days would be 1,987,200 seconds. James (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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Ayup, that's the new math you get when you are trying to do 3 things at once while also punching in #s on an old fashioned calculator. I dropped a 60 in there. You'd think I'd realize it, I used to have the "86400 seconds in a day" memorized, but (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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I can't find the little hovering man anywhere @ Lego.com, please help!!!!!!! -John Rudy (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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Look at the center of the page at lego.com Can't miss it. In the middle of the ring of themes. Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) help!!!!!!! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) You may be looking at a cached page, Internet Explorer is famous for that. Simply push the F5 key when you arive at the opening Lego worlds page and it should refresh for you. Scott (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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Geez...I'm confused...I don't know where you guys are looking on this page! :-) I typed in www.lego.com and the only gif I get in the middle is a blinking silouette of a pit droid, Vader, Luke in flight suit, and R2D2, then it goes to "The Gallactic (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) :-) (...) to (...) Did you try and hit reload after you got to the page? I'm far from a computer geek, so that's a total guess :-) Julie (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) :-) (...) Weird...What normally happens when someone goes to (URL) is that it loads the Lego Logo, the phrase "Just imagine...", and immediately after, punts you to (URL) using that URL directly, or just click on the 'worlds' icon that is in (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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John Rudy <TJJohn12@AOL.com> wrote in article <FJM72r.HqH@lugnet.com>... (...) help!!!!!!! (...) Don't fret it John, I can't seem to see the silly thing either! It seems I get a different animated .gif each time I reload the page. First the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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What's New? Not much of anything, a whole lot of fanfare for no real new info (except maybe the 8450 Mission Technic set). Oh, and they went overboard on Shockwave - those idiots in their web design team obviously never have to dial up to connect to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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Looks like there is a new TLG main page now... and the jet pack guy isn't Boba Fett. :( (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Oh, and Javascript seems to be a requirement. There are *NO* <NOSCRIPT> tags anywhere. This just after a glaring security hole was discovered in BOTH Netscape and IE. Grrr.... >:-( Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I will take it from these two posts I'm not the only perso who HATES TLG's web designs? I happen to be running on an old 486 with only 16 megs of ram. Getting Netscrape to load faster than a minute is doing pretty good, but when they start (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep. Overproduced... underengineered, and definitely undertested. That's what you get for letting creative do your web site design. Creative needs to be a resource to the techies that actually make things work or you get high sizzle and no (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There is a 5th skill which is moderately valueable, but you can get away with, which I would treat as separate: technogeek. I would actually argue that the technogeek is what was allowed to wag the dog here. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Distinguish "technical" from "technogeek" ? I'd argue that technogeek is NOT needed unless geeks are your audience, and even then, they appreciate speed and simplicity too. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I do this for a living, too, but I'm on the creative side. I don't disagree with your basic theories of interface design, but the way that you present them makes me suspect that you have little experience working with a good interface (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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I won't respond point by point but I will say this, a good designer has to have both creative and cognitive skills. Many bad designers have only creative skills, the way I (and CTP) define them. Understanding things like color theory, psychology, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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It´s the web-design of today. If you want your site to be cool, the only thing that matters is on how many systems your site *won´t* work. --Tobias (...) design (...) tags (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Dang, that's great sig material. --Todd (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's kinda like the ubiquitous software developer's in-joke: If it compiles, ship it immediately! Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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<snip> (...) You mean I have been under the mistaken assumption that my programs work as long as they compile! OOPs.... All kidding aside your statement is more true that most people would believe or like to admit depending on which side of the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not really related, but I had this dream once... Once upon a time, Microsoft decided to ride the Open Source bandwagon for all it was worth, and released the full source code for Windows NT to the general public. The press went ecstatic. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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