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  Re: How to maximize 90-piece bags?
 
(...) I don't think this will be any more difficult than any other S@H order with a variety of items. My guess is that you'll find that each bag has a "set" number on it, and you'll see those set numbers on your invoice. Then the only custom thing (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lego Mosaic Customer Service call
 
Um, Jake.... The Nice Lady had also heard of you. Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Lego Mosaic Customer Service call
 
Just as a side note to this, the reason that they are calling to check multiple orders is for verification/fraud protection purposes. They want to verify that you really wanted that many before any charges are made, since the system is new. Jake (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Sample Mosaic Picture (was: How to maximize 90-piece bags?)
 
(...) I have placed a 44x44 picture of myself in GIF format at (URL) what I can only describe as a remarkable coincidence (:-)), this self-portrait appears to use exactly 369 pixels each of Black, DGray, LGray and White, and 460 pixels of MGray (I (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lego Mosaic Customer Service call
 
The interesting thing is that I tried to order 2 on one order, and it wouldn't let me. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Lego Mosaic Customer Service call
 
Hey, everybody - I ordered 3 mosaics today, and I just got a call from S@H customer service checking to see if they were all real or if I had accidentally duplicated an order. My 3 mosaics are my sister, my brother, and Jeri Ryan (by accident) - (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) basic (...) The only Law of Gravity is that it exists. Many *theories* of gravity of been used to explain it, Relativity being one of the most recent (prior to that, Isaac Newton's was used). Paul Davidson (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) Ahh. Ok, that makes me feel better about things. :) (...) Yes, that makes much sense. (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) observer (...) Acceleration is bad ju-ju, since it isn't accounted for in special relativity. It's only in General Relativity that we get gravity thrown into the mix, and that's taught in grad school. However, from a strictly special (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) acceleration _is_ absolute - you can measure it, you can tell when your speed is constant. you _cannot_ tell what that speed really is though. not without a point of reference. (...) if the earth started accelerating, everyone and everything (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) Yeah, that's what I don't get, as well. The terms "inertial" and "noninertial" come from the britannica article, and they mean "non-accelerating motion" and "accelerating motion". But I'm not sure how to tell which is which without an absolute (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) Well, thanks for throwing a monkey wrench into it for me. How do the famous de-synchronized clocks fit into this? Obviously one of them slowed down relative to the other. Do we infer that the ground-based clock decelerated sufficiently to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) However, some are moving in a certain way as to make it indistuigishable as to who is moving. i.e. me moving away from the universe is equivalent to universe moving away from me. (...) The equations are equivalent no matter what inertia frame (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
 
(...) well, can't help you with UXGA (unfortunatly, my vaio only supports 1024x786), but I will say that I love having it. no more having to worry about sync between work box and home box, and even getting some work done on the metro sometimes! (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: How to maximize 90-piece bags?
 
(...) I'll certainly let everyone know what arrives. And test the intent of the "agreement" My "image file" was simply taking the LEGO 'brick' picture and using their tools: 1) zooming into blow up a section that was entirely 1 color 2) adjusting (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
 
(...) I would think all TFT's are pretty similar, but I thought I read somewhere in some review of some laptop that a "con" of it was a slower refresh and I didn't remember noticing that it wasn't a TFT. But I also noticed a marked difference in (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
(...) Not quite sure what you mean by "inertial" and "noninertial," since as you point out previously *everyone* is moving. However, within a local inertial frame the Doppler shift of light can be identified to be of a particular character (I don't (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Relativity Question
 
Just looked this up in Britannica Online. (Search for "time dilation"). Acceleration definitely plays into it. *All* clocks in non-accelerating motion relative to an observer run slow by his/her frame of reference. (Thus potentially causing (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
 
(...) Isn't the refresh rate 60Hz on all LCDs? (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
 
(...) "UXGA" a name for a screen resolution, not a brand name...just in case there was any confusion. :-) CGA => 320x200 VGA => 640x480 SVGA => 800x600 XGA => 1024x768 SXGA => 1400x1050 UXGA => 1600x1200 I just noticed that Dell is beginning to sell (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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