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  Re: Free? Website?
 
I use xoom.com (NSBi.com). They have a banner ad at the top, but it's small & loads fast (I'm using 56K modem). Limit of 11 megs I think. I havent reached it yet 8?) Regards, ROSCO (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
If you are thinking about the Sony Mavica, consider the Olympus C3000/C3030, incredibly good image quality, 3.3 Megapixel images, 16 or so possible quality settings, I use the HQ setting and a 64MB smartmedia card to get over 80 shots before I need (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
ummm, the Mars Exploration Expansion Pack doesn't come with a camera at all... from what i have heard it pretty much sucks. just a few parts that are cool and the longest wires you canget that is all. m. (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) I was, I just know better than to stick my neck into religious debates! 8-) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) The term may be older, but I am positive of its reference in the Lensman series. He also used "pressor", "force field/shield" and many other SF terms used commonly today. Wayne (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
(...) Casio. 2000 or 3000. USB, CMF-II, Real glass lenses, Builds webpages with thumbs on the camera(optional Javascript versions), Shutter modes, Panoramma. Could go on... 2000 is not an *action* camera, 3000 is better for sports/action and 3megpix (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
"Rainer Balzerowski" <balze2@gmx.net> wrote in message news:G6ALIG.JtH@lugnet.com... (...) 2)Vision (...) what (...) our (...) Yup. (...) Nope. (...) better) Really? (...) Sure!! Email me at Arcanamachi@netzero.net Hows about sending me the same (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
(...) You want to buy a vision command set to use the camera for photographing our lego inventions, right ??? Have you ever seen an image made with such a camera ?? (It's a logitech webcam, i find the results from my cheap noname webcam better) If (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) Na... who cares about the mundanes? (...) And I believe I answered the question. (...) You should be so lucky. <bigger grin> (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) What's fantasy got to do with it? Just because bookstores misfile David Eddings in the SF section doesn't make fantasy science fiction. As for using SF vs. scifi, it's simple. It's an insider vs. outsider thing, if you call it scifi, you're (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) If you think *that's* a futile argument, you should have stopped by OT.DEBATE a week or two ago! Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) Gee Lar, Do you want to ask Todd to add .o-t.geek.mundane and .o-t.geek.real? ;-) BTW: He was looking for who started using that term, not where the idea came from. Wow, I am beginning to sound like you. <grin> Jude (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) OK, I've got to ask, what's the big deal about this? I'm harldy a scifi mundane but I find it easier to refer to Science Fiction as scifi (because it's shorter) than SF (because everyone looks at you and asks what SF means). The whole (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) Well, they wouldn't be mundanes if they weren't common! :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) Ah! That sounds familiar. I had originally thought of Star Trek but I had a sense that it was older. (...) Certainly not, but I'm surrounded by them here at work... Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn94mt91.6h8.....bu.edu... <snippage> Actually I've made my mind up to get 1) Mindstorms-Mars Exploration 2)Vision command 3) both cause I've read they both come with cameras suited to (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
(...) To answer your question, I want to go with E.E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman series but I might be wrong. The concept of a force beam that can push or pull things, no matter how named, considerably predates Star Trek. BTW: It's SF or Science (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
(...) Coolpix 950. Currently easy to find for around $700, then subtract $150 manufacturer's rebate. (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Digital Camera
 
(...) It depends on how demanding you are of your photos. There are lots of magazines that will give comparisons and a rundown of features - if you are going to spend several hundred dollars the best advise I can give is to make the investment in (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Tractor beam?
 
Dave Schuler wrote in message ... (...) I've always wondered that myself. I know it's mentioned in Star Wars in episode 4.. Earlier than that they were used a lot in the original Star Trek series. Beyond that, I have no idea. -- -Bones- = (URL) = (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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