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I was looking at the Mindstorms sets and noticed the RIS was recommended for ages 12+. I got to thinking that as far as I can remember, I think I could have handled this set at a much younger age (I am now 25). Then I remembered that I.Q. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Remaining parts
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(...) I actually left out some other possibilities for small error. The weight of the bag itself is certainly an opportunity for error. Another opportunity of course is if any foreign material or scrap gets into a bag or on the scale. Of course this (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Remaining parts
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(...) I had a relatively brief exposure to statistics, but have picked up bits here and there. I actually got keyed into the theory which is the foundation of the extra parts during a job interview. Yes, I actually learned something at a job (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) WOW Frank! That was rather.... long winded. What's scarier? I followed most of it, from my University imposed, very brief exposure to statistics. Ewe... I think I actually learned something there! Matt (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Remaining parts
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(...) Yes. The thing you're missing is that pieces rarely are missing. The scale is there as a check. Further, the bag is weighed after every insertion step, or so the stuff we've read seems to imply. As soon as a problem is noted, it's time to (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Remaining parts
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- SNIP - (...) I'm not sure how this would explain kits whose bags are mixed pieces as almost all are. The scale may indicate that a piece is missing but clearly could not indicate which piece. Am I missing something? - Jeff (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Oracle Weirdness?
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(...) I'll have to check with the Mrs for clarification, but I can tell you that her manager is a tool without a solution, so I don't know how much more info is available to my wife. I'll check. Thanks for your answer! Dave! (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Remaining parts
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(...) That isn't 100% true. The pieces most often duplicated are the very small pieces. Usually an extra one of these is included because one of the quality controls on the sets is the weight of each parts bag. I assume the smallest pieces are too (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Oracle Weirdness?
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(...) Would have to hear more about what exactly they switched to in order to answer... the ORACLE(tm) DB doesn't impose any particular requirements (it's a tool, not a solution). But ORACLE has solution products as well, such as ORACLE Financials, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Oracle Weirdness?
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My wife works for the shipping department of a local company, and recently the company as a whole switched to Oracle as a software platform. I don't know anything about Oracle, but my wife tells me that now, instead of the 6-digit account number she (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Questions about creator
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(...) It is possible to get VCRs in the US which can read European tapes (PAL and I think SECAM is another format?). I think these especially started to become popular when the anime genre really started to take off. FUT: lugnet.off-topic.geek Frank (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Newer version of "lego geek code"
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(...) had never bothered to test MSIE with Netscapes's version-- it works. So never mind. I'll just use the Netscape version since it works in both. Unless, that is, someone informs me that the Netscape version doesn't work with earlier versions of (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Newer version of "lego geek code"
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(...) Woohoo! I figured it out... Of course it requires me to dynamically re-format the javascript code depending on what browser you're using (and it'll ONLY work for MSIE and NN). But, it works. I think. I've tested it on Netscape 4.05, and MSIE (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Interesting audio puzzle
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(...) No it was just me, but the "hot" spots were definitely on the floor. In some I could rock very slightly and turn on/off the sound. They were also within a few feet of the subwoofer so it seems like there would have to be some real complex wave (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Interesting audio puzzle
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(...) Umm, did you verify this with two people in the room? One moving about, one sitting still. It could be that the noise wasn't changing, but as you moved about the room, you were moving in and out of zones where the noise was audible. Sounds a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Interesting audio puzzle
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(...) <snip> (...) A couple things that may or may not help, but might be fun... Place a heavy object in one of the places that appears to generate a constant tone, and stand in another such place. How does that affect the tone? "Jump" in place (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Interesting audio puzzle
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Over the weekend I experienced a puzzing thing with my home stereo system. My stereo system includes a powered subwoofer, which started humming when I stepped or stood in various places in my apartment. The stereo was on, but the CD playing was (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 8-bit floating-point number representations?
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(...) <snip> (...) Aah, with your external tables, 0 to 15 would work well. You don't even need to scale it really since the output of your algorithm is just the relative ranking of articles. It would be easy to generate a 0-15 rating for the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 8-bit floating-point number representations?
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(...) Well, basically, whatever is fast and flexible -- whatever that turns out to be. It might even turn out that a fixed-point representation is flexible enough and maybe even faster since it would involve only a single floating- point multiply by (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 8-bit floating-point number representations?
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(...) I was thinking about this some more, and am really wondering what you will be doing with the numbers. If the only computations you need to do with them are comparisons, then once converted they will be extremely cheap to work with (the reason (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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