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(...) He probably did. I don't know that there are very many printers at all today which aren't dot matrix printers. My HP 660Cse certainly is. My TI Microlaser certainly was. Of course not very many people today use printers which put the dots on (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GDJ5u9.2BE@lugnet.com... (...) wants (...) left (...) smaller (...) last (...) I (...) What (...) Resize my windows and I'll leave and never come back regardless of the content. If you (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 320x400, I think. But not at a 4:3 ratio -- the pixels are very rectangular. (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) IIRC, and I havn't played with it in years... look for logo.sys in your c:\ directory... I think it's a 320x240 bitmap.... :) Dan (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Recently I downloaded and installed a Simpsons desktop theme, and in the process I changed the opening image on my PC from the Windows default logo to a frankly rather lame Simpsons graphic. Subsequently it has resisted my casual attempts to undo it (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Why halftracks?
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(...) This part wouldn't surprise me-- a full-track tank tends to tear up asphalt when it turns with its huge tracks running the full length of the vehicle and running them at different rates. A half-track would get you some of the benefits of (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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(...) Like I said before I was more confused by what you were trying to get at than offended... (...) May I re-proffer my previous suggestion? Bring the user to a page that is a starting point... then: Launch a new window with your size coded in but (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think any website that screws with my browser(resizing, forced pop-ups, etc.) must be destroyed. I "X"ed my window by accident trying to reset my window to full screen. Bablah@#$%&*&%$#@*&#...bbidyblah. Plhhzzzzzt! After reloading the page (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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To begin with, let me say a public apology to Larry for my last post. It was uncalled for in a public forum, and a private apology has been sent. Now, I have seen some excellent and not so excellent points here, but what James writes strikes me as (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, which is why it's so easy for me to leave and not come back once I realize a site is monkeying with my browser settings. I went and looked at your site. Wonderful fonts! Those are just toooo coool. I think they'd be great to make graphics (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Personally, I made a conscious decision to check out your site out of interest and support for a fellow AFOL. Its a trust relationship between developer and user. You abuse my trust when you invite me into your domain and then monkey with my (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I always have virtually all my windows maximized for reasons of visibility. Not only browser windows, but mostly everything. And I use ALT+TAB to change between them. It's as easy as a piece of cake, and I hardly use the mouse at all! :-) (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) Oh...oops...thanks Larry! What I meant was *shouldn't* (...) ding ding ding...give that man a prize! Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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(...) Should, or shouldn't dictate? My view is that you can suggest, but should design for the ability to fit into the window the user is using (within reason, 200x300 may be a bit confining) and for resizability (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) And see, I always browse with multiple browser windows open at one time, so I almost never maximize any of them so that I can easily switch between windows. (...) I agree, but as shown above, people have different ways of doing things. In (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
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A small typo slipped in... must have been cosmic rays, as I never make misteaks, just ask me. (...) this should read (...) Sorry about that. As of this post all the posters to this thread are against fixed size. But that is an totally unscientific (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I *do* find it annoying when one tries to fit a legal size sheet of paper in a letter size folder, but that's beside the point. (...) I like to browse with the window maximized (at 1152x864 res) because it blocks out whatever other noise lurks (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber wrote: [snipped rant] (...) I think that webpages are in a different medium than print material, and the rules of one don't necessarily apply to the other. Forcing browser-window size changes is rude. Especially (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not sure what you mean by that and not going to dig into it but it doesn't sound right to me. (...) I'm not taking anything personally, and I hope you aren't either. So I'm not insulted. What I am, however, is *confused* about where you are (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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(...) The whole point of HTML is that it is not a static book or magazine, but a dynamic representation that is interpreted by the local style and preferences of the user. Much kludging has been done since the original DTD to try to allow marketing (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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(...) See below (...) See below (...) See below (...) See below (...) See below (...) Larry, you are truly the master of attributing your words and ideas to the wants/needs/desires/...ughts/etc. of others. If you have taken anything I have written (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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(...) You, in this case, asked for input. I gave it. Sorry that the input you asked for wasn't what you wanted to hear. But more importantly, there is value in complaining about things to the owners, even if that complaint is unsolicited. I complain (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah, but no one is forcing you to view the material! You make a concious decision to partake of what is offered. (...) Here again though, I have chosen to participate, and should live with what is offered-their vision of what their site should (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Web: Design vs. Use (was Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows)
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(...) And they ARE spiffy and thanks for sharing, let us not let that point get lost in the firestorm you are about to reap... (...) Yes, indeed, your perogative. And when you have something valuable to give away, you have a bit more leeway than (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Web: Design vs. Use (was Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows)
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(...) If that were the case, there would still be nothing but monospaced text on the Internet. Why Java, Shockwave, Flash, DHTML, etc., but to give the designer even MORE tools to put forth the message/image/etc. that they desire? Just like any (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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(...) Different medium. You are "printing" on my machine, not your own paper. That said, yes, I would (and have, and will) turn down physical things that were inappropriately sized. (...) I used to have this viewpoint as well, then I realised that I (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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"MG" == Matthew Gerber <matthew@digitaliris.com> writes: (...) MG> Just as soon as someone comes up with a way to type at a diagonal to a MG> receeding horizon point. The physics just won't work in 2D space. No need for perspective projection, just (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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(...) (OK, you asked!) Ah, but as someone creating web pages, you aren't JUST a designer, you are a usability/interaction _creator_. The web is not a tangible medium as print is. Yes, you are right, in print, the designer chooses the sizing of the (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: BTTF DeLorean render
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(...) snip (...) built a DeLorean...out of _Legos_?!" --Electro-- (whose current sig is): ===...=== "Are you telling me that you built a Time Machine...out of a _DeLorean_?! -Marty McFly, Back To The Future, 1985 ===...=== (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Why halftracks?
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This post is obviously inspired from some of the MOCs I've seen be Shaun Sullivan. He has made some very cool WWII halftrack models. Ok, so a halftracked vehicle is usually a tracked one with ordinary steering wheels. What I don't understand is how (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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If anyone wants to test the speed of their computer, this is the POV file to do it with: On my 933 MHz Pentium III with 384 MB of RAM using MegaPov, version 0.7, a 1280x1024, no AA render took: Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 14.0 seconds (14 (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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(...) At 200 dpi, I was able to do a 60x20" and a 48x16" plot using this method. The guy who runs the lab wanted a copy too :) Now where do I get 60" long frame parts.... --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But Kinko's isn't free! :) I'm using the Win95/98/NT driver for the HP DesignJet 750C D/A1. I finally got the plot to work by printing to file on my own machine (much faster than the machine hooked up to the plotter), with the "Use memory in (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Bram, Sorry I didn't get into this thread before. What print driver are you using? Are you trying to spool the whole image over first, or printing while the file sends? Also, what program are you using to print from, and can you export to other (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) From some test prints, I saw that the DPI isn't going to matter very much, so I went with 250 DPI to save some rendering time. However, it's taking almost as long to print as it did to render. The image is about 200 MB (uncompressed), but the (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Takes about 24 hours on the P4 in my office. :) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) All depends on your viewing distance... If it's a poster to hang on the wall, intended to be viewed at 5 feet away or more, you can easily get away with 150x150 dpi, and often 75x75 dpi. Also depends on how quick/abrupt your color changes are, (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Problems with reaching www.ldraw.org
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Tim, I think it would be a Good Thing to make this a news item on the ldraw.org homepage. And then park it permanently on ldraw.org somewhere (like in an ldraw.org FAQ). It won't help people at the time they're having the problem, but they'll be (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Problems with reaching www.ldraw.org
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Several people have in the last year reported problems with getting access to www.ldraw.org. The reason for this problem appears to be that the default "time-to-live" (TTL) for TCP packets is too low. I have now recieved confirmation that this is (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) +AM2 +J0.5 +R3 Method one is called supersampling in the Doc's but is only half a supersample. Method 2 is much better as cells are recursivly sampled. You can change the threshold too but 0.3(default) is good. Check your Docs for more info. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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