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I know there is a difference between the yield strength of a material under load, and its strength under projectile impact. What I'm wondering -- and this is a little like our "going to Mars" questions -- is to estimate how much abuse will some (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: free vb edition (was: firmware update)
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"Peter Newman" <peternewmancl@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GpC2Dr.A68@lugnet.com... (...) Andy's second line was "It is not supposed to be able to create execuatbles". I can confirm that it doesn't - I used it when it first came out, just (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | An Interesting Idea Involving Video Game Memory Card Labels
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I have an idea and was looking for opinions as to whether or not it would be successful. When one buys memory cards for say, Nintendo Gamecube or Sony Playstation, these cards only come with two labels. Now if the contents of these cards are (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Mountain bike advice
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Hey all, I'm looking for a new bike cause my current one is falling apart. Does anyone here have advice on the best mountain bike I can get for $200-$400, or any other advice pertaining to purchasing a bike? I would like at least front suspension, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New annoying pop-up ad
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(...) Nope...but I would like to see it. Can you supply a link? (I went to MSNBC and searched "osprey", let a couple of stories sit in my browser for a while, but nothing ever happened). I'm assuming this is just a Java applet, but I would like to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Slashdot xmas post
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(URL) the Audio driven serial xmas lights. Just wanted to point out that you can do this with your LEGO and if you have Classic(9) you can use iTunes and my plugs. (URL) couple of links for other OS's in; /. thread, my audiomoc page, and at (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lamer Question of the Day
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(...) Google *is* the top twenty search engines. :) But there's also Metacrawler -- (URL). (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Water Soluble Swimsuit & other techie curiosities
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Last-minute shopping for your geek? Don Lancaster, whom you might have heard of (you might be a geek), funds his website by selling interesting surplus (some call it "junk"). It reads like a pretentious men's clothing catalog but sells transmitters (...) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lamer Question of the Day
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(...) That's the VERY one I was thinking of -- I just couldn't remember the name of it! Many thanks, -- Hop-frog (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lamer Question of the Day
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(...) what (...) search (...) well, I use www.dogpile.com - I'm not sure if it searches _every_ search engine, but it does use a bunch :) Dan (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Lamer Question of the Day
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Hey Y'all: Normally I just use Google for searching topics because I find most of what I need there, but what if I wanted to search say the top twenty search engines all at once? Aren't there some sites that can search numerous search engines at one (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | JAPH
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not mine, but I thought this was cool: (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Google archives Usenet back to '81
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"Jon Palmer" <jpalmer@oklahoma.net> wrote in message (...) First post in alt.toys.lego: (URL) if RTL is a ghost town then ATL is possitively eerie. -Jon -- | The Galactic Shipyard - (URL) My website - (URL) BrickBay Store - (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Google archives Usenet back to '81
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(...) Apparently, some of the posts haven't "made it" for some reason--I don't know why. I can state this because a lot of my posts have gone missing, posts that I know I made--maybe they went under pseudo- nyms, but I KNOW that I made more than 7 (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Google archives Usenet back to '81
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(...) Here's my first post to Usenet (I thought I had started using it earlier, but I guess not): (URL) here's my first post on politics: (URL) my first post to RTL (on my Birthday no less): (URL) my first net communication about LEGO is on Lugnet I (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Google archives Usenet back to '81
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in article Go7psv.zI@lugnet.com, Jon Palmer at jpalmer@oklahoma.net wrote on 12/11/01 10:00 PM: (...) Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... ****begin quote Search Result 76From: Robert M. Dye (robdye@writeme.com) Subject: What *I* would have (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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| | Google archives Usenet back to '81
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Wow. (URL) are some other old posts I thought might be interesting to Lugnet. (some of the URLs are long though) First post about Lego: (URL) post in rec.toys.lego: (URL) post by a certain someone (on the first day no less): (URL) love to see what (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) sorely disappointed in the final product. Cities built around this thing? Cities where? Magical domed cities (so weather isn't a problem), where everything you need is within 5.5 miles of your residence (so you don't run out of juice), and (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Gallery Recent performance
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(...) What I'm really curious about is the technology behind Brickshelf. We know that LUGNET is based on an NNTP core running on BSD with lots of custom wrappers written by Todd in various scripting languages (mostly perl, awk, and ksh I believe) to (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) Still, it's nice to see that all those old Sinclair C5 wheels are being put to a new use... Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) That would be Segway Suicide :-) I now have this image of someone 'Segwaying' down the road with a gun to their head and then blowing their brains out, before all and sundry and then crashing to the ground. In fact if someone saw you on a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: IT or ginger
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(...) here-- you'll see you have plenty of company: (URL) C. (lurking non-geek, of course! :-) ) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) those who cannot walk on their own could probably not stand on the thing either :( (...) the cnn footage showed it climbing speed bump sized ramps without a hitch, but now i wonder, what's its battery life? (...) indeed. (...) From what I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) (URL) am interested in the future applications of the self-balancing mechanism used by the Segway, but the scooter itself is a product that few will buy. This newfangled scooter is not more important than the internet nor is likely to have (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Using a digital camera as a web cam?
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I don't have an answer, but another question :) the FD92 has a USB port? I've got an FD88 and i'm not sure it's got anything... hmmm.... i'd be interested to know if you figure this out, thanks :) JLB yeah, i've got a vision command *and* a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Using a digital camera as a web cam?
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I have a Sony Mavica FD92 with a USB connection to my computer and I was wondering if there was anyway to set it up to work as a web cam to use with software like Microsoft's Net Meeting. Thanks, jt (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) And, you have to stand for the trip, unlike sitting in a car or exercising on a bike. And because you have to watch out for other geekscooter riders and pedestrians, its not like you can even daydream like when you walk somewhere. Its pretty (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) This was all I needed to see: (URL) joy, LFB (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) This was all I needed to see: (URL) love, LFB (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) Well in the hay-day of the dot com explosion getting around the office by walking was just not very cool. My bet is that this is much of what had been planned as the "target market". Now that most of those people are on the unemployment line (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) Which would be easier to lug up stairs. (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) Or a really nice bike. (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, at that price. If they'd said "oh, and it costs $250", then okay, maybe. But no one will pay three grand for one of these things. (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) though, it does go 12MPH... if that's an incentive. flying car, maybe, replacement for walking? i'll just buy a bike. (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) Well, yeah, but there's handlebars, so you don't have to lean with too much effort. ;^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) Good points, all the way around. I could understand a new transportation technology to replace cars, but why replace walking? Steve (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) what was wrong with walking? or those 4 wheeled rascal things for those who can't? or the mo-ped? or the gas powered scooter? $3000? that buys a lot of lego. OOPS, sorry, supposed to be off topic here. (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) It's very Jetson-y. A partial response to the question, "Hey! It's the third millenium! Where are the all the cool gadgets? Where's my flying car?" Or, it just looks geeky. You decide. Steve (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A new way for geeks to move around
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(...) actually - i think you have to lean in the direction you wish to go. (according to jeanne moos of cnn) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But that has nothing to do with how cool it is. I mean, you can just stand there and it moves you around. Groovy. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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