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(...) There's an argument to be made for both sides. Watching the space battle scenes in Ep 1.1, some scenes show shots being fired in silence, but in the space battle scenes of Ep 1.13, they seem to take a few liberties for cinematic effect. When (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh. Even hard-core fans are amazed at the comparatively low technical quality and such of the premiere movie after having watched the full series, but to be fair, I believe it had an even lower budget than the individual episodes, and that (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) As a cyclist, I've known this for years, and I didn't even have to play around with rocket powered roaches. (...) I look forward to seeing the first springy legged Lego robot. Cheers, Allister (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) From the subject of this post, I had thought that you had built more bots. This was very dissappointing, Lenny. (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(URL) I was reading the July issue of Discover (quickly becoming one of my favorite magazines) at the library and found an article about development of robotic leg locomotion. what follows is my narrative/impression of the article since I can't link (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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And you thought the brouhaha over the HST was intense... this one will turn into a big old catfight before it's over. (URL) Basically, the House Appropriations subcommittee in charge of NASA's budget just gave a big thumbs-down to the space agency's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Admittedly, not much. I caught bits of episodes here and there (which, I grant, is not the best way to get one's teeth into a longterm space opera). I saw a good bit of the pilot, one episode with Checkov, and a chunk of the finale. (...) I (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) IIRC, they did not - they flew by in complete silence, unless you were "listening" to the inside of the pilot's helmet. (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) How much of it did you watch? I'll admit that Bruce Boxleitner's portrayal of Sheriden was pretty cheesy coming out of the gate, but one of JMS's commentary tracks reveals that he specifically requested it be that way for the first few eps of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) "It's not the mileage, it's the years!" :) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Two weeks ago, a group of friends and I pretty much agreed that the only thing that we expected would make I, Robot accurate to the original story is the use of the 3 Laws. Mass carnage just sells better. Even though I've never read the (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Think this is most appropriate for .geek than anywhere else... I saw the movie, rather enjoyed it but a few things-- ***Spoilers below!!!**** There were scant few 'Asimov' moments, but that goes with Hollywood 'suggested by'... When Spooner is (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Try to think of the glass as half full. (was: Re: Indiana Jones extends his vacation)
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(...) They'd need one heck of a makeup artist to get Ford to look like he did in the first movie. Remember, despite what the CGI breakthroughs of the SW prequels might suggest, both Lucas and Spielberg are reportedly adamant about only using (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (snip) Well, if the action is to be set in the fifties, then why not have "People's Anthropological Kommissar Piotr Piotrovich Silvov" as the main villain, using a Tokarev to threaten our timeless hero? The Zanis just lost much of their "fear (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Evil Zani Cultural Anthropologist Baron Bruz von Schlieckberndt: "Herr Jones! You shall nhot drink from this fountain! I vill plug you vith this cool-looking Luger ihf you try!" Indiana Jones: sotto voce "Zanis! I hate these guys. (aloud) And (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Well, it's a little more complicated than that. The sodium itself doesn't actually explode. It oxidizes in an exo-thermic reaction (meaning that it strips water molecules of their oxygen atoms and produces a lot of heat). The "waste" products (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Pure sodium metal will react with water to form hydrogen and heat energy; more than enough heat energy to ignite the hydrogen. Hydrogen is highly flamable. -Rob. (20 years ago, 17-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth." I mean, how perfect would *that* be? helpfully, LFB (20 years ago, 17-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ford will be eligible for Medicare before the darn thing comes out (literally). They needed to make this a decade ago... (20 years ago, 17-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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You'l have to scroll down a few articles, but it's been (URL) announced> that Lucas gave a "thumbs down" to the latest script, so Indiana Jones 4 won't come out for at least two years now. (20 years ago, 17-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Beats me. What's a non-internet-linked flashplayer? When I pulled a copy outta the cache and tried to play it on IE it jumped to the jibjab site after a quick intro, and then gave me a busy signal. But it skips the redirect when played thru an (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I don't own a Playstation 2, but here are some places to buy the accessories at: Toys R US. (www.toysrus.ca) Future Shop (owned by Best Buy) (www.futureshop.ca) Zellers (owned by Hudson's Bay Company) (www.hbc.com) Walmart (www.walmart.ca) (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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If there's anyone out there in Canada who owns a PS2, can you tell me where (store name or website) you would go to buy PS2 acccessories like memory cards and controllers? Thanks! Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 BAYLUG (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll buy that, except that the original claim seemed to be that the rotation itself was the factor, not the jetstream. Admittedly, I may have misunderstood the framing of the problem: perhaps the question of east/west travel already assumed (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think the issue is the jet stream. It moves eastward somewhat faster than the ground, so going east you have a tailwind, and going west you have a headwind. Unfortunately for you, the mountains in PA aren't high enough for this to make you (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Chris Giddens wrote: (SNIPPED) (...) Let me repeat. off-topic.geek is NOT an appropriate place to have this discussion. What Chris posted really starts to veer into an .admin topic, actually, as it touches on community (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ehh, I think you've got Scott wrong on this one. His post is a friendly joke pointed at someone Scott knows quite well. (...) If you wanna nail someone who's "moderatin'" then go after me. I've been after post bumpers quite a bit. Dunno why it (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Setting FUT appropriately (was Re: Ministry Of Information Retrieval
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(...) .geek isn't an appropriate FUT in my view(1) and I would appreciate it, should there be someone that needs to comment further, that it either stay where it was, or go to the appropriate admin group if the issue seems to need that level of (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hmmm - never used netnewswire - but can't you have it display the author tag? I've seen other readers do that, bloglines.com for instance. (...) Looking at yesterday's stats[1] (which misleadingly, have today's date), that's about 180 posts. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:HztLvG.qA7@lugnet.com... (...) And now it is fixed! (URL) Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina LEGO Train Club (URL) - Carolina Train Builders (URL) - (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks - I've been using this to stay on top of LUGNET and it works great. I use NetNewsWire Lite on MAC OS X, if you care. Couple things I'd like to see though: * Put back the "by Author Name" in the title - the author isn't displayed (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is there a 'category' in RSS? (...) Well, that, and the fact that the author tag is _required_ to have a valid email address in it. :) Dan (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For now, you could put the newsgroup in the category. (...) I woulda been happy with just the name, but I guess a programmer aint gonna ignore a challenge ;) (...) Yippee!! Thanks Dan. (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nope, just me being braindead. Fixed now (though getting the email address proved more of a challenge than I expected). (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) To do that properly though, I'd have to actually keep a history of every lugnet post - otherwise, if there weren't any train posts in the last 20, the train specific RSS feed would be empty. Not terrible, but not exactly desireable. Not saying (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right - but that would end up with several thousand feeds, which almost no one actually reads. Not sure what the solution is - perhaps RSS (or Atom) support a "category" concept, and then allow on the client side to filter by category? Then we (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) separate author tags, is there a reason for that? ROSCO (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you use an RSS reader to follow blogs, it fits nicely in that mold. At first I agreed with you - there's no structure... but it's so painless to view it in an RSS reader, that the lack of structure isn't really a problem. You just skip the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: BIP RSS Feed and Blog Update
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(...) Oops, sorry about that. Two unrelated, but similar issues have been resolved. Everything should be fine now. Thanks for the heads up. Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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