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  Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
 
(...) ought to do that sampling on their own?? I was at an ink manufacturer recently and they can take colors in either RGB or CMYK but prefer the latter. (they also have spectrophotometers that you can just put things under and get ink recipes from (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
 
Here's a different type, one for print colors (CMYK). To read those color values, use something like Photoshop to sample inside framed boxes. some of these may be considered official, as well as the naming scheme. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)  
 
  Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
 
(...) Tres useful! Ought to be widely crossposted! (seems like FAQ material, almost) ++Lar (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) And I thought I'd drifted off the subject... :-) I don't know of any form of reciprocating or rotating engine that could propel you through space, so engine oil seems a bit pointless. As for overheating, the only way to disperse heat in space (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: UML +/-
 
(...) Understandable. Actually, I *didn't* get the impression that you didn't like UML; I just got the impression that its uses weren't fully, well, useful to you. <shameless plug> My dad's methodology, while not directly opposing UML, challanges (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) The first problem I have, Jason, is that I am not sure that everyone else is right, either on these bulletin boards and I know for a fact that I am not probably right in my ways of thought in my life. Would an overheated engine become a (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: UML +/-
 
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> Rereading that it sounds like I don't like/approve of UML. That would be incorrect. That it has been adopted as a standard instead of several rival notations and methodologies is a *huge( win (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) Yes, but the point is you'd roll by 90° to turn, not just bank a little bit. Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) Well the A-wing flight control system doesn't discriminate between air and space flight either so it's control surfaces move in space as well, producing little affect except a little momentum. I think as a Valkyrie has 2 widely spaced engines (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) You're not seen as evil. It's just that if you're unsure of what you're saying, don't try to make out that it's absoulutely right, and people won't mind if your opinion differs from theirs. (...) Just to add to this, possibly blurring the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  UML +/-
 
(...) I work in the real world and I am usually at the leading edge where we are trying to get the basic concepts down. So UML is overly precise for what I typically need to convey. I am usually at the lines and boxes level and showing a mishmash of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) Heh, good idea, I just submitted it to quotes-r-us.org. If you go to "advanced fatures", set keyword to "mothers", the second or third quote should be this one. ;-) -Shiri (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: recovering lost files
 
(...) Wow, quite a "quote of the day", huh?..:-) Selçuk "We're like a whole bunch of mothers, standing over your shoulder" (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) Fifteen, but yeah, it does go by fast... sorta. ;-) I remember when you first found out how old I was (in that demented intern thread - gahh!). (...) Ahhhh, ain't no such thing as too old. If you're playing with lego, you can't be that old, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) Wow!.. Little Shiri grows too fast..:-) You were fourteen when we first meet you here, right? Time really rolls too fast. Congrats..:-) Selçuk (will be officially end of his 30 (i.e. too old) in a few months) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) English. (...) He hooked up with a publishing company from Europe, actually, it might even be the Netherlands, but I forget. The publishing company is getting the book out at *their* expense, and he's getting a percentage of the profit (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
(...) I've gotta ask the obvious question (or not so obvious?): Is he writing it in English or in Hebrew? Or both? As an editor myself I'm interested in how he's positioned himself and how the publishing process works outside the US and Europe. Is (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Phrase
 
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) Very. Definitely. BTW, Larry, speaking of geeks of some sort, you're a system architect, right? My dad is writing a book (1) about system modeling, and I'm actually his editor (nobody (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Find your Birthday Buddy
 
July 24, 1969 (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people)
 
  Find your Birthday Buddy
 
XFUT lugnet.people Hi all! Well, I'm sure the geeks of us all know that in a room with 30 people, there's a fairly large chance of having two people with the same birthday. (I can explain to the non-geeks if you really want... not now though.) Since (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people) !! 


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