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(...) I haven't heard anything yet from Robert Stack's people. (...) Thanks. And weenie gripes are fine. I don't even care what my wife thinks of the stuff I build. The first picture on the page is offered only as a representation of the model as a (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Stages, woo-hoo! (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) The single greatest contribution (IMO) that the Artemis Project has to offer is the concept of Stages, its OO approach to model and submodel storage. Essentially, a model can be associated with a Stage or a set of attributes -- origin offset, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | The Artemis Project
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As some of you may know, I am a student of Industrial Design, specializing in product and interface design. I will be graduating in December, and hopefully putting some of that to work ;) I have really appreciated all the work that everyone in the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Pinball Machine DAT
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(...) too, esp. with the names of the characters. If I had the weeniest gripe it would be the gaps between the skylights and the roof plates one plate height down -- know what I mean? Perhaps I am unfamiliar with the type of skylight you were (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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A few folks have requested how the pinball machine in the Spamcake Diner was built. I've added a link next to its picture so you can DL a DAT version at your leisure. (URL) McD. when replying, contrary to all rumors, spamcake is *not* Soilent Green. (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) missing (...) Thanks Ben and Sproaticulus! I've been on vacation so I haven't done much answering and updating, but I will get a good pic of the front and put it on the diner page to complete it. BTW, for those looking at the diner page now, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Quick Poll
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(...) Sorry about the .publish thing :-) The problem was that I forgot to upload the main.css file. Everything is in working order now! ~Nick (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: New Quick Poll
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(...) What was the problem? I see this often with AOL member pages. [ -> .publish] (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FzKy7C.400@lugnet.com... (...) started (...) How about an Uncool Pirated Lego Pics of the Month site? -Rob. (25 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Project proposal: Seven Wonders of the LEGO World
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(...) Yes! (...) I can help out in either (or both) of these two areas. I don't have a lot of experience, but I'm willing to work at them. I'm good at proofreading, and can at least help with that. This will be a very exciting project and I look (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Screen Resolution Poll
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(...) Nah, that's not true -- font sizes are a good way to denote the relative importance of various bits of text. A legal disclaimer or copyright notice may be important, but conceptually, it's not the focus of the page, so it should be made (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Simple. Monitors are approximately 4x3, so the resolutions should be too. Otherwise, bitmapped pictures get stretched or squished -- in the case of 1280x1024, squished by about 7%. (...) CSS provides a great way to do this -- it has both (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Don't think so. For fine print on paper there is the (weak) excuse that one wants to save paper. This doesn't exist for the web. The main reason for fine print is of course that people don't won't you to read it, to screw you later if you make (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) 'nuff said! I use mostly 1280x1024 and my Netscape is about two-thirds of the screen wide and as long as it can be. Works just fine. Ppl. complaining about to long rows, just narrow the browser a tad, problem solved. /Tobbe (25 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8q0eg8.shl.....bu.edu... (...) than (...) :) You'll have to explain a little more to me about resolutions and pixel shapes when I'm out at Gordon. I'd like square pixels too :) (...) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Photo prints from digital images?
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I'm looking for a good online source for getting photographic prints (i.e., 30+ year prints like you would get from a traditional photo finisher) from a digital camera. Ideally, I'd like to be able to upload my digital images, give someone a credit (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yeah, it's a mess -- the original HTML just wasn't meant to specify presentation. CSS helps a bit. (...) Agreed. If you must specify font, make sure to also list "serif" or "sans-serif". (25 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) As another 1600x1200er (with small fonts - I've got good eyesight), I plead with web page developers to consider how their pages look on high resolution screens. Lugnet uses some fonts which come out a bit too small, which puts it in the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: 2001 Set info
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(...) Yeah. They were actually expecting this ruling. One advantage of having this before the Supreme Court is that any ruling will be effective nationally, not just in New York. (25 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
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(...) Jumping in late here, but I think it stinks. Did anyone manage to snap screenshots of the stolen images being displayed at their site before they wiped them out at the end of the month and started fresh with this month's stuff? IMHO, it would (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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