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(...) Actually, since I'd assume the Mindstorms sets are lagging in popularity (things like that always have an initial spike and then a downward trend in sales) a variety of SW Mindstorms add-on sets would be just the thing for TLG to boost sales, (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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(...) Yeah, having 4 mindstorms kits and two technic sets sounds a bit much! (not that I'd complain if it's true!) Maybe it's just 1 or 2 more mindstorms kits that have multiple models? That'd be kinda like the one that features R2D2 and the battle (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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(...) Maybe TLG doesn't care about NQC :-) that's why they don't show up as lego.com...ha ha ha. Seriously, that's what got me curious too. Think about it. Here's a group of folks they can get design ideas from, and yet NOBODY I know of has ever had (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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I've kept every http log file since the dawn of time (1994) but most don't have reverse lookups. I've never been tempted to do reverse lookups on the LEGO related pages. I have on some other sites I run for personal amusement. I have never access (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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(...) It might just be company policy that the internet is not used for web browsing at work. Some places do that. You might want to expand your search to domains that point to key geographical regions which may indicate employee usage. For that (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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(...) Hmmm...companies like that might want to get a clue. The web is a great way to figure out what the competition is doing, or if anyone who you don't even know is competing with you is going to swamp your company with a cool new product... Check (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [OFFTOPIC] Re: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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In re: DNS and public disclosure: Sorry to take this OT, but I just have to throw in my two cents. There is a big difference between getting personal data (cookies, required logins, etc.) and checking out what domain someone has dl'd from. The (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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Ralph Hempel writes: > Seriously, that's what got me curious too. Think about it. Here's a group > of folks they can get design ideas from, and yet NOBODY I know of has ever > had a hit from lego.com - coincidence? I think not. I've gotten email (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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=>From: "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> =>... =>Any of the other high-hit sites have a reverse DNS capability? Anybody (well, *almost* anybody) has reverse DNS capability. High-hit sites don't often have the reverse lookup turned on, since it's (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Reverse DNS?
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Once, after doing too many nights of research at the Lego web site, I used that domain as an example in a System admin class I was teaching. I showed the folks in the class how to setup a secondary DNS and just for fun (and since I'd been so (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | IR sensor for Program download to HandyBoard ??
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Hi , I am new to Handyboard and have these IR questions. Can the IR sensor be used to download programs to the HandyBoard? my idea is to dynamically load programs to the handyboard using IR communication . or Can RF communication be used? Is is (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Texas Legomaniacs Unite!
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If you live in Texas or even the surrounding states please post here. I am trying to find out if there is a Texas group, if so where in the state are they active, and if not then how many are interested in starting one. I am in the Bryan/College (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Check out the newsgroup lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw There have been several people from the houston and austin areas that have recently mentioned that they would like to get together over the Y2K holidays. (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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Hmmm. Anybody else out there thinking that there might not actually be a Slave I set for 2000? I'd love to see it, but it just doesn't seem to jive in my head as something that LEGO would do. Here are some of my thoughts: Slave I has very little (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.robotics, Shaun Sullivan writes: <snip> (...) The desert skiff wouldn't be too hard, assuming the pirate ship hull molds are still around. Some mods would be needed, but not a lot... Paul Sinasohn, who would buy them all. (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I know I got a lego.com hit about a year ago. They didn't really look at much on my site though. --- Chris Osborn Full System, Inc. fozztexx@fullsystem.com 2160 Jefferson St., #240 (URL) Napa, CA 94559 (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mindstorms/reinforcement learning
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Hello, allow me introduce myself to the list. My name is Erik Zempel, I'm a Junior at the University of Michigan in the Computer Engineering department. Two friends and I are hoping to to get some funding for a research project involving (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms/reinforcement learning
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I don't think that NQC by itself will handle your needs. I am not an AI expert (pretty much skipped all AI classes in college), but I expect that would need a decent amount of memory to remember which behaviors have been reinforced. NQC works on top (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wouldn't be the first such overlap -- the Launch Command shuttle was out when the Technic shuttle was released, IIRC. (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms/reinforcement learning
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Erik- I have just completed a RL project using legOS, and a class in the Computer Science department here which I am TAing for is due to all submit a set of RL projects by the end of this week. Unfortunately, I'm also swamped with other work, so I (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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