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Rainer Balzerowski <balze2@gmx.net> wrote in message news:G7LDC3.8qD@lugnet.com... (...) Dumb is a little less harsh than stupid, but your translation is pretty good. (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) No ! You can get such books in Germany too. I'm not sure of the meaning of "dummies" in american english (more than this puppets used for crash simulations ?) In geman "dumm" means "stupid". -> dummies = stupid persons The same in american (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Thanks for the info. I'm just getting into Mindstorms, and was thinking about buying it. I think not with the review you gave. Mike Broam (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Ralf, If you don't need great precision, an easier aproach might be my Infra-red Relative Distance Indicator. See the link below. (...) -- Pete Sevcik sevcik@flash.net Techno-stuff Robotics (URL) for FUN ! (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) was like this: (...) you reload (...) PC, as you are (...) thing is to read (...) place of (...) optimize it and (...) what you want (...) attribute. Yes, but I'm not sure what could happen if I change those addresses in the middle of the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yeah, I'm waiting for "MENSA for Dummies." BEN (FUT OT.fun) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) A friend of mine was asked to write Chaos for Dummies[1]. He declined[2]. :-) Cheers, Ben. [1] No, really! [2] I wonder if he'd've taken a less dim view of it if they'd called it "Dynamical Systems for Dummies"? -- (URL) is no limit to what a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I had to laugh out loud at Ralph's description: "Mindstorms for Dummies really does live up to its name." Not likely, but does anyone remember seeing a cartoon called The Ultimate Video Game? Just a single panel, showing an arcade game with a rifle (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I just got my complimentary copy of Mindstorms for Dummies and its worth every penny! (They had requested permission to put pbForth on the CD) Now, I may be somewhat biased towards the Extreme Mindstorms book that I helped write, but Mindstorms for (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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am 22.01.2001 15:36 Uhr schrieb Ram Meenakshisundaram unter rmeenaks@olf.com: (...) Hi Ram, please have a look into the data sheets. Then you would say "... the GP2D02 is a very powerful sensor .... but the GP2D12 is better than the GP2D02 for using (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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