 | | RE: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Jeffrey Hazen
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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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| | | | | Re: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Ben Laurie
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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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| | | | | Re: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Ben Gatelle
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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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| | | | | Re: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Rainer Balzerowski
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Michael Gasperi
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Lester Witter
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| | | | | | (...) The english word dummy is derived from the word dumb which has evolved to mean stupid but originally (and still) means silent or does not speak as in a deaf person that does not speak. The use of the word to mean stupid developed due to the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | | | | Re: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Juergen Stuber
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| | | | | (...) Well, in France they are available as 'xyz pour les nuls', and judging from their number they seem to be quite popular. Jürgen (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | | | | RE: Mindstorms for Dummies (off topic) —Joachim Ziebs
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| | | | Hi Jeffrey! On 22 Jan 2001, Jeffrey Hazen <jeffrey.hazen@northmill.net> wrote in <01C08491.E5EEA300@northmill1>: (...) Last dummy book I had in my hands (at the Frankfurt Book Trade Fair) was: "Sex for Dummies". I couldn't help but ask--I was at the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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