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The next SMART meeting is just over two weeks away, on March 26th. We'll be meeting at Crossroads Shopping Center this month, but the time will be as usual, from 2pm to 5pm. The mini-challenge is a robotic Easter Egg Hunt. Build a robot that will (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Vignette - Elbonian Airlines
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A la Dilbert: Elbonian Airlines (URL) DaveE (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, FTX) !
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) .... (...) I agree... unfortunately, there's not a heck of a lot anyone can do about it. The easiest solution is to simply not compete with so dramatically less competent people who don't understand that while you may use different tools, the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) Nonsense. It's not the actual *code* that you need to understand - it's the ALGORITHM. Yeah - to the totally uninitiated, a bunch of boxes with an arrow pointing backwards tells you there is a loop - and maybe a 'for ( x = 0 ; x < 10 ; x++ )' (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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(...) OK - so there are two horrible implications in what you say: 1) People who have more of a mechanical background are allowed to have a huge advantage - but people who have more of a software background have to be constrained to prevent them (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) Ben, I don't think the 1x2x2 classic style window will be retired any time soon. The reason is the same reason that it is still in production.... a large number of the Legoland Parks Miniland buildings have the 1x2x2 windows in them. I believe (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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On Wed, March 9, 2005 6:31 pm, John Hansen said: (...) But, without knowing what the icons mean, you came pretty close to knowing what the program does. I would argue that it would be much easier for most kids to explain 14 icons than 30-40 lines of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) I must appologize for my poor choice of words. Obviously children are LEGO's core market. That being said, to ingore even 5% of your market is a pretty serious oversight. Do you really think that this colour change improved LEGO sales? Do you (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(snip) (...) Ok, it's a known fact that AFOL's make up from 1-5% in sales for TLG. How does 5% translate to a "core group of consumers"? Now, if you managed to get 40%, that would be a stronger point for debate... Scott (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: CEO-Letter // The answer
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(...) Assumptions. How are you equating the owners to TLG? Those are separate statements that don't have commonality. Yes, TLG is a private company, but the owner of the company isn't the CEO. You "doubt a switchback would drive TLG out of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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