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Re: Have you got your NXT yet?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:12:41 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Tim Byrne wrote:
> My VERY FIRST impression is that the RCX is faster than the NXT.
There are two issues here. First, the NXT is slightly larger than the RCX,
and therefore requires more shipping space. Thus fewer NXTs per UPS truck, etc.
The only way around this was to make them smaller (we on the MUP/MDP pushed for
making them about the size of a 2x4 brick), but LEGO did not choose this
approach (something silly about batteries, I think).
Second, shipping time is known to be inversely proportional, in a statistical
sense, to desire. So part of the problem is that you are expecting it so much,
it's slowing the shipping. This is a well-documented physical principle ("a
watched pot never boils" etc.), and there's just no getting around physics.
> The data I've been able to extract from UPS indicates...
wow, i'm really going to have to experiment with my power supplies some more.
I had no idea you could derive shipping information from the line
fluctuations...
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Brian Davis
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| (...) This is absolutely true. (*1) I went on vacation a week ago Wednesday, and was REALLY hoping mine would get here before I left. It didn't. But sure enough, as soon as I had left, and didn't care about whether it came this week or next, it (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) My VERY FIRST impression is that the RCX is faster than the NXT. In my two previous tests with the RCX it took about three days with standard shipping to arrive at my door (counting from when shop@home sends me shipment notification). My test (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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