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| | | I'd personally prefer if the software et al were on the CD. Yes they will go out of date but some people don't have net access at home and may not like having to copy files to floppy in a cyber cafe - and find that some files are too large to fit! (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | RE: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) That's an interesting point. I wonder what percentage of the 80,000+ LMS owners out there are net-enabled. Certainly, of the ones geeky enough to buy the book, almost all of those must be net-enabled...? What are the issues related to (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book —Mark Tarrabain
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| | | | | Wow. I can't believe Todd and I actually agree on something! Is thiis the sign of a new trend for me? :) Seriously, though, I don't care for books bundled with CDROM's either for similar reasons that Todd mentioned. The existence of an out-of-date (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Well, hey -- this is books we're talkin' now, not legonomics. :) (...) Oops, I didn't mean it to sound as though I found them offensive. Sorry about the double-negative; to catch the intended meaning, you have to convert "I haven't yet (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | RE: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book —Ian Hall-Beyer
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| | | | | (...) These three are kind of intertwined. The cost of mass-producing a CD is so small as to be almost negligible, so it wouldn't affect the cost of the book significantly, or the publisher's bottom line were the price to stay the same, and at the (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book —Huw Millington
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| | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) In the UK there is a very good reason why books with CD's are undesirable: Books are zero Value-Added-Tax rated, but books with CD's are not, so cost the consumer 17.5% more on top of whatever price premium (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms Book —Benoit Cerrina
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| | | | (...) Funny law, never heard of anything like that, but then it really makes sense that you prefer books without CDs. BTW: here in France books fall under the regular Value Added Tax of about 20% and this is regardless of CDs or other niceties :-( (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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