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Suz wrote:
> I just discovered their page devoted to (quote) "some 'introductory' Books about
> LEGO MINDSTORMS." There I see two books, Jonathan's O'Reilly and Dave's NQC book
> with obvious links to Amazon.com for online purchasing. LEGO has shamelessly
> added an Amazon.com _associate_code_ to the URLs! Not only does this look
> "cheap" but I see no mention of where those dollars go. ...that's 15% taken from
> every direct sale. Is this "global company" _so_ in need of cash?
>
> If TLC is seriously sponging money through the needs of the adult robotics
> community (due to lacking in their own provisions and foresight), then I have
> only one word for it. Sleazy!
>
> See for yourselves. The link is straight off the legomindstorms.com main page.
> Anyone know how long it has been there?
Ummm, obviously that page isn't visited much by LugNuts. I found it by
accident about a month ago after trying to log onto the forums after
someone emailed me that they had rendered my compressor in MLCad.
The hoops I had to go through to get looged in were astounding, and it still
only works every other day. The quality of the discussions in the forums
are what you would expect of 13 year olds suckered onto the website by the
garish graphics and almost complete lack of content....
If anyone at TLG reads this (and I KNOW you do) please use the opportunity
provided by your recent web design job posting to hire people that can
provide useful content for low-bandwidth Internet connections. Lose the
stupid graphics that waste time and resources and spend more on content.
Actually, never mind. I'll stick to this community.
I guess I haven't said thanks to Suzanne and Todd lately for LUGNET, so
thanks!!!
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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