No, it looks like there are three sets, each with one minifigure, but that's just what it looks like. The set is not final yet, but it's assumed there will be one "Research Institute" set with three "vignettes," each with a figure and some other model to go with it (a desk, a dinosaur, a telescope).
I can look at that two ways... I can watch TV and it requires no thought. Or I can choose specific interesting things on politics, nature, or other sciences, and actually think about it.
So LEGO sets come with instructions, and require little thought to put the sets together the way they've laid it out in the book. That doesn't differ from how it used to be. Oh, you used to be able to just buy buckets of bricks, though! Which, of course, you can still do. The imagination happened when you took those bricks, and you took those sets apart, and made what you wanted instead of what you were told you could make.
That's the same as it is today. Why don't you visit the ideas site (link in TFS) and see where people's imaginations take them. They're not all works of art by any stretch, but some of the sets offered there are phenomenal. Also take a look at ReBrickable for other models people have created.
It's true they make some simpler sets aimed at younger kids, things with big molded pieces that "real" LEGO enthusiasts hate, but that's not representative of all that's available.
Now you're just being disingenuous... I never said that's what the revolution was about, I said owning firearms is part of the reason we have the U.S. and the bill of rights to begin with. IOW, we wouldn't have won without them. And the founders of this country, noting that that was the case, codified the right, not just own, but to bear arms, in the bill of rights.
Well said, anonymous coward. Listening to some of these idiots, you'd think people would just be dropping dead every time someone just went and purchased a gun.
I've read several of your posts here, and wholeheartedly agree with them. As a libertarian I say it often: your rights should only end when used to violate the rights of others. Obviously printing a gun, in itself, does not threaten anyone else's rights.
Crime continues to rise and you think America is getting better? Why not address the violence culture instead of their tools? Oh, that's right... It's because you feel it infringes on your rights to live in a culture who makes sport and entertainment of violence.
FBI Statistical data disagrees with you (FBI Violent Crime Table). I realize the mainstream media has brainwashed a large number of people out there to believe the sky is falling on this issue, but it's really not.
I understand your opinion; I completely disagree with it. Owning firearms is part of the reason we have the U.S. and it's bill of rights to begin with.
It's virtually impossible to stop crime from happening; that's why the SCOTUS has affirmed that it's not the responsibility of police departments to prevent crime, but to to try to catch and punish those who commit them. Printing a 3D gun doesn't violate anyone else's rights, it's when someone uses that gun to violate the rights of others that they've committed a crime... and we don't need any new laws for our government to try to catch and prosecute those that do it.
How is that different from Google? Even using a Linux based system, whenever you open your browser to do something, if you have chrome synchronized, if you use gmail or g+, or whatever? And I don't use an Apple, but even on Windows iTunes is constantly checking for updates and wanting to install new stuff (unless you go out of your way to turn it off... but again, how is that different than the others?). I'm asking because people apply different standards to the companies they don't like than they do to the ones that are "blessed." I have Windows 8.1, I did not create an account. Nevertheless, even Windows 7 and XP do their software validation crap every so often, too... so if you're already a Windows user, you were already accepting that. All I'm saying is that the complaints about 8.x are like most arguments on the internet.
Web forums... turning molehills into mountains since 1994.
You're right; and our prisons should release all the perpetrators convicted of victimless crimes (like prostitution and drug use), and fill it with people who violate the rights of others, including those who've endangered the lives of other innocent people because of misuse of their right to own a gun.
Another invalid comparison... Your right to own a car is like the right to own a gun - it does NOT go away because other people have caused laws to be created punishing those who drive unsafely... and laws apply to people using weapons unsafely, but the right to own and use the gun remains. Please note, I know the knee-jerk reaction from liberals is hard to for them to temper, but he didn't say you can't limit it's use, he said the right doesn't go away.
Good point... one that people often fail to grasp. I support decriminalization of all drugs... yes, ALL drugs, as the individual should have the right to do with their body what they want. The most common come-back I hear is "so then it's OK for them to kill you for money to support their habit?"
Uh... no, it's not OK. Only a moron could conclude that.
I support the decriminalization of prostitution. The most common come-back I hear is "so then it's OK for a pimp to essentially force a woman to sell her body for him?"
Uh... no, it's not OK. Only a moron could conclude that.
Guns are tools, used for entertainment, sport, self defense... as soon as someone uses one to violate your rights, you can go ahead and execute them, as far as I'm concerned. But get rid of the person that violated your rights... "things" don't violate your rights, only other people do.
And the fact of the matter is that I don't even own a gun, nor do I particularly want one, but I fully support gun rights (so the logical fallacy is proven a fallacy in one simple case). I support gun rights because I support freedom, and freedom comes with some costs. In many of the countries with people with attitudes like this, they don't even have the right to free speech.
So your argument is that we can double (again, in most parts of the country) minimum wage and keep inflation in check... by firing a whole bunch of people and increasing unemployment... and that that's a better solution? Because unemployment is already high, most people don't have multiple jobs.
A slight increase in minimum wage wouldn't "drive inflation through the roof," you have to understand this is a SIGNIFICANT increase in minimum wage.
And I installed a new 8.1 and didn't have to create an account, either. People are looking for any minor thing to gripe about - it's like most discussions on the internet, where they'll overlook the same flaws for something they like (whether it's an OS, a religion, or a political party), but complain about it in the "other" ones.
That's pretty disingenuous of you - minimum wage and minimum wage increases are part and parcel to inflation - if it drives costs up, even if those costs are less than the wage increase, for people making more than minimum and don't get an increase, it's inflation, and when the minimum wage jumps not just fraction, but nearly double (which is what $15 would do for most of the country), the effect is worse. I didn't say it caused the sky to fall, or natural disasters, I'm saying the relative spending power of people making more than minimum wage drops dramatically. Loss of relative spending power = inflation, and it's worse for those who are now already right around that new minimum wage level and don't get any increase.
This is what's getting me... and I use Linux almost exclusively, but it's always been the case that when someone complained, they were jumped on by a bunch of Linux nerds saying stuff like "but you can just disable that, install this, install that, tweak that config file, and you're all set!" Now it's like installing Classic Shell means the OS must be crap... it's not. For my Windows usage, I've experienced both 8.0 and 8.1, and just can't figure out what all the whining is about.
And it's always funny to see the same people that were berating people for needing the latest hardware years ago (in which Linux support always seemed to lag), to now often arguing people need to upgrade their hardware if you want this or that feature to work.
I just built a new PC to replace my 10 year old one... ten years; multiple Linux OSs, but only Windows XP Pro, and now 8.1 Pro. Somehow I managed to skip several versions of Windows and upgraded largely to improve my Linux experience, since I use Linux 95% of the time anyway.
Classic Shell is free... I don't get why this is not publicized more; it makes the Windows 8.x experience very much like Windows 7.0 for typical computing tasks. I guess since it's one of the first things I installed, it's why I don't get all the complaining. No, it's not exactly the same as Windows 7.0, but it shouldn't have to be... that would have been pointless.
Ha! Was waiting for this response. I used to yell at people for touching my screen with their greasy fingers. I accept it for my phone and small tablet for portability reasons, the fact you don't always have a surface to use a mouse or space for a keyboard, but with the desktop OR laptop, you can keep your greasy fingers to yourself. Frankly, the surface tablets are great that way... you can carry them around for portability, but if you're sitting at a desk you can add a keyboard and mouse. I don't have one... I don't really want one... but it's definitely convenient.
They're giving into the hype, and catering to people's impressions, not necessarily "admitting" 8.x is worse than 7.0. 8.0 came out, and people just whined and complained, so OEMs jumped on the bandwagon to offer 7.0 instead. Frankly, I've only seen one valid complaint (after installing "Classic Shell"), and not a single valid complaint for a typical home user. It's another case of people not liking it because it's new without taking the time to customize it to their like - which is what I end up doing every time I install Linux, too.
It's interesting to me that the strong point about Linux is that it's so customizable to one's own preferences, from the command line to Unity, but if making Windows 8.x largely like 7, but with all the new features, takes installing a program, then it's the worst thing ever!
I'll admit again (like I did in another post) that I largely use Linux, but I've got a laptop with 8.0 and a desktop with 8.1 pro, and just don't get all the whining about it.
Late 2012 I bought a laptop... I almost always use Linux, but decided to try Windows 8.0 and see what all the hub-bub was about, so I went ahead and got one with Windows 8.0 (and then configured dual boot to Linux). Now, I admit that one of the first things I did was install "Classic Shell" and delete a bunch of preinstalled crap that Toshiba installed (like any Windows box/laptop that comes preinstalled). After doing that, I'm at a loss, as a personal box, why people think it's so much worse than Windows 7.0. Yes, I realize I had to install something to make it work better for me, but I don't get the big deal about it.
I ended up "permanently lending" my laptop to my daughter, but just recently home built a new desktop; again, dual boot Linux and Windows, and figured, since XP was finally just recently EOLed, that I'd just go ahead and get the latest Windows. Like I said, I admit I don't use it much, but it does crop up now and then. I do not have a million applications installed, I do some very lightweight development (usually in Python, and only when the scripts need to run on Windows), but I got 8.1 and did the same thing I did before - installed the latest "Classic Shell," and with no preinstalled OEM crap, didn't even bother removing any "apps."
There are certainly some standpoints that I can see complaints coming from... I guess, like tablets, applications don't actually like to close, they just sort of get pushed to the background, which wreaks havoc in situations where you are using floating licenses for expensive software (which we do at work for our animators, but not for me). But on the whole, as an end user, I don't get where all the whining is coming from.
The problem is that people making minimum wage's incomes will increase substantially; people already making over that amount will likely not get proportional raises = inflation for those making less than minimum wage now, hyperinflation for those already making above minimum wage.
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No, it looks like there are three sets, each with one minifigure, but that's just what it looks like. The set is not final yet, but it's assumed there will be one "Research Institute" set with three "vignettes," each with a figure and some other model to go with it (a desk, a dinosaur, a telescope).
I can look at that two ways... I can watch TV and it requires no thought. Or I can choose specific interesting things on politics, nature, or other sciences, and actually think about it.
So LEGO sets come with instructions, and require little thought to put the sets together the way they've laid it out in the book. That doesn't differ from how it used to be. Oh, you used to be able to just buy buckets of bricks, though! Which, of course, you can still do. The imagination happened when you took those bricks, and you took those sets apart, and made what you wanted instead of what you were told you could make.
That's the same as it is today. Why don't you visit the ideas site (link in TFS) and see where people's imaginations take them. They're not all works of art by any stretch, but some of the sets offered there are phenomenal. Also take a look at ReBrickable for other models people have created.
It's true they make some simpler sets aimed at younger kids, things with big molded pieces that "real" LEGO enthusiasts hate, but that's not representative of all that's available.
Now you're just being disingenuous... I never said that's what the revolution was about, I said owning firearms is part of the reason we have the U.S. and the bill of rights to begin with. IOW, we wouldn't have won without them. And the founders of this country, noting that that was the case, codified the right, not just own, but to bear arms, in the bill of rights.
Well said, anonymous coward. Listening to some of these idiots, you'd think people would just be dropping dead every time someone just went and purchased a gun.
I've read several of your posts here, and wholeheartedly agree with them. As a libertarian I say it often: your rights should only end when used to violate the rights of others. Obviously printing a gun, in itself, does not threaten anyone else's rights.
I didn't say they shouldn't be regulated at all.... and far from a "logical" extreme, you've reached reductio ad absurdum in very short order.
Crime continues to rise and you think America is getting better? Why not address the violence culture instead of their tools? Oh, that's right... It's because you feel it infringes on your rights to live in a culture who makes sport and entertainment of violence.
FBI Statistical data disagrees with you (FBI Violent Crime Table). I realize the mainstream media has brainwashed a large number of people out there to believe the sky is falling on this issue, but it's really not.
I understand your opinion; I completely disagree with it. Owning firearms is part of the reason we have the U.S. and it's bill of rights to begin with.
It's virtually impossible to stop crime from happening; that's why the SCOTUS has affirmed that it's not the responsibility of police departments to prevent crime, but to to try to catch and punish those who commit them. Printing a 3D gun doesn't violate anyone else's rights, it's when someone uses that gun to violate the rights of others that they've committed a crime... and we don't need any new laws for our government to try to catch and prosecute those that do it.
How is that different from Google? Even using a Linux based system, whenever you open your browser to do something, if you have chrome synchronized, if you use gmail or g+, or whatever? And I don't use an Apple, but even on Windows iTunes is constantly checking for updates and wanting to install new stuff (unless you go out of your way to turn it off... but again, how is that different than the others?). I'm asking because people apply different standards to the companies they don't like than they do to the ones that are "blessed." I have Windows 8.1, I did not create an account. Nevertheless, even Windows 7 and XP do their software validation crap every so often, too... so if you're already a Windows user, you were already accepting that. All I'm saying is that the complaints about 8.x are like most arguments on the internet.
Web forums... turning molehills into mountains since 1994.
You're right; and our prisons should release all the perpetrators convicted of victimless crimes (like prostitution and drug use), and fill it with people who violate the rights of others, including those who've endangered the lives of other innocent people because of misuse of their right to own a gun.
Another invalid comparison... Your right to own a car is like the right to own a gun - it does NOT go away because other people have caused laws to be created punishing those who drive unsafely... and laws apply to people using weapons unsafely, but the right to own and use the gun remains. Please note, I know the knee-jerk reaction from liberals is hard to for them to temper, but he didn't say you can't limit it's use, he said the right doesn't go away.
Good point... one that people often fail to grasp. I support decriminalization of all drugs... yes, ALL drugs, as the individual should have the right to do with their body what they want. The most common come-back I hear is "so then it's OK for them to kill you for money to support their habit?"
Uh... no, it's not OK. Only a moron could conclude that.
I support the decriminalization of prostitution. The most common come-back I hear is "so then it's OK for a pimp to essentially force a woman to sell her body for him?"
Uh... no, it's not OK. Only a moron could conclude that.
Guns are tools, used for entertainment, sport, self defense... as soon as someone uses one to violate your rights, you can go ahead and execute them, as far as I'm concerned. But get rid of the person that violated your rights... "things" don't violate your rights, only other people do.
And the fact of the matter is that I don't even own a gun, nor do I particularly want one, but I fully support gun rights (so the logical fallacy is proven a fallacy in one simple case). I support gun rights because I support freedom, and freedom comes with some costs. In many of the countries with people with attitudes like this, they don't even have the right to free speech.
So your argument is that we can double (again, in most parts of the country) minimum wage and keep inflation in check... by firing a whole bunch of people and increasing unemployment... and that that's a better solution? Because unemployment is already high, most people don't have multiple jobs.
A slight increase in minimum wage wouldn't "drive inflation through the roof," you have to understand this is a SIGNIFICANT increase in minimum wage.
And I installed a new 8.1 and didn't have to create an account, either. People are looking for any minor thing to gripe about - it's like most discussions on the internet, where they'll overlook the same flaws for something they like (whether it's an OS, a religion, or a political party), but complain about it in the "other" ones.
That's pretty disingenuous of you - minimum wage and minimum wage increases are part and parcel to inflation - if it drives costs up, even if those costs are less than the wage increase, for people making more than minimum and don't get an increase, it's inflation, and when the minimum wage jumps not just fraction, but nearly double (which is what $15 would do for most of the country), the effect is worse. I didn't say it caused the sky to fall, or natural disasters, I'm saying the relative spending power of people making more than minimum wage drops dramatically. Loss of relative spending power = inflation, and it's worse for those who are now already right around that new minimum wage level and don't get any increase.
This is what's getting me... and I use Linux almost exclusively, but it's always been the case that when someone complained, they were jumped on by a bunch of Linux nerds saying stuff like "but you can just disable that, install this, install that, tweak that config file, and you're all set!" Now it's like installing Classic Shell means the OS must be crap... it's not. For my Windows usage, I've experienced both 8.0 and 8.1, and just can't figure out what all the whining is about.
And it's always funny to see the same people that were berating people for needing the latest hardware years ago (in which Linux support always seemed to lag), to now often arguing people need to upgrade their hardware if you want this or that feature to work.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I just built a new PC to replace my 10 year old one... ten years; multiple Linux OSs, but only Windows XP Pro, and now 8.1 Pro. Somehow I managed to skip several versions of Windows and upgraded largely to improve my Linux experience, since I use Linux 95% of the time anyway.
But if you want stuff from the MS store, then so what if you have to create an account... is that really different than anywhere else?
Classic Shell is free... I don't get why this is not publicized more; it makes the Windows 8.x experience very much like Windows 7.0 for typical computing tasks. I guess since it's one of the first things I installed, it's why I don't get all the complaining. No, it's not exactly the same as Windows 7.0, but it shouldn't have to be... that would have been pointless.
Ha! Was waiting for this response. I used to yell at people for touching my screen with their greasy fingers. I accept it for my phone and small tablet for portability reasons, the fact you don't always have a surface to use a mouse or space for a keyboard, but with the desktop OR laptop, you can keep your greasy fingers to yourself. Frankly, the surface tablets are great that way... you can carry them around for portability, but if you're sitting at a desk you can add a keyboard and mouse. I don't have one... I don't really want one... but it's definitely convenient.
They're giving into the hype, and catering to people's impressions, not necessarily "admitting" 8.x is worse than 7.0. 8.0 came out, and people just whined and complained, so OEMs jumped on the bandwagon to offer 7.0 instead. Frankly, I've only seen one valid complaint (after installing "Classic Shell"), and not a single valid complaint for a typical home user. It's another case of people not liking it because it's new without taking the time to customize it to their like - which is what I end up doing every time I install Linux, too.
It's interesting to me that the strong point about Linux is that it's so customizable to one's own preferences, from the command line to Unity, but if making Windows 8.x largely like 7, but with all the new features, takes installing a program, then it's the worst thing ever!
I'll admit again (like I did in another post) that I largely use Linux, but I've got a laptop with 8.0 and a desktop with 8.1 pro, and just don't get all the whining about it.
Late 2012 I bought a laptop... I almost always use Linux, but decided to try Windows 8.0 and see what all the hub-bub was about, so I went ahead and got one with Windows 8.0 (and then configured dual boot to Linux). Now, I admit that one of the first things I did was install "Classic Shell" and delete a bunch of preinstalled crap that Toshiba installed (like any Windows box/laptop that comes preinstalled). After doing that, I'm at a loss, as a personal box, why people think it's so much worse than Windows 7.0. Yes, I realize I had to install something to make it work better for me, but I don't get the big deal about it.
I ended up "permanently lending" my laptop to my daughter, but just recently home built a new desktop; again, dual boot Linux and Windows, and figured, since XP was finally just recently EOLed, that I'd just go ahead and get the latest Windows. Like I said, I admit I don't use it much, but it does crop up now and then. I do not have a million applications installed, I do some very lightweight development (usually in Python, and only when the scripts need to run on Windows), but I got 8.1 and did the same thing I did before - installed the latest "Classic Shell," and with no preinstalled OEM crap, didn't even bother removing any "apps."
There are certainly some standpoints that I can see complaints coming from... I guess, like tablets, applications don't actually like to close, they just sort of get pushed to the background, which wreaks havoc in situations where you are using floating licenses for expensive software (which we do at work for our animators, but not for me). But on the whole, as an end user, I don't get where all the whining is coming from.
The problem is that people making minimum wage's incomes will increase substantially; people already making over that amount will likely not get proportional raises = inflation for those making less than minimum wage now, hyperinflation for those already making above minimum wage.