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How to Burn a Magnesium NeXT Cube
Saint Aardvark the Carpeted writes "How do you set a magnesium NeXT cube case on fire? It took this guy two years, *two* cases and the cooperation of Lawrence Livermore Lab's burn cell." A seriously bizarre tale, but worth a read if you're curious. And I have one of those cubes in my office... all sorts of fiendish ideas start.
Lets see.. for burning a NeXT, you miss out on:
Learning a Unix other than Linux.
Learning a Mach kernel.
Learning a fully BSD-style Unix.
Learning Xwindow.
Learning PostScript.
Learning how to handle SCSI devices in Unix.
..and countless other things.
And, what do we gain by burning a NexT?
The ability to say "Duh, I burned a NeXT, i'm 31337."
Yes, I know that the one used in this little "demonstration" was only the case, and not the guts of the box. I just think its a pathetically stupid waste to destroy something that could be of value to someone else not as "31337" as you. No doubt, there will be some dingbat who thinks it'll be cool to take his Pentium out in the back yard and douse it with lighter fluid just so he can see a fire. Meanwhile, there are plenty of people who would have killed to get their hands on something as simple as a Pentium, to learn off of, and better themselves.
Bowie J. Poag
Is there any way a bunch of us could get together and create a new site to replace Slashdot and have it be run by people who are not idiots like commander taco?
is there an entire state full of assholes somewhere? I know Americans like guns and killing, but why must they needlessly hack up and destroy high quality equipment? It's not as if cast Magnesium products are difficult to ge hold of - there are loads of motorcycle wheels made out of it, not to mention Sony Laptops. I swear these fuckers are mentally retarded.
This may be the stupidest thing I have ever seen on Slashdot. It's not funny, or l33t, or clever, it's just fucking stupid.