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"Case Modding" a Nissan Sentra
Lawrence Person writes "Given all the interest Slashdot has shown in casemodding as of late, I thought they might be interested in an extreme "casemod" of a Nissan Sentra, turning it into a lean, mean race machine! Emphasis on the lean part..."
Anti-Asian undertones aside, Nissan Motor Corp. is responsible for stealing the domain name of a computer company WHICH EXISTED BEFORE Nissan Motors ever sold one car. For this alone, they deserve the scorn of slashdotters and people who believe in equality before the law.
Out of curiosity..why is it that the *first* posting that mentions 'linux' is modded redundant?
I hope I get you in Metamod (the moderator) you dipshit.
Aren't moderators supposed to mod UP?
It's fucking midnight on a friday - what else do you expect?
At first I didn't understand. This is the first "car" posting I've ever seen on Slashdot. I like cars (I also like sports and have sex on a regular basis, which makes me atypical around here) but don't like anime so I usually just skip the cartoon threads (as that seems a reasonable thing to do: skip threads that don't interest me).
I was surprised at some of the reactions to this posting. "WTF is this doing here?" "OMG, a car!". Then it dawned on me that the reaction is probably a throwback to high school. Maybe the "car guys" (usually found in wood/auto/metal shop) picked on these complaining geeks, and now the geeks feel as if their online safe haven has been violated.
Don't worry, geeks. Car guys won't start hanging out here. You won't get stuffed in any lockers, have your lunch taken, or get a melvin (wedgie if you prefer). Now go put in your Sailor Moon DVD, pop open a Red Bull and chill out.
In many cases, case modding is about making your computer look good.
I don't know how non-stupid case modding is. Two things that have always fascinated me are plexiglas and neon lights. There is a reason your computer came wrapped in steel. This is because it generates RF noise. It seems to me that plexiglas cases would make every component within ten feet of the computer (phone, speakers, etc.) buzz like crazy, to say nothing of allowing any random RF that happens to fly by to freely induce current in random circuit traces on your motherboard. I'm really scratching my head over neon lights, tho. It's like- let's take the most violently energetic lighting system we know of, and put it inside a computer case with thousands of dollars of extremely sensitive equipment. But wait - there's more! Let's pick a lighting system based on conversion of UV rays into visible light by the frosted coating inside the glass. Result? Go to too many LAN parties, and the jostling will liberate said coating and bathe your components in UV.
If you don't know what UV does to chips, those of us old enough to have used UV rigs to clear bios chips in AT clones would tell you, were it in character for arrogant, crusty old computer hacks to do so.