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The Mac Made of Lego
Anonymous writes "We've had lots of PC based case mods, but I've hardly hear of any Mac ones! I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are. Until they break; the BBC are running a story about a Mac owner who converted an old Apple by modding the machine with lego."
Mod someone UP for being P.C.? Are you kidding? P.C.-ness is horribly repellent. It needs to go the way of the dodo. Obviously legos are called that, and some European corporation can stick it where the sun doesn't shine if they don't like it.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Hey, dude, you might be interested to know that computers don't actually get hot when they're very busy. If the components stay powered on all the time and the hard drive stays spun up, the computer's temperature won't fluctuate more than a degree or two.
That's why your post got modded down. Because it wasn't funny, and the way it wasn't funny was stupid.
A lot of slashdot stories wind up just being ads but this is ridiculous. I guess that's one way to pump up the price on ebay.
Yeh, OK, so it is possible for twins to have the birthdays on different days, but what are the chances of that happening AND the article being written inbetween the two days?
So he made a Lego BOX. I have some very young friends that could do the same. I'd help them out with the little person and the flower...
Seriously, what's the big deal? Why did it take "a long time" to come up with this, and "over a month" to build it?
And how can you use Lego bricks to fix a broken video connector?
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The trick in appreciating works such as this in understanding what subject they claim to be in. This lady, who, incidentally, seems to have done sterling work on herself in reducing the difference between men and women, at least in terms of her intro pic[1], is actually working on a PhD dissertation on feminist metaphysics.
Now, do you what that means? I don't. A google search returned some might find interesting, but for mere mortal CS majors like me, even the intro paragraphs, which generally are the easiest, will take some time in parsing.
In particular, the first sentence itself is a stumbling block.
Note that, the ignorant reader, such as me again, will again have to google for terms such as "ahistorical universalism", on twentieth century French and German philosophy and on how "the modernist conception of the self has been "made strange" by a number of feminist philosophers". In particular, I will probably have to read up on on a collection of essays on post-modernism.
So, is (the going-to-be) Dr. Yasmin doing some ground-breaking research? For sure, post-modernism is, after all, the cutting-edge of liberal arts. Does it make any sense to me? Of course not. Is this why I shifted from liberal arts to comp sc? Yup. Am I procrastinating from doing my comp sc project? Definitely. Should I care? Yes, but only about the project being procrastinated against. Should you care about any of this shit, post-modernism, feminist metaphysics, ahistorical universalim or even my project? Nope, not really.
More than mere navel gazing.
"Many computer enthusiasts design their own base units, but a complete re-build from a different material is a rarity, underlining typical Mac eccentricity."
Uh, this has been done on the PC mod scene years ago. How is this an example of mac eccentricity?
Oi! Dipshit! If it's all so fucking obvious to you, how comes you can't even tell the difference between her views and other people's views?
This:
"And that is why men and women live out different gender roles; not because it is in their nature to do so, but because something in the society is causing it. In an ideal society, these gender-neutral rational capacities and so on would mean that men and women would"
set out the liberal feminist position. Previously, she had set out the biological determinist position; later, she sets out other positions. She never said that that was what she believed.
Don't be such a smart-arsed twat and think you have all the fucking answers. The greatest minds the human race has produced, from Aristotle to Darwin, have put time and effort into thinking about gender difference and people will continue thinking about this for the rest of all time. It's only straightforward to simpletons.
Save your comments for when you can understand these ideas, have worked out why he called himself Johannes de silentio, and have worked out what he would have to say about your self-confidence.