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The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of
Hanzo writes "So, you need a desk. With mood lighting. And a pop-up LCD monitor. It even just so happens you like Space Ghost. Well, for a mere $39,995(USD), you can have exactly what you need. ?" They still aren't selling powerbands or insect musicians, but I figure it's only a matter of time now.
.. for a Dollar.
Pretty much have to decorate the whole room around it though.
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...when it gets down to fundamentals, do what you have to do and shed no tears. Dr. Matson in Tunnel in the Sky
College for kids, or space ghost desk.
Grandpa's surgery, or space ghost desk.
Down payment for house, or space ghost desk.
Travel the world for two years, or space ghost desk.
This is tough.
Reconstituted wood with a lick of paint, lcd and fridge! A bargain at only $40k
If you're gonna buy that, you're almost required to film your own "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" show.
For that kind of money I think you could do a whole lot better, the Aura is definatley nicer than that.
If a first you don't succeed, your a programmer...
When go for the Space Ghost desk when you can have A Powerpuff Girls Bedroom for only $99.995!
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"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
If you go to the link in the article, be sure to scroll down to the bottom to read this:
KIDS, DON'T FORGET: YOU'RE NOW IN AN ONLINE STORE. YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD TO MAKE A PURCHASE.
Funny $#!+
is it that bad seein a hot chick again? if i see a hot chick walkin down the hall i dont say "repost"
Harpo Tunnel Syndrome--my wrist feels funny.
Philips 15" LCD Television.
Considering the specification, this is one almighty rip-off.
I mean, the cost of parts, labour, marketing etc and even a hefty profit margin shouldn't have taken something like this over $10,000.
The really scary thing is tho....... there are people out there who will pay for this!
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
It's all just 3d render jobs. Check out the shadows, and the clip art kids crapping their pants. Tho I guess if someone gave me a million dollars to reconstruct the Kids Next Door Treehouse, I just might.
I always wanted a Treehouse, but we never had a tree in our garden. Fortunatly they provide the tree for you, a snip at $1 million
i'd rather have the sealab.
not pod 6 though.
then i'd drink bepop cola all day long.
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world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
That desk is useless without Zorak.
I'm sure now that the US economy is on an upturn every parent will be buying one of these for their 5 little dumplings!
Honestly, isn't this desk worth more than quite a large percentage of US houses? (I live in the UK where the house prices are higher so correct me if I'm wrong...).
I seriously think this has to be a joke, they've obviously made the price so insanely prohibative that no-one in their right mind is going to buy one of these things. I'm pretty sure I could walk down to the local furniture shop, where I know this guy who is a seriously ancient master carpenter (he built fitted wardrobes last year, they're the best-built piece of furniture in my home), and get him to make me one of these for a far more reasonable price.
Just give any decent carpenter the dimensions of the screen, fridge, etc and I'm sure he'll come up with something better if you throw $40K at him!
pretending does not change anything/help any of us, with the possible exception of the greed/fear/ego based MiSinformation industrIE. tell 'em robbIE?
I suspect that these products are vastly expesive as they have been designed but never prototyped.
The idea is probably to get a certain ammount of orders placed before a design is actually built. Judging by the lack of Real Life(tm) photos as opposed to the CG ones, they aren't getting very many orders.
I mean - would you pay $99,995 so your kid could live in Dexter's bedroom??
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
i built a desk to replace my case - so I'm not sure if it's a case mod, or a desk mod -- either way, i have no case now -- my entire pc is hidden inside my desk (except the monitor). When in "desk mode" the pc is invisible. You can pull out a drawer and tweak the mobo. Or fold down the drawer front to use the keyboard & mouse & access the drives.
geeks are cats who dig a certain kind of cool
Looks pretty good. All it needs is a rackmount.
The unofficial
WOAH. Those are like, teh ultimate desk. Now I know what I want for Christmas! (fat chance I'll get one considering how expensive they look, though!).
I thought the days of this kind of excess would have ended (remember the Lego desk?) Perhaps there's still a few dotcoms clinging to life and this is the final blow needed to finish them off.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If you read the small print for each product on the Ultimate Gifts page, it says that they take between 8 and 20 weeks for delivery.
But this is the "Ultimate Holiday Gifts page and anything you order from it (if you are that daft) will arrive several weeks after the Holiday season is over.
Dodgy advertising methinks........
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
appears so.
.confused buy stuff that doesn't really matter?
could be heis just temporaly
call them up and convince them to be a guest or guest host on one of their 15 minute episodes. I mean, did they actually expect just anyone to attempt to buy it? It'd have to be a raving fan. Probably a successful person who is secretly a fan.
Hmm...
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Get Harvey Birdman's 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner. Nice.
1971 "Harvey Birdman" Plymouth Roadrunner.
::drooling, babbling::
::cough:: Classic.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
It not only fits perfectly into my kid's tree house but it is comparativlely very cheap too.
It says shipping is included in the price! It's not that bad!
(I feel a need to say "just kidding", for less intelligent of you)
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...why not spend 25 dollars more and get the Space Ghost Coast to Coast Season 1 DVD as well, which comes out on the 18th of November. (Clicky)
Or you can skip the desk altogether and just get the DVD.
How is this funny? It seems like everyday is "Give Mod Points to Idiots" day on Slashdot.
Mod parent up!
The idiot.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Thanks to the Bush economy, I can barely afford a Meatwad Plush Doll!
That isnt 40K worth of stuff... Sure 2 or 3 grand.. but not 40....
---- Booth was a patriot ----
does it include a button to zap Zorak?
Learn something new.
39,995?
Maybe at 3,995 it would be okay.
I am really amazed at how many people are actually complaining about the price! I really should collect all of your names so that I can have a really fun first of April...
And even if you did get the joke, it is hardly worth the bandwidth. I would complain that /. has gone down the tubes, but hasn't it always been like this?
The more I sift out the bad jokes, and on slashdot there are only bad jokes (more acurately, the same bad jokes repeated endlessly), the more I am merely left with the original post, a reply shouting out that it has been /.'ed, and a follow-up listing the mirror.
I hope that once the US is done "disarming" Iraq they can take a moment to disarm all geeks or their joke rendering portions of their brain.
To be more accurate, I think we may need to do some research as geeks (as represented on slashdot) clearly do not have that portion of the brain to generate jokes, but instead have something severely wrong with some other part of their heads...
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Um..Buy?, where is the .Torrent ?
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Well, they are like ghosts aren't they???
Hair today, gone tomorrow!
Um, did we just Slashdot his desk (mental image of custom desk in flames )
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Cool desk^h^h^^h ATX case ...
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It's an advertising ploy.
Neiman-Marcus has been doing this with their Christmas catalogs for years. They always include one or two outrageous gifts. His and her helicopters, anyone? Your own oil derrick? Dinner with Walter Cronkite?
They don't actually want anyone to order the stuff, thats why the price is so ridiculous. If you're willing to pay $40K, they'll probably be willing to hire someone to craft a custom, one-of-a-kind desk, and pocket the change. Same thing with the other gifts.
The idea is to drive traffic to the site, which seems to have worked. People go to see the Powerpuff girls bedroom, but while they're there they see DVD's, t-shirts, games... more mundane stuff. And some of them will buy.
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
Yeah, I can find you a place in a struggling old Eastern manufacturing town with built-in crack dealers and free "Cops"-style entertainment as gunfire punctuates the mid-summer air... I would've taken one myself for the easy access to smack but I heard the ho's were really all men.
Maybe in the midwest... in the dustbowl.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
If you look at the Dexter's lab bedroom, they clearly have a G4 painted black with a 17" apple monitor.
But...
In the text, they list an HP with a 15" monitor.
The fact that you know these things (or I'm assuming you do... I have no idea), tells me that you spend too much time in front of your TV. Put down the Twinkies, and back sloowly away from your TV.
For the non Australians it looks like a Toilet. So for those of you who'd like a desk that looks like a shitter .... there ya go. :-D
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... But for the true geek, you need a whole la-bor-a-tory.
No thanks, I'll take the "pro" version with the 17" screen for $60K.
I bet most
I want one of these....
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/desk.html
hmm...bizzaro
Here's my bet for the torough silliness going on here:
Some CN exec got it in his head that a Cartoon Network amusment park might be a good idea, and flogged some lackey into checking out actual costs involved in creating real-life versions of lavish cartoon sets and props.
Lackey comes back with conservative figures, hoping to keep his job and push the project forward. Exec's superior sees figures and says to himself, "Hey, that's not that expensive. Let's sell them to the public! After all, there's 270 million people in America, surely a few dozen are rich and gullible enough to buy these extravagances!"
Bet on stupid, and you win every time.
Happiness is relative, Based upon the way we live.
...is a nicely finished hunk of wood about 3' x 6' in size. Those "desks" you can get at ikea that are nothing more than semi-nice tables are good for holding a monitor, a phone, and a ton of other junk.
Really, hutches are ususally unusable unstable junk, not to mention how they eat up space.
its not complicated, its a desk.
And I'd STILL buy that space ghost desk if I have an extra $40K, 'cause - let's face it - its friggin cool.
s'wut i sed.
Why do you assume they meant the Christmas holiday? You got some sort of problem with Valentine's Day?
Or Human Resources, even better. Imagine getting interviewed with that black ghost staring at you, and the interviewer's face lit by the desk from below like you did with a flashlight when you were a kid....
Zorak: Whats ya'll dooin...
(laughter)
Space Ghost: Where did you learn to talk like that!
Zorak: Hattiesburg...
Space Ghost: And what were you dooing in Hattiesburg???
Zorak: Kicken it...
thats exactly what id be dooing with this desk... kicken it... in hattiesburg... (or perhaps bethesda maryland)
Here's a real desk worthy of slashdot. I designed it myself and am using it right now. Go see my computer table for some pictures. Why this strange contraption? It allows me to lie flat on my back with my desk suspended above me. I attach my computer to the rotatable desktop for perfect keyboard and display positioning. It sure helps me keep working while I recover from back problems. Not cool, but somewhat practical.
Management likes very cool looking desks to impress the employees and clients. I've seen many that are made of rich woods, have every kind of electronic doodad embedded in it, automated, and customized to the max. The purpose of such a desk is not to work, but to impress clients, and to intimidate employees. As such its a management toy, just as the managers rolex, the managers jag, and the managers important photos on the ego wall. A worker has a functional desk, and wouldn't be caught dead behind the space-ghost desk. My desk at work has two monitors, the space ghost desk can only hold one recesed. The underlit desktop looks cool, but it'll make papers hard to read on the desktop, I'd prefer my hologen superbright lamp ($29). Where on that desk does the keyboard go?? I don't know who would want a fridge in the desk, I'd want the printer in there though so free up the desktop. This doesn't mean a workers desk can't look cool. There was a photo contest on /. that showed snapshots of cool tech desks, but was taken offline. Its just that the cool looking workers desk is completely different than the cool looking management desk. One is intended to facilite work, the other isn't.
I actually spent a lot of time trying to find a good computer desk for my home office. I didn't want to spend a ton of money, so unfortunately, that means pressboard type furniture. After looking through tons of websites, I found what I was looking for.
U shaped workstation
It allows me to easily fit 3 monitors on the desk and with a swivel of the chair, I feel like I'm at command central. Furniturebuzz is a pretty decent store and had the cheapest prices around.
Now if I can only find a good full duplex speakerphone that doesn't cost 200 bucks.
Live web cams
Nifty... how much do they cost? Couldn't find actual prices on the site...
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Well mr Karma Whore, trying to appeal to the LCD are we?
You are of course missing the entire point, Why don't you think about this again and come back when you have a better answer.
Your welcome.
Once upon a time, when VA Linux shares went up 700% on a single day, Poetic Technology had prices on the website. Now they have seem to taken them down, you need to follow the prices link and fill out the sheet before they'll make a quotation. I seem to remember that the Aura was about USD 50-70,000
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
Why the fuck is this funny? Come to think of it this entire topic is a comedy graveyard.
I would much rather have Dillenger's desk from TRON!!!
heh... i wonder what it would be like to have that kind of money to spend on a desk...
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
My desk was a lot cheaper and I like it a lot more. That and it has a lot more screen real estate.
Besides, mine also runs OS X.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
At least the rosewood antique from the 1880s that I'm using now never got a virus or gave me BSOD.
Same story with my wristwatch from the 1960s or my 1972 Buick.
The old ways are STILL best. When all that high tech schitt runs its course, us low techs will survive.
More features means more schitt to break down.
This post made with the Dvorak layout.
"Friends don't let friends use QWERTY"
I personally think Rusty's In-desk PC is the slickest I've seen. Optimised for silence too.
- HOORAY!
Here in the Midwest we call them things "doors".
If you remove that doorknob dookickey, there's a nice hole in the desk, right along the back, for all the cables to go through.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
This stuff is so obsurdly overpriced for what you get they must be doing it to rake in some change
Show how the kids bedrooms are worth 100 Grand each!
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