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Inside the Lego Master Builder Search
blackdefiance writes "As most self-respecting geeks know, Lego is currently searching for a new Master Builder to hold the enviable position of building with Lego all day and getting paid for the privilege. One applicant describes the nerve-wracking experience of going through the first-round interview."
Apple have come up with some innovative products, but their market share remains tiny. Sadly, though, many buyers have been mislead by the marketing and eye-candy, and desperately try to justify their overpriced purchases to themselves on forums around the Net. Let's see what they really mean...
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
first lug!
finaly its here. Perhaps one should consider changing from 2.4.x now that the 2.6.1 is here.
What do you guys (and gals) think?
Before clicking on that Live Journal link, you should know that you will immediately be exposed to many avatars featuring photos of very ugly guys. You recieve over 2000% of the FDA recommended daily allowance of eye-to-nerd contact every 30 seconds you stare at the page. Excessive eye-to-nerd contact may lead to nausea and explosive diaherrea.
Isn't this rather sloppy writing by this guy in the article? At first I was enjoying hearing his story about lego building, but I couldn't help but to get annoyed by his choice of words. Is this what were teaching kids today? Probably is spelled prolly, because is spelled cuz. It is just a lazy way of saying what you really want to say.
My god, the poster, and all of his friends that posted look so gay! Of course I suppose they could be metrosexuals, but I am inclined to believe otherwise. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with them being gay, but that it is just the gayest thing I have ever seen posted on the frontpage of slashdot. All i will say is "Gay Bingo"
Oh and congratulations to this "Jamie" fellow.
OMG... ROTFLMAO ;)
Jesus, I am going to build a baseball bat out of legos and bash that fucker's skull in if he says LOL just ONE more god damn time.
How is this off-topic? Genuinely curious.