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Apple Design Award Cube Spills Its Guts

GlenLow writes "It's amazing what some Apple Design Award winners do in the name of science. This one subjected his to a cone beam CT scan and revealed Apple's design sense extends even to a competition trophy. What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes, cubes, cubes anyway?"

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  1. One word... by Marx_Mrvelous · · Score: 2, Funny

    Borg!

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  2. Jobs likes cubes because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Jobs likes Calandans.

  3. DMCA! by talieos · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's been reverse engineered! Here come the lawsuit! :)

  4. Why a Cube? by CajunArson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously Eh Steve Jobs is jealous of the Slashdot Borg icon that Bill gets. He wants to be Eh Steve of Borg* too, and hence has a subconcious cube fetish.
    * Note that all of his borg cubes would have incredibly slick industrial plastic colors instead of that ugly guts-showing Bill O-the-Borg look.

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    1. Re:Why a Cube? by jb.hl.com · · Score: 3, Funny

      He wants to be Eh Steve of Borg* too

      Steve Jobs? Eh Steve?

      I hate you purely for the mental image that idea produces.

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  5. Re:What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe he's trying to be square?

    pictures

  6. Re:Mirror by jshark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, slahsdotting two sites in one posting. Wonder what the record is?

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  7. Re:Clarity by TAGmclaren · · Score: 1, Funny
    Whew...that wasn't so hard, was it?


    maybe not, but what will be is the DMCA lawsuit coming your way for reverse engineering the story write up
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  8. Re:Clarity by jacksonj04 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So hang on... it's powered bu over-the-counter AA batteries as opposed to some proprietary (although very well designed) Apple battery? I don't believe it!

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  9. It's Cubes because if it was 1 x 4 x 9 slabs... by vkg · · Score: 4, Funny

    everybody would know that Jobs was here from Another Dimension to accelerate human evolution.

    Duh!

  10. Re:What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ? by onion2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    And an Apple G5 'Sphere' would roll off your desk..

  11. because it's HIP to be SQUARE! by m33p · · Score: 3, Funny

    doncha know!

    1. Re:because it's HIP to be SQUARE! by bedouin · · Score: 2, Funny

      In '87, Huey released this..."Fore," their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square." The song's so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.

  12. Developers, Developers, Developers. by ro_coyote · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes, cubes, cubes anyway?"

    He's just jealous of Ballmer's "Developers, Developers, Developers"?

  13. stereotypes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just have to point out that I've met plenty of perfectly straight women that use Macs.

  14. Re:What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ? by Stinking+Pig · · Score: 3, Funny

    wake me up when there's a Klein bottle mac: http://www.kleinbottle.com/

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  15. I don't know how to feel. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Should I be disgusted that some geeks were scared to take something apart because "they might break it", or should I be filled with pride that they used a multi-million dollar piece of equipment rather than a screwdriver to look at the internals?

    I don't know. I guess I'll ask the guys who are giving my car a colonoscopy to look at the sparkplugs.

  16. Re:CT Scanning is science, not diddling images.. by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you want to make a horrible movie of your shitty band and send a DVD to grandma, you know which platform to use. Obviously if you need to do REAL work, you pick up the other one.

    Hey! Some of us poor saps are forced to use a PC for "real work" too, as much as we wish our jobs let us use a Mac.

    Not all PCs are owned by mindless Kazaa who click on every attachment they recieve, fill the drives with spyware, share fake naked photos of britney spears, and spam our grandmothers with trojan infested email.

  17. so it lights up when you touch it... by vena · · Score: 4, Funny

    but does it moo when you turn it upside down?

  18. Re:What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ? by rxmd · · Score: 2, Funny
    wake me up when there's a Klein bottle mac
    Intel inside!?

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