Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the something-to-see dept.
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?"
If I were an HR manager at Apple, I would never EVER consider offering these guys a job. I'd want them exactly where they are, trying to figure out the secret of life, and working with people who are trying to cure cancer.
Apple is a true innovator
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Insightful
And I've never said otherwise. They mix outstanding engineering with common, everyday bailing wire and duct tape.
Highly functional. Well engineered.
I only have a problem with the cost of it. Sure, when you buy a MAC, you're supporting all of their other remarkable ventures. But at the end of the day, I'm a gamer and I want to play games. More games are ported to MAC, rather than ported from MAC.
Apple has been, and continues to be, an excellent engineering company. I would rather take half of Microsoft's cash, and hand it right over to Apple.
But I'm sure as hell not giving up my Opterons...
Re:Reminds me a bit of the Shakers
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Shky
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Can you begin to imagine how terribly crappy a direct translation from book-to-screen would be? I've read the books a few times, and they're great. I've watched the movies more times than I can count too. I love them both in their own mediums.
thanks to the massive cut-offs of the background history
I'm a huge fan of the books, but I would have walked out if they'd kept in all the little bits of history that were in the books. On-screen that stuff can get way too boring way too fast.
the shortcuts taken in the story line
Remember that not everyone has read the books, so most people wouldn't even care if Frodo was supposed to have the ring for a long time before he left the Shire. And most of the people who have read the books just don't care that they worked around that, because in the long run, it doesn't matter. Also, in the interest of keeping the movies under 10 hours, they can't show every little bit of exposition that's in the books. It's just not practical.
the characters that looked like B-rate rock stars
I don't even understand what you're talking about here. Ian McKellen doesn't strike me as a man that's gonna throw up the devil horns and then break into a guitar solo, but I guess that's just me.
but "authentic" is about the most wrong way to describe them
Authentic is exactly how they should be described, because that's a very authentic LOTR movie. Again, a direct book-to-screen translation would suck, like, hardcore.
-- CC Licensed Serialized Story and Podcast: Ingenioustries
If you don't know what you're doing...
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jeko
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· Score: 4, Insightful
... go learn what you're doing before you irrevocably break something. Especially on something that's non-disposable.
Not just plunging in and trying to crack the thing open isn't cowardice on their part. It's wisdom. And using a non-invasive tool to get the job done is the sign of a working brain.
-- He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
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If I were an HR manager at Apple, I would never EVER consider offering these guys a job. I'd want them exactly where they are, trying to figure out the secret of life, and working with people who are trying to cure cancer.
And I've never said otherwise. They mix outstanding engineering with common, everyday bailing wire and duct tape.
Highly functional. Well engineered.
I only have a problem with the cost of it. Sure, when you buy a MAC, you're supporting all of their other remarkable ventures. But at the end of the day, I'm a gamer and I want to play games. More games are ported to MAC, rather than ported from MAC.
Apple has been, and continues to be, an excellent engineering company. I would rather take half of Microsoft's cash, and hand it right over to Apple.
But I'm sure as hell not giving up my Opterons...
Can you begin to imagine how terribly crappy a direct translation from book-to-screen would be? I've read the books a few times, and they're great. I've watched the movies more times than I can count too. I love them both in their own mediums.
thanks to the massive cut-offs of the background history
I'm a huge fan of the books, but I would have walked out if they'd kept in all the little bits of history that were in the books. On-screen that stuff can get way too boring way too fast.
the shortcuts taken in the story line
Remember that not everyone has read the books, so most people wouldn't even care if Frodo was supposed to have the ring for a long time before he left the Shire. And most of the people who have read the books just don't care that they worked around that, because in the long run, it doesn't matter. Also, in the interest of keeping the movies under 10 hours, they can't show every little bit of exposition that's in the books. It's just not practical.
the characters that looked like B-rate rock stars
I don't even understand what you're talking about here. Ian McKellen doesn't strike me as a man that's gonna throw up the devil horns and then break into a guitar solo, but I guess that's just me.
but "authentic" is about the most wrong way to describe them
Authentic is exactly how they should be described, because that's a very authentic LOTR movie. Again, a direct book-to-screen translation would suck, like, hardcore.
CC Licensed Serialized Story and Podcast: Ingenioustries
Not just plunging in and trying to crack the thing open isn't cowardice on their part. It's wisdom. And using a non-invasive tool to get the job done is the sign of a working brain.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."