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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?"
Yeah but the most interesting part
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Interesting
Part of the hardware used to do this was a... hang on... Pentium 4 2.4Ghz PC Workstation. Lol
What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ?
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C0vardeAn0nim0
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the cube is a primitive 3D geometrical construct. in other other words: it's simple. and for what i know of steve, that's what he wants from his machines: to be as simple as possible for the end user, thus the cube shape.
-- What ? Me, worry ?
Reminds me a bit of the Shakers
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FearUncertaintyDoubt
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He had a remark in the article about how the design beauty extends to even the inner parts of the cube which are not seen. That reminds me of the Shakers, who would labor to make even the unseen parts of their furniture or other crafts as well-constructed as the visible ones.
Another example it makes me think of is when I was watching the documentaries on the extended LOTR discs. The level of detail they would go to for things that were only on-screen for a moment, or in the background, was incredible. They could have skimped on any one thing and it would have not been noticeable. But taken together, they give the film a feel of authenticity.
I guess the thing that runs through all of these is that quality is about what's inside as well as what's outside. Too bad most software projects don't follow that rule.
Problem on electrical function.
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Anonymous Coward
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If the cube worked as described, then sneakers or a plastic table would defeat the circuit " loop closed by the earth."
Far more likely is that it uses a capacitive oscillator that looks for a change in frequency. The touch of a conductive material ( hand ) serves to increase the capacitance and thus usually drop the frequency relative to a control frequency. Note that voltage and current are both very low for this application; probably a few mV and nA or uA not things that a cheep meeter would be able to detect.
On the other hand, if it does not require touch but just a close proximity movement, then it may be radar based.
Any thoughts; I can't get to the info/pics necessary to do anything beyond theorizing
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Part of the hardware used to do this was a... hang on... Pentium 4 2.4Ghz PC Workstation. Lol
the cube is a primitive 3D geometrical construct. in other other words: it's simple. and for what i know of steve, that's what he wants from his machines: to be as simple as possible for the end user, thus the cube shape.
What ? Me, worry ?
Another example it makes me think of is when I was watching the documentaries on the extended LOTR discs. The level of detail they would go to for things that were only on-screen for a moment, or in the background, was incredible. They could have skimped on any one thing and it would have not been noticeable. But taken together, they give the film a feel of authenticity.
I guess the thing that runs through all of these is that quality is about what's inside as well as what's outside. Too bad most software projects don't follow that rule.
If the cube worked as described, then sneakers or a plastic table would defeat the circuit " loop closed by the earth ."
Far more likely is that it uses a capacitive oscillator that looks for a change in frequency. The touch of a conductive material ( hand ) serves to increase the capacitance and thus usually drop the frequency relative to a control frequency. Note that voltage and current are both very low for this application; probably a few mV and nA or uA not things that a cheep meeter would be able to detect.
On the other hand, if it does not require touch but just a close proximity movement, then it may be radar based.
Any thoughts; I can't get to the info/pics necessary to do anything beyond theorizing
His obsession for cubes is obviously inappropriate. Everyone knows that geeks prefer flat things.