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?"
Great story write-up. Just superlative. Let's re-write and make it clear:
"A group of students won the Apple [Computer] Design Award in June for a program called 4Peaks. For winning the award, they received a 'trophy,' which is a metal cube with an Apple logo on top. When you touch the cube, it glows. Curious as to how this works, the students decided to take their 'trophy' cube into a CT scanner and have it scanned to see what was inside. The linked pictures (in the Slashdot writeup) are what the inside of the cube looks like. Neat looking."
Whew...that wasn't so hard, was it?
What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ?
by
C0vardeAn0nim0
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· Score: 3, Interesting
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 ?
Re:What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ?
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onion2k
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· Score: 5, Funny
And an Apple G5 'Sphere' would roll off your desk..
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.
-- AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Reminds me a bit of the Shakers
by
FearUncertaintyDoubt
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· Score: 5, Interesting
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.
Re:Reminds me a bit of the Shakers
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Shky
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· Score: 3, Insightful
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
It's Cubes because if it was 1 x 4 x 9 slabs...
by
vkg
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· Score: 4, Funny
everybody would know that Jobs was here from Another Dimension to accelerate human evolution.
stereotypes
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 4, Funny
I just have to point out that I've met plenty of perfectly straight women that use Macs.
Apple is a true innovator
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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...
I don't know how to feel.
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teamhasnoi
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· 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.
Re:CT Scanning is science, not diddling images..
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Karma+Farmer
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· 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.
so it lights up when you touch it...
by
vena
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· Score: 4, Funny
but does it moo when you turn it upside down?
If you don't know what you're doing...
by
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."
Slashdot Mirror
Great story write-up. Just superlative. Let's re-write and make it clear:
"A group of students won the Apple [Computer] Design Award in June for a program called 4Peaks. For winning the award, they received a 'trophy,' which is a metal cube with an Apple logo on top. When you touch the cube, it glows. Curious as to how this works, the students decided to take their 'trophy' cube into a CT scanner and have it scanned to see what was inside. The linked pictures (in the Slashdot writeup) are what the inside of the cube looks like. Neat looking."
Whew...that wasn't so hard, was it?
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 ?
It's been reverse engineered! Here come the lawsuit! :)
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.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Wow, slahsdotting two sites in one posting. Wonder what the record is?
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.
Here's the mirrordot mirror:a 90885a6bb255d38/index.html
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/1175a21b287ffa85
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.
everybody would know that Jobs was here from Another Dimension to accelerate human evolution.
Duh!
Hexayurt - open source refugee shelter,
doncha know!
"What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes, cubes, cubes anyway?"
He's just jealous of Ballmer's "Developers, Developers, Developers"?
I just have to point out that I've met plenty of perfectly straight women that use Macs.
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...
I don't know. I guess I'll ask the guys who are giving my car a colonoscopy to look at the sparkplugs.
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.
but does it moo when you turn it upside down?
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."