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."
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.
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
by
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.
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.
so it lights up when you touch it...
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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?
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,
And an Apple G5 'Sphere' would roll off your desk..
http://twitter.com/onion2k
"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.
I don't know. I guess I'll ask the guys who are giving my car a colonoscopy to look at the sparkplugs.
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."