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RIMM's LEGO Machines Test Blackberry

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pirate-and-space-accessories-optional dept.

LEGO - my - Crackberry writes "Matthias Wandel is an engineer at Research in Motion (RIMM), the company that makes the Blackberry. What did RIMM turn to for testing the antenna reception of one of its 900MHz devices? LEGO machines. Specifically a device made of LEGO that could rotate a Blackberry about its horizontal & vertical axis in a pre-defined pattern."

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  1. It's not "Legos," it would be "legos." However... by relifram66 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Please do not generalize based on your limited anecdotal knowledge.

    YOU grew up calling them "legos." That is because your parents, or the people who introduced you to the LEGO Play System (TM), were uneducated on the subject, or simply did not care. I grew up calling the toy by its proper name: LEGO

    "Grammar Nazis" used to be called something different: Parents and schoolteachers. It is unfortunate that many of the finer points of the English language are falling by the wayside. Improper English grammar tends to make a writer seem incompetent and ignorant, sometimes even stupid. It is not without reason that bad grammar incenses some of us.