 | | What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Todd Lehman
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| | | What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? What would be different? What would be the same? What would the software titles be like? What would the website be like? What would the idea books be like? What would the overall product designs be like? How (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Adrian Drake
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| | | | | (...) He'd have let Bill Gates steal the idea for the brick and MicroBlok would be the king of the building block empire. Microblok would make inferior products, but would force all toy buyers to also purchase their product. Meanwhile, Steve's Lego (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Hmmm, some might point out an unexpected parallel... Note that neither TLC or Apple were the originator of their signature idea (well, in Apple's case, their 2nd signature idea), and some might argue they "stole" the idea from the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | (...) The product line would be divided into: Adult desktop sets, Adult portable sets, Junorized desktop sets and Junorized portable sets. Titanium bricks only available in Adult Portable sets. Pretty new friut flavored transparent bricks in the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Jim Hughes
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| | | | | (...) Alot of transparent bricks :) Seriously -- he would try to run the company with an iron fist but not have a clue about what they actually do (Im sorry -- thats Pixar!!) He would cancel every product and project that was in place before he took (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Now that's one thing I sure would like to see... Having just looked at the Swedish catalog, I'm excited by the little pile of transparent bricks in each of the new Belville sets. Frank (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | (...) <sits back and waits for PC Nazis to make snide comments> (...) Mmmmm, yes. There's a possibility I may have one at work later this year. <cross fingers> ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | (...) I hear it becomes even more likely if you get on a waiting list for one! f.u.t. geek (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | | | (...) Heh. Well, when I say "later" I mean "fall" or even "winter" In any case, it has to go through several layers of bureaucracy first. Our IS manager was talking about how the bean counters want him to list all of the entire next year's IS (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Don't have to necessarily be a PC Nazi to see Apple as 60% hype / 40% product. :) Although you'd have to be a nice PC user to be that generous. (...) They're cheap enough for now, although you'd have to slap another 64m minimum in that (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | (...) Huh? The 400mhz model comes with 128mb. That's livable. 256 is swimming. (But some games--theme park world for one--now demand 80mb ram.. won't be long til their kind refuse to run..) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) You're right. Hrmmm - maybe I saw a price list at the computer store on campus with a misprint or something, or maybe I'm thinking of the low-end iBook. Ok, out of the box the $2500 (guess we get a whole $100 off for educational purchases - (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | (...) Urggghhhh......... My PowerBook dealer, Scott, told me I maybe can have a 500 mhz Powerbook G4 tomorrow if I want it! (assuming they materialize in the morning as expected.) I'm going to hold off until a 400 mhz model comes in. Ooh... (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | (...) Whoops. My dealer (DataVision) called. Scott only needed 3 words: "I want it!" While I was picking it up, I got the sense that if I'd been a few minutes tardy it would have gone to someone else. Installing software......... (23 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) And what a nice machine you got. You never NDA'd me, so I can talk about your software? Steve (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | You can talk about my software, Steve... it's even on the web too. More of the this story: (...) Scott from Datavision called again today! "Everything ok there? I just received 4 or 5 of the 400mhz units. You know anyone waiting for one?" As a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) I heard somewhere (I think it was a discussion group on a Mac fansite) that the 400 MHz units didn't play DVD's as smoothly as the 500 MHz units. I can't remember if that was on battery power or plugged in. My Vaio C1VN (powered by a 600 MHz (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I guess I won't be able to test this from my position. (...) The other cool machine on sale! (...) Yup. It's $900 difference, for a faster CPU, +128mb SO-DIMM (not sure if separate chip), and +10gb disk. The last two items are about $100 each (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | | | | Oops. I looked closely at my experiment with Marc Atkin's movie, "2001: A Lego Odyssey". It's not so easy to compress. The Sorenson 2 video codec does ruin the quality. Maybe it would improve with the professional package -- the basic codec suffers (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) Which, if you're a road warrior, you would leave home. People ask me why I drag out my laptop to listen to MP3s on the plane, when a CD player (or an MP3 player or minidisk player, Sony has one that is the size of a minidisk plus a very small (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Do you bring your forearm mounted mini-crossbow, Lar? ;^D ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) No, I use the one built into my laptop. Less to carry that way. ++Lar (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Is it hot-swappable with the optional poison dart launcher? ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I've tried to cut back on launching poison darts... but it's hard. Very hard. My most effective weapon in project reviews is probably the acid pen, though. ++Lar (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) But it's so messy. I use a laser pen, myself. Plus, you can turn down the intensity and use it as a pointer. ;^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Properly equipped with physical weapons, any piker can inflict physical harm (did I just make a pun? Whoops). It takes real talent to use an acid pen, though, as the acid is virtual. Come to one of my project reviews some time (for a seriously (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) The acid pen is, if I'm interpreting Lar correctly, from the same class of weapon as the razor wit and the pointed review. :) James (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yeah, the guy across the aisle from on last week's flight from New York was watching "Midnight Cowboy" on his Vaio. Pretty Cool, if you're really jonesing for a personal inflight movie. Steve (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | Trimmed .geek (about 3 posts too late, sorry folks!) (...) Give the man a (non exploding) cigar. :-) (I think I'm on to something here... I'm saying it takes *no* talent to wield a real weapon, but it takes *real* talent to wield a virtual weapon. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —James Brown
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| | | | | | (...) Well, if you want to close the circle, then virtual talent is good for nothing. ;) James (fond of the barbed comment, myself...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?) —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | | (...) There's always the cutting remark. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —John D. Forinash
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| | | | | (...) This is an even more interesting question, because it implies that Woz designed Lego instead of computers. After all, without Woz, Steve Jobs is just another drugged-up early '70s hippie. :) (To be fair, without Jobs, Woz is just another (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | (...) It's interesting how we have made action figures out of industrial legends. We imagine new adventures for them, going on to command such-and-such a ship, turning the world inside out, or just repeating the favorite hero moves to comic effect. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Steve Demlow
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| | | | | | (...) Purple + SPUDs == Barney Lego?! Ack!!! Steve (dreading the day that his toddler is old enough to like Barney... or Steve Jobs) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? —Robert M. Dye
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| | | | | in article G8AxvF.9w@lugnet.com, Erik Olson at olsone@spamcop.net wrote on 2/5/2001 2:50 PM: (...) Oh no, oh NOOOOO. I feel another fun thread coming on... We have had "What would happen if Steve Jobs ran the LEGO company?" I *think* we already did (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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| | | | | Re: What if Gilligan ran The LEGO Company? —Robert M. Dye
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| | | | "What would happen if Gilligan ran the LEGO company?" There would alway be the hope that maybe, just MAYBE, this time they would get it completely right, and everyone would be happy. But at the last minute, just when things seemed most hopeful, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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