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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. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Lar, Did the topic of "WINDOWS" come up at all?? Old, new, current or other colors?? Besides Train windows that is.... Gary Istok (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And the Studebaker company isn't selling a lot of cars these days even though the Gullwing was an elegant, high quality machine. So was the Avanti. (...) In the area of web sites they have... and *thank goodness* for that. (1) The technology (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 - (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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..) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, because what's really important in my choice of a computer is how it looks, what shape it is, and what colors it comes in. :) And just think, if I want to run some of those highly-tweaked Photoshop filter benchmarks Jobs is so fond of I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I hear it becomes even more likely if you get on a waiting list for one! f.u.t. geek (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm not really too worried about what he may or may not have said or thought or did back in 1983-84 -- it's the recent stuff that counts, IMHO. Since Jobs came back to Apple, things have greatly improved. Jobs has excellent taste knows how to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Steve Jobs? The man who thought that no one would ever need to add anything to the original Mac so he sealed the case. If he ran LEGO we might never be able to get into the the box to play with the LEGO. (I know, not a great analogy, but I am (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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