Forums | MacLife

it think i know what this is about, and i'm not giving you any money, zac.

zac, seriously... you are practically BEGGING for a few dollars of Jill's money.

get your hands out of my pockets and into some work gloves.... time to earn your keep.

if you want, ill talk to my uncle to see if he could use some help down at the docks.

You're going to have to speak a whole lot louder for the powers at the mag to hear you.     I suggest the direct approach.  An e-mail to letters@macaddict.com might work . . . .

Will this robot be able to sell cars to keep up with the competition?

If Jobs announces it, people will buy it.   

*ahem*..cube?

If Jobs announces it, people will buy it.   

*ahem*..cube?

Dammit! You beat me to it! I just had to read that stupid cat story and waste time, all the while I could be mocking the cube

Obsessed with the idea of Zen perfection, Jobs had his designers create the first NeXT computer in the shape of a cube -- a heavy magnesium cube that was expensive to produce and difficult to ship. Convinced that networked computers were the way of the future, Jobs banned the floppy disk from NeXT's first machine -- a decision that made distribution a challenge for software developers.

Convinced that CD-ROMs were a passing fad but that rewritable optical storage was the way of the future, Jobs signed a deal with Canon to equip every NeXTcube computer with a 256MB magneto-optical drive -- a drive that proved to be finicky, unreliable, noisy, and incredibly slow.

The NeXT computer had a proprietary keyboard, proprietary mouse, proprietary video display, and even a proprietary laser printer. In a world that was increasingly moving to commodity computers running third-party operating systems like Windows, NeXT was retrograde.

On second thought, the cube is kind of depressing.