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...of SCIENCE! posted:According to his biography, Steve Jobs was ridiculously pissed off at the fact that after spending all this time obsessing over the design of the iPhone people were just slapping clunky, garish cases onto it and ruining it. I had heard that somewhere. That's pretty funny. To be fair Job's isn't entirely without blame though. The fist 6 or so years of iPod's turned into a scratched up lovely looking mess if you sneezed in their general direction, so by the time the iPhone came out people were pretty used to putting cases on their iCrap.
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NESguerilla posted:I had heard that somewhere. That's pretty funny. To be fair Job's isn't entirely without blame though. The fist 6 or so years of iPod's turned into a scratched up lovely looking mess if you sneezed in their general direction, so by the time the iPhone came out people were pretty used to putting cases on their iCrap. Jobs put form over function too much. Form is important, and lots of companies miss that and Apple gets it in spades, but they overemphasize it. Putting a giant piece of glass on the back of the iPhone that is completely unnecessary and exists only to break is terrible loving engineering. I don't care if the glass looks slick. The back should be made of aluminum or rubber; there's no screen there, so there's no reason for glass. 
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Jun 26, 2013 19:09
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Zaphod42 posted:Jobs put form over function too much. Form is important, and lots of companies miss that and Apple gets it in spades, but they overemphasize it. Luckily they solved this with the iPhone 5. Mostly.
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TheJoker138 posted:Luckily they solved this with the iPhone 5. Mostly.
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Zaphod42 posted:Putting a giant piece of glass on the back of the iPhone that is completely unnecessary and exists only to break is terrible loving engineering. I don't care if the glass looks slick. The back should be made of aluminum or rubber; there's no screen there, so there's no reason for glass. Actually, there's a perfectly good reason to have a piece of glass there, especially if its purpose is to break: because it effectively creates a crumple zone that takes all the energy out of it being dropped on concrete, and is quick and easy (and cheap) to replace as opposed to having the same things happen to the internal circuitry or the touch screen. Aluminium may crumple well enough, but will it eat up as much energy? And rubber makes the thing look like a bargain-bin chew toy rather than a high-end piece of personal electronics, so sacrificial glass it is… …in theory. Whether it actually works is a different story.
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I know I'm contributing to a stupid derail but one of the primary reasons behind the glass back was for (multiple kinds of) antenna reception. That's also the entire reason behind the black plastic panels on the original iPhone/most iPod touch models/cellular-enabled iPads and part of the logic behind the plastic shells on the 3g/3gs. Someone at Apple (probably Jobs and/or Ive) wanted something fancier than plastic for the 4 and they went with glass to arguably positive results- since the number of people who've owned one of these phones without incident is probably several orders of magnitude larger than the number of people who've shattered theirs (yeah yeah, protective cases and whatever...). This is also why the iPhone 5 has those ceramic/glass panels in the back. There are antennas behind them.
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Rudager posted:I keep mine in my top pocket, because otherwise I don't hear it when I'm wondering around the factory. You should pledge to my kickstarter then, it's called the pocket plummet preventer. Basically it's just a strip of velcro with double sided sticky tape on the back, you put in inside the top of your pocket so you can seal it up after you put your phone in, but without the need for an unsightly button or zipper. Ten bucks will get you 5 Pocket Plummet Preventers, which is only about a 1000% markup compared to just buying half a yard of sticky backed velcro at Joanns, but those pitch videos don't pay for themselves you know! (what I'm saying is, put velcro in the tops of your pockets so your phone doesn't keep falling out)
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I dare a nerd to come up to me with this pocket velcro bullshit, talking about supporting kickstarters on the 'internet'
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That velcro thing, uh... could probably actually make it on the site. (If it hasn't already) I don't know if this is a sad thing or a hilarious thing yet though.
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A fun update about a not-awful Kickstarter project, Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics fame) had a Kickstarter project for a Choose-your-own-adventure version of Hamlet called To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure which originally had a $20,000 goal and he offered to sign every physical copy sold. People ended up pledging over half a million bucks and the poor son of a bitch just spent several days signing over 13,000 books. Look at all these fuckin' books.  He wore a wrist guard and had a system where he'd sign a box of 14 books at a time, take a quick break, sign another boxful etc etc so he didn't gently caress up his hand. He also had a guy from the shipping company who'd unpack and repack the boxes for him and together they'd go through 30 boxes of books every hour. Apparently the Guinness World Record for Most Books Signed In A Single Session is 1951 books and Ryan signed 4340 on one day alone. The lesson is: cutesy pledge rewards can seem like a fun idea at the start of a project but holy gently caress can they come back and bite you on the rear end. His $500,000 stretch reward was that he would literally explode and he ended up having a model of his head created on a 3D printer and blowing that up.  I'm still waiting for him to complete the $450,000 stretch reward and eat a pizza shaped like Hamlet. 
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For a guy whose claim to fame is having a webcomic so lazy it's literally the exact same, completely unaltered images every day with MSPaint dialog changes, I would never expect him to follow through on those ridiculous promises. Good on him.
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Bloodnose posted:For a guy whose claim to fame is having a webcomic so lazy it's literally the exact same, completely unaltered images every day with MSPaint dialog changes, I would never expect him to follow through on those ridiculous promises. There is nothing lazy about dinosaur comics. It's just not art-driven.
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Apparently he went through 13 sharpies doing the signing, so each regular sharpie contains about 1,000 Ryan North signatures worth of ink.
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Bloodnose posted:For a guy whose claim to fame is having a webcomic so lazy it's literally the exact same, completely unaltered images every day with MSPaint dialog changes, I would never expect him to follow through on those ridiculous promises.
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senrath posted:They still haven't responded to my follow-up message See you say that, but can you argue against THIS?
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Bloodnose posted:For a guy whose claim to fame is having a webcomic so lazy it's literally the exact same, completely unaltered images every day with MSPaint dialog changes, I would never expect him to follow through on those ridiculous promises. I believe he did the writing for the official Adventure Time comic books as well.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:I know I'm contributing to a stupid derail but one of the primary reasons behind the glass back was for (multiple kinds of) antenna reception. Introducing the iTena, kickstarter to launch whenever I get around to it.  No, I did not rip the antenna off an old Nokia and glue it to an iPhone...or did I?
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senrath posted:Apparently he went through 13 sharpies doing the signing, so each regular sharpie contains about 1,000 Ryan North signatures worth of ink.
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This thread has trained me to expect shittiness from people who run Kickstarters, so I'm pleasantly surprised that he didn't try to find a loophole ("Well, I said my name in sign language at all of the boxes of books, so....")
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Song For The Deaf posted:This thread has trained me to expect shittiness from people who run Kickstarters, so I'm pleasantly surprised that he didn't try to find a loophole ("Well, I said my name in sign language at all of the boxes of books, so....") As part of the stretch rewards he'll also be sending a couple hundred free copies of the book to schools and libraries as well as about 2,500 plush Yorick skulls to his donors. They could've made those Yorick skulls teeny tiny but it looks like they're at least the size of a regular skull. Oh and the book is under a Creative Commons license and they had a live reading of the book for the internet where the audience picked the path etc etc etc.. As Kickstarter projects go it must be pretty much close to exactly how the KS people were hoping the projects would turn out when they created the site.
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Bloodnose posted:For a guy whose claim to fame is having a webcomic so lazy it's literally the exact same, completely unaltered images every day with MSPaint dialog changes, I would never expect him to follow through on those ridiculous promises. It sounds lazy at first, but reusing the same art while keeping the writing fresh and funny has to become a challenge after the first few dozen, let alone the two and half thousand he's done over the past decade.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It sounds lazy at first, but reusing the same art while keeping the writing fresh and funny has to become a challenge after the first few dozen, let alone the two and half thousand he's done over the past decade. When you put it that way it sounds more like OCD than an art career. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to4f-i28R_I You might've already talked about this since it's from last year. It's Melora Creager from Rasputina, original quirky cello band from the 90s and beyond, making fun of dumb Kickstarter ideas.
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Hey, remember the KS project from 2011 to build a Robocop statue for Detroit??? Here's the final fabrication that they sent to the metalworks to get molded and cast in bronze: He's gonna be a big fucker. That photo was taken in May, there hasn't been any further news but they'll probably be installing the final piece sometime soon.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:As part of the stretch rewards he'll also be sending a couple hundred free copies of the book to schools and libraries as well as about 2,500 plush Yorick skulls to his donors. They could've made those Yorick skulls teeny tiny but it looks like they're at least the size of a regular skull. Holy poo poo its Dead Bob! 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hey, remember the KS project from 2011 to build a Robocop statue for Detroit??? Here's the final fabrication that they sent to the metalworks to get molded and cast in bronze: We need an "Awesome Kickstarters" thread for stuff like this. Of course the moment it gets up it'll probably just become covered in awful spray paint graffiti and chewed gum. 
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Twenty Drunk Apes posted:We need an "Awesome Kickstarters" thread for stuff like this. It will be fine if it is at the bottom of a flight of stairs.
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Twenty Drunk Apes posted:We need an "Awesome Kickstarters" thread for stuff like this. I'm pretty sure this is the perfect thread for a $67,000 statue of a character from a neo-fascist future version of Detroit being put up in the real world impoverished city of Detroit.
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Twenty Drunk Apes posted:We need an "Awesome Kickstarters" thread for stuff like this. We have one. Astonishingly, the one about gawking at horrible ideas is far more entertaining.
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Manifest posted:I'm pretty sure this is the perfect thread for a $67,000 statue of a character from a neo-fascist future version of Detroit being put up in the real world impoverished city of Detroit.
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Zereth posted:Well, I mean, the place could use some optimism, right? For real though, actual Detroit should BE so lucky as to have a creepy fascist multinational that wants to buy the whole joint. How messed up is it that RoboCop ended up being utopian compared to the real deal? Did anyone involved with the actual Kickstarter live in/work in /have any connection to Detroit? I mean as much as I love the film, it does seem sort of screwed up if the whole thing from the top down was just outsiders putting up a kitch sculpture in a place they've got no connection to because it was fictionalized in a cool sci-fi film.
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Otisburg posted:For real though, actual Detroit should BE so lucky as to have a creepy fascist multinational that wants to buy the whole joint. How messed up is it that RoboCop ended up being utopian compared to the real deal? 
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It sounds lazy at first, but reusing the same art while keeping the writing fresh and funny has to become a challenge after the first few dozen, let alone the two and half thousand he's done over the past decade. The one today hypothesizes that Zombies being failed Vampires.  Manifest posted:I'm pretty sure this is the perfect thread for a $67,000 statue of a character from a neo-fascist future version of Detroit being put up in the real world impoverished city of Detroit. Philly had a statue of Rocky Balboa.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Philly had a statue of Rocky Balboa. Rocky was the story of a working-class Philly underdog making it big. RoboCop is the story of hyper-facism steamrolling over humanity, cyborg ultraviolence, and exploiting urban decay for profit.
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Hey, remember that weird-rear end self run crowd funding campaign for the Eternal Darkness pseudo-sequel, and how hosed up Silicon Nights/Precursor Games is? Well, they just got creepier.http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/28/precursor-games-distancing-itself-from-co-founder-following-chil posted:Precursor Games writer, game designer and artist Ken McCulloch has been arrested by Niagara Regional Police on child pornography possession and distribution charges, Bullet News Niagara reports. Police confiscated a "significant" amount of computer hardware after exercising a search warrant on a home in St. Catharines yesterday.
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Otisburg posted:Rocky was the story of a working-class Philly underdog making it big. BUT ROBOCOP FOUGHT THAT!!!! He stopped Nuke and also flew in a jetpack. You gotta pick your battles man, a giant robocop statue is good for the people.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hey, remember the KS project from 2011 to build a Robocop statue for Detroit??? Here's the final fabrication that they sent to the metalworks to get molded and cast in bronze:
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Hey, remember that weird-rear end self run crowd funding campaign for the Eternal Darkness pseudo-sequel, and how hosed up Silicon Nights/Precursor Games is? Well, they just got creepier.
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Looking through the Recently Launched or Ending Soon categories can yield some gems. Just launched: The Biggest Flag Ever, where the only thing that can possibly go wrong with the project is the weather. Ending soon: A wall-mounted bottle opener, billed as a "forever object." Also, what is with all of the deck of playing card projects I see lately? They're becoming the new iPod accessory. Though this particular project didn't go through, maybe it was the fabric on the headband...
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Jet Jaguar posted:Just launched: The Biggest Flag Ever, where the only thing that can possibly go wrong with the project is the weather. I absolutely love that $1000 gets you a phone call. No one can doubt this guy's dedication to our American way of life. 
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