26-04-2005 07:17									#121
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I hate it, too.

	26-04-2005 07:24									#122
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http://penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-04-13&res=l

	26-04-2005 09:54									#123
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I'm extremely confident the pics are legit.

MS owns the site, ourcolony, that it's coming from. Viral marketing again, like ilovebees for Halo 2.

	26-04-2005 10:20									#124
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Did you make that yourself?

	26-04-2005 10:25									#125
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It's from IGN. Hence the URL.

	26-04-2005 10:28									#126
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It's horrible looking. Then again, most consoles are: especially that god awful purple cube one.

	26-04-2005 10:32									#127
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I can't help but think if the logo was different, it would be the sexiest thing ever.

	26-04-2005 10:38									#128
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quote: I can't help but think if the logo was different, it would be the sexiest thing ever.

Like this?



Blecch!

I still see the odd toiletbook around campus.

	26-04-2005 10:40									#129
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon quote: I can't help but think if the logo was different, it would be the sexiest thing ever. Like this? Blecch! I still see the odd toiletbook around campus.

Hahaha! One of my friends, an employee at an Apple Store in Seattle, just posted this to his blog today:

quote: oh. man. the other day, a customer came into the store with one of the old clamshell iBooks (the colored ones - the first iBook), and, while i’ve seen them a thousand times, i really fell in love. seriously. i just think they’re the coolest things ever. and then i was thinking ‘ya know... those are like 6 years old... i bet anything they’re dirt f’ing cheap on ebay!’ and i looked... and i’ve found a base model tangerine iBook for about $200. hmmmm... if i sold mine, and used the money toward a nice desktop that i could use for all serious work, i could get that just for typing and internet when i’m away from my desk. and how ****ing cool would it be to roll up into lecture and open up one of these babies... mother. ****ing. cool.

He used the exact same picture you did, color and all.

Oh, Apple employees.

	26-04-2005 10:42									#130
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quote: Originally posted by Asher I can't help but think if the logo was different, it would be the sexiest thing ever.

....

You have quite a strange definition of sexy.

	26-04-2005 10:43									#131
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui .... You have quite a strange definition of sexy.

I think you missed the point...

	26-04-2005 10:44									#132
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What was the point then?

	26-04-2005 10:46									#133
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui What was the point then?

That Apple fanboys had a bad habit of saying Apple's stuff is golden while everything else is sh*t. The logo alone dictates their opinion.

	26-04-2005 10:47									#134
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Yeah, but Aggie has admited when certain Apple stuff looked like crap... like the iBook.

	26-04-2005 10:51									#135
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He likes the current iBook and PowerBook IIRC, both of which look like cheap crap.

	26-04-2005 10:53									#136
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Or the "Flower power" imac. That sucked too. Every company has its share of crappers.

The best Apple stuff is the minimalist gear like the Cube or the current Powerbooks (still the best looking laptops IMHO). The new imac actually looks a lot better in reality than it does in stills.

I hate Windows again. It wouldn't let me print my document today in the lab – despite it being written on Microsoft's own ****ing software. And ****ing Acrobat Professional for Windows wouldn't print the PDF version either.

Again it was the greek text. I like mac because it allows me to print and write in accented Greek, name my files in accented Greek and content search in accented Greek. To be fair Word 2004 does an excellent job of this too, and the Microsoft MBU is to be congratulated (it saved me hours of correcting in my dissertation because I could use find and replace for the Greek).

	26-04-2005 10:55									#137
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quote: He likes the current iBook and PowerBook IIRC, both of which look like cheap crap.

Oddly enough some Dell shill was on City TV today with one of their new laptops. The woman he was demonstrating it to said that it looked almost as nice as one of the Apple ones – he had a look like someone had pissed in his mouth.

	26-04-2005 11:15									#138
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quote: To be fair Word 2004 does an excellent job of this too

I wish I could afford it...

	26-04-2005 11:27									#139
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Powerbook They do look sweet, I have to give them credit for that.

	26-04-2005 12:28									#140
	Suffering from ads?

quote: I wish I could afford it...

I got mine for free... and yes, it is a legit copy.

	26-04-2005 13:08									#141
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I'd really like the Unicode support, as Office X is laughably bad in that department. Don't have the sweet university discount anymore, though.

	26-04-2005 13:43									#142
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The Find/Replace still sucks. I wish they'd make it like Preview.

I got mine for fixing up a prof with a new computer and "making it go".

	26-04-2005 22:13									#143
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22828

quote: XBox 360 gets embedded DRAM Graphic demands met by NEC By Wil Harris: Tuesday 26 April 2005, 17:51 NEC SAID it will supply embedded DRAM to be used in the Xbox 360, to speed up anti-aliasing calculations. The firm said its eDRAM macros would be a "key piece" of the console's graphics subsystem. The memory will be used by the the video processor, developed by ATI, in much the same way as cache RAM is used by a processor. By using a high-speed storage area as a frame buffer, the R500 in the Xbox 360 will be able to perform anti-aliasing at 1280x720 with almost no impact on frame-rate, apparently. ATI appears to have patented this method of graphics processing, although when or if it will appear on the PC is as yet unknown.

	26-04-2005 23:33									#144
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon It's horrible looking. Then again, most consoles are: especially that god awful purple cube one.

Agreed.

Now, the platinum gamecube on the other hand...

	26-04-2005 23:40									#145
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Ohhh Americans and their bling.

	27-04-2005 04:55									#146
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GODDAMN YOU MICROSOFT!

This Xbox 360 looks like a complete piece of ****. It's like the unholy spawn of Apple and Nintendo.

	27-04-2005 08:27									#147
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At least, it doesn't look worse than the original Xbox.

	27-04-2005 08:29									#148
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Yes it does.

	27-04-2005 08:34									#149
	Tired of ads?

The original XBox was cool looking... this... isn't.

	27-04-2005 08:36									#150
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I like my Xbox, but it definitely isn't cool looking. It's a giant black box with a gaudy green logo on top...