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MacHack Theme Unveiled

Carlos Finque writes "After much consideration, this year's theme of the annual MacHack conference was unveiled today: 'MacHack 18: Unstoppable'. Read the press statement and don't forget to register while you can. Mindful of the inevitability of their own conference and the unstoppability of it all, the committee looked for a suitable symbol for things that keep moving no matter what. It turned out that the committee needed look no further than their own Mac screen. Apple's own busy cursor -- the SPoD or 'Spinning Pizza of Death' -- is the inspiration for this year's MacHack theme element."

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  1. Gee... by wyvern5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dunno, I can think of so many better things that keep on going and going and going...

    Journalists will continue to call Apple "beleagured" and proclaim that the death of Apple is assured. "Do you hear that, Mr. Jobs? That is the sound of inevitability."

    Apple will continue to make computers with ridiculously low bus and ram speeds (though we all hope the 970 will fix this :)

    Windows users will continue to blame the occasional failure of interoperability on the stupid Mac users and not the well-known flaws in their OS. Special characters in Word files, anyone?
    I wouldn't say that the SPoD sticks around very long anyway, thanks to the joys of an OS with "kill -9" :)

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  2. Of Course There Is No Pizza by ihatewinXP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The cursor is a Spinning _Beach Ball_ of Death. I mean c'mon, you would have to be tripping your face off to see a pizza in the glob of color that is Apple's busy cursor.

    The system may have been designed with hallucinagens, but your not supposed to actually operate it as such. I guess this is more problems arising from Stev Jobs and the 'lickable' interface, thank god apple toned it down in the latest release.

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