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MacHack Theme Unveiled

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-pizza dept.

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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    -- Apple: Where Microsoft wants to go today.
  2. There is no Pizza by gobbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    The SPoD doesn't exist. I mean, I've seen something where the cursor pointing thingy all of a sudden tries to hypnotize me, but I've read all about that Borg Marketing Trojan Horsewear that tries to convince you that the colourful XP is stable fast and slickable, by taking over programs and turning the cursor pointing thingy to a hypnotist's wheel. So I immediately hit the Apple-Tab key combo to fight the dark side impulses, and the nausea-inducing spinning assault on my staunch macness just goes away!! After awhile I can switch back to my poor 'beleaguered' program and the Borg attack is gone.

    There is no Pizza. It is your multitasking that must bend.

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    Damn those pesky terrorists
  3. Worst summary - ever by ArmorFiend · · Score: 5, Funny

    After reading the summary I still have no idea what this article is about. In fact after reading the damn article I still have no idea what this article is about.

  4. As I always say... by jcr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Journalists will continue to call Apple "beleagured" and proclaim that the death of Apple is assured.

    Apple Computer: On the Brink of Oblivion since 1975!

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  5. when I hear unstoppable I think of OS 9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Which I still have to use for a variety of legacy programs. It would be so nice if one of those clever hackers figured out how to put OS 9 back into it's box...(like virtual PC does with windows) so that we could keep 9 totally separate and save OS 9 states and not have to boot every time we want to start it again.