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New BTX Form Factor Announced At IDF

Posted by timothy on from the why-does-factor-follow-form dept.

xyote writes "A new motherboard form factor was announced at IDF today. See Google News for various press stories on it (how's that for up to date links?). Also, go here for the actual BTX specs."

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  1. First Post for Love! by Karma+Sink · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love you Katie! I will not fail it!

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    1. Re:First Post for Love! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- ABC's "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" will continue despite star John Ritter's death and will show the TV family coping with his character's loss, the network said Tuesday.

      "Everybody recognizes that John loved that show. ... He'd have wanted the show to continue," Lloyd Braun, chairman of ABC Entertainment Television Group, told a telephone news conference.

      Braun and ABC Entertainment President Susan Lyne said the sitcom will debut next Tuesday as planned and that the network will air the three episodes Ritter filmed before his death last week.

      After that, the series co-starring Katey Sagal will go into repeats while writers retool it and production starts. No date was given for when the show will return to the air.

      Ritter, making a TV series comeback 25 years after he starred in "Three's Company," became ill on the "8 Simple Rules" set and died Thursday of an undetected heart problem. He was 54.

      It hasn't been decided if the death of Ritter's character, Paul Hennessy, will mirror what happened to the actor, ABC executives said.

      Ritter's series, which premiered last year with solid ratings, was considered a key part of ABC's comeback effort and anchored its Tuesday night lineup of family comedies.

      ABC knows it's facing a difficult task, rebuilding a comedy on a death and especially that of the series' star, network executives acknowledged.

      "We're going to take it an episode at a time," Lyne said. While the idea of recasting Ritter's role was quickly rejected, new characters will be added at some point, the ABC executives said.

      Although Braun lauded Sagal as a "fantastic actress" capable of taking on a greater role in the series, he said it would become more of an ensemble production.

      Ritter's widow, actress Amy Yasbeck, and the series' cast and producers supported the decision to keep going, Braun said. An ABC News tribute to Ritter aired Tuesday night.

      A similar episode in television history came when comic Redd Foxx died in 1991, after making seven episodes of his comeback series on CBS, "The Royal Family." The show returned without him six months after his death, but lasted only a few episodes.

      Comedian Freddie Prinze, star of "Chico and the Man," committed suicide in 1977 in the third year of the popular NBC sitcom. The network cast a new, younger Chico but the show was gone in a year.

      The rarity of such occurrences makes it difficult to predict how "8 Simple Rules" will fare, Braun said. "I think it will be a show we'll be proud to put on," he said.

      Each of the first three episodes already shot will start with a special introduction, featuring the cast members. The next new show will deal with Paul Hennessy's death.

      "Future episodes will take viewers into the Hennessy household as they experience the loss of a father and construct a new life together," said Braun. "We will play out the situation as real life."

      Executives said they considered a number of options, including canceling the show.

      "This is a business," analyst Steve Sternberg of the ad-buying firm Magna Global USA said of the network's decision. But it's a risky one, he said.

      "Initially, the show could benefit from the publicity," Sternberg said. "But they will have to do it well. If they don't, it could flop quickly and ABC will look bad doing it."

    2. Re:First Post for Love! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Do not ruin my beautiful FP to my wife with this garbage, or I will have to call you dirty names.

    3. Re:First Post for Love! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I heard a rumor that he was killed by robots from teh futar!

  2. Hello by SpanishInquisition · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I need to get lucky

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  3. This post intentionally left anonymously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you know, it really annoys me when people make liberal use of 'This page intentionally left blank'

    The spec is a 32 page pdf and four of the pages contain the notice that they are blank (including the last page!!)

    this just annoys the living fsck out of me

  4. Smug by CGP314 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how's that for up to date links?

    How's that for smug?

  5. Businessmodel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Do free stuff.
    2) ?
    3) Change form-factor of the motherboard.
    4) Profit!

  6. Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You fail it badly. Nice try.

  7. missed it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    damn. missed first post by that much.

  8. kobe bryant accuser pic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://greetings.123city.net/TempPictures/28458.jp g

    BABABOOEY! F-TIMMY!

    1. Re:kobe bryant accuser pic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Which one?

      I'd pork either of those chicks.

      Here is a link

    2. Re:kobe bryant accuser pic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      the butterface blonde in the dark blue/black top on the left.

  9. 7 Comments by secondsun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No SCO story, lunch break, motherboards, new, slashdot.

    Yeah someone's server is a puddle of goo right now.

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  10. Then murder-suicide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or alimony, custody battles, single mothers, single fathers, special-education kids (yay! it's my birthday!, yay!), breadfan.

  11. BTX? Isn't that a comic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does this form factor have anything to do with the comic made by the guy who did Saint Seiya/KOTZ?

    1. Re:BTX? Isn't that a comic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      As unsuccessful as it was, TMS made 25 episodes of the BTX show.

    2. Re:BTX? Isn't that a comic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Read more about the real BTX here.

  12. Who cares about B'tX anyway? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is just a stupid comic that tried (and unsuccesfully) to outdo Saint Seiya anyway. Why even bother about a computer using it?

    1. Re:Who cares about B'tX anyway? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You're, I wouldn't trust a guy with sissy name who were making cheap clones of his own products. This BTX looked too much like Seiya. IIRC that wasn't the author's first time either...

    2. Re:Who cares about B'tX anyway? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You're right, I wouldn't trust a guy with sissy name who were making cheap clones of his own products. This BTX looked too much like [Saint] Seiya. IIRC that wasn't the author's first time either, checkout his other strangely similar works.

    3. Re:Who cares about B'tX anyway? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hopefully I won't see this show get butchered like DIC did with Saint Seiya, I mean, 'Knights of the Zodiac'.