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CES 2005 Day 1 - Walking The Show Floor
TheTechLounge writes "Our second day in Vegas for CES, and our first day on the actual show floor was pretty much what I expected: mountains of new gadgets, people in suits staring at your name tag and scantily clad models trying not to get angry as they are repeatedly photographed. We started our excursion on opening day in the upper levels of the South Hall. Big name companies like ATI, nVidia, AMD, Logitech, and HP were showcasing anything and everything they could fit into their floor space."
The screens on the first page look nifty. It would be even cooler if they joined better (i.e. no thick dark bars).
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After the Infinium vs HardOCP, many "vaporware" lists throught the years, the "Phantom" Glorified PC... err... "Console" system made an appearance at this show. Will it ever make it on the store's shelves? Will people care? Stay tuned!
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The new shuttles are what my eyes are out for. Their design has become top notch and you can now purchase systems with AMD64... I'm just waiting for the money.
Any word on motherboards for AMD Athlon 64 (esp. socket 939) with PCI-express, or even dual--PCI-express slots for SLI?
FYI, if you really wanted to see hot women this weekend in Vegas, there's also a Adult Film Convention taking place at the same time. Dunno where it is, but just follow all the flocking male crowds ;)
I ended up in the gay filmmakers pavilion
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Now maybe the moral problem comes in when you get paid by people stuffing dollar bills down your underwear...but who am I to decide what peoples' morals are?
By the way, in such cases, stick to dollar bills and higher; I paid them in pennies and assorted small change once, and for some reason they did *not* like that at all.
I don't know why; it's not like I'm stingey. There must have been at *least* $9.50 worth in there.
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I was at CES all day on Saturday, and lo and behold, what was in the nVidia booth? Well apparently Infinium Labs had a rep showing off the Phantom console there. I thought that was very interesting considering the fact that it won this year's Wired Vaporware Award.
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So needless to say, a friend of mine and I started grilling the poor guy. Naturally the first thing we wanted to know was how much the subcription fee was. His answer: "I am a hardware guy". Ok, fine, so now we wanted to know if the game content was exclusive or if it was just (under)glorified PC. He said that the Phantom would run anything a PC would and is directly loaded over the 'Net. So basically that left us with the impression that the Phantom was basically a PC in a fancy box pre-packaged with a Steam-like delivery system. I starting asking about the guts, and found out that they are farming out the board design to BIOStar, but I didn't get any word on what the BIOS would be like. That is, if it was encrypted Xbox style or pretty left alone. However, the indication I got was that it would be pretty well locked down. I also asked how the system would handle a hard disk crash, and he said the hard disk could be replaced and the content would automatically load itself back on the drive. I commented "so it takes you what, a day and half to get to your stuff loaded again", to which he replied, "Well, how often does your hard disk crash?", to which I shot back "Well, if it's a Maxtor, once every two weeks."
Then he wanted to know what kind of hard disk I would recommend to put into it. I said Seagate and he seemed to agree with me. So if Seagate ends up in the Phantom, it's because of me!
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... clearly wants to defect to Apple.
From one of my favorite news sites: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20583
The article poster is confusing "models" with "promotions" people.
A model walks on a catwalk or is seen in a fashion magazine, wheras a "promotions person" wears does the type of job you're mentioning. Models have a fashion type of look and this is normally their professional career while it lasts, wheras promotions people are expected to be a sort of good looking sales person and can look any sort of look. Generally people who can't get into fashion end up doing depressing and explotitive jobs like promotion work. A model wouldn't be seen dead doing this type of work.
Additionally, if they were modelling clothes, they wouldn't mind being photographed. The fact is however that promotions girls are just tits and ass.
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You're looking for links to girls, right?
Yeah, I thought so.
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BTW, a large proportion of real models are *not* the stereotypical 'eyes popping out, tongue drooling' well-endowed types that men like; if anything, most of them have small to medium breasts and seem to be chosen for symmetry of facial features and flawlessness of complexion.
To put it bluntly, big tits might sell to men, but they aren't necessarily what designers are looking for to show off their work.
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Crap reporting at it's finest!
These shows are generally hell for them. There is very little going on around them that they can relate to, so they're copping the worst of both worlds in terms of both sensory overload and sensory deprivation. They're also constantly being ogled, occasionally pawed, and with very rare exceptions are getting no feedback to tell them that what they're doing is worthwhile or constructive. And they usually have to be on their feet all day for several days in a row.
Try it yourself some day before moaning about insufficient scant.
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If I had a dollar for every time I've I have had torrid sex with sexy twins (of the opposite sex, of course)... who are you kidding. How cliche can you get?
[Ok, I'd, be at least a dollar better off.]
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
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...just move here to Australia. (-:
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Since it was on the nVidia stand, obviously it would be an XGI or ATI chipset, no?
On a more serious note, I wonder how hard it would be to file off the non-standard BIOS and replace it with a real one? USD$200 sounds fairly reasonable for the hardware.
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...and it sucked. I didn't see much of anything spectacular. The nVidia booth had a sweet TV displaying images in 3D without the need for any special glasses. I was impressed.
Other than that, it sucked. Microsoft and Intel had nothing spectacular. Motorola had some decent phones, but even those were just obvious next steps in the evolution of the market. All in all, I was disappointed. Good thing my employer paid for the tickets.
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I saw the sony black screen. Finally made sense when I saw it and crushed my heart with its limitations. Its got a $2,000 price tag and is not due out untill summer. Now that I see it I picture a very reflective material on the back and filtered layers in between blocking any colors but the red/green/blue. However the problem is there is are brighter/darker regions depending on where you stand. Not sure if thats the reflection of the display or lighting of the room (which was not terribly bright). Its not that bad but worse then any rear projector displays I saw at the show so there is no reason to blow $2k on a system that replaces one problem with another.
Read the UID, kiddy, and think about it for a minute.
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You're not ESL at all? Your literary style seems unusually opaque.
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Expensive lenses have as little distortion as you like but are bulky and may be restricted in zoom range. As with everything, you get what you pay for.
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