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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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Girlsss..... And the rendered version...
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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I'll have you the trouble...here are the babes
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?
If it's so hard for them not to get angry, maybe they aren't up to the job?
Seriously, did they think they were hired for their hard work and moral values? Ummm...no I think they were probably told outright that they would be eye candy for the masses of geeks there wandering around. And is that so bad? If you've got the assets, you'd be a fool not to use them right? Personally, I don't think a woman/man is degraded by modeling her/his body professionally.
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?
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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"And is that so bad? If you've got the assets, you'd be a fool not to use them right?"
True. To paraphrase George Carlin, I have big, powerful hands. I use these to strangle people regularly. I mean, if you got the assets (like big powerful hands), you'd be a fool not to use them right?
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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so long as ATI is the pimp'n middle man, it's ok..
I'm ok with strip clubs myself, and believe the direct donor method much better than the ambigious third party.. how else ya gonna touch'em?
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... clearly wants to defect to Apple.
Seriously, did they think they were hired for their hard work and moral values?
A friend of mine was a booth babe, once. She was fine with showing off her assets to sell products or posing for photos. However, she wasn't prepared for just how immature grown men can be at a technical conference. Most of them had the mental maturity of a 13 year old boy stuck in a 30-year old man's body.
Makes me embarrased for my gender...
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Your attempt to stretch an anology between an enhanced display of sexuality and the act of strangulation indicates that you have some serious unresolved problems, not to mention a complete lack of comprehension of sexuality. Do us all a favor; stay at home with your self-help books.
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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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Makes me embarrased for my gender...
That's just because you haven't seen any women with the male booth babes, er, hunks. Whatever. Then you could be embarrassed for all of humanity, or your country, or whatever you prefer.
There is nothing so good that someone, somewhere, will not hate it.
Makes me embarrased for my gender...
Sex not gender.
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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>Kind of funny, I was listening to Paula Cole's
>"Where have all the cowboy's gone?" right now
>...guess they're mostly dead.
They finally listened to enough country music to realize that the whole cowboy thing means you'll marry some woman, who will cheat on you, and then take everything you own in the divorce, driving you to drink until your liver fails.
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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.
What is your penile percentile?
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.
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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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you might want to read this article on gc.com about boothbabe mentality (from E3 2004), quite an interesting (and in some cases humorous) read. Its a unique article that I remembered reading a whileback and looked it up because of your post. Of course you know a former boothbabe so the insight in the article is prolly not new to you,
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Has she never read Slashdot !?
Anyway, around scantily clad women nearly all men behave like Beavis and Butthead, not just techies
No but, yeah but, no but...
Interesting. I got to the end of the article before I realized it was written by a woman. I wonder if a man went around and interviewed booth babes in the same way, would they tell him the sorts of things they told this woman? I'll bet it would turn out to be a totally different article.
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Sorry if I didn't get that word-perfect.
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Your tellin me, but add intelligence of a 13yr old to that also. I was at the convention Friday and one booth had a car inverter that was as big as the car battery it was plugged into. Sufficeing to say there was a "profesional" looking dipstick makeing small-talk with the "booth-babe" talkin bout anything but what was there. Heres the kicker. The dumbass had one hand on the Negative battery terminal and the other hand insainely close to the Positive one. I had to look twice...afterall...no one is that dumb rite?
You're probably right. The booth babes would probably not open as much to a guy. As someone on gc's forum said about that, they'd probably think the guy was hitting on them, trying to pick 'em up.
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The dumbass had one hand on the Negative battery terminal and the other hand insainely close to the Positive one. I had to look twice...afterall...no one is that dumb rite?
Have you ever used jumper cables?
Hooooooowwweeee man let me tell you they make those cables thick for a reason. I was hookin em up once and acidentally touched both conectors at the same time - now let me tell you 14VDC may not sound like much but coming off a really big car battery... it was enough to put me in the hospital for a week with severe nerve damage.
Stay away from those car batteries man!!!! Take em to a certified mechanic who knows about electricity!
um... have you actually seem most men when they are in an all male (or the only females are paid to be there) situation? 13 is being nice .p
I had a friend who was just a cocktail waitress. One day i asked her why she was sad. She said somehting about how i was possibly the only guy in the club that hadn't felt her up that night.
Also, ever been to a male review? i think women are more wild sometimes (but then again, they are usually encouraged to).
I believe sex is highly over rated... unless it involves me