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Alienware's Star Wars PCs
CptnKirk writes "Alienware is now offering their high-end PCs pre-pimped with Star Wars themes. These systems have the usual assortment of configuration options. They're then additionally modded with your choice of Light Side or Dark Side themes. External decals, light kit and desktop theme. They even throw in a membership to the official Star Wars online fan club. I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."
Despite of being totally overpriced, I think I would never buy any AlienWare after reading some ad in Wired where it said something along the lines:
I can play games, render an animation, listen to mp3 and encode some video, all with very little slowdown to each other! Thank you AlienWare!
Wow. Unless they think that you will be playing Solitaire, I really doubt that that statement could be true. And as such, they are doing false advertisement, something I really hate and so even if I had the money, I would not spend it on their machines, however cool they are.
So, you join a their Affiliate program then post a link with your referal number to slashdot.
At 2.5% per sale you'd be crazy not to invent a news story!
Why the hell do shameless plugs for Alienware PCs make good stories but my submission on a life-size X-Wing fighter that was up for auction on eBay is rejected?
In an effort to offer some constructive critisism, perhaps they should add a feature that allows the editors to give a one-liner as to why every story I submit is rejected. Perhaps I don't talk good. But how the hell would I know that is why my submission was rejected?
I'm really starting to dislike this place. But I guess that's just my opinion.
I agree, I've been building with legos for 20 something years. When they first started, you needed hundreds of pieces to make a rather detailed object. Now they come with these 12 inch models of cars/planes/creatures that are like 30 pieces. Its really depressing. I remember their early boat models, now that was customizing!
Tonights forecast: Dark. Continued dark throughout most of the evening, with some widely-scattered light towards morning
I'm not a fan of the 'community feel'. You see that sort of thing on small forums, and it's just another word for 'cliquey'. Such places are very insular, and it only takes one person to take a dislike to you before you're driven off the entire forum. Luckily slashdot is a big and bloated enough place so that a few people's opinions don't matter. When you lose the popularity you lose the reason to go there. I don't go to slashdot for the stories so much as for the comments. Less people = less comments.
Go to kuro5hin to find out what it's like when you have a slashdot-esque site with hardly any members. It's practically a desert in website form.