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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."
thanks for the advertisement, Slashy. The extra large ones at the top of the page just weren't getting me off.
I'm not here. This isn't happening.
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What is thy bidding, my master?
Look, it even comes with samples of the music from the soundtrack!
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I thought Alienware was going to be kinda creative and maybe make the case out of the shape of a Millenium Falcon, instead of copping out like the bunch of uncreative money grubbers they are and throwing a crappy graphic on the side of their standard case.
I'm sure fanboys everywhere are rejoicing right now.
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am I the only person who thinks that those look exactly like standard alienware PC's with pretty pictures featuring starwars characters on the side?
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Thy, "What is thy bidding, my master?" ;)
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
Let's see...
Lots of eyecandy, empty interior.
Annoying mascot.
Takes way too long to get going.
Behind the curtain is an evil bastard.
If you paid for it, you paid too much.
So. Am I talking about Windows, or Star Wars, Episode 1?
They can recycle the Windows 3.1 sound themes that were out in the early 90s. Having Luke say "what a piece of junk!" whenever you had an error, and Darth yell "I have you now!" when you you get a GPF. Those were the days.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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All that's missing is a pair of floppy ears on the side and a startup sound going "Mesa booting massar..."
That comment, in the words of Spider Jerusalem, really makes me need to shoot something.
Will fancy light sabers be referred to as "bling" next?
Airbrushed cases? Yawn. I would be more impressed if they had a Darth Vader helmet or had licensed the Imperial cruiser or Millenium Falcon mods we have gushed over here before.
-LLM
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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.
However I am sure that the dark side would work equally as well at collecting dust as it sits under my desk.
girl: what's that?
/.
geek: it's my uber star warz mod pimped out rig that i heard about on the popular tech news website
girl: kbye
of sperating lazy people from there money.. personaly if i wanted a theamed computer i do it my self.. not pay crazy prices for someone to sell me a mass produced one.. i though the idea behind computer mods was to be original not to have the same computer your friend does if you both have money
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
They look like toys for an 8-year-old.
http://mirrordot.com/stories/f7a24ef551a6ce58dde7d 5d66f9c6fad/index.html
I used to love starwars, now it's becoming tiresome. I'm sick to death of all the hype.
The stories have gone down the toilet also.
$1499 for a PC with an AMD 3000, 512 MB ram and a GeForce 6600, no DVD or CD burner, no screen, and Windows XP Home? I built a PC for about $1000 a year ago with an AMD 3200, 1 gig ram, GF 5700 FX, and a DVD-ROM/CDRW.
Oh, but the case has a nice decal on it, I forgot.
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Am I the only one that thinks that there's an 'e' too much and an 'l' too little in appalling?
Ya know...My Tandy Sensation used to boot to that question.
From the FAQ:
Alienware recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP
Professional.
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 wonder what Alienware is paying for the 'rights' to use the Star Wars theme? Up-front payment and then royalties?
I doubt that in the end they will recoup their investment. Perhaps we'll be able to pick-up some of the machines real cheap in mid-June with all the other discounted SW toys. How does an Alienware Happy Meal toy sound?
But Alienware is being smart, by not using a completely modified case they can always replace the covers on unsold units.
Maybe you should buy a beige box instead and use the rest of your money to buy flowers for a girl...
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."
If that's all you need to complete your Star Wars experience, I can set you up for just a few hundred dollars. No need to shell out thousands for some overpriced computer system!
It's the land of the brave, and the home of the free
Where the less you know, the better off you'll be.
http://www.alienware.com.nyud.net:8090/starwars_pa ges/awswaurora.aspx?source=1446
May take a while to load, it's a flash thing..
That it's almost the second page of comments and nobody imagined a Beowulf cluster of these yet!
"How dumb can thee be, my master!"
You could be a bitch to Lucas and Alienware, both at the sametime through a single purchase!!Limited Availability!!!
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You want to listen to a sound file, click on it to listen to it. All bootup sounds do is make you tired of a soundfile you used to like, while making it take longer to boot your system.
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
However I don't have enough money. I also have a brain which is another sticking point.
...make sure you get them to install Hitachi Deathstars.
Saw these at Star Wars Celebration III - they looked cool and all, but the cases were HUGE!
So let's see...waste of money, waste of space...yeah, good luck selling those Alienware.
My old roomate already has this. His computer starts up with the "What is thy bidding, my master" followed by one classic Eric Cartman quote "Hey, you get your bitch ass in the kitchen, and make me some pie!"
move along, move along..
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Hmm, I always thought that Jedi boxes would run linux.
Sorry, but it really seems discordant to mix these.
What's next, 3D shutter glasses that look like Geordi La Forge's visor from Star Trek: TNG?
(actually, those might be cool)
backing the development of these things. The word that keeps coming to mind is "gay". Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Please don't waste your money on an AlienWare product. Two friends and I made that mistake years ago and had nothing but problems with their systems. To top it off, their support is rediculous. They are a joke and I hate them because they made me waste my hard earned money on their junk.
Just so you know - I have never worked for AlienWare or any of its competitors.
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They've turned to the dark side.
..... with instructions on how to use the force to overcome the blue screen of death?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
With the airbrushing and all, it looks just like my cousin's van circa the late 1970's. Change the wallpaper to a dayglow Frank Frazetta poster, toss in a can of Ozium and it will be perfect!
Does Linux boot first?
I sure hope the millions of nerds that have brought that site to its knees this mornign are making it worthwhile for Alienware. The site is fux0red.
Personally my favoite response phrase from the box has always been,
Curley's, "i'm trying think but nothing happens"
if anyone has in any audio format, i'd appreciate a pointer to copy
...apropos for anyone else who wants to whore out their website.
I came, I saw, I left. It looked better in the brochure.
I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."
That was the startup sound on my home machine back in 1994. I wonder if they removed the music from the background of the clip. It was fun for about a week before I replaced it.
1) Put stickers of Luke & Anakin on computer case
2) Paint black for dark side, white for light side
3) Slashvertise
4) ????
5) Profit!!
Sounds??? ...
You youngsters and your hip lingo.
Back in my day the only sound computers could make were unitelligible beeps.
The cool thing back then was to change the C:/ prompt to What is Thy bidding, my Master:/, but then of course the great Onion famine of '46 kicked in and we had to sell all of our posessions and move to Idaho.
Idaho back then was not a part of the Union,
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I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."...
You boot your system more then once?
And I'm not ashamed to admit it. If for nothing else, I like this development because it's simply a great business idea. I've been a fan of Alienware for a long time. I've never had the money to buy one of their rigs, but if I did, I would. My home-brew Frankenstein's-monster dual Athlon has given me no end of problems over the past two years. After 3 power supplies, 4 hard drives, a new RAID card, two new video cards, 3 keyboards, 3 KVM's, and, finally 2 replacement mobo's, I think it's finally settling down. (I think some bad power screwed up a lot of stuff.) It would be nice to hand over some cash for a tested "god box," to use the Ars Technica term, with a warranty. And getting one pre-pimped with some pretty lights appeals to me. My problem is that, if I got started modding my box, I wouldn't know where to stop. I'd *really* like to get an LCD monitor on it somewhere, but, with my case, that means cutting metal, and I get nervous thinking about that. Getting one already setup with some lights would be... nice. I'm getting to an age in my life where I'm tired of doing everything myself. I need to spend more time with my wife and kids, not with my junky hardware. And tying all of this in with Star Wars? Well, that's one way to do it, and not a bad way, to my eye. It's too bad Ep. 1 & 2 stunk, but I still like the thought of the story as a whole enough to think this is a neat idea.
And, NO!, I'm NOT a shill. I have no ties to Alienware in any way. I've just admired them from a distance. And, NO!, I DON'T mind this being posted to Slashdot; how does this NOT fall under "News for Nerds?" So sue me.
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I saw this 2 weeks ago on Gizmodo.com.. I thought this was supposed to be cutting edge news for nerds.
What's a sig?
For people who need to go out of their way to say they're geeks.
(Where as geeks with nothing to prove make an R2-D2 case mod on their own).
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I just made the last payment on my Ferrari laptop!
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I'll be impressed when they put out the Mean Girls 2 PC. Any sucker can do Star Wars, it takes an artist to get the Mean Girls 2 theme down.
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I ordered one a bit ago and got an early version of the "Dark Side" model. All it did was whine and get all angsty when I asked it to do even the simplest tasks.
They are promising the next model of Dark Side will be more mature, though.
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Waste of bandwidth and time. It was a waste of time to even write this comment
I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."
Correction: "What is thy bidding, my master."
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And it's really not worth the money I paid for it.
I am very disappointed with it. I can't wait for my next computer - which will NOT be alienware!
This computer runs real hot. So hot, that if you put it in your lap, you can get second degree burns within a few minutes. I got blisters all over my thighs once that took a week to go away. I put a pillow between me and it the next time, and the pillow's polyester fill melted. Now I use a wooden cutting board. What a hassle!
The computer runs so hot, you can't use any wireless cards on it. Those cards burn up, then cause the computer to freeze. Ach! I finally got it to be wireless by using one of those usb wireless cards, which because it hangs off the back, was able to stay cool enough to function. But I can never use my card slot on this computer, ever.
My graphics card - the ATI mobility radeon 9000 - is sorely outdated. It barely dragged its butt through thief III, but when I put Everquest II on it, it just choked. It's underpowered and most games are designed with a NVIDIA in mind, so my ATI mobility card looks even worse.
It weighs a ton. At 20 lbs, it wears me down if I have to take it long distances. Gah.
It's LOUD. The fan in the computer sounds like a hurricane. Plus even the power supply is loud! The power supply goes HISSSSS all the time, even when the computer is shut off, and it's very annoying. One guest thought we had escaping gas... turned out he was just hearing the power supply.
I cannot afford a new computer until December, but I am so looking forward to it. I have learned my lesson. I do not want my high end gaming machine on a laptop. I will keep my gaming machine in a tower so I can upgrade it properly, and get a LIGHTWEIGHT, SILENT, and COOL-RUNNING laptop that I can carry around with me so I can program wherever I go. This noisy, hot, heavy beast is just too cumbersome to program on, let alone play any games on its outdated graphics card!
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Perhaps GL was trying to imply that The Emperor and Vader were very close. To imply that relationship between the Emperor Palpatine and his apprentice was as close as God was to his Son, only evil.
Shouldn't it be: "What is thy bidding, my master?"
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Computer mods are supposed to be something to make your rig unique, to be something to show off and say that you did yourself. Why call these custom cases? Someone else did the design, someone else did the assembly. Sure, it looks nice, but all it says is that you can plop down some cash for a computer! It's like the use of leetspeak or netspeak or whatever...hackers used to use it to get around newsgroup text filters. Now people use it to sound cool. "Custom" cases....just another group jumping on a different bandwagon.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Another example of George Lucas's genius, obviously. Even then he was trying to provide a hint of Anakins rebellious nature. :-)
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Bah, that's not a 1:1 scale X-Wing or astromech droid... so disappointing =)
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Of course if GL had known what he was doing, he would have known that 'thy' is the familiar form. 'You' is the honorific form in English. We just got rid of the familiar form, so 'thy' only sounds more formal...
...
I don't much care for Lucas, or the latest abominations he has foisted upon us in the last few years, but in his defense it should be pointed out that
Languages are living, mutating things. They aren't static, and what was true in 1500 by and large isn't true today.
Thy may have been the more informal form in older English. However, it has only survived because of religious zealots grovelling before their god, using the form as an honorific.
So, the fact that it sounds more formal to our ears, and is used as a more formal form of the language by the only people who still use it, means that, in today's language, it in fact has become the more formal form of the pronoun. Linguistic pedants, as usual, lag far behind the actual state of the language.
It is an interesting bit of etemology and linguistic history that "thy" and "your" have reversed meanings, in that "thee," "thy," etc. have come to mean an honorific form of "you," "your," etc. while "you," "your," etc. have come to mean the more familiar, natural form. It is even more interesting that this change in the language has occurred because of the exclusive use of these pronouns by the religous. What is less interesting is the degree to which many linguistic pedants will ignore the linguistic reality of the last century and a half (in terms of how the language is used and understood by those who speak it) in favor of a historical fact that bears no relevance to modern colloquialisms, particularly modern religious colloquialisms.
George Lucas may be an idiot about many things, but using "thy" to elevate Darth's relationship with the Emporor to one of worship rather than mere subservience was both correct in terms of the modern day language, and in terms of the effect it achieved.
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"What is thy bidding, my master" would be appropriate if you were running *nix, but if you're running windows I think Yoda saying "Anger, fear, agression, the dark side of the force are they." would be more appropriate.
Yeah, having that five second long .wav file preinstalled really makes it worth the extra $1000 you'll spend on this PC.
Since when does this crap count as a "pimped out rig"? Really, from the look of it, it's a stock alienware case (which, nowadays, I can do down to my local IT vendor and get something remarkably close for $75CDN) with a graphic on the side. Oooooh, wow, check out the l33t rig! Oh, my GAWD, you PREINSTALLED the STAR WARS DESKTOP THEME too? I'm totally sold! Can I please give you my money and wait 4-6 weeks for delivery??? Can I buy 10, in case they become a collectors item?
Worst. "Mod". Ever.
I'd have some respect for it if it was something a little more hardcore. Light sabre that shoots out from the 5 1/4" bay if your biometric doesn't scan right. A nice custom case shaped like a stormtroopers helmet. Hell, even a nicely cut out side panel with back lighting. This? This is a fuckin ironed-on graphic. Ooooh, wow.
Of course, we all know the best Star Wars mod ever was the Millenium Falcon PC. Now, we know what the lamest was too.
Thanks Slashdot.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
.. month, it was the classic bricks, 1000 pieces, and I'll be going back for more soon, she's still a bit young, but she enjoys when I make her stuff for her dolls.. she even does simple stuff herself now.
Of course, I live in europe, maybe they don't seel these sort of things in the US anymore.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
1. Spend server maintaince money on expensive "Star Wars" license: Good
2. Get story posted to Slashdot front page: Good
3. Servers get slashdotted: Bad
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I'm lucky enough to have my niece call them "nemmmagegno's".
I don't moderate anymore. Karma penalty for 90% fair mods? Can I mod that unfair?
I still want a HAL 9000 case.
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"Misah thinks you're writing a letter. Misah help!"
or how about:
"an illegal operation performed has been. Shutting down, program is."
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HAHAHAHAHAHA
I read the parent's post and scrolled through all of these KNOWING there would be one irritating, pompous pedant like you calling him out for the HORRIBLE CRIME OF PLURALIZING A TRADEMARK. Oh god, the horror!!!
Seriously, do you work for Lego? If not, then WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH?
I haven't seen a video driver update in months (even though ATI is releasing a new Catalyst every month). Lucky for me there's Omega drivers (now I can use OpenGL 2.0--thanks for nothing Alienware!).
And who makes a "gaming" laptop with a widescreen display that can't scale resolution to fit the display while maintaining aspect ratio? Any game that requires 4:3 ratio on my 16:10 display gets stretched or uses a tiny portion of the screen.
Computer cases should be hidden out of the way. I built my PC in a rack-mount chassis, which fits right into my Middle Atlantic studio furniture desk. This way, it takes up zero desk and floor space. The USB 2.0 CD-RW sits on the desk near the monitors, and I've got USB cables plugged into the back of the machine and brought up as a little bundle. There's no need to even look at the front panel, except maybe to turn it off.
Alienware has thte worst reputation for customer service and quality of any company selling PCs today. There 200 point inspection process constantly produces DOA machines. They have a 15% restocking fee on all returned merchandies and will refuse to cross ship replacement parts with out a credit card for a deposit on the new part.
Alienware is a scam.
Here is a snipit from a article on alienware up on my homepage. You can read the rest of it and MANY MANY more here.
So my wife decided to buy me a laptop for my birthday. She knew that I have been drooling over the Alienware Area 51-m. She went to check out the site and noticed that they were offering financing, so she applied.
One week later, she had not heard a peep from Alienware, so she called. The person she spoke with told her she was accepted and gave her the number to use to place an order.
My wife ordered me a very nice $3200 laptop in Saucer Silver. At this point, I had no idea any of this was going on. That is until I got home the night she ordered it and listened to the message on our answering machine from Alienware confirming the order, which completely ruined the entire experience for my wife.
Anyway, after a week of sitting on edge watching the Alienware order status page not move an inch, I asked my wife to call.
The person she talked to said that they had to send some paperwork to her to sign before the order would be processed. Basically they needed to send us the credit application and get her to sign it and return it. None of this is documented on their site. She asked if they could fax the document, the response was they were not set up to do that.
So our only choice was to wait for this form to be snail mailed to us. Now I would like to point out, this is three weeks after my wife filled out their form online. You know the fastest way to obtain financing!
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Seriously, I have to wonder how many Star Wars related stories, no matter how trivial, we are going to see between now and the the release of Ep. III (not to mention the nitpicking that will follow the release).
Name calling too eh?
Someone ought to mod YOU as troll, unless that's simply your standard behavior.
It's basically inexcusable for slashdotters to refer to Lego Bricks as "Legos" because they are supposedly not of the same mentality level for such topics as the general public, which is traditionally ignorant to such things.
So in an attempt to show how rediculous the unpaid advertising is on Slashdot, you put up your own advertisement for a site that essentially functions as a leech. It could not live without Slashdot, yet its purpose is to bash on Slashdot. That's constructive, AC.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
I was waiting for flash animation of a Guild Navigator to float out of the front of one of those boxes...
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That sort of thing would get old really fast.
This thing's for 8-year-olds. Rich 8-year-olds. As for adults, it's OK for to like Star Wars, but this crosses a line - to the side that is in Mom and Dad's basement.
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I'm trying to reverse that trend just a little bit with my purposeful comment. I'm going to guess that the person who modded me as troll would also prefer to maintain ignorance, even though it's more of an educational thing.
As for a child calling Lego bricks whatever, well, I'm only calling out adults (assuming the parent is an adult) in this instance. Why it's so hard for some people who claim to be geeks to be respectful is beyond me.
LEGO means "play well" and was never intended to be in the plural, which is what "LEGOS" implies.
Besides their overpricing, one of their main ways to get money from you was to sell you the extended warranty, for example a salesperson will get a higher comission when selling a 1k system with 3 year warranty, than from a 5 system with a 1 year warranty (oo, adn their commissions suck)
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I have a dogbert stress ball sitting on my case, does that mean I have "pimped" my computer with a dilbert theme?
If this is considered modding / pimping, then maybe I too can be a master modder.
--WooooHoooo--
Go make your own computer. No Dell or AlienWare please.
The examples that you give - cleaning, fixing refigerator, getting from point A to point B, are all useful things that you somehow HAVE to do. You don't do them for your own enjoyment. Of course, when you're talking about laundry, paying someone else to do it means saving time for yourself.
Now, painting a Star Wars picture on a computer can't possibly qualify as a useful task. The reason people do it is for their own enjoyment. A more valid comparison would be paying somebody to put together a model of a F-19 plane to put on your desk. Now, whether it's stupid to do so is another argument entirely - you can argue both points. But you can't compare it to work.
"It's like legos...legos are a toy of creativity. When they start including pre-built shapes to look like spaceships, forts, or castles, it is all over. Who would want pre-built legos?"
Those are just more pieces to be creative with.
We have lego sets, and my son usually builds the set as displayed..once. then he taks it apart, and the next thing you know he has laser, thrusters, monster build with the non-square pieces.
If you can't think of something to build with those pieces other then whats on the picture, the problem is with you, not the extra pieces.
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Big deal... I can't believe that this waste of space (physical) wasted my time.
Case mods by some geeks, a 'one off,' are a bad enough waste of bandwith (though they are sometimes fun to look at,) but a mass produced mod is a pointless pursuit.
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These things are effing ugly!
You know those "Indian" paintings of wolves that you can get at flea markets and truck stops? It looks like those, but with star wars characters instead of wolves.
It's the same thing as calling a NIC a "NIC card", I guess, so I could see where you were coming from. However, I think it's overkill saying calling them Legos is disrespectful-- it's no more disrespectful to call all soft drinks "Cokes", all cotton swabs "Q-tips". "Lego", in American terminology, at least, has been the singular term for an interlocking plastic brick that can be used to build a bunch of different structures.
Anyways, my point is that your energy on such a quest could be better spent. If someone were calling Lego bricks "them damn sticky bricks", then maybe I'd join the cause.
I don't moderate anymore. Karma penalty for 90% fair mods? Can I mod that unfair?
my first 486 had screen-printed star wars logos (self-made) and booted to "what is thy bidding, my master". of course it shut down with "contemplate this on the tree of woe" - I wasn't fascinated enough with Star Wars soundbytes at the time. Seems like this third movie and the Clone Wars cartoons may have enough to round out a good SW sound theme.
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
It's not a question of pedantry. Like I said, the familiar form is effectively dead, so if you're using it, you're trying to evoke an earlier version of the language, and so, you should use it correctly within that earlier version.
The point is, there are literally tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) using "thee," "thy", etc. today (more's the pity), and virtually none of them are trying to "evoke an earlier version of the language." They are almost without exception using it as an honoric, to address, plead with, or grovel before their God. The meaning, as it is used by these millions, is in fact on honorific. I will concede that knowing the history is useful (and might take some of the edge off the usual toxicity that eminates from the religious right, though I'm skeptical of that), but the fact of the matter is that the terminology, used today, is an honorific and very formal version of "you."
You're right, the familiar form in English is dead. "Thee," "thy", et. al. in their day-to-day meaning among those who use the words today has become exactly the opposite of its historical meaning. Which is why when Lucas used the phrase "What is thy bidding, my master" it evoked a much more submissive, worshipful relationship between Vader and the Emporer than "what is your bidding, my master" would have. The language, as it is used by millions upon millions of people, has changed.
As an aside, I wish "thee," "thy," etc. truly were dead. I think we'd all be a lot better off without the engine of religion that has preserved and changed the meaning of those words over the centuries...but that's a topic of discussion for another day.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
Combo-ing their Area-51 alien styled case (which is getting old) with Star Wars graphics seems quite bastardizing. Like washing down chocolate with orange juice. You can certainly argue that either one is very cool, but they just don't go together.
As a side note, I've always considered the alienware cases to be very cheap and flimsy feeling, in addition to the cheesy look. I'd much rather have one of the Falcon Northwest cases with a nice paint job. Either way, it seems like you can build two mundane looking machines for the price of one of their pimped out boxes with the same specs. And that trumps it for me.
Well, does it come with it?
(and what's with some 'tards typing without correct english penmanship; punctuation, inflections, and sentence termination, in particular)
I don't know. Why don't you tell us!
hello dear sirs my name is jamesh i are india (bihar) can u guide me install red had linux 9?
that nasty green little buggar - is it improvement over Snoopy?
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
Alienware recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional.
I wonder how much they were paid to put that one up.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
soon to come will be peecees pre-equipped with themes from the popular newsweekly, "The Onion". initial offering will be jenny teasdale, smooth b, and jimmy anchower themes.
when religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, governments will resort to real opiates.
I don't consider a computer that still utilizes floppy disk technology "high end" regardless of the other system components. It would be nice if they would let you take it out as an option like Dell does.
So very very sad