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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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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?
FGD 135
Thy, "What is thy bidding, my master?" ;)
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
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.
AT deviantart:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/17884431/
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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..."
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
They look like toys for an 8-year-old.
From Boing Boing
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
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!
Tepp
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.
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...
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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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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.
"Misah thinks you're writing a letter. Misah help!"
or how about:
"an illegal operation performed has been. Shutting down, program is."
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+