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"Move over Bill Gates and Steve Jobs?"

StarbucksSam said:
I'd like to ask why the hell they'd use a wooden box. Just to copy Woz? I mean, there are so many more logical things they could be using that are less heavy, clunky, and stupid these days.
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i have a pc in a wooden case, running software i wrote, does that make me woz, no.
 
I think this is a case of "not enough news to report". And no offense to the news anchor, but by her looks you can tell this is really local news. Curly hair on a news station?
 
raggedjimmi said:
Am I the only person who finds American news channels irritating? Maybe it was CNN, the only english channel we got in Spain, but I find the over-excited voices and the patronising tone annoying.

As for the content. Wow. Just. Wow. :D
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You don't know the half of it... to give you an idea of how capitalism has gone haywire, did you know that Fox News reports to the Fox ENTERTAINMENT division??!! Fox doesn't have a Bagdad bureau, but has TEN reporters in Aruba following that missing student?
Thank GOD I can access REAL news via satellite and the Internet.

As for this "newsworthy" computer, well, I just described what's going on.
 
Oh please

the guy is so cocky. "you're looking at newest revolution in computer history..." really sir? really?
"you're looking at a new artform coming from, uh, how can I put this...when a phoneix dies..." holy crap. what is this...harry potter?
"I'm the president, the chief executive officer, and the chief software architect"...wow sir. thats a lot of titles for a freshman in high school.
"Couple weeks back we were just a bunch of kids making a computer..." YOU STILL ARE!
 
Hector said:
i have a pc in a wooden case, running software i wrote, does that make me woz, no.
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I respect that, though. You're not on the local news saying that this is revolutionary and your floppy disk is going to change the world.

Jaffa Cake said:
To be fair, I think that job title would look brilliant on a business card...
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That would be the best April Fools joke. Only 349 days...
 
muffinman said:
the guy is so cocky. "you're looking at newest revolution in computer history..." really sir? really?
"you're looking at a new artform coming from, uh, how can I put this...when a phoneix dies..." holy crap. what is this...harry potter?
"I'm the president, the chief executive officer, and the chief software architect"...wow sir. thats a lot of titles for a freshman in high school.
"Couple weeks back we were just a bunch of kids making a computer..." YOU STILL ARE!
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Thank you for noticing the Harry Potter reference. I was wondering how long it would take people to realize that there is not indeed a bird that spontaneously combusts and then comes back to life. You can tell that his inane references to mythical creatures are probably NOT going to shape the world.
 
I didn't care until I saw the logo and its colours.

Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy Crush kill destroy

I guess it was one of those no-news days.
 
bobscliff said:
I think this is a case of "not enough news to report". And no offense to the news anchor, but by her looks you can tell this is really local news. Curly hair on a news station?
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She looks kinda homely to me, that's why I stopped watching the local news (and because it is unbearably boring). Infobabes on cable bring that extra zest to the news that every man needs ;)

As for the kids, file for a patent? On what? Having the computer read the zits on your face for a password? No, that's too far off just yet. Gotta let the phoenix die again and be reborn. Trademark the logo? I think they need to get their "chief marketing officer" on the ball so that they won't be laughed out of the building for that piece of trash.

I'm not trying to be mean, only realistic...
 
mkrishnan said:
So...as a Harry Potter neophyte... what is the connection between the Phoenix and Harry Potter?
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Phawks, Dumbledore's phoenix, suddenly bursts in to flames in front of Harry and Dumbledore explains that he will be reborn from his own ashes.
 
StarbucksSam said:
Phawks, Dumbledore's phoenix, suddenly bursts in to flames in front of Harry and Dumbledore explains that he will be reborn from his own ashes.
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Ahhh, thanks. But this, of course, is essentially what all Phoenix do. ;)
 
Does anyone know if they did anything different at all? All of us here can or knows someone who can buy PC parts and assemble it in a tower. And a lot of people program software. What will they be trying to sell exactly?
 
itcheroni said:
Does anyone know if they did anything different at all? All of us here can or knows someone who can buy PC parts and assemble it in a tower. And a lot of people program software. What will they be trying to sell exactly?
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Uh, let's see... They built it in a WOOD BOX, they have the philosophy from the Harry Potter books, they think they are the next evil Mocrosoft, they are actually using the Windows 98 DOS prompt in fullscreen, and they "wanna be known". ;)
 
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