MacHack Theme Unveiled 41
Carlos Finque writes "After much consideration, this year's theme of the annual MacHack conference was unveiled today: 'MacHack 18: Unstoppable'. Read the press statement and don't forget to register while you can. Mindful of the inevitability of their own conference and the unstoppability of it all, the committee looked for a suitable symbol for things that keep moving no matter what. It turned out that the committee needed look no further than their own Mac screen. Apple's own busy cursor -- the SPoD or 'Spinning Pizza of Death' -- is the inspiration for this year's MacHack theme element."
SPoD (Score:4, Funny)
Re:SPoD (Score:2, Funny)
What do you mean? That geeks don't have enough exposure to soap and sunlight? Or that the only real people we ever see are pizza delivery guys?!
Re:SPoD (Score:2, Insightful)
The busy cursor is also multi-colored (blues, greens, yellows, reds, etc.), not covered with cheese, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms, sausage, green peppers, onions, anchovies, pineapples, ham, and all the rest.
The MacHack site does look cool with the beach balls all over it; much better than the standard yellow and green combo. They k
Re:SPoD (Score:1)
Re:SPoD--use MightyMouse (Score:1)
Gee... (Score:5, Insightful)
Journalists will continue to call Apple "beleagured" and proclaim that the death of Apple is assured. "Do you hear that, Mr. Jobs? That is the sound of inevitability."
Apple will continue to make computers with ridiculously low bus and ram speeds (though we all hope the 970 will fix this
Windows users will continue to blame the occasional failure of interoperability on the stupid Mac users and not the well-known flaws in their OS. Special characters in Word files, anyone?
I wouldn't say that the SPoD sticks around very long anyway, thanks to the joys of an OS with "kill -9"
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Re:As I always say... (Score:2)
Why can't more journalists analyze Apple for what they are : an elite computer maker that caters to those with a bit different taste? No one criticizes Porsche for not lowering prices and mass producing sports cars. Sure, you can get a Trans Am or Camaro for much cheaper, but it's not a Porsche! Apple is the same
SPoD multichromatic theme elements? (Score:5, Funny)
Like Steve Jobs himself...unstoppable! That kinda sounds like a movie trailer to me: "One man. One way. One...desire. In the Year of the Laptop, he runs a grossly underestimated computer company, and the competition wanted to snuff him out. But he had only one chance, and that was to fight back! Blessed with a weapon with supernatural powers: the Spinning Pizza of Death, he brings down hellfire on his enemies and throws the competition into his own house of pain. This summer, Steve Jobs is...Unstoppable."
Help Steve fight the good fight. Help him make his computers better. Go to MacHack!
Re:SPoD multichromatic theme elements? (Score:2)
(You watch a lot of comedy central stand-up, don't you.)
Re:SPoD multichromatic theme elements? (Score:2)
I'm surprised you caught that. Good work. But to keep the post on topic...MacHack is the key to helping others make the most out of the best OS and hardware on the planet! Macintosh rules! There.
Re:SPoD multichromatic theme elements? (Score:1)
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal" - Elwood P Dowd
I don't think you ripped anyone off. Or I don't care, at least. You referred to Pablo Francisco's joke.
There is no Pizza (Score:5, Funny)
There is no Pizza. It is your multitasking that must bend.
Of Course There Is No Pizza (Score:4, Insightful)
The system may have been designed with hallucinagens, but your not supposed to actually operate it as such. I guess this is more problems arising from Stev Jobs and the 'lickable' interface, thank god apple toned it down in the latest release.
Holy Shrooms, Batman! (Score:1)
Re:There is no Pizza (Score:2)
Of course not! (Score:5, Funny)
Worst summary - ever (Score:5, Funny)
mod SPoD way down, please (Score:1, Insightful)
Talk about a random choice for a theme, by the way. I'll be at
Re:mod SPoD way down, please (Score:2)
Open the terminal. Type "mkfifo ~/Desktop/pipe"; that should make a named pipe, named pipe (heh), and put it on the desktop. For some reason, it will look like a server-alias icon.
Now right (or control)-click it. Oops, scratch that. When you're done force-relauching the Finder, bring up Process Viewer and sort descending by either C
Targetting this? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Targetting this? (Score:2)
Best Machack Ever (Score:5, Funny)
Seeing a message pop up along the lines of:
"Da Locashun Managa is unable to connect. Sheeit, what it is Mama?"
it just used to make the day tolerable for me.....
(and here is the the obligatory link, works in classic enviroment as long as the control panel is enabled).
http://www.hax.com/MacHack/hacks99.html
Re:Best Machack Ever (Score:1, Interesting)
Made your computer only slightly less usable than MacJive
Re:Best Machack Ever (Score:2)
Re:Best Machack Ever (Score:2)
Re:Best Machack Ever (Score:2)
the one that turns the display into ASCII is good as well. however hard drug use probably has the same effect.
Re:Best Machack Ever (Score:1, Offtopic)
when I hear unstoppable I think of OS 9 (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:when I hear unstoppable I think of OS 9 (Score:1)
-Ster
Re:when I hear unstoppable I think of OS 9 (Score:2)
But you can do this for real with Mac-on-Linux. If you're a masochist you can even run separate instances of MOL for OS X and OS 9 - but don't expect anything with the letters S,P,E or D.
Yellow Dog and Mandrake can do this, I know from experience. Don't know about other Linux distros.
Crawls on her belly like a reptile! (Score:3, Funny)
Spinning Pizza of Death should be Spinnin' Pizza O' DEATH!
Spinning Beach Ball of Doom? (Score:4, Informative)
Maybe this year they'll have a little beachball spinning on the entrance, just to make sure you know that you're waiting in line.
Re:Spinning Beach Ball of Doom? (Score:4, Interesting)
Since it corresponds with 100% CPU use... (Score:1)
-realinvalidname
SPoD/SBoD Pizzas and Beachballs? Nah, Discs! (Score:1)
Next up the Pizza, it in no way looks like any pizza I have seen under any state of mind. So you can just quit it with that. How many blue and purple pizza slices have you seen not counting Japanese Squid Ink Pizza [bridgewater.edu]? Even that's more black than