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Editors' Notes Weblog: Keynote bloopers and practical jokes

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 12:10 PM

Not every Expo keynote goes flawlessly, as a funny video we found on YouTube reminds us. [more]
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 03:18 PM

Consider Things that go Boom!
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 03:50 PM

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Consider Things that go Boom!


Emeril Lagasse's legal team considers its options.
Also, you've just doomed me to cracking up with each and every "boom" during next month's keynote. Thanks a lot.

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Posted 10 December 2007 - 04:02 PM

Perhaps some of the .mac nay-sayers can post a video of Steve Jobs promising iTools would be free for life. Oh wait, he never said that. Nevermind.
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 04:21 PM

Same guy did this even more hilarious one of Steve's other Keynote ruts.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=QOVRgVPrGlQ
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 04:34 PM

Steve Jobs Keynote Bingo, here we come!
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 05:49 PM

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Steve Jobs Keynote Bingo, here we come!

Woo Hoo!
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:04 PM

Sensors are picking up a new drinking game in this sector...
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:41 PM

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Steve Jobs Keynote Bingo, here we come!


Arstechnica always puts together great Keynote Bingos. No better way to throw in a bit of cynicism to cut the hype just a bit on the magical day. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 08:28 PM

Sorry folks. This is an area in which Microsoft far surpasses Apple.
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Posted 10 December 2007 - 08:58 PM

What was the grey box that had something fall out of it (looked kinda like a hard drive tray?), and Steve picked it back up and shoved it in?
I'm an Apple junkie, but I don't remember this one. Somebody help me out please. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Posted 12 December 2007 - 10:00 AM

It was exactly what you thought, a RAID array. It's not an Apple product IIRC, just an example he was showing of what people have built for the Mac.
Personally I love the fact that he admits he doesn't know what predictive branching or adaptive semantics are. He's not supposed to get bogged down in that stuff because users aren't supposed to get bogged down in it. Having Bill Gates up there acting like he knows every detail of every gate of every chip just makes the learning curve seem steeper.
Didn't he also toss a Rockr?
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Posted 12 December 2007 - 01:01 PM

The RAID array was powered by a PowerBook G3's battery, thats what fell out. And once where he was showing how easy it is to use a camera with your mac and it would not work, he threw it and someone picked it up and I believe kept it.
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