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Bigger Is Better (4/25/00)
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Have you heard about this giant Tetris game that some students threw together over at Brown University? We first read about it over at MacRumors; according to an Associated Press article, these guys actually built a working, playable version of Tetris out of ten thousand Christmas lights. The thing stands ten stories tall. Evidently no one told these enterprising young folks that the longstanding trend in computer technology is to make things smaller. Think different, indeed.
And heck, smaller isn't always cooler. Sure, you can play Tetris on your digital watch, but is that really as gosh-darned nifty as playing Tetris on the side of a 14-story university science library? Woz doesn't think so. "The Other Steve" who co-founded Apple actually flew down to Brown to take the giant Tetris game for a spin. And if the inventor of the original Apple computer and the proprietor of the WozCam thinks something's cool, then you can bet your sweet patootie it's cool, dagnabbit.
Unless, of course, Woz is there as a secret undercover envoy for the company he co-founded. Remember, Apple hasn't exactly been one to follow industry trends these days-- remember the whole "G4 Speed Dump" fiasco? Pay more for a slower machine? We wouldn't be terribly surprised if Apple's scoping out the students' "embiggening" technology to use in upcoming products. Imagine an iBook that's the size of a Volvo and weighs three hundred pounds. Pointless? Sure. Cool? Indisputably! (And as for the whole Tetris thing, we're only slightly impressed; call us when they have Unreal Tournament running on six thousand Lite Brites.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/25/00 episode: April 25, 2000: Don't be too hard on Bill Gates for publicly ridiculing the iMac; after all, he's obviously a very frightened man. Meanwhile, Larry Ellison's still second banana to Bill in the race to be the richest, but he's closing fast, and Woz takes a trip to Brown University to scope out the world's biggest Tetris game-- is he there on official Apple business?...
Other scenes from that episode: 2251: Does It Crash Faster, Too? (4/25/00) Bill, Bill, Bill... Is that fear we smell? We know that your recent "fireside chat" commercial was carefully engineered to draw attention to your "even billionaires shop at T.J. Maxx" sweater and away from the hunted look in your eyes, but even without the miracle of Smell-O-Vision, we still thought we detected a whiff of Eau de Deer in Headlights wafting from the direction of the TV... 2252: Not Quite Neck In Neck (4/25/00) Seeing as we're currently mired solidly in the middle of what we can only assume is a pre-WWDC news drought, why don't we take another look at Larry Ellison's race to replace Bill Gates as the world's richest man?...
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