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Microsoft launching Argo into portable space
The Seattle Times reports that Microsoft is working on an entire line of Xbox handhelds under mythological code name; first device allegedly due by year's end.
Apparently J Allard is a fan of Star Blazers. That, or he digs Greek mythology. According to an article in today's Seattle Times, the once-iconoclastic, now-reclusive Microsoft corporate vice president is heading up a secret project code-named "Argo." Argo was the name of the ancient trireme sailed by Jason and the Argonauts, as well as the moniker of the spaceship in Blazers, the English-language version of the popular anime series Space Battleship Yamato.
Now, Argo is also apparently the code name for the supposedly secret handheld Xbox project Allard is heading up. While the San Jose Mercury News, New York Post, and Bloomberg news service previously reported that a multimedia portable was in the works at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters, the Times article says that the Argo project is prepping several handhelds, not just a single hardware unit.
According to the daily, "What's being developed is actually a complete line of Xbox-branded digital-media products, including a device that plays media, a software media player and an online media service."
Citing "information from a source close to the project," the paper also claims that all handheld Xbox devices will have Wi-Fi connectivity, like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, and the first will arrive by the end of the year. The Times believes that the first details will be revealed at Microsoft's annual analyst meeting on July 27, though that had not been officially confirmed as of press time.
不打算详细翻译了，捡一些重要的说
据西雅图时报的消息，MS游戏部***副总裁，现任秘密掌机开发负责人J Allard将他正在秘密开发中的MS掌机计划，以希腊神话来命名，Argo（南船星座，详细资料见文末）是它的代号。
San Jose Mercury News,，New York Post，以及 Bloomberg news日前都报道了MS正在进行秘密掌机开发的消息，而据时代杂志的最新报道，MS宣称Argo将会是一个系列的多种掌机开发计划，而不是单单一台掌机。
文中MS称这将是一个囊括多媒体播放，在线多媒体综合娱乐平台。“而且它们也将会有完全不逊于PSP和DS的完美Wifi功能，今年年底它们会初步亮相”
时代杂志相信, 初步细节将在微软的每年分析员会议上，即7月27 日被初步披露。MS官方并未正式承认这个猜想。
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Argo（Argo Navis，南船座，南天星座之一，原是最大的星座。于十八世纪被拆分为四个星座：船帆座、船底座、船尾座和罗盘座。含仅次于“天狼星”全天最第二大的亮星“老人星”。）
南船座即阿格号（Argonauts），故事中伊阿宋(Jason)带著五十个人乘阿格号到位于黑海的科尔基斯（Colchis）找金羊毛。
伊阿宋带著众多船员出航，当中包括双子座的卡斯托尔(Castor)和波吕杜克斯(Polydeuces/Pollux)，乐师俄耳甫斯，建船者阿尔戈斯，后来连赫拉克勒斯也加入旅程。剧作家把阿格号描写成船坚炮利，而牛顿甚至将黃道十二宮与阿格号扯上关系。建船之时，雅典娜下令阿尔戈斯采佩利翁山(Pelion)的木材造船，宙斯也指示阿尔戈斯以多多纳(Dodona)之橡木建船首，那里的橡木赋有语言能力，在阿格号启航时，甚至听到橡木的哭声。
阿格号在旅途中遇上重重困难，其中以撞岩(Clashing Rocks)最为著名，撞岩又叫叙姆普勒加得斯(Symplegades)，它好像自动门一样开开合合挡著黑海的入口，当时伊阿宋情急智生，放出白鸽，让白鸽飞于船前，两块大石瞬时掩埋，夹断白鸽的尾巴，船员趁两块大石打开再次撞击之前，出尽九牛二虎之力，再得雅典娜之助，结果只是船尾受到少许损坏。
经过几番波折进入黑海后．伊阿宋偷去金羊毛回到希腊，把阿格号泊于科林斯，算是对海神波塞冬的一种感谢。
在星图上，我们只能见到阿格号的船尾，船头被浓雾所覆盖，或是被撞岩所遮掩，有说是伊阿宋晚年在船上沉思过往的历险时，船首忽然塌下来压死了熟睡中的伊阿宋，于是波塞冬将船的其余部份升上天空。
另外，α星（老人星）亦有一段故事，老人星名为Canopus，本为希腊国皇墨涅拉奥斯(Menelaus)之舵手，特洛伊战争后，当墨涅拉奥斯回程时，船只被吹离航道，他们被迫在埃及登陆，Canopus被蛇咬死，墨涅拉奥斯情妇海伦(Helen)替Canopus报仇杀死大蛇。，墨涅拉奥斯和海伦把Canopus合葬于城中，该城亦被易名为Canopus
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