How do you change the image of a bullet point in LaTeX Beamer

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Published on 2010-05-12T19:58:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 22:34 UTC
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When I use the itemize environment, i.e.

\begin{itemize} 
    \item one
    \item two
    \item three
\end{itemize}

The bullet points are ugly bitmap graphics that have harsh (aliased) edges. I'd like it to be a nice, clean font character or vector graphic

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