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Gallowglass writes: "Salon has written a review of the Xbox which damns with extremely faint praise." There was a big hoopla in Times Square last night, but apparently no one pied Bill Gates. So, for all you poor souls who lined up to give money to the borg: does it work? Any blue-screens yet? :) Update: 11/15 15:23 GMT by M : Okay, I'm sorry. That's green screen of death, not blue screen.
700Mhz Pong Machine (Score:4, Funny)
anyone else reminded of batman... (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft: "What do you want to think today?"
Hardware reviews from Salon!?? (Score:5, Funny)
XboX, WinXP... In the UK know better (Score:5, Funny)
Check this picture
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Or this other one
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X-Box second edition to be released in March (Score:2, Funny)
YES! (Score:2, Funny)
That neon green Xbox logo sends out microwave pulsations to your brain to the beat of the Madonna song played on the WinXP commercials. Mysteriously, on our next visit to Best Buy, you pick up a copy of WinXP:
Wife: Honey, I thought you only ran Linux?
You: Microsoft for life, babe.
Get one on eBay (Score:5, Funny)
X-mas (Score:2, Funny)
After all, who didn't get their first kick on computers on a VIC-20 or simular boxes...
And the eBay stupidity begins... (Score:5, Funny)
The other auction of note is here [ebay.com], where the winner gets the box that the Xbox came in. The seller is very clear about the person only getting the box that it came in, yet the winning bid was still $366.
Was a crime committed here? Nope. They were just helping the fool part from his money sooner.
Re:BSOD (Score:2, Funny)
How can you do Ctrl-Alt-Del with a Xbox's controller?
Re:Sad, sad commentary (Score:5, Funny)
Repeat after me: "The whole point of a gaming console is to play games."
Most people don't buy consoles to double as a bloody servers. Sure, it can be done, and there's a lot of hack value there, but dude...get a clue! "The dream of having some kind of decent server in everyone's house" is NOT going to happen with an Xbox. Maybe with a good PC with a good OS, but NOT some mediocre gaming console. Compared to real PCs made in the last year or so, the xbox is by no means "a strong PC".
Lemme turn your argument around a little bit. Hey guys! I'm really excited. My furnace and air conditioner contain a Hitachi H8/3292 microcontroller, which is really a pretty hefty little CPU. I'm gonna hack the thing and run a server on my airconditioner! It keeps me cool in the summer, warm in the winter, it serves mp3s, and is now running Apache! Finally! The dream of running a server can be realized by the masses. w00t!
Bah.
Microsoft is clearly the industry leader... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:700Mhz Pong Machine (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why so negative towards xbox? (Score:5, Funny)
You say this like it's some kind of big secret that the Slashdot crowd's feelings about Microsoft range from mild antipathy to deep loathing. Are you the same guy who visits Macintosh advocacy sites and wonders why there's no positive press on Gateway and Dell?
From Dictionary.com (Score:2, Funny)
GSOD: A acronym for defining the Green Screen Of Death. Invented by Microsoft Corp, in 2001.
This is what is displayed when the XBox(R) crashes, and fails to load media. Mostly requiring a power cycle.
Also See Evil Empire
Can't get this stupid thing to work. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:700Mhz Pong Machine (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Sad, sad commentary (Score:2, Funny)
Lemme turn your argument around a little bit. Hey guys! I'm really excited. My furnace and air conditioner contain a Hitachi H8/3292 microcontroller, which is really a pretty hefty little CPU. I'm gonna hack the thing and run a server on my airconditioner! It keeps me cool in the summer, warm in the winter, it serves mp3s, and is now running Apache! Finally! The dream of running a server can be realized by the masses. w00t!
Let me turn that around a bit.
Hey geys! Check this out! I have an MP3 and web server with the best case cooling on the planet. In fact, it not only cools itself, but the entire room. This is the ultimate solution for all your case cooling needs.
Thanks for playing though. :)
Re:too bad it was going to be a big leap forward (Score:3, Funny)
Now if they changed that to Master Chef - and had Lloyd Grossman flying around in a shiny suit - they might have a surefire hit.
Re:anyone else reminded of batman... (Score:2, Funny)
How about Steve Ballmer and his Wet Armpit Stains?
Re:Hardware reviews from Salon!?? (Score:3, Funny)
Its almost as bad as if Slashdot did movie reviews.
Er wait...
Re:huh?? (Score:2, Funny)