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XBox Released
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.
I'll buy an X-Box when you pry cash into my cold, dead hands.
Once again Micro$oft figures out a way to screw a new group of people. They convinced most of the bands to give them the music for free. The story is here (NYTIMES reg req.). The bands did it for the publicity but guess what, there are no credits and you can replace the music with your own.
I mean really, linking the xbox release with one totally negative article, while other sites have given it a much better outlook. Please try to be fair here slashdot.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Asking /. to be fair and balanced when dealing with M$-related things is like asking Rush Limbaugh to stop parroting Republican dogma: i.e., it just won't happen.
Yeah, good thinking, Michael. Yesterday in New York would have been the perfect time to assault Bill Gates with an unknown white substance.
Honestly, while I support the right to protest and yell as much as you want, I'm baffled by how everyone seems to think hitting someone with a pie is cute and harmless, and not an assault on someone's person. I suppose that's because it's limited to leftish causes -- I suspect if anti-abortionists went around throwing pies at feminists the response would be different.
As loathsome as I find Willie Brown (why can't someone that brilliant use his skills to improve government instead of just manipulating it?) I give him credit for being the one recipient to insist that the attack on him be taken seriously. Second place goes to the elderly UK politician who decked the 20-something guy who pied him. (Said guy than had the nerve to whine about it.)
Now if I were Bill Gates, I'd have offered $10,000 to the first person to pie the guy who nailed him, offer to be repeated on each of the next 60 days. What's the point of being a billionaire if you can't do something like that?
The thing is, your statements could almost apply just as well to the PS2 as the XBox. Sure, with the PS2 you have to obtain a seperate solution for ethernet or a HD (which is not totally nessicary as you could consider the memory card enough storage to make things interesting).
However, you also have to consider that MS had said repeatedly they are NOT making a home PC, they are making a pure game console. To help drive that point home they have made the USB ports non-standard.
If you look at it from a point of connectivity, the XBox has ethernet but as far as the larger device market goes nothing else. The PS2 has both standard Firewire and USB ports, and also a SUPPORTED version of Linux (and Java in the works). You can use USB keyboards and mice you have sittig around from computers, or go to lots of stores and have keyboards to choose from as well as being able to hook up digital cameras with included cables.
Which one sounds more like a home PC hub to you? Remember, just because it doesn't have an Intel processor does not mean it can't be a computing device...
One last point - though I have a cable modem and DSL line (not for long though - thanks a lot Sprint!), people are still going to be using modems for a long time. Sony has realized this and is including a modem with thier ethernet/HD extension. MS has only ethernet which is great for some but not all users. I can't remember exactly what Nintendo was planning, but I think they had a combo modem/ethernet solution as well.
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