Re:My own Xbox notes
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gazbo
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
The Xbox is like a hobbled warhorse. You can see how big, how powerful it is, the sleek, black muscles with the power to crush anything else around it. You can feel its energy, its need to break out and use that power.
But the creators, fearing its power <snip> ad nauseum
Enough with the similes! It started to get a bit surreal there. (Americans: A simile is what you would call a metaphor - incorrectly. Please learn the difference and use the appropriate word)
As useless as my gall bladder? Personally I wouldn't like to live without my gall bladder. I'd happily lose my appendix, but I'd have to be pretty ill before I'd want my gall bladder removed - it stores my bile.
Otherwise, thanks for your observations.
Wow! I'm underwhelmed.
by
Erris
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· Score: 2, Flamebait
And for $400 you could build a 900 MHz Athlon. $100 for mobo and slot A processor, $25 for 256M RAM, $100 for HD, $10 for ethernet, $50 for case. You could spend the rest on nice video and sound or be cheap and limit yourself to a $300 budget. Get yourself a Debian install and put what you want on it. Look ma! a general purpose computer. Why torture yourself to figure out M$ hardware?
-- DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
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Enough with the similes! It started to get a bit surreal there. (Americans: A simile is what you would call a metaphor - incorrectly. Please learn the difference and use the appropriate word)
As useless as my gall bladder? Personally I wouldn't like to live without my gall bladder. I'd happily lose my appendix, but I'd have to be pretty ill before I'd want my gall bladder removed - it stores my bile.
Otherwise, thanks for your observations.
And for $400 you could build a 900 MHz Athlon. $100 for mobo and slot A processor, $25 for 256M RAM, $100 for HD, $10 for ethernet, $50 for case. You could spend the rest on nice video and sound or be cheap and limit yourself to a $300 budget. Get yourself a Debian install and put what you want on it. Look ma! a general purpose computer. Why torture yourself to figure out M$ hardware?
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.