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Salon Goes Inside the X-Box

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the after-the-fact dept.

Romancer writes "According to this article, Recent X-box "Sales have been disappointing, and the co-creator of Microsoft's game console just quit his job -- a day before a book portraying him as a hero hit the bookstores." " The article itself is allright, but it has a lot of good links.

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  1. spelling.. by cisco_rob · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry...can't...help...myself...

    it's alright or all-right - not allright.

    [dictionary.com] "all-right adj : (informal) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay" "

    syn: all right(p), all-right(a), fine, ok, o.k., okay

    alright Pronunciation Key (ôl-rt)
    adv. Nonstandard
    All right. See Usage Note at all right.

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  2. I'm waiting for.... by SuperCal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm waiting for the posts asking when the emulator will be availible and how the Linux port is coming along. They are always posted to every article involving the XBox.

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  3. Dave Does Debian by mydigitalself · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i was just trying to put some names to faces from the super pow-wow discussed on the salon article.

    anyway, came across Dave Riola (WebTV)'s home page and found it quite funny that he uses these little icons that look like the Debian logo! checkit

  4. Msft in lower 50's by ch-chuck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    last time I saw Msft stock hit the upper 40's it shortly climed back up into the 60's. Might be getting to a prime purchase price soon. If they hit lower 40's, the legal stuff gets put behind them and something interesting starts to emerge from .NET it would all be good signs.

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  5. linking 'print' version articles is irresponsible by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [Note: I am not a writer/editor of any kind, but...]

    Slashdot editors should know how important banner adds are to online content providers. They should also realize how important user data, however small, is as well.

    Yet they link the 'print' version of the articles, thus bypassing the articles writer's means of making money. What if every slashdot user used junkbusters? What if everyone circumvented the slashdot subscribtion? How would slashdot make money?

    We continue to rail on NYtimes for their subscription requierement. But think, you get (i) well written (ii) timely (iii) well researched, articles for free daily. Although there are tons of expenses associated in getting that content to you. And all they ask is a stupid alias ( doesn't even have to be your real name ) to build numbers on users reading habits. Yet you post accounts and account generators.

    Is that reasonable? Is that fair?

    There is an old saying in my religion, "do onto others as you would like done unto you". Religion aside, it is a very wise saying.

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