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Xbox Price Drops to $200
ProfBooty writes: "Just two days after rival Sony Corp. cut prices on the PlayStation 2, Microsoft has announced they are cutting Xbox pricing by 33% to $200. Nintendo still has no plans to cut pricing on the Gamecube. Now is definitely a good time to be a gamer with all 3 next-gen systems at $200. Too bad i just bought a Playstation 2 yesterday." I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox.
I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox
Not to troll - but, What the hell purpose would that serve? Give Micr$oft more money?
I recieved an Xbox about 2 months ago as a graduation present have been nothing but impressed with it. Hate on it all you want for that MS logo, it's wonderful technology and a damn good value. For
You can have your PS2 and your anti-MS rhetoric, I'll cast my lot with the better games, the better technology, and the better value and enjoy my Xbox.
Microsoft doesn't have infinitely deep pockets -- people thought the same of Xerox in the photocopying industry (where are they today?), General Motors in the auto industry, and on and on. A good business man always spends a lot on R&D, because that allows them to make their marketable products better by incorporating features.
I'm glad Microsoft is around and doing well in business, everything they do trickles down to more business for us. Buggy operating systems? Keep them coming! Half the business comes in to support their shit code, the other half of the business comes in to install OSes that don't have the problems. Win, win, if you ask me.
When Microsoft goes the way of General Motors or Xerox or any one of the number of companies that were feared to be monopolies (and it will, probably in the next decade), you guys will be bitching and moaning about government regulation for whatever is the next huge company, even though you don't have the brain capacity to realize that these companies are doing great things for the economy as a whole.
Go forth and compete. Stop jerking off to porn and reading your little comic books, how about working 100 hours a week on what you think the market wants -- Microsoft won't prevent you from taking out a loan, running an ad campaign, and shipping a better product, so why aren't you doing it?
Maybe its because its easier to complain and ask the government for help, even though all it does in the end is hurt all of us through newer regulations that only HELP those we wanted to hurt, and HURT those like us.
*shakes head* I'll never understand how geeks want government out of privacy and copyright, but want them involved in regulation. It never ceases to amaze me that the Socialists of the 50s and 60s have gotten EVERYTHING they wanted politically, and nobody cares enough to realize how much farther ahead we'd all be in a truly free market economy...
Socialism Leaves All Servants Having Dreams Over Triumphs...
Since when did MS become more evil than Sony? Many people here seem to be getting a PS2 because MS is evil yet we all know how much more evil Sony really is. Copy-protected CD's, RIAA, DMCA, etc. But suddenly nobody cares.
Slashdot is a weird crowd. I also remember the day when people were favorable to a RedHat acquisition by AOL/TW. Go figure.