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XBox Live Network

Posted by michael on from the passports-for-everyone dept.

The New York Times covers Microsoft's planned XBox Live network, a subscription-based online service for the XBox. Microsoft's "we control everything" approach will probably impact the number of games available, but the article notes that the service will include voice-over-ip, which might be a selling point.

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  1. Security quote by antic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Robert J. Bach, a Microsoft senior vice president in charge of its games division: "When you're at Disneyland, there's no trash, no violence and you never see security. That's what we have in mind."

    Yep, definitely a Microsoft product...

    --
    'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
    1. Re:Security quote by mosch · · Score: 3, Funny
      according to you, the following are problems that Disneyland created, not merely fine examples that Darwinism still occasionally works:
      • 1964: a fuckwit stands up at the summit of the matterhorn. He was thrown off, died.
      • 1966: a fuckwit sneaks onto disneyland property, and is walking along the monorail track. a guard tries to warn him that the monorail is coming, he runs from the guide, and hides on the track, gets smushed.
      • 1967: a fuckwit attempts to get out of the people mover while it's in the middle of the ride. His cuff gets caught, and he trips, gets squished.
      • 1968: a helicopter service that ran from LAX to disneyland had two crashes. The first semi-legitimate one, though the fact that helicopters can crash isn't particularly shocking.
      • 1973: two fuckwits stay in the park after closing. they then decide to cross a fake river, despite the fact that one of them doesn't know how to swim. one kid manages to survive, the other one drowns. thank you darwin.
      • 1974: a fuckwit, who was actually an employee, was working at an attraction which involves different rooms rotating to face the audiance. clearly, the machinery which moves a 3-story building is fairly strong. the fuckwit got herself caught in a fashion that her leg got squashed by the spinning room.
      • 1980: another fuckwit is walking between the couplings of various PeopleMover cars. fuckwit falls down, gets run over. dies.
      • 1981: a fuckwit pinches some girl's ass. the girl's boyfriend doesn't like this, a fight erupts, it escalates, the fuckwit gets himself stabbed.
      • 1983: drunken fuckwit steals a maintainance raft at night, takes it for a spin around the rivers of america, falls out, drowns.
      • 1984: for reasons not detailed (nothing says if it's equipment failure, or user error), a woman's buckle comes undone on the matterhorn, she gets thrown off, then gets hit by another matterhorn car, dies.
      • 1987: fuckwit gang members get into a fight in the parking lot, and shoot each other.
      • 1998: the first death caused by a Disney employee fuckup. One of the river of america ships is coming to dock. they cast a rope around the mooring cleat, but the ship was moving too fast, ripped the mooring cleat off the dock, and through an unfortunate soul's face, killing her. Disney didn't deny anything, or even fight the lawsuit.
      So, could you explain to me which part of this shows that Disneyland has lots of hidden problems, covered up only by good marketing?

      oh wait, none of it shows that at all, you're a fucking retard.

  2. Loose words by jukal · · Score: 3, Funny

    > "You're looking at a service that will become a new phone network overnight,"
    > said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research
    > and consulting firm in Seaford, N.Y. "By Christmas, Microsoft could become the nation's fourth-largest phone company." ...and I thought I was looking at someone that left his brains in a plastic bag. These lines seems like a relic from 1998.