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Microsoft: No Xbox for You!
Markel writes "According this this story in the Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft is very concerned about a man having been acquitted after allegedly selling [mod chips for a PlayStation]. So concerned in fact, that they are saying: change the law, or they will have to reconsider selling the Xbox in Australia. Not selling the Xbox is well within their rights, but putting it in a (I paraphrase slightly) "change the law or we'll .." context seems assuming a bit too much. I guess well see how many of our MPs are XBox gameheads."
...can we convince this man to sell mod chips for Windows, Office, Passport...
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I believe six of then are called Bruce
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they are $199... just ignore that PS2 logo on the side of the box, its the only box i had left. OH, and you'll need these 'special' xbox controllers. (the ps2 logos on those were misprints from the xbox factory, don't worry).
here is now it work, plug in your xbox, now plug in this 'mod chip' to the same power strip, and they will communicate using WiFi... put your PS2 games, in the 'mod chip' after plugging it in, and plug the 'mod controllers' into the 'mod chip' everything should work fine out of the box.
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After the launch of a Telstra mobile computing device, Mr Ballmer said the decision affected Xbox's business model, which relies on subsidising the hardware console in return for a royalty on every game sold.
The criminal law related to murder is bad for my business model as a hit man, which relies on accepting payment for people I have killed.
If the disk was damaged or faulty, you'd return it under warranty.
Welcome, traveler, to our dimension! I hope you enjoy your stay here. What other strange customs do companies practice in your homeland?
To forbid the sale of anything Microsoft owns. Or at least make it look like they are going to. I bet Microsoft will be the one backpeddling then!
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Any law changes they make should be set to expire in a year, when Microsoft will have discontinued the X-Box and they'll be $49.95 at Toys-R-Us. I wonder if I will be able to interface my IntelPlay(R) Microscope to an X-Box?
I just saw the last shred of journalistic integrity go down the fucking drain here! XBox mod chip to play PS2 games my ass!
Why not just let the trolls post stories about free RAM with links to goatse.cx?
Slashdot Reader: Oh wow, free ram OH MY GOD THAT IS SO SICK MY EYES MY EYES THEY BURN ARrrrrr....
Damn it.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
then there'll probably be panic buying of Xboxes before MS withdraws them from Australia.
Or maybe a panicked ignoring of Xboxes.
If you have a PS2 and can mod it to play Xbox games, you can probably build a time machine and jump into the future to play games in holodecks.
There are vast differences in the hardware. It's just a badly worded story.
Microsoft looses money on every xbox sold.
I wish that they'd "loose" some of that cash in my neighborhood. We've cleaned up most of the "loose" stuff we had around here.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
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Their "Chieft Software Architect" is a meglomaniacal control freak.
Ms is just looking for any excuse to stop selling the xbos these days huh?
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