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Microsoft Talks Handhelds, Xbox Linux
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Canada.com interview with Xbox head honcho Robbie Bach, which shoots him some wide-ranging and perceptive questions about Microsoft's console strategy. Interesting answers include whether Microsoft wants to get into the handheld console market ("It's like starting a new business...we will focus on making the current Xbox successful."), and their views of Linux for Xbox ("..the numbers are not really that big. It's not a commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we always pursue those.")
You're black. Get over it.
Love, Kettle
I'm the guy with the unpopular opinion
The reason why, of course, is that they deserve better. And if wealth was distributed more equitably, they would have better. But people are just too damn content to agitate for change.
WTF? If I work my ass off and someone isn't so lucky, then I should give up some of my hard earned $$$ to them so we both live a modest life? Ummm... that experiment was tested in the USSR (Soviet Union) and it FAILED! Hey, I wish we weren't so greedy and we lived in a Star Trek world with no fear, poverty, hunger, and war, but we aren't. I get up everyday to make $$$ so I can pay my bills and buy the things I want. Hey, I'm even trying to do something in my spare time to make more $$$ for myself so I can retire safer. So you are telling me that I should fork over my hard earned cash by giving up some of my weekends and time with my family because some person doesn't feel like working hard, not good with managing his/her life, bad luck, dumb, raised with imcompetent parents, or who knows how many other reasons! Hey, I grew up poor with a single working mexican mother who worked as a maid cleaning houses, and I'm proud to say that I am a professional computer systems developer (web, databases, applications solutions) with a wife, new house (which I'm in love with) with a pool, two cars, and two cats (along with my other technological marvels, ie. Tivo, computers, etc). I worked my ass off for this and will continue working so I can live a better life. Oh, BTW, I pay a HELL of a lot of taxes to those "unfortunate" people who aren't as lucky as myself. I was out of work last year for 3 months, but I tried my best to get back to work. I wasn't lazy and lived off of the government, I wanted to support myself and not off the backs of other hard working Americans.
Yes, we have too much of corporate America in the pockets of our elected officials, and I'll be the first in line to execute all of them and start over, but how DARE you say that what I've earned should be TAKEN from me and given to those who do not have as much wealth as I do.
BTW, if you think I'm where I am because I went to school, well I didn't. I lived at home, went to college from grants and scholarships THAT I EARNED from being a smart student in high school. I worked AND went to college. Later, I paid for ALL of my college while working a full-time job. I'm not finished yet, but I'm still going to school just to get my degree to show these A$$HOLES at work that I know just as much as they do, but I don't have a piece of paper prooving it. But you know what??? I get those jobs that need degrees because I have experience!
Who modded this as flamebait?
This is a fantastic example of the ironic double-standard of most linux using moderators.
I hope whoever modded this down gets meta-moderated to hell.