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Xbox 360 Very Unstable
fmwap writes "There have been several postings over at Xbox-scene complaining of crashing Xbox's on new games, with default settings on single player. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup have been reported too, and Project Gotham Racing 3 crashes before finishing the first lap. Screenshots and Video are available showing the crash."
I may get modded down or flamebait but should we have really expected any less from the folks who brought us Windows?
I am one of the crazies who camped over night for mine. I bought the premium with Project Gotham Racing 3 and Madden '06, I have not had a single problem with either in the roughly 8 hours of play so far.
Hardware is inherently flawed, *some* systems will be bad, this is fact. Its whether or not those numbers are within the acceptable tolerance or not that should be questioned. Remember, this is a game console, not an airplane flight computer, crashes are going to happen.
So half a dozen out of the hundreds of thousands of new Xbox 360 owners are having problems. Why does Slashdot have to state "Xbox 360 Very Unstable"? I've had bad installs of Linux too. Would we see the headline on Slashdot "Linux Very Unstable" too?
Uhh..do you know what is under the hood of the xbox360, what makes it tick, can you search google and find the answer to your problem immediately and apply a patch? A bad linux installation is *100%* your fault because you
1) are a moron who can't follow directions
2) have hardware problems unrelated to linux
3) don't know what you are talking about.
Have you ever subscrubed to LKML? Do you know how much testing goes into a certain patch or the kernel before it is released as stable? A new minor minor kernel is released every ~2 weeks. Will linux catch on fire and kill you slowly due to smoke inhalation? Don't even try to compare that trashy xbox hardware to the linux OS.
I know they are pandering to the masses, but I guess it would be nice if we got "news for nerds" without anti-MS/pro-Linux stories and spins on stories whenever possible.
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It'd be more convincing if you could count accurately to at least 8. Because I know the games (if you actually have any) are sitting right there next to your bottles of mountain dew and bags of cheetos so it's not like you even have to remember.
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