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The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s
1up is carrying the sad story of Justin Lowe. Just your average gamer, wanting to partake of the current generation of consoles. He's got a PSP, DS, PS3, and a 360. He really likes his 360 ... which is probably a good thing, since he's sent 11 of them back to Microsoft. He's now on his twelfth. The piece covers Justin's ongoing plight, and discusses Microsoft's claims of hardware failures being a 'vocal minority'. "Justin has not had a working system for longer than a month or two. The list of problems is almost comically large: three red lights of death, two with disc read errors, two dead on arrival, several with random audio and video-related issues and one that actually exploded. Looking at the situation through Moore's own standards, how has Microsoft performed? 'On a scale of one to ten, I'd rate them an 8... at first,' says Lowe. His [first] 360 broke in early January, just a few weeks after purchase."
Where the hell is he playing with these systems, the tub?
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
There are probably environmental factors going on here
Yet another problem caused by Global Warming.
[Insert pithy quote here]
In fact, I have proof: http://slashdot.org/~Stickerboy/friends/
This isn't the hate-filled microsoft bashing I came here to read, damnit.
It will be a vacuum cleaner.
Quote that may help him "The only consistent feature of your dissatisfying relationships is you." What else in your life do you break, buddy-pal-friend-o-mine?
Well... He's got a friend now.
Still alive ain't he?
Swi
Get this guy an Exorcist.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Related joke follows; corollary follows joke.
Q: Why doesn't Mexico compete in the olympic triathlon?
A: Because everyone who can run, bike, or swim is in the US.
Corollary: Maybe he's in a wheelchair :)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
We'd have someone have a head crash, 2 DOA's, 1 week working then dead, etc.
That was me. Sorry for all the trouble.
Are you sure it isn't a 4^8^15^16^23^42 chance?
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Okay, I miss Lost.
Quack, quack.
They say that when you return 13 XBox 360's, Bill Gates comes to your house and personally pisses on your shoe.
yes, according to lots of LCD and plasma TVs. also some heads and groins.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Yeah, it couldn't be that online retailers know how to pack their stuff because all of their business is in shipping it out and having it received in one piece? Smaller retailers probably have some experience, but not as good so they try and it's normally okay. If you or your friends send boxes, they are probably packed like crap.
No, it's probably that UPS looks at the label and dropkicks the personal boxes...
Yeah, Ive heard of this. My best friend worked in a distribution center at FedEx... If a box says fragile, the guys on the line play hot potato with it, if it falls it falls. He said once they stacked up a bunch of boxes and dived through them.
He got fired...
crap.
And IIRC one very dead puppy.
cmd-q.co.uk - some sort of stupid fucking internet bullshit
...If you manufacture 10 items and 1 item is a lemon you have a 1% defect rate...
That's in American Public Schools. In other parts of the world, we're pretty much agreed on 10%.