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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.
Still alive ain't he?
Swi
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.'"
They say that when you return 13 XBox 360's, Bill Gates comes to your house and personally pisses on your shoe.
...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%.