You obviously know nothing about the difference between a "coder" and a "software engineer".
Yes I'm serious - and I'm both a Mechanical Engineer and Software Engineer. The actual time "coding" is almost the smallest part of a well designed project. You need engineers to take care of the rest that if(5!=duh) doesn't really do well.
Most intelligent people support the Palestinians, it's only in Israel and in the US you all of a sudden become accused of being nazi, anti-semite or arab-lover because you dislike nations invading and occupying other nations.
George Bush and Ariel Sharon are a lot bigger threats to world peace than Saddam Hussein and bin Laden.
Maybe in the US - but in a lot of countries the Xbox is 1.5-3 times cheaper than an equivalent PC depending on what parts of a PC are the most interesting for your needs.
Microsoft has publically stated they're not sure they'll see profit in 10 years. Anyone claiming the Xbox will earn money soonish better have some good sources - because I can back up that they won't.
The Xbox is absolutely not profitable, where have you gotten such a lie from?
(Microsoft doesn't have control over the costs in the Xbox in the same way as Sony has on the PS2 or Nintendo on the Gamecube. Intel and NVidia, together with Philips/Thomson and Seagate/Quantum has their words in this too.. )
NTSC-Gamecubes (USA, Japan) have "both BIOSes" on them - and you switch between them with a jumper. PAL-Gamecubes (Australia, Europe) have only the PAL-Bios, and there's no way to switch to another. Thus there's a big incentive to create an import mod - but so far no one has managed to. It's also not possible to run "backups" on the cube, no one has managed to solve that either.
Please mod parent down for being uninformed.
(The grandparent is however correct, the cube is VERY VERY tough to hack. Don't expect a modchip, expect a very expensive extra unit holding games on harddrive or DVD).
Flextronics usually helps customers with a LOT more than just "use a different screw-size";) They (we - actually - Flex just bought the company I work for) can re-design whole circuit boards and use ASICs instead to drive the cost down.
You _do_ know that the CIA has performed terrorist actions against other supreme nations I hope? The US was convicted for one of those, in Nicaragua. The information is publically available.
I feel as sorry for an Afghan peasant as I do for stockbrokers in the USA. bin Laden considered him at war with the US - the US consider themselves in war with the whole of Afghanistan. You're both completely mad.
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You obviously know nothing about the difference between a "coder" and a "software engineer".
Yes I'm serious - and I'm both a Mechanical Engineer and Software Engineer. The actual time "coding" is almost the smallest part of a well designed project. You need engineers to take care of the rest that if(5!=duh) doesn't really do well.
The world needs more people like you, you have my utmost respect.
George Bush and Ariel Sharon are a lot bigger threats to world peace than Saddam Hussein and bin Laden.
Maybe in the US - but in a lot of countries the Xbox is 1.5-3 times cheaper than an equivalent PC depending on what parts of a PC are the most interesting for your needs.
I think the word is
It's coming - it's done the same way as the Odin project on OS/2. Patch the binary from xbe to exe, and wrap the kernel-calls to native. No emulation.
The Xbox sells badly in Europe
Xbox sales very low
Microsoft takes heavy losses on the Xbox
Profit off for Microsoft
Yes, I could go on.
(Microsoft doesn't have control over the costs in the Xbox in the same way as Sony has on the PS2 or Nintendo on the Gamecube. Intel and NVidia, together with Philips/Thomson and Seagate/Quantum has their words in this too
It's in the works. It will be done in roughly the same way as project Odin on OS/2.
"Gnu" = wildebeast in Swedish.
NTSC-Gamecubes (USA, Japan) have "both BIOSes" on them - and you switch between them with a jumper. PAL-Gamecubes (Australia, Europe) have only the PAL-Bios, and there's no way to switch to another. Thus there's a big incentive to create an import mod - but so far no one has managed to. It's also not possible to run "backups" on the cube, no one has managed to solve that either.
Please mod parent down for being uninformed.
(The grandparent is however correct, the cube is VERY VERY tough to hack. Don't expect a modchip, expect a very expensive extra unit holding games on harddrive or DVD).
Flextronics usually helps customers with a LOT more than just "use a different screw-size" ;) They (we - actually - Flex just bought the company I work for) can re-design whole circuit boards and use ASICs instead to drive the cost down.
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That's me, or, was.
Yes, on the N64 also.
Yes, they're making money on the GC - and outselling the Xbox-sold-at-a-huge-loss at the same time.
Fascinating read! Thanks for the link.
Only the Xbox is sold at a loss. Sony and Nintendo know how to make good hardware cheap to produce.
China has indeed, according to your own CIA, supplied arms to "terrorist nations", as you like to call them.
Go get.
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Thanks. That's more than I expected to hear from anyone here.
I feel as sorry for an Afghan peasant as I do for stockbrokers in the USA. bin Laden considered him at war with the US - the US consider themselves in war with the whole of Afghanistan. You're both completely mad.
Your post is the most naive I've ever seen.
USA is the only nation ever to have been convicted of terrorism in an international court of law
In Sweden you're an adult at 18, but you can have sex as much as you want when you're 15.