You are a sad shell of a man. Please continue to get your allotted amount of physical activity at the mandated times. The rest of your sex will be outside working, playing, sweating, and bloodying ourselves, like we've been doing for thousands of years past. Have a nice life!
My God, is this just another excuse for pasty internet-saavy Linux hackers to not leave their basements? Even though I'm a top programmer at a Fortune 500 company and write open source software in my spare time, I cherish mowing my lawn as an excuse to be outside and enjoy the great outdoors. Physical activity is a wonderful thing.
All this is going to do is contribute to the growing problem of obesity in America. Perhaps the inventor's time would be better spent on less destructive activities? You know, there are a lot of starving children in Africa who would be benefited by much less effort than what went into this device that will lead to many premature deaths through sloth and gluttony.
Can't anybody even remotely associated with Linux these days just be allowed to enjoy the beautiful outdoors? Even Theo DeRaadt can be bothered to go mountain biking every once in a while.
Is this the same Danger, Inc. that I walk past every time I venture out to University Avenue in Palo Alto from my dorm here at Stanford?
I always wondered what the hell they did. Plus I got a kick out of the name. I mean, what would you think if you walked by the offices of some place called "Danger, Inc."?
That is absolutely the most Orwellian thing that I've ever seen on this site. Why can't you self-righteous potheads just leave the rest of us alone and live your lives without trying to "reeducate" us and force your viewpoint down our throats?
Jeb can't lay the smack down. It's a constitutional amendment.
Besides, Jeb's too busy laying the smack down on our public schools to mess with a bullet train (thank God my family has the money to keep me out of that mess).
Nothing. That's the point. You can buy more power cheaper by getting Athlon MP machines instead of relying on crippled (as in less L2 cache) P3 700Mhz chips. The most expensive part of the Xbox (the custom graphics hardware) is totally useless in this area.
Uh, right. Like everyone is going to go out and install Linux on their brand new Xboxes because maybe if they do, some interesting games might pop up sometime in the future. Or they could just buy one, leave it as it is, and play a ton of great games now.
Every sale of an Xbox, regardless of how many games you buy, means that Microsoft recoups SOME of the money it invested in making the hardware.
Contrast this with not buying it at all, which means that Microsoft recoups NOTHING and ends up with a lot of unsold stock that is a huge liability when earnings reports come out.
Sheesh people, it's pretty obvious. When A doesn't give money to B, B doesn't get money. Duh.
Yeah, yeah, I've seen those too! I'm glad at least someone else here notices that buying Xboxes feeds more money to Microsoft (um, duh?).
Anyway, I've seen them at a local computer builder/reseller and I think they're Cyrix CPUs. That means that they require no active cooling and can run pretty damn quiet, given the right hard drive. Plus, since they're so cheap and they come with EVERYTHING you need (video, processor, etc.) onboard in a small package, they'd be ideal for little Linux appliances or X terminals or even a typical office workstation (with the price of RAM so low these days, just load KDE or GNOME with OpenOffice and you have an ultra-cheap word processing and email workstation).
I'm pretty sure they can be found on PriceWatch for even less, but as I don't recall the model name or number right now, I can't really search for them.
I've heard all the rhetoric before about how porting the Linux kernel to esoteric platforms just for the hell of it is fun, and hey, if that's what makes you happy, you should do it.
But are there any practical uses for an Xbox running Linux? Haven't you defeated the primary purpose of the Xbox: playing games?
I've heard people say that they could use it as a cheap webserver for a massive farm of servers, but this doesn't make much sense when you realize that you can build a better machine for just a little more money and a *lot* less effort. I've also heard people say that it could be used as a part of a rendering farm, but these machines have only a lowly (crippled) celeron processor in them and their graphics hardware isn't meant to do non-realtime rendering.
There's a reason it's doing that. It's because you are writing with poor grammar. Just in your two sentences above, you made an error (most loosest). Plz complt mddl school, k thx.
Funny how you attribute MS Word with the property of being the only word processor that actually understands correct grammar. Aren't there any open source programs that can understand English grammar correctly, or are open source developers as illiterate as you are?
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Who's piloting it, Bender?
And there goes my point, sailing far, far over your head.
You are a sad shell of a man. Please continue to get your allotted amount of physical activity at the mandated times. The rest of your sex will be outside working, playing, sweating, and bloodying ourselves, like we've been doing for thousands of years past. Have a nice life!
All this is going to do is contribute to the growing problem of obesity in America. Perhaps the inventor's time would be better spent on less destructive activities? You know, there are a lot of starving children in Africa who would be benefited by much less effort than what went into this device that will lead to many premature deaths through sloth and gluttony.
Can't anybody even remotely associated with Linux these days just be allowed to enjoy the beautiful outdoors? Even Theo DeRaadt can be bothered to go mountain biking every once in a while.
Why don't you just put "I DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE" in big, bold letters at the beginning of your post? It would make things a lot easier that way.
So, I guess you are coasting by in life with the skills and knowledge that you learned prior to college? I hope to God I never turn out like you.
--someone who will be entering college in a year
I always wondered what the hell they did. Plus I got a kick out of the name. I mean, what would you think if you walked by the offices of some place called "Danger, Inc."?
Thank you, Mr. DeBeers shill! So... did anybody read the article yet besides me?
These days, I can just use a couple of VA Software stock certificates and get the same effect. Plus, it is cheaper than toilet paper!
That is absolutely the most Orwellian thing that I've ever seen on this site. Why can't you self-righteous potheads just leave the rest of us alone and live your lives without trying to "reeducate" us and force your viewpoint down our throats?
Besides, Jeb's too busy laying the smack down on our public schools to mess with a bullet train (thank God my family has the money to keep me out of that mess).
Nothing. That's the point. You can buy more power cheaper by getting Athlon MP machines instead of relying on crippled (as in less L2 cache) P3 700Mhz chips. The most expensive part of the Xbox (the custom graphics hardware) is totally useless in this area.
Some people are going to end up being mighty sorry when they blow a thousand dollars on a burner and they don't have any disks available to burn...
Can you say "pie in the sky"?
Microsoft's hardware costs could be $1, but if nobody buys Xboxes, then they still lose money.
Every sale of an Xbox, regardless of how many games you buy, means that Microsoft recoups SOME of the money it invested in making the hardware.
Contrast this with not buying it at all, which means that Microsoft recoups NOTHING and ends up with a lot of unsold stock that is a huge liability when earnings reports come out.
Sheesh people, it's pretty obvious. When A doesn't give money to B, B doesn't get money. Duh.
Anyway, I've seen them at a local computer builder/reseller and I think they're Cyrix CPUs. That means that they require no active cooling and can run pretty damn quiet, given the right hard drive. Plus, since they're so cheap and they come with EVERYTHING you need (video, processor, etc.) onboard in a small package, they'd be ideal for little Linux appliances or X terminals or even a typical office workstation (with the price of RAM so low these days, just load KDE or GNOME with OpenOffice and you have an ultra-cheap word processing and email workstation).
I'm pretty sure they can be found on PriceWatch for even less, but as I don't recall the model name or number right now, I can't really search for them.
LOLx0r!!!!#@! maybe if peopal didant buy any at all Micr0$0ft would loose even more monay!!!
Maybe, but I've heard that it is definitely not the same PIII that came with people's systems 2 years ago.
Jeez people, for all the MS bashing I see here, you sure are more than eager to give them money.
But are there any practical uses for an Xbox running Linux? Haven't you defeated the primary purpose of the Xbox: playing games?
I've heard people say that they could use it as a cheap webserver for a massive farm of servers, but this doesn't make much sense when you realize that you can build a better machine for just a little more money and a *lot* less effort. I've also heard people say that it could be used as a part of a rendering farm, but these machines have only a lowly (crippled) celeron processor in them and their graphics hardware isn't meant to do non-realtime rendering.
So what's the deal here?
For all we know, CmdrTaco could be trolling us. Can't we have a little corroboration before everyone goes off the deep end?
There's a reason it's doing that. It's because you are writing with poor grammar. Just in your two sentences above, you made an error (most loosest). Plz complt mddl school, k thx.
Funny how you attribute MS Word with the property of being the only word processor that actually understands correct grammar. Aren't there any open source programs that can understand English grammar correctly, or are open source developers as illiterate as you are?
Where's he moving to? The porn industry?