As an owner of an Xbox since day 1, I've never experienced overheating or any other problems. Those who have had one that overheated probably have it running in a poorly ventilated area. Just like a PC, you cut off the air flow - you will overheat it.
I'm printing this out and hanging it next to my desk...words of truth and humor speaking volumes! No wonder it has a -1. Asshole moderators can't handle the truth!!!
Why is the controller for the Xbox such an issue? I seem to recall the Dreamcast has one very similar to it...furthermore, my 5 year old has no trouble manipulating the Xbox controller so why do adults?
You took my thunder..I was going to say the exact same thing....of course you were modded to troll because of it....assholes can't take criticism very well I guess.
GameCube has around 60 titles previewed.
Xbox was around 140 previewed.
PlayStation2 has more than 300 previewed.
Yeah I suppose so, since PS2 has been out for 2 1/2 years! The Xbox and Gamecube have only been out for a little over 2 months...come on. He should have included all the PS1 titles since that's only been out for 5 years....
I haven't seen any performance issues...I believe this is another ridiculous rumor. The box of mine is running for several hours a day every day of the week and there are no performance issues.
The only time I've ever heard the disk grinding was playing Obi-wan..obviously that was a poorly coded game. I think most of these "performance issues" are simply piss poor coding issues.
I wonder how many people are going to complain about the hard drive in the PS2 (if it ever comes out) fragmenting and such?
The above blather reminds me of a guy at a Gamestop store before the Xbox came out...he said that the Japanese launch was a bomb and they're pulling all the Xboxes off the shelves. Mind you, this was the beginning of November.
It really, really, REALLY amazes me that every thing Microsoft does is deemed for failure here on slashdot. Why can't anyone admit that they very well MIGHT succeed?
Something that was not mentioned here was the sorry sales of the Gamecube in Japan..how come we didn't see all sorts of ranting about that on Slashdot? (I know why, it wasn't big bad Microsoft). Nintendo was sweating blood until the US sales took off. There was a story about an established, respected game company having a terrible launch in their home country. I don't thing the demise of Nintendo is just around the corner even though they only have about 10 games available for the Gamecube.
LOL...We all know Carmack writes his stuff in OpenGL because of all the Mac and Linux gamers..they make up what, about 1/4% of all gamers? I'm going to piss myself laughing.
And what will you do with your neatly formatted EXT3 filesystem on your 40 gig drive? Play tux racer I'd imagine. Oh that's right you don't play games on Linux...You have a real attitude problem little boy and someday you'll grow up to see it's a Windows world out there.
PS - PC games aren't going anywhere...have you seen the sales figures lately? I'm sorry, Lynx probably don't display the page correctly because it's a text browser...so you probably didn't.
yeah anyway...who enforces the GPL? I don't see anyone kicking down my door because of making burned copies of Mandrake W/O source...the GPL can go to hell..LOL that rhymed
I doubt very highly you'll be able to save games to the HD. They'll make you pay another $100 or so when they come out with the "real" HD to save games. So, if you buy this ridiculous kit, you would spend $299 for the PS2 and $199 for the linux kit, for a total of almost $500. Then, if you add in the probable cost of the add-on hard drive to save games to and a NIC, you'd be better off buying a PC. Now really, how many people will really want to sit in front of the TV typing away instead of playing games?? They should fire the ass who came up with this idea.
Amen brother...I've been there, done that. I'm speaking of the users on the newsgroups flipping the bird to the "I don't understand" folks. I can recall many, many times posting an entirely legitimate question that was worded well and contained all relavent information needed for an answer, and getting a "RTFM" response. Did they think I didn't look elsewhere before asking? There were a few people civil enough to give a proper answer, but they were few and far between.
Frankly, I don't see this changing anytime soon or in the future. Somehow, Linux users believe they are the elite and know more than anyone else. What they fail to realize is that not everyone is a programmer with years of experience.
I fought tooth and nail to learn what I did in Linux, including "silly" desktop issues like fixing failed installer scripts of Linux binaries of Windows games. Those in the ivory tower of Linux elitism need to come down because the whole ballgame is going down the tubes.
I read this 2 days ago on Fox News...a bit late isn't it? Oh that's right...Fox is a large corporation...they're EEEEEVILLL..they probably use Microsoft products too....
They released a mediocre PC masquerading as a game console with mediocre games.
How many God damn idiots are there in the world? For probably the 2 billionth time for those jackasses who haven't heard it.....THE XBOX IS NOT A PC.
If it was a PC, how come no one has figured out how to do ANYTHING more that change the damn IDE cable in it?? If you call the Xbox a PC, I hope you consider ALL consoles PCs because they all have processors, motherboards, GPUs, RAM, etc. The fact is that they aren't PCs and they never will be. They are gaming machines for one purpose: to play games. That article is a fine piece of rumor-mongering for all the drooling idiots who want Microsoft to die.
As for these "mediocre" games...I wonder how many of them that upstanding member of the anti-Microsoft mafia he has played? Probably none, or else he plays in secret, in fear that his fellow Linuxheads will find out. All consoles have good and bad games, its all a matter of personal taste, but this guy probably hasn't even played any.
I find it amusing that links to those pics are being posted on the xbox's launch day. Didn't anyone tell those folks that those are ancient and on a development/debug type of box? Plus all the issues of the demo kiosks crashing were all related to bad code on the demo disks playing on a final console?? Gee whiz, get over the kiddie crap and get the facts straight.
I'll drink to that one...amen...what a buggy bloated piece of junk mozilla is. And they wanted to make a fast, lean browser...its probably twice the size of IE now and takes 2 1/2 minutes to load. Yeah, mozilla is the killer app for sure.
Oh big whoopieeeee....that validator thing can kiss my ass. I always got error after error with everything I ever made and you know what? It still displayed correctly. Who really follows the W3C anyway?? I don't know one web designer that does.
I think you need to disconnect from the Internet alltogether if you're that paranoid. Just use Lynx or something comparable to get the full user experience of the web
Waaa waaa, my FREE code was copied.....a FREE operating system stole another OS's FREE code. Does anyone else see that word?
If you want to contribute to a project that will be given away, please don't expect your work to stay within it. Maybe a proper legal copyright of property should be investigated before charging out of the gates.
That's right, you are NOT a citizen so your opinion does not count. Go ram a bottle up your ass and rotate. I say roll the tanks and overrun those little piss ant countries who harbor people who do these things. It's time to show the world who really has the balls.
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As an owner of an Xbox since day 1, I've never experienced overheating or any other problems. Those who have had one that overheated probably have it running in a poorly ventilated area. Just like a PC, you cut off the air flow - you will overheat it.
I'm printing this out and hanging it next to my desk...words of truth and humor speaking volumes! No wonder it has a -1. Asshole moderators can't handle the truth!!!
and this means......? Nothing. Only anit-social losers like YOU see the meaningless beauty of that experience.
Why is the controller for the Xbox such an issue? I seem to recall the Dreamcast has one very similar to it...furthermore, my 5 year old has no trouble manipulating the Xbox controller so why do adults?
Read the subject retard..where are these numbers, dumbshit?
You took my thunder..I was going to say the exact same thing....of course you were modded to troll because of it....assholes can't take criticism very well I guess.
GameCube has around 60 titles previewed.
Xbox was around 140 previewed.
PlayStation2 has more than 300 previewed.
Yeah I suppose so, since PS2 has been out for 2 1/2 years! The Xbox and Gamecube have only been out for a little over 2 months...come on. He should have included all the PS1 titles since that's only been out for 5 years....
I haven't seen any performance issues...I believe this is another ridiculous rumor. The box of mine is running for several hours a day every day of the week and there are no performance issues.
The only time I've ever heard the disk grinding was playing Obi-wan..obviously that was a poorly coded game. I think most of these "performance issues" are simply piss poor coding issues.
I wonder how many people are going to complain about the hard drive in the PS2 (if it ever comes out) fragmenting and such?
The above blather reminds me of a guy at a Gamestop store before the Xbox came out...he said that the Japanese launch was a bomb and they're pulling all the Xboxes off the shelves. Mind you, this was the beginning of November.
It really, really, REALLY amazes me that every thing Microsoft does is deemed for failure here on slashdot. Why can't anyone admit that they very well MIGHT succeed?
Something that was not mentioned here was the sorry sales of the Gamecube in Japan..how come we didn't see all sorts of ranting about that on Slashdot? (I know why, it wasn't big bad Microsoft). Nintendo was sweating blood until the US sales took off. There was a story about an established, respected game company having a terrible launch in their home country. I don't thing the demise of Nintendo is just around the corner even though they only have about 10 games available for the Gamecube.
LOL...We all know Carmack writes his stuff in OpenGL because of all the Mac and Linux gamers..they make up what, about 1/4% of all gamers? I'm going to piss myself laughing.
And what will you do with your neatly formatted EXT3 filesystem on your 40 gig drive? Play tux racer I'd imagine. Oh that's right you don't play games on Linux...You have a real attitude problem little boy and someday you'll grow up to see it's a Windows world out there.
PS - PC games aren't going anywhere...have you seen the sales figures lately? I'm sorry, Lynx probably don't display the page correctly because it's a text browser...so you probably didn't.
yeah anyway...who enforces the GPL? I don't see anyone kicking down my door because of making burned copies of Mandrake W/O source...the GPL can go to hell..LOL that rhymed
I doubt very highly you'll be able to save games to the HD. They'll make you pay another $100 or so when they come out with the "real" HD to save games. So, if you buy this ridiculous kit, you would spend $299 for the PS2 and $199 for the linux kit, for a total of almost $500. Then, if you add in the probable cost of the add-on hard drive to save games to and a NIC, you'd be better off buying a PC. Now really, how many people will really want to sit in front of the TV typing away instead of playing games?? They should fire the ass who came up with this idea.
Amen brother...I've been there, done that. I'm speaking of the users on the newsgroups flipping the bird to the "I don't understand" folks. I can recall many, many times posting an entirely legitimate question that was worded well and contained all relavent information needed for an answer, and getting a "RTFM" response. Did they think I didn't look elsewhere before asking? There were a few people civil enough to give a proper answer, but they were few and far between.
Frankly, I don't see this changing anytime soon or in the future. Somehow, Linux users believe they are the elite and know more than anyone else. What they fail to realize is that not everyone is a programmer with years of experience.
I fought tooth and nail to learn what I did in Linux, including "silly" desktop issues like fixing failed installer scripts of Linux binaries of Windows games. Those in the ivory tower of Linux elitism need to come down because the whole ballgame is going down the tubes.
I read this 2 days ago on Fox News...a bit late isn't it? Oh that's right...Fox is a large corporation...they're EEEEEVILLL..they probably use Microsoft products too....
They released a mediocre PC masquerading as a game console with mediocre games.
How many God damn idiots are there in the world? For probably the 2 billionth time for those jackasses who haven't heard it.....THE XBOX IS NOT A PC.
If it was a PC, how come no one has figured out how to do ANYTHING more that change the damn IDE cable in it?? If you call the Xbox a PC, I hope you consider ALL consoles PCs because they all have processors, motherboards, GPUs, RAM, etc. The fact is that they aren't PCs and they never will be. They are gaming machines for one purpose: to play games. That article is a fine piece of rumor-mongering for all the drooling idiots who want Microsoft to die.
As for these "mediocre" games...I wonder how many of them that upstanding member of the anti-Microsoft mafia he has played? Probably none, or else he plays in secret, in fear that his fellow Linuxheads will find out. All consoles have good and bad games, its all a matter of personal taste, but this guy probably hasn't even played any.
If he has Works, it should have Word. It's been in there for a while now.
I find it amusing that links to those pics are being posted on the xbox's launch day. Didn't anyone tell those folks that those are ancient and on a development/debug type of box? Plus all the issues of the demo kiosks crashing were all related to bad code on the demo disks playing on a final console?? Gee whiz, get over the kiddie crap and get the facts straight.
I think it's probably closer to 90% myself
I'll drink to that one...amen...what a buggy bloated piece of junk mozilla is. And they wanted to make a fast, lean browser...its probably twice the size of IE now and takes 2 1/2 minutes to load. Yeah, mozilla is the killer app for sure.
Oh big whoopieeeee....that validator thing can kiss my ass. I always got error after error with everything I ever made and you know what? It still displayed correctly. Who really follows the W3C anyway?? I don't know one web designer that does.
I think you need to disconnect from the Internet alltogether if you're that paranoid. Just use Lynx or something comparable to get the full user experience of the web
Waaa waaa, my FREE code was copied.....a FREE operating system stole another OS's FREE code. Does anyone else see that word? If you want to contribute to a project that will be given away, please don't expect your work to stay within it. Maybe a proper legal copyright of property should be investigated before charging out of the gates.
That's right, you are NOT a citizen so your opinion does not count. Go ram a bottle up your ass and rotate. I say roll the tanks and overrun those little piss ant countries who harbor people who do these things. It's time to show the world who really has the balls.