then I must be in broadband limbo. I'm too far for normal DSL (not to mention that I'm on a slick), don't have all the way fiber have all the way to the house for VDSL, can't afford IDSL ($169 a month!?!) and the darn cable company serves the houses on the other side of the street but is not going to upgrade my cell (and subsequently the houses on my side of the street).Damn that last mile...
I went to the XP launch (I know, I know... work made me) where Seamus Blackwell(I think) the Project Manager for the xBox did an hour+ demo. He was *definitely* not the standard MS type. He showed up in a black shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots when everyone else was wearing their MS uniform. He said he had worked as a designer for PS1, PS2, Genesis, NeoGeo, and several other gaming consoles. There were multiple references to how much better xBox (and gaming in general) was better than be addicted to coke, crack or your other hard drug of choice... It's nice to see that MS went for a platform designed by people that care about gaming, and not about the bottom line. It was also nice to see that MS was smart enough to hire the type of freaks they did to get it done right...
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then I must be in broadband limbo. I'm too far for normal DSL (not to mention that I'm on a slick), don't have all the way fiber have all the way to the house for VDSL, can't afford IDSL ($169 a month!?!) and the darn cable company serves the houses on the other side of the street but is not going to upgrade my cell (and subsequently the houses on my side of the street).Damn that last mile...
I went to the XP launch (I know, I know... work made me) where Seamus Blackwell(I think) the Project Manager for the xBox did an hour+ demo. He was *definitely* not the standard MS type. He showed up in a black shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots when everyone else was wearing their MS uniform. He said he had worked as a designer for PS1, PS2, Genesis, NeoGeo, and several other gaming consoles. There were multiple references to how much better xBox (and gaming in general) was better than be addicted to coke, crack or your other hard drug of choice... It's nice to see that MS went for a platform designed by people that care about gaming, and not about the bottom line. It was also nice to see that MS was smart enough to hire the type of freaks they did to get it done right...