HUH? Watered Down? Did you even SEE the FCC episode? Hello, "Side-Boob" was frickin Hysterical. Family guy has been "amplified" by the return, and is now the Tentpole skein on the Fox Sunday Night lineup.
Did anyone else notice that Zophar's frelling Domain pops up stealth under-pop windows with annoying advertising? And I am using Firefox.
I had hoped that Slashdot wouldn't link to stories posted on websites using code that circumvents the most beloved browser's anti pop-up tech. So, anonymous poster drives dollars into his affiliate account and slashdork is complicant in the scheme. You can't tell me there wasn't another source for this story.
Why did this OBVIOUS flaimbaiting TROLL get modded a +5 Insightful? WTF?! If anything, it should be FUNNY... quote
Aside from Wave Race 64 and a few others mostly from Nintendo, I really hadn't seen anything that was even remotely innovative in the gaming world
do people even read the posts that they moderate?
Slashdot must be a class 1 controlled substance, because I know it is crap, I Know it is horrible for me, but I use it multiple times a day and I suffer withdrawel if I don't atleast check the rss feed every hour or so. FUCK!
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This post references the election of 5 years ago as "stolen" and claims that mercury is included in Flu shots to "stupify" the general populace.
How in the HELL has it been modded 'interesting'? Please re-mod to 'Flaim Bait' as this is obviously what was meant... or maybe +3 Funny.
You are cordially invited to move to the glorious Ukraine and enjoy your new found paradise for the remainder of your days.
What the articles all fail to mention, is that night time driving range is actually 13km with those headlights on.
The upside is you can blind all oncoming traffic with the candlepower of 3 suns!
That has to be the FUGLIEST "car" I have ever seen. I can just hear your passengers now... "sure, the cabins cramped as all hell, but atleast from inside we don't have to look at this ugly thing."
And don't give me any "this is just the prototype" BS, either.
... but you also have to realize that making XBox Live cheat-free *gains* sales as well.
I am glad that LIVE blocks modded Xboxes. If you absolutely HAVE to put linux on your xbox, get one for that purpose and keep a pristine box for standard xbox gaming usage. You would REALLY be screwing M$ then, since they LOSE money on each unit sold.
I for one have a single xbox now that flakes a little on reading discs (chronic "dirty disc syndrome") and it will be converted to an xbox media center as soon as I can get a new unit.
Because Halo 2 is that Damned important!
ps. love the "linux on your thermostat" crack too!
LOL
RE:ssentially 640x240 at 60 fps (NTSC; PAL is a bit more resolution at 50 fps). Yes, NTSC is roughly 640x480 resolution, but it's interlaced -- you don't have to draw half the screen every frame and you're foolish if you think the console games are doing so when they don't need to. If you change to a progressive scan picture then you're immediately at twice the work that needs to be done. Bump it up to a 720p 4:3 and you're nearly quadrupling the effort from there (or nearly 8x as much as a SD screen). Widescreen requires even more work. And remember, a 720p 4:3 image still has less resolution than a 1024x768 (XGA) monitor and only needs to run at a paltry 60 fps.
You need to understand that NTSC is actually 720 x 480 at square pixels with just a little lost to overscan. And 60fps is NOT Frames Per Second but Fields per second wich interlace to 29.97 FRAMES.
WHOOPS... This guys post was OBVIOUSLY flame-bait (which it seems I Bit on) since his BS numbers about resolution in NTSC are wrong or based on faulty math, I have found the AVS forum can sometimes be information overload or of little actual help. Of Course, the HD format is so bloated, most sales people in even boutique home theater retailers don't have full understanding and engineers cant speak english anyway (and FORGET about asking the schmuck at BEst Buy, they just want to sell you a warranty and don't know JACK about any of the product).
This post does have some usefull info though (specifically the bit about gun games) so my 'Flame-bait' comment may be a bit off.
Basically, don't overthink your purchase since the current generation of consoles (except XBOX) don't really support progressive anyway, and most TV is broadcast Standard Def anyway. And since digital TV offers higher resolution OR more channels, don't expect broadcasters to just switch to Hi-Def, since they can increase revenue by partitioning their digital channel to 4 or 5 standard def feeds instead of one Hi-Def one.
as this EXCELLENT post was PS2 specific, I will elaborate a bit on some XBOX specifics (I do not own a ps2, but that is not to say I don't enjoy playing ps2 titles at friends houses)...
The xbox graphic sub system renders all games progressive scan, so there is no frame rate loss for progressive. 99.9% of XBOX titles display 480p (to my knowledge, only 'kung-fu chaos' displays interlaced on a progressive display due to it's use of interlacing for some graphic tricks.) As for Higher resolutions, see the aformentioned GTA3 box set for 720p, as well as Tony Hawk titles and Sould Caliber II in 720p (but I think Soul Caliber II had an issue where it was NOT widescreen at that res, not sure). 'Enter The Matrix' utilized 1080i and widescreen(GLORIOUS!!!) even still, the gameplay was sucky overall. The recent 3d Dragon's Lair was the first 1080i title. My Mitsubishi 48" rear projection HD doesn't support 720p (just 480i, 480p, and 1080i) as is common in sets of past year (purchased Dec 2002). 720p actually takes a beefier subsystem to display properlly (1080i is basically 540p on each of the 2 fields, I leave the full explanations to better sources) so it is only now that 720p display is finding it's way into the near $2000 market.
So, long story short, XBOX is geared to displaying 480p for any title with no performance hit, software must be designed to display 720p or 1080i and while most support widescreen, it isn't always even mentioned in the documentation (yeah, sometimes I read them).
It has been my experience that most are in fact widescreen (Halo), but frustratingly, most (with notable exceptions being Tony Hawk 4) still split the screen so that player 1 is top and player 2 is bottom (I would prefer a mandate that all games allow you to choose the split like 'twisted metal' did on the PS1).
As to the other issues... XBOX does NOT support progressive scan output of DVD titles, nor is the dashboard progressive scan (weird and frustrating) so DVDs look pathetic on it compared to HBO's Hi-def broadcasts (Spider-Man on HBO Hi-def RUINED the DVD experience [on XBOX] for me, like watching VHS tapes again after that!) and I pay WAY too damn much for Full package Digital Cable to get 1 Hi-def HBO, Hi-def ESPN, 3 Local Broadcast ABC, CBS, NBC Hi-defs (which usually suck anyway) and 2 surprisingly good Hi-def channels from inDemand called, strangely enough, INHD and INHD2. That equalls $75 a month for 7 channels and 150 other channels my wife watches when Friends or 'Mad about you' is on them, btw Analog and standard def television, even delivered through a Digital box Suck worse than the RIAA, especially when blown up over 45". My next investment will be a high end PROGRESSIVE scan DVD player.
Unless I woke up in crazy-verse this morning, no way every chipset, motherboard or cpu company (Cough..AMD Cough) would ever allow it to become a standard. So, net result, Phoenix wastes/spends R&D resources on a hunk of silicon that they have to patch every 14.666 minutes. Maybe they sell a hunk of windows only machines, but it will never become the standard, not even Intel would be that stupid.
My Wife HATED first person shooters. Wouldn't have anything to do with anything other than Mario or Abe/Oddworld stuff. When she bought and XBOX for my 29th Birthday, it came with HALO. Now, I purchased an XBOX at launch and played Halo all the way through, put the bastard on ebay, and covered all my expenses for 1 week of pure gaming bliss. She didn't touch that first box, and hated Halo for taking up all my free time for that week.
Okay, fast forward to aformentioned 29th b-day. We get home and tear that sucker open, set it up, and I start playing Halo. She asks if she can play too. I nearly, okay, I ACTUALLY shit my pants and did a spit take, all at once. After I cleaned the TV Screen of it's Coke Bath, we started in on COOPERATIVE Halo. Needless to say, Everyday I came home for a month, she was playing that game. She would play through a part, get stuck, I would jump in and help on COOP, she would pick up from there. I had to make the final Warthog run at the end (hope that isn't a spoiler) but she beat the thing. Faced down the flood and KICKED THERE ASSES!!! Not bad for a Vegetarian! My Wife ROCKS! AND SO DO EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!
To this day, we primarily play Halo in Co-op (2 person multiplay deathmatch is kind of lame), Dead or Alive 3 (she can often kick my ass) or even Fusion Frenzy (yes, it is pretty lame too, but some of the games are fun) and I got her to try Unreal Championship with me, but since you can't change the screen split (we have a widescreen TV and UC splits the screen top and bottom not left and right, if anyone knows how to fix this, let me KNOW) that hurt the eyes. I am looking forward to trying Wolfenstein with her in co-op, and she will OWN you punk asses when Halo 2 hits next year.
Just watch LIVE for "Darth Bender" and Wife to OWN YOU IN HALO 2!
I have never been more dissapointed in a game experience in my life. The game is not HORRIBLE, but it is so mediocre. Neat effects but the controls are SUCKY (only 3 choices? WHY THE F@(K CANT every game atleast have the HALO controls as an option?)
Fight waves of guards, suddenly the game engine takes over and your character does somehing COOL (only you have no control)
And the driving sequences are pathetic, should never have been in the game.
I do love how the game ties in with the movie. It was so cool to see the captains meeting actually mean something in both.
"Tony Hawk Pro-Skater 4", "NBA2K3", "Dragon's Lair 3D", and "Street Hoops" all have 720p modes.
Which SUCKS because most Rear Projection HD REady TV's (like my brand new Mitsu 48")only display 480i/480p & 1080i. I will however state that while the superbowl was fantastic in HD this year (1080i) Alias immediately aftwerwards was a true gift from God. Jennifer Garner in HD is just... words fail me.
is some kind of wi-fi support. I had to run 2 25 foot stretches of cat-5 from my office to the den and my wife is NOT HAPPY about it. Some kind of wireless ethernet/access point would be great. Of course, I could go buy two access points for about 90 bucks each... Is staples still open at this time of night? Must play one more round of Mechassault!!!!! Ignore Wife, Play more... get another house to live in with cat 5 run to every room... XBOX Live ate my brain!!!
Mechassault kicks all kinds of @$$. All the points sum up like this...
Games...
Having only played Mechassault... It kicks ass, nuff said and no freakin' lag to speak of. Oh, and the voice system makes it so much more fun. IT's wild to hear some one apologize for taking a cheap kill and then realizing they are supposed to play that way.
Broadband...
No lags and the voice is just amazing
One surprise though. I didn't expect to have to enter my credit card. I expected to just buy my LIVE kit and have a years worth of credit assigned to my gamer tag. I really liked the idea of buying the box and not needing a card to play. I didn't try getting on with out a credit card. Any one else try that? Other than that surprise, the system is awesome.
Some genius in AOL/TIME/TURNER/SATAN's Workshop/C Networks decided that they can make more money removing that stuff that has no Stateside Products in Toys R Us and replace it with something that makes registers go "Ching-Ching". DBZ is cool because you can ignore the dialogue and just ooh and ahh at the A$$ kicking that goes on between cartoon midgets/kids. PLUS, they have LOADS of that shit at Toys R Us!
Hell, I work in the advertising business (yes, I know, my soul is damned to hell...) and I still think it's a stupid way to run a network. But who the fuck cares what I think, I watch Farscape...
I do think Outlaw Star kicks all holy crap, even edited to be almost nonsensical (yeah, my spelling sux!)
While I support M$'s right to modify the engineering/design of the Xbox to thwart hacking, I don't think they have the right to dictate what I can't do with a device I purchased. As long as I am not "replicating" knock-off Xboxen, I can take the thing apart and use it as Cake toppings if I want to. M$ has enough money to hassle these guys, who were on the FRINGE of legality anyway. I think a mod chip should be legal, we already have copyright laws that outlaw pirating software.
Oh yeah, in the interest of full disclosure, I love my Xbox...
Love the sin, hate the sinner, ER/ wait a minute...
Uh, okay, and what is it that will prevent M$ from making the same integrations to cut costs?
The actual business model for the XBOX has it losing money for the first 2 years, and then turning to PROFIT. M$ is not stupid, they are not going to stick with expensive manufacturing as processes are refined and streamlined. Some could say that these "changes" might even turn out to be the first step towards the chip integrations you think they can't do. Intel packs exponentially more transistors into their Logic control chips than they did into the 486... which do you think is more affordable to produce today?
Guess what, the XBOX is a great GAME and Entertainment machine. As has been pointed out in other posts, sold at a loss, money made on game license revenue, online, yada yada yada...
Microsoft is happy to hear that you will not be purchasing an un-hackable XBOX, as they understand you would only pirate games anyway. Go get Linux to run on your Hewlett Packard 20S scientific calculator or buy a PS2 Linux kit and play "tux-racer" till the cows come home.
Me, I think the XBOX is a superior game machine (and I am one of the many M$ users who cry foul everytime I have to load another "slave///ER SERVICE pack" for Win-blows) and as such, M$ is entitled to protect their hardware from a bunch of morons with nothing better to do.
Put some of thos L33T skills to use programming a frickin' Video editing application so I can dump Premiere and Use Linux to do my real work! I would even BUY that from someone!
and as for
If I can't get my hypothetical XBox hacked, I'm not buying one, and I'm sure as hell not buying an XBox game or dozen
does that mean that if a piece of equipment isn't hackable, you won't use it? I bet your refrigerator is a phenomenal Quake server...
consider the source... Just what do you smoke on friday nights?
Anyone who thinks Stargate Sucky Garbage 1 is even a good show on Bizarro world should have there head examined. I leave it on waiting for Farscape to start and can't remember how many times the "previously on Stargate SG1" showed stuff that HAD NOT HAPPENED in any of the previous weeks. And besides, any show that has to suppose that Norse Legend was based on the Little Green Dorks from X-files is just pathetic. (Thor? an alien? Jees O' Pete thats just WRONG!)
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HUH? Watered Down? Did you even SEE the FCC episode? Hello, "Side-Boob" was frickin Hysterical. Family guy has been "amplified" by the return, and is now the Tentpole skein on the Fox Sunday Night lineup.
Did anyone else notice that Zophar's frelling Domain pops up stealth under-pop windows with annoying advertising? And I am using Firefox.
I had hoped that Slashdot wouldn't link to stories posted on websites using code that circumvents the most beloved browser's anti pop-up tech. So, anonymous poster drives dollars into his affiliate account and slashdork is complicant in the scheme. You can't tell me there wasn't another source for this story.
This is why I never RTFA!!!
Z0ph4r iz t3h SuX0R!!!11!!
Aside from Wave Race 64 and a few others mostly from Nintendo, I really hadn't seen anything that was even remotely innovative in the gaming world
do people even read the posts that they moderate?
Slashdot must be a class 1 controlled substance, because I know it is crap, I Know it is horrible for me, but I use it multiple times a day and I suffer withdrawel if I don't atleast check the rss feed every hour or so. FUCK!
How in the HELL has it been modded 'interesting'? Please re-mod to 'Flaim Bait' as this is obviously what was meant... or maybe +3 Funny.
You are cordially invited to move to the glorious Ukraine and enjoy your new found paradise for the remainder of your days.
What the articles all fail to mention, is that night time driving range is actually 13km with those headlights on.
The upside is you can blind all oncoming traffic with the candlepower of 3 suns!
That has to be the FUGLIEST "car" I have ever seen. I can just hear your passengers now... "sure, the cabins cramped as all hell, but atleast from inside we don't have to look at this ugly thing."
And don't give me any "this is just the prototype" BS, either.
I am glad that LIVE blocks modded Xboxes. If you absolutely HAVE to put linux on your xbox, get one for that purpose and keep a pristine box for standard xbox gaming usage. You would REALLY be screwing M$ then, since they LOSE money on each unit sold.
I for one have a single xbox now that flakes a little on reading discs (chronic "dirty disc syndrome") and it will be converted to an xbox media center as soon as I can get a new unit.
Because Halo 2 is that Damned important! ps. love the "linux on your thermostat" crack too! LOL
RE:ssentially 640x240 at 60 fps (NTSC; PAL is a bit more resolution at 50 fps). Yes, NTSC is roughly 640x480 resolution, but it's interlaced -- you don't have to draw half the screen every frame and you're foolish if you think the console games are doing so when they don't need to. If you change to a progressive scan picture then you're immediately at twice the work that needs to be done. Bump it up to a 720p 4:3 and you're nearly quadrupling the effort from there (or nearly 8x as much as a SD screen). Widescreen requires even more work. And remember, a 720p 4:3 image still has less resolution than a 1024x768 (XGA) monitor and only needs to run at a paltry 60 fps.
You need to understand that NTSC is actually 720 x 480 at square pixels with just a little lost to overscan. And 60fps is NOT Frames Per Second but Fields per second wich interlace to 29.97 FRAMES.
WHOOPS... This guys post was OBVIOUSLY flame-bait (which it seems I Bit on) since his BS numbers about resolution in NTSC are wrong or based on faulty math, I have found the AVS forum can sometimes be information overload or of little actual help. Of Course, the HD format is so bloated, most sales people in even boutique home theater retailers don't have full understanding and engineers cant speak english anyway (and FORGET about asking the schmuck at BEst Buy, they just want to sell you a warranty and don't know JACK about any of the product).
This post does have some usefull info though (specifically the bit about gun games) so my 'Flame-bait' comment may be a bit off.
Basically, don't overthink your purchase since the current generation of consoles (except XBOX) don't really support progressive anyway, and most TV is broadcast Standard Def anyway. And since digital TV offers higher resolution OR more channels, don't expect broadcasters to just switch to Hi-Def, since they can increase revenue by partitioning their digital channel to 4 or 5 standard def feeds instead of one Hi-Def one.
as this EXCELLENT post was PS2 specific, I will elaborate a bit on some XBOX specifics (I do not own a ps2, but that is not to say I don't enjoy playing ps2 titles at friends houses)...
The xbox graphic sub system renders all games progressive scan, so there is no frame rate loss for progressive. 99.9% of XBOX titles display 480p (to my knowledge, only 'kung-fu chaos' displays interlaced on a progressive display due to it's use of interlacing for some graphic tricks.) As for Higher resolutions, see the aformentioned GTA3 box set for 720p, as well as Tony Hawk titles and Sould Caliber II in 720p (but I think Soul Caliber II had an issue where it was NOT widescreen at that res, not sure). 'Enter The Matrix' utilized 1080i and widescreen(GLORIOUS!!!) even still, the gameplay was sucky overall. The recent 3d Dragon's Lair was the first 1080i title. My Mitsubishi 48" rear projection HD doesn't support 720p (just 480i, 480p, and 1080i) as is common in sets of past year (purchased Dec 2002). 720p actually takes a beefier subsystem to display properlly (1080i is basically 540p on each of the 2 fields, I leave the full explanations to better sources) so it is only now that 720p display is finding it's way into the near $2000 market.
So, long story short, XBOX is geared to displaying 480p for any title with no performance hit, software must be designed to display 720p or 1080i and while most support widescreen, it isn't always even mentioned in the documentation (yeah, sometimes I read them).
It has been my experience that most are in fact widescreen (Halo), but frustratingly, most (with notable exceptions being Tony Hawk 4) still split the screen so that player 1 is top and player 2 is bottom (I would prefer a mandate that all games allow you to choose the split like 'twisted metal' did on the PS1).
As to the other issues... XBOX does NOT support progressive scan output of DVD titles, nor is the dashboard progressive scan (weird and frustrating) so DVDs look pathetic on it compared to HBO's Hi-def broadcasts (Spider-Man on HBO Hi-def RUINED the DVD experience [on XBOX] for me, like watching VHS tapes again after that!) and I pay WAY too damn much for Full package Digital Cable to get 1 Hi-def HBO, Hi-def ESPN, 3 Local Broadcast ABC, CBS, NBC Hi-defs (which usually suck anyway) and 2 surprisingly good Hi-def channels from inDemand called, strangely enough, INHD and INHD2. That equalls $75 a month for 7 channels and 150 other channels my wife watches when Friends or 'Mad about you' is on them, btw Analog and standard def television, even delivered through a Digital box Suck worse than the RIAA, especially when blown up over 45". My next investment will be a high end PROGRESSIVE scan DVD player.
Unless I woke up in crazy-verse this morning, no way every chipset, motherboard or cpu company (Cough..AMD Cough) would ever allow it to become a standard. So, net result, Phoenix wastes/spends R&D resources on a hunk of silicon that they have to patch every 14.666 minutes. Maybe they sell a hunk of windows only machines, but it will never become the standard, not even Intel would be that stupid.
And microsoft would get bored with it...
My Wife HATED first person shooters. Wouldn't have anything to do with anything other than Mario or Abe/Oddworld stuff. When she bought and XBOX for my 29th Birthday, it came with HALO. Now, I purchased an XBOX at launch and played Halo all the way through, put the bastard on ebay, and covered all my expenses for 1 week of pure gaming bliss. She didn't touch that first box, and hated Halo for taking up all my free time for that week.
Okay, fast forward to aformentioned 29th b-day. We get home and tear that sucker open, set it up, and I start playing Halo. She asks if she can play too. I nearly, okay, I ACTUALLY shit my pants and did a spit take, all at once. After I cleaned the TV Screen of it's Coke Bath, we started in on COOPERATIVE Halo. Needless to say, Everyday I came home for a month, she was playing that game. She would play through a part, get stuck, I would jump in and help on COOP, she would pick up from there. I had to make the final Warthog run at the end (hope that isn't a spoiler) but she beat the thing. Faced down the flood and KICKED THERE ASSES!!! Not bad for a Vegetarian! My Wife ROCKS! AND SO DO EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!
To this day, we primarily play Halo in Co-op (2 person multiplay deathmatch is kind of lame), Dead or Alive 3 (she can often kick my ass) or even Fusion Frenzy (yes, it is pretty lame too, but some of the games are fun) and I got her to try Unreal Championship with me, but since you can't change the screen split (we have a widescreen TV and UC splits the screen top and bottom not left and right, if anyone knows how to fix this, let me KNOW) that hurt the eyes. I am looking forward to trying Wolfenstein with her in co-op, and she will OWN you punk asses when Halo 2 hits next year.
Just watch LIVE for "Darth Bender" and Wife to OWN YOU IN HALO 2!
I have never been more dissapointed in a game experience in my life. The game is not HORRIBLE, but it is so mediocre. Neat effects but the controls are SUCKY (only 3 choices? WHY THE F@(K CANT every game atleast have the HALO controls as an option?)
Fight waves of guards, suddenly the game engine takes over and your character does somehing COOL (only you have no control)
And the driving sequences are pathetic, should never have been in the game.
I do love how the game ties in with the movie. It was so cool to see the captains meeting actually mean something in both.
RENT IT!
Which SUCKS because most Rear Projection HD REady TV's (like my brand new Mitsu 48")only display 480i/480p & 1080i. I will however state that while the superbowl was fantastic in HD this year (1080i) Alias immediately aftwerwards was a true gift from God. Jennifer Garner in HD is just... words fail me.
is some kind of wi-fi support. I had to run 2 25 foot stretches of cat-5 from my office to the den and my wife is NOT HAPPY about it.
Some kind of wireless ethernet/access point would be great. Of course, I could go buy two access points for about 90 bucks each... Is staples still open at this time of night? Must play one more round of Mechassault!!!!!
Ignore Wife, Play more... get another house to live in with cat 5 run to every room... XBOX Live ate my brain!!!
Mechassault kicks all kinds of @$$.
All the points sum up like this...
Games...
Having only played Mechassault... It kicks ass, nuff said and no freakin' lag to speak of. Oh, and the voice system makes it so much more fun. IT's wild to hear some one apologize for taking a cheap kill and then realizing they are supposed to play that way.
Broadband...
No lags and the voice is just amazing
One surprise though. I didn't expect to have to enter my credit card. I expected to just buy my LIVE kit and have a years worth of credit assigned to my gamer tag. I really liked the idea of buying the box and not needing a card to play. I didn't try getting on with out a credit card. Any one else try that? Other than that surprise, the system is awesome.
Darth Bender has spoken... that is all.
NUFF SAID!
Some genius in AOL/TIME/TURNER/SATAN's Workshop/C Networks decided that they can make more money removing that stuff that has no Stateside Products in Toys R Us and replace it with something that makes registers go "Ching-Ching". DBZ is cool because you can ignore the dialogue and just ooh and ahh at the A$$ kicking that goes on between cartoon midgets/kids. PLUS, they have LOADS of that shit at Toys R Us!
Hell, I work in the advertising business (yes, I know, my soul is damned to hell...) and I still think it's a stupid way to run a network. But who the fuck cares what I think, I watch Farscape...
I do think Outlaw Star kicks all holy crap, even edited to be almost nonsensical (yeah, my spelling sux!)
While I support M$'s right to modify the engineering/design of the Xbox to thwart hacking, I don't think they have the right to dictate what I can't do with a device I purchased. As long as I am not "replicating" knock-off Xboxen, I can take the thing apart and use it as Cake toppings if I want to. M$ has enough money to hassle these guys, who were on the FRINGE of legality anyway. I think a mod chip should be legal, we already have copyright laws that outlaw pirating software.
Oh yeah, in the interest of full disclosure, I love my Xbox...
Love the sin, hate the sinner, ER/ wait a minute...
The actual business model for the XBOX has it losing money for the first 2 years, and then turning to PROFIT. M$ is not stupid, they are not going to stick with expensive manufacturing as processes are refined and streamlined. Some could say that these "changes" might even turn out to be the first step towards the chip integrations you think they can't do. Intel packs exponentially more transistors into their Logic control chips than they did into the 486... which do you think is more affordable to produce today?
As has been pointed out in other posts, sold at a loss, money made on game license revenue, online, yada yada yada...
Microsoft is happy to hear that you will not be purchasing an un-hackable XBOX, as they understand you would only pirate games anyway. Go get Linux to run on your Hewlett Packard 20S scientific calculator or buy a PS2 Linux kit and play "tux-racer" till the cows come home.
Me, I think the XBOX is a superior game machine (and I am one of the many M$ users who cry foul everytime I have to load another "slave ///ER SERVICE pack" for Win-blows) and as such, M$ is entitled to protect their hardware from a bunch of morons with nothing better to do.
Put some of thos L33T skills to use programming a frickin' Video editing application so I can dump Premiere and Use Linux to do my real work! I would even BUY that from someone!
and as for
does that mean that if a piece of equipment isn't hackable, you won't use it? I bet your refrigerator is a phenomenal Quake server...
John Crichton will make you his Frelling B**CH!!!