People need to realize that there are other stores out there, and these are the bundles that EB are offering now. People who are pre-ordering now are probably the idiots with money to burn, and they're taking advantage of that. Most likely they'll be offering non-bundled preorders. Even if they don't, and the other game retailers don't, you can always buy an Xbox at non-game retailers (Best Buy, Walmart, Target, etc, and from my experience they usually don't sell out as fast). I got my PSP, minus the bundle, on launch day pre-ordering from Compusmart (a canadian retailer). The day after launch I walked into Futureshop (a canadian Best Buy like store, that was bought by Best Buy...) and they had unbundled PSP's for sale. So it ain't the end of the world.
The site is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters". Not "Open Source Rules. Lets Bash Everything Else".
Also, at the same time, you fail to notice the hypocrasy in the fact that Slashdot reports news of many non-open source companies, including Apple, with barely a bashing to go with it.
As a side effect, with the possible exception of certain massively multiplayer online games, no Xbox 360 game will explicitly require use of the hard drive. Microsoft says no other aspect of the next-generation experience will be hampered without a hard drive; Xbox Live as a whole will function as usual, though it's likely downloadable content (and any music or photos you store digitally) would easily exceed the 64MB Memory Unit.
Or, and stay with me here, you can switch the language to UK English?
In Office its Tools --> Language --> Set Language. Hit default on UK Englisk, and voila! That's been there since as long as I can remember.
It was a true version you could find at retail stores. It sold like cupcakes and was quite popular, considering the game is weird and strange, but I think the $20 price really helped in that regard.
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/245460.asp
Umm. What are you talking about? Katamari Damacy was sold in the States and Canada for $20. Even its sequel is coming out here. Perhaps you are talking about the UK? If so, a lot of games tend to miss a UK release.
Hmm. Local 'smaller' shops replace things easier? Not from my experience. I buy some things from local PC shops because they tend to be cheaper, and their return policies are atrocious. In fact, once I bought an external enclosure from a shop here in Toronto that wasn't working. Took me half an hour to convince them to get a replacement. First they had to "test it out", and wanted my hard-disk. Told them I didn't bring it, since its perfectly fine, and then they went back to say that they didn't have a hard disk to test it with (yes! at a PC shop!).
On the other hand, most larger retailers, like Futureshop and BestBuy, have a no questions asked return policy. You can return something just because you didn't like it directly to the store and get an immediate refund, and its 30 days for most things, 15 for computers.
Actually, it means you may be harbouring terrorists! That meanst the government MUST install monitoring equipment in your home, you know, TO STOP THE TERRORISTS!
their growing unpopularity with the general market place
Growing unpopularity in the general market? Wait, since when was the general market slashdot geeks who put jabs at MS in their sigs? The Xbox is far from 'unpopular', and far from a 'failure'.
Or how about google copied MS's start-page? This site has been up and running for a while, far before Google ever put up their start page.
Oh wait. It's Microsoft. Their engineers built a time-machine, went a few months into the future, stole all of Google's start-page code, went back in time, and launched it first! Genius! Wait...their engineers cant build a time machine...who'd they steal THAT from?
Seriously Slashdot. Start doing some research on your posts. Stop accusing Microsoft of copycatting everyone.
Apple's own software, Final Cut, DVDStudio Pro, Shake, uses the context menus a lot. So that alone destroys your point about UI design, since Apple doesnt seem to follow it themselves.
I've done many sites correctly in that work fine in all browsers, (IE6, Firefox, Opera, IE5.5 mac and Safari) using pure HTML and CSS only, without any sort of hacks.
Yes, but at the same time all these games are going to have better graphics, with support for higher resolution, which means higher quality textures, which means way larger disc space. Remember if you double the resolution of a texture, you quadruple the file size. Things can add up real fast.
I love it when sites tell you to use IE and they work perfectly fine in other browsers. Oh, and they didnt even bother to check for Opera; it doesnt give you a warning if you're using it.
OMGZ0rz! Google are like, you know, SUCH copycats! Microsoft had this feature in start.com, and so did Yahoo! Omg!
I love the slashdot mentallity. Whenever Microsoft does something, they automatically copied and ripped people off. Whenever Google does something, its new and cool and awesome.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
People need to realize that there are other stores out there, and these are the bundles that EB are offering now. People who are pre-ordering now are probably the idiots with money to burn, and they're taking advantage of that. Most likely they'll be offering non-bundled preorders. Even if they don't, and the other game retailers don't, you can always buy an Xbox at non-game retailers (Best Buy, Walmart, Target, etc, and from my experience they usually don't sell out as fast). I got my PSP, minus the bundle, on launch day pre-ordering from Compusmart (a canadian retailer). The day after launch I walked into Futureshop (a canadian Best Buy like store, that was bought by Best Buy...) and they had unbundled PSP's for sale. So it ain't the end of the world.
How in friggin' hell is hello.com a porn site?
Also, at the same time, you fail to notice the hypocrasy in the fact that Slashdot reports news of many non-open source companies, including Apple, with barely a bashing to go with it.
It's in Halo 2, and it works pretty darn good.
As a side effect, with the possible exception of certain massively multiplayer online games, no Xbox 360 game will explicitly require use of the hard drive. Microsoft says no other aspect of the next-generation experience will be hampered without a hard drive; Xbox Live as a whole will function as usual, though it's likely downloadable content (and any music or photos you store digitally) would easily exceed the 64MB Memory Unit.
Or, and stay with me here, you can switch the language to UK English? In Office its Tools --> Language --> Set Language. Hit default on UK Englisk, and voila! That's been there since as long as I can remember.
It was a true version you could find at retail stores. It sold like cupcakes and was quite popular, considering the game is weird and strange, but I think the $20 price really helped in that regard. http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/245460.asp
Umm. What are you talking about? Katamari Damacy was sold in the States and Canada for $20. Even its sequel is coming out here. Perhaps you are talking about the UK? If so, a lot of games tend to miss a UK release.
On the other hand, most larger retailers, like Futureshop and BestBuy, have a no questions asked return policy. You can return something just because you didn't like it directly to the store and get an immediate refund, and its 30 days for most things, 15 for computers.
Actually, it means you may be harbouring terrorists! That meanst the government MUST install monitoring equipment in your home, you know, TO STOP THE TERRORISTS!
You just gave Microsoft a new way to fight Open Source! "Al Qaeda uses Open Source, do you want YOUR government to use it too?"
Ya. thats why 5 year olds can use a computer but not drive a car.
Growing unpopularity in the general market? Wait, since when was the general market slashdot geeks who put jabs at MS in their sigs? The Xbox is far from 'unpopular', and far from a 'failure'.
Oh wait. It's Microsoft. Their engineers built a time-machine, went a few months into the future, stole all of Google's start-page code, went back in time, and launched it first! Genius! Wait...their engineers cant build a time machine...who'd they steal THAT from?
Seriously Slashdot. Start doing some research on your posts. Stop accusing Microsoft of copycatting everyone.
Apple's own software, Final Cut, DVDStudio Pro, Shake, uses the context menus a lot. So that alone destroys your point about UI design, since Apple doesnt seem to follow it themselves.
I've done many sites correctly in that work fine in all browsers, (IE6, Firefox, Opera, IE5.5 mac and Safari) using pure HTML and CSS only, without any sort of hacks.
Yes, but at the same time all these games are going to have better graphics, with support for higher resolution, which means higher quality textures, which means way larger disc space. Remember if you double the resolution of a texture, you quadruple the file size. Things can add up real fast.
I love it when sites tell you to use IE and they work perfectly fine in other browsers. Oh, and they didnt even bother to check for Opera; it doesnt give you a warning if you're using it.
Which still surprises me, since I very rarely run into anyone who still uses ICQ. What gives?
Your point?
But he looks like snake? Hmm...don't think so. But cool! He graduated from my university! (ryerson)
I think the mods have been drinking...
It was streamed live off of Nasa's website.
I love the slashdot mentallity. Whenever Microsoft does something, they automatically copied and ripped people off. Whenever Google does something, its new and cool and awesome.