i'm so fucking stoked.

carry on.

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Just kidding. I get a chubby when the QuakeForge cranks out a release.

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wait..

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and I will continue to be 12 until the day I die.

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Say that there were 900 failures. All of them posted about it in one day.

Now if those 900 were spread out over 4 months no one would notice.

It is all in the way you look at the numbers.

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If this much problems was found in the first couple of days, just imagine what it'll do in the first YEAR.

Or even worse; the day after the warranty runs out.

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The DVD drive of the orginal Xbox grinded the data side of discs. That hasn't been a problem since launch 4 years ago.

Playstation 2 had a software defect that allowed the console to play DVDs from foreign regions. The SCEI forced them to recall the discs and re-release patched software.

The Dreamcast launch was plagued by incorrectly-burned game discs, rendering them unplayable by the machine.

None of this means the flaws are acceptable, but everyone that has a problem can exchange it. Its well within the standard 90-day warranty.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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Originally posted by Acid:
He doesn't need to play an XBOX 360. He can play the original XBOX and imagine the same game with better graphics. BRING ON HALO 3.

Thats it.

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I LOVE you for saying that. That's why I'm still playing Quake2.

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It's even less interesting than the first XBox, and that says a lot about how fucked the 360 is.

But, yeah, have fun playing your "fun games" on it. :-)

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Originally posted by Flux:
this means the flaws are acceptable, but everyone that has a problem can exchange it. Its well within the standard 90-day warranty.

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yeah, 'cause there are plenty of other xboxes to exchange them for. durrrr.

*ducks*

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Good to see both side of the fence are represented well!

/wave

Seriously, don't go there. Let's just leave it at "Windows let's me run <insert proprietary software suite here>," because that's all it's got on any implementation of Unix.

Don't believe me? Read a book.

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Originally posted by RoGuEBiTcH:
Acid bases his statements on his first hand experience with operating system design, tcp/ip network programming, kernel encryption libraries, and Microsofts GET TEH FAX ad campaign.

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I sure hope you know more about Windows than Acid does about Linux to make that kind of statement or your arguments are just as moot.

burb - MS has kept a small percentage of units on hand to replace defective ones. Maybe you should do some reading next time.

I'm enjoying my XBox. Kameo and Call of Duty 2 is fun.

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And for that reason, arguing the issue with either of you is a waste of my time.

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I love consoles when your just lounging and shit, but they suck @ FPS and anything other than tiger woods golf.. IMO

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

So yea, I probably know more about the two than you, Flux/Acid (especially since you're too scared to learn a Unix - where would you be without your mighty mouse?)

http://crux.nu/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/About

You see that page? You see the second name on that list? Are you aware that I hosted CRUXCon this year, the project's annual development conference?

Bah, I'm not gonna argue the point that I'm justified in holding an educated opinion regarding the two platforms. I know that I am.

I was only making a joke in this thread. Acid, STFU. I can't stand it when people who don't know dick about GNU/Linux spread FUD. It pisses me off. Know what you're talking about before you throw blanket statements around. You look stupid.

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Flux, I've tried to be on good terms with you lately. Let's not open this up again.

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I never said Linux wasn't a good OS. I'm just implying that we don't know how good it is until it has the userbase that microsoft has to look after.

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If you're going to count academic experience, then I'd mention my semester-long operating systems class which used a big-ass 1,000-page book discussing common implementations of everything you mentioned and then some. Then there were the 4 coding projects where we had to (regretably) modify Nachos. And tests. Homework. Quizzes....

That's cool you hosted CRUXCon. It's fun to have side projects when in school. How many did it turn out?

Broch - instead of dropping $400 into a video card, $150 into a new mobo, $200 on a new proc and $150 on enough RAM, I was essentially able to upgrade my platform of choice with just $400. It might not be for you, but I prefer to do it that way. When I get the money I'll throw some of it into a new rig, but for now this is where I chose to spend it. Its a better investment, IMO, because it won't be obsolete in a year (neither the PS3 nor the Revolution will perform more than marginally better than the 360, if that).

And, fyi, you can't get any more low-rent than id games. 50 bucks for one play-through. I haven't bothered to play Doom III since I beat it. Halo 2, however, sees far more play time, especially since the MP doesn't suck.

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Kameo is still fun. I wish Call of Duty 2 would let you make parties with friends so you can bum from match to match with the same group of people. Aside from that, the game is much more fun than I had anticipated.

I need to pick up Quake IV.

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Originally posted by RoGuEBiTcH:
Operating Systems graduate class

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May want to examine that post a little closer Flux, looks to me like Bitch took an OS class as well, and the term paper was FOR that class.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

Call it even.

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CRUXCon was 3 weeks ago. The original creator of the distribution, his right hand man, and other very important contributors to the operating system were among my guests.
http://crux.nu

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Originally posted by RoGuEBiTcH:
;P I unfortunately lost it when the hard drive in my first emachines shit the bed. They had actually been recalled.. I lost so much stuff then. Ugh.

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It came with Windows XP Home on it, I think. I never booted whatever was on it. I popped in my CRUX cd right outa the box.

I hate that fucking cripple, btw. He lurks in the bicycle department at my Wal*Mart.

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