XBox 360 and you....

[Maugan_VX]

I do like the games offered on the Xbox more than any other platform.

However, I don't own any console. I'm 100% pure PC gamer material.

I have a good friend that I went to HS with who now works at MS on the Visual Studio project. Can you believe that he tells me that he's bored!?! I told him to become an Oracle PL/SQL developer for a day and tell me what boring is. He also plays bridge (yeah, he's a dork, salutatorian at Carnegie-Melon) and twice a year plays against good ole Billy Gates and Warren Buffet. He has some interesting stories about "speaking his mind" in front of the head cheese

[transio]

Cool. I use VS a bit. It's a good product. I can't wait for Avalon/Sparkle.

[nater]

Bad analogy, microsoft has released quality products year after year with free updates to newfound bugs everyday.

On the other hand, Sony attempts to load malicious spyware copy protection onto your machine. (and if you try to tell me its only possible because of windows, I'll laugh because the same thing could be written for OSX) Bad Bad Sony! When I bought a 65" sony TV, the HDTV "unit" went bad, and sony refused to replace it because it only screwed up on ~50% of the channels.

I could go on and on about the crappiness of Sony products and why they are a POS corporation, but its all ancedotal.
I'm wonder if any of these people (http://www.ps2settlement.com/) will be buying PS3's?

OMFG, Microsoft has released MEDIOCRE products year after year. I take it you've never had to deal with UNIX administration vs Microsoft administration? Or manage a Unix web server vs a Microsoft Web Server? Microsoft should be blamed for ALLOWING the installation of spyware on a their OS! You can't even infect a Unix kernel! Microsoft are a bunch of idiots. Anyone who believes Microsoft delivers "quality products" has never experienced the quality available from the alternatives. Kind of like when Chevy owners talk about how great their suv is! (They have never had a VX to drive!)

So NICE of Microsoft to deliver patches all the time! Sure is handy when they sell CRAP and then you should be grateful for the patches!

Nate

[Dumke]

Maug lol I thought i explain pretty well but if need explain more well i can..... nm I cant.

You cant base one companies products off another, yes same brand name but diff departments make the items they are just using the brand name to sell thier products.

For instance you have a regular nickle well people are going to pay a nickle for it. But if you have a nickle with MS branding people will shell out for it why???? Well because its MS.

Hope that analogy helped

[Maugan_VX]

actually, I used to be part of a University IT group that dealt with an NT/AFS (cough UNIX cough) and Linux environment.

BY FAR we spent much more time patching the *nix boxes than the NT machines.

You can't even infect a Unix kernel!

Ignorance must be bliss.

[MZ-N10]

uh....r we a bit off topic?

[yal^]

yes, we are...

But it just got interesting.

Bottom line is that if it wasn't for MS' sloppy job I and many others in IT services wouldn't have a job. It's nice of them to release updates so often that we have to update our MRI discs every week. But what does it say about them? That they are working hard to protect us against themselves?
Unless Linux platform becomes more user friendly, and I do not mean just the interface, about 80% of small users are pushed to use MS OS. Whatever they release. And word has it that Longhorn is supposed give the maker even more control over small users' machine.

Going back to Xbox360. There are always pros and cons of a new product, any new product. It will be hard to compare 360 with PS3 for now, until both are released, and I hear PS3 release could be delayed. Sony might not keep up their deadline by this Christmas. However, when they are both on a market, I am sure members of this board will get divided one more time...

[nater]

Ignorance is hardly bliss. OpenBSD is!

http://www.openbsd.org/

Now, back on topic: Quick, name a "killer app" besides Halo and Project Gotham Racing which makes buying an Xbox worth it...

Nate

[Ldub]

[QUOTE=Now, back on topic: Quick, name a "killer app" besides Halo and Project Gotham Racing which makes buying an Xbox worth it...
Nate[/QUOTE]


BMX XXX LMAO every time (well, not EVERY time) one of the "ho's" says "oh moy gawd". Oh, & some of her "pimp's" comments are pretty funny too.

Ldub

[technocoy]

as was halo, but thats all that really appeals to me on xBox CURRENTLY. I can't say that one will be better than the other currently, but I have a friend at epic who isn't telling me much, but betting his arse that PS3 will blow the doors off the xBox 360. And he's an xBox FANBOY HARDCORE. I for one will play my friends 360, and wait for the Revolution and the PS3 i have way to many GC and PS2 games that I love, and that new Revolution controller is going to rock hard.... I'm betting there will be some sort of HMD released for the Revolution before it's all said and done... can't wait to play zelda with one controller being the shield and the other being the sword.. HOLY! I am impressed with the xBox though, it's nothing to sneeze at, but it's aimed more at PC gamers who want a console. I would own all three if i could afford it.

My PSP, DS, GC and PS2 will have to hold me over until then... he he he.

I can't believe I'm saying this (being a mac fanatic) but in all fairness it really isn't microsoft trying to screw anyone with the backwards compat thing. They went from x86 architecture to powerpc for xBox360 and it's extremely difficult to pull off that emulation.

that being said, I Hate microsoft, they SUXXORS!!!!!!!!!111111

he he.

[nater]

Yeah, MS isn't really doing emulation, they are implementing the Xbox API. The PS2 does true emulation of the PS1 hardware, registers, clocks, etc. Not a bad way to go, actually, it just requires work for every game, so compatibility is maybe. If they had delayed the launch until the API was fully implemented they could have guaranteed compatibility.

It's the same Microsoft BS, release it now, download the patch later.

Nate

[nater]

Hey, I just got a new "rootkit" CD from Sony for Unix. The instructions were very clear:

1. Open vi.
2. #include <rootkit.cc>
3. Recompile kernel.
4. Reboot machine, pointing to new, infected kernel for bootup.
5. Congratulations, you are now infected with the XCP rootkit!

Oh, wait, didn't happen, cuz I would never do such a thing, and there is no way in hell to make it happen without my knowledge, or hide its presence, etc.

Nate

[transio]

I'm only a fan of one game on ANY console - Gran Turismo. I'm waiting for PS3 to come out so I can buy Gran Turismo 4 and a nice steering wheel setup to play on.

[Maugan_VX]

technocoy: hehe its funny, my friend that works extensively with epic (provides all their facial animation tools) says that he's pretty sure the Xbox 360 is going to top the PS3 in "prettiness"

ahh well, we can all make grand conjecture until the hardware actually hits the streets.

[UNEVEN THOUGHTS]

Here's my experience so far...

Pre-bought my 360 (paid in full along with 3 games) back in September with a "guarentee" from EB games that I'd have it for Christmas. Got a call from them last week saying that shipped quanities had been severly cut down and stores were only getting small fractions of what they had been promised, my date for pickup was pushed to Febuary . It's now about 11:30pm and instead of being happily inline down at the mall I've just finished visiting my 4 local Wal-Marts, 2 Radioshacks,GamesStop, BestBuy, Etc. each of which got only about 10 - 25 of the cheeper units, and 2-5 of the better units (which the employee's put aside for themselves). People have been in line there since about noon yesterday in some cases. If I cant grab one when Kmart opens in the morning I'm affraid I'll be stuck waiting...

Maybe Sega, Nintendo, and Atari should merge and take on this whole MS / Sony thing.