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1 posted on 11/23/2005 6:44:10 AM PST by Petronski
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To: Petronski

Does this mean that they will not be scarce for Christmas?


2 posted on 11/23/2005 6:46:38 AM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: Born Conservative; Pukin Dog; N3WBI3
Ping.

Big pic of crash.

3 posted on 11/23/2005 6:47:31 AM PST by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...

The BSOD strikes again!


4 posted on 11/23/2005 6:50:12 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Petronski

6 posted on 11/23/2005 6:50:47 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: Petronski

Dealing with such challenges is part of the Microsoft allure.


9 posted on 11/23/2005 6:54:38 AM PST by Sloth ("I don't think I've done a good job for 25 years" -- Mary Mapes. "I agree." -- Sloth)
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To: Petronski

So folks will remember who makes it. :)

I went to Circuit City yesterday AM.
Walking up to the door I thought they had been taken over by the homeless.
Sleeping bags, air matresses out front(upscale homeless), MikeyD trash, etc.
Then I realized what was happening.

Takes all kinds.


11 posted on 11/23/2005 6:58:16 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Petronski

People that are rushing out to buy the XBox are silly. Never buy a product until all the bugs have been worked out.


17 posted on 11/23/2005 7:11:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Petronski

I played it at Sams Club to see what the hype was about and if I was not a playstation guy I would be *REALLY* tempted to buy one its an amazing system. That being said I wish the crash screen was blue ;)


22 posted on 11/23/2005 7:24:54 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Petronski

Ummm, if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, could you please develop more games like Tetris? As a female, I don't really go for the complicated games that involve every button on the controller. Give us something simple yet challenging, with a high level of playability. Us girls are gamers, too!


24 posted on 11/23/2005 7:32:20 AM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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BTW have you seen this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/23/xbox_blaze/

An Anglesey woman was pulled unconscious from her house by two strangers after succumbing to smoke generated by a faulty Xbox.

Stuart Ward and Robert Johnson ran from a pub in Llanfairpwll to find the unnamed victim's house engulfed in thick, black smoke and resembling "the Black Hole in Alton Towers" as Ward later put it to the local Daily Post.
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Inside were the woman and her father, who had rushed to the scene in response to a call from his daughter before she was overcome. Ward recalled: "We shouted 'Is anybody there?' The next thing the father upstairs answered 'Yes, I'm upstairs'. We shouted 'Anybody else in the house, we can't see.'

"We put some coats over our mouths and ran upstairs. Robert and I were swearing and the father was shouting 'My daughter's here!'. We were going on our hands and knees - that's how dark it was. You couldn't see your fingers if you put them in front of your eyes.

"We felt our way around the darkness. We found her and dragged and carried her down the stairs and outside. She was going in and out of consciousness."

Johnson added: "We could only feel our way about. The father was stumbling around. He couldn't find his daughter. We found her on the floor.

"I tried to get her on my shoulder but it was impossible. She was in a pretty bad way."

Happily, though, the woman made a full recovery after hospital treatment.

Anglesey fire and rescue spokesman Dave Evans confirmed the fire was caused by a "fault in an Xbox game machine" left on standby. Back in February, Microsoft recalled 14.1m Xbox power cables shipped into Europe before 13 January, 2004 and in other territories before 23 October, 2003, as we previously reported. MS admitted to "30 or so reports from users suffering minor burns, singed upholstery or scorched carpets as a result of power lead malfunctions". ®


25 posted on 11/23/2005 7:37:26 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Petronski

my god, the matrix has been unleashed! What is deju vu, isn't.


28 posted on 11/23/2005 9:01:28 AM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("So far, so good. But this is only phase one."-- Captain America)
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To: Petronski

Never buy the first ones made (but I suppose somebody has to do it...).


30 posted on 11/23/2005 12:13:49 PM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Petronski
Can someone explain to me my any sane, thinking person would pay two to three times retail for something rather than wait a day or three - or even a month - and pay retail for the EXACT SAME THING?!!?

Am I that out of touch?

31 posted on 11/23/2005 7:50:50 PM PST by SW6906 (5 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, guns and ammunition.)
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To: Petronski

Microsoft putting out half arsed products well before beta testing is complete (or sometimes even started)??!!?? Tell me it isn't sooooo. Oh well. SP2 for XP when it first came out had about a 30-50% kill rate for OSs, no surprise. A week or two later they finally solved that little issue.


32 posted on 11/23/2005 9:58:32 PM PST by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Petronski

Yeah! More business for the Revolution. :)


36 posted on 11/24/2005 11:12:17 AM PST by onja ("The government of England is a limited mockery." (France is a complete mockery.)
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