__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Thursday 22 June 2006 21:13 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Thursday 22 June 2006 17:05 \__
>>
>>> Hope this doesn't appear twice... I posted it already but it didn't
>>> appear...
>>
>>
>> Not received on my end... maybe wrong newsgroup, which at least to me, is
>> a common blooper.
>>
>>
>>> Just wanted to say that I could get more excited about this Xbox news
>>> if I cared about games, although it is indeed a fascinating
>>> read...Clearly MS did a rush job on getting this thing out the door.
>>> Based on what I hear, this is common at MS.
>>
>>
>> Very. There is strong resistance to a further delayed release of Vista,
>> although extra time has been anticipated, being a necessity. Windows
>> developers are paid extra to squash bugs at home, during their (otherwise)
>> leisure time. I deem this incompetent and rushed.
>>
>>
>>> If MS discounts the hardware to sell games, maybe this would be a good
>>> way to make a supercomputer: Buy a thousand Xboxes, load em up with
>>> Linux and link em together. Unhappy developers go away or become
>>> rakeless,,
>> impatient, and bitter.
>>
>>
>> Ask Jerry McBride. He had pondered the same thing before I posted the link
>> to the following:
>>
>>
>
http://www.k-ossystems.com/cgi-bin/kart/index.php?p=productsMore&iProduct=30
>>
>> * AMD Duron 2.8 GHz Processor with 800 MHz FSB
>> * 180 Gigabyte Hard Drive
>> * 256 Megabytes of RAM
>> * K7MNF-64 nVidia nForce2 Socket A Motherboard
>> * nVidia nForce2 chipset
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Just under US$150
>>
>>
>
> Trust me... I have that one bookmarked and burned into my memory...
After you messge this morning, I decided to blog it, too.
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