Lawsuit blames Xbox for house fire
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| "We feel positive it came from the Xbox," said Doug Allison of
| Corpus Christi, a lawyer who filed the suit against Microsoft and
| two other defendants.
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA112506.01B.xboxsuit.30e0b7a.html
Does "360" refer to the temperature? Regardless, I have also found the
following (published on the same day):
So my cousin from Microsoft called
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| Erhmm... My cousin just called who works for Microsoft and was on the
| xbox 360 team. He said first generation xbox 360's are having a SERIOUS
| over heating issue and they might be recalled sometime next week. The
| recall is being considered because the overheating can cause a short,
| resulting in a fire.
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http://chris.instantspot.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/11/24/So-my-cousin-from-Microsoft-called
Related:
Gamers Say Microsoft Understates Xbox Problems
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| An insider from Electronic Arts, Inc. is saying that the failure rate
| of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is actually ten times higher than
| what Microsoft spokespeople have admitted.
|
| Game Daily BIZ, a gaming industry publication, reported that the
| anonymous source tallied that of the 300 consoles EA has received,
| 30-50 percent of them have failed.
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http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/xbox_gamers02.html
How Much is Too Much?
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| Microsoft says it will stick with Xbox. But with years of heavy losses
| behind it, the pressure's on for the gaming division to make good
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2006/id20061013_283856.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories
http://tinyurl.com/yxdr4j
Microsoft stoic despite massive losses
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| If you were to judge by the PR rhetoric, you'd think the 360 was
| an unstoppable commercial juggernaut. As usual though, PR lies.
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http://www.gamerscan.com/articles/06/10/09/microsofts.massive.losses/
Vista may have similar problems:
nVidia ForceWare Vista Driver Blunder - Thermal Management?
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| Today we'll tell you about the death of an nVidia GeForce 7900GS
| graphics card and how we think it could have been avoided by better
| and more thoroughly-tested Windows Vista ForceWare drivers. It seems
| to be a major blunder by nVidia and we feel as if it is important enough
| to alert our readers about the issue.
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http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/990/nvidia_forceware_vista_driver_blunder_thermal_management/index.html
Computers in schools are an environmental time-bomb
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| The solution, according to Sirius Corporation, is a move away from the
| ECTA frameworks to leaner hardware and 'virtualised' network services.
|
| Traditional 'fat-client' workstations should be replaced by low-power
| 'thin-client' terminals. With flat screens and server consolidation
| power consumption could be reduced even further.
|
| [...]
|
| Hardware requirements to run Windows Vista means these consumption
| figures will rise even futher. Schools are using computers as room
| heaters which then need to be cooled using expensive air conditioning
| and Modern thin-client networks could reverse this trend and are
| available from the Open Source community and vendors of proprietary
| software today.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=213
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