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pseudorandom name posted:that story that came out last week about how that one guy fought hard internally to get advertising in the xbox 360 dashboard to increase the visibility of newly released xbox live arcade games and then management turned around and started selling mcdonalds ads is pretty lol link?
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Any. Day. Now. http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/27/6076381/microsoft-windows-store-fake-apps-crackdown "Microsoft's Windows and Windows Phone app stores have faced several issues with fake and scam applications over the years, but the software maker appears to be finally cracking down. After recent reports highlighting scams that lead people to pay for useless apps that are typically free, Microsoft's Windows Apps and Store general manager, Todd Brix, says the company will be enforcing its policies more strictly in future. The scam apps are going away"
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prefect posted:link? http://blog.theilluminatedsquid.com/post/94215585076/10-years-in-games-sorry-for-all-the-ads
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Miley Virus posted:http://blog.theilluminatedsquid.com/post/94215585076/10-years-in-games-sorry-for-all-the-ads thankyew 
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I called my boss asking for the Mac notebook to replace my current dell and he said there aren't any. Strange, considering the OP.
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Miley Virus posted:http://blog.theilluminatedsquid.com/post/94215585076/10-years-in-games-sorry-for-all-the-ads that made me sad for some reason
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:cost them millions in R&D work and earned them (probably) nothing it actually earned them less than nothing. sega to ea: "dudes you should totally make sega cd games, we're going to support it forever man, it'll totally be worth spending tons of your resources to learn how to make games for it." sega to ea: "dudes you should totally make 32x games, we're going to support it forever man, it'll totally be worth spending tons of your resources to learn how to make games for it." ea: "what's this about both of those things being discontinued?" sega to ea: "oh, yeah, poo poo happens, y'know? but dudes, you should totally make sega saturn games, we're going to support it forever man, it'll totally be worth spending tons of your resources to learn how to make games for it." sega to ea: "dudes you should totally make dreamcast ga-" ea: "you know what? gently caress you. in fact, that's exactly what we're going to do. best of luck with your console which now can't have sports games using the actual teams."
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:from the Windows RT thread in dyp the "anything but Apple" philosophy of personal electronics purchasing always brings the funny
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Miley Virus posted:cause otherwise you wouldn't have been able to save at all apparently the core sku literally came with nothing storage-wise. the storage solution at the time was 64 megs of flash memory for $30, which they later had to offer free exchanges for to a larger size (i forget if the freebie was 128 or 256 megs) so they could continue doing os updates
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reminder that game installs weren't a thing until like 2011 either, so microsoft could half-rear end it for like 6 years
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univbee posted:apparently the core sku literally came with nothing storage-wise. the storage solution at the time was 64 megs of flash memory for $30, which they later had to offer free exchanges for to a larger size (i forget if the freebie was 128 or 256 megs) so they could continue doing os updates they gave out USB flash drives, not the proprietary memory cards they also gave out entirely new consoles when they changed the DVD copy protection and some of the drives in the field couldn't be updated to read the new discs
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THC posted:my 3shitty didn't RROD, it had some other problem where the video kept cutting out, and it was out of warranty so technically not covered by the RROD fix program mine didn't until i spoke the words "my launch 360 made it to afghanistan and back so it's probably gonna be fine" that same week, red ring of hubris
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i sold mine before it had a chance to red ring lol
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mine didnt rrod but i think it was related. the console would run display black and weight and occasionally psychedelic colors and if i wrapped it in a sweater and let it run until it crapped out, when ii turned it on it would work normally for half an hour
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funnily enough apple made a similar rrod-like mistake with the apple iii back in '84 (it was the first non-woz design and was a fanless computer in an aluminum box) the best part about that snafu is that if you called up apple tech support because your comp overheated and split the chips off the motherboard, apple's official troubleshooting step involved telling you to lift your pc 3 inches off your desk/floor and drop it (because the shock sometimes shifted the chips back into place)
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univbee posted:funnily enough apple made a similar rrod-like mistake with the apple iii back in '84 (it was the first non-woz design and was a fanless computer in an aluminum box) same thing happened with early 520STs, OS rom chips pop out of the socket and you have to drop the thing onto a desk to reseat them
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FamDav posted:mine didnt rrod but i think it was related. the console would run display black and weight and occasionally psychedelic colors and if i wrapped it in a sweater and let it run until it crapped out, when ii turned it on it would work normally for half an hour thats an rrod but ur red ring was also broken
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Aug 28, 2014 18:58
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homo punching bag posted:ur red ring was also broken 
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it was actually pretty neat id just get high and play guitar hero 2 and be like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlMHJE82Mk
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i have it on good authority from one of the PCB design consultants on the xbox that MS was told it would overheat and destroy itself long before they shipped the first batch, but decided not to bother changing anything later they completely redid the layout and cooling because it kept breaking
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longview posted:i have it on good authority from one of the PCB design consultants on the xbox that MS was told it would overheat and destroy itself long before they shipped the first batch, but decided not to bother changing anything there was no way they were going to miss holidays 2005, period and no amount of bad news could have derailed it
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qirex posted:there was no way they were going to miss holidays 1982, period and no amount of bad news could have derailed it
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qirex posted:there was no way they were going to miss holidays 2005, period and no amount of bad news could have derailed it I can understand this conceptually- the reasons why you might want to push something out the door NO MATTER WHAT consequences be dammed, but that doesn't stop it from causing an intense feeling of nausea. guess I'll never be a producer
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there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life
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Aug 28, 2014 21:33
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life don't describe the post history button for most posters
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life ah, that explains my malaise
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raruler posted:don't describe the post history button for most posters do people actually work hard on posts?
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life don't describe my career or my life
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qirex posted:do people actually work hard on posts? not me lmbo
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Aug 28, 2014 21:39
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the stuff I work on now isn't cool or exciting but it's genuinely better than what we're replacing so I can feel good about that even if there's a lot of compromise because our technology sucks
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life you don't think the PCB design guys felt a sense of accomplishment when microsoft flushed a bunch of money down the drain buying people new consoles after "I told you so"? I mean, they should have.
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qirex posted:do people actually work hard on posts? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3342353
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life how about when it ends up pretty good but nobody wants it that more closely mirrors my career, anyway
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qntm posted:how about when it ends up pretty good but nobody wants it if you did Good Work on it who cares?* if it works as designed and flops in the market that's product management's problem *this doesn't work if your compensation is directly tied to its popularity
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life now you see why computer people believe in the singularity
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homo punching bag posted:thats an rrod but ur red ring was also broken 
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Aug 29, 2014 05:36
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im the south sandwich trench
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it's an important source of deliciuos sandwiches. there used to be a time when people died trying to harvest sandwiches, and now we have abundance
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life nothing gives my life meaning more, than lack of meaning *^%BUDDISHM%^*
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qirex posted:there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life its even worse when you start on a project that had promise but then slips into mediocrity and eventually terribleness before it even ships
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