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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 12, 2013, 03:37:56 AM »

Incorrect. I deleted system32 from Linux five years ago, and haven't looked back since.

Your a moran.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 12, 2013, 01:30:48 AM »

I'm not verifiable certain, but I'm pretty sure Windows doesn't let you cut/paste system32. As far as I know, only an admin-enabled line input from powershell can force its deletion.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is Islam a radical religion or is everyone else wrong?

« on: December 12, 2013, 01:27:16 AM »

No group of religious people are going to actively say they aren't correct. Dumb question is dumb.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:50:24 AM »

It still completely blows my mind that you play Kingdom Hearts. This is the only time I'll say this but Rushy, you're adorable.

It is a manly man game for men. I'd beat the shit out of people with a giant key, wouldn't you?

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:33:58 AM »

I would talk shit about people who buy them, but as soon as Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out I am getting a PS4. It's inevitable.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Zimmerman could be innocent

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:26:07 AM »

I am so tired of hearing about this guy.

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Technology & Information / Re: NSA play WOW

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:16:15 AM »

Uhh, guys.

US and British spies have reportedly infiltrated online games such as World of Warcraft in an effort to identify terrorist threats, according to media reports.

Yeah, that's totally why they're playing video games all day, they're looking for terrorists. The media is fucking retarded. If you worked for a government agency that has zero oversight, what would you do? Because I would tell my boss to fuck off and play games all day too.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 01:59:15 AM »

It's because there is a dedicated portion of the hardware that just goes into making the Kinect work. If Microsoft let the games use that bit, they'd run much better. Or at least that's what I've read.

Rumor bullshit from fanboys. The Xbox One and PS4 both suck at graphics because they use hardware from 2010. My computer is roughly 8 times more powerful than the Xbox One and 7 times more powerful than the PS4 and I'm using 2011 hardware. These consoles may be "next-gen" but they are not "current-gen."

I remember when they announced the specs it surprised me just how bad the hardware is. They're only marginally better than the old systems.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 04:32:32 AM »

But that picture was made to mock the very attitude you use it for

And Chuck Norris jokes were made to mock him, not actually imply he has any of those abilities. Yet here we are in a world where everyone thinks Chuck Norris is just awesome for no good reason.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 04:25:14 AM »

I'd say of all the newest generation consoles, the Xbone is the best. The operating system is fluid, and intuitive, and it seems to be pretty powerful. The demo at work runs Battlefield 4 at what looks like a constant 60 FPS.

Console gamers have no idea what Battlefield 4 is even supposed to look like.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 03:52:24 AM »

I'm pretty sure they made the Xbox One big enough to fit a couple whole 360s in there

The Xbox One is large enough to contain precisely one Xbox One.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)

« on: December 09, 2013, 03:09:27 AM »

I'm playing Okami HD on PS3 right now. It's a game I've always wanted to play but never really got around to it. The annoying gibberish noises that are made when text is being shown is the only complaint I can have so far.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 02:33:37 AM »

I wonder why they actually did turn off backwards compatibility.  I mean, it's not like they couldn't have built an emulation layer.  The damn thing's powerful enough.

Emulation is not a software issue, it's a hardware one. The original PS3 could only emulate PS2 games because they literally built a PS2 into the damn thing. The Xbone's architecture is too radically different from an Xbox 360 for proper emulation. Same goes for the PS4.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 09, 2013, 02:01:19 AM »

Your post history is sort of like a computer driver related discussion I had with PizzaPlanet and Parsifal. I mean, I had no idea what I was talking about, and they knew that, but did I know that? Looking back on it I know that, but I didn't know that at the time. One day you'll look back on this discussion and think to yourself "well, I didn't know it at the time, but I was dumb, and everyone knew it but me."

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 09, 2013, 01:52:40 AM »

Like I said, I was making a general statement. Making up a statistic would be saying something like '1 in 6,596,312 chance'. But if you prefer, drop numbers. I believe the odds are small that an ordered universe could come from nothing. Like I said, ever play 52 Pickup? You believe otherwise. Since theism is the default position of most people in the world, the onus is on the atheist to prove us wrong. Ultimately, the question can't be resolved w/ certainty, obviously. And yes, to answe your implied question, I have 2 degrees & a graduate degree, thank you.

Ah, in that case I have two graduate degrees and a doctorate. I mean, if you're going to make shit up, might as well do it full steam ahead, eh? Look, your posting history paints the picture for me. Your incessant trolling isn't even amusing anymore.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 12:54:11 AM »

I was talking about consoles, but okay.

There is no under-the-hood difference between the current gen consoles and a PC.

It's also significantly easier to un-brick a PC.

This statement is all kinds of silly.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 12:22:55 AM »

It's rarely as simple as this.

It only takes 2 command lines to brick a PC.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 09, 2013, 12:20:23 AM »

I didn't make up a statistic. I merely said the odds are about as likely as winning the Iowa lottery (please play responsibly).

Yes, that is called making up a statistic. I was under the impression most Jews are college educated.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 12:18:33 AM »

Either way, it is an issue that is harmful to unsuspecting users, and barely useful at all to developers. If they make software resets easier to perform, then great, but I also think they should make these sorts of commands harder to access than this. Nobody would lose anything out of it.

They've already been pretty explicit that the Xbone can not play Xbox 360 games. Sometimes you just gotta deal with the fact that you can't fix stupid. If system32 exists, someone is going to find out how to get other people to delete it. There will always be little ways to trick people into bricking their stuff.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 08, 2013, 11:10:01 PM »

It causes costs people idiots millions of dollars of damage each year.