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X-Box costs $200, and a used one costs even less. A USB keyboard and mouse are another $20-$100 depending on how picky you are. Plus a $30 mod chip. I'd buy this over a new Dell any day of the week. If I wanted to, $60 gets a cheese box to convert video to an SVGA monitor, so I can hook it up in my office without a TV. That's a 733Mhz computer, DVD player, and game console for only $390 tops! Even if XBox fails as a game console, that makes a nice linux based desktop.
Net-Appliances are coming!
Xbox version of Linux finished: "A hacker group says it's done with a version of Linux for the Microsoft game console, enabling the device to be used for office applications, the Internet, e-mail or even as a server." Source: CNET News.com
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Coffee is Good
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Unsanity: the Joys of Commercial Programming: "Unsanity on the Joys of Commercial Programming: “We have to release things at a steady pace to get noticed by general public—we cannot afford a one-page advertisements in thick magazines, or billboards on your local Main Street. For that reason, about the only way for us to market our things is release often.”" Source: inessential.com
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