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Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:40 pm**

From reports out of E3:

Microsoft confirms required 24-hour check-in for Xbox One. Playing games on somebody else's console will also require a check-in every hour.

Well, I'll never own one.

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:54 pm**

"MS said that it would gladly disable check-ins provided all XBox system users shove the special Microsoft XBox One 'Anal Verifier' peripheral straight into their assholes while logged on."

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:05 pm**

Nah, you're not biased against MS.

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:10 pm**

Leisher wrote:Nah, you're not biased against MS.

Comes with years of using their developer tools.

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:13 pm**

My dislike for Microsoft probably started when DirectX shouldered out OpenGL as the primary game development tool.

Either that or WinME. Which was first?

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:26 pm**

My dislike started at DOS. Winblows 98 made it grow into a more antagonistic relationship. Full-blown hatred did not occur until use of Visual Studio and MS-SQL Server 2005.

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:27 pm**

GORDON wrote:My dislike for Microsoft probably started when DirectX shouldered out OpenGL as the primary game development tool.

Either that or WinME. Which was first?

OpenGL was ousted before ME, in my opinion. The precise point in time of the ousting will always be a debatable point.

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:11 pm**

If you don't like SQL 2005, it's probably your problem. That thing was gold for that day and age.

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:21 pm**

TheCatt wrote:If you don't like SQL 2005, it's probably your problem. That thing was gold for that day and age.

To quote Vincent Vega, "It's the little things, you know?"

EDIT: This is also coming from a dude that's drowning in PL/SQL/Oracle bullshit right now. I'd welcome a switchover to the latest SP version of MS-SQL 2008, but I've been told our normal data workflow volume "can't be handled using that technology." I would be utterly fucked in the PL realm if not for my previous experience with Ada and its retarded recessive gene twin, Pascal.

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Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:56 am**

I'd welcome a switchover to the latest SP version of MS-SQL 2008, but I've been told our normal data workflow volume "can't be handled using that technology."

I have no idea what that person means. Meanwhile, SQL is up to 2012 SP1.

Oracle PL/SQL is decent. It's can be a pain in the butt, but it gets the job done, mostly.

I work with both daily.

Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:25 pm**

I have no idea what that person means.

Pretty sure they meant, "We picked Oracle a few years ago and we're too lazy/stupid to change now."

Posted: **Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:15 am**

Gotcha. Yeah, I get that now.

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Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:19 pm**

I hope this thing absolutely bombs just like the Wii.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:22 pm**

So far I have no interest in either one.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:52 pm**

Leisher wrote:I hope this thing absolutely bombs just like the Wii.

I wouldn't call the Wii a bomb.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:04 pm**

I think he meant the Wii U

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:06 pm**

TheCatt wrote:I think he meant the Wii U

Alright, that thing tanked pretty hard.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:19 pm**

Hey, my kid has played it about 4 times since Christmas. It's really a lot of fun.