Punching Microsoft in the face.

[userwhoquitthesite]

Here's how you do it: Start an underground boxing ring and over time, establish yourself as a sort of psuedo-military cultist leader. Fly around the country establishing other such groups where Microsoft has an office building. Have your new army make a large amount of homemade explosives and infiltrate the buildling security departments. Make a date where you can clear out the entire ofice population and have your lackeys fill all of the buildings with the homemade explosive and implode every one of them




Oh and make sure you finda good-looking goth/rocker chick to watch the fireworks with

 

[grimsprice]

No, i'm not being obtuse. My laptop does more than just get internet to my Xbox. And i use it for all those purposes. And i have it on all the time anyways. Usually even when i'm on Xbox. I did think that through though. I haven't changed any of my habits at all. I just didn't pay a 100 bucks to circumvent my laptops ethernet port.

I never saw a Microsoft Goon standing over my shoulder when I bought my 360, ensuring that I also bought a MS certified wireless adapter to cover my wireless needs. There's no requirement there, they're offering a solution. A good one, as it goes. You stick the thing in, you configure it from your xbox and it works quite well. It's not so much sticking it to MS finding your own solution, it's more trading cash for hassle.

Sure, I could pay half of what MS charge for a second-hand wireless router, upload custom firmware to turn it into a bridge, configure the bridge to connect to the router, then plug it into my xbox and always have a second, powered device sitting next to it, turned on. But that's way too much of a clusterfuck for some people with an extra $50 in hand.

So, once again, is it really sticking it to the company who did sell you a game system that you enjoy enough to want connected wirelessly?

You're right, it is trading cash for hassle. To each his own, i have lots of time to deal with hassle, and not a whole lot of money, so i take the personal work choice. I exercise my skills and save some money. I think its still sticking it to them though, they try as hard as they can to squeeze every last dollar out of their product. Honestly, 100$? Why? thats just customer abuse.

 

[crepesack]

Just call their support line and tell them your penis is stuck in your Xbox.
...What, I can't be the only one...

you are........

...not the only one. I too have had troubles with my genitalia getting consistently caught in my xbox.

Yah microsoft really pissed me off when they said they would stop supporting XP.

Seriously..XP was probably the best thing to ever come out of microsoft and they trash it for crappy arse vista. Then expect everyone to forget about the 80 bucks they paid for vista and buy windows 7...what the hell.

 

[Jamash]

Fuck yeah! I love sticking it to The Man.

Every time a program crashes on my computer, and a dialogue box like this comes up:

I always click "Don't Send".

Ha ha, fuck you Micro$soft! Feel the burn!

What's that Micro$soft?

Please tell Microsoft about the problem? ...help us to improve...?

No, fuck you Bill Gates! You'll have to do a lot better begging than "please" if you want me to help you!

Yeah, I love sticking it to Micro$oft.

Taking down The Man. One error report at a time

 

[GyroCaptain]

Fuck yeah! I love sticking it to The Man.

Every time a program crashes on my computer, and a dialogue box like this comes up:

I always click "Don't Send".

Ha ha, fuck you Micro$soft! Feel the burn!

What's that Micro$soft?

Please tell Microsoft about the problem? ...help us to improve...?

No, fuck you Bill Gates! You'll have to do a lot better begging than "please" if you want me to help you!

Yeah, I love sticking it to Micro$oft.

Taking down The Man. One error report at a time

I was just going to say "Stupid thread is stupid", but the dick jokes and this post made it all worthwhile.

 

[Aardvark]

Honestly, 100$? Why? thats just customer abuse.

Branding and simplicity. If your wireless network is unsecured, it's plug and play. Otherwise, enter your password and bam, you're connected. Similar third-party devices are harder to set up. Your average Halo-playing fratboy isn't going to be competent enough to figure them out.

 

[toapat]

A buddy of mine is in the top 20 on Gears Of War and he has many of people behind him bitching about the crappy online play... if you can find a way, tell me.

why do you think the multiplaying in Gears 2 is shit? people are used to even lower grade dogshit AKA every shooter produced outside of valve or epic in the past 10+ years.

Gears has alot of experience put into its multiplayer, the only reason people think it sucks is because they are not used to quality, and then ***** about it, making it suck. play a single game of Gears2 multiplayer with NO VoIP on the server at all, and the game will be 600% better because no one is able to ***** at the gameplay.

 

[Dimbo_Sama]

you can't get a Mac for less than 900 pounds sterling!

WHY THE FUCK DOESN'T ANYONE POINT THIS FACT OUT?!?!

Everytime a Till opens Steve Jobs gets an erection.

funny aside. One of the tutors at my college, takes a class for people learning Game Design about sound creation and scoring. And they use logic (which is an apple program of sexual design) for all of it. All of his class were moaning and bitching about how PCs are better so he took the print-outs he had made for the class, and put a photoshopped picture of Steve Jobs' head on Jesus' body just to piss them off.

that made me giggle.

 

[Jamash]

Spoiler: SNIP

Fuck yeah! I love sticking it to The Man.

Every time a program crashes on my computer, and a dialogue box like this comes up:

I always click "Don't Send".

Ha ha, fuck you Micro$soft! Feel the burn!

What's that Micro$soft?

Please tell Microsoft about the problem? ...help us to improve...?

No, fuck you Bill Gates! You'll have to do a lot better begging than "please" if you want me to help you!

Yeah, I love sticking it to Micro$oft.

Taking down The Man. One error report at a time

Uh, that kinda keeps Microsoft from aquiring the data it needs to fix your problem. Don't you think you're cutting off your nose to spite your face? I alwas send them the info they want, if you're worried about privacy concerns, don't be, if they haven't pinched me, they won't pinch anybody.

Yes, "cutting off your nose to spite your face" was the gist of the joke I was aiming for [small](like spending a week of your life thinking of ways to spite Microsoft, only to come up with the fiendish plan of routing your X-Box through your laptop)[/small]... I guess sarcasm really doesn't travel well on the internet.

It's safe to assume that if someone spells Microsoft as 'Micro$oft' and refers to them as "The Man", they're not being serious.

 

[The King of Rock and Roll]

Just call their support line and tell them your penis is stuck in your Xbox.
...What, I can't be the only one...

Well, I actually went on the support website and asked the automated help bot all sorts of embarrasing personal questions and hit on it and all sorts of things. Some of the responses are pretty funny too.

 

[JamminOz07]

LOL.
Microsoft is a company, company's want money, how is this news to anyone?
Sony is a company, Sony also wants money, Sony make dev's add extra content to their games so they SELL more.

All companies are money hungry. We just hear more from Microsoft, that's all =P

Yes, and i'd stick it to Sony if i could in any way, but i don't have a Ps3 or PSP.

Nintendo are also bitches. Making all those damn expensive, and pointless, peripherals.

I don't mean just Microsoft, hence the wording of the questions.

I would suggest that you are already "sticking it to" Sony and Nintendo if you haven't bought any of their products.

In fact, as you have pointed out, the only real power that you have as a consumer is to not purchase these companies products.

unfortunately, it sounds like you have already bought an xbox 360, probably some games, probably a subscription to xbox live. So like it or not, you are already Microsoft's ***** so stop whining, buy your damn wireless adapter if you want one, if not, then don't. I'm sure microsoft won't notice if you don't give them another $100.

FYI I use a network cable on my xbox 360. Probably not quite as sexy as wireless, but it came free, and never drops out.

 

[Timotei]

LOL.
Microsoft is a company, company's want money, how is this news to anyone?
Sony is a company, Sony also wants money, Sony make dev's add extra content to their games so they SELL more.

All companies are money hungry. We just hear more from Microsoft, that's all =P

But not every company has a goal that will essentially result in world domination.

 

[ffxfriek]

you can't get a Mac for less than 900 pounds sterling!

WHY THE FUCK DOESN'T ANYONE POINT THIS FACT OUT?!?!

Everytime a Till opens Steve Jobs gets an erection.

funny aside. One of the tutors at my college, takes a class for people learning Game Design about sound creation and scoring. And they use logic (which is an apple program of sexual design) for all of it. All of his class were moaning and bitching about how PCs are better so he took the print-outs he had made for the class, and put a photoshopped picture of Steve Jobs' head on Jesus' body just to piss them off.

that made me giggle.

PC is good for 95% of all programs. Macs are good for the last 5%. their both good for one thing or another. but garage band is really epic

 

[masakoz]

Just call their support line and tell them your penis is stuck in your Xbox.
...What, I can't be the only one...

shit, you two....care to come to the hospital with me to make it less awkward