OSNews > Thread > "I sense a disturbance in the force." by theTSF

Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 31st Dec 2008 17:12 UTC

"Judgment day has arrived for owners of 30GB (and only 30GB) Zunes. The music player inexplicably entered a worldwide coma last night, and players are completely non responsive." [Kroc: I wonder if this is anything like the bug that caused Windows 98 to crash after 49 days when the tick-count exceeded 32-bits :P]

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I sense a disturbance in the force.

by theTSF on Wed 31st Dec 2008 18:47 UTC

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2005-09-27

The feeling of a bunch of Apple Fanboys getting that much smugger.

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RE: I sense a disturbance in the force.

by Bending Unit on Wed 31st Dec 2008 18:56 in reply to "I sense a disturbance in the force."

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2005-07-06

Yes but this time it is warranted. This is truly pathetic. Developers have been messing around with shutdown dates or best before dates.

This is obviously a mistake but there should never be such time limits coded in the first place, triggered or not!

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RE[2]: I sense a disturbance in the force.

by BallmerKnowsBest on Sun 4th Jan 2009 13:59 in reply to "RE: I sense a disturbance in the force."

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2008-06-02

Yes but this time it is warranted.

It is? Have we all forgotten Apple's practice of intentionally bricking iPhones / iPod Touches as a means of license enforcement? Or that iTunes update which had a tendency to rm -rf entire OS X systems?

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RE: I sense a disturbance in the force.

by sbergman27 on Wed 31st Dec 2008 19:50 in reply to "I sense a disturbance in the force."

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2005-07-24

The feeling of a bunch of Apple Fanboys getting that much smugger.

Not just Apple proponents. Anyone skeptical Microsoft's ability to run datacenters. Like servers, embedded devices are supposed to be reliable. Gotta love this:

"A Microsoft spokesperson tells Ars, "We are aware that customers with the Zune 30GB are experiencing issues with their Zune device."

Issues? Their hardware is dead due to Microsoft's carelessness and or negligence.

And why was this fiasco relegated to page 2? It is clearly page 1 news.

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RE[2]: I sense a disturbance in the force.

by tomcat on Sat 3rd Jan 2009 07:40 in reply to "RE: I sense a disturbance in the force."

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2006-01-06

Not just Apple proponents. Anyone skeptical Microsoft's ability to run datacenters. Like servers, embedded devices are supposed to be reliable.

Nice projection. They're running completely different hardware, completely different OS, completely different client software. Keep the hate flowing ...

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