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Old 04-06-2005, 04:16 AM   #1
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Xenon: A colourless, odourless gas used in electric luminescent tubes to provide a bright light.

yeah, that's crap. imagine a clear-cased console filled with electric luminescent tubes and a bright light. *yawn*

360...I picked up my glass of water and rotated it along its vertical axis 360 degrees about 10 minutes ago...long story short, Im still trying to contain my ungodly amount of excitement. I would do it again, but Im afraid I might suffer some form of heart failure. WHAT A RUSH!
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Old 04-06-2005, 07:34 AM   #2
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Dying to play Halo 360, DoA 360 and Fable 360.
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Old 04-06-2005, 10:49 AM   #3
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I think the 360 stands for how much it's going to weigh....
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Old 04-06-2005, 12:38 PM   #4
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If they are so dead set on that name, I think they should at least knock the Xbox off the name and call it just the 360. Xbox 360 sounds more like an add-on for the current console than the next-generation microsoft offering.

The numbering scheme works for Sony since playstation in my mind is just another way of referring to a console, but to me Xbox always referred to the design of the current console and therefore, is too closely related to this generation to be carried on in the name.
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Old 04-06-2005, 01:31 PM   #5
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Well they can't call it Xbox 2. Consumers in this country are so ****ing stupid there'd be people who wouldn't buy an Xbox 2 simply because 3>2 and we already know that the next sony system is PS3.

This gets around it quite nicely, though personally I liked NexTBox
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Old 04-06-2005, 01:53 PM   #6
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well now people going to be saying, its 360 bit!!!!!
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Old 04-06-2005, 02:02 PM   #7
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when the think its 360 and it's actually 256 .... it's deceiving I tell ya

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Old 04-07-2005, 07:50 PM   #8
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I believe that this console will be round, therefore shattering all modern perceptions of the word "box".
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Old 04-07-2005, 09:13 PM   #9
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The name can be perceived as many things. Many people think it represents the power over the PS3 in numerical value.

However I believe thats how much it's going to launch at.... $360.00 and they are betting to sell about 360,000 of them...lol
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Old 04-07-2005, 09:32 PM   #10
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Three hundred and sixty (360, CCCLX) is the natural number following three hundred and fifty-nine and preceding three hundred and sixty-one.

Cardinal 360
three hundred [and] sixty
Ordinal 360th
three hundred [and] sixtieth
Factorization 2^3 \cdot 3^2 \cdot 5
Roman numeral CCCLX
Binary 101101000
Hexadecimal 168

Its divisors are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, 40, 45, 60, 72, 90, 120 and 180, making it a highly composite number. Not only is 360 highly composite, but also no number less than twice as much has more divisors.

One of 360's divisors is 72, which is the number of primes below it.

A circle is divided into 360 degrees for the purpose of angular measurement, which is a convenient standard since, 360 being highly composite, it allows a circle to be divided into equal segments with each segment measured in integer degrees rather than fractional degrees.

360 is the sum of a twin prime (179 + 181).

Three hundred and sixty is also

* Shorthand for panoramic photographs and virtual reality worlds, since it is the degree measurement of a circle
* A telephone area code for most of western Washington state (includes Bellingham, Vancouver, Aberdeen, Olympia, but excludes Seattle area, which is area code 206).
* The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services I-form Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special Immigrant.
Would have been interesting if Redmond's area code was 360...but it's 425.
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