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Comment Re:Past that (Score 1) 159

It's an air defense missile system that costs $12 million per interceptor, and they're fired in pairs, so when Iran launches a ten year old missile that cost them a million dollars to build we can spent $24 million to have a 70% chance to take it down. Of course the THAAD system relies on special radar systems that cost $500 million to $1 billion each, and which the US can only build one or two of per year, and since Iran has destroyed all but two of those radar arrays in the region most of the THAAD system is offline.

Comment Re:So, is this the sunset Xbox platform? (Score 3, Interesting) 58

Pretty much, it sounds like they're turning Xbox from a line of console hardware into a PC gaming service/brand, and the next-gen Xbox sounds like it will be a gaming PC with a stripped-down gaming-optimized version of Windows.

The original Xbox was almost that anyway, just different enough from a gaming PC to make emulating it a big PITA but essentially using ordinary PC hardware running cut-down slivers of Windows & DirectX in firmware. What reason does the Xbox have to exist as anything more than a console-shaped gaming PC these days really? Other gaming consoles have essentially morphed into gaming PCs running oddball hardware & software at the same time, they have all the complexity and expense but none of the compatibility, and the idea of proprietary hardware allowing a performance advantage only ever yielded one that was short-lived.

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