X-Box Rumor on assembly?
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X-Box Rumor on assembly?
This was taken from Penny-Arcade and I found to be hysterical.
Xbox: Guadalajara Nights
Even though I thought I'd established that console wars are stupid, people persist in thinking that because I enjoyed playing the GameCube, and because we make fun of the Xbox, that these two items are somehow part of a vast, self-perpetuating intellectual framework. We make fun of the Xbox because we think it's funny, it's not any more complicated than that. It's not a part of a jihad against other consoles, and the whole thing reaches truly idiotic proportions when people take a cartoon about a guy with really big hands as some kind of personal assault. So when people send me a rumor like the one below - on the assumption that I'll enjoy it, because it's bad Xbox news - they're only half right. I enjoy it because it's interesting, but anything that keeps Safety Monkey from buying an Xbox and Halo - and then bringing it to my house - is going to be a crisis of extraodinary proportions.
From: Some Guy
To: [email protected]
Subject: xbox problems you will love to hear!
I have the questionable pleasure of living down the border in Guadalajara Mexico, I also work at a nice big company which name I will like to keep out of the way for reasons that will become obvious in a minute, the thing is that we are in a tight industrial area of Guadalajara, prety close to "flextronics" the company that is manufacturing the XBOX! (Dramatic revelation!) is not a MS company is just a company they hired to do the job.
A friend of mine (which we will call "Dave" to keep his real name anonymous) works there and was assigned to the XBOX project a month ago. (shocking!) Now you may imagine it must been a really busy month building and testing XBOXes and stuff but.. can you handle the truth? can you?!
According to Dave he has spent the last month doing.. (dramatic pause!) absolutely nothing. As a matter of fact he has been lingering around watching videos on the net and trying to appear to be busy. Why? because they didnt have anything to build! the xbox design finally went into production last SUNDAY! (september 23 2001) (truly shocking!!)
Now what happens if you start production on Sunday on a Mexican factory ? (dramatic pause allowing you to answer) NOBODY is there to do it! only those who are unlucky enough to be there doing extra time, (like poor old Dave was) But they were ORDERED to do it anyway. No QA guys, no big bosses nothing, just a bunch of employees, trying to build a machine for the first time ever! (shocking, er, shocking!)
As you may have guessed things didnt went very smooth, as a matter of fact they didnt go very smooth at all! lots of machines were so defective they didnt pass the normal standards and went back to the line again, Dave and his friend expent hours after hours trying to build the damn boxes but they still were defective, to make a large awful history short they only were able to build 10 Xboxes that day! 10! and those XBOXES who did make it only passed standard tests! no other testing was applied!
SHOCKING HORROR!
To give you an idea, they were supossed to build 3 million machines by november, 3 million!
Dave continues to work there, if everything goes well he will be congratulated for trying to do his best in a desperate time. But there are still those 10 boxes out there... in the shadows. The 10 xboxes he and his friend built.
Are those 10 xboxes alone? will they have company? 3 million in a mere month.. what kind of QA will they have?
Xboxes, everywhere lurking in the shadows.
Sweet dreams.
Xbox: Guadalajara Nights
Even though I thought I'd established that console wars are stupid, people persist in thinking that because I enjoyed playing the GameCube, and because we make fun of the Xbox, that these two items are somehow part of a vast, self-perpetuating intellectual framework. We make fun of the Xbox because we think it's funny, it's not any more complicated than that. It's not a part of a jihad against other consoles, and the whole thing reaches truly idiotic proportions when people take a cartoon about a guy with really big hands as some kind of personal assault. So when people send me a rumor like the one below - on the assumption that I'll enjoy it, because it's bad Xbox news - they're only half right. I enjoy it because it's interesting, but anything that keeps Safety Monkey from buying an Xbox and Halo - and then bringing it to my house - is going to be a crisis of extraodinary proportions.
From: Some Guy
To: [email protected]
Subject: xbox problems you will love to hear!
I have the questionable pleasure of living down the border in Guadalajara Mexico, I also work at a nice big company which name I will like to keep out of the way for reasons that will become obvious in a minute, the thing is that we are in a tight industrial area of Guadalajara, prety close to "flextronics" the company that is manufacturing the XBOX! (Dramatic revelation!) is not a MS company is just a company they hired to do the job.
A friend of mine (which we will call "Dave" to keep his real name anonymous) works there and was assigned to the XBOX project a month ago. (shocking!) Now you may imagine it must been a really busy month building and testing XBOXes and stuff but.. can you handle the truth? can you?!
According to Dave he has spent the last month doing.. (dramatic pause!) absolutely nothing. As a matter of fact he has been lingering around watching videos on the net and trying to appear to be busy. Why? because they didnt have anything to build! the xbox design finally went into production last SUNDAY! (september 23 2001) (truly shocking!!)
Now what happens if you start production on Sunday on a Mexican factory ? (dramatic pause allowing you to answer) NOBODY is there to do it! only those who are unlucky enough to be there doing extra time, (like poor old Dave was) But they were ORDERED to do it anyway. No QA guys, no big bosses nothing, just a bunch of employees, trying to build a machine for the first time ever! (shocking, er, shocking!)
As you may have guessed things didnt went very smooth, as a matter of fact they didnt go very smooth at all! lots of machines were so defective they didnt pass the normal standards and went back to the line again, Dave and his friend expent hours after hours trying to build the damn boxes but they still were defective, to make a large awful history short they only were able to build 10 Xboxes that day! 10! and those XBOXES who did make it only passed standard tests! no other testing was applied!
SHOCKING HORROR!
To give you an idea, they were supossed to build 3 million machines by november, 3 million!
Dave continues to work there, if everything goes well he will be congratulated for trying to do his best in a desperate time. But there are still those 10 boxes out there... in the shadows. The 10 xboxes he and his friend built.
Are those 10 xboxes alone? will they have company? 3 million in a mere month.. what kind of QA will they have?
Xboxes, everywhere lurking in the shadows.
Sweet dreams.
