is every single one broken, or what?
I don’t know how I missed this interview with a Microsoft bigwig about Xbox 360 failures. Even if you have zero interest in video games, it’s a stunning display of interview stonewalling.
My first reaction: how can they possibly think that responses like this are a good move? My second reaction: but what if this response really is a good move? How bad would the problem have to be for that to be true?
June 19th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Ha, there’s a good Bayesian computation to be done here — you had a prior probability distribution for the random variable “screwed-up-ness of Xbox 360″ and you should be able quite directly to compute the new posterior distribution, which I expect will be modal at “very screwed up.”
January 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
[...] messed up a couple of cables when installing; probably because I’m conditioned to think that they’re all broken, it took me a little while to find my mistakes. (A misleading bit in the manual didn’t help.) [...]