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...easy is it to connect the Xbox 360 to a Wi-Fi network? Out of the box, the Xbox cannot connect wirelessly to a network, but with a $100 Microsoft add-on, it's simple. Yes, $100 extra when you've just spent $300 or $400 on your console, but I have to hand it to Microsoft for making the experience a positive one. Many Wi-Fi devices can't deal with different formats of wireless security (WEP, WPA, etc.), but when I plugged in this accessory, the 360 saw my network and knew what to ask for to make...
...player, after paying a fairly low monthly or yearly fee to Napster, RealNetworks or Yahoo! Typically, you can play songs on a PC and even move them to participating non-iPods, such as Dell's Ditty. What's messed up is that none of those tracks play on the Xbox. Microsoft should have been careful to make sure that this content would be totally playable on the new Xbox, but that just didn't happen. So much for corporate synergy...
...DUTY 2 War: What is it good for? Apparently, inspiring relentlessly intense, astonishingly immersing video games. Slog and slug your way through the trenches, deserts and ruined cities of World War II while beautifully rendered snow and deadly Nazi grenades drop gently onto your helmeted, hunkered-down head. The Xbox 360's extra horsepower makes possible huge, frighteningly authentic battlefields and brutally unpredictable game play. You're never sure when a panzer will come charging right through that wall you're hiding behind...
QUAKE 4 It's based on the gorgeously photo-realistic Doom 3 software. It runs on the muscular new Xbox 360 hardware. It features concert-hall-clear audio effects (listen to those tinkly brass shell casings bounce!) and the ultrafast, hyperviolent futuristic military combat that made the Quake franchise a thing of legend, including classic death-match action and some brand-new elements--vehicular combat and squad tactics--thrown in for good measure. Well, space marine, is there a problem...
GLADWELL: I just went on JetBlue's website, looking at JFK to Oakland, and it's $149. At that price, is there a class cutoff, an income cutoff? Sure, but it's really low, about where the class cutoff is for an Xbox. So we're talking about a fairly radical transformation of American society...