Vista only designed to please hardware firms

Oh yeah, justice finally got mad...

Technically, BitTorrent's tracker or .torrent files in no way store any copyrighted data. Jailing of tracker admins is illegal and shows overall failure of justice system. Now it jails not those who are really guilty (guy who owns copyrighted data and uploads it illegaly) but those who are easier to jail(tracker admins, who DO NOT own copyrighted data and do not upload it to anyone!).

At very most, there is hashes of some parts of copyrighted data stored on tracker and in .torrent files. But hey! Hash is NOT a data! There is infinite number of byte combinations which can produce same hash and hence nobody can own hash or claim its copyrighted or whatever (can someone own all infinite number of files with same hash? No! They need to have infinite HDD at least!).

So, at very most tracker itself and .torrent files are just an instruction "how to assemble copyrighted file". But in no way copyrighted file itself. Imho those who actually uploads copyrighted data are proper dudes to jail. But admins... hmm... that's a plain racket and abuse of copyright laws by copiright mafia. This should be illegal itself, so those copyright racketeers should sit in same jail as (real) pirates! T3st3r

Subject: Ballmer and Vista

It's interesting how Microsoft now regards the hardware suppliers more important than the humans who have to use Windows.

It's almost as if Vista were a product _designed_ to satisfy the sales needs of hardware suppliers.

But that couldn't be true, could it?

buffy.

Subject: Screw everywhere girl

So who the hell cares about this ugly looking "everywhere" girl, and she appears to a proud brat because of this, the hell with her anyways, she is not miss universe.

She needs to keep her bunny teethed mouth closed, its disgusting.

Guys you are doing a nice job, dont waste cyber space for this little weed called "everywhere girl"

Vanakkuty

Subject: Caesar IV teaching supply chain mechanics

If you want to learn all about supply chains, why bother with the resource hog that you describe Caesar IV to be? You can learn that right now with any computer capable of browsing the web, by going over to www.pardus.at

Pardus is a space trading / fighting game, but due to its complicated economy, some people have called it an economic simulator with combat thrown in. Although there are some NPC planets and stations to sell your goods at, you have to be extremely attentive to detail to make sure you're producing enough to satisfy the market without glutting it. And, since 90% of the market is made up of other players, things can get very interesting.

Heck, even distribution is handled by the players - there are no NPC freighters or, in the case of the Caesar games, plebes, to cart your stuff around for you. If you don't want to truck it around yourself, you'd better offer good enough prices that other players will do it for you.

All in all though, it's a great, free game. And, since it doesn't require the latest in high-end 3d hardware, you can enjoy it on pretty much any computer.

Sounds a lot better than Caesar, doesn't it? :)

BD Chambers

Subject: BiTorrent Admin jailed 5 months

Should have been 5 years !

Randy

Subject: Vista - Xp

Indeed, I work for a large multinational, and we are just in the process of switching everybody to Xp now, my laptop was switched 2 weeks ago. So, for us in the larger corporations, Vista is probably half a decade away. Not that I care much about either, I just miss my Windows 2000 installation and I'm already not using Xp at home because I never liked it. At home I've switched to a Mac recently and haven't looked back.

chris

Subject: Dell says Vista needs double bubble memory boost!

Hi staff!

Yeah, all what a VISTA user for to write a normal letter or a mail on StarOffice needs, is:

1x Mainboard: ASUS M2N-E for 100 Euro
1x CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ AM2 (or faster, or an X2 CPU and faster!) for 130 Euro and more
2x Memory: DDR-2 RAM CORSAIR XMS2 1GB 800MHz for 300 Euro
1x Graphiccard: SAPPHIRE Radeon X1950XTX 512MB for 410 Euro (or a bit smaller!)
1x Power Supply: 500W ENERMAX ELT500-AWT for 100 Euro
1x HD Drive: WD Raptor 1500AD SATA 150GB/ 10000UM/ 16MBCache for 215 Euro
1x 19" to 22" Display: good things over 300 Euro (19")
A good Case and other small things (Cooler, Mouse, Keyboard .....) to > 100 Euro!

Not only the memonry is the point, for VISTA you will need a small fast CAD workstation as an "normal" Home-Office computer! :)

Bill, you now the Billy from Redmond with the VISTA from China and India (cheaper programmers????? ... but ... :), is crazy! :)

W98, W2K aaaaaaannnnnnd ixpeeee is ok but .... VISTA is a holy mmm ........ yoke! :)

By the way: Is the Memory and CPU hungry VISTA mayby written for the Hardware industrie only in MS-JAVA? :):):)

** Under W98 and W2K on an old S7 board with a 300Mhz CPU, 256 MB and a normal fast ATA drive you can work very fine with the best A/D Simulator MULTISIM 7 or the older one Electronic Workbench 5.12, or the fastes 3D construction software like IronCAD 6/7 and other great written software more! **

Nothing against a good CAD workstation, but not for normal Office software!

If i have in my kitchen a power consumption of 0,5KW/h to 1 KW/h then I bake me a bread or cook some meal for a party! ;)

Best regards

Frank-J. Bebber, germany

Subject: "Chinese man jailed for internet subversion"

A gratuitous nitpick from a Hong Kong resident:

The Hong Kong legislation wasn't Article 23, but a legislative bill implementing Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law (which provides that the territory is responsible for enacting its own national security legislation).

It's not surprising the two are confused; the full name of the bill is the National Security (Legislative Provisions) Bill, which doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

Keep up the good work - not enough people post stories on things like censorship these days.

Alvin Cheung

Subject: Everex

Hi,

I took a peek at the fine print in the specs of the NC1500, and it says "+1.5 hours battery life", whatever that means. FYI, my Thinkpad R51 with a Pentium M (Dothan) 1.6 GHz and 15" screen gives 4+ hours battery life with the stock battery, and 6+ hours with the long-life battery. Why would I (or anybody else, for that matter) settle for a significantly slower CPU (C7M 1.5 GHz) as well as 1/3 the battery life? The marketroids at Everex must have rocks in their heads.

-Siva

P.S. If they made a small Libretto-style subnotebook with a 10-12" screen, <2 lb. weight, 6-8 hours battery life, and C7M CPU, I'd consider buying one in a jiffy as a replacement for my aging HP Omnibook 800cs.

Subject: Everex stepNote 1500#

If you look at the walmart.com site (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5192512#Specifications), you will see that this notebook has some serious hardware. The "super-quick processor" has "256MB Cache"..... I didn't know you could get that much on a CPU, let alone on a laptop that costs under $500. I am tempted to go out and get one.

Reuben

Subject: Pirate hunters make mountains out of molehills

They don't lose money by piracy but EARN money.They can moan that they "lose" money every year, and thus they pay far less taxes than they should....It's a nice trick that works.I only wish i could do that too...:p

Plandream

Subject: BitTorrent Admin Jailed

Is it wrong for me to believe that the US government could spend my tax dollars in a better way, say, I don't know, better equipment for our troops? You know it cost them at least $20 million to take down elitetorrents, because, well, we're the government and it's not OUR money, so we don't care if we overpay everyone and everything. I just don't care about a torrent site. Why is the FBI and the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND FRIGGIN SECURITY shutting down torrent sites? Shouldn't we be chasing terrorists? Am I missing something here?

Djkrypplephite

Subject: Fanboy finally gets a letterman spot. TY :D

Yeah, I've been an INQ fan for a year and a half after 'Maximum PC' magazine posted how 'TheInquirer.net' was 5 minutes faster than the world.. mainly a fan cuz of the sometimes witty humor of the journalists, the hilarity of the hatefans writing crap in the letters back, and all the hardware news make a good heads up prior to shopping.

So after a year and a half of writing letter after letter and still unheard.. I finally get one letter noticed. :D YAY!! TY!! :D :D

The Dude