INQUIRER in peril of becoming hillbilly site

In his story More phone number chaos looms for UK, Tony Dennis appears to be one digit out.

It's not the 0871 numbers that are offensive, but 0870, which is not so much a prefix as a parasitic company who takes 2-3p/call and BT who take another 3-5p/call. Nor is it a 'national' number as widely advertised - it is a premium rate number.

Many users of the 0870 company services try to disguise their fraud by writing or verbalising it as 08 700 - this includes the BBC, who, at one time ran a campaign against the company.

Notwithstanding, folk can look up Saynoto0870 to find a freephone or regular alternative to many 0870 numbers. Alternatively, most 'sales' departments, who can internally connect to other departments, may already have an 0800 number in expectation....

David

Microsoft poses impossible Vista conundrum

Hullo

Don't know what memory bandwidth is? Really? Naw, I believe you're just pulling our (the readers') collective leg.

However, shame on you, if you really don't know!

Anyway, bandwidth (at least in computer-related contexts) would be how much data per unit time one can bet from something. Memory bandwidth would be how much data per unit time one can get from memory, therefore.

Assuming it's system memory that's being talked about here, there would be absolutely no need to measure anything to know if your memory sub. sys. can do 1.8GB/s: if you have PC2100 (aka DDR266) or better DDR memory, you're good-to-go.

Frankly, any system one might contemplate running Vista on (weather anyone in their right mind would at all contemplate doing anything patently crazy like that is another matter altogether, of course) must have at least PC2100 DDR memory. So this requirement tells us not anything we didn't already know. I.E. "don't try to run it on any 1GHz PIIIs!". Really?!

Jolly good they told us that! I was planning to run it on some 386s I have...

Sincerely,
RasEm Brsiq

P.S. No, I don't consider RDRAM and SDR SDRAM systems contenders for running Vista. Mainly because most of them will have too little main system memory. And where would you get 2GiBs of RDRAM, I ask?

Someone on the staff hates AMD

Usually I love to read the Inquirer, the humour is outstanding.

Somebody on the staff hates AMD and everyone knows from the huge amount of pissy editorials slamming AMD, and boosting intel chips.

Let's not get crazy and opinions are just that. when I worked in the silicon valley, unix engineers would sometimes get into a serious rawl over which version of unix was better. Almost to the point of hitting each other. Amd vs Intel is the same sh** again.

Low minded writer who has it in for their fav, news is also about looking at things from a distance. Let's beat on AMD or Intel, if they deserve it, but let's now obviously get personal on a public news site that many others read from their AMD and Intel computers, or they may see the site as hill billy and not worth listening to.

We can all sometimes forget that its just technology - not someone's life or death experiences.

Let us evolve out of the soap opera mind set of tit and tat without just cause. Give me some stories and details, we all love to know the missing, lame and stupid.

My 10 cents
Mat Thomas

You guys just pimp AMD

A loverly pimp piece, boys.

We sure got rich last quarter - didn't we?

By the way - thanks for not mentioning that it was our own fault for losing money in 24 out of the last 31 quarters.

Suing and Puking and Richer than Pimple Pimps - Hector