Jump to content
The Inquirer-Home

Sun makes the best OS in the world and you call it Slowaris?

Letters It's funny to read the dribble you guys publish
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 22:43

Subject: 1/2 billion dollars

Sun spends half a billion dollars on Solaris 10 to make it the best OS in the world and you call it Slowaris? The 90s called and they want their jokes back.

Bryan

Subject: Whippets
Hi Mike,

Did you mean the running dog Whippet? I've had two of those and loved them very much, I got both 2nd hand when the owners tired of them and kept them till they passed-on 15 and 20 years later. If you meant the dog version Do you have a web site for adopting one? I collect pictures of Whippets also every chance I get, and I never met one that I didn't love.
Respectfully,

JR.

Subject: honestly..
Hello, To the writer of the "Everywhere girl" snippets. I am now of the opinion that you are persisting in the relentless and very much pointless cyber-stalking of this random person to annoy me. It's been going on so long I can't see any other logical reason for it. I turn to the Inq for the same reason we all do, tech news, and am baffled by the weekly "articles" detailing the new works of what's-her-face that in no way, shape, or form contribute to satiating my need for the latest technological news. Honestly, have you any positive feedback on these wastes of a headline? Perhaps something like "Gee whizz Mr, I love her too, what do you think is her favorite colour?"

I have an idea for you, why don't you head over to cisco.com or some other tech website and start writing about a new random model, in fact, use four or five, you can even make up "Friends" like soap scenarios for them in your spare time, it'll be a great creative outlet for you and if you turn out to be any good, you can sell it to a major TV network. I look forward to the pilot, but in the meantime, please for the love of Zeus stop the damn love affair you have with this person, nobody except you cares.

Cheers, naoki

ps
I love the Inq ;)

Subject: worlds first? hardly

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136133

yeah GG noob!

Bill

Subject: if that's the mother...

...then this is the mf!

http://www.boxxtech.com/Products/APEXX/apexx8_overview.asp

Sid

Subject: what is this wierd E symbol you're using?

I think that you guys have a misspelling here: ?urocrats ponder whether Google is evil it kinda looks like an E.. but it just looks funny.. You know; if our country were to enlighten your country on proper English than maybe we could get this straightened out.

Aaron

Subject: old trick
yeah, this is an old trick that has been in use for years. Just hold the battery up to the light and you can see the smaller battery inside.

Jason Wong

Subject: Confession of a Crysis Pirate
First off crysis looks as over-rated as Bioshock, Hell looks good on high-highest setting?s but not so good on medium and the game play is well mehhh.... it's fun but not great. Just finished GOW pc now that was a fun game best fps I?ve played in a long time and too boot it looks great on medium-high settings! after playing Bioshock and GOW in high setting and not being able to run Crysis on anything more than medium it's not very impressive.

Secondly EA are a bunch of cocks every body knows that they pull out shit games at rip off prices that?s why their sales have fallen off and why they invested into a PC game like crysis which in the finest EA tradition is probably gonna be another floppy penis. They hedged their bets on a PC game in a market that others are making money out of, I?m thankful it will probably full out from under them. Thirdly I don't really know why I bothered too write this I think i'll go play supcom FA now. Anyway most publishers are greedy mofo?s and should just do international releases at an international rate. Pointless rant over, cyah. I?m tired now :(

Dilbert

Subject: Your chip ANALysis
It's funny to read the dribble you guys publish as ANALysis. Thank God no one takes this fanboyism as anything but a sick joke. I'll bet you can't buy a clue.

Randy

Subject: This small, white, light-weight DVD writer hits the mark
Quote: "it screams ?Apple? to us. Our immediate reaction is to back away very, very slowly and pretend we never saw it." Why do you hate Apple so much at the Inquirer. You never post anything positive about them? Just curious. Enjoy,

Glenn

Subject: AMD blamed for birth defects
Quite a strange story... you'd think that people working in a clean room would know what's going on... the procedures and such stuff. I can't imagine it being any less demanding (intelligence wise) to pharmaceutical labs or any other industry that requires strict handling protocols. Really, she should never have been inhaling that much of the substance if she was following proper procedure.... Of course, if US pregnancy leave standards and regulations within companies were better then she wouldn't have been working in such a place as soon as she told them that she was pregnant and should have been moved to a different department.
Kind regards,

James.

Subject: mac memory
I see that you cannot read. 4 GB's of memory is $1,200. 2 gigs is 500.

Chris Wohl

Subject: Iowa Senator rips investigation by GSA of Sun Microsystems contract

Surprised there wasn't a "Grassly knoll" joke in this story somewhere..... perhaps the Inq is losing its touch? Kind regards,

James.

Subject: Mark Klein
Thank God for Mark Klein, you have no IDEA to the extent of spying that is going on! NOT in the interest of national security but for political reasons and only God knows what. Try every major switch office in America! ever hear of SS7 and sniff?

J Hughes

Share this:

Comments
@Aaron: strange symbol

Greeting$ Aaron,

The e$teemed writer$ of the$e page$ $eek no reprimand$ by what $eemingly look$ like their mi$$peling$. $ay, you re$ide in the U$A. In $uch ca$e you've $uppo$edly $een joke$ like Micro$oft, Wall $treet, or heaven$ $ave u$, even U$ $enate. W€ll, €nough clu€? Gu€ss what p€opl€ in €urop€ us€ as th€ir curr€ncy's symbol..€h?

posted by : Nora, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
2.0 GB Apple memory IS $1,200 or £820

To Chris Wohl, who wrote to say:
"I see that you cannot read. 4 GB's of memory is $1,200. 2 gigs is 500."

I reply, "I see you can't read or think, 2.0 GB memory DOES costs $1,200 according to:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nclm=96D4DAC9

Also in the UK apple store, 2.0 GB memory costs £820. See for yourself at:
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/wa/RSLID?nclm=96D4DAC9


posted by : Dave, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
sed

best use of sed i've seen in a long timw

posted by : bobby bum love, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Aaron...

You're such a tool. It's the Euro symbol.

Proper "english" would have probably originated in ENGland, eh?

Anyone with a brain in the US, probably has a palm print on their forehead after reading your comment and saying, "please, somebody shut this kid up."

posted by : mataroo, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
re: mac memory

Obviously Chris doesn't read the INQ articles, and just looks at the pictures. ;-)

from the article:
"The Apple store is selling 2GB PC2-4200 DDR2-533 DIMMs for the Imac G5 "with built-in iSight" for a staggering $1,200."

Apparently, depending on the model of iMac, the memory price varies quite a bit.

Cheers!
John

posted by : John, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
@Bryan: Slowaris best OS?

Sun could have spend 10 times 500 million dollars and still wouldn't have the best OS. The best OS was written some 30 years ago and is still bouncing around inside HP somewhere, even for sale. It's called VMS and for all you VB script kiddies who were born after 1980, as I assume Bryan was, it was (and is) an industrial strength OS, used on very many mission-critical systems. It has NEVER been cracked or hacked, even though the best have tried, and it never will be.

So Sun wasted 1/2 billion on yet another UNIX-based desktop OS? Too bad for them.

posted by : Rich Wargo, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
VMS is prehistoric

VMS later renamed OpenVMS died the day DEC sold the Alpha to Compaq which was subsequently bought by HP. It *was* a great OS, but know what? It's time came and universal support was nowhere to be found for OpenVMS. Don't knock what you don't know. I've worked with VMS, Digital UNIX aka Tru64, HPUX, AIX, Solaris and Linux - and I won't make derogatory comments about any of them nor say which is "best" or "industrial strength". As a professional - I can comment on the weaknesses and applicability. Having system uptime for years - that's an OpenVMS strength. Having a GUI that blows Vista away is a Linux strength. Let's not start wars over which is better. People reading are from all walks of life - let's educate not create unwanted bias.

posted by : Donald, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Chris cant read?

I dont know where you got your information Chris Wohl, but according to the links I have (and some searching on my own), your prices are, well, dorked. 

$1,200.00
Apple Memory Module
2 GB PC2-4200
DDR2-533 DIMM
Estimated Ship: 2-3 weeks
Free Shipping


posted by : Alex, 15 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Advertisement
Subscribe to the INQ Newsletter
Sign-up for the INQBot weekly newsletter
Click here to sign up Existing user
Advertisement
INQ Poll

Christmas computer sales

Will you be buying a new computer this Christmas?