Let Cher Price join Everywhere Girl in the dustbin of history

I find your description of Rambus actions "its continuing quest to litigate, litigate and litigate again. µ" to speak volumes about your brand of "reporting."

The fact that Rambus wins over and over again also speaks volumes about the breadth of illegal collusive behavior of the DRAM manufacturers around the year 2000.

Why not do some investigative reporting of the DRAM manufacturers yourself or just get over it.

jtm

Subject: Sky Broadband

Your report is slightly incorrect:

"Looking at the pricing, it seems clear that the Max package is aimed at LLU enabled homes, whereas the Base, Mid, Connect are initially for non-LLU BT-based product. We'd expect punters to be pushed towards the Max package as and when it becomes available in their area."

I tried to register for this. In fact the Base, Mid and Max tariffs are for LLU and connect is for if you are still stuck with BT. Look again at the pricing (ignore the activation fee - look at the monthly charge) and it's clear.

rghome

Subject: Everywhere Girl: You're deleted

Greetings,

I've read your article about the Wikipedia entry on Everywhere Girl being deleted, and I'd like to say that there is still a chance it can be restored.

Wikipedia has a process known as "Deletion Review" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:DRV), or DRV for short, where deleted articles can be listed to determine if the deletion was justified. Since the deletion discussion was closed without a clear consensus, Everywhere Girl has a very good chance of passing DRV (DRV is about determining if there were errors in the deletion process, not a second deletion discussion).

Everywhere Girl has not yet been listed on DRV, but the possibility is still open--I'd list it myself, but my dealings with Dionyseus have made me decide that dealing with editors of his ilk isn't worth the stress, and so I've decided to minimise my contributions to Wikipedia for the time being (and this is after having an account for over 15 months and over 1700 edits).

For the record, I don't think Bwithh's conduct was terribly bad--my issues are with Dionyseus, who seems to be not only intent on spreading defamatory lies against the Inquirer (his accusations of Everywhere Girl being a hoax, accusing some things of being "manufactured outright lies" when they weren't), but on taking his Quixotic crusade against anything that he feels like, including the posting of utter made-up nonsense such as calling major technology publications such as DailyTech "unreliable" "blogs" and maintaining that a processor that's being sold by major retailers is unreleased.

Thank you for reading my ramblings (assuming you've gotten this far and that you've not deleted it yet), and I hope you keep in mind that there is still a chance of saving the Everywhere Girl article.

Jason G. Pallack

Subject: Even IBM supports Itanium

Hello Mike,

I just read your article: http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33113

Have a look at the bar-chart presented by Intel. The bar for ">8000" is way too high! Based on a visual interpretation, you would say their latest application count is close to 9400.

The chart is misleading to say the least.

Greets,
Lander Erzeel

Subject: Everywhere Girl: You're deleted

Since most Biblical references on Wiki come from a single, dubious source, ie. the Bible, I think they should be deleted.

Paul

Subject: Even IBM supports Itanium says Kicking Pat Gelsinger

Dear Mike,

Why not? They probably figure that giving out some more rope will allow Intel dig itself deeper in the hole at little extra cost to themselves.

I wonder if using a Merom, stuffing it full of cache, and then packing them together on a motherboard like sardines might not be a more economical solution, both power usage-wise and for R&D ROI. Or a Frankensteinian Via. Or even a Woodcrest with the bugs ironed out.

Next year, first quarter, with the event of the Kentfield with supposedly 4 cores (dual Conroe), won't processing power be really with the Core 2 family of processors (particularly when Intel gets around activating Hyperthreading again)? If only factored on cost/scaleability

Thoughtfully yours,

Peter Chan

Subject: Decimation

The Romans did not decimate their own troops. Here is the way it worked:

An ambush/attack would be made on the occupying Roman troops by local insurgents. The army would go into the local indigenous encampment and line up all the men. Then they would stick a sword into the belly of every tenth man. That is, they would decimate the indegenous men of fighting age. The result was generally that insurgent attack/ambushes went away, a second lesson generally not proving necessary.

Heckuva lesson for Iraq there...

C

Subject: Stop, please stop

Dear Cher Price,

I would avoid reading your articles, if I could only resist the morbid curiosity of observing a car wreck. More specifically in this case, it's the curiosity of whether you will surpass your previous achievements of insulting the intellect of the reader.

Not only do you merely restate trite facts (stock prices at a given moment), but all your worth as a reporter/contributor/monkey at the keyboard was lost after your article where you proclaimed that finally, the stock price of AMD is higher than that of Intel. I'll leave it as an exercise to you to figure out why that statement is moronic.

Why do you continue to do this? Are you some distant relative of the main editor, who out of pity gave you a chance to submit this crap?

Please, please stop. I like the Inq, but your articles defile it.

Dima

Subject: Laptop Batteries Suspect In Plane Crash

Mike,

When did you guys become a mainstream media outlet prone to glorifying a piece of information? The headline “Laptop Batteries Suspect In Plane Crash” is something I would expect from the morons at MSNBC or FoxNews (though, this yank has to admit the BBC probably wouldn't use it). The plane didn't crash, it made an emergency landing... There is a big difference, don't you think? Personally I would rather be on the latter.

As always, keep up the great work.

Dave

Subject: Everywhere Girl Deleted

I had wondered why the phrase "Wikepedian Parrot" had arisen. Now, having read the so called "discussion" on the talk page in regards to her deletion - I have become enlightened.

Hopefully she'll be undeleted. Nothing keeps her from being on INQ's own wikipedia entry however so hope is not lost.

Keep up the good work!

George

Subject: Everywhere Girl Deleted

Ohh, come on now. The so called "Everywhere Girl" was hardly "pecked to death", and the entry wasn't deleted from Wikipedia because it was all a hoax created by the Inquirer.

It was deleted because it wasn't worthy of an entry in an encyclopedia - online or print.

These amusing stock photo glitches are not uncommon. Last month's (June 2006) issue of Consumer Reports lists one where a model is touting both surgical and non-surgical treatments for wrinkled skin. Should Wikipedia or any other encyclopedia have an entry about such every time someone brings it to their attention? I think not. The ONLY place I have ever read about the Everywhere Girl was right here on the Inquirer. Admit it - if her ads had been run for competing brands of toothpaste or bath soap, the Inquirer would have never have ran with this story. Just as you did not run the story Consumer Reports ran in last month.

My own suggestion as a (brand new, just registered) Wiki parrot was that Jennifer and her "Everywhere Girl" persona be used as a (small) example in the Stock Photo article in Wikipedia.

Tony Starks

Subject: Everywhere girl

I was one of the Inq fans who tried to argue for non-deletion. However after getting more wrapped up in the whole Wikipedia world I have found that there are differnent groups of people who get please from particular wiki activities.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Deletionist_Wikipedians obviously like deleting wiki entries and killing puppies.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Inclusionist_Wikipedians look to preserve wiki entries because they believe that everything should be kept and they enjoy hugging trees.

There are others, and no doubt sub groups etc.

So I guess there is only one way to deal with this. Ignore the Wikipedia or perhaps try and bring some normality into its world. God knows they need some!

Risc

Subject: Wikidicks

You should also mention Dionyseus' remarkable contribution to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-penis

Well that could partially explains why he spends so much time with both hands on his keyboard screwing up WP entries.

Please, INQ, you have the power to get her back, don't give up, don't let those morons win, use the power!

mycelo

Subject: Everywhere girl

The muppets who don't believe in the everywhere girl should browse the interent.

I have seen her face several places quite independantly of the Inq's links.

Steve