Samsung buying AMD would mean the utter destruction of Intel

Subject: "Letters Every story you write destroys the English language that little bit more" - Me Disagree

Hello Dear

Im not sure if i write to the right person, but i just want drop some statements.

I just love the inquirer especially for the slang and rumors going around here.

Jesus, which other site tells Microsoft a "VoleHill"? As i translated this word and leo told me "Maulwurfshügel" i was just rolling on the floor laughing my *** off.

I like the way you stream rumors around the world, rumors which are coming to be truth in 95% of the cases ;-).

Jobs'Mob, uber-geeks, "rolling-stories" such as the everywhere girl and so on.

------------------------------------------ "Every story you write destroys the English language that little bit more" @the author of this flaming

What English language? British English? American English? Australian English?

English as defined is just "kauderwelsch", no one knows - and don't want to - how English is written/spelled correctly. That is the reason why everyone speaks English a little bit - if nobody can speak English correct, everyone can speak English correct -.

What about articles? What about differencing verbs? What about having more words which have different meanings?

Only my cents, but which language is that rudimentary as English? (if you ignore the different times)

It interests nobody a rats ass if English is written correctly, it just has to tell the story.

-Another person who can not write English, being proud of it.

A Schaepper

Subject: AMD turns in $600 million loss

I wish AMD the all the best but I just can't help but feel that the Grim Reaper has it's eyes on DAMMIT. I hope that I'm wrong and they nail the next-gen Opteron and Phenom FX. If they dont, well I'm sure all of us that were old enough to remember the days when Intel was uncontested in the beggining of the 90's, don't we?

G

Subject: On the (How the hell can you critisize)

I have to wonder where they come from? The ones who write things like this. I can see they do not get it, and what ever you write seems to scare them!

And as to people not worth their (What?) Well think again. You really need to have your facts right before you make a statement like that. Just because of our IP or our email address does not show who one is,does not make us a nothing because we read the Inquirer.

This site has news , and new we can not get any where else, and it is written very well. Even with the slang and words spelled to forward an idea or meaning.

I for one will keep reading, and my friends will also. And some of them have what it it you seem to think we do not! One has to think that letters like this are put forward by the Company that was written about. But they do not want to come out and say so as to put them selves in deeper.

Sealance

Subject: Vista uncrashable

This is just about the funniest thing I have ever read.

"Anyhow, we held down the said keys for a good twenty seconds. Windows were opening up like crazy. Even after we removed our fingers from the keys, the machine was going apeshit bananas and did so for ages. In fact, expecting a crash and unable to do anything meaningful with the system while it was in bananas mode, we nipped off for a fag."

Oh man, I'm still laughing so hard. I don't know why. It must be because I'm American and I'm not used to nipping off for a fag. That's so much better than saying I'm off for a smoke.

My apologies for being immature, but it is still funny nonetheless. Slickv

Subject: VOLEWARE IS THE SUCKIEST

Let me start by saying I develop software for a living and manage my own development firm & ISP.

So, for the first time in over a year, after my computer started giving me errors that suggested I was having memory issues and they had gone beyond what seemed to be irreparable repair I decided to reinstall Windows XP.

Of course, doing so I went straight for my trusty XPSP2 disk with NVRAID drivers slip-streamed in (what's the point in having RAID0 when your OS doesn't benefit.)

The first thing I do after re-installing, knowing that my copy of XPSP2 is about 1-2 years old and has no updates, I go to AutoPatcher.com a nice service enabling you to avoid Windows Update.

Now, my system has been up-to-date for the last week or so, and as of today, I started experiencing random pop-ups, clearly not from the websites I'm visiting as they are popping up in IE and I proudly use Firefox.

S.

^ and just as I was about to start that paragraph, a pop-up popped up.

So! As I was about to say, my point is my previous installation I had neglected to update for, well, ever, since I installed it, since when I did the install was slipstreamed with the latest updates at that point.

Could it be possible that the future Windows Updates have made me less secure? I definitely haven't changed my security policies.

So, now I get to go hunting for the CRAPWARE on my PC thanks to VOLEWARE, leaving me wishing the random problems I had before I reinstalled never existed (YEAH RIGHT!)

Yes, I'm writing the INQ to bitch about the VOLE. How original.

Original as it may be I still question the security integrity of this XP operating system versus the 2-years-un-updated version prior this reinstall, as I said: my security (and pr0n-browsing) habits have not changed, yet, somehow I have a spyral (ha!) infection.

So what did the latest Windows Security Updates for the last TWO YEARS provide me with?

Well, on top of a waste of time and a decreased sense of security in the VOLEware platform, the lovely update to my skill of removing spyware.

Jason

Subject: 350 sold only in usa & canada?

Even the UK homepages have it listed, here it was sold all over europe. In usa it was rebel XT, in europe D350 if I remember right. Metadata should be identical, canon jus uses diffrent marketingnames in europe and US on some models, even if theyre 100% physically same, for example the ixus series models are powershots in USA.

Tuomas Riekkinen

Subject: Comcast doesn't care for Macs and Firefox

That's because IE is far superior technologically than firefox. Duh! Don't you know anything? Internet explorer 6+ is so much better than firefox, it can only run on windows because only windows can support its awesome new mega features that let you do the same things you could do at least 10 year ago when the internet was primitive. and I bet your precious firefox it sitting on near as much stolen code!! Nor is your mac os. SO HA, IE is so much better than firefox!

Keanebean

Subject: Samsung Eyeing up AMD

While i can't confirm this i do have credible evidence that IF this were to happen this would mean the complete and utter destruction of Intel and it seems very likely to happen considering Samsungs aggressive fight for memory with Intel. I'm probably singing to the choir but i do have a confirmed source who did state this would clearly be the end of Intel and should explain why their selling off some of their memory factories especially with one of the swiss companies.

Do me favor and keep my email addy private.

Pete

Subject: Vista Won't Crash?

I can attest to the article. I'm running the 6000+ and I've managed to duplicate your results without any problem. People who say this can't build PCs apparently. Or they got a shoddy OEM system. /shrug

Thanks for the mid-AM snicker. :)

Ben

Subject: Comcast

Nick,

No Comcast setup is necessary to access the internet. I run OpenBSD with Comcast and it works great with no Comcast software.

Dave Feustel

Subject: Vista proves uncrashable

Tried it on 64 bit Vista Ultimate and held the key a bit longer (about a minute. And quite a surprise...took about 30 secs and all open windows where closed again because of not responding.

Don't know. what people have against Vista. It's the first OS from Vole I somehow really like.

Runs smoothly even with all eye candy acivated (in XP I have deactivate all of it), never saw a bluescreen, only a few "graphics driver had to be restarted".

WEll...smoothly what standard stuff is concerned...some things clutter my display with lines and garbage, mostly games but Nero also all the sudden. Not sure, why it does that, but it might be the drivers from Nvidia, because the "out of the box" drivers from Vista work fine without any probs.

Why is it, that people forget, how things where when XP came out? Bluescreens where quite common until SP 1 and stability only improved after SP2.

Woenk

Subject: Concerning Randomnut

"I don't actually know one person worth their salt that will read an Inquirer article"

Yep, well the funniest thing is that this guy manages to not contradict himself.

That said, it is obvious he should go back to things he can understand, like Fox News or The Bachelor.

Pascal

Subject: Vista Crashes

Fresh install (installed Sunday) of Vista Premium on an IBM/Lenovo T60p with a 2.16ghz Core Duo, 2GB ram, and a FireGL 5200.... Crashed just like the story said it would.. I'm amazed, this isnt an old machine or drastically cutting edge (its been out for 1.5-2 years now?).

Mitch

Subject: toshiba letters

I thought the operative line in the LED lights for homes article was 'Toshiba starts selling' and not that they are sold, why do people think the inq never heard of LED lights that are available in every store these days? Seems obvious that not the LED lights are the news but the company Toshiba getting into that market.

Unless I'm wrong of course.

W.

Subject: Idiots

RE: "Subject: Vista proves uncrashable
Let me see if I get this right - you're impressed that an operating system can open all of 82 windows without falling over ? Even though it took 'ages'. While the machine went 'apeshit bananas'. Not awfully high standards you have there ! Cheers
Tim "

OK, this guy is a goof. There is a simple fix this guy probably over looked. Most performance Vista users set the page file to a fixed size to stop the disk thrashing when the pagefile get "auto-expanded" by the OS. If you leave Vista's pagefile set to "system managed size" I was able to open hundreds of IE7 windows.

The idiot ran out of pageframe memory is all. Dumbasses.

Don't get me wrong, Vista sucks, but not for this reason.

Axiomatic

Subject: Kurzweil's Singularity

Imagines a world full of feeble, senile old farts (like Mike and me), tottering around with our walkers. It's like Sun City, Florida on steriods! Kurzweil could give lessons to Stephen King on horror.

I want no part of such a bleak future. Somebody needs to get busy and invent faster-than-light drive REAL soon.

Rich Wargo

Subject: Vista proves uncrashable

Ok, so... I couldn't resist and yes i would be one of those that press the button with a sign above it that says do not press this button.

But anyways 84 explorer windows opened and not a crash in site.

This was on a vista ultimate x64
opty 165 oc'ed to 2.5Ghz
2 gigs of some kinda high powered Mushkin ram 500mhz
Antec 550 psu
A8V no deluxe about it Asus board
6800 Ultra 256
On board sound Realtek

grand total of 85 processes running 84 windows explorer one Firefox

As Darth Vader would say... Impressive.

Another thing that was impressive is that this little window knew what i was talking about when i spelled the words Darth Vader both wrong and without capitols. lol

Wolveryne

Subject: Galileo and GPS will work together

Nick, Nick, Nick,

"... will defeat the purpose of Galileo..."

//////////// Warning ////////////
// This is a conspiracy theory //
/////////////////////////////////

If I were an EU military planner, when developing a GPS-guided precision bomb, I'd be worried about GPS getting shutdown in case the US government does not approve my use of force, thus rendering my billion Euros worth of bombs useless! And worse, my military reputation tarnished.

Note that tarnished military reputation is a very bad thing. It makes it impossible to coerce by the threat of the use of force alone, i.e. you really have to use the force.

It could even do damages to you even without a tarnished military reputation, if your precision bombs all rely on the US GPS system. For instance, if you threaten to use force against a country, and the US comes out and declare that it will shutdown the GPS system if you do so. Then your opponent knows that you ain't got any precision bomb, you are one "arm" short before the fight even started!

Now, if Galileo along, without the US GPS birds, will enable your bombs to be dropped, then the purpose of the Galileo is still fulfilled, partially at least.

Therefore, you have to ask whether Galileo is originally intended for the above mentioned conspiracy theory and touted for EU civilian uses, i.e. also let the civilian foot the bill, or is it the other way around (or both?).

The critical question to ask is, for civilian uses, why bother throwing billions of Euros into some system while you can use the US-based GPS system for free. The only plausible explanation for this is that the Galileo system has capabilities the US-based GPS system does not have and these capabilities worth that billions of Euros. If not, then the conspiracy theory will look more real.

Of course, there is alway the other question of national pride, which is priceless for some.

So, are you still sure the sentence about defeating the purpose of Galileo?

Cheers,
Jon

Subject: Uncrashable :-)

I tried the windows button + E test before finishing the article. As you said, it is like a big red button that says do not press!

My Q6600, 4GB RAM handled it fine and recovered in under two minutes. I won't be running any of my evil looping access macros which do a range of things to machines :P

Adam

Subject: Vista uncrashable

This is a misleading headline. It should be changed. It is like false advertising.

First mistake was that you use Vista. Second mistake is that you are using MSI. MSI is not considered to be anywhere near quality. Thirdly, you are probably p*ssing off a bunch of gay dudes with the reference to fag, even if it means something different in the context you used it. LoL. Not being serious about that last part.

But really, just because you can't reproduce someone else's results doesn't mean it isn't true. It just means you haven't figured out the other factors that trigger the ultimate Vista collapse.

And the last thing, finally, who cares one flying fart about Vista anyway.

jdblaich

Subject: Not crashing Vista

Hi Paul,

Actually, in spite of the comment on the letters page, I'm quite impressed. I run into the maximum window limit on XP quite regularly (especially since IE tabs seem to count as windows, unlike the Firefox ones), so any improvement is good. I was also expecting Vista to crawl under Aero, with the windows handled as separate D3D surfaces - one reason I've been very nervous about applying Vista to my 9MP display multi-head desktop (fifty windows of 36MB is a lot of RAM), but reports seem to be more favourable than I'd expect. Someone at Microsoft seems to have done some optimisation.

Obviously opening huge numbers of windows isn't something that *should* cause an operating system to have problems, but given the limits of the way it works, I have to admit that it doesn't seem to be as horrible as I'd anticipated - even if it's now left me wondering how they did it. Not that I'm planning an immediate upgrade...

Thanks for the experiment. :-)

Fluppeteer

Subject: Vista Ultimate 64bit dont crash either

Athlon 64X2 4600
MSI K9A Platinum (AMD 580X)
ATI Radeon 1950Pro
4GB Crucial ballistix PC26400 (4X1)
2X Maxtor 320GB 16MB (raid 0)

Andrew

Subject: vista uncrashable

I had to push that button. It was on my old 98se surfing machine though. Seems it quickly ate up my measly 384megs of memory causing an "out of memory, please close some apps" window to pop up, which forced a restart. It was interesting to watch for about 7 seconds 'till it froze.

I never knew that button was there.

Spamsux