One-sided journalism at its worst

I really doubt it'd be good for AMD to do this since nVidia makes most (and the best) chipsets for AMD platforms, also, AMD would lock itself from SLI since i'd be a pretty good bet nVidia will drop chipset support for AMD, therefore it'd be a pretty high risk since it's likely for nVidia to be top-dog in the graphics world at least once more in the future, if AMD can't do SLI and nVidia gfx are king, then AMD is worthless for gamers, therefore, AMD would be foolish to make this move, at least that's what i think, any counter arguments to my opinions would be appreciated

Luis

Subject: Steve Ballmer booms at Wall Street investors

Adamson,

For the rest of us it means: like a long distance truck driver waters his tires. Ballmer needs to keep in mind what little dogs do to big wheels.

Charles Greene

Subject: Muthas

Me thinks an innovative muthaboard maker would design a modular board that takes a daughter card that has processor + memory with a HT connection to the chipset. Swap between S754, S939, AM2, whatever. New socket from AMD? Release new daughter card for MB.

A truly innovative design might even modularize to the level of chipset, expansion slots, etc.

Not exactly conducive to new MB sales - so perhaps very bad from a marketing standpoint, but very consumer friendly. I'm sure any marketing dept would slap that idea way down before it every got the drawing board.

Jim

Subject: Intel event gives hacks paper launch info

As one of the journalists that attended the Intel press event in Munich, I can't tell you much without violating NDA. However, I did have several conversations with Intel staff at the event including one with the person who assembled the test systems for it. I don't believe it's the CPU yields that are holding up the review kits. Apparently certain memory manufacturers are shipping DDR2 dimms that do not run at the timings they claim. I was told a tale of woe of testing dozens of dimms to get enough identical modules that met the spec for the test machines. I doubt Intel would be very happy if they shipped out a couple hundred CPUs to reviewers only to get inconsistent reviews from a bunch of them because they use substandard memory. If the yields at 2.6Ghz were so bad, why are we seeing engineering samples that OEMs have leaked to websites reaching 4.6Ghz with extreme cooling?

Name supplied

Subject: Intel event gives hacks paper launch info

I think the answer to your question about why they are doing "paper" launches rather than a real launch has to do with perception and marketing which lately AMD has managed to use to its advantage very effectively. For example, AMDs Pacifica technology was preannouced well before silicon was delivered. Intel in the past used to always take the high road by not announcing products until 30 days before actual launch. HOWever, with increased competition and having good press coverage being paramount, it makes sense for Intel to have as much positive press coverage as possible as early as possible. Right here in the pages of the Inquirer, there are articles that contradict your own conclusions that Intel are having low yields, production problems. I think your conclusion is based on little evidence other than the fact that Intel didn't supply reviewers with systems. There could be many other reasons for this other than your conclusion. This seems a little like sloppy journalism.

Louis Duran

Subject: Intel Conroe

Your article on Intel and the conroe processor. Stinks of one sided jounalism at its worst.

There are good viable reasons why Intel had such a controled environment. Mostly because of all the renegade reviews and jornalists the internet has spawned. It is quite evident that if you control the environment....you can get accurate readings...in order to eliminate all of the mis-information... its all about the truth and elminating inaccurate testing. You guys are soo pro AMD that it oooozzzzz's out on every thing you right.

This is why I don't doo "The Register" anymore and you guys are just as bad.

Dean 14

Subject: AMD

As am AMD shareholder, I am ashamed that AMD is seeking political means (ie coercion) to achieve what it failed to achieve in the free market due to its own misteps and mistakes.

Name, email supplied

Subject: About Da Vinci Code Game

Hola!

Its mighty funny how the world has caught on to the Da Vinci craze and its "revolting blasphemous claims" or as the Vatican boys are hollering on the roof of St. Peter's Cathedral.

Cos back in 2000 there was an awesome adventure 3D game released by Sierra and designed by the charismatic Jane Jensen called Gabriel Knight 3.

That game was trully mind blowing in its genre but was sadly panned by our so-called avant garde game reviewers from Gamespot among others. But it had the same "racy theme" of the Da Vinci code. Priory Of Sion, Christ and Magdalean's courtship and their kids... Basically it had the same essence, nay it was infact better!!! Im surprised no one treated this game as blasphemous. Strange are the ways of man..

And coming to the current Da Vinci game, I wouldnt be surprised that it sucks. I mean hell! How many games do we know that are smah hits based on external IPRs from movies and books? Awrite LOTR and Harry Potter were exceptions and the oddball Alien Vs Predator....

Mathias

Subject: Vista

YAAAWWNN... Really, whats the difference! They already missed the 2006 back to school and Christmas seasons. The might as well just wait until Jun 2007 to release it now and iron out the bugs. If they cant make that they are in serious trouble for 2007 and might want to put out XP SP3.

For me I won't upgrade. Maybe I will order Vista on a new computer but that will depend on how badly Vista is infected with DRM. My two existing PC's will continue to run XP til I downgrade them to doorstops.

Hugs Bear

Subject: Microsoft earth

Well Micro$0ft might have put some ariel photos online, but going by my area (ls27) the pictures are at least 8years old. We had a very large sky light window fitted to my house in 1998 and it's not on the house on Live Local, but it's on Google Earth..

Lyndon B

Subject: Pub installed webcam on my notebook

That's quite odd... You may have thought of this, but I believe that someone working there was trying to install the software remotely to the wrong computer... Just for shits and giggles I'd go back there and testing out that webcam, but from outside the building just incase; Yet then again...

Regards, L. Krause

Subject: "One of the worst operating system experiences ever encountered"

Hi, just want to add, that Vista beta was unpleasure to install by me too :p It took me (or rather my hw (nforce4+P4660+1GBDDR2 and stuff...) some hours just to get to the end of the progress bar O_O And after that, I've got the blue screen of dead at the start of Vista O_O complaining about my ram that it's damaged :/ So it didn't even worked for me after all those hours. If it looks that bad now, I doubt that Vista will be anything better than XP except the look with aero and DX10. Artur Nowacki

Subject: Pub installed webcam on my notebook

Becoz you have no idea about uPnP and claim that you are a tech writer. MORON MORON MORON

"Koko"

Subject: Pub installed webcam on my notebook

The pub had left an insecure WiFi device set up with UPNP enabled.

Your laptop also has UPNP support turned on (not always a good move), and it polled for devices, and eventually found the webcam.

All you got, really, was a shortcut to a webpage that was the device's admin page.

Could make a cute exploit though - modify a cheap router that uses open source, so that its web page is hostile... Lots of people are likely to click on it.

Did you happen to notice what zone the cam appeared to be in?

David B

Subject: Pub installed webcam on my notebook

Presume your laptop had Windows XP? The likely hood was that UPnP picked up the Dlink webcam appearing on the network and decided to do the helpful thing and install it for you!

God, I hate software which is more intelligent than I am... ;-)

Name supplied

Subject: Honestly

1/ If I ever was in the position to think that the "community" was not fast enough to plug the holes in F/OSS, I'd start to use an OS with proactive security builtin as a desktop, like OpenBSD. But I do not think for a minute I will need that in the next 10 years, even if MS was not the main target anymore.

2/ what you're basically saying is that the world mostly needs Microsoft software to cater for dumb people. I rather like the idea, although I have found time and again that a pretty much locked-up Linux desktop is a lot more foolproof than a Windows one (and that I tend to do things slower in Windows than in Linux too, but I digress).

3/ as the state of Massachussetts (did I get that right ?) has found out, DOC/XLS/etc are not good formats to store or exchange information. I will not go into the details, but an open (as in, unemcumbered, freely implementable) format (files in that format can be created by a proprietary or a free office suite) is much better for that. And, thanks to the braindead "Today most people can send a Word document and know that their mates can open it" reasoning, it is now rather difficult to open or create files from the de facto standard (ms-office) if you're running anything else than Win32/ms-office or Mac/ms-office, or, more specifically, if you do not have the MS core fonts installed on your system for DOC/XLS formatting compatibility.

Diversity is as great in the IT field as it is for the planet, remember ?

francois

Subject: Time pips

name: Mike Magee
email: mike.magee@theinquirer.net
Subject: time pips
feedback: they've been missing two days in a row at 8am. What gives?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Subject: time pips

Sorry Mike

We're working on improving our timing

David Hass

Subject: Wow, so this is what it's come to

"Sneaky Chinese?" Not only are you guys unprofessional in the process of composing your poorly constructed articles, but you also have to be stereotypical and some what racist. You guys should just quit. Jim

Subject: Dell

I too am at wits end with my Dell computer. After hours on the phone with tech support services, they determined that Windows was improperly installed at the factory. They sent me a couple of discs and then walked me through a procedure that erased my operating system!!!!!!! I was not warned about this, and consequently lost all files. I am a teacher so I lost HOURS of time spent prepapring files for lessons. ALSO I lost the photos of my son's graduation and more. When I told them about this they said "Yes we know this must be terrible", but could not give me the name of someone to which I could complain.

My computer is two months old. I would never buy another Dell product. I would like to get this message to as many people as possible.

Thank you for listening.

Nancy