Every Mac I've been on had either IE or Firefox on it

That was some good stuff you wrote! Especially about the monopoly, that's totally true. AMD must come back and spark the competition again.

Although, I think it's good AMD has suffered now, because it was turning to be a bit too good versus Intel. Nvidia has also given them a run for their money in GPU front. That's exactly why AMD must now strike back and not let Intel and Nvidia set the prices to what they desire.

AZ Shadow

Subject: Your article of May 16th

Good day Mr. Farrell,

I read with interest your article entitled “Bermuda automates speed policing” that was published on www.theinquirer.net on May 16th, 2007. I would like to take this opportunity to clarify some information for you as it relates to Bermuda's implementation of RFID technology through an Electronic Vehicle Registration (EVR) programme.

First, you note in your article that “Bermuda will introduce a RFID system for all cars on the island which means that cops will not have to monitor speeding.” In fact, that is not how RFID technology will be used here in Bermuda. Instead, we are attaching RFID tags to windshield stickers at the time of vehicle registration in order to create a database of registered vehicles. This will allow traffic officers to verify whether registration fees have been paid on a vehicle and, if not, to levy a citation against the vehicle's registered owner. The Electronic Vehicle Registration (EVR) programme in Bermuda has not been created to issue speeding tickets, nor are there any plans to use RFID tags for that purpose. Instead, EVR simply makes it faster and easier to assess whether or not a vehicle is legally registered and compliant with all Bermuda motor vehicle registration requirements.

Second, you note that “the tiny colony will know exactly where the cars of all citizens are parked and where they are going to.” This is also misinformation. EVR is not an effective or efficient means of tracking the real-time whereabouts of island residents. It is simply a system designed to help ensure that all motor vehicles using Bermuda public roads are registered, as they are required to be by law.

I would like to invite you to contact me via liz@spammedoot should you wish to discuss the EVR programme here in Bermuda further. I would be more than pleased to explain our intentions for the programme and how we are using RFID technology. I would also be grateful if you could amend your article so that it accurately portrays how our EVR programme works.

Yours sincerely,

Michelle Walkes
Consultant to Bermuda's Transport Control Department

Subject: AMD

I suspect that you know that you are allowing AMD more slack than they deserve here.

It seems as though their eyes are on the stars, but their feet are in the mud.

From what I see, AMD has designed a chip that they can't produce easily. I believe that the design elements that lead to the so called (because we don't really know, do we?) high processing efficiency they claim, of 40% or so over Intel, per GHz, may be the leading problem in their attempt to raise the bin speeds.

If so, they are in a lot of trouble.

It isn't a matter of them putting their shoulders against the wheel, as you suggest, and pushing. If the wheel has a flat, it isn't going anywhere.

Best regards,
Mel Gross.

Subject: M Man Speakith Holy Cow! The M Man speakith!

Is it nobler in the mind? However, neither borrower nor lender be, for loan often loses both FRIEND and wage. AMD is deeply in debt and Mike has been a good friend to AMD, obviously, they haven 't straight with him either. And like DIGITIMES, this above all, to thine own self be true! Obviously, Mike cannot be false to any man. Fair, concise, objective and this is unfortunately, very sad.

Bravo, Mr. Magee.

SPARKS

Subject: Jobs mobs' in Forbes

That article makes me want to gag... Mainly the bit about Apple winning, and Jobs' comment about giving people in hell a glass of ice water.

Not to say that Microsoft's stock has grown six-fold like Apple's has in the past 4 years, but bashing it for a 3% drop (I looked it up...from November, actually looks like a 6% dip...but the stock has split once.)

I'm no expert on the stock market, nor a fan of Microsoft, but I wouldn't consider that a terrible loss--especially given the better half of a decade AND the ridiculous bad press that Microsoft gets.

These Apple Bible Children (ABCs?) disgust me.

Actually, I really like the name Apple Bible Children. Maybe make it the new official name for Jobs' Mob?

Trevor Counceller

Subject: PCs to hit billion mark next year

so if dell and hp banded together would they form "help"?

Lee Pettigrew

Subject: AMD's roadmap is in a terrible muddle

Nice advice, AMD fanboy. How much AMD stock do you own?

LMAO!!!

LMAO!!!

3456346

Subject: vole?

what the hell does vole mean?

Carlos Spencos

Subject: Safari for windows

Thought you May like to see or possibly add info to your article about more cool features of apple's safari on pc.

A great new feature for XP 64 bit users is the cool feature of not loading any text in any way at all allowing you to use other senses to archive a new kind of web browser experience. <<P> http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1331/mysafariwl3.jpg

Liam

Subject: Computex 007 Bums of the Year

Hi Paul,

OK, so which one of you 'INQ hacks' sneaked into the picture... YES you with the white trainers on (4th picture down, the 'undercover hack' 3rd from the right...).

Nick

Subject: The media need to get over themselves...

The daily AMD ANALysis is getting more boring than the Paris Hilton jail time stories.

AMD doesn't need anyone in the media to tell it how to run it's business. Intel was up the creek for two years and most in the media still touted Intel as if it was the best company on earth only surpassed by the criminals at MICROSUCKS.

It's time that those in the media get a clue and realize that AMD is CUSTOMER Centric not MEDIA CENTRIC like InHELL. AMD cares about their CUSTOMERS unlike InHELL who only cares about a monopoly, price gouging, violation of anti-trust laws, income tax evasion and excessive profits.

AMD will continue to deliver the goods educated consumers desire. Smart consumers will buy AMD products because they are superior in performance and value. People who buy InHELL products deserve to be exploited because they are clueless.

GET OVER IT.

Bandy

Subject: Strange...

The idea of them even trying to use Safari on other OS's is strange. The first thing that a Mac user does when jumping online, is get another browser.

Every Mac I've been on (at an international newspaper) had either IE or Firefox running on it. In fact, about half of the safari browsers would crash or not even start up on a Mac machine... and it's native. Not only that, but when it did run.. it was slower than molasses.

I don't know what they're really trying to prove.

Mataroo

Subject: AMD roadmap

I was browsing Dell laptops last week and noticed they're shipping the AMD TK-53 processor.

So what is a TK-53? I thought I'd scoot off to www.amd.com and find out. No sign of it. Nothing useful from Google. How can they deliver a complex quad processor if they can't even manage an entry on a web page?

Google has some results now; it appears to be a 65nm speed bump of the TL-50. How is anyone supposed to know this?

I'm not impressed with AMD lately. I think they lost the plot when they wasted 6 months bringing in AM2 with no gain to the user.

S Miller

Subject: Safari

Well, it wouldn't be a windows app if it didn't have a security hole, would it?

Stefdnk

Subject: Intel logo in terrible F1 crash

Ron Dennis was talking about one of the earlier minor crashes which brought the safty car out and marginally spoilt Alonso's race, not the huge one where Kubica got hurt.

Oh and that Intel logo saved his life really, if it had been an AMD logo maybe the whole thing would have caught fire and he wouldn't have been so lucky.

Anthony Bradbury

Subject: Well that didn't take long

It seems that the oh-so-secure Apple products are much less secure as soon as anyone takes a good look at them. Obviously, Apple's security reputation stems a lot more from the fact that it has only a tiny sliver of the market than from the fact that it is actually well-written.

Pascal.

Subject: "dorrar"

Making fun of someone's national accent is at best childish and at worst outright racist.

You might have gained some points with the childish crowd but have sacrificed some serious respect from most other "more intelligent" readers of what is meant to be a tech news site.

Congratulations, I hope you are proud of yourself.

ragedemons

Subject: AMD's roadmap is in a terrible muddle

For me it's a tale about 3 guys: The blue guy and the green guy are sitting in a small room with guns pointed at each other arguing who has better cookies. The argue about the baking process, the taste and so on but overall it's all the same.

Now the blue guy wish it had never let the green guy into the room named X86 back in 1982 which it had designed but at the time the Big Blue guy was ruling the market and it told the small blue guy to either let the green guy into the room or get lost.

Big Blue guy wanted to make chips too but since it couldn't get into the X86 room it had to built its own. The main difference is that instead of baking regular cookies for everyone it has decided to make tarts which nobody else makes.

Now, since manufacturers of shiny little boxes known as consoles decided that they don't want cookies inside their little boxes so that they wouldn't look as everything else on the market they went for tarts and since there's only one guy making them the Big Blue chap can laugh all the way to the bank with no competition.

The bottom line is:both Intel and AMD can argue who's got better chips but there's not much difference between them and since they are so closely tied together there's not much space for real design innovation that IBM can afford...

Michael.

Subject: Nvidia is shock winner of INQUIRER gong

Didn't quite follow the article but the pics at the bottom (pun intended) made it worth loading the page! Now that's quality content...

robmozim