Blu raygun ignites

Am I alone in thinking we are being asked to switch of our TV's to save energy, so the Government can turn more of these pointless CCTV and monitors on

What is the carbon footprint of 4m CCTV's and control rooms to run them

Eddie

Subject: PS3 Sales drop

It does not take a rocket scientist to work this out. But I will explain.

The 165,000 sales, the vast majority was based on pre-orders. The 2nd week sales, it's only natural will drop....

Still I suppose it's not news if it does not have the Inquirer's sensationalist spin on it...

Mark Gillespie

Subject: Bangalored

Hello Mike,

Im Vinod and am from Bangalore.

I have been reading your Bangalore series reviews for the past few weeks . I wonder what is your motivation for doing these reviews. Quite like the SAP on the lorry , wonder what they are used to transport. (I am used to seeing SAP employee buses)

Vinod

Subject: Thank you

I worked at IBM Austin at the time when OS/2 was in it's hayday. There was more internal issues then most people will ever know. What you describe was only the tip of the iceberg. There were IBM'ers that were payed off by MS to make OS/2 fail. It was painful to watch.

Again Thank you.

Joseph

Subject: Vista Me II

Err, didn't MS have two stickers (Could be wrong here)...

One saying capable (which was stated that it would run Vista but possibly not the goodies that come with it) and one with Designed for Vista (or something similar) that would run Aero?

Personally having upgraded my Asus W2Jc after 12 months couldn't be happier, everything runs OK so far (fingers crossed) and it has much better performance than under XP (less memory usage and far quicker to open stuff...)

My only gripe would be the 10GB of space required to install it - really WTF is that about?

Stu

Subject: Most companies aren't Vista ready

Vista sale likely won't take off until more users find out that they can't run more than 3-4 GB in their current XP computers. While XP-64 may get around this limitation as does Server 2003, neither are mainstream products for the mass market.

So I predict that when 2GB and 4GB DRAMs take over and users start dreaming of running an 8 GB system, more users will wonder why their system can't go over the 32-bit 4GB limit and that's when more will start switching.

By the way, I bought my laptop with XP and 2GB DRAM during the November-January cheap Vista upgrade offers. I am still running XP but have the Vista upgrade disk safely stored away for if/when its time comes... just not yet.

I'm surprised more hasn't been said about this: The change from XP will come when there is a need to change from XP. That hasn't happened quite yet.

Mark

Subject: Dell Canada is not your friend.

Just want to let you know, the M2010 power adapter can be purchased at dell.ca for merely $69. trust me, sometime customers are just plain stupid...

Alex

Subject: Javascript flaw

So is this what is causing Myspace to have everyone post comments of "get your free ringtones here" ?

Brian

Subject: Casino Royale Sales Twaddle

You know, it's not ever that I've been incensed enough to pen such a missive as this. (Can you feel the but coming?)

But, I would ask your author who is praising the sales of the Blu-Ray Casino Royale one simple question:

How much do you think the 500,000 FREE Casion Royale Blu-Ray discs given away by Sony to PS3 owners contributed to this joyous confirmation of Blu-Ray "supposed" dominance?

So, how about doing a bit more investigative reseach before spouting such half-baked uninformed twaddle?

Keiron

Subject: While Euro governments are gutless

It's not only France.

Here in the Netherlands we have the Stichting SENA, a govermental company run to collect money from anybody playing music from any source, outside of the home. Every company that has a radio or plays music, either in the office or to the public is pressured to pay a fee.

If an employee brings a radio to work, the company must pay. The goverment already forces us to pay radio and tv licensing fees, even if you don't own any, and they extract 6% on blang media of any sort.

All this is plainly ridiculous, since the money only goes to the majot outlets, and most of the money goes to the organisations themselves. The Stichting SENA has been in the news lately because they're sitting on a mountain of unspent cash of about €50 million, which they should not have, being a non-profit organisation.

I suspect all European countries have such organisations.

Marten

Subject: You have to WARN peopl about the PS3 Scam!

I still don't get it, WHY are we here in Euro Land paying almost twice the price for a castrated PS3?! (Castrated = no hardware PS2 support, slow and incompatible)

Link to Japan Amazon selling the PS3 (for 59,980 Yen or 377 Euro)

Link to German Amazon selling the (castrated) PS3 for 599 Euro

Do all those people buying the PS3 now know about this? Do they just not care? I think they just don't know! You need to tell them!

Don't buy Sony stuff, they rip of Euro customers off with low quality, overpriced crap!

Raven

Subject: "Super-hacker" McKinnon ...

Don't you mean:

"Super-hacker" McKinnon does not fail to not not get extradited

Jan

Subject: Letter about AMD processr's:My response.

First, there are many reasons why AMD will not fail. The writer of that letter talks about people running out to buy the latest and greatest Intel chippery when only a small fraction of buyers actually buy their own cpu's when not part of the initial system. With AMD's newly aquired ATI counterpart it will give them a nice way to work into the much more lucrative mobile and chipset market. AMD's hypertransport and the way the ATI cards use a somewhat similar system with the ring bus on the video cards will open up many avenues for chip design in the future. AMD's main issue as far as keeping up is that unlike Intel they can't afford to run seceral development teams at the same time and chose the best while scraping milions in R&D. AMD need's to get it right the first time and hope that Intel isn't 3 move's ahead. Already it appears that Intel will have an instant reponse to barcelona and probaly has options beyond that as well as future designs in the works. Now what may work in their favor is the new multi socket that allows specialized processors to work on the same platform. Would be nice for scientist's to plop a cell processor on a opteron board eh?

Delaporte

Subject: Casino Royale Bluray

Sony gives away free Casino Royale to people who buys PS3. If you register at PS3home, you get one copy free.

Here in Sweden, the company that I bought the PS3, had already opend the PS3 box to get the Casino Royale voucher. Instead they bundled Casino with the PS3.

If Sony gives away 100K Casino blu, no wonder that is the most "sold" Blu title.

95% of the sale figure of CasinoBlu is freebies...

Shompa

Subject: Windows Vista causing problems for Tiscali

I wonder if this is because Windows Vista phones home too much? I've already had Tiscali cap my bandwidth during peak hours, and I don't do *that* many downloads.

Azcn

Subject: Your Excellent N800 Review

I bought mine last week for the same reason your bought yours - to replace my laptop. Now that I've had it about a week (and am back home) I notice I'm on this little guy even more than on my Desktop and laptop. What a fantastic piece of art!!! Your review was spot on. Good job.

Howard