You cease to amaze me

Please do more research. Rockstar has now released a trailer for the game, making it quite clear the game is about the main character making a stand against a school overrun with bullies.

Did you really think computer geeks (a common target group for bullies) would make a game promoting it?! LOL

Trevor

Sources :
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/724/724815p1.html
http://www.rockstargames.com/bully

Subject: Good read...

God, you know... I really wish I was old enough to have been around in those golden old days of IT. Everything just seemed much more 'personal', including personal attacks. Good to see you never 'worked in the industry again'. They should have taken up jobs in the equally credible TV soothsayer market.

My nostalgia is limited to thinking back with warm fuzzy thoughts to the time where I hocked off one of my kidneys to obtain a sparkling new 486 DX2 PC, and discovered Doom and UFO: Enemy Unknown. I swear in a year I must have had 30 minutes sleep.

Now you'll have to excuse me whilst I reminisce about my Amiga days and Elite.

Greggles

Subject: 25 years

Happy birthday/anniversary. Happy days eh? (Grunts, farts, undoes a button)

truther

Subject: X2 shortage

AMD has contracts that require the delivery of 267,000 180-185s to the Department of Energy by year end. 90,000 must be delivered by Sept 30. Those are the replacements for single core opterons in Cray XT3's currently operating. Look at the top 100 for DOE XT3's and count the single cores and replace them with dual cores.

Cray has additional commitments for XT3s that need about 1,000 dual cores per cabinet. That is 75 cabinets for Jaguar at Oak Ridge and 50 new cabinets for Red Storm at Sandia. There are another 16,000 for Voltaire's installation at Lawrence Livermore. The Gauss upgrade from 252's to 280's will take another 500+. Those are in the press releases. What DARPA and NSA want is clasified.

Do these people not pay attention to the largest single end user in the world and what it buys. If Congress provides the money, expect Cray and AMD to stay very busy for the next two years. You can also bet that the US Government will get the pick of the crop of CPUs. The IBM Blue Gene is the only real proven alternative performance wise. Lawrence Livermore is planning to upgrade Blue Gene L to one petaflop by early 2008.

ed hinders

Subject: Dell laptops

Looks like the next Mission Impossible film will have the hero bank his success on placing a Dell laptop on the bad guys' back seat.

Pascal.

Subject: Linux just as bloated? Not.

What a crock of sh/t sensationalist piece!

This site is clearly written and maintained by a committed Linux fan who merely wants to keep track of devices that don't work in Linux.

If you had done 5 minutes of journalistic inquiry in the page history, you would have seen that that comment was just added this morning shortly after another attempt to hack/destroy the page. It was obviously a hack on this totally open wiki page.

mark

Subject: Linux OS "just as bloated as Windows"

In other news:

A man has barricaded himself inside his house, however he is not armed and noone is paying any attention to him.

terryk

Subject: 25 years in industry

1994: Mike in The Register

2001: Mike in The Inquirer

2008: Mike retired? if he doesn't not change the course.

Regards
badinhard

Subject: Beers :)

Here's to another 25 years of beers hey ;o)

Best Regards,

leehoran

Subject: Banning the Zune

I was reading your article about the guy who was banned form taking his Zune onto the plane and had to post it back to his offices

I can just picture the scene: Customs Official [American Drawl]: Sir, what is that device you have there?

You: It's a Microsoft Zune

Customs Official: How do you spell that sir

You: Z U N E

Customs Official: What's a Zed?

You: What you twits refer to as a Zee

Customs Official: Sir, please don't take that tone with me, I am an official of the United States government (eyes go glassy and a small bead of drool appears in the corner of his mouth)

You: I apologise, but I'm going to be late for my plane

Customs Official: Sir, I'm afraid that device looks suspiciously dangerous to me, I'm afraid I can't let you on the plane with it

You: Look, it's like a video IPod, but it's by Microsoft, not Apple

Customs Official: Sir, everyone knows that IPods play music not videos

You: Yes, but the new IPods can play video as well… oh never mind, I'll just put in my check-in luggage

Customs Official: Please don't take that tone of voice with me sir, I am an official of the United States government (eyes go glassy and a small bead of drool appears in the corner of his mouth)

You: Look, I'm sorry, but my they're calling my name, my flight is about to depart!

Customs Official: Sir, I can't let that device onto the plane, the danger to the American people and American property is too great! As an official of the United States government (eyes go glassy and a small bead of drool appears in the corner of his mouth) it is my duty to protect the American way of life

You: So, what you're going to confiscate it?

Customs Official: Sir your only option is to either discard the device or to post it to your destination

You: So you're telling me that I can't take this device onto the plane, because you think it's a bomb, and so endangers the life of the people on the plane, but you're happy for me to put it in the post or throw it in the bin; where, if it were a bomb, would just kill other people

Customs Official: (mutters into a microphone)

Three large men in suits show up

Large man in a suit: Please step into this room sir…

Just thought I'd share

-I-

Subject: Pomme de terre

quick question, i was reading a article stating....."Historically, Apple has been the market segment share (MSS) leader in dual-processor workstations. Its share of that market segment is greater than the names that naturally come to mind—Dell, HP, and IBM."

since when has apple been the mss leader? i was wondering if you knew the % breakdown of the above?

thanks
b

Subject: VIA Luke

Dear TheInquirer,

a few clarifications to the newsitem:

1. the Via press-release actually says that Epia EK series is the first MINI-ITX board based on the Luke corefusion; 2. Luke has been available in NANO-ITX format for about a year now (Epia N and NL series).

It is not to say that Via has impressive execution track record, but it is not that bad...

Best regards,
your reader AB

Subject: Mac Bug

Once again you people cease to amaze as to the extent of your ignorance and bias.

Frank N. Berry