Of Porsches, stuff and stupid white men

Fix: install openoffice, configure Firefox to open .doc files with that. (At least until someone works out how to use a doc file to hack openoffice)

Might be interesting to find out from MS whether the free word viewer program is afflicted by the same bug, or not.

Nigel

Subject: Geeees

Dear Jock McFrock

The point of a Hardware Roundup is to tell who is reviewing what. And no dictionary English - Your Language needed in the process!! If you'd give this information it would be nice. If you'd make a summary of the review it would be great.

But all you do is give the links (cos I mainly can't understand what you're babbling, and where I did, it wasn't much said).

I'm not even gonna try to check my spelling, cos you sure never heard of English!!

Dirk

PS: pass it to someone to read it to you!

Subject: Chip Sales

Possibly someone could check Mr. Diesen's numbers. The SIA is reporting sales up 8% yoy and 2.3% sequentially.

Frank

Subject: ATI sales down

You guys should find better sources for your news... And the last person you'd want to talk to for accurate graphic news is Fido. He couldn't buy a clue but he sure does like to shill for Nvidia and ATI every chance he gets each and everyday.

Bendy

Subject: Pirates

Good to see at least Gordon Brown understands that Piracy is a crime and that prison sentences should be required for all Pirates.

Oil

Subject: AMD goes green at 65nm

"Mind you, a nice green idea might be to replace customers earlier AMD chips with these nice new ones free of charge. The FX53 under this desk here seems to consume about the same power as the whole of Zimbabwe. The light in the street seem to dim when it's fired up.

It might cost AMD a few bob, but, hey, what's a few million bucks when the future of the planet is at stake?"

Sure, blame AMD for having made power-hungry Athlon FX processors. It's all true. But AMD is just half of the equation. The other half is composed of power-hungry fanboys (and journalists, and everyone else) who buy said processory. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, you looker-for-motes, you.

Regards,
Mr. Snooty

Subject: AMD goes green at 65nm

"Mind you, a nice green idea might be to replace customers earlier AMD chips with these nice new ones free of charge. The FX53 under this desk here seems to consume about the same power as the whole of Zimbabwe. The light in the street seem to dim when it's fired up."

Me thinks a better PR move would be to replace those furnace P4 chips free of cost. Perhaps limiting the distribution to the first 100 P4EE owners, or something of the sort...

Jim

Subject: 4x4

Your 65nm "amd is energy efficient bla bla.." you should also mention why they didn't mention the 4x4, as it more or less requires a nuclear plant to power it.

how about that energy efficient.

Sid

Subject: Assasination squad?

Dude, when you need a cop sometime.. hopefully they'll be otherwise occupied at some donut shop. Law Abider

Subject: The readers are complaining

1) Still can't get that "Thumbs Plus" off my computer.

2) Does anyone have something that just numbers or names photographs?

3)Keep up the good work. You must be doing something right if people wish to correct you.

Subject: No one wants Vista

Of course chips sales are down. No one with a clue would touch Vista. Apparently no one at the chip companies has a clue...

Oli

Subject: The saddest thing

... is that such news is hardly surprising coming from the Land of the Used To Be Free. The entire world knows that, in Smith & Wesson country, tempers are short and trigger fingers are even shorter.

But, as Chris Rock said so eloquently, "it's all white, so it's all right".

Pascal

Subject: AMD goes green at 65nm

Funny you didn't complain when Intel's P4s drew so much electrical power that the utility companies almost melted to the ground but you find all kinds of fault with AMDs energy efficient chips which have been available long before Intel's.

Looks to be Intel fanboys in denial.

SOS, DD.

Subject: geez

Get a clue. He was a suspect in a theft and according to you seen wiht photos of assult weapons. We allow our citizens to own weapons which mean the police most be armed accordingly. You must be one of them anti-goverment anti-police asshats who marches and loves anarchy and roits... Burned any cars lately?

Sollord

Subject: Euro/Pound versus dollar I just don't get the people whining about this, or who apparently think "why not do it anyway just to help us lazy folks out?" even though they realize it is not an American site and most of their readership does not buy or sell in US dollars.

Obviously they are ignoring VAT, and must not pay attention to the stories about how some US vendors really screw over you poor Brits and mainlanders, it isn't straight exchange rate. What is the converted to dollars price for Vista Ultimate over there, something like $700? How much does the Xbox 360 and PS3 cost you again?

Point is, you can't just plug in the exchange rate and expect it to reflect reality. But if you must, here's a hint, type in "euro" in google and it'll tell you the current rate. If you type in "british pound" it'll do the same. Ditto for "australian dollar", "canadian dollar", "yen" and any other major currency you may care about. Is it really too much to ask of readers who really care that they take an extra two seconds to do that?

And if they are too dense to do the calculations for themselves, note that you can also type in something like "3 billion yen" and it'll tell you that's 25.9965338 million US dollars. I can only assume it is discrimination from the "do no evil" Google that this doesn't give prices in pounds when I do it on www.google.co.uk!

Doug

Subject: Why the INQ is so good, bad or ugly "My Porsche is more Porsche than your Porsche."

Porsche is a nice car. Still, get a life.

Maybe you should direct these messages to forum? This "flame wars" take too much space in the news-section.

Let me add another opinion. I do like the INQ and its posts/news and from time to time notice some verbal humour. I like verbal humour, even when I produce it.

But please, do check the spelling before sending posts. I know not all the hacks are native english speakers, but this is my primary english news source. Therefore I appreciate correct spelling. Hope I didn't make too many misspells.

Greets,
Some guy from up north

Subject: Voles and Punters

I have been reading The Inquirer for many months now and I can't seem to figure out what is meant by voles and punters.

As far as I know a vole is a rodent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Vole). As for a punter. I'm not sure which term is implied (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punter).

Could you please clear this up for us here in United States who are not familiar with this slang? Thank you.

Subject: AMD's availability in Greece

Amd Price Promo with new prices from 11/12 (when they are available) to 31/12.At last the AMD cpus will be here for all of us :-).

1/1/7 to 21/1/7 those prices will go up a bit and then climb down as of 22/1/7 price reductions.No 65nm parts available.

Pland

Subject: re ocz

Mike,

Could you pls get the daring duo to utilize the water cooling aspect of those chips pref with a chiller or at least a big rad- hell cool the northbridge with a waterblock as well.....is it too much to ask? maybe in rev 2 eh? maybe put a dominator fan on top to be sure as well---we all like good idea!

I am d/l a gentoo live cd to rescue a raid install gone awry, snowed today, non stop here til xmas.

I am prolly going to jump on conroe bw in jan/feb --hate to say it but over xp1700 with 768 I am running slow with everything on- win 2k vm will def be doing water cooling this time around.

I am messing with php/mysql as usual ubuntucenter to the peeps thou it seemed to give my setup the jack anderson chop- these things happen doncha know.

here ia a quiz you can post....what are the chances for huge sea change movements in the technology sector? when does continuing innovation hit a tipping point and cascade momentous changes throughtout the world, indded this may have happened already to some extent of course...when is the next wave of change and what are the prime movers behind this paradigm shift or continuum. keep it semi realistic and near future please to assuage us. ./ed

lastly what is it about the inquirer and bong hits??! can you substantiate the rumor mongering? denying or obviating will only froth the crowd up more. 12-4? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-SCVLE-N0

ciao Subject: Why the INQ is so good vs. not so good.

Sometimes I get a kick out of other people's comments just because of its utmost sincerity and honesty when sending letters. lol.

People are stupid.. and by stupid I mean they lack the ability to understand the basics of moral ethics, self-awareness of their own behavior, of their own mentality, of how they impact people, of how they impact the environment, any form of self-understanding, properly balanced judgement, conflict, the deeper creed beyond conflict, their function/role/purpose/lives, or anything for that matter.

The Dude

Subject: 30 USB connections equals lunch

Yes, I agree, a daft mod indeed. In addition, it looks like maths is not one of the writer's strong points.

http://ueba.net/hosted_pages/USB-Cooking-20060822

Our USB gourmet writes:

"30 USB connections can produce something around 500W, enough power to cook ;-)"

Actually, USB is specified to provide 0.5A at about 5V. That's around 75W for 30 USB connections. Way short of 500W.

I always love when people make "witty" comments about things they know jackshit about.

I hope the fella actually ate what he cooked.

Richard

Subject: Too much "America's Army" for the police

In responce to your recap (ouch bad pun) story "Man suspected of pinching a PS3 shot dead by cops" I think we need to get someone onto that terrible situation right away. Someone that knows that cops can't go around training with bloody shooting games like "America's Army" which is admitedly used to turn normal human beings into lawful killing machines. I think this calls for Jack Thompson.

But wait, he's a retardican\\\\ republican, he doesn't care if someone is shot in gang-buster style by the boys in blue (or desert fatigues). I guess it's all about the uniform.

jeremy