Dear riters, prunctuate korrektly

Please can writers: 'Fuad Abazovic' and 'Désiré Athow' more granmatical and correktly punctured their English copy make - they're's is all skewiff and on my tits getting.

Inquirer.net is world read wide and flagship therfore for her Queenies British. If editor can be drugged out of pub for afternoon work once in blue moonie, such erorRs embarass Enqueero staff far lesser.

Thanking yourselves,

Fudge Asthmatic (Mrs)
Skegness

INQ journos need brainscans

Dear Mike,

Was it Nick Farrell who wrote an article on downloading your personality onto a chip?

In order to save labour costs, why don't you arrange, (when the technology becomes availiable, together with the usual health checkups) to have a brainscan done for each journalist.

You can tell them that your insurance insists upon it, so that if they die before the expiration of their contract, a program will continue to churn out articles, which can be copyrighted legally under their name.

Consider the wide range of journalistic talent that you can (and will) have on tap, and on call, whenever required, without the usual complains and excuses regarding delays in output.

Remember, just because the contract ends, there is no need to wipe the program. You could rename them and/or slightly reprogram them, eg, Charlie 1.0, Paul 2.1, Nick 1.15, etc.

That's, eh, "genius" on tap.

Cost accountingly yours

Peter Chan

Nokia, nokia. Who's there?

While Nokia's PR says one thing, their actions say a whole lot more. If they actually ship their linux-based 770 device they will have licensed any patents that currently exist in their shipping kernel to anyone who re-uses the code that implements those patents. They can not limit their patent licensing to actual kernels, only to the code implementing those patents.

Here's what the GPL preamble says (in non-lawyereeze) about the issue:

We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html#SEC2

Name supplied

FBI as fast as Speedy Gonzales

Isn't it wonderful how the Feds can find illegal sites in 48 hours for Hollywood ?

How sad that it takes months for them to crack kiddie porn rings and scam sites. I wonder if it's a question of money ?

Pascal

Jeeves outed as heterosexualist

Hi Nick,

In addition to others' perception that Jeeves does not represent the homophobic stereotype of a helpful, heterosexual male, I think the other reason is that a butler (of any sexual orientation) no longer represents power, wealth, information, and helpfulness.

Butlers to most of my friends, represent and reinforces the concept of a class-based society. The inequality of wealth and status with poverty and obscurity remains a dilemma.

The concept of "service" in the minds of many now equates to being underpaid and overworked for a person or family that might have little respect for or care about the person so intimately involved in their everyday affairs.

Mike@m

Service with a smile

Before 3000 other Wodehouse fans write in, Jeeves isn't really a butler. He's a part-time butler in one story and his uncle's a butler, but the man himself is really Bertie's 'gentleman's personal gentleman' or valet.

Now, that might sound gay to the rest of Europe, but he does get entangled with two women during the course of the canon, which probably means he's got his metaphorical bat in the right hand (not that there's anything wrong with having it in the left hand, or indeed both hands).

Cheers
Tom Barry