The INQ has the smartest readers

Mike, er Ed,

"...know that your car will waste energy with a single hard press on the brakes - one power-saving lightbulb could work for 10 years."

Overlooking the awkward sentence structure, the math doesn't make sense.

The ratio of 10 years to, say, 10 seconds (braking time, at most, being generous) is about 31.5 million. A typical power-saving lightbulb is 13 watts. I don't think that any cars brakes can achieve 410 megawatts - not even peak. The discrepancy is several orders of magnitude.

Apologies in advance if I've misunderstood.

Regards,
Jeffy

Subject: Flash pricing will only catch up with HDDs in 2016!?

Well, that might be true if current trends continue, but it rather misses the point. The disk storage capacity necessary for a well-functioning business laptop is growing at a far slower rate than the convergence of flash and HDD pricing. Therefore, the question to ask is at what point will perhaps 80Gb of flash be less than $100 and therefore easy to integrate into a laptop at price point readily acceptable in the marketplace. I suspect that will be long before 2016 and clearly supportive of huge market growth for flash.

Rick Petrucci

Subject: ITU

And their Map of the Weirld, by Piri Reis ;-)

Can you imagine how the world would be if the Internet hadn't hopscotched them?

Dhu

Subject: Everywhere Girl

She's in Chile now, and as a student, considering taking an "accident insurance for universitary students", at 20% off, since she's a subscriptor of a local newspaper...

Sadly no links, only old fashioned paper-newspaper.

Cheers from Chile,
Mauricio

Subject: U write garbage !

Kettle calling pot?

My head hurts more than than it normally does at the weekend after attempting to read that complaint.

Lee

Subject: if it's Garbage it's Good Garbage

Forget the guy having a yabber, he couldn't even spell with correct grammer.

As for insulting Sony and Mc$Chings, keep up the good work! Maybe when they drop their prices in the SLIGHTEST I'll think about paying for one of their products.

Keep up the news and great work.

Aaron

Subject: lol

Dam u..!...lol I should of read that before I Sent it in a huge rage !

Pudgie

Subject: To: Sony fanboy

@Pudgie

"(...) U guys probibly own crap box 360s ... which is a sad product.. anyway.. Start writing better. u guys are terrible latley.. theres no need for insults really..@!"

Yeah THEY need to write better... Now go waste the rest of your childhood playing your crappy PS3 that your daddy worked to pay.

Mycelo

Subject: David's views on sacking boggers

Actually, that's not totally correct to say that it can be done in the US. Actually, free speech does exist between private parties. The company is perfectly free to use expression to your free speech, that being firing you. Unless, of course, you work in a state that has a "Right to Work" clause. In those states, state laws prevent employers from firing you based on actions out side of work. I know this because there is at least one company that got a lot of flak in the press for firing employees who would not stop smoking, even if they were only smoking at home (not work). In many states, those fired had no recourse.

Senecarr

Subject: Apple Stores

"presumably because they were used to zombies wandering into their store and buying what ever Steve Jobs told them was good."

Amen to that. I was in our local mall, and walked past the Apple store. Imagine, Apple bothering with a store in a mall in the Albany NY area! Actually, perfect for them because this area has a higher than normal level of inbreeding, most of whom end up being employed by the state government. Glad I moved here from another part of the country; I can always move out, unlike those poor fools that think this is a good place to live.

If you didn't know what Apple produced, you couldn't tell from their window front display, which only had several cardboard people (employees?) standing there, looking smug and superior. Inside was a SMALL group of people, most of whom were employees, and an even smaller (think single digit) group of victims (errrrr...customers) each of whom had at least two employees at their elbows, presumably there to pass on Jobs' instructions for the week. Luckily, I didn't see anyone I knew in there, otherwise I would have had to perform a rescue and exorcism. Lots of open space and very little actual product.

I shook my head in regret and moved on, sustained by the thought that no animals or children were being hurt by this activity, only mindless "adults".

Rich Wargo

Subject: Yay ! Another notebook with personal data !

Well, who could ever have thought that keeping personal data on a laptop might be a bad idea ? I mean, it's only been over five years, a good dozen companies and several million records of personal data that has already been lost that way. No reason to change existing laptop security procedures, now is there ? And it's so practical to be able to review database code while sipping a margherita next to the pool at home, like they do on those commercials.

So, don't nobody go changing their attitude, eh ? Private customer data on laptops is not a problem, right ? After all, a laptop is just a hunk of junk that's easy to lose or steal. It's not like that increases the risk beyond reasonable doubt, now is it ?

Nah. It's way more important to be able to work by the pool. Until it's your account data that got stolen, that is.

Keep it up, morons, and one of these day some irate customer will teach you the meaning of security at gunpoint.

Pascal

Subject: My opinion on this

Hi

This obviously means that the design wins that AMD has had with Toshiba include a chipset + gpu + cpu -> hence leading to a decrease in the overall procurement cost (as compared with intel).

Cheers
Nemetron

Subject: Re: Grammatical errors

With regard to your article entitled: "The INQ's too harsh on Virgin Media"

The headline of your article has a basic grammatical error. The word "too" is not an object and does to belong to the "INQ". Because of this "It's" cannot be used in this context.

"The INQ is too harsh on Virgin Media" is correct.

tut, tut, tut

Podgeb

Subject: Intel Metro

Hi Nick,

You might clarify that the E-Ink display mentioned in the engadget article on the Intel Metro does not refer to the main display of the laptop, but to an external (i.e. Vista SideShow) display. The main display panel i still an LCD, nothing that E-Ink currently has in color comes even close to the brilliance of the display shown in the photos.

Thomas

Subject: Letters May 25

Hey, did anyone put reader Samuels's letter on HDD vs. SSD and reader Alan Olsen's letter on Windows on “CMOS” together? These two guys, individually, are quite right. Together, however, they are brilliant! All on the same page, back to back, to boot! (Pun intended) Factor this. My Windows folder is 3.7 gig, say 4 for argument sake, big deal. Samuel says about 10 Euros per gig. MS (and others) could crank these things out by the millions, offset by the cost (and time) of burning DVD's, even cheaper. Plus, “CMOS” purchased in volume and the price MS charges for it's OS, I'll bet it would only add 5 to 10 percent to the already exorbitant price of Vista, peanuts! Encrypted, of course, for Vole security, it would be bullet proof. It could rewrite itself to individual requirements; driver's et al. Code keys would be hardwired! Viruses couldn't attack it, Registry and all! And it couldn't br copied! F**ken A Bubba, perfect! Alan Olsen hit the nail squarely on the head. Intel's useless Trusted Platform Module is a reality. I've got one on my MOBO for a year now and I still don't know what the hell it's for. (Asus P5WDG2-WS) So what's the big change on a MOBO especially when MSFT and INTC are ramming an OS chup down everyone's throat? Add to this, INTC and STM just signed a deal, further, INTC LOVES the flash business. (Frankly, I didn't know where that was going, till Samuel and Alan) Then there is INTC's penchant for molecular shrinking. They would reduce this thing to the size of the previously mentioned peanuts, with speeds to match.

Put this stew on simmer for a while, and Viola, you've got the future there Fella's! Flash is big, flash is fast.

God, the INQ has the smartest readers.

SPARKS

Subject: lol...!

Okay u could of fixed that up for me a bit.. Sillys.. That is just insulting my rage of spelling mistakes.. !

Pudgie

Subject: Perfect illustration of what is wrong with patents

This is a perfect illustration of what is wrong with patents. Where is the innovation? How is this pushing forward anything? I could "invent" this in 2 minutes with an iPod, external speakers and some bluetak. Oh, and stick it on top of the washing machine of course.

Now if they could invent a washing machine that's quiet enough to let you hear the damn mp3 player, now that would be an innovation!

Steve

Subject: Firm turns PS3 into print server

A 150W+ print server and I thought europe is more concern about global warming and CO2 emission ?

I used to run a Xbox(not 360) for this kind of job(home server) but even that use a bit too much power(40W or so).

I now use an eight years old Dell notebook for the same task that consume 10W and installing linux on it doesn't require special treatment which is needed for Xbox or PS2 or PS3. Just grab ubuntu(or debian which is better actually).

Linux Gary

Subject: here

Laughing Im still laughing till this point.. Chuckling through out the day.. that I miss spelled all of that...!.. U guys are in my funny books.. now..

.. hmmmm... where to find an editor.....

Pudgie