Be fair on Barcelona

Guy you are being to hard on AMD see you have forgotten Barcelona was designed with the customers feedback and it designed for the customers not for AMD to be profitable or successful.

So stop harping about the slow launch speed, limited ramp, lack of performance data, poor supplies to the channel.

AMD is doing what its customers wanted okay?

/sarcasm off

Victor

Subject: American Cricket!?!

American Cricket!?!?

LAFF!!

Axion

Subject: New writers

In the requirements, you forgot to list a minimum age. I'm guessing it's around 40, otherwise how else will you be able to sit around pining for the tech days of yore and extrapolating on obscure company product histories?

Ah haha, just kidding. I love this site.

Alex Addley

Subject: Dabs.com/Shop.BT delivery

Just thought I'd let you know that I found if you're shopping on dabs.com you've gotta pay delivery on all orders - if you use https://www.shop.bt.com/ and the order is over £99 - you get delivery free!

I mention it because they are both the same site with a different window dressing. Saved myself a tenner :)

C W

Subject: Skype

The Skype outage isn't unexplained, they said it was a flaw in some sort of algorithm the client uses for networking. Free is just that. Free. Don't expect much for that price.

Mutiny

Subject: Looking for FREElancers ?

"We're looking for keen freelancers who aren't afraid to ask tough questions from vendors and can knock out well formed and timely copy news at a headlong pace..."

Why would you be looking for someone like this? You wouldn't publish honest reports of defective products from Asus, Gigabyte, Sapphire, DFI, Abit, MICROSUCKS, Intel, etc. in the past so there's no reason to expect the Inquirer to grow a conscience now.

Maybe you meant you were looking for Freeloaders who will take bribes from advertisers or writers who will try to slant the news to the financial benefit of others? You can find those types at Overclocker's, Anandtech, Tom's, etc. They are appropriately known as SHILLS.

Randy

Subject: Tories editing Wikipedia

Here's my modest proposal: Wikipedia should have a page, prominently displayed, that shows exactly who has been editing entries about themselves. That should never be necessary. Most of the interesting knowledge in the world relates either to impersonal Nature (e.g. Theory of Relativity), or to dead people (e.g. Einstein). Those living people who merit entries (e.g. Tim Berners-Lee) can rest assured that there are plenty of students and admirers to do them justice. Anyone who is both alive and vain (or cynical) enough to edit their own entry should be publicly named.

WelshT

Subject: Epic "short changing" Xbox 360 users

I would hardly call it "short changing" them. The only reason Xbox 360 users might not be getting the same amount as content as PS3 and PC users is bascially because the capacity of the disks isn't high enough. Its a technical "limitation" of the console, nothing to do with Epic deliberatly trying to target Xbox 360 users or whatever.

And also, try to get the facts right :) In November, PC and PS3 are being released, its only the Xbox 360 thats coming out next year. In future I wouldn't trust general "entertainment" sites over deticated UT3 sites like Planet Unreal (not that I'm advertising them in particular, its just the one I personally check out.)

http://planetunreal.gamespy.com/

Thats all :)

Simon K

Subject: nicknames ?

Greetings.

I've been following various articles via the Inquirer for many years, but I've not been able to decipher Adamson Rust, Eva Glass and the host of other names.

I get the name Cher Price when writing about compnay Stock transaction etc.,,,

Would you be kind to "pull the veil back", and explain to those of us still in the dark, "who" the other names represent?

Thanks!

Charles

Subject: Chinese Translating Harry Potter

I'd be rather curious concerning the quality of translation, I've seen what passes for translation of English here, and it ain't good.

Most books here in China retail for between 8yuan and 50yuan (USD$1 - USD$6 approx.) And this includes university materials, the only books that tend to be more expensive are English Language Learning books that are written overseas, and of course English literature.

Hence the fact that illegal translations, or even just straight photocopying of texts (I've seen students walk into the photocopying facilities at my previous employer (Chinese University) with a text and just order as many copies as they need, because it's cheaper than buying the text they need, try to do that in an overseas Uni, and well, the library staff are not going to be happy.

I think that J. K. Rowlin's publishers should have found a Chinese printing partner and then made if more affordable for consumers here, at least then she would more likely have made some profit here, rather than virtually nil, once the bootlegs hit the market.

Justin

Subject: Vole, i thought u would like to know.

The PDF said it all Downgrading from vole

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/4/5f4c83d3-833e-4f11-8cbd-699b0c164182/royaltyoemreferencesheet.pdf

Aram Hummerston

Subject: Intel Bully

As much as this guy would like to paint this as a 'little guy' David vs. a 'megacorp' Goliath, he's really called it all upon himself.

Calling yourself intelAUTO, with the lowercase 'i', and talking about your software as 'technology' is hardly creating a huge gulf between his business and what Chipzilla might be up to in the auto area.

I suggest he changes the name to IntelligentAuto, and milks the existing publicity for as many more sales as he can.

Rupert

Subject: MP3 vs. CD

People can hear the difference between MP3's and CD's as this study shows:

http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/audio/public/w2006.pdf

The goal of this study was to rate the quality of different compression algorithms; but in section 10.3 (Subject Reliability) they show that all 30 listeners on their panel could hear the difference between CD and compressed music. If the listeners couldn't hear the difference, they would have been disqualified from the study.

Reproducing sound is much harder than people seem to believe, and there is a lot that isn't known. There is a lot of argument about whether cables make a difference, and I have found that even exact digital copies of CD's can sound different (some burners have a special mode to make audio CD's that sound better). But there shouldn't be any argument about whether CD's sound better than MP3's, there is a study to prove it.

Jim Summers