Withhold the grog when the slackers don't produce

Subject: Fuel cell cubes

"The cells operate at a relatively low temperature of 600C or less."

And how is this going to make it *less* likely that laptops will burst into flames? That's well above the melting point of lead and not far off that of aluminium (660C)... your laptop better not be made out of plastic either.

SB

Subject: I got whacked by Wikipedia twice

Hi Mike,

Probably the easiest and most effective way for you to have a permanent entry in wackypedia is to become a pronster, not that I am suggesting you to change your job.

It's really a sad reflection of the Internet age when this "online encyclopedia" has detailed entries on every episode and charater of some bizzare TV drama, and yet articles about real people are being deleted for being "not notable" according to the esteemed wacky editors.

In the old days, the fanboys would have had to create their own webpage about their favourite spaceship captains, but these days they can just create a wacky entry and pretend it is of some social importance. I am sure they really feel that they are contributing greatly to the knowledge of civilisation by documenting every single episode of Simpsons.

It's probably a good thing that your wacky page is nominated for deletion. The way it's going, pretty soon there would be nothing left except for pronster bios and synopsis of prime time TV shows.

Regards,
Paul

Subject: Hermione

Please tell me that the line, "Poor Hermione!" is not in the manuscript that is posted online. I was planning on disconnecting myself from the internet during the book release, wait patiently for my online order, and finishing the series before anyone had a chance to ruin it.

I'll probably still read your site, but I hate you so much right now if that was true.

Russ Gonyer

Subject: BenQ chooses new daft name

BenQ very much for Be informative article!

Leondobr

Subject: Safari for windows explained

Your article is complete trash.

All it does is prove how much of a fanboy you are because your shut off from accepting anything else.

Secure boot? DRM Infested? Hardware lock out?

IT IS A PHONE

I have never ever seen anyone replace their OS on their phone from the factory one. Maybe a firmware upgrade but how many people do you see installing windows on their K800's??!

Its the standard in the industry and you know it. The phone plays back more DRM and music formats than any other phone. My z710i cannot play any drm music from anywhere.

Making developers develop on the iphone using safari makes perfect sense. As one of the most highly antcipated devices ever letting any old shmuck like yourself access to the main iphone OS is suicude. Any mac hating ms fanboi like you would be in there like a shot trying to trash the device as fast as possible to generate another story saying how unsecure the device is.

Seriously,

MJ

Subject: IBM $5M debt

Nick,

The systems that were ordered by the school district in 1989 were apparently PS/2 Model 30 units, which were not exactly obsolete then. They were, and are still are, in widespread use as bank/front-office transaction terminals, and would have certainly have been usable by the school district at that time.

If the school district didn't want them, they shouldn't have ordered them in the first place, then whined about the price and got a significant 66% discount from IBM later, then whined again later and got a deferred zero- interest payment plan for the remaining amount of $5M, and then whined again to forgive the remaining balance on the debt owed. BTW, the district has an annual budget of $293M, which is *way* more than many third world nations, including Cuba - which graduates more qualified doctors every year than this sorry apology of district has ever graduated since California attained statehood.

If they want to save $5M, they can begin by firing a bunch of school administrators, starting from the top down.

Siva

Subject: Japanese researchers develop single centimetre fuel cells

Low temperature of 600 degrees!? If my memory serves me well that's something like temperature of flame over the oven... I can almost see through the eyes of imagination, those headlines in 2010 or so: "Sony recalls exploding fuel cells"...

Konrad

Subject: Harry Potter hacked by Jesus Cult

HAHA! What Would Jesus Do?

Axion

Subject: Benq chooses stupid new name

LOL. Had me on the floor, euphemistically.

P Valiunas

Subject: about the japanese fuel cells

quote:
The cells operate at a relatively low temperature of 600C or less. The scientists say this is the highest output power density ever achieved for such a low temperature fuel cell.
/quote

huh ? six hunred degrees celsius is low ?? since when?

Usually, water boils at 100C and 600C is hot-as-lava burning through your skin/flesh/bones. That fuel cell is a mini-volcano!

from http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Outreach/AboutVolcanoes/how_hot_is_a_volcano.html

By way of its color, incandescent rock gives a crude estimate of temperature. For example, orange-to-yellow colors are emitted when rocks (or melt) are hotter than about 900 degrees Celsius (1,650 degrees Fahrenheit). Dark-to-bright cherry red is characteristic as material cools to 630 degrees Celsius (1,165 degrees Fahrenheit). Faint red glow persists down to about 480 degrees Celsius (895 degrees Fahrenheit). For comparison, a pizza oven is operated at temperatures ranging from 260 to 315 degrees Celsius (500 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit). -- USGS/HVO Volcano Watch, November 14, 1997

Galaad

Subject: Microsoft waves farewell to Office 2003

Open Office is the way to go. I support the ODF file format and so does the International Standards Organization.

ODF has the ISO/IEC 26300 approval. Something MS is still trying for with their proprietary crap.

MS and the proprietary DX 10 can kiss my rear too.

Open GL baby, go John Carmack and your new Open GL development tools.

Have a great day,
Glenn

Subject: He missed something

"to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring."

Even if you know the ending, the story can still be a good read. Oh, and to this wannabe hacker : I know the end to the story of your life, young man, you're going to die.

What ? You're still alive ? What's the use, I've just told you how it ends ? Ah, so maybe there's more to it than just knowing the ending ?

There is. How about actually reading a book, from time to time ? It might do you good.

Pascal

Subject: Why?

Why would someone try to get a person fired, because of comments on an OS? From my experience, I've found that most of the fanboi's fibre consist of whining and crying anyway.

I guess it doens't matter what they say to her... even if they ran into her on the street, the worst they'd do is scratch her face and pull her hair.... Possibly beat her with their purses. Er.. em... Saddle bags.

Mataroo

Subject: anti-next gen optical bias?

Wow... I love getting tech information from The Inq, especially with your non-corporate slant, but how on earth can you guys report on this little tidbit and skip the whole Blockbuster agreement, which is clearly going to speed uptake in the U.S. and probably speed up the resolution of the format war?

Scott

Subject: BenQ new name

I read your article on my BenQ monitor, and I simply HavE to comment.

"Qisda" ????? I can see that the Inq will soon have to call them "Al-Qisda".

And maybe the Inq should rebrand itself as the InQ...?

M.

Subject: BenQ changes name

They're gonna have a rough time selling their products here in Romania, where the pronunciation of their new name is almost the same as the argotic word for female genitals...

Oh well...

Barbu

Subject: Manhunt 2

As per usual here in Ireland, rather then making a decision themselves ye olde censor has followed suit and banned Manhunt 2, using exactly the same reasoning as the BBFC, and to think we've supposedly been independent for almost a century lol

Zohar

Subject: USB flash drive worm arrives

"Once it has infected a system, it drops an HTML file containing a message about AIDS and HIV to the user's drive."

Well we know this was not created by a Republican conservative like me. No it was created by a touchy feely bleeding heart liberal who wants to spread his/her message of tolerance and love. Like the stupid Ad Council we have in the USA.

I can't wait for the crazy Islamo Fascists to start blowing these liberals up in their own neighborhoods to see how far their touchy feelyness goes then.

G

Subject: Mike fulminated from Wikipestia

Ok, now this is getting old. Again this only establishes how immature are those smacktards.

So is this how they retaliate INQ, because they don't want someone spreading to the world about how their encyclopedic-looking articles are so freaking unreliable? Deleting Mageek certainly make it looks a bit less lame, yeah.

As I write this, they should be thinking about a new policy, you know, that kind of policy that if you think very hard it would justify the deletion of The Inquirer.

Oh and by the way, my campus just blocked Wikipedia too. I wonder why... Now I have to navigate through Tor network to laugh at another "talk-page" (aka consensus-among-retards-that-think-they-are-real-editors). But wait, Wikiperdia blocks Tor proxies, because they want to log the IPs of vandals. But wait again, valdals usually have roaming IPs... Oh well.

Which article do you want to screw today?

Mycelo

Subject: What the world needs now is Google Linux

This is going to happen, i would guess next year or two something rears its head.

I can smell it. It has the smell of a carnival. This is gonna be a party for you all.

Wolveryne

Subject: Mad as a mataroo...Reboot

Always preferring to kick a man when he's down...:

This was Mataroo's original letter:

"The idea of them even trying to use Safari on other OS's is strange. The first thing that a Mac user does when jumping online, is get another browser. Every Mac I've been on (at an international newspaper) had either IE or Firefox running on it. In fact, about half of the safari browsers would crash or not even start up on a Mac machine... and it's native. Not only that, but when it did run.. it was slower than molasses. I don't know what they're really trying to prove.
Mataroo"

When I questioned these grandiose claims, he retorts:

"I was a sys admin at the ****** until January, where I moved to a different and more predictable company. Every install was required to have IE or Firefox due to incompatabilities with safari. Not only that, but it was found as unreliable because of support calls. Thus, the reason for installing other options for users when the boxes are deployed. As for the 4.7% or whatever number he through out... I really don't give 2 shits. If 4.7% of browsers are safari, I guess that shows the percentage of Mac's in the world. Though the rest of the percentage is firefox or IE, it doesn't mean there aren't any problems with them. I'm not trying to fuel the fire, or post nonsense about the browser itself. Variety is good. I'm just stating what I know, as a fact, from working with hundreds of Macs. If you use this, take out the sysadmin part or the washington post if needed. I don't care if you do use it, I just didn't want anyone to have the idea that I was posting garbage because of some hate for safari."

So the reason that Safari wasn't on the Washington Post (just one company), is due to some sysadmin's decision - not a personal one from every single user. No info as to what the incompatabilities were (and he's a sysadmin?), whether they were due to some internal WP processes (which may have affected the support calls as well)...

Having said that every Mac user dumps Safari as soon as they can, he then says he doesn't give 2 shits about the actual figures for Safari use, just that 'it doesn't mean there aren't problems with them'.

Despite his protests, he is unquestioningly trying to fuel the fire, he is posting nonsense about the browser, and it's hard to avoid the conclusion that he bothers to spout this ignorant waffle because of mindless and personal hate for Safari. It probably laughed at him in school or something.

Rupert

Subject: what the world needs now is less idiots

>>"Both companies make squillions out of doing not much at all"

wow, qualifies as one of the dumbest statements ever made on the internet.

Gormly

Subject: Whacked by Wikipaedia

Mike

I suppose that you could say you were whacked in a wibbly way. BTW, what was the controversy which led to you going out on your own with The Inquirer? If there's a fault in your distributed editorial approach it's that you can't withold the grog ration when the slackers don't produce.

Dale