You patchouli sodden INQsuckers, you Argentinians!

I'm confused about one thing: how dumb you are?

what on earth would drive someone as to making a sentence such as:

Then my personal inbox was flooded with letters from people telling me I was full of something less savoury and far more smelly than patchouli.

why is this weird: you think patchouli is cooL? have you tasted it? whatever you've tasted, surely you've tasted the latter unspoken imagined substance, right?

perhaps your a stupid hippy who can't admit they they are wrong or smelly. Either way, the situation is complicated by the following:

He of the changing hair colour told me that the SLI connector is indeed going to be made by the mobo makers to fit the motherboard in question. It should be bundled with all SLI capable motherboards, and is a requirement for SLI certification.

YOUR A FAG WHO THINKS ABOUT HAIR AND CANT' ADMIT YOUR STUPID

GO INTEL

emanual penneypacker [wisnosky@hotmail.com] [We don't normally publish emals, but this one is a classic of 2004, Ed. ]

Samsung and Alpha chips
Yes, Samsung does have an Alpha licence, for ever, and not just to make chips and do their own designs, but also to extend the Alpha Arch.

Pity it is just a bloody waste :(

Oh, and don't forget that other Alpha licencee, who is also reputed to have lots of ex-DEC hands on deck. Or is that "on the A team'"?;)

Name supplied

UK Government

Sir,

Stated correctly, "The UK Government screws their own NHS for $900 million (US) while giving more cash to America's richest man!" Microsoft Corporation has won another UK government contact and the populous is poorer, literally, for it.

The UK's NHS has just agreed to purchase IT product(s) and services which are available at lower cost or for FREE (GNU/Linux) in other EU countries! Show me ANY cost saving's for the UK's NHS or it's people? Running daily with an alternate desktop OS, (Mandrake's latest 10.1 Powerpack distribution)

WRWalling

Charge them by the Megabyte, show
them who are men

Hi,

I'll tell ya what, "charge by the megabyte/gigabyte" is not a new concept.

It began with Telstra Cable, here in Australia. Back in 1998, it was like 500MB per month and 25 cent per megabyte! (I recall racking up one hell of a bill just to download Debian Linux!)

(Interestingly enough, a more generous version was adopted by some US ISPs as it was generating huge profits...But it didn't last long...)

However, today its largely unlimited usage but speed is shaped to 64k (8KB/s) once you go over your monthly planned usage (about 10GB or 20GB depending on which plan you go for). In addition, there's "unmetered sites" that allow you to download distros and other goodies at no cost to you. (and at full speed...I get 10Mbit speeds!)

So what Argentina is just starting to experience, we Aussies have been buried with it for quite a while. Not to worry, hopefully, ISPs wise up when they start loosing customers. They most probably will eventually give you unlimited usage, but shaped speeds. (This "forces" folks to pay extra if they need more usage, otherwise deal with slow speeds).

I guess it depends if the Govt will step in, that's what happened in Australia. The Govt body known as the ACCC put their foot down about how unfair the Internet plans were, and how these practices like "charge by the usage" will hamper the adoption of broadband services for all Australians. (less people are likely to sign up because they have to keep an eye on the bloody usage!).

So, many of us Aussies know how you Argentinian broadband users feel.

Regards
Stmok

Cross Tabulation

Need? Hmm, nope. No actual Need. We could simply tablulate the raw data, and let the users visualize in their own mind what the results are shaping up like. We dont even need web pages, alls thats really needed is a trusty telegraph operator.

Is it easier to do a complex cross-platform visualization applet in Flash than DHTML. Yes, absolutely. Is it easier, more reliable and more compact than java can deliver. Oh yes, also absolutely.

I found the interactive election maps helpfull and usefull, when I used them. I would have liked to have done some 'what ifs' using the maps, so see where the electoral votes could go, but... maybe next election. Youre basically full of shit and bile. (sic)

Damien Morton