I'll buy Longhorn!

Subject: China to beat US in broadband connections soon
That's wonderful that China will outpace the US in broadband connections (residential), but what good is a broadband hookup in China if you can't get to anywhere but “www.youmustlovechina.com”
Dave

Subject: Cache coherency
IBM has been working on cache coherency for decades. It has many patents in this area and several of these have been pledged as open source. I would be really surprised if much of the content of Cache Coherency Corp's patents is not actually invalid itself because of the massive amount of patents and prior art held by IBM in this field. I will confidently speculate that the cross licensing agreements that Intel, AMD and VIA have with IBM for access to its chip design and chip production technologies will make it impossible for Cache Coherency Corp to ultimately prevail. Cache coherency has everything to do with multiple core design. There aren't 25 people in the world who can actually get their head around the complexities of cache coherency, the existing patents, the claims and the implications of this issues at the heart of this litigation.
Gene Mosher

Subject: INQUIRER says vote Liberal Democrat
just for that, im never come to this site again. yeah vote liberal where the waste your money on dumb shit.
GO USA

Subject: INQUIRER says vote Liberal Democrat
Why did you endorse the most left-wing loony party in the upcoming elections? No one takes them seriously, and they're known as completely nuts, even here overseas. While none of the parties are what you'd call very serious in their policies, at least the Tories aren't running around trying to inflate the size and power of government, in addition to taxes, at quite the same rapid clip as New Labour. Why are you trying to push into power a new Attlee, with all the disasterous results that will follow?
Britain can either return to sound market economics, or continue it's “sleepwalk towards social democracy.”
mstcrow5429

Subject: Letters: Steve's list of "true" facts
Just in case you or anyone reading this site might be inclined to believe any of the facts that Steve sent you in your last letters page, please first look at these links:
http://www.usaid.gov/press/factsheets/2004/fs040318.html
The USAID press factsheet which inspired the majority of the facts & also disproves the majority of them as well.
http://www.orwelliantimes.com/2004/04/26.html
The best debunking of the "truths" that I could find in 5 minutes searching on the web.
:)
Matt

Subject: I'll buy longhorn!
(Re: Letters)
All these people are just bitching... By the time Longhorn comes out in 2006, the mass market will be 64 bit enabled and the hardcore market will have multiple cores and will in no way slow system performance. I think Longhorn is a step in the right direction, even though it doesnt have a new interface (which I personally prefer not to since it will be easy to use and nothing new to learn really). Either way, the graphics (since Im a gamer) will be a profound part of the OS and even though the interface isn't too different, the code is. I mean, yeah its quite a transition, but this is taking Windows XP and improving well over it for the next generation.
Currently, XP is Microsofts finest and anyone who will argue that doesnt know what they are talking about. I attend ITT and am doing Computer graphics and physics work so I KNOW what I am talking about. Please list this in the letters section so all the critics who dont want to pay for a new version can hear this.

Subject: no Longhorn?
Seriously, you Longhorn naysayers will never upgrade? I am sure the same naysayers were never gonna upgrade from DOS, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 either. These are the same cudgels that complain every time a new video format makes the old one obsolete. They probably still listen to vinyls for that matter. I for one am anxious to see what new goodies Longhorn has to offer....
ether.real USA

Subject: Encryption Chips
"Therefore encryption is getting a big boost, and real-time encryption/decryption of 1024-bit RSA keys is something that hogs humongous amounts of CPU power......All these applications are best served by 64-bit CPUs, therefore it will happen”
While the first part of that is true, encryption takes a far bigger boost from a hardware encryption engine. The latest Via chips at a measly 1ghz or so beat the latest offerings from AMD and Intel by a factor of at least 40-50 times in encryption benchmarks due to its integrated hardware encryption engine. This does not negate the fact that the chip sucks huge piles of brown stuff for most anything else, but if encryption/decryption is your thing, its Via you want. Hopefully AMD and Intel will take this bit of info and borrow the idea and not be so embarrased in these tests.

Subject: Dell Outsourcing cribs, etc, etc.
(Re: Letters)
Hi
I am getting sick of stupid remarks that people (usually those who lost their jobs or narrow minded nationalists) keep making about India and outsourcing work there.
It is the US that wants other countries to open up their markets so that US companies can sell their products there. Products are sourced from the US.
Isn't that outsourcing? Coca Cola must have taken away thousands of jobs of local workers in India who sold alternative drinks. Why is that allright?
Why didn't Bush pass any legislation against it if it was so wrong? Because that legislation would have invited tit for tat laws from India against US companies and THAT would have caused thousands of jobs in the US to be lost.
India allows GM, Chrysler (now Diamler Chrysler) and several other US car giants to provide cars in India. Many of these are imported into India from the US in SKD units or CKD units. India bought 60 locomotives built by GM worth several million dollars. India recently completed a 8 billion dollar deal to buy 50 Boeing aircraft. India may soon be buying US fighter jets.
India buys defence equipment from the US. Intels chips are not made here.
Microsoft software is the result of *US services* that are being bought here. I can list several dozens more. Do you want to hear them?
All these things have probably provided FAR MORE jobs to the US than were ever taken away by Outsourcing. Or do you guys consider it an American right to sell things to others and take away jobs there but not buy from those people. Or do you guys think that taking away jobs from other countries is allright but when someone else takes away some of them from you, thats BAD!
Or should we rather buy Airbuses, Alsthom or Miraages?. And outsourcing is selling. Of services. India turned out better AND CHEAPER than the US there.
Intel probably produces more chips outside of the US than it does inside.
Asia buys chips fabricated in Intel shops in Taiwan. Gee, I always thought the US was the biggest proponent of free trade in the world.
Give up all this nationalistic rhetoric. Technology needs more open minded people than you. Maybe this narrow minded approach is the reason why some of you lost your jobs. I feel sad that it had to happen. But the developed countries always shrug it off saying thats the way free trade works when jobs in developing countries are lost. So why cannot that law be visited upon you guys?
For the 'Charles' who said that his 4 year old speaks better english than most of the people in India, mate, we have an english speaking population here that writes and speaks better english than most of the population in the US. Face it. And I speak and write better english than you will ever be able to manage in your entire lifetime. Do get your kid in a good school and don't let him inherit him your racist, stupid mindset. That will help him better compete against the Indian workforce and not the whining that you seem to excel at. As for the Inquirer and other websites, quit being sarcastic about India and Indians and outsourcing. Try and visit India sometimes and go to our IT companies. You may change your mind after that.
Regards
Alok

Subject: INQUIRER says vote Liberal Democrat

Heyo- Just another Yank here with no voting rights in the UK, but I must take issue with your Cliff Richards bashing. I used to watch the Young Ones repeatedly when I was a kid, and would have been deprived of all that entertainment if it weren't for Cliff....
-c. Harvey

Subject: INQUIRER says vote Liberal Democrat
Hiya.
First off, I do not have any voting rights in the UK, so I am not affected by anyone being voted in our out.
You gave a bunch of reasons to why not to vote for the other parties. You gave only one for voting in, "Oh, and number 11 reason, don't be a dumb twat and vote trough snufflers in." Don't you think that readers like hearing other reasons? (Like oh-say .. we wont send out our horde of super-drinkers to destroy your dog's turf by peeing all over your lawn)
But as meaningless this e-mail is, I think it will probably end up in a good Letter edition, which I then am going to abuse by saying;
HI MOM! I'M ON THE INQ!
Cheers,
A Kaver

Subject: Disagree
I must say I have to thoroughly disagree with your head lines that says to vote liberal democrat. First I don't think you should tell anyone how to vote, but I have to disagree with this choice. This however comes from a conservative Republican American who loves George Bush but also your website. Keep up the good work on the IT side of things, but please skip the politics.

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thank you for your insightful, well thought out, balanced and fair l'inqs.

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