MS can't design software

> here in Romania, where the pronunciation of their new name is almost the same as the argotic word for female genitals...>

I have a theory that every made-up company name is a naughty word in some obscure dialect.

Same goes for Japanese car model names

Camry,
Peter

Subject: The MS climbdown that wasn't ...

And what's worse, MS's "solution" is quite capable of turning your pc into molasses, apparently :-( Whether it'll only do that when Google Search is installed remains to be seen :-)

It's been pointed out that having a low-priority process running in the background can effectively kill any higher priority tasks ... everytime the cpu is idle for a moment, the low-priority task tries to run. If it's swapped out (as it probably will be - MS is crap at managing memory) the system will not respond until it's swapped in. At which point another task will be waiting, so it gets swapped out again.

Lather, rinse and repeat. Windows crawls because it is spending most of its effort swapping this nuisance in and out. Your laptop battery lasts minutes instead of hours because your disk is going nineteen to the dozen.

And the user has to pay over the odds again because MS can't design software but knows how to stuff up a competitor when it sees one.

Cheers,
Wol

Subject: Intel stock price manipulation

Jesus, you'd think somebody in the media could BUY A CLUE when it comes to AMD - but clearly NOT!

Repeat after me: AMD is NOT going out of business, AMD is NOT going out of business, AMD is NOT going out of business.

Now that we have that FACT firmly established, repeat after me:

AMD is NOT going Fabless, AMD is NOT going Fabless --- one-more-time AMD is NOT going Fabless!

The B.S. Wall Street ANALyst who made this fraudulent statement to spike Intel stock - should be prosecuted by the SEC and DOJ for defamation and stock manipulation.

PLEASE, if no one at the Inquirer can BUY A CLUE about AMD - then STOP printing TRIPE until you do get a CLUE !!!

It makes everyone at the Inquire look like a G.D. FOOL !

Bandy

Subject: AMD's Ruiz has "felt the pain of Chipzilla running amok"

Poor little Heci... Well, when you do not have a competitive prodcut, you use marketing, just ask Intel. Unfortuanately, marketing does not help when Tyan and Sun switch to Core 2 Duo.

I have two pieces of advice for Heci:
1. Stop BSing and get back to work
2. Do not trash Intel, you may have to work for them one day!

Abunajmaddin

Subject: Mandriva won't pay for Microsoft "protection"

Dear Inquirer,

I usually don't agree with anything that comes out of France but this time I say, "here here." Good for them, well said. ODF is a great standard and I fully support that move. Can't wait until they finish the Aqua interface for Open Office. I have Neo Office on my Mac now for ODF support and such but it is big and slow for word processing only so I use Appleworks to work on my second book. When I finish it I will be converting it to the ODF standard to submit to my publisher for printing.

Have a great day,
Glenn

Subject: Benq to Qisda

Hmmm... Qisda... rhymes with Windows VisDAAAA.

Reminds me of quesadilla... Mmmm. Mexican food.

http://www.dine.to/margaritas

Peter

Subject: BenQ Rename

When will people realise that any organisation with a q in its name sucks.

Mark Ahern

Subject: Pleeease buy Vista, begs Microsoft

hy,

lets remember ms bashing the days vista was just released. most said these days was true, and stil kicks ms one way or another...

I wondered, why o why ms:

1) did not made64 bit vista at least marginally cheaper than 32 bit one?
2) built in so many restrictions into 64bit version, and left 32 bit more attractive?
3) and once more, why or why hardware witch runs flawlessly win xp 32&64 and vista 32 must not be vista 64 bit incompatible?

The third one is the most painful for me. I bought fujitsu-siemens amilo a1667 notebook as a 2005 Christmas present for my self. amd turion mt-32 (1.8GHz), 2GB of ram and ati x700 graphics was chosen to run win xp 64 and some day upgraded to run vista 64. but there comes via vt1618 sound chip. somehow it manages to have native stereo driver in vista32 and dead silence in vista64 (aka no native driver), and to make it even worse, due to this chip does not meet vista's requirements, via refuses to develop a driver (why bother 32 has cripled one already built in, and who cares about 64)...

guess what - I wont upgrade on this notebook to "anything" 32bit os. so ms put yours 32 bit "višta" (chicken in lithuanian) with sp1 or with out in to yours...

the funniest part is: majority of advanced users can tell you similar disappointment story about vista :D

ArturasK.

Subject: not news!

"A WORM WHICH which copies itself onto removable drives, such as USB flash drives has been unearthed"

This isn't news. This was completely commonplace before I arrived in Taiwan - I noticed it on day 1 since I use a mac and autorun.inf and 'recycled' folder (where these viruses hide their payload) is pretty obvious when added.

These USB virii / worms have been around since mid 2006 at least. I suspect, far, far earlier as well.

Also, you didn't mention the fact they often use a payload which modifies the USB driver to be one that will hide the virus-related files; and the new driver will infect other USB sticks even if you remove all spurious processes you can find.

Q Bell

Subject: Sony to bump up software titles for Playstation 3

It's legendary how much the Inquirer hate Sony and this the PS3, so I am not sure if your comment about only 60 titles being currently available, is deliberate or a typo

However, Reuters are telling us that there are 150 titles...

http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUST28081120070621

"There are about 150 games currently available for the PS3"

Hmm, Reuters or the Inquirer, which one do I believe???

Mark gillespie