Charlie is infected

John Reid must live in a funny old world indeed.

The only reason we've seen the amusing TV footage of people turning back round and picking up their carelessly dropped litter is the shock value.

After a couple of weeks that's gone, and all that's left is a nagging box on a pole.

ASBOs are already seen as a status symbol, so how long before the yoof start thinking it funny to taunt the talking box by flipping it the bird and mooning it.

I give it about 45 minutes.

Steve

Subject: your stupid

You spelled realized wrong so maybe you should fix it.

Thanks

Lani

Subject: Merrell Lynch

Merrell Lynch says AMD quad is "beside the point." Is that a statement that should inspire confidence in Osha's other observations?

Toby

Subject: blu-ray ignites

sorry i know u dient wright this but poeple are saying that the 100 000 cc sold include the free ones with the ps3 say half or the 500 000 free copies actually get them wouldn't that add up to about to about 250 000? but do u think sony did sell 100 000 or maybe there cheating a little? lmao

Julian

Subject: OS/2 - Still!

My day job involves having access to the server logs of a credit card company, and lo and behold, after looking at your article, there it was - 234 page vies from someone (you?) using OS/2. Admittedly, out of 10,000,000 page views a day, that's not a whole bunch...but it's more than none!

Marty

Subject: Charlie is Infected

Come on Charlie!

You know perfectly well that any hacking pirate scum such as yourself will have no problem running any HD content on a Vista machine regardless of DRM. There's not one bluray or HD title currently on the shelves that can't be cracked and de-encrypted to bypass Vista's DRM to be consumed by the type of people with whom you appear to associate.

You are also well aware that Vista can play ANY content that Windows XP could play natively without any DRM concerns at all.

And you know that the rest of us law abiding people who do not use cheats, lies, and excuses (I believe you call this 'fair use') to pirate our HD content will also have no problem running HD content if we follow the specs of Vista and have HDCP compliant hardware. Something everyone has known about for at least 2 years now.

And you must have realized how unlikely it is that any HD / bluray drive will get it's code revoked so that it won't play new titles, Sony will never allow it's PS3 to die this way, and anyone else's hardware that falls this way will just be in the class-action suit it creates.

.. The only thing infected here is your article, you appear to need a massive anti-FUD vaccination.

Either that or you just need to use the same word over and over to make your articles longer as if you were writing for your high-school english teacher. Hmmm, maybe you are?

Ken Lord

Subject: amd

hi I dont see how the shift to 65nm is going to make any difference at the moment, a die shrink is doing sweet f$ck all and intel still has the performance crown,amd need to get a hole new chip out the athlon K8 is old news, intel have moved on from this

Stewart

Subject: MTV

I kinda liked MTV, back in the day, I picked up alot of bands there -before 1994, when "IT" CHANGED. You know, Ray Cokes, Chillout zone, even Party zone was watchable. But then came that whole OOh, we must please our SHAREHOLDERS. Double our profits every year. We must have reality television. I stopped watching, but I see them trying to reach back now, to music. And I once was at this film trade show kinda thing were I heard Abby Therkule speak about the coming thing(It was Aeon Flux and all that back then), it was cool. MTV haven't been cool for a long time, and definetly not kewl. But I think they want it back and I rejoice at the thought. Cool programming? Where did I last see that? Oh, right, it was on MTV fifteen years ago. So go ahead MTV, make me an MMO that'll make me feel... cool. B-)

just my 74 cents.

B

Subject: PS3 sales drop...

"It does not take a rocket scientist to work this out. But I will explain. The 165,000 sales, the vast majority was based on pre-orders. The 2nd week sales, it's only natural will drop.... Still I suppose it's not news if it does not have the Inquirer's sensationalist spin on it... Mark Gillespie"

In response to Mark's acidic flaming i feel that it is my duty to point out the obvious to this PS3 fanboy.

1) Sony allocated 220,000 consoles to UK.
2) They did not sell out. The ones that did (165,000 of them) were pre-orders and week 1 sales - this he states in all its gorious obviousness.
3) The sales are down by 80% to around 30,000 because there is relatively little demand. Note that there are still at least 55,000 consoles available.

Lets put this in perspective for Mark. If the Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii had been able to ship 220,000 consoles in their first week, we'd se something similar but also fundamentally different. The 360 may have had a similar performance but the Wii would have sold out and there would be NO consoles to be sold in the second week.

I point you to this article over on hereabout the sales figures in the US for the first four months of the current and last gen consoles.

I think it's pretty obvious from the numbers that even with supply constraints, the more expensive consoles (PS3 and 360) do not sell as well - their price point is too high.

In summary, of course this is news - it shows a lack of demand for the PS3 and the fact that SONY overestimated demand. Let's face it, if they'd expected less demand they could have shipped a couple of months early and released in time for Christmas since they're not even using the same production lines to make the consoles as they are for the US and Japan...

I'd love to see a similar chart for the UK. Any chance of the Inq throwing one together from Chart Track?

Kind regards,
James

Subject: Sad Dell in CA article

Hey Andrew,

I'm sorry but this article shouldn't have been published. The user is so far off base that it is ridiculous. Buying items off of Ebay is never recommended by any manufacturer as they can't track grey-market items. I've sold several systems there and have always transferred the warranty. The fact that Glenn didn't means that he wasn't aware of Dell's longstanding procedures. That is not Dell's fault - it's Glenn's.

Calling Dell without a service-tag is close to asinine and blaming that on Dell is just as ludicrous. Glenn could have done what any other rational person would have done which would have been to write the ST down on a sheet of paper and take it with him.

Glenn is just pissed that he didn't do his homework before or after the purchase and is looking to blame Dell which is too sad. Get a clue Glenn and follow the rules because doing so would have made all of the difference in the world.

I'm glad has a warranty transfer process that protects them against thieves as it ultimately means a cheaper a laptop for me. In Glenn's world Dell should ship parts to anyone having a sheet of paper with a ST on it.

The only valid complaint is that parts are available in the US that aren't in CA - is that news to anyone? Maybe I should start complaining about the VW cars that can only be purchased in the EU?

Frank Win

Subject: Casino Royal

Under Blu ray Ignites there are some misinformed retards who dont understand how sales figures work.

in response to this post,

"You know, it's not ever that I've been incensed enough to pen such a missive as this. (Can you feel the but coming?)

But, I would ask your author who is praising the sales of the Blu-Ray Casino Royale one simple question:

How much do you think the 500,000 FREE Casion Royale Blu-Ray discs given away by Sony to PS3 owners contributed to this joyous confirmation of Blu-Ray "supposed" dominance?

So, how about doing a bit more investigative reseach before spouting such half-baked uninformed twaddle?"

Keiron