Companies today just want to rip you off

Your list is garbage. You forgot Fatboy Slim's Slash Dot Slash:

“Slash Dot Dash Dot
Slash Dot Com
Slash Dot Dash Dot
Slash Dot Com
Slash Dot Dash Dot
Slash Dot Dash Dot
Dot Dot Dot Dot Com”

Fedor

Subject: OpenSparc

This is not a joke. If AMD/Intel/VIA etc. pooled resources, this could be done in a year or two and blow x86 away. M$ would go with it. If they could sell 40 million in a year, the investment would be recouped in a year at $100/CPU. With this performance, they could charge $500/CPU.

Did you notice, I wrote, "M$ would go with it (x86)"? M$ was utterly unable to port their stuff to Vista let alone change architecture in years of effort. They would be out of the running with OpenSparc. Why would M$ partners do that? Everyone hates being a partner of M$ except for being excluded from the market. This would create a new market and M$ would have to start over from scratch. Linux already runs on SPARC as does UNIX and the BSDs.

This product would be instantly accepted by everyone except perhaps those who use a ton of floating point calculations. It would be a whiz on servers and a powerhouse on a workstation. With larger participation, the performance can improve and the cost can go down. At 65 nm, this thing rocks.

Robert Pogson

Subject: Poor Toshiba Support

Hi,

   I would like to get the information out.. I don't know how Toshiba even received a good rating regarding to its support.

First, Toshiba does NOT provide online support to those needed. No live chat, no e-mail available for those that do use it...  

Next, when I had to call toshiba, they kept on switching me to different operators and give generalized comments without even answering my question...  

I have a Toshiba Satellite A50 laptop and I am just looking for the recovery disk for it so I could refresh the computer. While one operator told me because it's out of warranty, I have to pay $50 for the recovery disk.. *No it's not a typo........ and then I was transferred to the department where I had to place an order for the disk.. **The department was CLOSED.....  

But seriously... $50 dollars for a recovery disk??  

My HP PC allows me to burn copies of recovery disk if it every goes missing and has recovery features......  

What has gone into businesses today.... Ripping off their customers.  

Michael

Subject: Time travel and the taliban

Bloody funny article, made my Sunday morning.

Cheers

Steve

Subject: pirated copy of windows xp

Hi Paul.

I am Rachna from Melbourne , Australia.

I bought my laptop from New Delhi, India on 24Feb2007 from a dealer. He promised me to give me genuine windows installed on that. Since i don't ve much knowledge of computers, he duped me by giving me a pirated version of windows.

I Don't know wat to do know.

if u can help me i will really appreciate that.

thanks & regrads.

Rachna

Subject: Dissapointed

I can't tell you how dissapointed I felt when I found that they were burning real voles, and not Microsoft Reps.

Mogbert

Subject: Steve Jobs "nicked my battery design"

Just looked at the linked PDFs, in the one Apple is listed w/ a California address.  In the other, Apple is listed as, "APPLE COMPUTERS, INC., a foreign corporation for profit".

A little confusing, don't you think?  Their website lists their corporate address as:

Apple
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
408.996.1010

which is consistent with the Thomas Harvey lawsuit document. 

Jim

Subject: HP Fiasco

Mr. Magee,  

Up to now I have never had truly bad luck with any one computer company. This last set of weeks has been horrible. I don't know why Im writing this to you but it seems if HP won't help me maybe the inq could. To begin I was using my HP dv9008nr when a hinge just snapped off. After a quick call to hp and 109 bucks for a service plan I shipped her off to be repaired (along with a scratch in the screen). After a few days I got her back and everything but the scratch was repaired. (This would have miffed me but the turn around was so amazing I said its cool). Until I found a windows vista post it note that told me “your computer has been fix, don't fuck up.” After an agitated call to HP my Case Manager Adrian Howser agreed to refund the price of the warranty but keep the service, he also agreed to have the computer re-serviced for the scratch and re-imaged with XP pro. I sent my laptop back off the 31st of July they received it the second. I check my page the 3rd and they say it will be back by the 8th of august. The 7th I get an automated email stating that my laptop will be late. The 8th I called HP after seeing it had not been shipped to inquire why? I get the response call back tomorrow and we will find out. I call back the 9th. They inform me it hasn't been repaired or shipped and the only person who can help me is my case manager, whom can't be located. After talking with Case Manager Leo he informs me Adrian will call me shortly and we will get this all fixed. I sit by the phone thinking Im a fool (which it now seems I am). It is now the 10th. I waited for an early morning call figuring this must come since I got no call the previous night. After waiting till mid morning I choose to cal HP leaving a nice call me message at their Case managers office (1-877-917-4380 extension 94) hours later still no call. I call regular customer service again to find out what's going on and get a case manager. They tell me only my original case manager can fix it. After explaining how daft the man sounded telling me that I got another case manager Rodrigo Ramos who told me my case was pushed to upper level management but I would receive a call by days end. NO call, so being the smart person I am call back Mr. Ramos. I am instead greeted by Oscar Martinez who tells me Mr. Ramos has been gone for almost an hour and what he told me about his schedule was wrong. After asking for Mr. Ramos boss I get the “we can't im sorry”, then I asked for Mr. Ramierez boss and get an inflamed sorry no ones working right now tough luck. I again call tech support customer care and spend another hour listening to 2 Indian customer agents try and fail to find a case manager. I am finally left with calling corporate offices “Executive Customer Relations” where a woman listens to this entire tale pulls up my case, and tells me all they can do is email my case worker but he likely won't contact me till Monday. I am now left with no laptop (which I use for school and work) and a feeling of being screwed hard by Hp. I don't know who I can talk to that could make a bloody decision or actually call me back. Anyways any advice would be great or a contact, hell even posting this up right now, I really wouldn't care. I wasted 3 days trying to get this fixed talked to more people than I can count on hands and toes and nothing.  

Thanks for letting me vent,

Tim Stankus

Subject: What about Neil Young's Piece of Crap

“Saw it on the tube
Bought it on the phone
Now you're home alone
It's a piece of crap

I tried to plug in it
I tried to turn it on
When I got it home
It was a piece of crap”

Martin

Subject: Microsoft's hot X-Box cock-up exposed

Nick,

  I realize that some of us older geeks fall into the "geezer" category, but I assure you that we aren't in the teeth throwing stage yet. Fits, yes. Teeth, no. Polygrip works wonders. (Unless, of course, we complete an electrical circuit with our body while working on a piece of kit.)

Charles Greene

Subject: Vole infestation

....to prevent the pests from devastating beet and potato crops together with open source software products.

You guys make me LOL every day!

Wally Denton

Subject: The INQUIRER Top 12 Tech Songs

Daft Punk's Technologic is the greatest tech song ever. See this Youtube

The lyric:

“Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, melt - upgrade it,
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, curl it, find it,
View it, coat it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pose it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, twitch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, stop - format it.”

Sebastien

Subject: How could you forget Thomas Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science

“It's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres're in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And hit me with technology.”

“Hit me with technology” A nice, solid CRT monitor, hopefully.

The charge-sheet against Dolby is extensive. He was a very annoying looking bloke and even in the small periods not writing awful songs he helped others perform them, notably MOR abomination Foreigner's Waiting For A Girl Like You and Urgent. When you discover that he also contributed to the Thompson Twins and ended up in the ringtones business, it really is time to put the black cap on and pronounce sentence.

Gratifyingly, a picture on Wikipedia shows Dolby has seemingly transformed into Buster Bloodvessel. Your sins will always find you out.

Carlos Slim