Business ethics don't help the bottom line

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/5118370.stm much bigger

put that in your vegas pipe and smoke it! ;)

roridge

Subject: DOJ AMD,ATI, NVIDIA

Question. If the big three are found quilty of price fixing and conspiracy, would the consumers who purchased the high end cards be eligble for rebate/reparations? Could the group (us) as whole, file a class action civil suit against them and be compensated if they are found quilty? Perhaps I could get some of the $400 back each from my 9700 PRO and 800XT AIW, and some of the $600 from my X1900XTX? Hmmm...?

Sparks

Subject: Merrits?

I think Mr. Negroponte needs to get a copy OpenOffice and Word compare spellcheck accuracy before he submits letters. That would be a great way to test the 'merrits' of the software.

Who knows, Microsoft might even give him 'sponsoship' copy!

T

Subject: Microsoft Vista to churn "$70 billion" for IT industry

I just want to say thanks.

I just finished scraping the walls and shoveling up the bullcrap that spewed forth from my monitor after the "1 million Zunes by June 2007" stories. I need a bigger shovel!

emartucci

Subject: Vista costs 20% more

sure it might costs 20% more but think about it terms of what its competing with. what other os has such pretty graphics and how much the hardware costs (think white or black laptops and silver towers)? is it really that much more expensive than MAC once an average shopper is in best buy shopping for a vista capable or even premium ready PC.

akn

Subject: as usual just talk from intel

I was wondering then if this Randy guy could name those processes which were failures. Not architectures, but processes. I haven't seen a failure of 90nm or 65nm, or does he mean 130 and 180?

I believe it was AMD that has been having massive trouble getting 65nm out the door . . .

Eliott

Subject: currency I've been reading stuff off this website for a while now and I can't help but be a little annoyed that there's never a standard currency. Sometimes prices are in dollars, sometimes they're in pounds, or euros/dollars, or yen, or barrels of oil or whatnot. But this line got me thinking: '$80 a pop or your local currency equivalent'. Why doesn't someone make a firefox plugin that goes through text on a page, picks out numbers with a currency symbol next to them, and convert those to the currency of user's choice. It would update conversions daily, or every time you open it. I think it could work really well. Of course, then the inq would have to choose one word for the british pound and stick to it.

Nils

Subject: AMD

"He didn't mention that AMD could reduce its environmental impact by ceasing to produce chips altogether and started growing beans instead. But he should have done. "

Perhaps you could harvest those beans instead of being a public moron.

Griceyboy

Subject: Re: wifi paranoid

"Cell phones don't raise cancer risk: study"

Hmmm - let me think about this. Smoking was thought to be pretty safe early on, there was no evidence of long-term adverse affects. Cell phones have been on the market for how long now? How much long-term data has been collected for analysis?

Me thinks if I'm going to be wrong about an argument, I'll be wrong to the conservative side of it. If I were to believe cell phones were 100% safe, and I were wrong, the consequences wouldn't be so good. However, if I assumed cell phones weren't so safe, and tried to limit my use, and later found out they were perfectly safe, I don't think much harm was done, unless I have the type of ego where I need to have a cell phone glued to my ear to try to look important...

Jim

Subject: Re: HP pays huge fine for being unethical

Business lesson #1 - NEVER let morals, ethics, or decency get in the way of making money. Had the HP stock declined significantly rather than go up since the scandal broke, do you think Mr. Hurd would still be on the payroll? The scandal would have been a great excuse to give him the boot, no wouldn't it?

I wonder what % of profit $14.5M is to HP? Me thinks it is likely chump change, an that the HP board of directors is laughing quite hard aobut their "luck", all the way to the bank.

Jim

Subject: WiMAX inapplicable to developing economies - report

Answering mino, His hole argument of 1) WiMAX is more adequate/cheaper than data on phones; and 2) WiMAX is cheaper than estabilished ADSL/cable monopolies; are both correct, I totally agree.

But he underestimates the problem of buying a PC. Here in Brazil lot's of people earn the minimum salary of about 350 (when formally employed, that is...), broadband internet costs about 100 and a new entry-level PC (Celerons/Semprons/CRT) around 2000. See the disparity? Salary left-overs are about 50, would take decades to buy an used PC.

Broadband Internet is for rich people. Even having a home PC is for middle-class up. Poor people have pre-paid cell-phones, and that's it.

Now tell me: what's the use of WiMAX for the poor masses? I can see only Intel backing up 1 or 2 pilots in indian villages god-knows-where. (sigh)

All banks are investing heavily in mobile banking. Penetration is a lot better. That's the way to go.

matias

Subject: Vista costs 20% more

I don't understand what everyone is talking about. I have a Shuttle XPC running an Athlon XP 1800+/KM400 chipset. It's using an ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 as the GPU and 1GB of PC2100. The reason I built the system was for the ATI Theater 650 TV card. I wanted something cheap and since I was using XP MCE I didn't need anything too powerful since the TV Wonder 650 has supurb onboard encoding/decoding.

This system was great a few years ago but is seriously outclassed today. Even so, everything in Vista runs on this system pretty darn quick considering I'm still using the RC with all the debugging stuff in it. Aero Glass has zero problems running on my $50 AGP.

Including the 200GB IDE HDD, MCE and NEC DL DVDRW I laid out a grand total of $250 for my little Shuttle which isn't exactly expensive for a quiet media PC.

While I'm not even close to a MS fanboy (openSuSE and OS X are more my preference) I do have to say that the Vista needs Ferrari horsepower claims are highly overstated as my 70bhp deisel VW system runs it just fine.

Corey Stamm

Subject Negrponty speelin eror

'Linux will win on its own merrits'

L'Inq - always a pleasure to read

Alex