You are all very gifted and remarkable people

Subject: 700 MHz. Gifts
Well said fellow BPO,ers your end. Your questions are good ones John.

Making hay off of F of X , equipment of use to spec. apco25 . 2 The data side can be supported by Cisco. the radio side by kenwood, icom. and others is different than say Erickson, Mot. but who is going to point out that drastic difference for use in interference metros ? contract policing, contract dispatching, contract (internet) criminals... Lets tell anderson cooper to keep them honest. thanks for the news that perks my ears, keep the cans on . cheers John, guys and gals. Saskatchewan Roughriders or

Winnipeg Blue Bommers , get you quid into the punters...

GerwingR

Subject: Google cannot crack anything!
It is a funny story, the headline is a crime.

If you a so desperate about hits, find something else to write.

brgds,

Papick

Subject: Bios for your writers
Hello Mike,

Having read Inquirer for some years now, I've become increasingly impressed with the technical knowledge and writing skills of your writers. I've got personal favorites (Charlie and Wily); however, they are all very gifted and remarkable people.

It would be very interesting to know the academic, work, and technical backgrounds of your contributors. There's no intent to be nosey. Rather, it'd be good to know what helped these people become clever and creative.

Are they frustrated programmers who learned journalism skills?

Journalism majors who learned how to program? Gamers who got a life and moved on to something useful? Who publishes outside of Inquirer and where?

Best Regards,

ScottJ

Subject: Nasty bunch

You always seem to look for bad news.

I read a really good review about AMD Phenom at Tomshardware, ever heard of that site? Who the heck is the reviewer you quoted? How much are you guys getting paid by Intel?

lgf

Subject: AMD benchmarks

Paul be very careful how you phrase the Intel advantage over AMD. It exists only for applications that have data sets of 4k (for 32 bit apps) or effectively 2Kfor 64 bit apps.

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/815242.html

When you move into the more serious apps like Unigraphics NX3 Intel starts to drag up the rear. Fujitsu Seimens had the V830 single core 256 actually outscore the R50 with the same graphics card.

http://www.spec.org/gwpg/Dec1_06/apc.data/specapc_nx3_summary.html

Fujitsu withdrew the benchmark. If you look at the current benchmarks a AMD dual core beats any comparable Intel offering. It depends on how difficult the benchmark is. NX3 is based on automotive design.which an order of magnitude more difficult than the routine benchmarks used in the trade press.

http://www.spec.org/gwpg/publish/nx3_rel.html

If you move on to something more challenging like DARPA's HPC Challenge Intel's best are something like half as fast in Fast Fourier Transforms and AMD actually beats Blue Gene L .

Last week's 2007 awards http://www.hpcchallenge.org/

The fact that Intel can't beat a 5 year old chip IBM P5 says a lot about the failures of Intel's design in complex computing. Results IBM 7 awards AMD 5 Intel 0. So for very dumb desktop apps Intel is significantly ahead fro more complex workstation apps AMD is slightly ahead, In complex matters like fast fourier series or "button to bang" design of nuclear weapons simulations, AMD takes 14-21 days less time on a 90 day simulation. Since DARPA alone buys twice as many high performance chips per year as all the gamers in the world, AMD has skewed its design to meet that market. It is like comparing a 100m dash runner with a marathon runner. Up to and including 400m, the 100m dash runner will win. Beginning at 800 meters he gets beat and anything beyond 1600meters he gets wiped out and it gets worse with the distance.

Ed Hinders.

Subject: Excellent Article
When can we expect to see an article similar to the FCC /Nextel story but concerning accounting at Intel ?

45nm Fabs are not cheap coupled with larger wafers will cause a production capacity per fab that is huge.

What is a reasonable % of salable parts per wafer ? They have a long ramp so bugs should be worked out already.

Prices will have to decline rapidly to sell capacity,but is that feasible in light of the current legal investigations for monopolistic practices ?

Can they make money or do they post bad results this year ? tough choice.

Heads I win ,Tails you lose scenario ?

Idgaf

Subject: HMRC
And just who is the bigger fool, the person that misplaces the information, or the person that voted for the MPs who gave that person the job only because he was "politically connected?" Even now, we watch the gullible British bulldog lapping up the crap fed by the politicos covering their posteriors. Maybe you all should give them a bite instead.

(Sits and waits patiently for the rest of the American electorate to realize they've been duped the past 200+ years and it's time for another revolution.)

Rwargo

Subject: OSX updates which hose
Sadly, Apple has slipped in quality control with their updates since v10.4.8 or so. I run a bunch of very old Apple computers around the house (2002 or older) and they all work great with Tiger and today's peripherals, but experience has shown me that the only safe way to upgrade OSX is to manually download and run the "Combo" upgrade, as opposed to the "incremental" upgrade proposed by the software update utility.

S Daly

Subject: ooooh!
You must be so proud! ;)

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In contrast, this writer is scribbling this article, streaming internet radio, and playing online poker in a Java window - all in 256MB of RAM on an old 1.4GHz CPU that's only 25 per cent to 35 per cent busy... under Mandriva Linux 2007
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Mark S Thomas

Subject: Vista memory requirements/rendering speeds/ability to multitask/ <insert here >
I think it's time you made one thing clear, through the facility of your august publication: Vista is GAY... and I don't mean 'gay', as in, 'homosexual'. I mean 'gay' in an embarrassingly, screamingly camp, Mr Humphries, sort of way.

Windows Vista is, officially, gayer than a dancing pink hippo in a tutu.

Daniel Walker

Subject: Vista needs more memory than Windows for Supercomputers
More journalism by the ignorant. I'm guessing that you never actually tried to install Vista on a box with 512mb of ram and are basing all of your information off of hearsay! Cause if you did install Vista, you would have know that it runs if you choose not to install the all the extra eye candy. Something that your sweet install of Linux doesn't have. I had it running in a 256mb vm, of which I had so much difficulty getting Red hat to run in.

Maleb

Subject: E-Waste
With most of this electronic crap coming from China these days, it only seems appropriate that we send it back to it maker.

Ih8tchina

Subject: SP1 doesn't improve Vista's poor performance
Egan,

Your article is misleading. A quick search on google fines plenty of other articles that point to significant performance improvements with Vista SP1, mostly in the area of networking.

I know the The Inquirer loves to take its shots against Microsoft, but at least spend a couple of minutes researching so you can be factual.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070928/vista-file-copy-sp1-comparison/

Slim

Subject: Fair and unbaised?!
For goodness sake, I think your writers should grow up. If it weren't for Windows, you'd be bashing OS X, or even Linux.

They are two totally separate platforms for two separate purposes. Give the Windows bashing a break. It's passé and really not clever.

One comment summed up the article perfectly; "I don't know what's cheaper. The cost of RAM or the authors comments."

Beanbag

Subject: Head taxman quits after 25 million peoples' data lost

Well it looks like you have dumb ass government types over there just like we do over here in the USA.

Common sense would tell you disks that sensitive and important should be sent somewhere by a special courier not the post.

I just get stumped when I read about the stupidity of actions by the government sometimes.

Have a great Thanksgiving,

Glenn

Subject: didn't have time to read this?

Here's what the nice people at Mozilla have on their web site:

"Note: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we strongly encourage you to link to this Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone announcement so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what they should expect, and who should be downloading to participate in testing at this stage of development."

Might have been nice to follow that request...

Dirk

Subject: We need AMD healthy and back on track, or else Intel will be able to push up the high-end PC CPU prices beyond $1500 soon

Nebbie, my little pimp buddy -

Thanks for not mentioning that we at AMD charged about $1100 for our high end Athlon 64's when Intel's Prescott was such a dog.

To ignore the fact that we at AMD frocked over our customers - you liked it - didn't you? - when we were on top, is pure brilliance for pimpdom.

Love ya, buddy -

And did I mention that I'm rich and I LOVE ARABs?

Suing and Puking and Bowing To Mecca -

Hector

Subject: 1st beta = cruddy?

The headline mentions that this is a beta, but the text implies that FireBadger (FireFerret? Flame-bottomed vulpine browser?) 3.0 has been released, even though it's really just the first of several (or so I gather) beta releases.

Carl

Subject: Blogging vs. Journalism

Mr. Farrell,

While I take your point about the ethics of journalism, I feel that you are creating a logical fallacy by comparing apples to oranges.

Blogs (nee weblogs) are not intended to be objective pieces of journalistic righteousness. A blog by its very nature is a opinion piece - the musings of its author.

(Come to think of it, hasn't journalism itself taken a sharp turn towards propaganda with the advent of yellow journalism, public relations pitches, political agendas and plagiarism/false source scandals? That's a mighty large petard upon which to be hoisted.)

Instead, I think the better point would have been made to argue that outting Lori Drew's identity is likely to breed vigilantism or a frightening mob mentality, turning those outraged around the world into the very monsters they believe her to be. That's an entirely different side of ethics - the very nature of morality and whether or not the Internet creates a gray area therein.

But that's certainly not an issue of journalism, is it?

Caitrin Muldoon

http://shrimppoboyora.blogspot.com*

*I did include her name in my post about Megan Meier. However, I didn't include her contact information, nor did I advocate any sort of action be taken against her. Do I think that a civil, public shunning is in order if her own statement about her involvement in Megan Meier's bullying is correct? Absolute ly. Do I believe the family should be terrorized? Absolutely not - any mentality that believes the family should be treated that way has fallen into the same moral crevasse that led Ms. Drew to torment Miss Meier.

Subject: Choosing anti spyware software is no easy task

Blah ha haaaa, Get a Mac or run Linux if you must.

The DRM infected spyware form Microsoft is not an option.

Windows is a good gaming OS (Only because almost all games are written for

it) and that is all I use it for.

Have a great day,

Glenn

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