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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25915 Forgot to add this earlier.

The Register is the National Enquirer of the IT world.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25862

I don't know why people post such bullshit stories on the internet. It's especially frustrating when the story not only make no logic sense, but it's source is some idiots thread on a message board nameless message board. Then on top of all of this, the story makes its way onto the hallowed pages of Slashdot????? Devastating.

Somehow this reminds me how skewed perspective can be , or even if there is a common ground to looking at this . Just look at this story in the inquirer
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25836

Looting Food :
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm1020830 1530
Finding Food :
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/0 50830071810_shxwaoma_photo1

Both are on yahoo news obviously reported by different folks Has to do with the devastation from Katrina but i think it applies to the "eyes of the beholder part"

Good point, given that it takes fairly exotic cooling to get 550Mhz+ speeds out of the 7800GTX it's likely the higher clock speed of the RSX means a different kind of chip. Probably it has fewer pipelines, so a 24 pipe 7800GTX at 450Mhz would likely be quicker than an RSX with 16 pipelines at 550Mhz.

Presumably Sony will play the yield game and go for something like a 20 pipeline part and disable the non-working pipes on each chip to maximise the number of working chips they can churn out. They're apparently doing that with the Cell chip too by disabling 1 of the 8 "cores".

Inq has already corrected the story. NVidia says the PS3 GPU will be slightly more powerful than the 7800.

You can try this out ** BEWARE ** Page causes Deer Park 2 to crash so maybe you want to use something else to open it http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11041 I keep only the EH32.api and Search.api, all the rest is shoved out. Acrobat loads in a snap after that.

This article shows how to do "liposuction" on acrobat and make it load much faster by removing a bunch of the plugins. If you lose functionality you need, find the plugin and put it back in the plugins directory.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11041

It works for both the reader and the full acrobat.

The essence of the instructions are:
        * From the Start->Run windows menu, Open the "x:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader" folder, where x is the right drive letter.
        * Find the plug_ins folder and rename it plug_ins_disabled
        * Create a new folder named plug_ins
        * Copy the following files from "plug_ins_disabled" to "plug_ins": EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api

Vorondil28: "Not to mention DRM'd to hell?"

Affirmative.

This is what was formerly (or internally, whatever) called "East Fork". The Inquirer explained how everything that goes thru it gets converted to Windows Media with DRM.

So you're better off building your own - except some new-generation discs won't play, or will get downgraded, in anything that lacks this sort of anti-user tech.

Intel logo of DRM Forking plan emerges

The Inquirer might

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25687

I heard a rumor awhile back that the PS3 will be running a stripped down version of Linux, ...

According to Sony's Ken Kutaragi, his plan was to pre-install a version of linux onto each HDD unit that ships, so it will be recognized as a computer, rather than a mere console. A marketing ploy? Most likely. . .but a cool one.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23878

I would wonder why Intel are using Oz as a test. It wouldn't be in any way connected with their attempts to break Australia's CSIRO patents on WiFi technology would it? Why test it in the US when they can muscle right in at the source of their legal case.

1. Some "consulting firm" is involved in a study instead of some non-profit organization.

2. When that firm is Gartner, who've been known to make all kinds of outrageous claims to get publicity.

3. They come up with nice, easy numbers like "Gartner Research believes a drop of 45% in India's share could happen in the next two years." Anyone who've done any research or studies, knows that numbers ending in 5 or 0 don't have special meanings in reality. The only thing that it matters to are readers, especially PHBs. What this suggests is that Gartner just pulled some number out of a hand to get more publicity, again. 45% is much easier for a PHB to rattle off than 73% during a meeting.

I have no strong feelings about this "news" either especially coming from a source as unreliable as Gartner. The trend is probably true but the number is probably bogus.

AMD proposed, Intel declined.

What's next on the agenda?

- shazow

Cooler, quieter, more efficient, and faster clock-for-clock than any other x86 chip on the market including the Athlon64, Pentium M, and Pentium 4. At least 30% faster per Ghz than the Pentium M, which is in turn >30% faster per Ghz than the P4. So that 3Ghz Conroe will be approximately equal to a dual-core 4.6Ghz Pentium 4 and put out 65W of heat/power.

Better cache handling, faster bus, 4-issue wide core. 35W TDP for Mobiles, 65W desktops, 85W for servers. Sounds like the best of all worlds to me.

Check out this Inq article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25623

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2504
http://theinquirer.net/?article=25623
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dX JsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xNTAy
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review_print. php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xNTA0
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review_print. php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xNTAz
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050823_1331 23.html

I got this in my RSS feed with the headline Does O'Reilly have a smelly crotch?

Brion is in trouble.
Brion was in WoW till 2am.
Brion's mom plays WoW.
Brion's mom Grounded Brion.
Haha Brion

They'll need all the help they can to keep the lead on Intel.
Intel's 90nm process was a disaster, due to leakage problems.
According to here http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25512 Intels 65nm process solves some of the leakage problems and is due to be released very soon.
I get the impression that this will make it on par with AMD's current 90nm process as regards power consumption.
When the 45nm process comes out the leakage problem will be completly fixed completely.

In UK you have to pay £280 (premium) and £210 for normal version. Which is still higher price than US or other european countries.

Somebody metioned VAT and transportation costs. This could be the truth, but how can you explain such high difference between UK and other EU countries? What is important to remember is fact, that MS is going to send much less X360 to Europe. By making price higher, they *could* avoid problems with lack of hardware.

It's a stock market thing. Buy a bunch of google stock (if you can afford much), and start a rumor that google is curing cancer. Take your 5% and do it again next week.

Google is curing cancer.

I need to post this on /. so the mindless Google slaves will do my bidding...I mean spread the Google News, I mean good news.

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But there's a good reason for the OEMs to go along with this particular "anti-piracy" tactic from Microsoft.

Computers users without patient knowledgeable tech support friends resort to curing spyware/adware/malware infestations by throwing away the old computer and buying a new one.

It seems to vary from site to site: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25161 [theinquirer.net]

It seems to vary from site to site: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25161 [theinquirer.net]

Two for the price of one, and it answered THE burning question with regards to Lord British.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23377

Strangely, after that fateful day by the pool last May, neither Garriot or Spector will get within 100 yards of me, restraining order or no.

            -Charlie

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25161

The Inquirer is a fairly busy site and widely enough read to be a reasonable sampling of tech-savvy readers.

Few visitors to my main sites (UK oriented, investment related, mostly read during working hours) using Firefox. I think it is fairly obvious why.

On the other hand only 14 of the last 70 visitors to my blog used IE: about equal to Safari + Konqueror! Most of them are looking for my Wordpress plugins, both of which are of niche interest.

I know you are joking, but try adobe liposuction

It worked for me. I can open a pdf in less than the time it takes a politician to go from idealistic young upstart to corporate whore.

Especially when your current security measures are so sound.

The new architecture is the Merom family of chips, the replacement for the P4. It is an all new architecture, don't let reports of PM based chips fool you. It is the same philosophy as PM, short pipes, lower clocks, but only tangentially related, and about as ground up new as is possible with modern chips.

If you want more, I put some more details here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25349

            -Charlie

Guess you didn't liook very hard...

Indications are that this acceleration will be made available for the entire line of 6200 on up, but will probably be initially used as a selling point for the newer cards (probably limited to 7800 series on initial release).

This is from an email from Jessie Off on the TS-7200 mailing list: We don't have the bandwidth for that so our web site is pretty much down right now. FWIW, we're not being limited by the TS-7200 CPU or RAM. Only 2% of the CPU is actually being utilized currently. I have Apache configured for up to 30 maximum simultaneous connections (of which all 30 are full) and we're satisfying about 10 page loads per second. We also got linked from http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25321 which has been generating a lot of hits all morning so we weren't really in a position to receive the "slashdot effect" //Jesse Off

As this article reveals http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25169 MS-Vista will make your current high end PC hardware obsolete.

From the article ..."your current brand spanking new media centre PC, should you be dumb enough to buy one, will not work when Shorthorn comes out"...

I hope we're all just loving Microsoft for this ;-)

Just imagine a beowulf cluster made of these fellas!






And yes, they will run Linux.

From the column:
Merrill Lynch estimated that the cost to produce a single PS3 would be a shade under $500. Considering that the Xbox 360 is expected will be priced at around $299, it was felt that even a $399 price tag on the PS3 meant Sony taking a $1bn hit on hardware costs alone in the first year.

When you consider that they've packed Bluetooth, HDTV (a feature Nintendo ended up dropping because of cost) and the first Commercial release of Blu-Ray in there, it's not too surprising that the earlier they launch the console, the harder Sony's going to get hit in the pocket.

or at least in the US, so I could walk up to these activists/protestors and tell them loudly and proudly, "FUCK YOU!"*

I'm glad they're not sitting on their fat retarded asses but actually doing somethig about stuff they don't like, however they have no fucking clue what they're talking about and their demands make about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first battle of Antietam.**

  Bully isn't gloryfing bullying, but shows a kid who actually "stands up to bullies, gets picked on by teachers, plays pranks on malicious kids, wins or loses the girl, and ultimately learns to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school." I even think some anti-bullying people actually like the idea, but I don't have any quotes, sorry. This one is from Rockstar's description, can be found for example here

Originally I wanted to go through the demands, but the article already does that with much less anger, insults and profanity than anything I could write now. Have a nice day.

* - Rockstar's official response? please?
** - Dennis Miller in Famili Guy

A CDR of the Shopping habbits of 10 million people is private data.
Secret facts about a new planet kept secret on a server is information.

One wants to be free, the other does not.

This is not keeping two opposing ideas in your head at the same time; this is being able to distinguish between two ideas that only apear to be the same on the surface, due to the form that they take.

direct link http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9250

This was published by the Inq a coupla years ago after the RIAA went batshitloco on the great American consumer. It was written by me to make a point or 2.

Subject: Music Piracy....

Hi there - I'll try and make this quick... I have work to do too you know!

1 - People pirate music because it is easy and "natural". To the industry sharing == piracy to the individual NOT sharing == miserable bastard.

2 - If I knew cash from music sales was actually going to the artist(s) I would be far happier buying it - if I can I will buy DIRECT from an artist (e.g. at a gig, from their OWN webshite etc).

3 - If CD's were cheaper I'd buy more - I do not like paying 15 quid for a CD. TBH I do most of my music shopping at places like SelectaDisc (Berrick Street for those in the know in Soho) - cheap with an excellent range - older CDs and back catalogue items can be had for 5 to 10 quid - GUESS WHAT!!! When I go into this shop I don't buy 1 CD at 15.99 I buy 3,4 or 5 CD's at 5 to 10 pounds each - yes I know that adds to more more but the encouragement to buy provided by impulse purchase prices is incredible! Plus I know I have a good few hours of listening to do.

4 - There is now an enormous back catalogue of music - I may be a 30 something Goth but at the Prism Multimedia shop up the road I can buy Johnny Cash's greatest hits for 3.99 - now that is amazing value.. so I bought it - and some Elvis and some Little Richard (I likes me rock n' roll) - The back catalogue problem is obviously a huge one for record companies (an increasingly dead concept) these (often dead) artists are cutting into the sales of modern artists (usually living but in the case of Girls Aloud I have yet to come to a conclusion). Classical music has an even bigger problem here as the works are often the same (e.g. Messiah) performed by different artists. Once a classic recording has been made (with good fidelity) why go back and do the same thing again? There are reasons but few that encourage sales.

Penultimately to back up some of these assertions it is interesting to witness the rise and rise of "alternative" (bogus phrase) music such as Metal, Death Metal, Goth, Techno, Garage House etc. More music is produced but to a smaller audience - the total audience is growing however.

Ultimately - there are a lot of artists and I suspect the days of 1,2,3 million selling singles have pretty much gone. There are now more artists, more genres and more listeners - artists can not expect to sell as many records as the Beatles but then consumers have more choice. Warhol was right - many more artists well have 15 minutes of fame. That still means there are 35064 fame slots per year.... nice!

So... where was the InterWeb in all of this? It is a cheap and convenient way of getting music to customers in places you would never imagine sending a CD to without a huge P&P markup.

If modern music lacks anything it is credibility and style - you can't buy class you know.....

30/04/2003.

That was then, this is now. What's changed? TBH I've never been a huge fan of p2p style networks. Frankly it seems that most people out there are just serous kleptomaniacs or will simply copy, copy, copy because they have a fat pipe and a fast machine. A little pointless in my opinion as they are not discussing, criticising or in anyway taking part in the collective experience of listening to music.

Also, at least in good ol' London Tan(sic), a lot more small, independent record shops have opened up and these are very appealing to me and to others. HOORAY! Sadly Prism Multimedia has shut down... but been replaced by another cheapo cd store so I ain't complaining yet.

LASTLY... SHAMELESS PLUG!!! If you want to download some music that the copyright holder is happy to have you sharing, discussing, p2ping then TRY MY WEBSITE! ;-D www.burnttoys.co.uk - all sorts of stuff from sc

Since BoingBoing is getting hammered here's the text of the article:

Thursday, July 28, 2005
Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h:

window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'

AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called 'Genuine Advantage.' It was cracked within 24 hours."

Before pressing 'Custom' or 'Express' buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

It turns off the trigger for the key check.

Link (Thanks, AV!)

According to The Inquirer, they aren't:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24894

http://news.com.com/Intel+to+build+next+plant+in+A rizona/2100-1006_3-5802816.html?tag=nefd.top

From what I understand Adobe photoshop and Canon brand copiers already refuse to allow you to scan and/or print US banknotes http://www.inventionandtechnology.com/xml/2005/1/i t_2005_1_feat_1.xml http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13522

Yep, you're right. Same point was made in The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24904) yesterday when they reported on this survey:

Whilst interesting figures we can't help but smirk a little at the numbers game that tends to go on around internet piracy that makes us rather cynical when it comes to these things. For example, it is customary for the gaming industry to count every downloaded videogame as a lost sale - IE if you download a videogame it means that had you not had the download service available you would have bought it in the shops.

The second thing that interests us in the way the figures are worded, with "84% of 15 - 18 year olds" having pirated a videogame we have to ask just who was surveyed, for if this were a scientific survey then surely a number as high as 84% of 15 - 18 year olds wouldn't have access to broadband?

> Naming is important

Indeed.

Don't you have similar trouble with the new ID card? The UK government has already proposed to sell the collected information to companies. See http://www.theinquirer.net/ (UK) for more information.

The other problem is that most people who work at Slashdot have very limited skills outside of the core competencies it takes to run a web forum so we tend to get uninformed blather and the publishing of stories that even simpletons with science degree would not publish.

• Any scholar of the great ninja vs pirate wars will immediately understand that pandas and cows are bitter enemies fighting for the affections of the zebra overlords. Do not make the mistake of mentioning cows or Gateway with a handful of M&M while in San Fran next spring, you have been warned.

• Any scholar of the great ninja vs pirate wars will immediately understand that pandas and cows are bitter enemies fighting for the affections of the zebra overlords. Do not make the mistake of mentioning cows or Gateway with a handful of M&M while in San Fran next spring, you have been warned.

• Any scholar of the great ninja vs pirate wars will immediately understand that pandas and cows are bitter enemies fighting for the affections of the zebra overlords. Do not make the mistake of mentioning cows or Gateway with a handful of M&M while in San Fran next spring, you have been warned.

• Any scholar of the great ninja vs pirate wars will immediately understand that pandas and cows are bitter enemies fighting for the affections of the zebra overlords. Do not make the mistake of mentioning cows or Gateway with a handful of M&M while in San Fran next spring, you have been warned.

• Any scholar of the great ninja vs pirate wars will immediately understand that pandas and cows are bitter enemies fighting for the affections of the zebra overlords. Do not make the mistake of mentioning cows or Gateway with a handful of M&M while in San Fran next spring, you have been warned.