Seems you're right. Still it seems the suite did put a damper on alternative windowing systems and that's why GEOS and others like GEM weren't pushed so hard for quite a while.
Yea, I have a Byte magazine around somewhere that had the news that Microsoft had finally booted up OS/2 3 NT. Also have another one talking about how Microsoft had the OS/2 Presentation Manager (32 bit version) running under NT.
IIRC it got killed along with all the other alternative GUIs when Apple sued everyone over the look and feel thing. Unluckily Windows survived based on the cross licensing agreement for Office on the Mac.
Now a days I usually vote for the Marijuana party. Better then spoiling the ballot because at least I'm stating one thing I'd like to see change. Of course the leader of that party is currently in an American jail.
The problem is that at the time it was something like $1000 * 280 ridings. (Now 308) So a few $100,000 for a party that promised if they actually won would immediately quit.
Here in Canada we used to have the rhino party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_party who's main promise was not to keep any of their promises. In '84 they came in fourth in a 3 party system and have occasionally came in second in individual ridings. Unluckily the only change they caused was a change to the election laws where candidates had to put up $1000 to run. Since they couldn't afford that, they are no more though there leader, who changed his name to Sa Tan is suing over the electoral change. The case is Satan vs Her Majesty the Queen.
The first copyright law's full title was "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned" which sounds pretty cultural to me. Of course it started out as a law to make copyright a true type of property with no expiration and it was the unelected house of lords who fought against locking up all the learning for ever. America basically just adopted the current English law right down to the 14+14 year term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
BC. Note that the Premier has been forced to resign. The impossible to meet criteria for a referendum has actually been met and the recall mechanism has started. Most of the hatred is due to the government in the last election promising they weren't considering it, campaigning on the platform that the other party (socialist) was going to tax funerals etc then right after winning introduced the new tax, which includes taxing funerals. Fucking liars.
The other thing about the poverty level is it varies a lot depending on where you live. Generally it seems to cost more to live where there is any work.
And once income tax is eliminated you only pay the plumber $65 cash to avoid the service tax so he has the same take home cash. Of course when he spends that $65 at the grocery store he discovers that the bill is actually $75 due to the sales tax. So you're ahead $35 due to only paying $65 cash instead of a $100. Which is lucky as your employer has cut your pay to keep your take home the same. The plumber is behind $10 due to sales tax. And the government is behind $25 due to the underground economy that springs up due to people avoiding the sales and service tax. The only winner is your employer who now has an extra $35 to invest in China.
My provincial government has been implementing something like this, cutting income tax and broadening the sales tax. The way it's working is businesses don't pay sales tax (actually reimbursed it at 100%) which is the selling point, attract more business. So it's only regular people who pay taxes. And people don't get pay raises anymore because with the lower income tax they have more money. In practice wages are dropping as in the plumber example up the page. Before he charged a $100 and took home $65. Now he charges $80 + sales tax and takes home $65 which has depreciated by 12% due to having to pay sales tax when he spends his wage. The customer is still paying $80 + 12% tax but as his take home pay has actually dropped due to inflation that is a bigger chunk of his income. Meanwhile big business, while saving money due to simpler accounting and dropping wages, keeps raising prices.
You guys need a choice #5, a silly party. I used to vote for the rhino party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_party until they were forced to disband due to changes in the electoral rules. Their main promise was not to keep any of their promises, and were their promises unkeepable. Now I vote for the marijuana party to let it be known how I feel about that issue. Unluckily the leader is now a political prisoner in the States.
I was thinking more of the conditions that were imposed on England, while you were defending your own shipping and watching the Russians save their butts. The flotilla of supplies were supplied on the condition that England basically dismantle most of their industry in favour of America's industry. Actually China already is sorta doing that, lending America the money to fight a couple of wars as long as America dismantles their industry and ships it to China.
They probably see how the US honours the WTO and think to themselves why should we do more then America. When a nation wants to be a superpower, they emulate the current superpowers rise to superpowerdom.
They probably see how the US honours the WTO and think to themselves why should we do more then America. When a nation wants to be a superpower, they emulate the current superpowers raise to superpowerdom.
Thing is they're not bad choices. They're the choices that helped make America a superpower and any other nation that also wants to be a superpower will make the same choices. Wait till they do to you what you did to England during WWII when they were desperate to borrow.
Actually current stellar evolution theory says the sun will keep getting hotter over the next 5 Billion or so years and that it has already increased it's output by 25% since its birth. It is also thought that in about a billion years it'll be hot enough to boil the Earths oceans which will lead to a runaway greenhouse effect and we'll be much like Venus.
While most vehicles have the solenoid attached to the starter, some such as my '88 F150 have the solenoid attached to the firewall by the battery and only one wire to the starter.
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Seems you're right. Still it seems the suite did put a damper on alternative windowing systems and that's why GEOS and others like GEM weren't pushed so hard for quite a while.
Only the 16 bit version of Presentation Manager ran under NT which was why I specified the 32 bit version.
Yea, I have a Byte magazine around somewhere that had the news that Microsoft had finally booted up OS/2 3 NT.
Also have another one talking about how Microsoft had the OS/2 Presentation Manager (32 bit version) running under NT.
IIRC it got killed along with all the other alternative GUIs when Apple sued everyone over the look and feel thing. Unluckily Windows survived based on the cross licensing agreement for Office on the Mac.
Now a days I usually vote for the Marijuana party. Better then spoiling the ballot because at least I'm stating one thing I'd like to see change.
Of course the leader of that party is currently in an American jail.
The problem is that at the time it was something like $1000 * 280 ridings. (Now 308) So a few $100,000 for a party that promised if they actually won would immediately quit.
Here in Canada we used to have the rhino party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_party who's main promise was not to keep any of their promises.
In '84 they came in fourth in a 3 party system and have occasionally came in second in individual ridings.
Unluckily the only change they caused was a change to the election laws where candidates had to put up $1000 to run. Since they couldn't afford that, they are no more though there leader, who changed his name to Sa Tan is suing over the electoral change. The case is Satan vs Her Majesty the Queen.
The first copyright law's full title was "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned" which sounds pretty cultural to me.
Of course it started out as a law to make copyright a true type of property with no expiration and it was the unelected house of lords who fought against locking up all the learning for ever.
America basically just adopted the current English law right down to the 14+14 year term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
BC. Note that the Premier has been forced to resign. The impossible to meet criteria for a referendum has actually been met and the recall mechanism has started.
Most of the hatred is due to the government in the last election promising they weren't considering it, campaigning on the platform that the other party (socialist) was going to tax funerals etc then right after winning introduced the new tax, which includes taxing funerals. Fucking liars.
Of course when implemented, businesses wouldn't have to pay the tax.
The other thing about the poverty level is it varies a lot depending on where you live. Generally it seems to cost more to live where there is any work.
And once income tax is eliminated you only pay the plumber $65 cash to avoid the service tax so he has the same take home cash. Of course when he spends that $65 at the grocery store he discovers that the bill is actually $75 due to the sales tax.
So you're ahead $35 due to only paying $65 cash instead of a $100. Which is lucky as your employer has cut your pay to keep your take home the same. The plumber is behind $10 due to sales tax. And the government is behind $25 due to the underground economy that springs up due to people avoiding the sales and service tax.
The only winner is your employer who now has an extra $35 to invest in China.
My provincial government has been implementing something like this, cutting income tax and broadening the sales tax.
The way it's working is businesses don't pay sales tax (actually reimbursed it at 100%) which is the selling point, attract more business. So it's only regular people who pay taxes.
And people don't get pay raises anymore because with the lower income tax they have more money. In practice wages are dropping as in the plumber example up the page. Before he charged a $100 and took home $65. Now he charges $80 + sales tax and takes home $65 which has depreciated by 12% due to having to pay sales tax when he spends his wage. The customer is still paying $80 + 12% tax but as his take home pay has actually dropped due to inflation that is a bigger chunk of his income.
Meanwhile big business, while saving money due to simpler accounting and dropping wages, keeps raising prices.
Actually the bill of rights passed by the British Parliament in 1689 did include the right of non-Catholics to be armed for self defence.
You guys need a choice #5, a silly party. I used to vote for the rhino party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_party until they were forced to disband due to changes in the electoral rules. Their main promise was not to keep any of their promises, and were their promises unkeepable.
Now I vote for the marijuana party to let it be known how I feel about that issue. Unluckily the leader is now a political prisoner in the States.
(Does Ford know that they've hijacked the "Explorer" name?)
Actually I think it was more hijacking WebExplorer, the browser that shipped with OS/2 in 1994.
I was thinking more of the conditions that were imposed on England, while you were defending your own shipping and watching the Russians save their butts.
The flotilla of supplies were supplied on the condition that England basically dismantle most of their industry in favour of America's industry.
Actually China already is sorta doing that, lending America the money to fight a couple of wars as long as America dismantles their industry and ships it to China.
They probably see how the US honours the WTO and think to themselves why should we do more then America.
When a nation wants to be a superpower, they emulate the current superpowers rise to superpowerdom.
They probably see how the US honours the WTO and think to themselves why should we do more then America.
When a nation wants to be a superpower, they emulate the current superpowers raise to superpowerdom.
Thing is they're not bad choices. They're the choices that helped make America a superpower and any other nation that also wants to be a superpower will make the same choices.
Wait till they do to you what you did to England during WWII when they were desperate to borrow.
Actually current stellar evolution theory says the sun will keep getting hotter over the next 5 Billion or so years and that it has already increased it's output by 25% since its birth.
It is also thought that in about a billion years it'll be hot enough to boil the Earths oceans which will lead to a runaway greenhouse effect and we'll be much like Venus.
My Ford has the solenoid by the battery, one wire to the starter.
While most vehicles have the solenoid attached to the starter, some such as my '88 F150 have the solenoid attached to the firewall by the battery and only one wire to the starter.
And what if you want to end up in lunar polar orbit? You know, to establish those lunar outposts at the poles.
Considering that most talk about lunar bases involves one of the poles, lunar polar orbit doesn't sound that bad.