The difference is that at least we're bloody honest (our constitution has the not withstanding clause) where as you guys run around as if you're fucking better then everyone else because a bunch of slavers got together and said that all men are equal. Perhaps if they had practiced what they preached they'd be more respected. The USA is the most unfree first world country. You're elections, who knows if they are honest. The politicians write the election boundaries to their advantage. Free speech is considered who ever has the money can bribe ctrl-w finance the politicians (for favours). And you have millions of political prisoners (what else can you call drug users who other than dealing in the black market only hurt Mr Hearst) If Americans were a little bit honest perhaps they would get some respect.
Blame Gates. For years he said that he'd rather you pirate windows then use the competition. Imagine how well Windows would have succeeded if win3.x came with WGA.
The mini/live windows are pretty nice too. Works on tabs in sea monkey as well. If you mean the mini windows that pop up when doing a mouse over of a tab in Seamonkey then that is nothing to do with Vista. Seamonkey (trunk) has had it for quite a while and doesn't matter what OS you're using. One of the many things I like about Seamonkey better than firefox here.
To balance this are examples like me. I own one pirated video (The Fellowship of the Ring) which after watching I bought all 3 Lord of the Rings (last 2 the expensive cut) and went to the movies to watch the last 2. This is all my new video (and music and computer program) purchases for last 3 years excepting some cartoons that were out of copyright and cost less then a dollar each. So due to pirating the MPAA made at least $150 from me that they wouldn't of otherwise.
You are right as far as the kernel is concerned. But remember the first version of NT was OS/2 NT ver 3 and the next was WIN NT ver 3.1. Quite confusing. Also the DOSCALL1.DLL in NT was quite similar to the DOSCALL1.DLL in OS/2 ver 1.3 and I'd imagine that it is similar when comparing the WIN32 DLLs between WIN9x and NT. Naturally this does cause some confusion.
This isn't really true. The 1996 version of OS/2 didn't even support unicode. Luckily you can apply free fixpaks and TCPIP updates to bring it to a level where it does run Firefox (or in my case Seamonkey) and Openoffice. So really what you should say is that the 96 version of OS/2 (and the '94 version) with free fixes applied will run most modern software. At that the '96 version won't even recognize a modern hard drive until you update the ibms506 driver. Of course once updated it will work with all IDE systems including the newest SATA drives.
OS/2 supports the POSIX API via EMXRT.DLL, for example, and yet OS/2's kernel has very little in common with, say, Linux or Solaris (which both also support POSIX programs). No, the OS/2 Toolkit supports quite a bit of POSIX function ability. From the OS/2 ver 4.5 toolkit C library reference (xpg4ref.inf)
Many of the functions are defined by the following language standards:
The American National Standards Institute C Standard and International Standards Organization, ANSI/ISO 9899-1990[1992], and the amendment ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1993(E) The ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990/IEEE POSIX 1003.1-1990 standard The X/Open Common Applications Environment Specification, System Interfaces and Headers, Issue 4 The IBM Systems Application Architecture (SAA) C Level 2 language definition.
Ebbert Mattes (sp?) just built on this so he could run emacs on OS/2.
I think you mean OS/2 ran DOS (including win3.x) in VDMs. But you are right, in win32s ver 30 MS moved some DLLs above the 2GB mark just to break OS/2 which at the time had a 512 MB per process limitation and still does for most apps. Wasn't until ver 4.5 that the client could access 3 GBs and some APIs are still tied to the 512 MB barrier. And yes, don't know about MAC OSX but the newer Windows and Linuxes still seem broken compared to what the WPS could do on a 486 (with lots of memory, hopefully at least 32 MB)
Warp v3 for windows (supply your own Win3.1) sold for $50 cdn around here for a while. Probably '94 or so. Unluckily they couldn't sell the blue box (included Win 3.1) for anywhere as cheap as MS wanted way too much for the Win 3.1 license.
MS hired the VMS guy to write the next version (3) of OS/2. NT is very OS/2 like as well as VMS like. Up till Win2k OS/2 ver 1.x binaries ran fine under NT. Somewhere I have a Byte magazine talking about MS getting OS/2 ver 3 NT running (on MIPS IRRC). I also have a Byte article on MS getting the Presentation Manager running under NT ver 3.51. If OS/2 had won the OS wars we'd most likely be running MS OS/2 XP now.
Wasn't it a Republican congress that passed the DMCA? Thing with watching American politics being argued is like watching a Pepsi vs Coke argument, they're both colas and 7up never even gets mentioned.
Actually it was a TV show about a group of lesbians and their lives. Lots of frontal nudity, simulated lesbian sex etc which was on regular TV at 10 at night here in Canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_L_Word
So if I take a picture of downtown and there happens to be a topless women (or man) it is porn? Some countries do believe in equal rights including the right for any one to take their top off and obviously someone walking down the street is not porn. The problem is the USA has some strange ideas about what is porn and doesn't have equal rights or the right to free speech and wants to shove that down everyone else's throat. (Most countries don't have free speech either, but at least they don't brag that they do)
On the other hand, there could be nude pictures which aren't porn, but aren't educational either. I mean, would a topless woman count? Breastfeeding? What about nudists? Yes, probably no and yes. And yet it quite legal for topless women to walk down the street (and you do see the odd one) in my country (Canada) and not unusual to see a women breast feeding. At that in Canada we consider racism much worse then porn eg the famous super bowl with Janet's tit hanging out, the CRTC only got complaints about the beer commercial because it seemed racist. Perhaps any racist site should have its own domain as well. And another for sites promoting hatred.
Twice in recent years (one still in living memory) we went over and save them from their own incompetence, even though it was not directly in our self interest to do so. (Though it was in accord with our principles.) I'd say it was in your self interest to fight after Germany declared war on you. Of course you could of surrendered.
Why should getting addicted to something like heroin destroy someones life? There are lots of people who can be addicted and still function fine, keeping dosages small when they have to function and functioning better then without the drug.
Appleworks was very popular and everyone I knew who had it went looking to get it, usually buying it though sometimes looking for a bundle deal. Given a choice of paying $150 for plain old Appleworks or $200 for Appleworks bundled with a 1 MB memory card what are you going to buy? Especially since Appleworks really needed the extra memory.
I remember a database comparison where the database (can't remember which) was compared running on OS/2 and NT in SMP mode. They couldn't get OS/2 to run in recognize the 2 cpus and had to run OS/2 in single cpu mode for the test. OS/2 was still faster on 1 cpu then NT on 2 cpus so the trade rags conclusion, NT was better because it did SMP easier. Should of really been OS/2 on 1 cpu beats NT on 2 cpus.
Herbicides are part of the group of things called pesticides along with insecticides, fungicides, avacides etc. Pesticide means killer of pests, pests include weeds.
Actually as a kid we had a '37 Morris Minor which had no water pump or thermostat, just a big radiator with blinds in front for winter. Coolant circulated by convection.
I don't know, it seemed to work very well for Ford back in the day. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ford_Motor _Company
Ford introduced the world's first moving assembly line that year, which reduced chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. However, these innovations were hard on employees, and turnover of workers was very high. Turnover meant delays and extra costs of training, and use of slow workers. In January 1914, Ford solved the employee turnover problem by doubling pay to $5 a day ($103 per day in 2006 dollars), cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day for a 5 day work week, and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers. Thus, it pioneered the minimum wage and the 40 hour work week in the United States, before the government enacted it. Thus, Henry Ford became an American legend.
Productivity soared and employee turnover plunged, and the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name. Wall Street had disagreed with Ford's generous labor practices when he began paying workers enough to buy the products they made. Seems like a smart move to me and if they had kept similar attitudes the unions would not have moved in which seems to be a problem now.
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The difference is that at least we're bloody honest (our constitution has the not withstanding clause) where as you guys run around as if you're fucking better then everyone else because a bunch of slavers got together and said that all men are equal. Perhaps if they had practiced what they preached they'd be more respected.
The USA is the most unfree first world country. You're elections, who knows if they are honest. The politicians write the election boundaries to their advantage. Free speech is considered who ever has the money can bribe ctrl-w finance the politicians (for favours). And you have millions of political prisoners (what else can you call drug users who other than dealing in the black market only hurt Mr Hearst)
If Americans were a little bit honest perhaps they would get some respect.
I've never ran Seamonkey under XP either, but I figure if it works under OS/2 it must work under everything.
Blame Gates. For years he said that he'd rather you pirate windows then use the competition.
Imagine how well Windows would have succeeded if win3.x came with WGA.
One of the many things I like about Seamonkey better than firefox here.
To balance this are examples like me. I own one pirated video (The Fellowship of the Ring) which after watching I bought all 3 Lord of the Rings (last 2 the expensive cut) and went to the movies to watch the last 2.
This is all my new video (and music and computer program) purchases for last 3 years excepting some cartoons that were out of copyright and cost less then a dollar each.
So due to pirating the MPAA made at least $150 from me that they wouldn't of otherwise.
Sad thing is is that if OS/2 won the OS wars we'd probably just be running MS OS/2 XP, and upgrading to OS/2 Vista and needing 2 GBs of ram.
You are right as far as the kernel is concerned. But remember the first version of NT was OS/2 NT ver 3 and the next was WIN NT ver 3.1. Quite confusing.
Also the DOSCALL1.DLL in NT was quite similar to the DOSCALL1.DLL in OS/2 ver 1.3 and I'd imagine that it is similar when comparing the WIN32 DLLs between WIN9x and NT.
Naturally this does cause some confusion.
This isn't really true. The 1996 version of OS/2 didn't even support unicode. Luckily you can apply free fixpaks and TCPIP updates to bring it to a level where it does run Firefox (or in my case Seamonkey) and Openoffice.
So really what you should say is that the 96 version of OS/2 (and the '94 version) with free fixes applied will run most modern software.
At that the '96 version won't even recognize a modern hard drive until you update the ibms506 driver. Of course once updated it will work with all IDE systems including the newest SATA drives.
From the OS/2 ver 4.5 toolkit C library reference (xpg4ref.inf)
Many of the functions are defined by the following language standards:
The American National Standards Institute C Standard and International Standards Organization, ANSI/ISO 9899-1990[1992], and the amendment ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1993(E)
The ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990/IEEE POSIX 1003.1-1990 standard
The X/Open Common Applications Environment Specification, System Interfaces and Headers, Issue 4
The IBM Systems Application Architecture (SAA) C Level 2 language definition.
Ebbert Mattes (sp?) just built on this so he could run emacs on OS/2.
I think you mean OS/2 ran DOS (including win3.x) in VDMs. But you are right, in win32s ver 30 MS moved some DLLs above the 2GB mark just to break OS/2 which at the time had a 512 MB per process limitation and still does for most apps. Wasn't until ver 4.5 that the client could access 3 GBs and some APIs are still tied to the 512 MB barrier.
And yes, don't know about MAC OSX but the newer Windows and Linuxes still seem broken compared to what the WPS could do on a 486 (with lots of memory, hopefully at least 32 MB)
Warp v3 for windows (supply your own Win3.1) sold for $50 cdn around here for a while. Probably '94 or so. Unluckily they couldn't sell the blue box (included Win 3.1) for anywhere as cheap as MS wanted way too much for the Win 3.1 license.
MS hired the VMS guy to write the next version (3) of OS/2. NT is very OS/2 like as well as VMS like. Up till Win2k OS/2 ver 1.x binaries ran fine under NT.
Somewhere I have a Byte magazine talking about MS getting OS/2 ver 3 NT running (on MIPS IRRC).
I also have a Byte article on MS getting the Presentation Manager running under NT ver 3.51. If OS/2 had won the OS wars we'd most likely be running MS OS/2 XP now.
Wasn't it a Republican congress that passed the DMCA?
Thing with watching American politics being argued is like watching a Pepsi vs Coke argument, they're both colas and 7up never even gets mentioned.
Actually it was a TV show about a group of lesbians and their lives. Lots of frontal nudity, simulated lesbian sex etc which was on regular TV at 10 at night here in Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_L_Word
So if I take a picture of downtown and there happens to be a topless women (or man) it is porn?
Some countries do believe in equal rights including the right for any one to take their top off and obviously someone walking down the street is not porn.
The problem is the USA has some strange ideas about what is porn and doesn't have equal rights or the right to free speech and wants to shove that down everyone else's throat.
(Most countries don't have free speech either, but at least they don't brag that they do)
Yes, probably no and yes. And yet it quite legal for topless women to walk down the street (and you do see the odd one) in my country (Canada) and not unusual to see a women breast feeding.
At that in Canada we consider racism much worse then porn eg the famous super bowl with Janet's tit hanging out, the CRTC only got complaints about the beer commercial because it seemed racist.
Perhaps any racist site should have its own domain as well. And another for sites promoting hatred.
Of course you could of surrendered.
Why should getting addicted to something like heroin destroy someones life?
There are lots of people who can be addicted and still function fine, keeping dosages small when they have to function and functioning better then without the drug.
Appleworks was very popular and everyone I knew who had it went looking to get it, usually buying it though sometimes looking for a bundle deal.
Given a choice of paying $150 for plain old Appleworks or $200 for Appleworks bundled with a 1 MB memory card what are you going to buy? Especially since Appleworks really needed the extra memory.
I remember a database comparison where the database (can't remember which) was compared running on OS/2 and NT in SMP mode. They couldn't get OS/2 to run in recognize the 2 cpus and had to run OS/2 in single cpu mode for the test.
OS/2 was still faster on 1 cpu then NT on 2 cpus so the trade rags conclusion, NT was better because it did SMP easier. Should of really been OS/2 on 1 cpu beats NT on 2 cpus.
No, herbicides are a type of pesticide, along with insecticides, fungicides etc. Weeds are a type of pest, pesticides kill pests
Herbicides are part of the group of things called pesticides along with insecticides, fungicides, avacides etc. Pesticide means killer of pests, pests include weeds.
Actually as a kid we had a '37 Morris Minor which had no water pump or thermostat, just a big radiator with blinds in front for winter.
Coolant circulated by convection.
Productivity soared and employee turnover plunged, and the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name. Wall Street had disagreed with Ford's generous labor practices when he began paying workers enough to buy the products they made. Seems like a smart move to me and if they had kept similar attitudes the unions would not have moved in which seems to be a problem now.