What makes you think the gp was talking about Windows? Microsoft makes lots of software that only runs on Windows, eg wmf files, office, activeX and I'm sure many more. With all these I have to use Windows or go without.
Microsoft is a good example. They did not get where they are on consumer freedom. When better products came out they did more or less what is described in this article to misinform consumers, even going so far to put messages in Windows about not trusting the competition (DRDos then). Continued the behaviour against OS/2 (BBS and Usenet). And also manipulated the market in such a way that there was no choice when buying a prebuilt computer. I know I have ended up owning too many copies of windows especially since Win 3.1 was enough to teach me that I didn't want to purchase it again
Well that is interesting, especially that being a BC resident I had never heard this. Seems you are right though (https://pharmacare.moh.hnet.bc.ca/). Now to register.
What perhaps you're missing is it is the type of gun as well. As I understand it Switzerland has a high number of rifles where as the States has a high number of hand guns as well as rifles.
Another possibity (and I know nothing about the generic market) is the generic companies forming a co-op and sharing the price of the studies and then the sales
Actually the average Canadian still has to pay for their drugs. Exceptions include people on income assistance, pensioners and perhaps others.
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Canada does work basically this way, minus the internet feed. I can show up at the polling place and watch the whole process and always there are members from all interested political parties watching. The other thing with Canada is we keep the elections simple. One election for the federal government, different one for provincial and a different one for municipal. This allows the various issues to stay seperate so voters are more likely to be informed. Also the results are available pretty quickly as the countng is distributed.
Except lots of speedometers read high so the person who thinks they are going the speed limit are actually going 10% or so lower. Very frustrating when the speed limit is low and your speedometer is accurate
Here in BC the way the red light cameras work is by taking 2 pictures, one entering the intersection and one leaving it. Both pictures have to show the light as red so entering the intersection on yellow is fine
This is one of the problems of voting in prosecuters (and Judges etc). You get prosecuters more interested in getting (re)elected then serving justice. Best way to get reelected in certain states is to be seen as hard on sex criminals. Or at least not to be accused of being soft on crime by the opposition.
Innotek is an interesting company, one of the last OS/2 venders who have done quite a bit for OS/2. Products include Porting Virtual PC to OS/2 before MS bought it out (and fixes so virtual PC runs OS/2) Porting Alsa to OS/2. GPL questions about not releasing the 16 bit interface which the community rewrote and now we have the opensource Uniaud. Sound actually works better here then under Ubuntu. Lots of work on Odin (think Wine from which much of the code comes from). Unluckily they closed of most of their later developments and there has been questions about whether they are breaking the GPL. Seems they have honoured the letter of the GPL but perhaps not the spirit. Using Odin ported Flash 5 (plus an illegal Flash 7 sneaked into the wild) Java 1.4 Acrobat reader. Also one of there most important developments (now maintained by the main porter) GCC 3.2.2 along with a new Libc as IBM would not distribute GPL code to build Mozilla. This allows the Mozilla family to continue to run on OS/2 and many an open source program to build with configure and make. Innotek libc is now klibc using GCC 3.3.5 and continues to improve.
Much better if you send them a hand written letter then an email. They view email as to easy and not carrying the same weight as a letter. Also you do not need a stamp.
You mean they are a bunch of Newfies? (For those who don't know Newfoundland is in a half hour timezone and on Canadian TV shows are always advertized as starting 1/2 hour later in Newfoundland. And of course the Newfies are just weird so are the butt of many a joke)
Actually the global cooling theory was a valid concern. The argument was that all the particulates that we were pumping into the atmosphere would reflect enough sunlight to cause global cooling. Thing is we cut way back on pumping particulates into the atmosphere and solved that problem. Back in the '70s it was just not quite as obvious which would win out, CO2 raising the temperture or particulates lowering the temperture and both were argued. I have also heard that up to 30% of global warming might be caused by solar variation. Which of course still leaves 70+% being man made but shows the rate of increase may vary depending on solar output.
Oh bull, we (Canada) have a free trade treaty with you which you have broken by putting tarifs on our wood there by stealing several billion dollars from us as well as driving up the price of your own housing. Just google softwood lumber dispute.
If you remember the arguments in the '70s was whether CO2 would raise the temperature or all the particulates that we were emitting would cool the Earth or just cancel each other out. Since then we have cleaned up the particulates but not the CO2 so we are left with the global warming.
Also it was hard to roll your own before the operating system (Chicago) was released. Remember Office 95 was on the market pretty well instantly and everyone else had to play catch up.
I also have heard the rumours about IBM writing a WIN32 compatibility layer though I don't remember the 10000 undocumented APIs. I do know that MS broke winos2 by moving various DLLs up into high memory with the release of WIN32s 1.30. At the time OS/2 only had 512 MB per process memory and needed to rewrite most of OS/2 to use high memory. Even today there are quite a few OS/2 APIs that can't be used from high memory (OS/2 now can support 3 GBs per process) Also by the time V4 was released IBM outright owned their win3.1 fork and did no longer have to pay royalties to MS which is the reason that V4 only came in the blue box version with included winos2.
It was well supported by my primary operating system (yes, I'm still using OS/2) and also worked well with various DOS apps I used. Now I have a sound card that works 90% in my primary operating system using Linux ported drivers, somewhat worse in Linux and not at all in DOS.
Well one thing that occurred to me was the one MS product I actually bought. The Microsoft Softcard (http://apple2history.org/museum/peripheralcards_n onapple/softcard.html) which was actually released in Mar of 1980. Always wondered if MS actually engineered this or bought it from someone else. Ah, digging up the manual it lists Don Burtis of Burtronix as the designer and Vista Computer Co as the manufacturer. Guess this where Vista's name comes from:) Also I'm sure they were also working on various forms of Basic.
Perhaps the one that will get passed if Harper wins a majority in the next election. Also in the case of a conservative majority expect a rewrite of the copyright laws to harmonize with the USA.
I started using OS/2 v3 on a 386/33 with 4 MBs of ram. Once I removed the WorkplaceShell it ran quite well. Sure you lost the WPS but it actually multitasked. Eventually I upgraded to 8 MBs and it ran great. I can remember loading Quake, giving it 16 MB, took forever to load but ran great. The biggest difference to Win at the time was being able to do 2 or more things at a time. eg DLing a file and using a telnet session. Win 3.1 utterly failed at that. Now with 384MBs and a 800 Mhz machine OS/2 flies though Firefox can still bring it to its knees so I run Seamonkey.
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What makes you think the gp was talking about Windows? Microsoft makes lots of software that only runs on Windows, eg wmf files, office, activeX and I'm sure many more.
With all these I have to use Windows or go without.
Actually in Canada it is illegal for businesses,trade unions etc to donate any money to political campaigns. Also individuals are limited to donating $1100. Unluckily this only came into effect on Jan 1,2007. See http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=gen&do cument=ec90557&dir=bkg&lang=e&textonly=false
Microsoft is a good example. They did not get where they are on consumer freedom. When better products came out they did more or less what is described in this article to misinform consumers, even going so far to put messages in Windows about not trusting the competition (DRDos then).
Continued the behaviour against OS/2 (BBS and Usenet).
And also manipulated the market in such a way that there was no choice when buying a prebuilt computer.
I know I have ended up owning too many copies of windows especially since Win 3.1 was enough to teach me that I didn't want to purchase it again
MS has been doing this for at least a dozen years (in slightly different forms) and it sure hasn't hurt them much yet.
Well that is interesting, especially that being a BC resident I had never heard this. Seems you are right though (https://pharmacare.moh.hnet.bc.ca/).
Now to register.
What perhaps you're missing is it is the type of gun as well.
As I understand it Switzerland has a high number of rifles where as the States has a high number of hand guns as well as rifles.
Another possibity (and I know nothing about the generic market) is the generic companies forming a co-op and sharing the price of the studies and then the sales
Actually the average Canadian still has to pay for their drugs. Exceptions include people on income assistance, pensioners and perhaps others.
Canada does work basically this way, minus the internet feed. I can show up at the polling place and watch the whole process and always there are members from all interested political parties watching.
The other thing with Canada is we keep the elections simple. One election for the federal government, different one for provincial and a different one for municipal.
This allows the various issues to stay seperate so voters are more likely to be informed.
Also the results are available pretty quickly as the countng is distributed.
Except lots of speedometers read high so the person who thinks they are going the speed limit are actually going 10% or so lower.
Very frustrating when the speed limit is low and your speedometer is accurate
Here in BC the way the red light cameras work is by taking 2 pictures, one entering the intersection and one leaving it. Both pictures have to show the light as red so entering the intersection on yellow is fine
This is one of the problems of voting in prosecuters (and Judges etc). You get prosecuters more interested in getting (re)elected then serving justice.
Best way to get reelected in certain states is to be seen as hard on sex criminals. Or at least not to be accused of being soft on crime by the opposition.
Innotek is an interesting company, one of the last OS/2 venders who have done quite a bit for OS/2. Products include
Porting Virtual PC to OS/2 before MS bought it out (and fixes so virtual PC runs OS/2)
Porting Alsa to OS/2. GPL questions about not releasing the 16 bit interface which the community rewrote and now we have the opensource Uniaud. Sound actually works better here then under Ubuntu.
Lots of work on Odin (think Wine from which much of the code comes from). Unluckily they closed of most of their later developments and there has been questions about whether they are breaking the GPL. Seems they have honoured the letter of the GPL but perhaps not the spirit.
Using Odin ported
Flash 5 (plus an illegal Flash 7 sneaked into the wild)
Java 1.4
Acrobat reader.
Also one of there most important developments (now maintained by the main porter) GCC 3.2.2 along with a new Libc as IBM would not distribute GPL code to build Mozilla.
This allows the Mozilla family to continue to run on OS/2 and many an open source program to build with configure and make.
Innotek libc is now klibc using GCC 3.3.5 and continues to improve.
Much better if you send them a hand written letter then an email. They view email as to easy and not carrying the same weight as a letter.
Also you do not need a stamp.
You mean they are a bunch of Newfies?
(For those who don't know Newfoundland is in a half hour timezone and on Canadian TV shows are always advertized as starting 1/2 hour later in Newfoundland. And of course the Newfies are just weird so are the butt of many a joke)
Actually the global cooling theory was a valid concern. The argument was that all the particulates that we were pumping into the atmosphere would reflect enough sunlight to cause global cooling. Thing is we cut way back on pumping particulates into the atmosphere and solved that problem.
Back in the '70s it was just not quite as obvious which would win out, CO2 raising the temperture or particulates lowering the temperture and both were argued.
I have also heard that up to 30% of global warming might be caused by solar variation. Which of course still leaves 70+% being man made but shows the rate of increase may vary depending on solar output.
Oh bull, we (Canada) have a free trade treaty with you which you have broken by putting tarifs on our wood there by stealing several billion dollars from us as well as driving up the price of your own housing.
Just google softwood lumber dispute.
If you remember the arguments in the '70s was whether CO2 would raise the temperature or all the particulates that we were emitting would cool the Earth or just cancel each other out. Since then we have cleaned up the particulates but not the CO2 so we are left with the global warming.
Also it was hard to roll your own before the operating system (Chicago) was released. Remember Office 95 was on the market pretty well instantly and everyone else had to play catch up.
I also have heard the rumours about IBM writing a WIN32 compatibility layer though I don't remember the 10000 undocumented APIs.
I do know that MS broke winos2 by moving various DLLs up into high memory with the release of WIN32s 1.30. At the time OS/2 only had 512 MB per process memory and needed to rewrite most of OS/2 to use high memory. Even today there are quite a few OS/2 APIs that can't be used from high memory (OS/2 now can support 3 GBs per process)
Also by the time V4 was released IBM outright owned their win3.1 fork and did no longer have to pay royalties to MS which is the reason that V4 only came in the blue box version with included winos2.
It was well supported by my primary operating system (yes, I'm still using OS/2) and also worked well with various DOS apps I used.
Now I have a sound card that works 90% in my primary operating system using Linux ported drivers, somewhat worse in Linux and not at all in DOS.
Well one thing that occurred to me was the one MS product I actually bought. The Microsoft Softcard (http://apple2history.org/museum/peripheralcards_n onapple/softcard.html) which was actually released in Mar of 1980. Always wondered if MS actually engineered this or bought it from someone else. :)
Ah, digging up the manual it lists Don Burtis of Burtronix as the designer and Vista Computer Co as the manufacturer. Guess this where Vista's name comes from
Also I'm sure they were also working on various forms of Basic.
Perhaps the one that will get passed if Harper wins a majority in the next election. Also in the case of a conservative majority expect a rewrite of the copyright laws to harmonize with the USA.
In Canada all blank CDRs include the levy. Also DLing music is legal though I don't think uploading is.
I started using OS/2 v3 on a 386/33 with 4 MBs of ram. Once I removed the WorkplaceShell it ran quite well. Sure you lost the WPS but it actually multitasked. Eventually I upgraded to 8 MBs and it ran great.
I can remember loading Quake, giving it 16 MB, took forever to load but ran great.
The biggest difference to Win at the time was being able to do 2 or more things at a time. eg DLing a file and using a telnet session. Win 3.1 utterly failed at that.
Now with 384MBs and a 800 Mhz machine OS/2 flies though Firefox can still bring it to its knees so I run Seamonkey.