Look, you moron. As was determined several months ago, you can't ENABLE the bluetooth functions that DO NOT EXIST on your v.710. They just plain AREN'T THERE to BE ENABLED. Jerk.
Sure, but unfortunatly, this guy had posted on the front page of his website "NOW DOWNLOADABLE - FULL LENGTH MOVIES" and then tied it to whatever movies were brand new at the theaters at the time.. now claims that they were two seperate things and that he only provided links to ways to download non-MPAA movies, and news about movies that were new at the theaters.
This guy, up against the MPAA, is just being a complete and total moron.
He's cheating people, and expecting them to pay for it now.
I'm sorry, Michael, but every message you write, I want to choke the shit out of you for being such a moron. "big news" is not owned by the MPAA. You are wrong, all you have done is tried to cheat people and now you're trying to get them to pay for your dumb ass.
I'd expect that the President of a company, any company, would at least be able to handle English to a better degree. (At least , a company based in an English speaking portion of the U.S.)
Some jerk off moderated this as a TROLL. Anyone care to explain how that's TROLLING, showing that the editors posting the stories are obviously promoting the theft of products and services!
I've never quite followed this free-speech and free-beer thing very well. Speech is free where I'm at, relatively speaking anyway, but you can bet your ass that beer is NOT free.
While this is true, it is not required. A friend of mine runs a store that has a gigantic sign above the door "NO RETURNS, PERIOD." Has a huge clothing business.
A corporation does not equal a person.. but, a privately owned business has pretty much the same rights that the owner of said business has.
Most businesses allow returns from a customer service standpoint. My friend's store doesn't allow returns from a customer service standpoint. He feels that you will be served to the utmost degree by the people that work for him, to the point where you will never buy something that you don't want, unless you're trying to rent a set of threads from him. And generally, he's right. He told me once, that he'd done 2 returns in 25 years. And he does six-digit sales from both of his locations.
What is it with Slashdot lately, glorifying stealing? An article today involving fining people for not accepting open software returns, and now glorifying people who steal an obviously valuable-to-many service? Great.
...fining people for not taking refunds on software? That is CRAP. No one has to refund -anything-. Ever. All that will do is incite every joe blow on earth to pirate every piece of software that they want. Buy it, install it, return it. But it, copy it, return it.
I bet Thangodin's intestines are currently being eaten by the Great Old One himself. Nice one arse, using the One's name that many times, is just asking to be brutally consumed.
Now, if only IBM would actually give us a useful Desktop, like.. oh.. PORT THE WORKPLACE SHELL TO RUN ON X11.. please? Give me the code, I'll do it, if you don't want to spare the resources.
I agree wholeheartedly. We could really use an X11 WorkPlaceShell. That would be -so- awesome.
My first major use of Warp, though, on a 4MB 40MHz 486 (with the WPS disabled, as it was just about impossible to use the machine with it loaded on 4MB), running Descent in one DOS box(which required 8MB) and Telemate in another DOS box, and Descent was performing equally as well as my roommate's 486/66 with 16MB RAM in DOS.
Well, certainly, but I highly doubt that the V3.0 install disks are going to work with much of anything. They don't even support hard drives larger than 2GB. (not partitions, drives) (i could be wrong about this, it's been a long damn time since i've used OS/2.. and V3.0 I last booted on a 486/80MHz with 32MB RAM, and a top-of-the-line 820MB hard drive.:)
(that was also the machine that I upgraded to 4.0 when it came out, but by then it was a Pentium 133 with 96MB)
At the time, I was selling IBM machines at retail, that came pre-loaded with Windows '95 and OS/2 Warp v3. Unfortunatly, the only machines that came WITH OS/2 preloaded were the ones that had 4-8MB RAM, the ones with 16-32MB (the top of the line machines) didn't have OS/2 preloaded.
I sold probably 50 of those machines in the course of the month or so that we carried them.. the only two people told me that the only reason they booted OS/2 was because it had a "much better version of Solitaire". I had made a custom disk that would update the CONFIG.SYS and other startup files to make OS/2 run somewhat faster in the extreme memory constraints.. but.. with the best parts of OS/2 installed.. using it on an 8MB machine was just about torture.
Probably wouldn't run on a LOT of modern hardware without some SERIOUS driver upgrades. Perhaps the people at eComStation, might be able to help.
If nothing else, somehow managing to get a whole new set of drivers out of the last FixPaks for OS/2 v3 may help, but that might be pretty difficult getting them onto the install disks.
I've got a full set of Warp 3.0 floppies.. but nothing that will read them.. and I think the Installation disk that boots is messed up.
Somewhere I've got the boot floppies for Warp 4.0, but I can't find the CD anywhere:( just my Merlin Beta Test CDs, that definitely don't work on modern hardware...
I'd really like to try OS/2 on some modern hardware, to see how it flies.. but.. sigh.
...or require you to get someone who does have physical access to the machine to run it. If you can get someone who does have root to run a program that opens up a setuid shell, hey, there ya go.:)
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Look, you moron. As was determined several months ago, you can't ENABLE the bluetooth functions that DO NOT EXIST on your v.710. They just plain AREN'T THERE to BE ENABLED. Jerk.
Sure, but unfortunatly, this guy had posted on the front page of his website "NOW DOWNLOADABLE - FULL LENGTH MOVIES" and then tied it to whatever movies were brand new at the theaters at the time.. now claims that they were two seperate things and that he only provided links to ways to download non-MPAA movies, and news about movies that were new at the theaters.
This guy, up against the MPAA, is just being a complete and total moron.
He's cheating people, and expecting them to pay for it now.
I'm sorry, Michael, but every message you write, I want to choke the shit out of you for being such a moron. "big news" is not owned by the MPAA. You are wrong, all you have done is tried to cheat people and now you're trying to get them to pay for your dumb ass.
Just sign your letters,
"Michael Jay Rossi. Moron at Large."
You're making no sense. Please, go away.
I'd expect that the President of a company, any company, would at least be able to handle English to a better degree. (At least , a company based in an English speaking portion of the U.S.)
Does anything this guy just said make sense?
Some jerk off moderated this as a TROLL. Anyone care to explain how that's TROLLING, showing that the editors posting the stories are obviously promoting the theft of products and services!
I've never quite followed this free-speech and free-beer thing very well. Speech is free where I'm at, relatively speaking anyway, but you can bet your ass that beer is NOT free.
While this is true, it is not required. A friend of mine runs a store that has a gigantic sign above the door "NO RETURNS, PERIOD." Has a huge clothing business.
A corporation does not equal a person.. but, a privately owned business has pretty much the same rights that the owner of said business has.
Most businesses allow returns from a customer service standpoint. My friend's store doesn't allow returns from a customer service standpoint. He feels that you will be served to the utmost degree by the people that work for him, to the point where you will never buy something that you don't want, unless you're trying to rent a set of threads from him. And generally, he's right. He told me once, that he'd done 2 returns in 25 years. And he does six-digit sales from both of his locations.
So, why are you personally attacking me, since you're not even talking about the same thing I am?
*boggle*
What is it with Slashdot lately, glorifying stealing? An article today involving fining people for not accepting open software returns, and now glorifying people who steal an obviously valuable-to-many service? Great.
...fining people for not taking refunds on software? That is CRAP. No one has to refund -anything-. Ever. All that will do is incite every joe blow on earth to pirate every piece of software that they want. Buy it, install it, return it. But it, copy it, return it.
Serious, serious problems.
I bet Thangodin's intestines are currently being eaten by the Great Old One himself. Nice one arse, using the One's name that many times, is just asking to be brutally consumed.
Yes, and the easiest way to do this is by supplying too much voltage, causing the magic smoke to get really agitated and look for a new device.
Good looks and hard cash breed confidence, though.
Now, if only IBM would actually give us a useful Desktop, like.. oh.. PORT THE WORKPLACE SHELL TO RUN ON X11.. please? Give me the code, I'll do it, if you don't want to spare the resources.
goddamn, that's so freakin' gay.
er...
I agree wholeheartedly. We could really use an X11 WorkPlaceShell. That would be -so- awesome.
My first major use of Warp, though, on a 4MB 40MHz 486 (with the WPS disabled, as it was just about impossible to use the machine with it loaded on 4MB), running Descent in one DOS box(which required 8MB) and Telemate in another DOS box, and Descent was performing equally as well as my roommate's 486/66 with 16MB RAM in DOS.
Well, certainly, but I highly doubt that the V3.0 install disks are going to work with much of anything. They don't even support hard drives larger than 2GB. (not partitions, drives) (i could be wrong about this, it's been a long damn time since i've used OS/2.. and V3.0 I last booted on a 486/80MHz with 32MB RAM, and a top-of-the-line 820MB hard drive. :)
(that was also the machine that I upgraded to 4.0 when it came out, but by then it was a Pentium 133 with 96MB)
er.. newer versions of Adobe Reader can search it just fine...
and now, penny-arcade.com is slashdotted :(
At the time, I was selling IBM machines at retail, that came pre-loaded with Windows '95 and OS/2 Warp v3. Unfortunatly, the only machines that came WITH OS/2 preloaded were the ones that had 4-8MB RAM, the ones with 16-32MB (the top of the line machines) didn't have OS/2 preloaded.
I sold probably 50 of those machines in the course of the month or so that we carried them.. the only two people told me that the only reason they booted OS/2 was because it had a "much better version of Solitaire". I had made a custom disk that would update the CONFIG.SYS and other startup files to make OS/2 run somewhat faster in the extreme memory constraints.. but.. with the best parts of OS/2 installed.. using it on an 8MB machine was just about torture.
The point was not that they were correct, the point was how successful OS/2 ended up being in the consumer market place.
.. very memorable ads.. but no one ever got the point.
Unfortunatly, as eye catching as this is, it'll probably do about as much good as IBM's nuns ads
Probably wouldn't run on a LOT of modern hardware without some SERIOUS driver upgrades. Perhaps the people at eComStation, might be able to help.
:( just my Merlin Beta Test CDs, that definitely don't work on modern hardware...
If nothing else, somehow managing to get a whole new set of drivers out of the last FixPaks for OS/2 v3 may help, but that might be pretty difficult getting them onto the install disks.
I've got a full set of Warp 3.0 floppies.. but nothing that will read them.. and I think the Installation disk that boots is messed up.
Somewhere I've got the boot floppies for Warp 4.0, but I can't find the CD anywhere
I'd really like to try OS/2 on some modern hardware, to see how it flies.. but.. sigh.
...or require you to get someone who does have physical access to the machine to run it. If you can get someone who does have root to run a program that opens up a setuid shell, hey, there ya go. :)
See also "toothing" .. finding partners for sex using Bluetooth mobile phones