"Well, they've done it again. In prime-time. With malice aforethought. The
duplicitous droogs, the denizens of deep-doodoo, I'm talking about Bill
Gates' Microsoft: caught in a bald-faced lie about HD DVD-ROM discs. This
is news? Not any more than the fact it's hot in Texas this summer or that
Katrina caused a lot of damage. It is, after all, the Microsoft way:
dishonesty in all things."

http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/0...6.shtml?tid=29

Imhotep

Jim Watt wrote:
Coaster, of course

Jim Watt wrote:

Ah no, there is a lot of data that can used here. Really, this article was
about M$ lying about the standard *they* want pushed. I imagine that the
Entertainment Industry wants MS to back HD DVD...

Jim, the story was not about OS/2 at all. It was about how M$ lied about the
reason why Win95 was slower than OS/2 on a Pentium pro when MS knew all
along. Really, when you look at it you see the overall strategy MS uses.
Add a couple of facts in a soup of lies and hope no one researches the
recipe...

Imhotep

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:36:47 +0200, Jim Watt <jimwatt@aol.no_way>
wrote:

Regardless of the "anti-ms" lobby:

OS/2 was in many ways, well ahead of it's time.

In fact, it was so good, that many companies (including large banks,
hospitals etc) were still using OS/2 past 2000.

The last time I personally used OS/2 was back in late 2001, and like
it or not, it was relatively rock solid.

That was a good 5 years after I first used OS/2.

Unfortunately, just like the entire DOS farce (which effectively gave
start to M$), IBM failed to capitialise and push for more companies to
use OS/2 and it eventually began to die.

I could find lots of uses. :-)

Dazz

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:15:30 +1000, Dazz <cashdj@hotmail.com> wrote:

<snipped>

Oh yeah, and the original context of the link was to highlight the way
that M$ will twist the facts in any way they can for their own
reasons.

M$ thrive on their FUD campaigns, regardless of the truth or the cost
of "buying" favourable comments.

Mind you, they are not alone in that.

Dazz

Imhotep wrote:

Ah, I think I found the cause for the M$ FUD...

With the Blue-Ray DVD technology any company can license it. Maybe that is
the cause for the WinMissInformation? Maybe the Entertainment industry does
no want that....

Imhotep

Jim Watt wrote:

<snipped>

That's interesting. I know that quite a few of Australia's largest banks
were using OS/2. I also know of other "big" companies that were also using
OS/2 up until a few years ago.

People were using Win98 for servers? ;-P

lol - but Betamax *was* better quality than VHS. :-)

Build it, and they will come.

I bet people were saying that about CD's and DVD's. Personally, I still
think that the bigger the hard drive you put into a computer, the more data
you get to lose. :-)

Seriously though, M$ should not be dictating what is happening in regards to
these sort of things, and instead, should be concentrating on putting out a
stable OS (or software for that matter) that isn't plagued with security
holes.

Certainly, they can inform us of whatever they want to include in their
product, but I'd much rather see them concentrating on getting their
existing products right.

Dazz

"Dazz" <cashdj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:to11k19hpqp0o8j384evgpork8o584jv8i@4ax.com...
Oh, too true ;o)

(Jibe not aimed at yourself, BTW. Let's see if guilt prompts a response)

Going vaguely on-topic, OS/2 is still in use in some banks - look for
dedicated teller hardware (on the desk, rather than behind it. Pun quite
possibly intended)

--

Hairy One Kenobi

Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!

Dazz wrote:
and Philips/Grundig V2000 kicked both their arses big time, but alas too
late in the game :`)

Am I showing my age? Sorry, I'll put me slippers on and shuffle off

Steve

"Steve Welsh" <nobody@linux.bogus> wrote in message
newsqednTcQn7hbDdzeRVnyiQ@eclipse.net.uk...
Hum. Apart from being able to be turned over to double the duration, Beta
was - from an image quality standpoint - /much/ better.

Well, I bought Oric over Spectrum. Made the technical choice the first time,
bought VHS (and content!) the second.

Match your age bid and call! D

--

Hairy One Kenobi

Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:50:53 +0200, Jim Watt <jimwatt@aol.no_way>
wrote:

Well, people were saying that just a few years ago about DVD +/-, and
these days, most DVD Burners now come with both, despite the
manufacturers at one stage saying that their format was the best.

It's really up to the consumer to decide.

Of course, the consumer doesn't always pick the best option. ;-P

I'm not too familar with the particulars, and while it may be read
only now, who knows what the future will hold. My guess is that long
term, the format won't be read-only. And then we'll be thinking how
we got buy with 4.7 Gb DVD's.

Regardless though, it shouldn't be up to a software company to dictate
to the consumer what they should or shouldn't have. A software
company should be listening to it's consumers and what they want, and
while they may favour one over the other, let the consumer decide.
It's their computer, it's their hardware, so why should one company
say "Well, we're not going to incorprorate it into our software
because we don't like it"?

Ultimately, it is there decision, but this is where the beauty of
Linux and Open Source shines through. Freedom from being tied down to
what one company dictates is best for me.

You would be surprised. For instance, a few years back I contracted
for a Gov entity that needed to keep records of their nurses on file.
This meant, that they needed to scan all the documentation of each
nurse and keep that on record.

When we're talking about tens of thousands of nurses and tens if not
hundreds of documents for each nurse that needed to be scanned in high
res, you'd see the practicality of having a 50Gb Optical Disc -
regardless of whether it was read-only.

Dazz

Dazz wrote:
OS. The OS was a bear to write device drivers to interface with
multiple other unknown devices. Device conflicts were not uncommon.
Applications had to be aware and interface with potential devices which
made application writing also a bit of a challenge. Windows won out
because of the API to the system devices. Development times for
application and drivers were significantly reduced which meant product
to market faster at lower cost to manufacture.

I find it interesting device interfacing is one of those issues still
with the Nixs. While there may be issues with the MS device interface,
it is significantly easier to build device drivers for the Linux
environs. This is one reason many devices never get a manufactures
driver for Linux: drivers are difficult to program and costly to
support. This has got some better in recent years with the support of
the open source community and manufactures releasing more information
about their devices to facilitate, but sadly very few manufacturers have
signed on to build drivers for Linux support. This means it is
typically 6 months from the time a device is released until a driver for
the new device and latest features reach the Linux community.

Winged

Imhotep wrote:
some of the studios have come out and said they support blue-ray. I
think we have awhile before a single standard emerges. I believe
market forces will decide this battle. Watch for cut rate prices early
in this battle on these devices as vendors try to capture market share.

Competition is good. Expect a bit of blood to fall before it is over.

Winged

Dazz wrote:
<snip>
Exactly. Software compies (or groups like Open Source) should not be
choosing our hardware. Period. Especially, when there are ulterior motives
involved...

Im

Winged wrote:

There have been changes recently. NVidia *does* write drivers for Linux and
BSD: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-7676.html. Also, ATI has
joined. I was talking with Verizon about their new broadband card for
laptops and they are also going to support Linux....


Im