From: Anthony Farr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Cotty
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:16 AM
> To: pentax list
> Subject: Re: OT - British PM
>
> On 23/2/09, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
> >Comes up with a message box that sez I gotta' use Internet Exploder to
> >watch it.
>
> It's a crap website. I can watch on Safari and Firefox on a Mac.
>
> --
It worked OK on Chrome, but I had to allow all cookies which I hate doing.
Interestingly, the system detection told me I was using Safari in Windows NT
5.1 (I'm actually on WinXP Home. Apparently (in my untrained estimation)
Chrome is a Safari based browser even though there's no Safari for Windows.
All Micro$shaft current WinDOS "operating systems" are actually Windows
NT dressed up in the emperor's new clothes; Windows NT 2000 and
WindowsXP are Windows NT 5.x and Vista is Windows NT 7.x.
Windows NT 6.x is a version of Windows NT Server.
There's nothing in the new versions except bug fixes to undo the damage
done by previous bug fixes and some unwanted changes the shell so
previous versions of M$ Office and other M$ applications stop working
forcing you to "upgrade".
All the new names are just a legalistic gimmick to evade antitrust
oversight and evade contractual obligations; like naming Windows 95 was
intended to break away from the "Windows x.x" name hierarchy which was,
in fact, a trademark owned by IBM and due to revert to IBM in 2000.
It's like when Intel named their new "586" processor "Pentium".
When IBM selected the Intel 8086 for the first generation IBM PC, they
required Intel to have a second source for CPU chips in case Intel
couldn't meet demand.
Intel contracted with AMD, but the contract allowed AMD rights to
subsequent x86 processor generations, and AMD was able to enforce their
rights in court when Intel attempted to abrogate the contract when the
Intel 80486 chip took off.
There's some interesting things about Windows that are not widely known.
The first successful version of Windows, Windows 3.0 was written by IBM,
because Microsoft was bogged down with OS/2 v.1.0 (which sucked like a
Hoover). IBM had to take over writing OS/2 and produced first a bug fix,
OS/2 v1.10 and then OS/2 v2.0, which was the first really good version
of OS/2.
Windows 3.1 was an add-on written by Microsoft that added no utility to
Windows itself, but made programs written to Windows 3.1 "standards"
unable to run under OS/2 v.2.0 ... which IBM immediately fixed by
releasing an OS/2 v.2.1 upgrade.
OS/2 v.3.0, AKA WARP, was fantastic, rock solid & stable; did everything
Windows 95 promised and couldn't (including full support for USB)... 9
months before Windows 95 was even vapor-ware - but IBM literally
couldn't give it away.
Doing just that was seriously discussed in the PC Company where I
worked, but the idea was discarded after objections by IBM's legal
department, for fear of the U.S. Justice Department's reaction. In 1994,
while I was working there, IBM was still operating under the antitrust
consent decree they signed with the U.S Justice Department in 1956.
One of my jobs was to work out memory management on IBM PC DOS 7.0
running on a Thinkpad 755cd so it could have 720k of conventional memory
available so Microsoft's sales force could load their "Windows 95 demo".
The easy way to do it was run a virtual DOS machine in Warp (OS/2 v3.0)
and tell it to use 720K, but Microsoft didn't want to do that.
Anyway, OS/2 had great technology and no marketing, and was buried by
Microsoft's fantastic marketing of their nonexistent technology.
Frickin' IBM couldn't sell ice-water in hell.
BTW, if you pull up the version information for Windows 95, it will tell
you it's MS DOS 7.0
PS BTW, I dragged out Internet Exploder (I didn't bother to expunge it
from this system, just hid it away) and watched the video. It *IS*
fairly smooth and un-bouncy.
Does modern commercial video equipment include image stabilization?
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