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« on: 2011.02.11, 02:08:42 »
And I have my limits too... so please let's keep the conversation civil, regardless of who agrees with who - or why people don't agree.
So, again, civil please. No personal attacks. No incivility. These forums are not the place for it.
Robert.
I think that you have been tolerant enough as a moderator.
And I have made my point.
Still, a rare, little, squirt of adrenaline in a community can never hurt.
But I understand your position, so enough said.
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« on: 2011.02.11, 01:19:31 »
You watch way too much TV Doug
As a matter of fact, about all that I watch on TV, is the evening news. True, that can be detrimental to mental health.
I am not going to argue with you any more. If you wish to believe the crap that you have been spouting, go ahead. I know better. I was flat out told that the IBM PC was only a "toy" by one of IBM's upper management, in about 1983 (long after the obvious potential was apparent to those who knew anything at all about them). That attitude has never changed, to this day. Gerstner (who admitted that he knows absolutely NOTHING about computers) killed off the PC division (including DOS, and OS/2), simply because they weren't showing a profit, and it was something that he could do to earn his wages. He knew that IBM would recover, no matter what he did, or didn't do, but he had to do something to show that he did do something, so it was the PC division that was chosen to go under the axe. At the time, he had no idea that large customers would insist that they keep it alive for as long as they did, but the die was cast, and eventually they did manage to pull the plug (long after the company was out of trouble, and Gerstner was gone). Gerstner was not the only director that knew nothing about computers. I doubt if any of the current board really knows much more than how to power on their laptop, and do e-mail. The Watsons were the last of the directors who had any real vision about where IBM was going. Since they were replaced, IBM has turned into a very ordinary company, with little direction from the board of directors, and it has been an uphill battle for anyone in the company to actually accomplish anything, but that is nothing new, it seems to be a problem in almost every publicly owned company on earth. Too bad, because there are a lot of talented people, who could do great things, if those idiots would just get out of the way.
Doug, you either do not read what you write, you do not understand what you are trying to say, or you simply don't care.
Firstly, I'm not arguing with you about anything.
Secondly, I do not care where you get your SPIN, or if you like it through a straw or intravenously.
Thirdly, simply ignoring the points of an "argument" is not enough to nullify their strength. They exist and they hold their own merit... to which you offer no counter.
So if you think that you are in an argument with me and want to take your ball and go home and curl up in the fetal position then go ahead. But don't try to pass your bullshit off as knowledge to me, or in some area where I have input, because I have my limits.
I know what happened and I back up what I have written. If anyone wants to check it, they can easily do it for I have sourced it... as any good researcher will do. Yet, you do not... and rumoured reports of a casual conversation is NOT research.
It is a mere convenience for you to write "arguing" for it implies equality of research. It is a convenience for you to write it all off as "crap" for then you do not have to address it. Why?
Because you are unable too.
Why?
Because SPIN cannot be backed up. By it's very nature it is deceptive, groundless, and cannot be substantiated. It relies upon gullibility, naivete and laziness to proliferate.
Fourthly, I did not write for you, (as you would know if you had read my replies), nor to you except where specifically mentioned save this particular message; I was writing to those who must suffer through your spoon-fed SPIN.
I do not care what you believe for I do not know you. I just refuse to read regurgitated SPIN passed off as "knowledge" anymore. So I offered the benefits of my research to the OS/2 World community so that they can have an insight into the deeper aspects of it all and aren't limited to the confines of your petty ramblings.
If you don't like what I write, do not read it.
And if you cannot back up what you write then for god-sake have the common sense to not respond to my posts. For your garbled, near-unreadable, replies were never required to begin with.
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« on: 2011.02.09, 14:44:48 »
....conspiracy theory of IBM, ..
"Conspiracy Theory?"
You watch way too much TV Doug. Turn it off. It isn't doing your brain any good.
I would suggest reading a book, (non-fiction), or two, it will serve you much better.
For those who would like to understand that whole debacle and who IBM really is, I would suggest the "Crime And Punishment of IG Farben" by Joseph Borken and "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black and any good book on the Nuremberg Trials. The latter will open your eyes on a lot of things. Any good professor, (or student), of history worth his salt already knows this, but it's mostly hidden from the public in general.
However, from those two alone you can "understand" rather than recite TV articles and propaganda and try to pawn it off as knowledge. In supplement I recommend any history book written by someone who was actually involved in what happened and not those that are pushed by the media and written by SPIN doctors.
Twenty years ago everyone knew that TV was bullsh*t and laughed at most of what was on it in ridicule. Today people think that it is an extension of their brains. Like any real knowledge would ever be handed to you while you sit in your chair in a trance.
Good lord. Next thing you know people will be thinking that soap operas represent the real world and that "reality" TV is distilled life.
And I would suggest, Doug, that you stop pushing that the board of directors of the largest computer company that has ever existed, didn't know what a computer was... PC or no. It doesn't do anything good for your credibility but tells of your naivety. It's about as believable as the Innu, (Eskimos to some), not knowing what ice is.
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« on: 2011.02.08, 22:38:10 »
but if you think that the IBM executives didn't know what they were doing in putting Windows ahead of OS/2, I think a bit more pondering is in order; They certainly did know and the results of that is insultingly obvious... especially to OS/2 users.
Actually, that isn't right. The top IBM executives, at the time, didn't even know what a personal computer was, and when they were told about it, they thought about the old game machines that were just beginning to actually show up.
That was the SPIN at the time... which is always designed to keep us ignorant of what they're actually up to. Knowledgeable masses get in the way of higher executive decisions. And they know that we'll readily believe any SPIN, regardless of how ridiculous.
Remember that actions speak louder than words and by the fruits of their labour we shall recognize them. Their labours, not their words. And when you look at it from the "observation" perspective, (laying aside the read/listen perspective), it is clear what was happening.
Of course the IBM executives knew what a personal computer was. There is no way that they could not. The thing is, in lack of other information, most of the mass have no choice, but to accept the proffered SPIN. What I was offering was insight into what goes on behind the SPIN. Some readers have interest in that. Others LOVE their dogma and would eat it by the cold can if they could. 8( It is up to each person to decide, down which path they will walk through the arc of their life.
Media means "middle" as in middle man. The rich own the media. It is their construct. It is not healthy to believe that they would keep us informed as to what they are up to. It is in the their interest to keep us in the dark... and they do.
As old John D. Rockefeller said, "I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers!" And when someone with the power to make that come true says that is his intent, you'd be unwise to think that a) he doesn't mean it and, b) that he cannot pull it off.
The IBM personal computer was created to do a job, just as ARPA net was... just as Windows was. IBM did it's job in creating and releasing into public domain, the IBM Personal PC specifications. Isn't it a lovely little coincidence that this trinity of events all happened at the right time and against all odds And if you really sit and think about it you'll find that It could not have been otherwise given the forces pushing it... in turn, in one synchronous direction. There is no problem finding the necessaries to confirm it through a little research. As many things in this world, it's simply a matter of choice; Bulb on. Bulb off. For in ignorance there is a comfort, but illumination reveals a path.
Also, keep in mind that they always play out the dialectic, meaning create the illusion of competition in order to make things look like a natural developing standard albeit, through a series of ridiculously, preposterous and extraordinarily unlikely events. Beria, (Lavrenti Pavlovich), made that clear many years ago as the head of the NKVD and later the better known incarnation of it, the KGB. He said openly, and I paraphrase, that the course of events of humanity can go in many thousands of ways, but the one that we are creating, must appear to be the only, naturally developing one... that is, before they knocked him off for shooting his mouth off.
IBM was the biggest corporation on the face of the earth, even in its shattered state, and it could do anything that it wanted to do as is evidenced by their setting up and running the computers that bar-coded and tracked via serialized tattoos, the prisoners in all of Hitler's NAZI concentration camps... as all came out in the open at the Nuremberg Trials and is heavily documented.
However, how is it that they got away with it? Well, I have answered that already.
However, I seek to inform, not to lecture, so I'll leave it there.Somebody (I don't remember the name at the moment) managed to get the project past those guys, and it became a reality. Of course, they needed software, and happened to have some connection to Bill Gates (totally unknown, at that time). He managed to cobble together something that came to be known as DOS. After about 3 attempts to get it right, IBM decided to port the VM operating system to work on a PC. Well, the 286 was current at that time, and it wasn't quite capable of running such a system (which was running on the medium size mainframes of the day - MVS was mostly used on the large mainframes), so IBM told Intel how to build the 386 so that it would work properly. Of course, IBM wanted no part of the overhead required to do the project, so they had Microsoft do it for them. After it got royally screwed up, IBM took it back, and put some resources behind it, and produced OS/2 1.2. By that time, MS realized that the old DOS (which IBM also took, and fixed, with the IBM DOS versions) had a limited life. They also realized that they didn't have the expertise to be able to do a proper OS/2, so they took what they could, took out a lot of the safeguards, which made it faster, added a fancy GUI (idea stolen from Mac), and pushed windows out the door. Fortunately for MS, IBM took their time, and produced OS/2 2.0, so MS had time to get windows updated to something that the public thought was pretty neat, and they got the manufacturers sucked into preloading it. Meanwhile, IBM, knowing nothing at all about selling to the public, managed to sell OS/2 to the government, and the large corporations (their only customers at the time).
Then, some bright sales guy got the idea that they should sell PCs, and OS/2, to the public. Well, that didn't work out to well, and then there was an economic downturn, that left IBM in a bit of trouble. That was about the time that Gerstner took over, and he knew next to nothing about computers. He did know, however, that the PC division (which included the OS/2 group) wasn't making any money. Being your typical head office "make money, or else" type, he pulled the plug. It was easy to get OS/2 shut down, although it lasted longer than they had thought, simply because large business, and government, insisted that they keep it alive, but it took a long time to sell off the rest of the PC business. By this time, MS was a completely separate company, and we all know that story. IBM executives, to this day, still believe that the PC is a toy, that will never be used seriously.
I am familiar with how it was "played out" on the "world stage", (for it is... or was... an act), and you worded it nicely. Take the two now and merge them together and you'll get a glimpse behind the veil of what goes on hidden, behind the scenes, at the higher levels.The bottom line is, that Bill Gates, and Microsoft, took full advantage of what they could, and did well. IBM blew it big time and missed out. IBM today, is surviving on the research that they did in the 70s, but there is little new being developed.
It could not have worked out any other way. From start to finish it was planned, (mostly between the 1st and 2nd World Wars), and executed thereafter. It's well documented. Research it some time... it will be a real eye-opener for you.
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« on: 2011.02.08, 05:03:18 »
It's a long story, which you can find by googling, but the short version is that IBM upper management, at the time, were (and still are) a bunch of idiots who thought that personal computers would never be used by serious computer users. They fully expected that PCs were a passing fad, that would eventually go away in favor of huge central computer complexes that people would access using dumb terminals. Therefore, they pretty well ignored the whole thing, and let their internal departments fight over what they would support. The PC manufacturing division didn't like the OS/2 development division, and the other way around, (apparently, they were across the hall), and pretty well refused to have anything to do with each other. Therefore, IBM manufactured PCs with Windows pre-installed (as did all other manufacturers), and OS/2 was only installed when the sales force realized that some customers actually wanted something better, and insisted that OS/2 be pre-installed. Of course, windows was also pre-installed, just because the manufacturing division wanted it that way.
I agree with most of that Doug, but if you think that the IBM executives didn't know what they were doing in putting Windows ahead of OS/2, I think a bit more pondering is in order; They certainly did know and the results of that is insultingly obvious... especially to OS/2 users.
I know that you were around and into computers, (more or less), around the time that little Billy Gates himself was placed in front of a computer, (and he was 'placed' there). Cast your mind back to that time period for a few minutes while you have a cup of tea.
Have you ever thought about how odd and how extremely unlikely his meteoric rise to fame was? Just look into who his father was and the organizations that he was attached to. Mighty convenient that his son/sun was extremely bright and shone heavily in an area that he knew nothing about. Perhaps some doors were opened for him and things "handed" to him. Why? Ever use any of his products? Ever ask why he got away with an incredible string of crimes that no one before in modern, commercial history has pulled off? We aren't talking about dime store robberies here either. We're talking crimes involving mega millions, (in total), thousands of employees, the direction of a nation, (or nations), and the creating, storing, and viewing, of massive amounts of data, personal, intellectual, financial, and governmental. He was untouchable. Even when Small n' Limp, (read Micro Soft), was Soft n' Shriveled, in prepubescence and his pools of money were the dripping, drools of late teenage-hood. Try and think of only one person who has done 1/100th, nay, 1/1000th of what he has gotten away with.
Take your time.
Waste your time.
You aren't going to find one.
Within the confines of what I described above, he is in a league of his own. This cannot happen on the merits of any genius regardless of magnitude, and certainly not on the merits of someone with highly, dubious brain power. He was backed by powerful forces, right from the start. And those powerful forces worship the same god as these incredibly smart and well-positioned IBM executives, if you "spotted my allegory"... or "catch my drift." 
Those at the top of IBM made Bill Gates and they made Small n' Limp too! M$ was a "must be" as they say in psychiatry. Think "windows", (as in a pain/pane), NSA, (any backdoor contracts come to mind?), and ask yourself what the Gates family and the High Priests, ( or "Bab"s... as in Babel), have in common and you'll see a connection. Hint: it's green and lightweight and something that no one that runs OS/2 has, (the exception not breaking the rule).
The answer as to why the IBM Babs opened the doors wide for the BGees, (the priests of Billy Gates' M$), is clear and shining in the open. Blinkers can reduce the glare, but it also can, albeit inadvertently, hide the obvious. And sometimes hidden in plain sight means lost to the mind, (that's my version of the cliched "out of sight out of mind").
And look who BG is associated with now for chrissake. And look at his latest videos and what he's talking about. What in the name of cankerous crotch-rot is Bastard Billie doing pushing "vaccinations" down everyone's throats? What business is it of his? And what the hell is he doing talking about big-bred mosquitoes being developed as a delivery system for these shots? Coot-throw-at, (say it), Gates is as far from a philanthropist as Mao Zedong was from a seamstress.
That may be a soft segue from the top, topic, but it is past time that somebody threw away that now ancient story of the IBM execs being idiots for they are anything but!
I'm not saying that I liked or agree with what they did and once you ponder the obvious implications of "why" they did it, it has to go a lot deeper than someone not "liking" what they did as anyone that thinks can understand, for the roots of it go as deep as the Tree of Life... if you understand the duality of that. (If not, it's nothing that a little research won't fix).
Now this is no reflection on you, Doug, I think that you're a welcomed plus to the OS/2 community, but I just had to shatter the glass on that one and you just happened to be the latest --in a looong string-- to say it. 
Now if you have gotten this far dear readers, and you have a headache, then I have caused a cascade reaction in your mind. That means that new brain cells are about to be created and in a few days you'll be every so slightly smarter than you were before you read this... and I will have done my job... at least in as much as is possible in this miniscule, micro'd, message, maker where four lines make a flood! and "Preview" a two-tiered ship!

PS.
Now if any of this needs clarification, that is what Private Messaging and E-mail is for. But read this message through a few times in totality, before sending...
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« on: 2011.02.04, 22:00:43 »
Interesting note on AMPOS/2... as some of you may have guessed if you have followed the sig in my posts, we run a very active website and a very active forum (with the forum on AMPOS/2)
Errr... surely, Robert, you do not mean This forum on the AMPOS/2 website. The last post there is dated in the year 2008.
Then, you mean the forum located in your signature URL at Star Trek New Voyages... That's an odd place to keep the new AMPOS/2 forum.
I must say, I would never have looked to find it there had you not have mentioned it.
So, off I go to explore... *dons his adventuring gear and grabs his most favourite girl who has the bestest ass-et... a tea thermos!*
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« on: 2011.01.16, 21:42:17 »
From your reply It seems like you have found your name. 
However, just FYI, "MMM" is pronounced as it is spelled... like something that tastes delicious! Like "hot chocolate and Drambuie" on a cold night after a meal of garlic-buttered, shrimp surrounded by a circlet of browned rice and finished off with a slab of Black Forest cake, drenched in an almond-rum sauce with a pretty and shapely, well-dressed, lady, (with long hair and lovely lashes), who simply cannot stop smiling at you! MMMmmmmm!
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« on: 2011.01.16, 18:44:00 »
AVXCAT is a bit cryptic and tends to look a little be like a cached file name auto-generated by a program... whereas this thread implies a leaning towards something more user-friendly. However, I'm not unaware of the fact that most of the good names have been taken.
My personal favourite so far, is my last offer, (less the joke part), of "Audio Video Manipulator/2", which is self-defining.
If , (and that's a big "if"
), you want a few more options, I'll run another list when I get a moment.
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« on: 2011.01.15, 19:16:32 »
How about "AV Tool/2"
or
"MM Tool/2"
or
"MMM" as in Multi Media Manipulator
or
"Show & Tell Tool"
or
"Sound & Vision Master"
or
"Cut & Convert/2"
or
"AV Director/2"
or
"I'll Call It Whatever The Fook I Want To Call It Because I Created This Gaddam Audio & Video Manipulator/2"
Just a few suggestions for you to work upon... in case you haven't settled yet.
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« on: 2011.01.11, 03:11:30 »
NFTP was made public.
It's an FTP client
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« on: 2011.01.04, 14:57:56 »
For my part Dee, I'd rather have precision. While my machines are far from current, they aren't ancient either.
Now I know some with ancient machines will rather go for speed; I'll leave that up to them to voice where my fingers will type my stance. So... give me precision.
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« on: 2011.01.01, 01:04:21 »
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R! OS/2 WORLD! 
May the coming year be as good to OS/2, (eCS), as 2010 was!
And may your personal year be better still...
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« on: 2010.12.29, 18:58:12 »
OK.
I found the problem... I mean besides the fact that I had several GMB.DLL(s) scattered around my drives. 
The problem was the 1.71 version of that library was not installed.
Once I over wrote the old with the new, the *.jp2 files loaded, albeit as you said, Ian, slowly. But conversion solves this issue.
Thanks for the help people, now I can view these very-high resolution files.
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« on: 2010.12.29, 17:14:49 »
Thanks, Ian.
I'm pretty sure that I have the latest GBM installed. What that implies is two versions on different paths.
I'll do a sweep and relay findings and results.
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