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[Mxsmanic]

John Doe writes:

Given your persistent single level quoting only, the context of your
argument is anybody's guess, but if you're talking about the time
Microsoft Windows succeeded over IBM's OS/2, Microsoft won the
battle by virtue of having all of the APIs from Windows 3.1 to use
with Windows 95, and the huge base of applications to go with it.

OS/2 could have supported Windows applications, but it didn't (at
least not completely and well).

In those days Microsoft was the underdog, and the angry young males
were rooting for it instead of IBM. It's amusing to see how history
is now being revised so that the currently dominant player can be
portrayed as the bad guy even back then. We're not at war with
Eastasia, we're at war with Eurasia.

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[David Maynard]

Mxsmanic wrote:

John Doe writes:


But seriously. Microsoft was known to hold monopoly power over the
personal computer operating system market long before our courts
finalized the issue.


The courts didn't finalize anything, except in a restricted legal
sense, and there was no general consensus on such questions before or
after the courts gave their opinions.

Few people dispute that Microsoft has a dominant position in a handful
of key markets, most notably in PC desktop operating systems. Whether
or not this is a monopoly or a harmful monopoly is a much more open
question.

You need to be careful about the word 'monopoly' because the court's ruling
is routinely misstated. The court did not find that Microsoft was "a
monopoly" but that they "held monopoly power." They're not the same thing
and neither, in and of themselves alone, mean anything devious or illegal
took place.

Most people have a decent enough grasp of what a "monopoly" is but "holds
monopoly power" is a legal term of art that, in colloquial terms, is akin
to your comment that Microsoft has a dominate market position.

Technically, 'monopoly power' is the ability to control price and/or
exclude competition but you need not even do it, simply being 'able' to is
enough, and the courts often interpret 'control' to an easier
'significantly influence' and 'exclude' to 'significantly inhibit'.

"Monopoly Power" is not tied to market share although the courts often use
it as an 'indicator' anyway.

To make matters even more confusing, 'harsh' business practices, even by
someone holding monopoly power, is not necessarily an anti-trust violation
as the appeals court ruling in Intergraph Corporation v. Intel Corp., 195
F.3d 1346 (Fed. Cir. 1999) stated: "the Sherman Act does not convert all
harsh commercial actions into antitrust violations. Unilateral conduct that
may adversely affect another’s business situation, but is not intended to
monopolize that business, does not violate the Sherman Act."

The Netscape matter is interesting because they began by giving their
browser away then, when they had 84% market share, began charging for it,
which would seem to be an exercise in monopolistic power... but maybe no
one sued. Then, when Microsoft gives away their browser, Netscape brings
suit against Microsoft for doing the same thing they had done to get an 84%
market share.

Amusing, eh?

Intel has a comparable market share (currently around 81%, vs. 94% for
Microsoft in the desktop OS arena), and yet it does not appear to
raise so many questions of monopoly. I think in part that is because
the average geek cannot fancy himself building a chip fabrication
facility and competing with Intel, whereas many geeks like to imagine
building a software product that somehow competes with Microsoft. And
many more geeks would like to work for Microsoft, which is more
willing to hire people with no education. Chips don't engender the
same emotions and envy, in any case.

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[David Maynard]

Mxsmanic wrote:

John Doe writes:


Given your persistent single level quoting only, the context of your
argument is anybody's guess, but if you're talking about the time
Microsoft Windows succeeded over IBM's OS/2, Microsoft won the
battle by virtue of having all of the APIs from Windows 3.1 to use
with Windows 95, and the huge base of applications to go with it.


OS/2 could have supported Windows applications, but it didn't (at
least not completely and well).

Well, they did, in fact, eventually tout that OS/2 would 'run Windows
software' which, in market terms, is tantamount to declaring Windows 'the
standard'. And then one asks, why not just get 'the real thing'?

IBM completely misjudged the market and what 'the competition' was. It
wasn't 'windows', it was MS Office. People didn't give a rat's behind what
the O.S. was, they wanted Office to work and it ran on Windows so, you get
Windows.

Which is why OS/2 fans can scream all they want about how OS/2 was
'technically superior' because the only 'technical' thing that really
mattered to the market was how well MS Office ran.

Now, if IBM had teamed up with Wordperfect, back when Wordperfect was still
the defacto PC word processing standard, and developed a GUI version along
with OS/2 they might have been able to successfully compete in that arena.

In those days Microsoft was the underdog, and the angry young males
were rooting for it instead of IBM. It's amusing to see how history
is now being revised so that the currently dominant player can be
portrayed as the bad guy even back then. We're not at war with
Eastasia, we're at war with Eurasia.

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[Porky]

tempus fugit

Still alive and kicking John, lol.

The "death cap" I assume is the one that is connected
from the live to the chassis? I'm not sure that there even is one in this
unit,

Yes, there is often a .05 or so cap from live to chassis on
transformerless tube gear. It's main purpose is to turn the chassis
into a sheild to keep radio interference.from being detected by the
device. It's secondary function is to shock the @@#$ out of you when it
shorts, (although they are rated at 600v and don't carry much current,
so failures are usually due to moisture and disuse).
If you have small kids, keep them away from the thing. After it is
fixed, install an isolation transformer for $30. Yuo can even build
your own by connecting 2 12V trannys back-to-back. This isolates the
voltages in the chassis from those in your house = no more shocks.
Cheers.

JK

 

[James Sweet]

amcwill417 wrote:

Sony CRT TV. Audio OK. If the set is turned on all is normal for a minute
or so. Then the picture is gone and screen fills with uniform illumination
plus about 20 or so fine horizontal lines slightly tilted up on the right.
After a few more seconds the screen gradually gets very bright white and,
wham, the set clicks off by itself. If I turn the set on again it repeats.
Anyone have a clue as to what is wrong?

Alex

Sounds like a HV regulation problem, HV is increasing until the Xray
protection kicks it off. Could be as simple as a solder joint or a
capacitor.

 

[John Doe]

"BillW50" <BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:

"John Doe" <jdoe usenet.love.invalid> wrote

I didn't have to wait for the system to tell me that Microsoft
owns personal computer software.

Me neither. Yes Microsoft does develop personal computer software.
But so does thousands of other companies as well. So this rules out
Microsoft as a monopoly.

Your life must be constant bliss.

__________________________________________________
Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD under Windows 2000)
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[Mxsmanic]

John Doe writes:

Microsoft is in court every day forcing its will upon smaller
software publishers. One year, Microsoft poured $650 million into
our justice system. Microsoft constantly employs our government to
physically force smaller software companies into compliance.

It's the other way around. Thousands of smaller software companies
try to use the courts to compensate for their own inability to
compete, by accusing Microsoft of various misdeeds on a regular basis.

If it weren't for our intellectual property law and our government to
physically enforce that law at the point of a gun, Microsoft would
fall apart like a playing card house.

So would every other software company.

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[john]

"Fergus McMenemie" <fergus@twig.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1h5jp1h.11nc2lj1eq9j0uN%fergus@twig.demon.co.uk...

My Morphy richards trouser press has stopped working.

It is model number 49110. The push start timer unit no longer starts the
heater element. The red indicator lamp lights while the timer start
button is pressed but goes out when it is released. It should stay on
for 20min or so.

Opening the unit up I see a MC14541BCP based timer circuit. However
there is a PCB around a diode and resistor has overheated badly. The 1/2
watt resistor value is no longer readable. Anybody able to help with:-

schematic?
repair?
spares?

I really dont want to end up sending Ł70 when Ł1 worth of parts will fix
it.

You did well to open it up - I needed to fit an element to mine. The
construction is very poor. The next time mine failed I just went onto E-Bay
and bought another.

Good luck. (Sorry I can't help)

 

[b]

aw56001 wrote:

Hello
I have a Bush VCR920NVP and it's causing some problems. Sometimes when
I press REW, FORWARD, PLAY or REJECT the machine refuses to do
anything. On another forum I have been told it is the idler tyre that
is at fault.
I opened the machine up and found the idler mechanism ( a collection
of white toothed wheels between the two black VCR cassette holder
pegs) which I cannot get into. On the reverse side of this mechanism
a black type of thick elastic band connects the idler. I have been
searching for idler tire/belts but a shop has just told me that this
is not the idler tire/belt. What is the correct name for this
tire/belt please? I do not want to open the machine up again as it is
playing OK at the moment and if does play up I turn the machine off at
the plug which resets the memory and I can then use it again. I would
obviously like to solve this problem if possible.
Thanks
aw56001

the information about idlers is well out of date, for anything made
after about 1992 does not have tyres. I would look at the mode switch
in your case. Has a cassette been forcibly removed? maybe some gears
are out of position.
you could also try changing the main drive belt, thats the black one
you saw. take out the original and take it to an electronics spares
shop. shoudlnt coast more than about a quid.
-B.

 

[b]

amcwill417 wrote:

Sony CRT TV. Audio OK. If the set is turned on all is normal for a minute
or so. Then the picture is gone and screen fills with uniform illumination
plus about 20 or so fine horizontal lines slightly tilted up on the right.
After a few more seconds the screen gradually gets very bright white and,
wham, the set clicks off by itself. If I turn the set on again it repeats.
Anyone have a clue as to what is wrong?

look around the line transformer area for bad soldering, and change the
rgb filter capacitor (usualy rated 250 v 10uF or so, often on the crt
neckboard)
-B.

 

[Art]

Read the original post, Gent stated "Indicating multiple horiz lines in
raster, [Retrace Lines], before going so bright that protection shutdown
occurs". Check the 200 Volt supply to the crt, each video output device,
etc. Sounds as if either the CRT may be bad, you have lost the 200 Volt
supply to the crt circuit, or one or more of the output devices have gone
bad. Since the raster is going "white" I'd presume probably loss of G2 or
the 200 Volt. Normally if one of the output devices were defective the
raster would indicate that particular colour before shutdown.
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amcwill417 wrote:
Sony CRT TV. Audio OK. If the set is turned on all is normal for a
minute
or so. Then the picture is gone and screen fills with uniform
illumination
plus about 20 or so fine horizontal lines slightly tilted up on the
right.
After a few more seconds the screen gradually gets very bright white and,
wham, the set clicks off by itself. If I turn the set on again it
repeats.
Anyone have a clue as to what is wrong?

look around the line transformer area for bad soldering, and change the
rgb filter capacitor (usualy rated 250 v 10uF or so, often on the crt
neckboard)
-B.

 

[billyjones]

Try http://fletchersite.com/ask.html

 

[Tom MacIntyre]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:28:27 -0600, "amcwill417"
<amcwill417@email.msn.com> wrote:

Sony CRT TV. Audio OK. If the set is turned on all is normal for a minute
or so. Then the picture is gone and screen fills with uniform illumination
plus about 20 or so fine horizontal lines slightly tilted up on the right.
After a few more seconds the screen gradually gets very bright white and,
wham, the set clicks off by itself. If I turn the set on again it repeats.
Anyone have a clue as to what is wrong?

Alex

Focus leaking to G2, overloading the horizontal section?

Tom

 

[amcwill417]

"amcwill417" <amcwill417@email.msn.com> wrote in message
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Sony CRT TV. Audio OK. If the set is turned on all is normal for a
minute
or so. Then the picture is gone and screen fills with uniform
illumination
plus about 20 or so fine horizontal lines slightly tilted up on the right.
After a few more seconds the screen gradually gets very bright white and,
wham, the set clicks off by itself. If I turn the set on again it
repeats.
Anyone have a clue as to what is wrong?

Alex


11/5/2005

Thank you all for your replies which I will certainly take into
consideration when I attempt to do repairs. This will be the third time I
have had to repair this TV. The first time (about 10 years ago) the set
behaved erratically when subject to vibration. After much poking around
(with a long plastic rod) I found out that some components on the circuit
boards were loose. Amost all of the small voltage regulators (about half
the size of small postage stamps) were loose so I resoldered all I could
find and that fixed it. The second time I could not locate the problem but
resoldered all the solder joints (which looked very good) on the HV
transformer board and by pure luck that fixed it. This third time may be
more challenging! I will keep you informed but it will take some time -
maybe a few weeks because of other duties.

Alex

 

[BarryNL]

do_not_spam_me@my-deja.com wrote:

Why do the battery powered clocks in personal computers tend to keep
worse time than quartz watches, even the $1 ones?

The computer batteries measure fine, at least 3.15V.

I thought that the problem was temperature swings in the computers
(25-38C), but a couple of cheapo watches taped inside the computers
kept better time.

Maybe 'cos if you really care about accuracy on a PC you can just set it
to update from an NTP server.

 

[John Doe]

David Maynard <nospam@private.net> wrote:

I'm hounding you? For an opinion? On USENET?


That's probably the closest thing to an accurate summary I've ever
seen come out of you and this may come as a real shock but I am
under no 'obligation' whatsoever to provide you with an opinion on
ANYthing.

You are too full of yourself to get my drift.

 

[RonKZ650]

Part # 483512247639 820pf 2kv. If it's burned, that's usually all
that's wrong.

 

[David Maynard]

John Doe wrote:

David Maynard <nospam@private.net> wrote:

I'm hounding you? For an opinion? On USENET?


That's probably the closest thing to an accurate summary I've ever
seen come out of you and this may come as a real shock but I am
under no 'obligation' whatsoever to provide you with an opinion on
ANYthing.


You are too full of yourself to get my drift.

I got your drift just fine. Now lets see if you got mine.

 

[amcwill417]

"amcwill417" <amcwill417@email.msn.com> wrote in message
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"amcwill417" <amcwill417@email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:eVTaf.360$ap1.2096@eagle.america.net...
Sony CRT TV. Audio OK. If the set is turned on all is normal for a
minute
or so. Then the picture is gone and screen fills with uniform
illumination
plus about 20 or so fine horizontal lines slightly tilted up on the
right.
After a few more seconds the screen gradually gets very bright white
and,
wham, the set clicks off by itself. If I turn the set on again it
repeats.
Anyone have a clue as to what is wrong?

Alex


11/5/2005
Thank you all for your replies which I will certainly take into
consideration when I attempt to do repairs. This will be the third time I
have had to repair this TV. The first time (about 10 years ago) the set
behaved erratically when subject to vibration. After much poking around
(with a long plastic rod) I found out that some components on the circuit
boards were loose. Amost all of the small voltage regulators (about half
the size of small postage stamps) were loose so I resoldered all I could
find and that fixed it. The second time I could not locate the problem
but
resoldered all the solder joints (which looked very good) on the HV
transformer board and by pure luck that fixed it. This third time may be
more challenging! I will keep you informed but it will take some time -
maybe a few weeks because of other duties.

Alex

A HAPPY EVENT!

This Saturday evening I opened up the TV and removed one of the circuit
boards for inspection and resoldered some suspicious looking solder joints.
Then I replaced it and turned on the set and nothing changed - set still did
not work. Then I turned on the TV and pushed down on the HV transformer
with a long stick so as to distort the circuit board it is on and WHALA that
did the trick. The set now works fine!!! I guess I will have to resolder
components on this board sometime soon since I suppose there must be a loose
solder joint somewhere. I do not understand why this Sony TV has had so
many defective solder joints. It is a wonder that it has worked at all over
these many years.

Alex

 

[marika]

BillW50 wrote:

Well I don't know if I would say that about pot head Kildall?

he's friend with Tommy Chong?

or do you mean his head is literally shaped that way?

mk5000.

"no that's every single day. I didn't realize it at the time, but
after the movie, I was like , uh oh I am Ed WOod yikes"--tim burton