From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rogerclive@rock.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: EVIL Matrox Graphics Inc , STEALS MGA Settings/VIRTUAL DESKTOP from Windows 98, 2000 etc Date: 2 Jan 2005 21:08:15 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1104728895.143031.21070@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104728934 8848 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 05:08:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 05:08:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 06:08:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClKSV-0001A8-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:08:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClKde-0006WD-2S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:20:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video, comp.sys.intel, comp.lang.c++, gnu.emacs.help, soc.culture.canada Original-Lines: 59 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.217.217.59 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1104728901 15763 127.0.0.1 (3 Jan 2005 05:08:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 05:08:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.217.217.59; posting-account=azUveQ0AAAAxN6rtaokKx1YaBMYPu_wp Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video:509548 comp.sys.intel:219127 comp.lang.c++:808548 gnu.emacs.help:127637 soc.culture.canada:424875 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23104 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23104 Perhaps, there is no bigger sleazy company in the entire Maple Republic ( Canada ) than Matrox Graphics Inc. I paid $100+ through my nose circa 1999 for Matrox Millenium II and Mystique. It works well under NT4.0 however, a month ago I upgraded to Win 98. Guess what? The main feature in the Matrox Inc Video cards was their desktop, and the essence was in "MGA Settings" . Here you could make a virtual desktop four times or more than your monitor area. then using a touchpad with proper acceleration you could pan from one end to the other by a single stroke on your touch pad. It was extremely helpful and allowed you to do work on a small cheap monitor or LCD with the comfort of a large screen. Guess what this evil master-mind did ? In the software for Win 98, Win 2K and perhaps other versions, it downgraded its desktop in a clearly identifiable and treacherous way. It added a whole bunch of non-sequitor bells and whistles and robbed its customers of the jewel. The virtual desktop. What irritated me most about these crooked and evil canadians is that they lecture the whole world about environmentalism and environment. What this criminally evil company has done is: It has created pollution worth $150 or so, more exactly the cost/selling price of the card for every card that will be thrown away and destroyed because they stole away the main module and compiled the desktop software without it. I have put this analysis over the months. I ask every potential customer of their cards to ask this company if they are going to play this evil-intentioned and thinly disguised game with all their cards. I urge you to refuse of bycott their products ... till they rectify their negative sum business strategy. Matrox must have sold atleast 200,000 such cards. We are talking about 20 million dollars worth of pollution and destruction. A deceived Customer The Essential question: Cant this company recompile the old driver software which suppored virtual desktop or the "MGA Settings" feature (which allowed you to change the size of view area and displayed area independently) with the libraries of later microsoft operating systems ?