10 wpm anyone?:P
i can pull about 30 on a little microswitch on my qrp rig i use to save weight while i'm backpacking. coming from a fully tweaked out bug at my home shack, i'm very proud of that.
Put a clause in the license to say only good people can use it?
now that you mention it, there is no doubt a small spattering of developers who, after considering the possibility that their GPL'ed code could be used to kill, would be unable or unwilling to release that code of religious or political reasons. It makes sense that there should be a license available that addresses this, even if the FSF people dont deem it "officially" compatible with the GPL. A lawyer would certainly have to be consulted, but it seems that an MIT/BSD-style license could be drawn up fairly quickly, with a "free-er" GPL-style license was in the works. An antiwar clause would be beneficial, even if Pentagon-types didn't pay attention to it. Though, IMO a clause against a specific war, or a specific type of war, would cause more problems than it solved, but a strict anti-violence/anti-war clause would be greatly beneficial.
actually, he wasn't elected by popular maojority. Gore won the popular vote, and Bush won by winning large states by small margins so that he won by electoral vote. That was the decision that was validated by the supreme court.
Put things in perspective, and have a gander at the 1st ammendment sometime. Ok, so someone sent you an email, or a hundred, or a thousand. Deal with it. Email is a powerful communication medium. Usually, when someone invents a way to communicate easily (like the telephone, wireless telegraphy, paper, etc.) people use it. You know, like what it was invented for. It serves its purpose. That's the point of an email - to communicate an idea to someone else. Interestingly, that's the same idea behind snail mail. Email is a latecomer to the game. Do you get letters/bills/christmas cards in the mail? Yes? Then you would agree that it is a useful to get an idea to someone else. I would also assume that if you recieve that type of mail, you also recieve unsolicited snail mail. People call it junk mail. It's been around a while. To stop it would mean infringing on free speech. Hell, I agree the junk mail/spam is annoying, but there has been talk of PHYSICAL VIOLENCE in this discussion. Obviously you jest, but put things in perspective. I'm pulling this put of my ass, but I'm guessing that half a million emails would use maybe a one or two watts of energy, if that. Contrasting that, 500,000 paper junk emails -- even small ones -- would waste a not insignificant amount of life-sustaining, oxygen-producing pine trees.
>here's no reason you could not move to a 0,1 and 2 numbering system
actually, there is. to a computer, 0 is "off" and 1 is "on". there are no other states that a digital circuit can be in. 2, or.5 or whatever can't happen in a computer.
fresnel lenses? for magnifying print? that simply won't do. fresnel lenses have horrid optics. they were designed originally for lighthouses, and are now used mainly for theatrical lighting.
fresnel lense have little steps cut out of them to decrease the amount of heat stored, but the design does little to accurately reproduce images. how about portable, cheap, and ineffective? please dont do that to my grandma.
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We don't run it if we cannot write/buy/download all of the code, in ascii.
do you have something against EBCDIC?
this is the first time i've ever encountered top-posting in a web forum. good luck with that.
10 wpm anyone? :P
i can pull about 30 on a little microswitch on my qrp rig i use to save weight while i'm backpacking. coming from a fully tweaked out bug at my home shack, i'm very proud of that.
Put a clause in the license to say only good people can use it?
now that you mention it, there is no doubt a small spattering of developers who, after considering the possibility that their GPL'ed code could be used to kill, would be unable or unwilling to release that code of religious or political reasons. It makes sense that there should be a license available that addresses this, even if the FSF people dont deem it "officially" compatible with the GPL. A lawyer would certainly have to be consulted, but it seems that an MIT/BSD-style license could be drawn up fairly quickly, with a "free-er" GPL-style license was in the works. An antiwar clause would be beneficial, even if Pentagon-types didn't pay attention to it. Though, IMO a clause against a specific war, or a specific type of war, would cause more problems than it solved, but a strict anti-violence/anti-war clause would be greatly beneficial.
actually, he wasn't elected by popular maojority. Gore won the popular vote, and Bush won by winning large states by small margins so that he won by electoral vote. That was the decision that was validated by the supreme court.
I guess it was too much trouble to find out if he used Slackware 5 or Slackware 10... actually slackware is currently at 9.1
(but hopefully soon)
(Howlin' Wolf)
Put things in perspective, and have a gander at the 1st ammendment sometime. Ok, so someone sent you an email, or a hundred, or a thousand. Deal with it. Email is a powerful communication medium. Usually, when someone invents a way to communicate easily (like the telephone, wireless telegraphy, paper, etc.) people use it. You know, like what it was invented for. It serves its purpose. That's the point of an email - to communicate an idea to someone else. Interestingly, that's the same idea behind snail mail. Email is a latecomer to the game. Do you get letters/bills/christmas cards in the mail? Yes? Then you would agree that it is a useful to get an idea to someone else. I would also assume that if you recieve that type of mail, you also recieve unsolicited snail mail. People call it junk mail. It's been around a while. To stop it would mean infringing on free speech. Hell, I agree the junk mail/spam is annoying, but there has been talk of PHYSICAL VIOLENCE in this discussion. Obviously you jest, but put things in perspective. I'm pulling this put of my ass, but I'm guessing that half a million emails would use maybe a one or two watts of energy, if that. Contrasting that, 500,000 paper junk emails -- even small ones -- would waste a not insignificant amount of life-sustaining, oxygen-producing pine trees.
that's a really sad comment on the state of windows.
292 years ago, there was no united states
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA minkey. no disrespect or anything. i just laughed really hard at that.
>here's no reason you could not move to a 0,1 and 2 numbering system actually, there is. to a computer, 0 is "off" and 1 is "on". there are no other states that a digital circuit can be in. 2, or .5 or whatever can't happen in a computer.
fresnel lenses? for magnifying print? that simply won't do. fresnel lenses have horrid optics. they were designed originally for lighthouses, and are now used mainly for theatrical lighting.
fresnel lense have little steps cut out of them to decrease the amount of heat stored, but the design does little to accurately reproduce images. how about portable, cheap, and ineffective? please dont do that to my grandma.