... the gladius or short sword, they borrowed from the spaniards. However if the Romans saw no immediate practical use for something they did not pay too much attention to it. Given the availablity of slave and indentured labor in the Imperium, there was little incentive to develop machinery, in particular, steam power. Bob Kolker The sometimes remind me a bit of the Turks....

.... For example the gladius or short sword, they borrowed from the spaniards. However if the Romans saw no immediate practical use for something they did not pay too much attention to it. Given the availablity of slave and indentured labor in the Imperium, there was little incentive to develop machinery, in particular, steam power. Sound a bit like Americans, don't they Bob?

... on techniques and technologies of others. For example the gladius or short sword, they borrowed from the spaniards. However if the Romans saw no immediate practical use for something they did not pay too much attention to it. Given the availablity of slave and indentured labor in the Imperium, there was little incentive to develop machinery, in particular, steam power. Bob Kolker

...: Ian Osgood <iano@quirkster.com> writes: The quickest way to get get this support is to donate an Intel Mac Mini to Berndt (bigForth and gforth). Anton and Berndt have both said they just need availablity to a Mac to get gforth and bigForth ported. At least wrt me it would be quicker and cheaper if someone provided an account on a machine that I can ssh into; I don't have ...

Ian Osgood <iano@quirkster.com> writes: The quickest way to get get this support is to donate an Intel Mac Mini to Berndt (bigForth and gforth). Anton and Berndt have both said they just need availablity to a Mac to get gforth and bigForth ported. At least wrt me it would be quicker and cheaper if someone provided an account on a machine that I can ssh into; I don't have the time to ...

... gforth build process is rather arcane. The quickest way to get get this support is to donate an Intel Mac Mini to Berndt (bigForth and gforth). Anton and Berndt have both said they just need availablity to a Mac to get gforth and bigForth ported. Email them your pledge. They could get one when it reaches EURO 600. I'll pledge EURO 50 for starters. Mmmm... Bernd, Anton et ...

... that the gforth build process is rather arcane. The quickest way to get get this support is to donate an Intel Mac Mini to Berndt (bigForth and gforth). Anton and Berndt have both said they just need availablity to a Mac to get gforth and bigForth ported. Email them your pledge. They could get one when it reaches EURO 600. I'll pledge EURO 50 for starters. So, a number of questions:...

...that if you do work derived from GPL'd software, then you need to ensure that the source code is available to whoever pulls your software. Period. You can't enforce further restrictions on code availablity but the license doesn't restrict you from charging for what you offer. For example, maintenance fees can be charged when selling GPL'd software to ensure a form of return on the product ...

... and keep revising delivery dates - we've now been told 6th October for something ordered on the 10th August. I suggest that you go elsewhere if you need a laptop. In addition , can anyone suggest another make of laptop that still have a COM port? Most seems to have this when using a port replicator/docking station regardless of the naked laptop availablity

hello, i see that people suggest to turn WLAN scanning of on your N95.. but can anyone tell me where i can do this ? in Menu->Settings->Connection->Wireless Lan i have the option of "Show WLAN availablity" set to Never.. is this enough ? thanks, tom