[Amps] Metric Conversion

[Will Matney]

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On 8/11/05 at 2:41 AM R.Measures wrote:

>On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:23 PM, David Kirkby wrote:
>
>> Mike wrote:
>>> Thanks Mark for the heads-up on the converter.  Unfortunately, it only
>>> works on XP or later OS.
>>
>> A standard microsoft trick, to get you to upgrade the OS.
>
>Indeed.  Dollar Bill's pursuit of mammon is so relentless that he won't 
>even spend the bucks for a decent haircut.

I'll about give 20:1 odds he cuts it himself or gets one of his house keepers to do it free.

If it wasn't for some of the lawsuits, he would be getting by with a lot more than he does. I also heard about him letting the Chinese government have the source code to Windows so they would buy it. What gets me is that a bunch of the illegal software sites there are on government servers. Plus the government has been guilty of using the cracked software for years. He'd sh*t if a competitive version of Windows came out of China! I for one would get a big kick out of it.


>>
>> For some applications, such as drivers for hardware, firewalls, network
>> monitoring software etc, it would be more work to write the program to
>> work on multiple versions of Windows.
>>
>> For a metric converter, that is very different. There is no reason on
>> earth why it could not be made to work on any version of Windoze.
>>
>> Of course, just because it says XP only, does not necessarily mean it
>> will not work on an older version, although the installer might refuse
>> to install it.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> At 18:57 8/10/05, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> I recently found/installed the new Microsoft converter/calculator, 
>>>> and
>>>> really think it's just swell ... you can get it from them, or .. to 
>>>> make it
>>>> easy .. from one of my websites, here ..
>>>> http://members.cox.net/kenwood/
>>>> 73 .. Mark  AA6DX
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: <amps-request at contesting.com>
>>>> To: <amps at contesting.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:49 PM
>>>> Subject: Amps Digest, Vol 32, Issue 19
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>          73,
>>>          Mike, K4GMH
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>>
>> -- 
>> David Kirkby,
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Best,

Will