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I jus thought I would see waht most people considered on the forum. I also wondered if anyone actually looked up the definition for Liddite or Luddite?
W5MEJ
02-12-2005, 09:01 PM
Well, I don't think you'll find a definition of "Liddite" anywhere, but "Luddite" is a term used to describe anyone who is afraid of change, especially technological change.
Most seem to think that the term came from the actions of Ned Ludd, an 18th century Leicestershire workman who destroyed some machinery to defend his way of life.
Chuck
Quote[/b] (W5MEJ @ Feb. 12 2005,09:01)]Well, I don't think you'll find a definition of "Liddite" anywhere, but "Luddite" is a term used to describe anyone who is afraid of change, especially technological change.
Look here.
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/program....ite.htm (http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/programmes/uksecurity/liddite.htm)
N5PVL
02-13-2005, 09:11 AM
W5MEJ says:
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Well, I don't think you'll find a definition of "Liddite" anywhere, but "Luddite" is a term used to describe anyone who is afraid of change, especially technological change.
That's a good, brief description of the term "Luddite".
Within the context of amateur radio, the term "Liddite" was coined by N8CPA, in another discussion here at QRZ:
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All of this appears to be born of what I call a "liddite" mindset. #I use that term because they frequently refer to those of us who question their schemes as "luddites." It's a name we earn simply because we know the difference between using a computer as an Amateur Radio appliance, and using Amateur Radio as a computer appliance, as the liddites prefer and propound.
N8CPA
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KB1GYQ
02-13-2005, 03:44 PM
Lyddite - An explosive consisting chiefly of picric acid.
(Arrrgh.. spelling again! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif )
KB1GYQ
02-13-2005, 04:19 PM
What happened to the "smoked" option?
w4rot
02-13-2005, 05:13 PM
GYQ,
Excellent dude..
Picric acid is right..(aka 2,4,6-Trinitrophenol).
They are so reactive that is was quite a common derrivitizing agent way back when derrivitives were made to confirm compounds.
I have about 500 mgs of some picrate that I made somewhere here in the shack....It's been 20 years and hasn't gone yet.
I have heard tales of 1 gm quantities leveling a building...never seen it though.
Nucleophilic aromatic substitution:Bimolecular displacement. Chapter 25.7 page 827 Morrison and Boyd..3rd edition.
Rock on...
w4rot
KB1GYQ
02-13-2005, 07:37 PM
Ammonium triiodide is fun too. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Amateur Radio is a universal hobby.. its serves as a hobby for many, and the family of hams provide a radio service. I consider myself a ham operator.. no real name attached.. just a ham..
KC0KBH
02-13-2005, 11:48 PM
Personally, I hoard all the electronics I can get my hands on. My dad yells at me when I bring home another motherboard from school. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
W3MIV
02-14-2005, 12:07 AM
Gadzooks (sorry, Glen!), I must be a Liddite 'cause I am certainly not a Luddite.
I can live with it. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
k9apy
02-14-2005, 01:47 AM
I'm looking into PSK31 and Satellite at this point.
KC0KBH
02-14-2005, 02:37 AM
PSK 31 is a blast! But, don't stop there. Check out PSK 63 and MFSK.
N8CPA
02-14-2005, 03:07 PM
Quote[/b] (W3MIV @ Feb. 13 2005,20:07)]Gadzooks (sorry, Glen!), I must be a Liddite 'cause I am certainly not a Luddite.
I can live with it. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Al, Liddite is not necessarily the opposite of Luddite, though a lid is the opposite of a ham. It's a matter of how Amateur Radio and computer equipment is used.
You're apologizing to Glen for "Gadzooks" ? ? ? I've read far worse on this forum ! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
kb2vxa
02-25-2005, 07:28 PM
Hi everyone,
I'm a bauxite, I grow aluminium and know how to spell it correctly.
Motherboard? When you plug cards into the ISA slots it gives birth to a computer.
Could be that's why I voted "dingleberry" in the poll.
Please stand by while I dislodge tongue from cheek.
73 de Warren, the one and only KB2VXA
KC0KBH
03-01-2005, 12:59 AM
ISA slots? Please, come into the next century and start using PCI.
Also, I beleive that you REALLY give birth to a computer when you have all the IDE cables and power cables plugged in, and you push the power button for the first time.
kl7aj
03-01-2005, 08:35 PM
You forgot Spark Gap operator
Eric
WA2ZDY
03-02-2005, 02:56 AM
Quote[/b] (kl7aj @ Mar. 01 2005,16:35)]You forgot Spark Gap operator
Good old rotary gap. My great-grandmother is in heaven probably still wondering what happened to the motor from the washer. What a pleasant note that must have been.
Ah the good old days.
N8CPA
03-02-2005, 05:54 PM
In "Ham-let" the Bard of the Bandplan said:
"This above all, keep our protocols true unto themselves, lest they balkanize our fraternity.
Neither a Luddite, nor a liddite be;
for a luddite stunts our posterity,
and a liddite dims our autonomy,
at the cost of our effectuality."
[Hee hee hee]http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
N5PVL
03-04-2005, 01:12 PM
Quote[/b] ]
"This above all, keep our protocols true unto themselves, lest they balkanize our fraternity.
Neither a Luddite, nor a liddite be;
for a luddite stunts our posterity,
and a liddite dims our autonomy,
at the cost of our effectuality."
Not bad... - Not bad at all!
All this time you were a poet, but we didn't know it.
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