In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gwicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Malcolm Cadman" <> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:14 PM >Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC? > > >>In other words Quanta could give £5,000 of members' money to develop a card >>and see no return on that money whatsoever. > >>Although, that is not a bad idea ... to invest in new hardware as a >risk. > >Unfortunately that is not going to happen because the members don't want it. > >Don't forget two years ago you had a choice of chairman. One candidate, me, >was a radical who wanted to take Quanta in a new direction; the other, the >present chairman, I would term a traditionalist. > >The voting was 27 to 19 in favour of the traditionalist. > >Sadly the Quanta members who subscribe to this list are not typical of the >majority of the membership. You may not like the conservatism of the present >committee, but they are probably more representative of the average member >than I am, Well ... 2 years is a long time in computing ... :-) ... so may be some optimism that new ideas can take seed. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
