Hmm...let's see... 1) Robert Goddard - (the father of rocketry) 2) Albert Einstein - (He's the geek's geek!) 3) Werner von Braun - (jet engine - he didn't invent it, but he improved it; rocketry) 4) Leonardo Da Vinci - (he just deserves it, other than the helicopter, he also invented a tank-like vehicle) 5 & 6) the Wright brothers - (airplane...) 7) Rene Descartes - (for reasons metioned earlier) 8) Clarence Johnson - (creator of the Skunk Works) 9) The Apollo 13 ground crew - (we all know what these guys did) 10) John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley - (invented the transistor)
For starters, I think the language useage tells us all a bit about the personality here...
Secondly, the lack of a user name tells us a bit more about this in'duh'vidual.
Lastly, The whole GPL idea is to keep people from patenting the idea published. We write the code, or we modify the code written by others to suit our needs. Patents are pointless through this method. Nobody's getting very rich, but we are making one of the best OS's out there even better by pulling ideas from programmers all over the world. Nobody has even tried to patent any of these programs of code enhancements, as far as I know.
By the way, I'm sure that it would've been posted on/. if somebody had tried it...
There should be a place where we can go to download all the new GPL stuff as well as the older stuff. I know of several people that would just get goose-bumps knowing that everything is in one easily findable location. There are also times we have spent searching the Internet for several hours trying to find a link that wasn't dead or temporarily dropped due to servers being down or overloaded. I'd love to see one site with enough bandwidth to handle the "/. effect". I know how this crew gets when there is a new site with some really cool stuff on it...
Crystal Method, P.V.D., and for good measure, depending on my mood, throw in some Eagles or Boston. Late night coding is a good time to blow the dust off things like Mozart and Beethoven. Mostly it depends on the mood, though. I'm thinking Cherry Poppin' Daddies or Big Bad Voodoo Daddies would work for the really fun code, too!
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I'm beginning to think I need to go back and re-read a lot of my history books. I've heard of Bacon, but not Abbo...guess I need to look again...
Hmm...let's see...
1) Robert Goddard - (the father of rocketry)
2) Albert Einstein - (He's the geek's geek!)
3) Werner von Braun - (jet engine - he didn't invent it, but he improved it; rocketry)
4) Leonardo Da Vinci - (he just deserves it, other than the helicopter, he also invented a tank-like vehicle)
5 & 6) the Wright brothers - (airplane...)
7) Rene Descartes - (for reasons metioned earlier)
8) Clarence Johnson - (creator of the Skunk Works)
9) The Apollo 13 ground crew - (we all know what these guys did)
10) John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley - (invented the transistor)
By the way, there were only three points. The fourth line was simply a comment.
Secondly, the lack of a user name tells us a bit more about this in'duh'vidual.
Lastly, The whole GPL idea is to keep people from patenting the idea published. We write the code, or we modify the code written by others to suit our needs. Patents are pointless through this method. Nobody's getting very rich, but we are making one of the best OS's out there even better by pulling ideas from programmers all over the world. Nobody has even tried to patent any of these programs of code enhancements, as far as I know.
By the way, I'm sure that it would've been posted on /. if somebody had tried it...
There should be a place where we can go to download all the new GPL stuff as well as the older stuff. I know of several people that would just get goose-bumps knowing that everything is in one easily findable location. There are also times we have spent searching the Internet for several hours trying to find a link that wasn't dead or temporarily dropped due to servers being down or overloaded. I'd love to see one site with enough bandwidth to handle the "/. effect". I know how this crew gets when there is a new site with some really cool stuff on it...
But it would be nice to have one URL to go to for the purpose of downloading all the new stuff...
Crystal Method, P.V.D., and for good measure, depending on my mood, throw in some Eagles or Boston. Late night coding is a good time to blow the dust off things like Mozart and Beethoven. Mostly it depends on the mood, though. I'm thinking Cherry Poppin' Daddies or Big Bad Voodoo Daddies would work for the really fun code, too!