Dadaists were more about breaking any rules possible... they did crazy, irrational stuff on purpose. I can't find any music, but think of being stuck in a room with 10 machines all beating at a different rhythm, different tune, and none of the beats work with the beats of another machine, or running forks against garbage can lids.
The musical heirs of this mode of thinking were the Experimentalists, most notably John Cage, who wrote stuff like:
4:33 (four minutes and 33 seconds of the performer not making any noise)
I Ching (Completely randomly generated music)
Again, not directly Dadaist, but definitely based on those sentiments.
Determine the person at the center of the open source society, using a Erdos-style numbering scheme. e.g. Joe Blow worked on sendmail with Jane Smith who worked on zlib with RMS gives Joe Blow a RMS Number of 2.
Then just find the lowest average number, and that person is the center of the open source social structure.
Here's a pattern I find absolutely fascinating: Every time we have a story about lasers, somebody makes a reference to "sharks with friggen laser beams on their heads". My question is, whatever happened to the giant "lasers" on the moon?
Seems like the article was just yet another opportunity for people to mention "President Bush", "terrorism" and "WE'RE OUTRAGED!!!1111" in the same thread.
You just topped that. Not only did you mention them all in the same thread, you mentioned them in the same sentence!
Alrighty, then. Sounds like the test lab is off the hook for leaving out all products that weren't by Zdnet's advertisers.
A quick question for you folks: Do you (or someone else reading this) have the list of what products were asked to send in a test? That would tell us whether the culprit was ZDNet or disorganized open source projects.
And one of the top rappers is white.
And one of the tallest basketball players is of Chinese descent.
And Democrats are the party of fiscal reponsibility.
Yup, things are sure wierd around here.
I know many of you out there will hate that suggestion, but it's a tool workers have to stop runaway PHB's. Here are the difficulties: * Defining who is a "coder", because any union contract would immediately have management trying to make employees not part of that contract. * It's got to be international, so that our colleagues in New Delhi are on the same side as we are. * Getting people to join.
If we can organize ourselves to produce desktop suites, surely we can organize ourselves to give us more money and time.
Maybe FOSS needs someone who can present the vision, paint the future as rosy, etc. etc., while managing to galvanise the hard-headed FOSS coders behind the scenes to buy into the same vision. Someone who can stand up and convince a room full of sceptical businessmen and politicians that he knows what their problems are and FOSS can address them, while being able to stand up in a room full of C++ and Java coders and convince them his coding and design skills are on a par with theirs.
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The musical heirs of this mode of thinking were the Experimentalists, most notably John Cage, who wrote stuff like: 4:33 (four minutes and 33 seconds of the performer not making any noise) I Ching (Completely randomly generated music) Again, not directly Dadaist, but definitely based on those sentiments.
Determine the person at the center of the open source society, using a Erdos-style numbering scheme. e.g. Joe Blow worked on sendmail with Jane Smith who worked on zlib with RMS gives Joe Blow a RMS Number of 2.
Then just find the lowest average number, and that person is the center of the open source social structure.
BatMax Corporation Miami FL
The way you know they're up to no good: They're from Miami.
I will make it legal. -Darth RIAA
I'm Quaking in my boots!
Here's a pattern I find absolutely fascinating: Every time we have a story about lasers, somebody makes a reference to "sharks with friggen laser beams on their heads". My question is, whatever happened to the giant "lasers" on the moon?
wtf is actually a very handy unix utility that spells out acronyms. It works like this: # wtf is ianal ianal: I am not a lawyer
Seems like the article was just yet another opportunity for people to mention "President Bush", "terrorism" and "WE'RE OUTRAGED!!!1111" in the same thread.
You just topped that. Not only did you mention them all in the same thread, you mentioned them in the same sentence!
the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher
You don't need computers for that. You just need to wake up next to someone you don't remember meeting.
For more information on the subject, listen to the song "9 Coronas".
Hey, at least they don't go to a Safety School
Why don't they make the classic Vorlon comedy:
Kosh vs. Kosh
You forgot Biggus Dickus and Naughtius Maximus. Of course, those names are a little out of date.
Wow. Sounds almost as good as having a girl/boyfriend!
Alrighty, then. Sounds like the test lab is off the hook for leaving out all products that weren't by Zdnet's advertisers.
A quick question for you folks: Do you (or someone else reading this) have the list of what products were asked to send in a test? That would tell us whether the culprit was ZDNet or disorganized open source projects.
Who said we weren't living in the Matrix already?
And one of the top rappers is white. And one of the tallest basketball players is of Chinese descent. And Democrats are the party of fiscal reponsibility. Yup, things are sure wierd around here.
Another version: He, She, or It becomes H/or/sh/it.
Two words: Unionize coders.
I know many of you out there will hate that suggestion, but it's a tool workers have to stop runaway PHB's. Here are the difficulties:
* Defining who is a "coder", because any union contract would immediately have management trying to make employees not part of that contract.
* It's got to be international, so that our colleagues in New Delhi are on the same side as we are.
* Getting people to join.
If we can organize ourselves to produce desktop suites, surely we can organize ourselves to give us more money and time.
How about a theme park instead?
..."
"We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon
With no apologies to Matt Groening
Jaynes might receive 10,000 to 17,000 credit card orders, thus making money on perhaps only one of every 30,000 e-mails he sent out.
We now have clinching proof that there exist at least 200,000 complete suckers in the world.
The fact that tinfoil is so hard to come by is part of the conspiracy. fnord They want to make sure you can't protect yourself.
Maybe FOSS needs someone who can present the vision, paint the future as rosy, etc. etc., while managing to galvanise the hard-headed FOSS coders behind the scenes to buy into the same vision. Someone who can stand up and convince a room full of sceptical businessmen and politicians that he knows what their problems are and FOSS can address them, while being able to stand up in a room full of C++ and Java coders and convince them his coding and design skills are on a par with theirs.
But we already have a guy for that: RMS!
Have an entire Virtual Life. ... Where do I sign up?
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Here's my take on the whole poll issue: For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.
Well, the M$ vs Linux has already been done that way: Halloween documents IV-V Thanks ESR.