George Bonser wrote:
> Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor
> probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of
> living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the
> discovery of the "Edison effect" which led DeForest to do s
I sense another inminent Holy war comming :(
Richard Harran wrote:
> Oh, goodie! A religious discussion!
>
> Kent West wrote:
> >
> > At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >Kevin Traas schrieb:
> > >>
> > >> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Frankie wrote:
> True. I agree with you about electricity. It has made a HUGE impact on
> our lives. So, I nominate gallileo, because (if I'm wrong, subsitute
> some ridiculously ancient bod that experimented with electricity) he
> messed about with electricity and frogs legs. T
Branden Robinson wrote:
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> > Nope I don't think I will vote for any person on the basis of
> > scientific or technical merit. A more global view is required.
>
> I was thinking of RMS, too.
LOL - Spoken like a true Debian-ite.
I'd put RMS #2, right after Mr. T.
> "There is no gravity in space
Frankie wrote:
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> George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now,
> > > from a different century and he is on top?
> > >
> > > Matth
> >
> > Don't even think Linus should BE the person of th
Richard Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Oh, goodie! A religious discussion!
> >
>
> OK I'm voting for Adam. Without him we all would be dust.
Or a bunch of cheeky monkeys...
--
-Mike Horansky, Unix Systems Support
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"Conformity is everything--isn't it?"
OPINIONS EXP
George Bonser wrote:
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> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now,
> > from a different century and he is on top?
> >
> > Matth
>
> Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor
> probably go
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 09:50:30AM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor
> probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of
> living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the
> discovery of the "E
>
I can think of no single individual that had as great an impact on the
daily life of the entire world. Whatever we were to become in the 20th
century, we would get there in the company of Edison.
---
Although we may owe a lot to Edison, most of us choose to ignore
True, it could be argued that all this did stem from Edison, but there
have been a lot of other 'great' people inbetween. I don't think that
Edison had any great concept of semiconductors, etc. However, I do
agree that there are a lot of people who have had a much greater effect
on this century t
> Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor
> probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of
If you want to go with the guy who had the biggest slam-bang effect on
everything, it's either Oppenheimer or Truman.
> living to that guy. His exper
On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 10:19:57PM +1100, Richard Lyon wrote:
> Nope I don't think I will vote for any person on the basis of scientific or
> technical merit. A more global view is required.
I was thinking of RMS, too.
--
G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space."
Debi
> Oh, goodie! A religious discussion!
>
OK I'm voting for Adam. Without him we all would be dust.
> Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor
> probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of
> living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the
> discovery of the "Edison effect" which led DeForest to do some more
> experiments
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now,
>> from a different century and he is on top?
>>
>> Matth
>
>Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor
>p
Oh, goodie! A religious discussion!
Kent West wrote:
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> At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Kevin Traas schrieb:
> >>
> >> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
> >>
> >> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
> >> >Person o
At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Kevin Traas schrieb:
>>
>> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
>>
>> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
>> >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue.
>> > To vot
Kevin Traas schrieb:
>
> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
>
> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
> >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue.
> > To vote go to:
> >http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/topperson
Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
>Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
>Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue.
> To vote go to:
>http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/toppersonmain.html
Later,
Kevin
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