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Re: Multicast qbert6553610-Dec-02 7:58 qbert65536 10-Dec-02 7:58  Nice, but you left out Orson Scott Card, and my personal favorite Robert Heinlein. qbert Re: Multicast ian mariano10-Dec-02 11:47 ian mariano 10-Dec-02 11:47  Good choices! Heinlen especially. ["Rub her feet" - Time Enough for Love] Perhaps we could also add Stephen Baxter and Greg Bear, and outside the realm of speculative fiction, Stephen Hawking, Edward Witten, Kurt Goedel, Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Esther Dyson (to name a few off the top of my head.) "The greatest danger to humanity is humanity without an open mind."   - Ian Mariano - http://www.ian-space.com/ Re: Multicast Paul Watson12-Dec-02 0:48 Paul Watson 12-Dec-02 0:48  ian mariano wrote: Perhaps we could also add Stephen Baxter and Greg Bear and Ian Banks. I hear he is very interesting to talk to and is not at all PC. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa NOPcode wrote: ...but in America, you're not allowed to thrust, moan or see anything... Linus Torvalds should be on there hforbess9-Dec-02 18:15 hforbess 9-Dec-02 18:15  Bill gates would be boring, Ellison is a prick, McNealy would be cool I guess. who cares about ebay. I just use MS stuff cause I have too. harry Re: Linus Torvalds should be on there Michael P Butler9-Dec-02 22:46 Michael P Butler 9-Dec-02 22:46  hforbess wrote: Bill gates would be boring, Really. I think he'd been a great person to have dinner with. His and Microsoft's achievements in the area of getting computers into every home are remarkable. He is obviously a very clever and shrewd man. I'd love to know what motivates him and why he still carries on when he takes so much flack and doesn't need to earn any more money. Michael Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round -- Queen Re: Linus Torvalds should be on there Navin10-Dec-02 2:53 Navin 10-Dec-02 2:53  Michael P Butler wrote: Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round -- Queen Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Re: Linus Torvalds definately should matt j c10-Dec-02 14:01 matt j c 10-Dec-02 14:01  I agree he is the father of Red Hats and Stuff ... nothing beats NIX if you know what your doing. I use .net com to make quick easy desktop apps, but use NIX server side to save the bucks! I know it's all end - end but what can i say ... I dont like soap? WTF No Soap Thanks 9 CEO's and 1 non-CEO??? Kant9-Dec-02 14:49 Kant 9-Dec-02 14:49  9 CEO's and 1 non-CEO 8 Men and 2 Women Missing Lady CEO is HP Fiona...Aggressive lady, I like the way she kicked the HP founders a$$. I would vote for her BTW, I voted for Erica Kant Sonork-100.28114 Success is only a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Re: 9 CEO's and 1 non-CEO??? Giles10-Dec-02 3:00 Giles 10-Dec-02 3:00  Kant wrote: Fiona...Aggressive lady She's a walking disaster waiting to happen. Watch HP fall to pieces before your eyes. Saying that Capellas wrecked Compaq, which is why it had to merge in the first place. Its just that she was stupid enough to think it was a good idea. I choose Woz Christian Graus9-Dec-02 10:35 Christian Graus 9-Dec-02 10:35  I chose the other Steve, but in reality my answer is Steve Wozniak. Why ? He's smart, he's in it for geeky reasons, he's a decent human being, and he invented the first computer I ever owned. If I was given to having a computing idol it would be him. Nowadays he teaches school kids about computers in his garage and sends them all home with their own Mac notebook. His house is full of webcams so parents can see what their kids are doing. I heard he was launching a PDA product, I never heard any more. If it comes out I will buy one, because he made it. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002 Re: I choose Woz Gary Wheeler10-Dec-02 4:08 Gary Wheeler 10-Dec-02 4:08  I agree. The company I used to work for was located across the parking lot from his commercial venture at the time (I think it was called Cloud Nine). The guys out there said he seemed like a pretty cool guy; hyper, but not full of himself. I don't think I'd want to go to dinner with Jobs. Every time I've seen an interview with him, I've had the urge to reach through the screen and throttle him. Something about him (maybe it's the 'personal reality distortion field' he's reputed to generate) just grates on my nerves. Software Zen: delete this; Re: I choose Woz Christian Graus10-Dec-02 8:55 Christian Graus 10-Dec-02 8:55  Just the thought of what he did to Woz when Woz wrote Pong for him does it for me. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002 Re: I choose Woz Phil Harding10-Dec-02 14:39 Phil Harding 10-Dec-02 14:39  Christian Graus wrote: Just the thought of what he did to Woz when Woz wrote Pong for him does it for me. Didn't hear that one, what did his jobs-ness the almighty do to him? Phil Harding Re: I choose Woz Christian Graus10-Dec-02 15:10 Christian Graus 10-Dec-02 15:10  This is THE story as far as Jobs is concerned. Jobs gets a job at Atari. They ask him to write a game. He can't, he gets Woz to do it. Then he tells Woz they got paid $700 and splits it with him 50/50. In actual fact, he got paid $7,000. When they started Apple, Woz sold his HP calculator, and Jobs sold his Combi van to raise funds, and Jobs had more money than they raised in the bank, all of it payment for work that Woz did. When told what had happened years later, his response was an anguished 'he did it to me again'. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002 Re: I choose Woz Matt Newman10-Dec-02 6:14 Matt Newman 10-Dec-02 6:14  I agree totally - Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist "Well, the guy that's giving you a hard time is a f***in moron, and you can tell him thats straight from another Linux user." - John Simmons on Linux Users Just do the American thing and shoot him... - Jim Crafton on Linux Users Wh3n my l33t skillz 1mpr0v3, I w1ll h4ck M$, 4nd th3n wh0 w1ll b3 l4ugh1ng ? N0t Bill. H4 h4 h4 h4 h4 h4 h4. - Christian Graus Why I choose Bill G Andrew Torrance9-Dec-02 8:08 Andrew Torrance 9-Dec-02 8:08  I would not expect any revelation from any of them . They simpy ain't going to tell me any inside information . I have no burning question that only they can answer, I have no idea how interesting a talker any of them is so my reasoning comes down to the trivial : Bill G is the only one my non programming friends have ever heard of , and lets face it there is something interesting about being the richest guy in the world . On top of that , he is not Larry Ellison , which in my books is a big big plus. ( I want room for my food and his ego in the same room after all). I would like to ask Bill G one question though , (but I do not loose sleep over it ) and that is was the argument between Microsoft and IBM deliberatly organised ? because it sure looked convinient at the time .I know the answer , but I would like to see his face as he says it. Re: Why I choose Bill G Anna-Jayne Metcalfe10-Dec-02 23:01 Anna-Jayne Metcalfe 10-Dec-02 23:01  Me neither! Given a free choice I'd like to meet Enrico Fermi...a meal with him would be truly entertaining and I'd certainly learn something. It's a shame he died so young. Anna www.annasplace.me.uk "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++ Prez Bush... Ellery Familia9-Dec-02 7:23 Ellery Familia 9-Dec-02 7:23  From these choices, Erika.. no questions about it. But it'd be nice to have dinner with Bush.. talk about economics a bit and maybe then discuss whatever abstract and out-of-the-ordinary ideas pop into my head. I'll find out if he truly is as dumb as they say he is. Re: Prez Bush... Andrew Torrance9-Dec-02 7:51 Andrew Torrance 9-Dec-02 7:51  Well if we can have anyone how about Fermat ? Then you could spend the rest of your life just saying 'he told me how' and watch them all squirm . Am I the only one forever playing catch up with technology , while all the juicy opportunites keep rolling by ? Erica... PJ Arends9-Dec-02 7:01 PJ Arends 9-Dec-02 7:01  Erica, she's no Britney but given the choices she will have to do.;P CPUA 0x5041 Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little "So it can now be written in stone as a testament to humanities achievments "PJ did Pi at CP"." Colin Davies Within you lies the power for good - Use it! Asia Carrerra ? Jim Crafton9-Dec-02 6:56 Jim Crafton 9-Dec-02 6:56  'nuff said ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Re: Asia Carrerra ? Jörgen Sigvardsson10-Dec-02 5:02 Jörgen Sigvardsson 10-Dec-02 5:02  ROFL! -- This space for rent. Re: Asia Carrerra ? Zyxil10-Dec-02 10:03 Zyxil 10-Dec-02 10:03  i'd rather have dessert with her... -John Re: Asia Carrerra ? Tim Hodgson10-Dec-02 10:54 Tim Hodgson 10-Dec-02 10:54  Nice choice, but you'll first need to get the devil out of your pants...and no, I won't look. Screw these choices #realJSOP9-Dec-02 5:50 #realJSOP 9-Dec-02 5:50  I'd rather have dinner with Sandra Bullock... ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

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