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Dollar Bill
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SPANGS!
I have to say he did surprise me with his recent lifestyle changes
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Sat 24 May 2008, 19:40,
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Actually gave most his money to charity
Handed over the reins of Microsoft and started working for charity:P
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Sat 24 May 2008, 19:50,
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makes a change from fucking over everyone he can
and ruining businesses, careers
and doing fun things like trying to figure out a way to get the shares off a guy whose dying of cancer
yay bill! :D
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Sat 24 May 2008, 19:51,
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and doing fun things like trying to figure out a way to get the shares off a guy whose dying of cancer
yay bill! :D
I'm an ex IT tech
So obviously I never liked the guy. I was suprised to find out before he did leave Microsoft that he gave $4bn a year away to charities.
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Sat 24 May 2008, 19:54,
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he's been giving a good few million a year
to charities (one per year) for the last decade.
set up the Bill Gates foundation to deal with it, one of the recipients of this generosity was the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who were not only the first such school in the world, but are recognised as the highest authority on such diseases and consults shows such as ER and House when their plotlines require it (presumably make a fair whack from those shows too)
but yeh, think because of his ruthless corporate style he's painted in a bad light when he's not actually that bad
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set up the Bill Gates foundation to deal with it, one of the recipients of this generosity was the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who were not only the first such school in the world, but are recognised as the highest authority on such diseases and consults shows such as ER and House when their plotlines require it (presumably make a fair whack from those shows too)
but yeh, think because of his ruthless corporate style he's painted in a bad light when he's not actually that bad
Yeah, I grudgingly admit that.
Imagine how useful that is to have him running charities!
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Sat 24 May 2008, 20:02,
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oh don't get me wrong as a business he's done everything that needed to be done
business is war, as they say
it just seems that everyone that ever did a deal with microsoft got fucked to death or near death
and lets not forget he started his magnificent software creation by making unauthorised use of a beaureau system
plus of course mommy working for ibm didn't hurt when it came round to flogging a desirably crippled system to them (but they got exactly the pile of crap they wanted anyway so fuck ibm too )
in short, it's all crap ultimately and things would be what they are today anyway, so it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things
and that's how I argue my case down into destruction
in conclusion, I am now drinking dr pepper
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Sat 24 May 2008, 20:03,
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it just seems that everyone that ever did a deal with microsoft got fucked to death or near death
and lets not forget he started his magnificent software creation by making unauthorised use of a beaureau system
plus of course mommy working for ibm didn't hurt when it came round to flogging a desirably crippled system to them (but they got exactly the pile of crap they wanted anyway so fuck ibm too )
in short, it's all crap ultimately and things would be what they are today anyway, so it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things
and that's how I argue my case down into destruction
in conclusion, I am now drinking dr pepper
i'm not supporting nor attacking his business style.
just labelling it as ruthless (which is fair)
i think two of the reasons so many people got shafted was because in the early days they didn't think that it'd become as big as it did so accepted lower deals than they would now, and in later years the companies and people didn't have much alternative than to accept the measley deal microsoft offered.
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Sat 24 May 2008, 20:07,
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i think two of the reasons so many people got shafted was because in the early days they didn't think that it'd become as big as it did so accepted lower deals than they would now, and in later years the companies and people didn't have much alternative than to accept the measley deal microsoft offered.
I think there's a very large amount of truth in that
And ultimately if DOS was as sucky as everyone pretends and if UNIX was the dream operating system that everyone claims, the world would be running on UNIX or BSD and everyone would be paying a fortune to a company spun off from one of the big American universities anyway.
/Runs a Windows/Arch Linux desktop, Mac OSX Macbook and SuSE Linux at work and has struggled wtih the utter hideousness of administering networks hanging off Solaris or SGI IRIX blog. Fucking Windows 2008 would be a dream compared to those, and I'm willing to put a very large amount of money on that.
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Sat 24 May 2008, 20:13,
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/Runs a Windows/Arch Linux desktop, Mac OSX Macbook and SuSE Linux at work and has struggled wtih the utter hideousness of administering networks hanging off Solaris or SGI IRIX blog. Fucking Windows 2008 would be a dream compared to those, and I'm willing to put a very large amount of money on that.
that's the point tho
ibm needed something that worked that didn't make the pc's compete with the minicomputers, it couldn't be "too good" (tho it did pretty much kill off the minicomputer or at least blurr the meaning of it)
"adequate" was absolutely ideal, a simple system for a machine with 64k of ram (and I'm not sure it had that much) and a 4(?)mhz 8086, ibm could have made the hardware a lot better but that would have been a bad idea for their marketing, plus of course even then the base pc was a good few thousand dollars when it came out
thing is tho, dos is good enough (you could probably get away with running a business with it even today) and there's an absolute shitload of software for it (y2k issues notwithstanding)
besides, theres no point wasting time making things absolutely perfect when you can sell good enough, though might explain some software quality issues generally, never mind just microsoft
but it really does make no difference, we'd still be where we are today with computers irrespective of who was making the most money out of it.
/runs windows & linux and still has a dos machine for it's particular use and is just happy that anything even works at all because it all has a mind of it's own and just takes the piss when you need it to work the most :D
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"adequate" was absolutely ideal, a simple system for a machine with 64k of ram (and I'm not sure it had that much) and a 4(?)mhz 8086, ibm could have made the hardware a lot better but that would have been a bad idea for their marketing, plus of course even then the base pc was a good few thousand dollars when it came out
thing is tho, dos is good enough (you could probably get away with running a business with it even today) and there's an absolute shitload of software for it (y2k issues notwithstanding)
besides, theres no point wasting time making things absolutely perfect when you can sell good enough, though might explain some software quality issues generally, never mind just microsoft
but it really does make no difference, we'd still be where we are today with computers irrespective of who was making the most money out of it.
/runs windows & linux and still has a dos machine for it's particular use and is just happy that anything even works at all because it all has a mind of it's own and just takes the piss when you need it to work the most :D
yeah i totally agree
DOS was hardly the greatest thing ever, even by version 7 let alone version 3 or whichever piece of crap I first used. But it worked and it was relatively cheap -- as sick with myself as typing that has made me feel given the stupid cost of Windows. But it did what it had to so why waste another year of man-hours making it perfect if it worked so long as people didn't mind shutting their computer down once a day?
And compared to the user-friendliness of UNIX which feels like being kicked in the balls by fifteen Nazi guards, DOS is like being tickled by an inadequate lover. :)
/Has no computer that will run DOS anymore but does run DOSBox so he can sometimes play Warcraft and Grand Prix 2 and Elite II and other games from his wasted youth blog.
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And compared to the user-friendliness of UNIX which feels like being kicked in the balls by fifteen Nazi guards, DOS is like being tickled by an inadequate lover. :)
/Has no computer that will run DOS anymore but does run DOSBox so he can sometimes play Warcraft and Grand Prix 2 and Elite II and other games from his wasted youth blog.
have a icl 16mhz 386sx
a (typical for icl) well designed system.. *cough*
but it's got an eprom programmer on it and the software is too shite to work on anything faster, I think the 386's too fast for it to be honest :)
tho £100 or so gets me a programmer that'll program about 4 times as many memories and do other things
I'm just loathe to throw out working hardware really :D
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Sat 24 May 2008, 21:14,
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but it's got an eprom programmer on it and the software is too shite to work on anything faster, I think the 386's too fast for it to be honest :)
tho £100 or so gets me a programmer that'll program about 4 times as many memories and do other things
I'm just loathe to throw out working hardware really :D
An old 386!
Probably has a Turbo button as well, to slow it down because it was too powerful...? :) I want my old 486 SX25. With the turbo button pressed it could even run some old programs without flashing them by at 128fps...
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Sat 24 May 2008, 21:26,
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no turbo button, I think it would explode due to quality issues
tho it has to be said, that some games were so shittily written that they were an actual blurr on this machine
trying the same games on an early pentium just created a magnificent spazzing blast of alternate conciousness :D
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Sat 24 May 2008, 21:36,
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trying the same games on an early pentium just created a magnificent spazzing blast of alternate conciousness :D
Bill Gates charity
Doesn't he give away money to retain a "Chartiable" status under the tax laws thus reducing his tax bill by more than he gives away, or is that just a rumor?
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Sat 24 May 2008, 20:05,
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probably an element of that
but the charities who benefit from the money are probably willing to forgive that with the amount of work it allows them to do
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Sat 24 May 2008, 20:12,
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If money is the root of all evil
then this must be the gates to hell
ha ha ha ho hoh ho chortle snigger titter spluff cough wheeze dead
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Sat 24 May 2008, 19:40,
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ha ha ha ho hoh ho chortle snigger titter spluff cough wheeze dead
HA HA the jokes on you
nipples come in pairs
please can I have my dead brother's wallet back mister meats?
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Sat 24 May 2008, 19:46,
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please can I have my dead brother's wallet back mister meats?
yeah sure
I've spent the money
as it has sentimental value, what with me liking money
:D
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Sat 24 May 2008, 19:49,
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as it has sentimental value, what with me liking money
:D