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Bill Gates, Entertainment God?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the future-of-home-av dept.

ppgreat sent in a wired story about the home of the future sort of story discussing A/V in a Microsoft Media Player 9 future. As seems to always be the case, there's a lot of cool stuff in there, but more than a few eyebrow raises.

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  1. Bill Gates, Entertainment God? by sweeney37 · · Score: 4, Funny

    so does this make Balmer some sort of weird Dancin' Jesus?

    Mike

  2. Entertainment God? by OwnerOfWhinyCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Agent Gates will do.

  3. bill gates, god? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dunno, but the words Bill Gates and God in the same sentence just seem, morally, and ethically wrong...

    1. Re:bill gates, god? by pmz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea, its generally my policy to avoid using the words Gates and G-d in the same sentence.

      What about: "God help us, Gates is more powerful than the President!"

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    2. Re:bill gates, god? by sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny
      I dunno, but the words Bill Gates and God in the same sentence just seem, morally, and ethically wrong...

      How about, "Bill Gates was struck down by a bolt from a clear sky, which is generally considered to be the Wrath of God."

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  4. Clippy in the kitchen by sczimme · · Score: 4, Funny


    From the article:

    Break out the food processor and some baking material; your home recognizes RFID tags in the bag of flour and offers to help. "How about focaccia?"

    I wouldn't want Clippy (or any of his pals) monkeying around with anything I was going to eat: he would probably still be mad from the gazillionth time he was 'killed' and would add a bunch of habaneros or something.

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  5. Only Microsoft by Spytap · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only Microsoft would invent a house where you need to ask permission to act like you live there...

  6. E-Mail read to us? by netsharc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great, so I bring home a girl and the house starts yelling "Penis too small? Buy our penis-enlarger now! Original from Sweden!" and "Hot teens wait for you! Call us now!"..

    I hope they come up with a better protocol than SMTP in the future..

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  7. Reminds me of a story by El · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a long, long line of people at the Pearly Gates waiting to get in. Suddenly, this nerdy looking guy in glasses cuts to the front of the line and storms on in. The others at the the front of the line complain "Who was that?" St. Peter replies: "Oh, that was God, but he thinks he's Bill Gates!"

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  8. Re:Why Bill Gates? by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gates can fire Ballamer, and Ballamer can't fire Gates.

    Owning stock trumps a title.

    It certainly doesn't hurt Gates to have The One Ring, either.

  9. Re:Old news, once a year by blackmonday · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually this is the sixth version of the house of the future. In every house, 99% of people refuse to believe in the Microsoft future. Of those 99%, there is always one anomaly, or "The One". The One wanders the house looking for Bill Gates (known as the architect), hoping to get his questions answered. The One has used Microsoft's Internet Blender, Windows Media Faucet and Office Ice Maker, but always knows, in the back of his mind, that something is not quite right.