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Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building
touretzky writes "Carnegie Mellon University announced on Tuesday that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had donated $20 million toward the cost of a new building to be called the "Gates Center for Computer Science". Some faculty have suggested that in acknowledgment of Mr. Gates' profound influence on the computer software industry, the building should be painted bright blue."
Well, if he would donate money with out strings that force those that take the money to have close ties to microsoft it would be different. The thing is, most of his donations are designed to sell/push microsoft products and yes that includes the donations to the birth control/gun control/child murders he gives support to.
This is an outright LIE. XP will NEVER intentionally spontaneously reboot.
The kernel-mode error checking is MORE STRICT in XP than it was in Windows 2000. In other words, if Windows or a driver does something stupid, a BSOD is more likely to occur -- which is a good thing, because if an error DOES occur, you want to know about it.
Microsoft provides Driver Verifier for all 3rd parties who are developing device drivers, and they are required to use it in order to validate their drivers before getting certified.
This is just more UNIX FUD and LIES. Why is it acceptable to say "I've never run WinXP" when WRITING about XP, which is equivalent to saying "I DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY."
If you are ignorant, then SHUT THE HELL UP or go get educated about it first.
" Do we have to dissect every good thing that people do?"
Yes. This is Slashdot, ground zero of the tin-foil hat crowd. If this place had 10 Commandments, 5 of them would have something to do with how evil Microsoft is.
According to our gang, Microsoft is evil. Bill Gates is Microsoft. Thus, Bill Gates is incapable of doing any good whatsoever. Even when it appears he's doing something good, there's some deeper nefarious purpose behind it.
Envy is a powerful and ugly thing.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
Don't troll about Mr. Kildall, he was a great man and you all have much to thank him for. Your post sucks ass and so do you.
-if at first you don't succeed, stay the heck away from paragliding.
Christ on a broken crutch, it's right there man.
I don't buy the suicide bit either, but that doesn't resolve Gates of his being a complete ass.
Marked as "foe" until you prove you have your ADHD under control enough that you can read an entire post(not skim!) before responding.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
OTOH, my point still stands, and you can't knock it down by making fun of me, you ridiculous dipshit.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Not really. Of course, you may claim that you know more about my childhood than I do, but I don't remember being extensively told to help others - no more, no less than any other kid is told that. My desire to help others developed in some other way. No, it is silly to call it a reflex, because this is clearly not - it's an example of higher nervous functions, not something as basic as salivating on a bell. Of course, it would be equally silly to deny that I am "wired" or "programmed" this way, but don't equate it with reflexes. My complex mind evolved in such a way as to help others - this is always my free choice, the decision depends on many factors, but quite often I decide to do it.
In regards to denying the selfish person, I think you are wrong as well. In fact, I find being selfish good, correct and rational. I am actually quite selfish (sometimes my willingness to admit it really surprises others), but I also act altruistically sometimes. Some of these altruistic acts are results of simple societal programming (letting someone sit in the metro, opening a door for someone), but others are a result of my own free choice, but still aren't selfish.
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