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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."
Yes, the building will have Windows, but the Office will cost extra.
They can write BSOD in big white letters on the top of it.
Sigs are for Terrorists.
Blue Screen of Death.
They should paint 'IRQL not less or equal' on the side of the building.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
Why doesn't Bill gates run around spending money on fun stuff? NSYNC guys almost buy a trip a to space. Woz has like 20 segways (and plays on a segway plo team). But why doesnt Bill Gates spend his money on such crazy things?
He just wants control of their water-walking robots. No bathtub will be safe!
The infamous yellow screen of death... oh wait!
Unfortunately none of the doors have locks and all of the windows are wide open by default.
Ahhh stop. You're killing me. No, really STOP 0x0000000A BAD_BSOD_JOKES
Sigs are for Terrorists.
It will be ugly all right, if it looks anything like this Bill Gates computer science building.
1. To enter, you push a button and 5 minutes later the door opens
2. All digital locks can be opened with the admin password 1-2-3-4-5
3. Vibrating Window panes will cause random crashes
4. All wall decorations are essential and directly integrated into the building and cannot be removed without destroying the entire structure
...you will be greeted by a 20 foot iron sculpture of clippy.
That, and the building won't have any locks.
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Geez - how lame. This charitable act is just an attempt to push his company's products on college students. Someone mod me up as insightful.
Carnegie-Mellon University officials today reported that several designs for metal keys to the new Gates Center for Computer Science, which hasn't even been built yet, were found on the Kazaa and Gnutella filesharing networks. CMU Campus Police and Microsoft are reportedly investigating the leaked keys.
What Slashdot thinks about Microsoft is the *ONLY* thing that matters. The TRUTH is IRRELEVANT you DIRTBAG.
If we had a beowulf cluster of Linux donations, we could overpower Bill Gates soooo easily!
he gives all this money to a school, but still gets the borg icon treatment on /.
CB#
free ipod and free gmail!
...that way, maybe it won't be the only thing Bill's given us that makes things crash.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Also consider that Microsoft is the #1 employer of CS grads from CMU. This school's students and expertise have served him well
So maybe his half-ass donation is what he thought they deserve for the half-ass OS they've cranked out.
Of course people go to the recruitment events. Free food! A handful of people actually go because they want to work for Microsoft, but most of the people are there to heckle and get free stuff. Microsoft shirts make great rugs. I always wanted to win a laptop in one of their raffles just so I could say I got a free laptop from Microsoft and put Linux on it. At last year's recruiting speech, one of the people asked "How many of you have heard of the Blaster virus?" Everyone raised their hand. "How many of you hate Microsoft because of the Blaster virus?" The guy sitting next to me: "Just because of that?" Applause.
Skynet was after all created at CMU. Now Microsoft is giving money to CMU. Will Terminators have glowing blue eyes instead of glowing red eyes?
It represents the Blue Screen of Death.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
You must have never used Windows ME.
Mak'tal shree lok'tak mek'ta sa'tak Oz! - Daniel Jackson
I searched on Yahoo! but couldn't find anything. Google on the other hand returned tons of useful results.
There won't be a front entryway to the building. But there will be hundreds of back doors.
4. All wall decorations are essential and directly integrated into the building and cannot be removed without destroying the entire structure
"I wouldn't do that, that's a load bearing poster.."
Many of these have been dealt with sufficiently already, but I'll respond to them on a point-by-point basis:
Gates Millennium Scholarship Program
To train more potential Microsoft employees! Obviously!
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
Only an attempt to keep people alive so that they can buy more Microsoft software!
teachers, administrators, school districts and schools
To obligate them to push a Microsoft curriculum and keep Apple and Linux out of the classroom!
Gates Library Program
Do they have any non-Microsoft Press books at these libraries? Probably not!
Children's Vaccine Program, Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer, global polio eradication, International Vaccine Institute, elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus, Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Again, keep the potential customers alive! This is one of the cornerstones of capitalism -- ever expanding markets!
The guy is obviously evil. That you can't see the motives behind these dubious donations just goes to show how easy it is to buy people's favor!
Bill Gate$ is teh eviL!!1!!!1! OMGOMG!!
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
They'll buy an old building already on campus, slap a bit of paint and window dressing on it, then fence it in with a high electric fence and charge a massive fee just to look at the building (let alone using it). Then they proceed to send a bill to all the people using all the other buildings, claiming they own the concept of a building and that their buildings are based on methods found in SCO's building...
Sure, SCO's building and all the other buildings are based on far older principles and methods, but still they insist on owning the concepts because they were in the building they bought and thus it is theirs forever.....
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) --
If stadiums are any example, I'm sure another $10 million would allow CMU to call it:
Pepsi Presents the Gates Center for Computer Science
- Tony
But nobody's naming a building at CMU "Milosevic Hall."
Then again, it does have a nice ring to it....
You mean Bill Gates beat him to death?
perhaps a donation to the FSF would clear the cynical fog ;-)
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
If the finance room was named after a bank, was the room named after fast food for liberal arts?
At least on XP, it also pops up a Qwality Feedback window asking if you want to send your dump to Microsoft.
Yeah, I'd like to send my dump to MS. Who should I send it to? : p
Several leaks will appear in the roof, which will require a never ending number of *patches*. However, these patches will then cause an ever increasing static load on the roof, requiring removal of certain Fixtures in the building. These fixtures in the building must be removed because the building can no longer *support* them.
Next, due to all of the leaks and subsequent rise in relative humidity inside the building, mold will form at an astounding rate, spreading to other buildings. Then, one of the biology students in attemp to 'help', will introduce a mold *VIRUS* which will spread like wildfire to all of the *buildings* on campus