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Gates Nose-Dives at CES
Lots of submissions this morning about Bill Gates' performance at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. His Media Center PC presentation crashed. (The presentation is online.) He also gave an interview to CNET, where he described anyone who doesn't support ever-increasing intellectual property laws as "communists". Boingboing has some commentary on that interview as well.
Fly the flag with pride comrades!
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Never show up at an event hosted by a comedian.
Using Windows.
Don't watch the presentation, it makes your PC crash, too ;)
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I always knew Gates was a robot. Now they installed SP2 on him, and LOOK WHAT HAPPENS! Increased security, my foot!
I am scientifically inaccurate.
It sounds like Bill Gates may be infested with SpyWare, a typical memetic programming that took place in the 1950's in which everyone who was not a right-wing-christian-gun-loving-American was a communist. It sounds like it's causing his PR ability to crash. Should we help him out and format him and put linux on him? (Wait.. Put linux on him, linux is Tux, the mental image that is coming to mind is... DISTURBING!!!! ACK REBOOT REBOOT!)
Head for the hills! The Commies are everywhere!
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
When I read that he nose-dived, I was hoping for a video of him tripping and flying off a stage or something. I am sorely disappointed!
I am scientifically inaccurate.
Gen. Jack D. Ripper: I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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Worlds largest blue screen of death here
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Although he accepted guffaws from audience members in the theater, the technical hiccups didn't prompt Gates to engage in a hard-hitting analysis of computer reliability and security.
Doesn't that just sum up everything that's wrong with Microsoft?
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I can't think of a single anarchist government that's killed millions of people.
For the love of God, please learn to spell "ridiculous"!!!
To the barricades!
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Havn't Steve Jobs been going on and on about the digital hub for the last several years? Nice to see that Microsoft is using their good old R&D-lab called Apple again.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Never show up at an event...using Windows.
As entertaining as Conan O'Brian is, how far into the keynote video in the crash? Watching Gates talk for too long makes me dry-heave.
God is real unless declared integer.
hell, fucking google does that for me good enough, in fact it finds a page with reviews too in top 5.
and i'm in a smallish 20k person suburb, in finland...
but i guess what bill meant was that the he wants an engine that the pizzeria owner needs to pay for to be in and the user needs to pay for use..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Everyone here is so eager to bash on how "bad" Windows is, giving stupid misspellings and generally acting like jackasses. I use Windows at home, and I never plan to switch; I've never gotten a virus, never had a problem with spyware, and never had problems with random crashes. I restart about once a week to make sure I keep things running smoothly, and that's it. I don't know what you guys are doing to fuck your Windows boxes up so much, but I have no problem keeping mine up and running.
Communists? Come on, Bill, you can do better than that! Who cares about Communists anymore? Just look at all the business we're doing with Communist China these days. The word "Communism" has definitely lost its cache.
Here's some advice for your public relations folks: We're not communists, we're "software terrorists", Bill, and we're out to kill little babies and children in the name of FOSS. We hate freedom and the American way of life and we're out to destroy it.
Now, if you can get that message across and paint that picture to the American public, you'd kill FOSS forever. Hell, you could probably get the FBI to start raiding the homes of Linux users.
Good luck in your future endeavors, you Capitalist Pig.
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
We're not having the Red Scare anymore. Why didn't he label them terrorists? That's today's thing.
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I LOVE THIS COMMUNISM
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About 33 minutes in and just after the second crash, Conan provides some filler and gives my favorite quote in the presentation:
... I got so drunk, I woke up with a hooker. Bill got so drunk, he woke up with an Apple computer."
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People should not fear what they do not understand; people should fear because they do not understand.
Which means 80% is NOT supported by the government, so, by further application of your logic, 80% of the US is NOT "Communist". Of course, 42% of all statistics are made up... by people who pull shit out of their ass...
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"So you just plug it in, and Windows says 'hey- I've found a new device'. You'll notice that this scanner build *blue screen* whoa. Ummm... I guess this isn't why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet."
I wonder if that bug actually made it to production...
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I saw a funny thing on my way to vegas recently - not quite as big a BSOD, but the same one on dozens of machines in US customs. I tried to take a picture and nearly had my camera confiscated...
I could take a snapshot from the video of Gates amazed at the technical difficulties. Couldn't fix the colors, sorry if it looks a bit yellow.
At least the one from '98 is in Quicktime. The link in the Slashdot article is for a video in Windows Media Player. If you are going to post something in an anti-MS article it could at least be in Quicktime or RealPlayer.
--When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Maybe you need a free iPod...
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