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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.
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!)
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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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!
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.
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.
hey!
... proof that the Microsoft PR department astroturfs /.
Ok, ok before the guy with the very large user id blows a gasket, I'm only joking, really.
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."
"Last night
People should not fear what they do not understand; people should fear because they do not understand.
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...