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.

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Another example of fantastic journalism from /.

[potcrackpot]

So, Bill Gates makes the opening speech at the CES. What does slashdot report?

That his demo wasn't flawless.

Where's the much more sensible and deserving reportage of what Gates' speech contained? About how he's repositioning Microsoft as not just a PC software manufacturer, but is placing more and more emphasis on other devices like consoles (the Xbox), handhelds, personal organisers etc. because the desktop PC is becoming less important in the new, gadget-orientated technology market?

Bill even admitted this in the speech. But we don't talk about that.

We just witter on about how his demo didn't work in a pointless, rodomontade, article.

No, I'm not new here. I'm just fed up.

Re:Another example of fantastic journalism from /.

[potcrackpot]

How exactly, am I trolling?

Wankers. You disagreeing with me doesn't mean I'm a troll. Disagreeing with the article's premise or quality doesn't make me a troll.

Re:I spy a new meme

[Drinian]

Do you even understand what communism is? It is by nature totalitarianism. It is opposed to the nature of man, the nature of freedom and the nature of liberty.

Who will determine that my abundance should go to someone else's lack? Will force be used to create this balance?

Voluntary communism is wonderful. And it is found all over the world, often among religious groups. But mandatory communism is totalitarianism, plain and simple.

Re:And the lesson is ...

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Ironic:
characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

A presentation of something not ready for release crashed.. they have the stream in a windows media format.. Did you expect it to be .OGM?

Cuba.

[oliverthered]

The US is generally mad at Cuba because they don't hold elections even though Fidel Castro has a huge approval rating.

When asked why he doesn't hold elections to stop the US going on about it he says ,'Because I don't have to'.

Castro is also well known for saying ,'I could have done a lot better, but overall I haven't done to bad'

Jews are also known for their 'communist' ways, and I'm sure if you looked around a thousand or so years ago you would find lots of communist type groups.

Re:Run screaming from this!!!

[Bearpaw]

The last thing free software proponents need is to associate themselves with a failed economic ideology that has resulted in tens of millions of unnecessary deaths worldwide.

Just for a minute here, I wasn't sure you were talking about communism or corporatism.

Re: Microsoft is a State-Sponsored Monopoly

[Kevin DeGraaf]

It's high time that all you Democrats and Republicans out there swallow the blue pill and see things as they are, not how you want them to be.

Wrong pill.

Red pill -> learn the truth
Blue pill -> continue living in the dark

(Am I bored at work today? You bet.)