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Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates
tcak writes "From the CNET article: "You could meet the chairman of Microsoft, but you'll have to profess a passion for Windows first. Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby. The company plans to use them in a marketing blitz tied to the 20th anniversary of Windows' debut. ""
You could meet the chairman of Microsoft, but you'll have to profess a passion for Windows first.
How many of us will pretend to love windows just to get a chance to relive some fond memories?
Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby.
So now they have to bribe Windows users for positive reviews, eh? Seems about right.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
...will they pat me down first before i meet him?
who is she? leave a comment!
I use windows for... well, I'm sure I could use windows for... no wait I have wine. I'm sure it could be used for something...
Oh yes... making neat internet worms!
And guns. Lots of guns.
An employee suggested to me that we buy Windows for few offices here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day notekeeping and organization. So I decided to let him install Windows (Windows 95 I think) into 5 offices to see how the employees got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using Windows in his office and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the client offices?
Once he'd got Windows up and running we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: Windows was a pretty good replacement for DOS and the users could still do their work as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not find things they were used to (like the command line) or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with the DOS. The constant crashing began to make using Windows a burden on our office supplies. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when Windows suddenly had an error reading from our network and corrupted his pr0n collection.
Needless to say, the Windows team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee remove Windows from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
Two meetings with Bill Gates
Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be like Apple's Switch ads?
That's the whole idea.
Another Microsoft innovation!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
When I'm at work, I use a Dell PC running Windows XP to open my VNC sessions on the linux grid to write new simulators as well as check on the progress of currently executing ones, as well as pulling up my VNC terminal from my iMacG5 at home to peruse personal email.
Do I get to meet Bill now?
Bill Gates: Buy him out, boys! Oh, you don't think I became the richest man in the world by writing checks, do you?
I remember when I passionately threw my windows 98 laptop at the ground... does that count?
Rich Gentlemen Hide - The Existential Comic
I have used Windows for many years and now have a huge collection of porn/spyware. Does this count as an obsession/hobby?
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
Anyone here old enought to remember Death Race 2000? Remember why Frankenstein (David Carradine) wanted so badly to win the race?
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I want to win just to pull the old Chris Farley interview from SNL.
Me: Remember that time you released windows?
Bill: Yeah
Me: That was awesome!
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Hi There Bill, please consider me !
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I use Windows to persue my hobbies, which include
phishing, spamming, cracking and distributing illegal files via p2p !
I have a real passion for windows !
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
I use windows to watch porn. You AIN'T SEEN more passion than that!
Send email from the afterlife! Write your e-will at Dead Man's Switch.
I use my windows XP box and DS3 connection at work to download all of my linux ISOs.
Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby.
Does masochism count?
but I wouldn't mind being in his will.
Real_men_don't_need_spacebars.
When I see the reaction I get everytime I post on French Clubic.com on why people use Windows when they could do what they do free with Linux or other, I can tell you that some people are fanatic about Windows, if I'm not called troll I got something like "You bloody OpenSource freak, why would I not use Windows when it is free and I can get tons of warez game on it..." Does using pirated Windows qualify?
Balmer hawking Windows when it was first released.
your stake, mallet and holy water.
So that at the News Conference in front of all the world media, with Bill at your side, you say, "Actually, I always use [Insert favorite Distro here] for actually doing work."
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
You don't know any passionate Windows hater?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
STFU u.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/metricmusic
Why do I have this vision of Gates dressed as Santa and a line of geeks is waiting to sit on his lap?
"Hi, um, Bill, er, um, Mr. Gates. I love Windows so much, I have the logo tattoed on my heiny. Want to see it?"
"What?? That's copyright infringement!! Guards, place this manboy under arrest!!"
"I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!"
Bill if your gonna buy reviews, use cash like the the hardware and gaming industries. Stop being a cheapass!
I find screens fascinating. Just by looking at a screen, you can learn anything in the realm of human knowledge. There is no limit to the things one can learn by applying yourself to screens.
When writing, I find the word "of" to be a significant help in stringing together words into coherent sentences. I am so grateful to my elementary school teachers for introducing me to this wonderful word.
I cannot get the idea of death out of my mind. It haunts me, it consumes me, it puzzles me. I think about it endlessly.
Is there any wonder why I have a deep and abiding love for Windows?
Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby
So one day, I was using Windows, and after it locked up on me for the 8th time after trying to install a video driver, so began my passion for Linux...
Oh yeah, Bill Gates is teh bomb.
Second Prize: Two meetings with Bill Gates.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Dear Bill
Thanks to Windows, I have a new hobby. Cleaning up borked machines for friends and family members. Without Windows, and your enlightened guidance, that would not be possible.
Signed
A near suicidal geek
is masochism.
Windows does it for me every time.
Thank you Windows.
cyn, free software and *nix operating systems enthusiast.
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You get to meet Steve Ballmer (aka Darth Monkeyboy) who will dance the forbidden dance of seduction!
If that doesn't work, you get to meet Guido and Fat Tony.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
1. The Windows User is condemned to edit the Registry just to get a program to work.
2. The software lock-in is laid upon him.
3. His first Blue Screen Of Death.
4. He meets his confounded smart-ass know-it-all nephew, who uses Linux.
5. Irving his neighbour is called in to try to fix the damned computer.
6. Windows User's hard disk is wiped by a virus written in VB Script.
7. His second Blue Screen Of Death.
8. He meets the women of P2P pr0n but cannot see them because Windows Media Player will not enable him to play files with DRM content.
9. His third Blue Screen Of Death.
10. He is stripped of his money upgrading to the latest version of Microsoft Office.
11. He is mortified by Clippy.
12. He distributes a Word doc without realizing that "hidden" text can be made visible; he loses his job.
13. He visits a site with MS Internet Explorer and hackers in Vladivostok change his local settings.
14. He is laid to rest waiting for Longhorn.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Post something like the parent.
> un-> RunDLL32 advpack.dll, LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
And people call Unix cryptic.....
I know of some people who use windows to pursue their hobby. They reverse-engineer it and write samba or wine.
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