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Bill Gates Speaks Out
neoform writes "The Seattle PI is running an interesting interview with Bill Gates." In the article Gates comments on Vista, Google, and a few other pertinent topics. In an amusing bit of related news, an anonymous reader let us know that CNET is also running an interview with Gates. In the CNET interview Gates gives a very interesting response to one of the interview questions. "CNET: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point? Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."
" Friends, in the Clintonian tradition of getting the bad news out first before your enemies do, I have something truly sordid to admit to all of you.
My hope is that you won't lose all respect for me, though I will understand if you think less of me after I reveal this.
It's funny, it all seemed so innocent and fun back in those heady days of youth, but knowing what I know now, it is painful to even think of the depths to which I sunk. It's not even like I can say that I started off on the wrong foot but so many others were doing it that, eventually, I succumbed to temptation. Worse, even to this day, I am still forced to do things I'm too embarrassed to admit--all because of youthful indiscretion.
To show that I didn't start off wrong, I will say that the first computer I owned was an Apple IIe. I moved on to various Mac incarnations and processor families, but eventually . . .
I programmed in VB. A lot. Too much. I try to tell myself that the C classes as an undergrad kept it from turning my brain into complete mush--I even railed at the memory footprint and consciously tried to write code that wouldn't be Atul-like, but I'm certain that the years have had a deletorious effect.
I'll hang my head in shame and perhaps even stay away for a bit, but I thought it would be better if you heard from me instead of the someone on the other side.
May as well get it all out, xxx-xxxx wrote in message xxxxxx:
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Any who know how to use our secret weapon already may be aware of this because I've revealed it before, but my undergrad and grad degrees are in English.
I don't expect anyone to agree with the ugly choices I made in my youth, but I hope you understand that I am trying to atone--and the VB I'm forced to touch now is only occasional and I no longer take joy in it. "
(kudos to heimdal31 for the original)
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Its most likely #9. You can be serious without a suit. What bilge!
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This was blocked from the West Coast Feed.
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Well - your posting oughta be modded insightful - the flamebait is simply evidence of the correctness.