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Bill Gates Is Coming To A College Near You
Xyn writes "Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates visited UW-Madison today as part of his 2005 College Tour, designed to promote greater youth involvement in technology careers. Gates discussed "The Impact and Opportunity of Technology: Why Computer Science? Why Now?" at a student forum."
I read the headline - and I let out an audible groan. Because here comes the brickbats. Here's a man, who donates more money than humanly imaginable (I believe the current number is $10bil++) and is actually concerned about the state of rot this country's technology human base is in and all he's going to get from the "intelligent" and "discerning" /. readers is flame about how he's probably got some sinister motive behind it.
...and never once toots his horn about it.
C'mon. I really respect Bill Gates - because the guy created a company that has $500bil in assets (like it or not, you HAVE TO respect that number - and he did it from scratch.)...and because the guy generously donates to the causes of poverty, cancer research etc
That's so much more than any of us have or probably will do in the future.
Swallow your mac/*nix pride for once, and grudgingly accept this man's importance.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
he was apparently a hell of a programmer back in the day.
So, what did he do exactly?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
1.-What was the guy smoking who thought WinME was a good thing and why haven't you at least said sorry to those of us that was put through that hell.
2.-Was it the same stoned guy who thought it was a good idea to throw away Win2K to force the business sector onto the gamer OS that is WinXP.
3.-Yes i know that OSX is pretty but do you honestly think gamers are going to want that much of their graphics and system RAM sucked up by stupid desktop eye candy?
I am sad to see Windows go from the simple Win2K for business and no nonsense users and WinXP for gamers and eye candy to the big giant WinME sized pile of suck that i believe WinVista will be but I'm going to be learning Linux in the next quarter so their stupidity=Mo Money for me!
I truly hope Linux really takes off if for no other reason than the only time that Microsoft gets off their asses and brings their A game to the table is when their threatened and if they don't bring their A game to Vista I'm going to be fixing a lot of crappy Vista machines.I went through that with WinME and would rather get kicked in the balls than have to try to make another MS suckfest OS try to behave.Either way i have a feeling I'm going to make some nice cash selling pre setup Linux boxes.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.