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Gates to join Simonyi in Space?
gadgetopia writes "On Russian state television, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin tells journalists in a live video interview from the ISS that "Charles said that Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space"." Gotta wonder what that insurance premium is going to look like.
Where can we donate to the "Leave Bill on the Moon" cause?
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Well, we'll all hope that they'll remain there and never return to the Earth.
On the other hand... 'Space overlords' line doesn't look good...
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Oh wait, this is a story about Bill Gates. Is this a joke about how IE doesn't follow w3 standards for HTML? If so, it's not that funny.
Dear diary: Today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender.
On a more serious note, however, the Slashdot editting have reached a new low.
...as he sits there in his spacesuit in his capsule next to the Russian cosmonaut commander as "Soyuz 12 - Powered by Windows Vista" flashes up on the main control screen just before the primary engine ignition sequence...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Anyone heard whether Steve Ballmer is thinking of taking the trip too ?
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No. Apparently the mission objectives are a dozen orbits around Ballmer's ego while safely retrieving items of loose furniture in unstable orbits around him.
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Reminds me of an old Ukrainian joke how when Gagarin went into space some guy announced that Russians have gone into space to which the auditory hopefuly asked if all of them and was greatly disapointed to learn that only one.
In Soviet Russia, html tags close you!
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Gates would go to orbit only if Steve Jobs goes there first. He would not understand why Steve went, but just to be sure he has would not be blind sided like he was with iPod, he would go there.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
AND it's all about a trip less than 250 miles away, to a toy-space station that doesn't even have any hookers.
I suggest we put the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in charge of developing a REAL moonbase.
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...kept in static geostationary orbit only by the sheer magical power created in chanting repeatedly the word "developers" while performing an ancient ritualistic dance.
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Gates in space? Is that "SpaceLikeWord95" or "SpaceLikeOnASoyuz"?
I like that it's A Bill Gates. Makes me wonder if it's THE Bill Gates. Maybe this isn't such a big story after all.
Oh, you'll get there. The question is, will you be able to get back?
"What do you mean 'a fatal error has occurred'?"
120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
...and he has to wait three months for a patch to fix it?
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While marketing Windows Vista Super Ultimate Galactic Edition, Bill Gates was accidentally left at the ISS. Provisions are limited however NASA officials claim Gates will be able to live off a steady diet of old ASP.NET books until a rescue crew arrives.
Jason-Palmer.com
A. One's a shit in a capsule... the other relieves constipation.
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"Houston to Bill, Houston to Bill, do you read Bill?"
"Loud and clear Houston. Go ahead."
"Bill, we're all go here. We just need you to push the big red button in front of you."
"OK Houston, I'm pushing the button, and... huh?"
"What is it Bill?"
"This big window just popped up saying 'You do not have privileges to access applications Orbit and Space.' Oh, now the whole screen's gone blue. Is that normal Houston?"
Work smarter, not harder.
It would be GOLD one of the cosmonauts would pie him in the face as soon as he came through the airlock. GOLD.
What a mess, though.
Vonnegut was right: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
Has there ever been a better chance to start a real life MST3K?
It would solve all our problems!
"No, no, no, don't tug on that! You never know what it might be attached to."
I for one would like to see the look on his face when he climbs into the cockpit and sees the Vista boot splash...
--Neth
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
Slashdot provides a link to what Fyodor Yurchikhin said about what Charles Simonyi said about what Bill Gates supposedly intends to do.
Windows development is always that way, pawn, and that's why most people don't bother. Windoze - the only way to win is not to play.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I feel that if Bill Gates does travel into space, the guidance system of the vehicle he travels in should be changed over to run on Microsoft Windows in his honour.