Having lived in Los Angeles county, all of my 28 years, I'll gladly take anything that will keep us from splitting area codes. The local phone companies, Pacific Bell and GTE, have done an extremly poor job of managing these changes. Within a 50 mile radius we've gone from 2 area codes to 11 or 12. To make matters worse many cities have more than one, so you can't guess. LA alone has 5.
The fact of the matter is that Gates deserves to be on the list. Without M$'s software the web and computing would be vastly different. It was the demand for that software that drove down the cost of PC's, and fueled the industry in general.
Without a doubt Linux is a better product than Windoze. But I think it is just starting to become useable enough for the average retard user.
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Having lived in Los Angeles county, all of my 28 years, I'll gladly take anything that will keep us from splitting area codes. The local phone companies, Pacific Bell and GTE, have done an extremly poor job of managing these changes. Within a 50 mile radius we've gone from 2 area codes to 11 or 12. To make matters worse many cities have more than one, so you can't guess. LA alone has 5.
The fact of the matter is that Gates deserves to be on the list. Without M$'s software the web and computing would be vastly different. It was the demand for that software that drove down the cost of PC's, and fueled the industry in general. Without a doubt Linux is a better product than Windoze. But I think it is just starting to become useable enough for the average retard user.