Well, I think everyone has missed the underlying theme here... It's obviously stating that female gamers are slightly less efficient than male counterparts resulting in a need to spend approximately 16% more time to acquire the same level of 1337ness.
"Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user."
Yet another "M$ is an innovator" myth. Before MS-DOS,there was the Commodore VIC-20, C-64, and Amiga. Before MS-DOS there was the Apple I, II, IIc,IIe, and III. Also there was the Kaypro luggables, etc. Microsoft has yet to innovate anything, ever. I challenge anyone to cite an innovation from M$, but be 100% prepared to discover that someone was doing it first and you just didn'tknow about it. Every single "Microsoft Innovation" involved M$ acquiring innovative companies and technologies who got there first, simply stealing the idea outright, or perpetuating non-truths (you'd be surprised howmany people think Gates/M$ invented the Internet. M$ probably didn't start the rumour, but they sure in the hell aren't going out of their way to stop it.)
"Would the Internet have blossomed into the vast information network it is today without the aid of easy-to-use software from Microsoft?"
It not only has, it did. (It is a retromyth that Windows is/was easy to use) If a car crashed constantly you wouldn't say it is easy to use would you?
SharePoint was rather innovative IMHO... Not sure if someone was doing something similiar first... and yes, with tight integration into the Office suite and closed source, it was a rather dirty trick to create even more dependency on MS. To Microsoft's credit, it worked and SharePoint has become like crack in the corporate world and people can't seem to get enough of it.
*way off topic as it has nothing to do with BG leaving MS*
On a side note, despite using underhanded tactics in business to crush competition (smart), in his personal life throughout the years Bill Gates has given a lot back in charitable donations through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Annually, I believe the donations exceed 1 billion per year. Say what you want about his business strategy, but the guy does seem to actually care about helping (less privileged) people out when he's not crushing his innovative competitors;-)
I think it's probably the fact that the owner of this system had the root password set to "GOD" as all good sysadmins do. The hacker's extensive experience hacking the Gibson made getting into this system a cakewalk Great... Now I have to change all my passwords;-)
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Well, I think everyone has missed the underlying theme here... It's obviously stating that female gamers are slightly less efficient than male counterparts resulting in a need to spend approximately 16% more time to acquire the same level of 1337ness.
Yet another "M$ is an innovator" myth. Before MS-DOS,there was the Commodore VIC-20, C-64, and Amiga. Before MS-DOS there was the Apple I, II, IIc,IIe, and III. Also there was the Kaypro luggables, etc. Microsoft has yet to innovate anything, ever. I challenge anyone to cite an innovation from M$, but be 100% prepared to discover that someone was doing it first and you just didn'tknow about it. Every single "Microsoft Innovation" involved M$ acquiring innovative companies and technologies who got there first, simply stealing the idea outright, or perpetuating non-truths (you'd be surprised howmany people think Gates/M$ invented the Internet. M$ probably didn't start the rumour, but they sure in the hell aren't going out of their way to stop it.)
It not only has, it did. (It is a retromyth that Windows is/was easy to use) If a car crashed constantly you wouldn't say it is easy to use would you?
SharePoint was rather innovative IMHO... Not sure if someone was doing something similiar first... and yes, with tight integration into the Office suite and closed source, it was a rather dirty trick to create even more dependency on MS. To Microsoft's credit, it worked and SharePoint has become like crack in the corporate world and people can't seem to get enough of it.
;-)
*way off topic as it has nothing to do with BG leaving MS*
On a side note, despite using underhanded tactics in business to crush competition (smart), in his personal life throughout the years Bill Gates has given a lot back in charitable donations through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Annually, I believe the donations exceed 1 billion per year. Say what you want about his business strategy, but the guy does seem to actually care about helping (less privileged) people out when he's not crushing his innovative competitors
Lol, I'm honestly shocked nobody said it sooner