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So many haters been clocking his figures,
So many haters don't like him raking papers,
When all he did was bring operating systems through,
From the underground straight to you,
But everyone's so quick to slate that dude,
'Cos he's got more cash than you.
Yes, so solid crew talking about bill gates there. As much as i hate to resurect the old song rip off post ( :-) ), it fits the point i want to make perfectly.
Nobody likes the guy, bill gates, do we? Every time word loses half of whatever i may have been writing, or explorer refuses to run smoothly. Every time windows starts sulking, or i find myself looking at 'that' blue screen. That's when i hate bill gates.
Every time i get a bank statement, or look longingly through a shop window at that slim, state of the art laptop or the latest basketball trainers. Worse, every time i find myself at home for yet another evening, or going hungry to stretch out my student loan. That too is when i hate the multi billionaire.
There are, of course, pleanty of people making unreliable products which i end up using, and vast numbers of people with the cash to live comfortably while i scrape by (a couple of moths ago, i remember hearing how the number of millionaires in britain had *fallen* to a little below 70,000). But there are few who can claim to excell in both areas, and nobody does so with anything close to the extents of the microsoft frontman.
Yet for all our negativity towards him, if anyone on these forums were to claim that given the chance, they would refuse the success and money bill gates has, i'd consider them a fool or a liar.
Yet he still does good with his money. I think we'll all be familiar with his african work, and of course his infamous snub of his charitable researchers' belief that they could effectively help third world poverty by throwing laptops and computer networks at the needy. (Even if it did stink of publicity stunt.)
And for the problems with windows, and microsoft programs?
How far has microsoft pushed back the boundaries of technology? Would we really be anywhere like as far progressed as today without bill?
Sure, there are other operating systems, but linux is far less newbie friendly, and couldn't have brought computers to the mainstream like windows, while other operating systems have been pushed to the high standards they offer today by the need to be good enough to force people to move from windows. Without that challenge, could we really expect high standards from them?
Wordsuit. This is usually a reliable, efficient package, i believe. And if you dislike it enough, get something else. Want free lotus smartsuite with SR?
And sure, things go wrong sometimes, but this is pretty complicated stuff. Any programmers will know the difficulty in creating a never-fail perfect program, and all that program's vulnerabilities. And this is at a far lower level than much of microsoft's software.
Other reasons to be grateful to bill?
MSN messenger, hotmail -both bringing free communication to internet users, and very often selected above their competitors-, internet explorer - with netscape, perpetually pushing back the boundaries of html in a way W3C needs, to keep improving.
I'll still gaze at the new adidas t-macs or the iridium starbooks, knowing i need uni books and decent food before i can even let myself dream of having the cash, and think jealously of bill and his billions, and when i have to re-write half of my corsework, i'll still hold microsoft responsible for another late night and jar of coffee.
But now, at the back of my mind, i'll know to be grateful to bill, and take my mind off it by humming something by so solid crew.
So many haters don't like him raking papers,
When all he did was bring operating systems through,
From the underground straight to you,
But everyone's so quick to slate that dude,
'Cos he's got more cash than you.
Yes, so solid crew talking about bill gates there. As much as i hate to resurect the old song rip off post ( :-) ), it fits the point i want to make perfectly.
Nobody likes the guy, bill gates, do we? Every time word loses half of whatever i may have been writing, or explorer refuses to run smoothly. Every time windows starts sulking, or i find myself looking at 'that' blue screen. That's when i hate bill gates.
Every time i get a bank statement, or look longingly through a shop window at that slim, state of the art laptop or the latest basketball trainers. Worse, every time i find myself at home for yet another evening, or going hungry to stretch out my student loan. That too is when i hate the multi billionaire.
There are, of course, pleanty of people making unreliable products which i end up using, and vast numbers of people with the cash to live comfortably while i scrape by (a couple of moths ago, i remember hearing how the number of millionaires in britain had *fallen* to a little below 70,000). But there are few who can claim to excell in both areas, and nobody does so with anything close to the extents of the microsoft frontman.
Yet for all our negativity towards him, if anyone on these forums were to claim that given the chance, they would refuse the success and money bill gates has, i'd consider them a fool or a liar.
Yet he still does good with his money. I think we'll all be familiar with his african work, and of course his infamous snub of his charitable researchers' belief that they could effectively help third world poverty by throwing laptops and computer networks at the needy. (Even if it did stink of publicity stunt.)
And for the problems with windows, and microsoft programs?
How far has microsoft pushed back the boundaries of technology? Would we really be anywhere like as far progressed as today without bill?
Sure, there are other operating systems, but linux is far less newbie friendly, and couldn't have brought computers to the mainstream like windows, while other operating systems have been pushed to the high standards they offer today by the need to be good enough to force people to move from windows. Without that challenge, could we really expect high standards from them?
Wordsuit. This is usually a reliable, efficient package, i believe. And if you dislike it enough, get something else. Want free lotus smartsuite with SR?
And sure, things go wrong sometimes, but this is pretty complicated stuff. Any programmers will know the difficulty in creating a never-fail perfect program, and all that program's vulnerabilities. And this is at a far lower level than much of microsoft's software.
Other reasons to be grateful to bill?
MSN messenger, hotmail -both bringing free communication to internet users, and very often selected above their competitors-, internet explorer - with netscape, perpetually pushing back the boundaries of html in a way W3C needs, to keep improving.
I'll still gaze at the new adidas t-macs or the iridium starbooks, knowing i need uni books and decent food before i can even let myself dream of having the cash, and think jealously of bill and his billions, and when i have to re-write half of my corsework, i'll still hold microsoft responsible for another late night and jar of coffee.
But now, at the back of my mind, i'll know to be grateful to bill, and take my mind off it by humming something by so solid crew.
ah well... someone got screwed somewhere along the way...
Sibs wrote:
> thing is, the item he made all this cash off (Windows) he stole off some other
> company...
yes, MS stole all their big ideas of Apple- like the system clock, spreadsheets, calculator etc etc
But where did Apple get the idea of a GUI from? Xerox! They actually demanded that their top researchers be allowed to go to Xerox HQ and steal the ideas, and they were allowed to... only to rip Xerox off!
Sonic
> thing is, the item he made all this cash off (Windows) he stole off some other
> company...
yes, MS stole all their big ideas of Apple- like the system clock, spreadsheets, calculator etc etc
But where did Apple get the idea of a GUI from? Xerox! They actually demanded that their top researchers be allowed to go to Xerox HQ and steal the ideas, and they were allowed to... only to rip Xerox off!
Sonic
thing is, the item he made all this cash off (Windows) he stole off some other company...
No-one's perfect eh? ;-)
No-one's perfect eh? ;-)
Nice post.
Bill Gates is a good guy, but some people just don't like him because he has actually done something in his life.
Bill really will change the world when he dies by giving all his cash to charity.
Bill Gates is a good guy, but some people just don't like him because he has actually done something in his life.
Bill really will change the world when he dies by giving all his cash to charity.
===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Well, did you ever ask youself where all of Gates' money will go where he dies?
> Answer: Charity.
I didn't know that. How much of the money won't be tied into microsoft? I bet there'll be a few charities looking forward to that. Albeit in a rather uncharitable way : D
>His father is employed to go round the world, visitting worthy causes (eg African AIDS victims) and giving away the money.
>So not such a bad guy after all?
No offense, but did you read the post? Or was that in agreement?
> Well, did you ever ask youself where all of Gates' money will go where he dies?
> Answer: Charity.
I didn't know that. How much of the money won't be tied into microsoft? I bet there'll be a few charities looking forward to that. Albeit in a rather uncharitable way : D
>His father is employed to go round the world, visitting worthy causes (eg African AIDS victims) and giving away the money.
>So not such a bad guy after all?
No offense, but did you read the post? Or was that in agreement?
Well, did you ever ask youself where all of Gates' money will go where he dies? Answer: Charity.
In fact, hos kids will get $3 million each (a drop in Gates' vast fortune) and he is giving away millions each year to charity. His father is employed to go round the world, visitting worthy causes (eg African AIDS victims) and giving away the money.
So not such a bad guy after all?
sonic
In fact, hos kids will get $3 million each (a drop in Gates' vast fortune) and he is giving away millions each year to charity. His father is employed to go round the world, visitting worthy causes (eg African AIDS victims) and giving away the money.
So not such a bad guy after all?
sonic
So many haters been clocking his figures,
So many haters don't like him raking papers,
When all he did was bring operating systems through,
From the underground straight to you,
But everyone's so quick to slate that dude,
'Cos he's got more cash than you.
Yes, so solid crew talking about bill gates there. As much as i hate to resurect the old song rip off post ( :-) ), it fits the point i want to make perfectly.
Nobody likes the guy, bill gates, do we? Every time word loses half of whatever i may have been writing, or explorer refuses to run smoothly. Every time windows starts sulking, or i find myself looking at 'that' blue screen. That's when i hate bill gates.
Every time i get a bank statement, or look longingly through a shop window at that slim, state of the art laptop or the latest basketball trainers. Worse, every time i find myself at home for yet another evening, or going hungry to stretch out my student loan. That too is when i hate the multi billionaire.
There are, of course, pleanty of people making unreliable products which i end up using, and vast numbers of people with the cash to live comfortably while i scrape by (a couple of moths ago, i remember hearing how the number of millionaires in britain had *fallen* to a little below 70,000). But there are few who can claim to excell in both areas, and nobody does so with anything close to the extents of the microsoft frontman.
Yet for all our negativity towards him, if anyone on these forums were to claim that given the chance, they would refuse the success and money bill gates has, i'd consider them a fool or a liar.
Yet he still does good with his money. I think we'll all be familiar with his african work, and of course his infamous snub of his charitable researchers' belief that they could effectively help third world poverty by throwing laptops and computer networks at the needy. (Even if it did stink of publicity stunt.)
And for the problems with windows, and microsoft programs?
How far has microsoft pushed back the boundaries of technology? Would we really be anywhere like as far progressed as today without bill?
Sure, there are other operating systems, but linux is far less newbie friendly, and couldn't have brought computers to the mainstream like windows, while other operating systems have been pushed to the high standards they offer today by the need to be good enough to force people to move from windows. Without that challenge, could we really expect high standards from them?
Wordsuit. This is usually a reliable, efficient package, i believe. And if you dislike it enough, get something else. Want free lotus smartsuite with SR?
And sure, things go wrong sometimes, but this is pretty complicated stuff. Any programmers will know the difficulty in creating a never-fail perfect program, and all that program's vulnerabilities. And this is at a far lower level than much of microsoft's software.
Other reasons to be grateful to bill?
MSN messenger, hotmail -both bringing free communication to internet users, and very often selected above their competitors-, internet explorer - with netscape, perpetually pushing back the boundaries of html in a way W3C needs, to keep improving.
I'll still gaze at the new adidas t-macs or the iridium starbooks, knowing i need uni books and decent food before i can even let myself dream of having the cash, and think jealously of bill and his billions, and when i have to re-write half of my corsework, i'll still hold microsoft responsible for another late night and jar of coffee.
But now, at the back of my mind, i'll know to be grateful to bill, and take my mind off it by humming something by so solid crew.
So many haters don't like him raking papers,
When all he did was bring operating systems through,
From the underground straight to you,
But everyone's so quick to slate that dude,
'Cos he's got more cash than you.
Yes, so solid crew talking about bill gates there. As much as i hate to resurect the old song rip off post ( :-) ), it fits the point i want to make perfectly.
Nobody likes the guy, bill gates, do we? Every time word loses half of whatever i may have been writing, or explorer refuses to run smoothly. Every time windows starts sulking, or i find myself looking at 'that' blue screen. That's when i hate bill gates.
Every time i get a bank statement, or look longingly through a shop window at that slim, state of the art laptop or the latest basketball trainers. Worse, every time i find myself at home for yet another evening, or going hungry to stretch out my student loan. That too is when i hate the multi billionaire.
There are, of course, pleanty of people making unreliable products which i end up using, and vast numbers of people with the cash to live comfortably while i scrape by (a couple of moths ago, i remember hearing how the number of millionaires in britain had *fallen* to a little below 70,000). But there are few who can claim to excell in both areas, and nobody does so with anything close to the extents of the microsoft frontman.
Yet for all our negativity towards him, if anyone on these forums were to claim that given the chance, they would refuse the success and money bill gates has, i'd consider them a fool or a liar.
Yet he still does good with his money. I think we'll all be familiar with his african work, and of course his infamous snub of his charitable researchers' belief that they could effectively help third world poverty by throwing laptops and computer networks at the needy. (Even if it did stink of publicity stunt.)
And for the problems with windows, and microsoft programs?
How far has microsoft pushed back the boundaries of technology? Would we really be anywhere like as far progressed as today without bill?
Sure, there are other operating systems, but linux is far less newbie friendly, and couldn't have brought computers to the mainstream like windows, while other operating systems have been pushed to the high standards they offer today by the need to be good enough to force people to move from windows. Without that challenge, could we really expect high standards from them?
Wordsuit. This is usually a reliable, efficient package, i believe. And if you dislike it enough, get something else. Want free lotus smartsuite with SR?
And sure, things go wrong sometimes, but this is pretty complicated stuff. Any programmers will know the difficulty in creating a never-fail perfect program, and all that program's vulnerabilities. And this is at a far lower level than much of microsoft's software.
Other reasons to be grateful to bill?
MSN messenger, hotmail -both bringing free communication to internet users, and very often selected above their competitors-, internet explorer - with netscape, perpetually pushing back the boundaries of html in a way W3C needs, to keep improving.
I'll still gaze at the new adidas t-macs or the iridium starbooks, knowing i need uni books and decent food before i can even let myself dream of having the cash, and think jealously of bill and his billions, and when i have to re-write half of my corsework, i'll still hold microsoft responsible for another late night and jar of coffee.
But now, at the back of my mind, i'll know to be grateful to bill, and take my mind off it by humming something by so solid crew.