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  1. 06-19-2006 #16
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    Bill Gates is so cute!
    I'm not immature, I'm refined in the opposite direction.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobMcGee123
    Bill Gates is so cute!
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    From when people were sexier than computers
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
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    Here's a fun game, try to read Bill's book report in the background.
  5. 06-20-2006 #20
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    Please do not ever become a game designer.
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    That was sarcasm. Please do not ever reply to my posts again.
  7. 06-20-2006 #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadCow257
    near $1,000,000 a day. 1,000 doesn't sound very impressive

    I blame ballmer for most of what bad has happened. http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6rqX...otaku%2Ecom%2F

    OOOOOH, AAAAAAH
  8. 06-20-2006 #23
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    Seriously - fool onstage, stance towards google, stance toward open source software...

    Microsoft should get rid of him
  9. 06-20-2006 #24
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    I also remember hearing a story about him throwing a chair or something.
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4213466.stm

    There were also some quotes but the whole situation was unclear
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    Quote Originally Posted by from the link provided
    alleged that Mr Ballmer hurled a chair across the room when he informed him he was moving to Google, before launching into an abusive tirade against Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt.
    Looks like a regular day at the office. I expect executives to behave like that. Ballmer's da man! (no irony)
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
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    I can't believe Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft!
    Are you sure? The BBC article I read quotes the fellow on stating that he is not leaving Microsoft.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
    Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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    Yeah, I thought gates was just shifting is prioritys to the Gates Foundation, not completely leaving Microsoft.
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    That was sarcasm. Please do not ever reply to my posts again.
    LOL I FORGOT THE <OFFTOPIC> </OFFTOPIC> BRACKETS LMAO!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario F.
    Looks like a regular day at the office. I expect executives to behave like that. Ballmer's da man! (no irony)
    I expect senators and state representatives to be like that. Executives give me that two faced, kill you softly vibe.
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