Once upon a time Gates had a monopoly basically (other than Apple) on operating system. And he exploited the shit out of it with high software charges while the going was good. Well that's come to an end so he thinks he's a freaking doctor now, and medicine is a fantastic rort. But back to your original point, Gates is a billionaire due to excessive charges, but that wasn't a problem to him at the time. Do you think Gates is now a reformed 'christian'. Not on your nelly!
Bollox! It's not PC is your issue, your conditioned in how and what to think, everything I've put is true, everything I've predicted has been correct and has happened. It's not rocket science although I do understand that if that helps. Plus not everything is science, logic and reason and understanding the raw data something that's in short supply. There trying to !iterally ban people like me of the internet, not because we are wromg, because we are right and keep getting prove right, they've invested too much in the narrative for us to ruin it. Prove you have a clue, answer this question..... Why do we need immunity passports soon to go the clothes shops, if the vaccines merely reduce symptoms, don't stop you catching or spreading? Surely the at risk people have been vaccinated and are safer? P.s. I'm happy to sign away any covid related treatment for the rest of my life, as I know it's not a risk to me at all and the long term vaccine risks are unknown as there experimental and will not be proven 'safe' untill 2023 and even the still not proven safe beyond that time scale! Oxford vaccine isn't going to pass need to scrap that! It's also not a risk to anybody I know, can't think if 1 friend who's not had it, tell me again why your scared? Answer admit you know nothing! Lol
3rd wave already started in Europe weird how it's only affecting the people that'd been vaccinated, well the age groups that had vaccines. Even Boris has mumbled vaccines might not be working as planned, for him to mumble that means there not working at all.
Excessive to who? Windows was always in line with large software suites in its day and added incredible value to small comps. and people's lives. You ever try doing a spreadsheet on dos? On paper, by hand? How much did you enjoy using a typewriter? Fax? Using the encyclopedia?
URBAN DICTIONARY "not on your nelly" cockney rhyming slang for not on your life. nelly rhymes with smelly, which leads to smelly breath, breath leads to breathing to keep alive, leading to not on your life. Martin: 'will you stroke my furry badger?' Jon: 'Not on your nelly!' Depends what sort of furry badger
themickey 7,400 Posts 3,852 Likes BeautifulStranger being a Trump cultist, what other response would one expect? Now also a Bill Gates cultist? A true leader who has the best interests of the United States at heart, even an imperfect one, is far better than what the Radical Left has to offer. There is no doubt Trump is a true leader. After all, Trump received 80 million votes in 2020, shattering all-time Republican records and either of Obama’s performances, even accounting for US population growth. Last edited: Today at 7:42 AM Well @themickey, you have me on ignore and you are quoting my posts? Not very Ben Hogan(Crocodile Dundee) of you, is it? Acknowledging or giving someone praise is cultism to you? I like to think better of you than this kind of thinking, but then again, perhaps my respect of you is not very well founded. By the way, Trump is praiseworthy because of his success and persistence in multiple areas of life, such as marriages to hot women, productive children, top 1% wealth, President of the United States against a hostile media and against great odds, still is revered by a massive group of supporters, and can take more abuse than anybody. Further, Trump has world class skills as discussed in another post or two of mine on Trump. In contrast to Trump’s resilience, @themickey, you fold when you read a disagreeable post. The mature don’t measure another’s achievements by political affiliation. Rather they measure success and contribution by results, even if there were some failures or evidence of relatively minor moral turpitude along the way. By the way, how would you compare your success to Trump or Bill Gates? Up for a “Compare and contrast”? Grin.
Source? From what I can tell, total deaths and crude mortality rate (per 100k population) were both higher in 2020 than 2008 in the UK. https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/tran...mofinformationfoi/deathsintheukfrom1990to2020
well, like people said "it is better be lucky than good!". The college dropout, who wasn't smart enough to invent OS, though good enough to invent a compiler, was blessed by hidden hands. I think Bill Gates was destined to be rich and famous! God had plan for him instead of Gary Kildall, whose original OS was even recommended by Bill Gates. Gary Kildall could have been Bill Gates! Even Microcrash owner isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, though I think he had vision for computer technologies that PC's are the future for how people/companies would work, and he embraced the vision, and ran with it. from wiki, "IBM dealings[edit] IBM approached Digital Research in 1980, at Bill Gates' suggestion,[9] to negotiate the purchase of a forthcoming version of CP/M called CP/M-86 for the IBM PC. Gary had left negotiations to his wife, Dorothy, as he usually did, while he and colleague and developer of MP/M operating system Tom Rolander used Gary's private airplane to deliver software to manufacturer Bill Godbout.[4][10] Before the IBM representatives would explain the purpose of their visit, they insisted that Dorothy sign a non-disclosure agreement. On the advice of DRI attorney Gerry Davis, Dorothy refused to sign the agreement without Gary's approval. Gary returned in the afternoon and tried to move the discussion with IBM forward, but accounts disagree on whether he signed the non-disclosure agreement, as well as if he ever met with the IBM representatives.[11] Various reasons have been given for the two companies failing to reach an agreement. DRI, which had only a few products, might have been unwilling to sell its main product to IBM for a one-time payment rather than its usual royalty-based plan.[12] Dorothy might have believed that the company could not deliver CP/M-86 on IBM's proposed schedule, as the company was busy developing an implementation of the PL/I programming language for Data General.[13] Also possible, the IBM representatives might have been annoyed that DRI had spent hours on what they considered a routine formality.[10] According to Kildall, the IBM representatives took the same flight to Florida that night that he and Dorothy took for their vacation, and they negotiated further on the flight, reaching a handshake agreement. IBM lead negotiator Jack Sams insisted that he never met Gary, and one IBM colleague has confirmed that Sams said so at the time. He accepted that someone else in his group might have been on the same flight, but noted that he flew back to Seattle to talk with Microsoft again.[10] Sams related the story to Gates, who had already agreed to provide a BASIC interpreter and several other programs for the PC. Gates' impression of the story was that Gary capriciously "went flying", as he would later tell reporters.[14] Sams left Gates with the task of finding a usable operating system, and a few weeks later he proposed using the operating system 86-DOS—an independently developed operating system that implemented Kildall's CP/M API—from Seattle Computer Products (SCP). Paul Allen negotiated a licensing deal with SCP. Allen had 86-DOS adapted for IBM's hardware, and IBM shipped it as IBM PC DOS.[11] Kildall obtained a copy of PC DOS, examined it, and concluded that it infringed on CP/M. When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue.[15] Instead Kildall only threatened IBM with legal action, and IBM responded with a proposal to offer CP/M-86 as an option for the PC in return for a release of liability.[16] Kildall accepted, believing that IBM's new system (like its previous personal computers) would not be a significant commercial success.[17] When the IBM PC was introduced, IBM sold its operating system as an unbundled option. One of the operating system options was PC DOS, priced at US$40. PC DOS was seen as a practically necessary option; most software titles required it and without it the IBM PC was limited to its built-in Cassette BASIC. CP/M-86 shipped a few months later six times more expensive at US$240, but sold poorly against DOS and enjoyed far less software support.[4] "Kildall was annoyed when the University of Washington asked him, as a distinguished graduate, to attend their computer science program anniversary in 1992, but gave the keynote speech to Gates, a dropout from Harvard"