Gates can't install win 8.1

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html
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On 02/06/2014 06:57 AM, CRNG wrote:
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html




Even the New Yorker feels it need to compete with "The Onion". Since
their spoofs are not labeled as such, the first time I saw one in the
New Yorker I initially thought, "Is this for real?"

It was a story about a guy so rich he had a fireplace in his house that
was one mile long. It seems too far fetched for even a billionaire...and
it was.

CRNG wrote:
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Based on a picture of Bill Gates office,
he looks like a hands on guy. How many
executive desks have you seen, where the
guy has a three-monitor setup ?

http://www.corecommunication.ca/wp-c...eo-in-2007.jpg

Paul

"Paul" wrote in message
...
CRNG wrote:
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install
Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Based on a picture of Bill Gates office,
he looks like a hands on guy. How many
executive desks have you seen, where the
guy has a three-monitor setup ?

http://www.corecommunication.ca/wp-c...eo-in-2007.jpg

Some people see Gates as a computer guru. But I never saw that in him.
Gates didn't even write Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 computer,
rather it was Paul Allen who did. I don't even know of a single piece of
code that Gates himself ever wrote. Nor do I know of any machine he ever
built himself. I think he just knows how to find people much smarter
than himself and then takes the credit.

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Bill
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Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 7 Home SP1

Hi, CRNG.

(Is that pronounced "cringe"?)

That story almost had me believing it until this line
“Bill is usually a pretty calm guy, so it was weird to hear some of that
language coming out of his mouth,� the source said.

In all that I've heard and read about BG, he has seldom been called "a
pretty calm guy". ;8^}

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) in Win8.1 Pro


"CRNG" wrote in message ...

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

On 02/06/2014 08:56 AM, BillW50 wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message
...
CRNG wrote:
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install
Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Based on a picture of Bill Gates office,
he looks like a hands on guy. How many
executive desks have you seen, where the
guy has a three-monitor setup ?

http://www.corecommunication.ca/wp-c...eo-in-2007.jpg

Some people see Gates as a computer guru. But I never saw that in him.
Gates didn't even write Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 computer,
rather it was Paul Allen who did. I don't even know of a single piece of
code that Gates himself ever wrote. Nor do I know of any machine he ever
built himself. I think he just knows how to find people much smarter
than himself and then takes the credit.




Here is one (biased of course) article I found


http://www.zdnet.com/blog/murphy/bil...programmer/640

BillW50 wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message
...
CRNG wrote:
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install
Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html
Based on a picture of Bill Gates office,
he looks like a hands on guy. How many
executive desks have you seen, where the
guy has a three-monitor setup ?

http://www.corecommunication.ca/wp-c...eo-in-2007.jpg

Some people see Gates as a computer guru. But I never saw that in him.
Gates didn't even write Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 computer,
rather it was Paul Allen who did. I don't even know of a single piece of
code that Gates himself ever wrote. Nor do I know of any machine he ever
built himself. I think he just knows how to find people much smarter
than himself and then takes the credit.


Where I used to work, we had a strict clean desktop policy
at the executive level. If you saw mahogany, there wasn't
a scrap of anything sitting on top of it. Not even a phone.

That's why, both the picture of the Ballmer office and
the Gates office, looks so out of place. They look
too damn comfortable. Almost like middle management.

Look at the size of the chair back, of Bills chair.
No high back chair. No Corinthian Leather. Even middle
managers where I worked, had the high back chair so
they could look like "Darth Vader is in da house".

Paul

On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:57:54 -0500, CRNG wrote:

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

The fact that it asks users to go through the Microsoft Store rather than
Windows Update is stupid to begin with. I assume he wasn't the brain
behind that stupid decision. People have come to see Windows Update as the
center for all updates, even for drivers. Asking people to go through the
barely-used Store is like keeping an important update away from them.
--
Silver Slimer
GNU/Linux is a duct-taped form of Communism

CRNG wrote:

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Note the keyword "humor" at the end. When I saw no mention of who were
the sources for the article, it appeared iffy from the start. If you
click on the "Borowitz Report" link at the start of the article, you'll
see it leads to the author's blog which denotes "The news, reshuffled".
In other words, the author proliferates fabrications. Tis a problem
with all these blogs pretending to be news or information. It's just
crap in disguise. It might be seen as humor if it were overtly
identified as such but instead it is deliberately camouflaged as news.
Just another publication guilty of being an urban legend generator.

On 2014-02-06 11:39 AM, Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
On 2014-02-06 11:29 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
CRNG wrote:

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html


Note the keyword "humor" at the end. When I saw no mention of who were
the sources for the article, it appeared iffy from the start. If you
click on the "Borowitz Report" link at the start of the article, you'll
see it leads to the author's blog which denotes "The news, reshuffled".
In other words, the author proliferates fabrications. Tis a problem
with all these blogs pretending to be news or information. It's just
crap in disguise. It might be seen as humor if it were overtly
identified as such but instead it is deliberately camouflaged as news.
Just another publication guilty of being an urban legend generator.

I don't think it's"deliberately camouflaged". The New Yorker has always
had humour/satire columns and stories (and of course its famous cartoons).

There are of course blogs that purport to disseminate real information
which are unwitting self-satires. ;-)

HAGO,


To anyone who reads English as a first language and isn't autistic, it
is clearly satire, based only on the content.

"philo " wrote in message
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On 02/06/2014 08:56 AM, BillW50 wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message
...
CRNG wrote:
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install
Windows 8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Based on a picture of Bill Gates office,
he looks like a hands on guy. How many
executive desks have you seen, where the
guy has a three-monitor setup ?

http://www.corecommunication.ca/wp-c...eo-in-2007.jpg

Some people see Gates as a computer guru. But I never saw that in
him. Gates didn't even write Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800
computer, rather it was Paul Allen who did. I don't even know of a
single piece of code that Gates himself ever wrote. Nor do I know of
any machine he ever built himself. I think he just knows how to find
people much smarter than himself and then takes the credit.


Here is one (biased of course) article I found

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/murphy/bil...programmer/640

Yeah... that is quite interesting, although it still doesn't change my
opinion about Gates programming abilities. I had listened to Gates
interview after interview. And I never seen any signs that he truly
understands the internal working of a computer, nor does he seem to
share with us anything about programming code.

For example, any programmer will mention something about programming
even in daily conversations. You know, the very first program they ever
wrote, anything about language commands/statements, or something. Gates
supposed knew about Basic. Never have I heard him mention anything about
For/Next loops, Goto statements, variables, or anything.

And for somebody to supposedly have programmed the Altair Basic, you had
to know something about registers, addresses, and such. But you never
heard Gates utter any of those words ever. And I find all of this so
odd, so odd indeed.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows Live Mail 2009 v14
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 7 Home SP1

"Silver Slimer" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:57:54 -0500, CRNG
wrote:

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install
Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

The fact that it asks users to go through the Microsoft Store rather
than Windows Update is stupid to begin with. I assume he wasn't the
brain behind that stupid decision. People have come to see Windows
Update as the center for all updates, even for drivers. Asking people
to go through the barely-used Store is like keeping an important
update away from them.

Yes that is odd from the desktop user point of view. But from a Windows
RT point of view, there is nothing but the store for updates.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows Live Mail 2009 v14
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 7 Home SP1

On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:15:04 -0500, Paul wrote:


Based on a picture of Bill Gates office,
he looks like a hands on guy. How many
executive desks have you seen, where the
guy has a three-monitor setup ?

http://www.corecommunication.ca/wp-c...eo-in-2007.jpg



Not just three monitors, but three *big* monitors. I'm envious.

Ken

On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:55:08 -0600, philo* wrote:

On 02/06/2014 06:57 AM, CRNG wrote:
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows
8.1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Even the New Yorker feels it need to compete with "The Onion". Since
their spoofs are not labeled as such, the first time I saw one in the
New Yorker I initially thought, "Is this for real?"

It was a story about a guy so rich he had a fireplace in his house that
was one mile long. It seems too far fetched for even a billionaire...and
it was.

A fireplace a mile long would be, but I wonder if there is a
building a mile long. It is definitely possible. Look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...st_foo tprint
There are some where going corner to corner is nearly 2/3 mile.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:41:01 -0600, "BillW50" wrote:

[snip]

Yeah... that is quite interesting, although it still doesn't change my
opinion about Gates programming abilities. I had listened to Gates
interview after interview. And I never seen any signs that he truly
understands the internal working of a computer, nor does he seem to
share with us anything about programming code.

For example, any programmer will mention something about programming
even in daily conversations. You know, the very first program they ever
wrote, anything about language commands/statements, or something. Gates
supposed knew about Basic. Never have I heard him mention anything about
For/Next loops, Goto statements, variables, or anything.

Why would he if he is talking to people who may well not know
that? As an executive, he talks about executive things.

And for somebody to supposedly have programmed the Altair Basic, you had
to know something about registers, addresses, and such. But you never
heard Gates utter any of those words ever. And I find all of this so
odd, so odd indeed.

I rarely talk tech with non-techs. It is part of being polite.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko