Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 11 November 2006 23:08 \__
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> TV will be shut in 10 years, says Bill Gates
>>>
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>>> | Television as we know it today will become obsolete in the next
>>> | 10 years, said Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
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>>> http://bink.nu/Article8798.bink
>> Hahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahha!
>>
>> Wish I could think of some clever rebuttal, but I'd hate to see it
>> endlessly repeated on some TV channel.
> Mr. Gates, with all due respect, grew up in a 6-bedroom house and
> gained access to high-profile computing facilities as a child. He's
> completely disconnected from the rest of the world & society (unless
> Wallstreet brokers from Connecticut, who believe that people can be
> charged $3000 for a PC, actually count).
I'm still waiting for his "eradicate spam" prediction to come true:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/24/gates_spam_death_prediction/
http://cavemanog.livejournal.com/29316.html
Then there's this corker; "he also predicted that Microsoft search
technology would soon outpace that of its rival":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3426367.stm
Or the classic "640K ought to be enough for anybody.", although he
denies saying it:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
From that same page, I was delighted to discover that one of my
favourite authors (Douglas Adams) shares my opinion of Gates:
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour
to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly
ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate
technology, led them into it in the first place."
Maybe someone as clueless as Gates should just stop making
predictions, but then he doesn't always get it wrong:
"What is holding things back right now is software," Mr Gates said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3426367.stm
He got *that* right.
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K.
http://slated.org - Slated, Rated & Blogged
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