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Bill Gates for Pres?

Bill Gates is a well-known atheist.

No matter how many of his billions he would spend on campaign ads, he wouldn't stand a snowflake's chance in the Sahara of being elected.
 
Genesius said:
Bill Gates is a well-known atheist.

No matter how many of his billions he would spend on campaign ads, he wouldn't stand a snowflake's chance in the Sahara of being elected.
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Is he? Not in the sense that Richard Dawkins is a well-known atheist.

I mean, it's not the first thing I think of when I think of Bill Gates. Now, if oppo researchers could find some particularly embarrassing or unpolitic quotes from his past, that could be a problem.
 
Puppycow said:
Is he? Not in the sense that Richard Dawkins is a well-known atheist.

I mean, it's not the first thing I think of when I think of Bill Gates. Now, if oppo researchers could find some particularly embarrassing or unpolitic quotes from his past, that could be a problem.
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The 640k quote should be good enough.
 
Ziggurat said:
And I hoped Windows 8 would be better than Windows 7.

Life disappoints sometimes.
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really, I think Win8 and Win8.2 in particular were, and are, vast improvements over Win7 (which was only marginally better than XP) particularly with regard to phone and tablet devices.
 
Trakar said:
really, I think Win8 and Win8.2 in particular were, and are, vast improvements over Win7 (which was only marginally better than XP) particularly with regard to phone and tablet devices.
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Windows XP was good for its time, but its age was showing (SMP support not as good, no TRIM support for solid state drives, more security issues, etc). And why the hell would you want a desktop OS on a phone? Why the hell would you want a phone OS on a desktop? If "phones" is your reason for liking Windows 8, you're doing something wrong.

Tablet computers are about the only place Windows 8 makes sense, but that's actually a pretty small market niche right now. Not many people need access to desktop applications on a tablet form factor.
 
Ziggurat said:
...Tablet computers are about the only place Windows 8 makes sense, but that's actually a pretty small market niche right now. Not many people need access to desktop applications on a tablet form factor.
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What world do you live in? according to what I see there are more than 100Million tablet users and probably 3+x that number of Smart phone users in the US and nearly 20% of those are enterprise users. I know researchers who are designing application networks (smartphone and tablet) that connect patients and their primary medical care teams, field technicians and engineers with service networks and design teams, I'm not sure where you are and how phones and tablets service individuals where you are at, but the environs I see daily have masses of smartphone and tablet users who not only use these personally, but in their jobs on a daily basis. Yes, having a common, flexible, interactive OS that connects and merges my phone, my tablet, and my remote desktops at home and the office into a seamless network system is a long sought after goal.
 
Trakar said:
What world do you live in? according to what I see there are more than 100Million tablet users and probably 3+x that number of Smart phone users in the US and nearly 20% of those are enterprise users.
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And how many are using Windows 8 on a tablet? Not very many. And nobody uses Windows 8 on a phone. The Microsoft phone OS is not Windows 8.

That is the real world.
 
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Ziggurat said:
And how many are using Windows 8 on a tablet? Not very many. And nobody uses Windows 8 on a phone. The Microsoft phone OS is not Windows 8.

That is the real world.
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No serious enterprise system uses anything but Windows, for good reason.
 
Trakar said:
No serious enterprise system uses anything but Windows, for good reason.
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And this has what, exactly, to do with the claim that Windows 8 isn't an improvement over Windows 7 for most users?

Even Microsoft knows they messed up with Windows 8.
 
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