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22-09-2010, 10:05 AM
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Starcatcher
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A bright boy from young age!
Wikipedia on Bill Gates:-
"After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students."
Last edited by erick; 22-09-2010 at 10:29 AM.
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22-09-2010, 10:22 AM
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Very clever indeed, yea he must have been a bit of a outstanding person.
Leon
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22-09-2010, 11:57 AM
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No More Infinities
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He was bright, but he was more of a businessman than a programmer. He dropped out of uni to start Microsoft. Still, his programming skills were fairly good.
His original business partner was a better programmer than he was, and also a lot older (in his 30's....Gates was only 19 or so).
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22-09-2010, 12:16 PM
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Country living & viewing
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Quote:
Originally Posted by erick
Wikipedia on Bill Gates:-
"After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students."
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But did it help him with the girls? 
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22-09-2010, 12:23 PM
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No More Infinities
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry B
But did it help him with the girls? |
Well, he did marry and has two kids  
So that means even an ubergeek can get the girl
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22-09-2010, 12:28 PM
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Someone who knows a lot more about this than I reckons Bill's biggest contribution to early programming efforts was buying the pizzas and coke for the real geeks.
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22-09-2010, 12:43 PM
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Local Korean Millennial
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22-09-2010, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by that_guy
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No chance of me making that mistake.
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22-09-2010, 12:55 PM
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Ebotec Alpeht Sicamb
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...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
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- Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Explains a lot, really
Cheers
Steffen.
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22-09-2010, 01:23 PM
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No More Infinities
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Well, you only have to look at DOS/Win to see that
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22-09-2010, 02:50 PM
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Did it help him out with girls? I think it did; his wife is gorgeous.
H
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22-09-2010, 08:05 PM
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My son Simon met Bill Gates on several occasions whilst working on board Paul Allen's yacht 'Tatoosh" and he always says that Melinda Gates is Bill's one redeeming feature.
Greg.
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22-09-2010, 08:48 PM
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Ah Guys we are all just jealous, good luck to him and is mate, where would most of us the ordinary computer people with out windows.
Leon
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22-09-2010, 08:59 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Quote:
Originally Posted by leon
where would most of us the ordinary computer people with out windows.
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We'd be using the command line like god intended 
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22-09-2010, 09:15 PM
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Local Korean Millennial
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
No chance of me making that mistake.
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Now wats that supposed to mean?
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22-09-2010, 09:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RickS
We'd be using the command line like god intended |
Well ... no. The GUI predates MS.
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22-09-2010, 10:07 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Location: Brisbane
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Well ... no. The GUI predates MS.
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Yes, but MS popularized it, albeit not on their first attempt.
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22-09-2010, 10:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RickS
We'd be using the command line like god intended |
X-Windows rules.
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22-09-2010, 10:29 PM
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PI cult recruiter
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brisbane
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mithrandir
X-Windows rules.
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Especially when combined with a shell window or two 
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22-09-2010, 10:30 PM
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Ebotec Alpeht Sicamb
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There have indeed be many GUI OSes before MS Windows. And yes, it is hard to imagine how advanced personal computing could be today if it hadn't been held hostage by MS for two decades…
Cheers
Steffen.
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