Don't be hatin': Bill Gates Is Richest Man In the World Again
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... and just think, there was a time when I was richer than Bill Gates. This feat is not that impressive in that I am a bit older than him and was making a living in the real world when he was a poor student.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
As the child of millionaires, he was never a poor student.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
0.0000001% of the population
I wish you hadn't used % symbol here because now I'm have to convert the value to decimal... Let's see... 0.0000001% is 0.000000001 There, that's much easier to read. :D
I prefer hex.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You do realise that "newton.saber" is Bill Gate's sock account on Code Project don't you? I claim my £5. (Edit: typo in formatting) (Re-edit: and punctuation - note to self, don't post late, after a couple of pints) (Final edit: and spelling! We're on a roll)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
ITYM "sock-puppet".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ITYM "sock-puppet".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
That would be the one, I knew I shouldn't have posted so late!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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Errm, I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people built the Windows OS. In fact, the core NT based version was written by a team that came in from VMS and NT went on to underpin a lot of what we now know as Windows. As for those of us who still use Linux systems, Bill had very little to do with it. So, while I still love coding Windows applications, I love it when people are accurate with their facts. The pedant in me gets upset when people play fast and loose like that.
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The pedant in me
Pete, we're professional pedants. A programmer who is not a pedant should stop and go sell time shares or something! :)
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/2891845/bill-gates-is-the-worlds-richest-man-yet-again.html#tk.rss_news[^] At least he actually made his wealth from building something. Unlike a lot of others. If you respond, I pwn YOU! This is a troll and you know it because you want to spew your jealous venom, but you cannot, because then you will be trapped in the troll. A beautiful paradox!!! ;P
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At least he actually made his wealth from building something. Unlike a lot of others.
Nope. He made a lot of money from Windows certainly but like all the super-wealthy he made the vast majority of his present fortune simply from having money. Nobody reaches that level of wealth by the sweat of their brow. It is investment managers and accountants and tax advisors who made his wealth. All Gates does these days is sit back and watch it roll in.
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I prefer hex.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Aye, a hex on all things Microsoft.
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Errm, I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people built the Windows OS. In fact, the core NT based version was written by a team that came in from VMS and NT went on to underpin a lot of what we now know as Windows. As for those of us who still use Linux systems, Bill had very little to do with it. So, while I still love coding Windows applications, I love it when people are accurate with their facts. The pedant in me gets upset when people play fast and loose like that.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people built the Windows OS
Yes but, Bill Gates is substantially responsible for - Insuring that Windows went forward (his reasons, probably fear, doesn't alter his push.) - Building Microsoft itself. - And finally, and most importantly, the mistake by IBM in terms of licensing PC-DOS and then Bill Gates taking advantage of that. Seems likely that without any of those then world right now would be have a more fragmented market and because of that less volume of usage of software. There would have, of course, been competition between platforms. But that same competition would have reduced the marketplace for applications.
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Historical shmistorical... History is all made up as time goes along anyways. :)
"Always in motion is the past." -- Yoda
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"Always in motion is the past." -- Yoda
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
"Always in motion is the past."
Is that really a Yoda quote. If it is, +500 lifepoints for great reference. If it isn't, +1,000 lifepoints for the creativity of simulating such a realistic Yoda quote. :)
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/2891845/bill-gates-is-the-worlds-richest-man-yet-again.html#tk.rss_news[^] At least he actually made his wealth from building something. Unlike a lot of others. If you respond, I pwn YOU! This is a troll and you know it because you want to spew your jealous venom, but you cannot, because then you will be trapped in the troll. A beautiful paradox!!! ;P
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As the child of millionaires, he was never a poor student.
I think that you are right that his college education was paid for but he was still a poor student (in the money sense). He went into a bit of debt while founding Microsoft at the same time that I was solvent.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
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At least he actually made his wealth from building something. Unlike a lot of others.
Nope. He made a lot of money from Windows certainly but like all the super-wealthy he made the vast majority of his present fortune simply from having money. Nobody reaches that level of wealth by the sweat of their brow. It is investment managers and accountants and tax advisors who made his wealth. All Gates does these days is sit back and watch it roll in.