This probably is way too easy but Im stumped for anythng harder at this point
What was Bill Gates nickname when he was a kid?
Hint: It wasnt billion dollar baby!
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This probably is way too easy but Im stumped for anythng harder at this point
What was Bill Gates nickname when he was a kid?
Hint: It wasnt billion dollar baby!
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He would RUN around the neighborhood and break WINDOWS. He just loved the CRASHING sound they made.
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Bill's nickname growing up was "Trey" because of the "III" after his name.
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Thats exactly right max!
But I liked your forst answer better
Someone post a harder one!
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[This message has been edited by PCSolutions (edited 05-04-2001).]
Who was Charles Babbage and what two major contributions(inventions) did he make to computers?
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Since one good search engine hit will get the above questions, here is a bonus question:
In the book Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton, a computer is used for DNA sequencing. What brand of computer is used?
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The book, not the movie right?
I read it but I dont remember
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DING..DING..DING..We have a winner on the Jurasic park question. CRAY computer is the correct answer. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Hey, the Babbage question is still out there...But if you want a more fun question(s):
In the movie "TRON" , what was the MCP?
Who did the voice for the MCP?
What computer term was used when somebody was killed?
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Charles Babbage links:
http://www.maxmon.com/1830ad.htm http://people.clemson.edu/~pammack/lec122/befcomp.htm http://www.museums.reading.ac.uk/vmoc/babbage/ http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html
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ooo ooo Tron!
MCP="Master Control Program" if i recall correctly.
it was the sinistar AI that took over the previously happy-go-lucky electronic software world in the movie (i think it was originally designed to be something like Win9x Task Scheduler but something went terribly wrong! https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ ).
as for destroying the characters, they were "de-rezzed"...a weird mutated usage of "resolution" or maybe "resolve"??
their code got unraveled and the MCP more or less ate them, adding their technologial distinctiveness to his own https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
i didn't personally know who did the MCP voice but according to this page, it was David Warner who also played Ed Dillinger and Sark.
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*****BREAKING NEWS*****
Check alexiss's post in this thread for a new tack on the elusive MS flag logo question.
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At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Chairman Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving a car with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light.
8. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
9. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
10. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice department.
11. Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
12. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
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That's a keeper, Goose.
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maxx, found that while I was looking for a certain logo. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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greengoose,
Love it
Very clever
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Here's one I found a few weeks ago:
If Microsoft ran a Bar
You order a beer but won't actually get it until next year.
When you do get your beer, it will only be half-full. When you complain about this, you get charged extra.
You are promised that the next beer you get will not only be full, but will actually brew you more beer. This turns out to be false. You still only get half a beer in a slightly different color of glass. You will probably need to learn how to drink all over again.
Your glass of beer will explode at random intervals. Far from being seen as a fault, this is described by the bar staff as an 'undocumented feature'. You are assured that the next beer you receive will not explode. Of course, it will and it does.
You can only talk to people who are drinking the same beer as you.
You can order a different drink, but you will have to go to another bar.
You've heard that there is another beer called 'Linux Real Lite', which is tastier, comes in a near bottomless glass and is free. But you can't drink it because you'll lose your job. Strangely, you'll keep your job if you continuously get pissed at MS-Bar.
You can become a MS-Beer expert by paying the bar lots of money and then taking a test in which you lie about how good the beer is while overlooking all its faults.
The bar releases NT-Beer, but it is so big that it won't fit on your table. You will have to buy a new table. The glass is still only half full.
For some obscure reason, you keep drinking at MS-Bar.
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Hey guys, check this out...It's kinda spooky but just confirms what we knew all along.....Bill Gates is SATAN!!!
Is Bill Gates Really Satan?!
Did you know that Bill Gates' real name is William Henry Gates III?
Nowadays, he is known as Bill Gates (III) where III means the order
of third.
So what's so eerie about this name?
Well, if you take all the letters in Bill Gates III and then convert
it into ASCII code (American Standard Code for Info. Interchange)
and then add up all the numbers ... you will get 666, which is the
number of the beast.
B = 66
I = 73
L = 76
L = 76
G = 71
A = 65
T = 84
E = 69
S = 83
1 = 1
1 = 1
1 = 1
Add these numbers and they equal 666. Coincidence? Perhaps ....
Maybe, but take Windows 95 and do the same procedure and you will
get 666 also. And even MS-DOS 6.31 adds up to 666.
Still think it is coincidence? Stay with me ... it gets better.
For those of you who still have the old excel 95 (not office 97)
try this out: (this really works)
1 - Open a new file
2 - Scroll down to row 95
3 - Click on the row 95 button to highlight the entire row
4 - Press tab to move to the second column
5 - Now, move your mouse and click on help at the top
6 - Then click on "about Microsoft excel"
7 - Press ctrl-alt-shift and click on the tech support button at the same
time.
A window will appear with the title: THE HALL OF TORTURED SOULS.
This is really eerie, okay! It has a doom style format and you can
walk all around the hall using the arrow keys. On the sides of the
walls are the names of the tortured souls .... now walk up the stairs then
come back down, facing the blank wall. Now type in EXCELKFA; this will open
the blank wall to reveal another secret passage, walk through the passage and
do not fall off. This is difficult to do. When you get the end you will see
something really, really eerie.
As of this point in time, countless witnesses all over the world
have verified that it is a real eye opener. It could be a joke by MS
programmers. Or is it?
Would it be too surprising if Bill Gates was the antichrist?
After all, the bible foretold that someone powerful would rise up and lead
the world to destruction. And Bill Gates definitely has this kind of power
in his hands. More than 80% of computers in the world today run on windows and
DOS (including those at the Pentagon). If all of his products have some kind
of small program embedded, like this "hall of tortured souls," that can give
him control to set off nuclear arsenals,create havoc in security systems and
financial systems all over the world, etc. All from his headquarters.
This isn't too far from reality. Just by using the Internet Explorer may
just allow him to map out what you have on your computer bit by bit each time
you log on. Perhaps the end of time is near and this is just the tip
of the iceberg?
Quote from the Bible:
"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and
slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so
that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name
of
the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone
has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is
man's number.
His number is 666." Revelation 13:16-18
This is something you should think about. If the Bible, in the
book
Of Revelations, says that without the sign of the beast, one would
not be able to buy, sell, do business transactions, etc., then my
question to you now is this ....
Is the Internet a necessity today for doing business? The Internet
also bears the sign. Note that the Internet is often referred to
as the World wide web, or www. Another way to write W is V/ or VI
w w w
VI VI VI
6 6 6
Here is something to ponder. Isn't everything going towards the
Internet? (i.e., buying, selling, business transactions) Isn't
Microsoft always on the move to have a monopoly when it comes to
software technology?
And now the Internet?
Revelations also says that the mark of the beast will be carved on
one's hand and on one's forehead. If the Internet would indeed be the
beast, aren't we all starting to carry it on our hands and foreheads?
The screen is the forehead and the hand uses the mouse.
Are things finally starting to fall into place or are we just
letting our imagination run???? Remember, the devil came to cheat, steal
and to destroy. So, be vigilant about Bill Gates and Microsoft!
Coincidence? Perhaps ....
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Goldust, This is all very interesting. Now take a look at the four horseman. And a good morning to you. See Dodge still running around too. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Good Afternoon https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ Greengoose, how you doing this fine day? I thought a little humour would be nice for you Americans to wake up to LOL https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Here are some Barbie dolls you'll NEVER see in the shops!
Gangsta Barbie!
http://www.bigbluespot.com/images/photos/gallery/61.jpg
**** Barbie!
http://www.bigbluespot.com/images/photos/gallery/64.jpg
Transgender Barbie!
http://www.bigbluespot.com/images/photos/gallery/59.jpg
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Goldust, I pefer Valkyries:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/R...OfTheSlain.jpg
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Er Greengoose, please excuse my ignorance but what is Valkyries? And you prefer it to what?
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Goose, all I'm getting is the (red X) placeholder in your post. I noticed it is from geocities. We looked into this awhile back and learned that geocities was blocking folks like us from hot-linking their images. I can see it if I go direct and return, though. Just wanted to pass this one for future reference. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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It's OK, I did some searching and found out what Valkyries are - well they're not a bit like barbie dolls LOL https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ .....then again the latest Barbie dolls (see above) are not exactly nice and sweet are they? https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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maxx, why can I see it when I call up the Trivia thread as I did just now?
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Goose,
I dunno... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ Maybe it's just me. I'm getting the red X placeholder unless I check the properties on your image, copy the address and paste into my browser. I go and can see the image. Hit the back button and return here and the image is in place. Then if I hit the refresh button, the image disappears. The last time I saw this occur was awhile back with geocities images. Oh well, must just be my browser. Sorry, false alarm... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ Cool image anyway, though. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Maxx, no, it's not just you. I'm getting the X as well. Yes, it will be Geocities remote blocking. Pasting the image url into a browser window will put it into your cache. I'm picking you have IE set to check for new version of the page every visit?
Clciking back is not a new visit but "refresh"ing is.
So what has happened is, You view the page and it's blocked, you then view image directly on geocities server, click back and the image is cached so it displays, click refresh and IE gets new version of page with image blocked (as Geocities want it to be).
Goose, as far as I can tell, if the image is part of an html page on your geocities site, it will be available for remote linking, otherwise it will be blocked if it is an "orphan" file on their server.
btw, those "Barbie" images were pushing the limit a bit for our AUP. I'm sure we all laughed but you have to remember this is a site that is viewed by minors. I'm leaving them alone though. In future you might like to link to that sort of thing with a "warning" about content rather than embedding into the post?
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Smurfy: You're right, I didn't think about other younger members. I won't post articles directly like that in future. Sorry http://www.thejs.net/noncgi/smilies/28shame.gif
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smurfy,
You are correct. I use IE with a setting for check for new page each visit. This geocities thing drove me, ghouldini, and a few others crazy awhile back trying to figure it out. I think Rog finally confirmed it for us. Glad it wasn't me, because I think I finally got IE to behave itself and didn't want to go in and tinker again. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Re: the Microsoft flag--I don't think there's any mystery there. It's a flying window with 4 panes showing the 4 most commonly used basic Windows colors.
Fire-engine red, royal blue, sun-yellow and emerald green are also a very common alone or in combination in toys, packaging, signs, etc.