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Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

ok,.. you ready for my opinion?...

About Bill Gates, He was in the right place at the right time and made very good choices. The end result he got filthy rich. Is he a bad person (the anti christ) NO!

About MS Office etc.. I'm a Gamer and an artist. Why the heck would I want to install Business Crap on my computer? Software like Office would just take up room on my HD that would be better served by a new game or save-games for my existing ones.

My computer very rarely (once or twice a year) crashes and this has been true of Win95, Win98, and now WinXP Home. My brother has virtually the same exact system as me, but he has a 1ghz and I have a 1.46ghz CPU. His computer is fully loaded with all that 'Business' crap like Office, Publisher, etc. His computer runs like a turle on valium and crashes almost every other day. My brother has little or no games installed on his computer. To me this is proof positive that Business software is all crap.

But I'll say it again,.. "I'm a Gamer and an artist, what do I care about all that business software crap?"

Nuf said. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

Incidentally, since I'm planning on getting a new computer with Windows XP pre-installed, can anyone point me to a good guide on getting the Microsoft junk (learning tutorials, Windows Messenger etc. that I never use) uninstalled so that XP can run at max performance?

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

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Originally posted by deccan:
Incidentally, since I'm planning on getting a new computer with Windows XP pre-installed, can anyone point me to a good guide on getting the Microsoft junk (learning tutorials, Windows Messenger etc. that I never use) uninstalled so that XP can run at max performance?

Yep, I have a link at home to a good tweak site. Some of the stuff is turned off by adjusting the service settings, and some of it requires a little pokeing around in the regestry.

I'll post the link for you tonight.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

According to Forbes, Bill is still the richest:
<blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Rank Name Worth ($) Age Residence Source
---- ---- --------- --- --------- ------
1 Gates, William Henry III 46.0 billion 47 Seattle, WA Microsoft
2 Buffett, Warren Edward 36.0 billion 73 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway
3 Allen, Paul Gardner 22.0 billion 50 Mercer Island, WA Microsoft, investments
4 Walton, Alice L 20.5 billion 54 Fort Worth, TX Wal-Mart
4 Walton, Helen R 20.5 billion 84 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
4 Walton, Jim C 20.5 billion 55 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
4 Walton, John T 20.5 billion 57 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
4 Walton, S Robson 20.5 billion 59 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
9 Ellison, Lawrence Joseph 18.0 billion 59 Redwood Shores, CA Oracle
10 Dell, Michael 13.0 billion 38 Round Rock, TX Dell
11 Ballmer, Steven Anthony 12.2 billion 47 Redmond, WA Microsoft
12 Anthony, Barbara Cox 11.0 billion 80 Honolulu, HI Cox Communications
12 Chambers, Anne Cox 11.0 billion 83 Atlanta, GA Cox Communications
14 Kluge, John Werner 10.5 billion 89 Palm Beach, FL Metromedia
15 Mars, Forrest Edward Jr 10.4 billion 72 McLean, VA Mars, Inc.
15 Mars, Jacqueline 10.4 billion 64 Bedminster, NJ Mars, Inc.
15 Mars, John Franklyn 10.4 billion 67 Arlington, VA Mars, Inc.
18 Johnson, Abigail 9.8 billion 41 Boston, MA mutual funds
19 Redstone, Sumner M 9.7 billion 80 Beverly Hills, CA Viacom
20 Ergen, Charles 8.9 billion 50 Denver, CO EchoStar
21 Newhouse, Donald Edward 7.7 billion 73 Somerset County, NJ publishing
21 Newhouse, Samuel Irving Jr 7.7 billion 75 New York, NY publishing
23 Pritzker, Robert Alan 7.6 billion 77 Chicago, IL hotels, investments
23 Pritzker, Thomas J 7.6 billion 54 Chicago, IL hotels, investments
25 Johnson, Samuel Curtis 7.4 billion 75 Racine, WI S.C. Johnson & Son</pre><hr /></blockquote>

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

In the US, yeah. But there are a couple people in foreign countries that are richer than Gates. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

My comp has always been filled with business crap http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif , and I have only rarely had crashes over the Last 6 years on various MS OSes. 90% of all crashes I have had were on win 95 or 98 resulting from games crashing (usually after extended periods of play and the RAM not being cleared properly by 95/98 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ). All of the 4 or 5 crashes I have had under 2000 or XP in the Last 2-3 years were from hardware failure.

David, your brother probably has an over-bloated registry. Perhaps it is time for a reformat and reinstall of windows for his PC. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ September 23, 2003, 22:04: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

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Try these for starters.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

http://www.winguides.com/registry/

Depending on what video you get, quite a lot can be done there to make the system put up more frame per/sec.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
there are a couple people in foreign countries that are richer than Gates.

You certain of that?

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

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Originally posted by Loser:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
there are a couple people in foreign countries that are richer than Gates.

You certain of that?<hr /></blockquote>Gates actually is far ahead of all modern royalty Last I heard, including all the Middle Eastern ones.

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Originally posted by Instar:
Gates actually is far ahead of all modern royalty Last I heard, including all the Middle Eastern ones.

In actual real dollars very possibly. But in comparison to local cost of living and in comparison to the average per capita income in each country I would suspect he's well down the list.

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Originally posted by Instar:
I feel MS is blamed FAAAAAAAR too much. I really like XP (I have used Linux, and it is nice, but not up my alley too much). I ran a distro of Linux, of course it did not support much of my hardware, but it worked. Microsoft is the market leader for a reason -- their stuff is pretty good. Sure, they have done some monopolistic stuff, penalize them for it, but lets not go crazy.

Ah spoken by someone who has never used WinMe I bet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I despise MS with a passion mostly I think because I'm blessed with WinMe at home and at work (untill just recently) If any other company produced a product that flawed they would recall it or fix it. And yea I know I could upgrade to XP but I resent the hell out of having to pay $150Can to fix the flawed piece of crap I've already paid for.