OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

[David E. Gervais]

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.

Cheers!

[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?

[Thermodyne]

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.

[Kamog]

According to Forbes, Bill is still the richest:

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Rank  Name                       Worth ($)     Age  Residence            Source 

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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

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[Fyron]

In the US, yeah. But there are a couple people in foreign countries that are richer than Gates.

My comp has always been filled with business crap , 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 ). 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.

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

[Thermodyne]

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?

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.

[Loser]

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

You certain of that?

[Instar]

Originally posted by Loser:

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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?

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Gates actually is far ahead of all modern royalty Last I heard, including all the Middle Eastern ones.

[geoschmo]

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.

[DavidG]

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. 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.