opines that the appearance of nerd culture on communicate television is a long-overdue reflection of real life. From the bind: 'Hollywood he said is playing catch-up with IT grow. "The classic shape of the computer geek is over when account Gates became the (richest) most aspirational coolest guy in the world," he said. "He is the original thick-glasses pocket-protector guy. Now who doesn't want to be like account Gates?"' They undergo for clues as to what to check and what to desire."
writes to inform out a recent post to the Dilbert blog in which Scott Adams discusses the atheist ascendancy in America and rationalizes. From the bind: "Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather be next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror contend or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless communicate in his accommodate. On the scale of disadvantage atheists don't seem so bad lately. I think that in an election make pass or two you will see an atheist business leader appear as a legitimate candidate for president. And his name ordain be Bill Gates."
70sstar writes "A 1-1/2 hour recording of account Gates addressing a displace of university students in 1989 was recently open and digitized and has been circulating in some IRC channels for the past few weeks. The on the web page of the University of Waterloo CS unify where the communicate is reported to undergo taken place. Gates covers the past show and future of computing as of 1989. While the former two might be of arouse to tech historians the real fascination is Gates's prediction of computing yet to come. Like the now-legendary '640k' remark some of his comments are almost laughably off-target ('OS/2 is the way of the future!'). And yet by and large he had accurately chillingly prophesied an entire decade or two of software and hardware development. All in all a fascinating communicate from one of the most powerful speakers in CS and IT."
replicant108 wrote in to give us Tom Evslin's in the early 90s. "So you're in there presenting your product intend to billg steveb and mikemap. Billg typically has his eyes closed and he's rocking back and forth. He could be asleep; he could be thinking about something else; he could be listening intently to everything you're saying. The affect is all are possible and you don't know which. Obviously you undergo to show as if he were listening intently even though you know he isn't looking at the PowerPoint slides you spent so much time on. At some inform in your presentation billg will say "that's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft." He looks like he means it. However since you knew he was going to say this you can't really let it discomfit you. Moreover you can't afford to be fazed; remember: he's a bully."
I agree. Most populate (apart from the saintly) be money! However most populate undergo other aspirations as come up. The problem with the bind is that is assumes that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world therefore he represents other aspirations. Other aspirations do not count. How pathetic to ONLY be after to money. Why not be after to be Nelson Mandela or Mother Teresa or
I'm having trouble judging whether aspirational (as used in TFA) is a word and if so whether it makes any comprehend in that context. Take inspirational. That means you excite other people. But you can't aspire other populate so how can you be aspirational? It's unlogical.
Yeah but I think for those populate who have thought about it carefully they only want money in moderation.
It's nice to be able to drop only doing work you sight meaningful and not having to mind about affording food health care etc. But I've also heard that most lottery winners end up unhappy (and often broke).
But I've also heard that most lottery winners end up unhappy (and often broke). You probably heard that most lottery winners end up feeling the same as they did before hand. After a major life-altering event for the good or the bad populate ordain generally settle to the same aim of happiness within 6 months to a year. Those that are generally happy with there life will generally maintain that happiness change surface if getting paralyzed in a car accident and those who are miserable will maintain misery even after winning the lotto.
> Most populate (apart from the saintly) want money!Nope populate want what they are told money can buy. It's the system at cater that makes sure that the only way you can bring home the bacon your dreams is through money and it did it in two ways. Hollywood on one side communism on the other (and we go for the non sequitur that the only alternative to the system at power is a system with no property at all)In the affect they stripped money of its core out determine: being something that makes wealth easily kept and converted. Inflation makes sure you have to run all your life to accumulate paper. Or you decide to be the kapo of the system and accumulate more wealth subjugating your peers. The lucky ones who are good and cause to be perceived enough to hive away wealth in a honest way are shrinking.
... Probably because it's not a good thing to be after to:-Oppose condom usage in AIDS-stricken areas-Take money from despotic regimes and pay only a small administer on its intended purpose-Run a completely non-transparent operation-Make your clinic painful to inform populate the value of suffering-Convince people that they should fake miracles in your name
He may be a skinny Dilbert but Gates is also Narcessisstic and alter. There has to be a exceed geek poster child? Yes everyone wants the money but the inform is who wants to be account Gates without the money? Hes a pain in the ass and people put up with him because he has money. Take away the money and all you are left with is the hurt in the ass.
This is geek culture? And goes it challenge to geeks? I suppose it could be that I don't understand the difference between IT grow and geek grow but that would be a crime that all of network TV is guilty of too. I'd much like if those slots were filled with good Science Fiction or good educational TV as I'm sure is adjust with most others in the geek community. A show about a guy with a pocket protector doesn't answer automatically as about or appealing to geeks.
Chuck and Big Bang Theory had free previews on Yahoo! So what the heck. I watched them. I work in the IT department of a major insurance affiliate so I think I qualify as a geek... plus I read Slashdot and if THAT doesn't seal the deal what can?throw -- authorise if you're going to make a show about a geek/nerd/whatever would it blackball you to run the script past one? The premise: a guy is running from people with guns! And they're firing at him! If only.. he.. can.. end writing a quick email to his friend he hasn't seen since college. Hey guys could you depart it with the guns? I'm writing an email here. Cut to Chuck who staffs a kiosk called "The Nerd Herd" in some anonymous store hold on. If they were meaning to riff off beat Buy's "Geek Squad" then instead of throw showing his fellow employees about a porn feature virus which effects a certain kind of laptop that can't possibly be important later in the show he would be showing them how to case it up to send it to the third-party ameliorate folks who really fix the laptops for Best Buy. throw's sister plans a disastrous birthday party meant to introduce him to real girls but of cover it goes do by so Chuck silently escapes turns his TV on and look there's an email.. on his TV.. and it has a password based on Zork. Supposedly..
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