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Brief History Of Linux (#17) Terrible calamity IBM chose Microsoft's
Quick & Dirty Operating System instead of CP/M for its new line of PCs.
QDOS (along with the abomination known as EDLIN) had been acquired from
a Seattle man, Tim Paterson, for the paltry sum of $50,000. "Quick" and
"Dirty" were truly an accurate description of this system, because IBM's
quality assurance department discovered 300 bugs in QDOS's 8,000 lines
of assember code (that's about 1 bug per 27 lines -- which, at the time,
was appalling, but compared with Windows 98 today, it really wasn't that
shabby). Thanks in part to IBM's new marketing slogan, "Nobody Ever Got
Fired For Choosing IBM(tm)", and the release of the VisiCalc spreadsheet
program that everybody and their brother wanted, IBM PCs running DOS
flew off the shelves and, unfortunately, secured Microsoft's runaway
success. Bill Gates was now on his way to the Billionaire's Club; his
days as a mediocre programmer were long gone: he was now a Suit. The
only lines of code he would ever see would be the passcodes to his Swiss
bank accounts. -- Anonymous
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Regards,
LelandJ
On 06/13/2014 04:10 AM, Michael Madigan wrote:
I would suspect something like 80% of the income of the Clippers goes to labor,
so all that money is being put into the economy. Additionally Sterling will
not live forever and that money will go to his heirs and to the treasury to
spend.
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Subject: Re: [OT] Steve Balmer
Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
I could use that 2 billion to put tens of thousands of Americans to work
in
America.
If you had the ability you would have created a business yourself and put
people to work. But you don't. You just whine.
Seriously, you just don't get how jobs are created, do you? Money invested
in the Clippers does put thousands to work:
= Ticket sellers, ushers, vendors, etc. in the arena.
= Us IT folks & web designers,
= TV people of all sorts, such as producers, camera operators, announcers,
ad salespeople, 100s more
= advertising agencies
= all of the administrative people for the Clippers company,
= Retailers selling Clippers merchandise, plus all of their support people
and distributors
= Not to mention the athletes themselves, plus each of the wealthier ones
are probably corporations with their own support staff. All of the
sycophants; what else would they do? (Hookers and drugs cost money, you
know.) Also, some of the better ones set up foundations (and all of the
support staff)
= Plus 100s of jobs overseas making and shipping merchandise. Each
gainfully employed person is one less terrorist prospect. Gee, maybe even
some in the USA.
What would you do? Give the money to some hapless politician who awards $$$
to cronies for projects nobody wants. Or bureaucrats, who spend $100,000 to
"create" each fleeting minimum-wage job?
Yes, you are smarter than Balmer (even in his present mindless state).
Right.
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