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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Bill Gates, meet the Blue Screen of Death]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chris Capossela survived the blue screen incident quite well and is nowadays  the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Microsoft. He was 29 at time of the Comdex demo in 1998, check out this 2012 interview, as if no time has passed !http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TolMjmevv0This interview reveals he is playing tennis frequently, and he comments on the Comdex incident: http://www.pcworld.com/article/184669/Microsoft_Exec_on_Google_Blue_Screen_of_Death.html]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mobimation]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:37:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Bill Gates, meet the Blue Screen of Death]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i love how everyone claps at the fact it crashed]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[steve.mcginn@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:20:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cold Hard Truths; ease up, George.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We're talking about someone working, or formerly working, for Bill Gates, right?The fact of the matter is the other person working for Bill fits the definitions of the word.Yes, it would be borish and rude of someone to walk up to a person and call them a flunky to their face; but it is more acceptable in the third person.On the other hand, there are worse things than being called a flunky.  And this particular fellow at least has the good reply of, &quot;Yep, I'm his flunky.  I have a job and I probably get paid more than you do, so what?&quot;------------------------------------Flunky, also flunkey1. A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey.2. One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge.3. A liveried manservant.---------------------------------------------[Scots, perhaps from flanker, an attendant at one's flank.]---------------------------------------------Word History: The word flunky has come into Standard English from Scots, in which the word meant &quot;liveried manservant, footman,&quot; coming at least by the 19th century to be a term of contempt. The word is first recorded and defined in a work about Scots published in 1782. The definition states that a flunky is &quot;literally a sidesman or attendant at your flank,&quot; which gives support to the suggestion that flunky is a derivative and alteration of flanker, &quot;one who stands at a person's flank.&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr_Zinj]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 06:54:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would! :)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I mean, what is he gonna do, sic security on me? &quot;Hi there, flunkie!&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eddie N]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:40:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When it comes to leadership ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i don't like their products, same way I don't like a Yugo car. but when it comes to how they prevailed...it's all not in superior craftmanship but in leadership - The RR was in trouble - financially - but Renault has not been ... why ? of course - management.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:31:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Bill had not prevailed,,,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[?If Bill had not prevailed...?May I please quote you.Sure - and I agree - there were many OS' - but very few good human managers.  In my 'old geek' opinion, the companies that fell along the way lacked really great management. The Commodore Pet was an excellent example of a growing company and lousy management - fighting over trivial things... but that was history providing examples of how not to run a business... The leaders of today (and from the past that are still 'rockin') remain with us today because of the leadership and support provided to their own folks, their customers, and even themselves.  And you did well in mentioning a few.You left out IBM? The company that packaged an acre sized room of hardware and software into a box the size of a drawer turned 90 degrees and called it a PC... MacIntosh did the same - and each wielded its sword of support forming (if you will) cultish societies of die-hard followers.  Just like Rock and Roll - from 'Rock Around the Clock (without a clock none of this would rock) to Elvis then to Mick - leaders led the way for fervent followers.Thanks for remembering - for us old geeks - and also remember that today is tomorrow's 'good old day.'  Rock On! Respectfully,jund]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:00:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No Robin]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You cannot call a spade a spadeThey will be offended LOL ;}]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RNR1995@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:45:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rock on Bill - you are the saviour of us old GEEKS.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One poster included this line in his post. Others have posted how we are all indebted to Bill for bringing us the modern computing world. Now, come on folks -- get real.One of the advantages of having been there at the beginning of the microcomputer revolution is that one can remember HP and Wang &quot;programmable calculators&quot; which were around before microcomputers. Then along came Altos. And then we had Amiga, Apple ][, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, TRS-80, Wang 2200, etc. each with its own OS. Of course we also had general purpose OS's like BOS, CP/M, minix, Motorola Flex, QDOS, UCSD p-System, xenix, etc.We had lots of choices - tough environment for malware writers btw - and some very advanced  computing concepts among those choices. The time was right for the microcomputer. If Bill had not prevailed, some one else would have.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hmcm@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:46:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lesley, you outclass these guys with your &quot;repertoire&quot;]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-218750-2216972]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[In order to think, you have to reason.The magnitude of deficiencies in logic, civil rights and duties, hypothesis vs theory vs reality, is so incredible in todays' USA schooling, that a 1776 smart scholarly type like B. Franklin would be consider a weirdo in this land where he was born into. Take my grain of sand: don't borrow anything at all from USA's primary and secondary schooling system and implement it in Canada.DO YOUR THING OVER THERE ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:30:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Man, Good Question.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[By reading some of the replies to your question, I don't really thing some of the people got your full meaning. I would agree with most to say it depends on the context and tone of the conversation. I have personally called people flunkies before but I had known them for years &quot;good friends&quot; and they knew what I meant. But just to walk up to someone I didn't know and call them a flunkie, no not unless they just for no reason said something to me just as disrespectful, then I might, but that's just me.  I like the way you think though.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:52:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good ole Bill]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Extremely funny clip. How embarrasing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sniper Bob]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:41:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RIGHT AT PLUG AND PLAY DETECT]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-218750-2216585]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The blue screen hits.Bill Gates recognizes the blue screen as a definite Windows problem.He doesn't say it's the scanner.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[BALTHOR]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:01:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not just windows...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not the first time he had problems at the launch of a new product.I seem to remember going to a live simocast presentation of DOS 6 back in the 80's where things didn't go so well either.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[UncleJohnH]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:34:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is kinda sad.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This happened nine years ago.  Get over it.  Let go of the hate.  Really, this isn't news or even relevant anymore.If you want to hate on Bill, bully for you, but try and find something better than dusting off a clip of an error from nine years ago.  That just seems sad and pathetic if that's the best you can come up with.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lutherlarry]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:05:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No Crying here!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You misunderstand me, my title was quoting the previous poster and I was merely noting that, in general, true capitalism tends toward monopoly and that, in general, the state (i.e. any government) puts brakes on this trend in order to protect its constituents. Nothing in my statement contradicts what you described above.  LAWFUL monopoly (as you yelled) is not some natural event - the state (i.e. any government) defines what is lawful and applies it to businesses thereby applying a brake to the monopolist trend and preventing its culmination. The fact that you read into my statement a diatribe against Microsoft or monopolies is not my fault.Lesley]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lesley@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:28:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hehe who do you think the crusader-hater jihadists are ?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-218750-2216437]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[UNEMPLOYED BUMS - NO DAUGHTERS NO SONS . NO JOB. NO SHELTER, BUT THEIR PARENTS SHELTER.CHECK IT OUT...IT CORRELATES REAL WELL.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sergiovf@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:12:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[to those that hate]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[you hate you envy . you envy you don't have time to do anything much more worth your while than to ignore your offender you are fodder canon fodder to the merchants of terror or hate ... the last two centuries are and will be increasingly more full of terror...mark this reply... the merchants of powerthe merchants of hateand in between YOU AND I caught in the middle of the fire.NO NEED... PERIOD.a macintosh user.VIVA LINU(S)(X)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:09:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[MS has &quot;monopolistic&quot; tendency's (sic)?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Of course Microsoft (like Apple, AMD, or any other large software or hardware manufacturer) has &quot;monopolistic tendencies&quot;.It is part of the Capitalist Dream, as you indicate.But you were wrong about it being &quot;prevented&quot; by the &quot;State&quot; (by that I assume you mean &quot;the United States&quot;).1) Microsoft was NOT found guilty of using a &quot;monopoly&quot; (which are quite legal in the United States.  In fact, monopolies have been part of US capitalism for many years.).2) Microsoft WAS found guilty of &quot;using a *predatory* monopoly&quot;.  In other words, they were found guilty of &quot;TAKING UNLAWFUL advantage of their LAWFUL monopoly&quot;, NOT &quot;taking advantage of their LAWFUL monopoly.&quot;I assure you, there are big differences between the two concepts.  ANY nation which has NATIONALIZED ANY product or service is using a &quot;monopoly&quot;, in the purest sense of the word &quot;monopoly&quot;.In the U.S., Bell was given a &quot;monopoly&quot; over phone lines for over a hundred years by the government (until the political climate changed).Apple has a &quot;monopoly&quot; over its OS and computers. (We don't see any more Apple clones being built, do we?).ANY company which has a &quot;trademark&quot; or &quot;copyright&quot; has a &quot;monopoly&quot; over its use, ANYWHERE in the world.So, please, stop your crying!!!  It's falling on pretty deaf ears, and is really irritating.Donald McDaniel]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zarathustra2010]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:47:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[so where is Cox or Pox anyways ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cox, come out, stick your head out, and cheer for the BILLY...or you won't pass go and collect $200...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:23:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No, but let me tell you this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[you don't insult (openfire) anyone - that's what your folks should have taught you for life, and defend yourself always and only when you've been injured by words, or by blows.On the other hand, this is USA, and in USA there are no serious political heads, we have no serious (taken literally serious) LePenn, or the now dying Fidel Castro, for people to love or hate, depending on your persuasion or how do these folks strike your feathers - rough or soft or in between. It is a 2-party country and people are HARDLY voting anyways..So, who do we have to love or hate - a nerd, a geek !!! for heavens sake, a non-programmer visionary of monopolistic practices...you either clap clap for his vision and his &quot;power&quot; (after all isn't life already upside down for many many centuries since Adam and we cheer for the Nimrods of this world , huh , I ask you )...it's not money but power, power, power...and Bill has power. period.Personally I am NO SHEEP, and I use a MAC ... period...and I am also obviously not a Frenchman, (so you guys don't hate me for that) but a cuban-born and raised, americanized citizen. (now you can hate me for that ! )he heVIVA LINU  or (X) - the man or his vision..I have to clap for someone, I clap for that.&quot; from the Second Coming of (bill -nah) JOBS &quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:19:16 -0700</pubDate>
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