IBM wanted to license CP/M from Gary Kildall as the OS for their new IBM PC. Gary blew off the IBM meeting because he wanted to fly his private plane that day (weather was great). So IBM instead approached Bill Gates and the rest is history.
04/03/2024 1:41:30 PM PDT
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On Sunday, we went to a Korean restaurant. There was no waiter. We ordered our food on a tablet at the table. It was then delivered by a catbot waiter (BellaBot). The bot purred when we scratched its ears.
The retail price of a BellaBot is $15,000, on sale for $10,000.
A human waiter at $20 an hour gets $40,000/year and also gets tips. (The restaurant told us that petting the catbot is the tip.)
Whoops, I’m wrong. They snuck in some weasel words to ban anybody:
(A) any of—
(i) ByteDance, Ltd.;
(ii) TikTok;
(iii) a subsidiary of or a successor to an entity identified in clause (i) or (ii) that is controlled by a foreign adversary; or
(iv) an entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by an entity identified in clause (i), (ii), or (iii); or
(B) a covered company that—
(i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and
(ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—
(I) a public notice proposing such determination; and
(II) a public report to Congress, submitted not less than 30 days before such determination, describing the specific national security concern involved and containing a classified annex and a description of what assets would need to be divested to execute a qualified divestiture.
DJT TS: “He looks so angry when he’s talking, which is a trait of people who know they are “losing it.” The anger and shouting is not helpful to bringing our Country back together!”