Bill Gates too rich for tax computer

Agence France Presse | February 1, 2006

[cyborg]

Bet they do it on a mac.

[SamAdams76]

Only problem is, the computer runs on Linux.

[359Henrie]

I hate that guy, bet they use a linux sustem.

[Meadow Muffin]

I feel his pain, my name is on all of the computers evidently.

[HAL9000]

I'll speculate that the IRS does their calculations in binary-coded decimal - on a mainframe.

Exxon probably has a special computer at the IRS too.

[Lorianne]

Sigh, I have the same problem.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

Does Gates pay tax on his wealth? That is the vast amount, after all. I didn't think his income was vast as well.

[Tribune7]

"My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers," he said at a Microsoft conference held in Lisbon.

If he laughed and waved a cigar when he said it I might like him better.

[Syntyr]

"I'll speculate that the IRS does their calculations in binary-coded decimal - on a mainframe. "

Yep Think bigger than a PC. I am sure the taxes Bill pays would probably more than pay for that mainframe.

[Tribune7]

Bet they do it on a mac.

If it was XP, he probably wouldn't be paying a nickle :-)

[cyborg]

:D

[CindyDawg]

Poor guy. What can I say? Life isn't fair.

[txhurl]

No floating points?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

"My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers,"

"Boy, that water sure is cold!"
"Yeah, and it's deep, too!"

[Spirited]

Wonder whether that is what happens when you are a Dem and have a margin of roughly 30% rather than the modest margin of 7-10% those horridly "rich" oil men at Exxon produce even when oil is so scarce as to be earning top prices.

[CAWats]

I have the same problem. OK, I don't.

[Cobra64]

An AS400 E-Series should be able to handle the processing and thoughput.

[mkjessup]

Bet they do it on a mac.

Why go to that expense when there are perfectly good Fisher-Price systems available that do the same thing.

From 3.1 to Vista, it is a Windows world and like it or not, it's going to stay that way.

I'll bet Steve Jobs IRS data doesn't require a seperate computer, eh? ;)

[Cobra64]

Depends on the software Data Dictionary and field definitions.Computers don't care. They do what they are programmed to do. I've worked on systems that go to 15 deci for a paper company that accounts for .00000005 piece of paper when shipping truckloads of reams of paper. And that was in 1992.