Stop the Covid-22 Olympics (Saturbray)

www.brayincandy.com ^ | 1/23/22 | bray

[dforest]

I totally agree, bray. Truthful words indeed.

[bray]

enough brayin

[BiglyCommentary]

The Olympics can be the Mother of All Super Spreader events. All those coming back from China should have to quarantine like the Apollo astronauts did.

[DownInFlames]

Just ask Bill Gates. The press swoons over this loser. He has no MD or any other medical credentials. His fame is he created the Windows desktop.

[fireman15]

He has no MD or any other medical credentials. His fame is he created the Windows desktop.

You will have to forgive me for going off on a tangent on this one... Bill Gate's mom got him a sweetheart deal with IBM through her connections. He bought 86-DOS 1.10 for $75,000 from Tim Paterson in May of 1981 and hired Tim and others to tweak it and became fabulously wealthy after “licensing” that product to IBM.

From that point forward the team he assembled largely exploited the ideas of others, sometimes paying the innovators and sometimes not. Apple's graphical user interface, Windows, and others can all be traced back to Douglas Engelbart’s Augmentation of Human Intellect project in the 1960s which led directly to the advances at Xerox PARC who developed the Alto personal computer in the early 1970s.

Steve Jobs supposedly saw the Xerox Alto in 1979 and hired others to imitate it in a form that could be used on Apple hardware resulting in the failed LISA computer released in 1983 and then the successful MAC in 1984. Microsoft started work on a Graphical Interface Program in 1981 but did not announce it until 1983 after the LISA was released but before the success of the MAC. But they were no doubt spurred on by Apple's work and released the first version of Windows in 1985.

Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allan to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. He was at the right place at the right time when his mother was able to arrange introductions resulting in a sweetheart deal with long time computer giant IBM in 1981. But other than being the head of Microsoft from 1975 to 2000 and having others do the development work, he had little if anything to do with the nuts and bolts of the “Windows desktop” that we know and love today.

[fireman15]

Climate hysteria credentials are always one of the sure signs of an intellectual drone. Like so many of his achievements this one was likely ghost written.

[dayglored]

>> He [Bill Gates] has no MD or any other medical credentials. His fame is he created the Windows desktop

> He had little if anything to do with the nuts and bolts of the “Windows desktop” that we know and love today.

Correct.

OTOH, his wife Melinda Gates was the force behind the pre-Windows95 desktop, the product known as "Microsoft BOB". 'Nuff said.

[fireman15]

Well then you can certainly see why Bill fell for her. But, Bill / Bob... I think that she and Karen Fries were both sucking up to Gates before 1995, but Melinda eventually won the prize. And now she is writing such new age classics as her masterpiece, The Moment of Lift, which Barack Obama loved.

[RKBA Democrat]

I think you perhaps unintentionally hit of the point right here: “ It would take a nuclear bomb for the District of Corruption to admit they may be wrong and there could be a better way of doing something or anything. This is the main tenant of Communism.”

Since none of are traitors and none of us are going to advocate for something that extreme, that leaves us in a quandary. DC will not change. Period. We can send all the conservatives we want there and the swamp will continue to exist. So what to do?

Now we isn’t it cool that the founders set up a system of governance where the STATES and the people have the power? At least in theory? We all know that since the CW, that has gone by the wayside. Well, the way we fix a lot of these issues, to the extent they can be fixed, is for the states and the people to wrestle that power back.

[Swordmaker]

From that point forward the team he assembled largely exploited the ideas of others, sometimes paying the innovators and sometimes not. Apple's graphical user interface, Windows, and others can all be traced back to Douglas Engelbart’s Augmentation of Human Intellect project in the 1960s which led directly to the advances at Xerox PARC who developed the Alto personal computer in the early 1970s.

Steve Jobs supposedly saw the Xerox Alto in 1979 and hired others to imitate it in a form that could be used on Apple hardware resulting in the failed LISA computer released in 1983 and then the successful MAC in 1984. Microsoft started work on a Graphical Interface Program in 1981 but did not announce it until 1983 after the LISA was released but before the success of the MAC. But they were no doubt spurred on by Apple's work and released the first version of Windows in 1985.

The Xerox Alto was not really a “personal computer” by the standard definition. It was a single-user mini computer with limited functions throughout its 2200 unit production. Xerox never enabled any function for other users on the CPU. It’s graphical smalltalk user interface in 1979 was rudimentary, but did point the way to the full functionality that was finally brought to fruition in the Mac. Many things were lacking such as dragable windows, drag and drop, nested menus, drag to select, etc. These were all Apple inventions.

Apple contracted with Microsoft to port Microsoft Word into the Mac and supplied them with the Apple Mac code to facilitate that porting. Gates used that code access to create Windows, usurping much of the look and feel of the Mac interface and GUI metaphors without licensing any of it. The lawsuits arising out of all this were finally settled by Steve Jobs, when he returned to head Apple, in 1997 with a multi-billion dollar stock, and IP agreement in which Microsoft and Apple agreed to drop all disputes for an at-the-time undisclosed Microsoft IP licensing agreement which included Microsoft agreeing to purchase in down payment $150 million of non-voting preferred stock with a five year restriction, re-issuing (and continuing to support for five years) an updated Microsoft Office (which they had discontinued as a ploy to force Apple to drop the suits), and agreed to license to Apple ALL of Microsoft’s intellectual property at the time in perpetuity for free. Apple used this income to develop the iPhone, iPad, and the iMac. In exchange, Apple would license to Microsoft the IP which Microsoft had usurped for Microsoft Media Player at the undisclosed royalties, drop all suits, allow Microsoft to include Internet Explorer as an included Internet Browser along with all new Macs and Updates as an alternate browser along with Netscape Navigator for a period of five years, and sell the $150 million of preferred, non-voting, five year restricted stock to Microsoft. . . AND, introduce Microsoft and Bill Gates as a new friendly software colaborator of Apple at the next MacWorld Expo, showing that all things were hunky dory between the two companies. The Three interlocking contracts of the settlement were sealed by the judge in the case for ten years.

In 2007, these contracts were unsealed and I have read them. They lay out exactly what went down.

I have ZERO respect for Bill Gates. One of my friends owned a company that created a way to increase the capacity of hard drives back in the days of DOS. it was a economical way to increase storage without having to buy expensive HDs when they were truly hard to afford. Microsoft and Bill Gates STOLE his software and incorporated it into the next version of DOS! They did not even bother to change any of the code. He sued TinyLimp, but M$ had money to burn on lawyers while his startup company did not. Gate$ lawyers started demanding discovery out the kazoo, burying his in paperwork and delaying everything until he was bleeding red ink. He had to declare bankruptcy and Microsoft bought his company from the Bankruptcy court. End of case. He got nothing from his hard work and brilliant idea. Gates used that approach multiple times to steal ideas from entrepreneurs.

One of the worst things he did was to WordPerfect. Microsoft brought out Word… and made it so that the Operating system would not permit WordPerfect to print more than two copies of any document to the system printer without starting print again. Word, of course, could print multiple copies of anything.

I won’t go into the Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator debacle… needless to say all of this helped force Gates to the settlement table with Apple when the US government was looking at antitrust breakup of Microsoft in 1996/1997 and Gates did not need a drawn out trial on the theft of Apple’s intellectual property with slam dunk evidence they’d done such as the Apple software engineer’s social security number, his mother’s name, and his address imbedded in the comments of the code MICROSOFT VIDEO SOFTWARE which MS was claiming was their creation!

Bill Gates is an amoral person with zero ethical boundaries.

[dayglored]

> You will have to forgive me for going off on a tangent on this one... Bill Gates...

I think you win the "Thread Hijack Of The Day" Award. :-)

[Swordmaker]

On the other hand, the Xerox Alto Star (it used a star shaped network to the work station terminals), released in 1981, was much more useful. It was a true mini-computer with multiple workstations. The Alto Star used the mini-computer CPU with multiple workstations as an office solution for small businesses. The minimum configuration could set one back about $55,000 and a four station setup was around $114,000.

The smalltalk graphical user interface (GUI) was much more usable but still lacked drag-and-drop, nested menus, menus in windows, movable windows, etc. It had many more office functions than the original offered and was safer to use as the underlying OS was protected from the users better. The main drawback was the price per user. Sales suffered because Xerox relied on their copier sales people to try to sell something they were I’ll prepared to sell.

It still preceded the Apple GUI by two years, and the Mac by three.

[dayglored]

> ...I think that [Melinda] and Karen Fries were both sucking up to Gates before 1995, but Melinda eventually won the prize.

Clearly, based on her fine marketing skills with "BOB", she had the greater suck.

OTOH, he cheated on her like crazy, and after raising her two kids, she'd had more than enough, and threw him out.

[fireman15]

I have ZERO respect for Bill Gates. One of my friends owned a company that created a way to increase the capacity of hard drives back in the days of DOS. it was a economical way to increase storage without having to buy expensive HDs when they were truly hard to afford. Microsoft and Bill Gates STOLE his software and incorporated it into the next version of DOS! They did not even bother to change any of the code. He sued TinyLimp, but M$ had money to burn on lawyers while his startup company did not.

Thank you very much for taking the time to share your knowledge and interpretation of these events. Your memory is truly something that should be put down in book form or at the least an interview format on video... I am aware of the legal shenanigans of bullies such as Gates. Of course, my recollection of some of this history is not exactly the same as yours, but there is no question about who is the true authority.

[fireman15]

I think you win the “Thread Hijack Of The Day” Award. :-)

It is true... I am not sure if that makes me a bad person or not. I hope Bray will forgive me... it is a well said rant and deserves more discussion.

Gates has been using his billions to push his Covid and Global Warming narratives and actually having some direct involvement in ill-conceived folly. I suppose most people who have made billions cannot help but consider themselves vastly superior to the rest of us. I think he believes the rest of us should be grateful for his efforts. I came into personal contact with two other high level Microsoft people, Steve Balmer, and the late Paul Allan; neither of them seemed to outwardly share this characteristic.

[bray]

Bill Gates is a large part of the vaX and your contributions are appreciated. He is a truly evil person.

[DoodleDawg]

If King Fauxi is so worried about transmission of the covid virus, why is he allowing our Olympic team to go to China?

Because he doesn't have a say in the matter?

[fireman15]

Bill Gates is a large part of the vaX and your contributions are appreciated. He is a truly evil person.

Thank you for your understanding; I mentioned in my first post in this thread that I knew that I was going sideways. When someone mentions Bill Gates these days, I like to point out that his contributions to computer software and operating system development are mostly from his leadership role at Microsoft and have little to do with his technical prowess. I pinged our most knowledgeable computer experts to comment on this and they did not disappoint.

Gates is obviously a very intelligent person, who understood the potential of “personal computers” much better than the public. He is and has been a ruthless businessperson and competitor. He has some positive traits and intentions, but largely because of his success and his $Billions he has developed a problem with the Dunning-Kruger effect that is historic in its proportion and possible negative consequences. He believes to his core that he knows all the answers even when they can be shown to be very dangerous and are far outside his areas of expertise.

Those in power who believe that they are doing good when they are misguided tend to be far more dangerous than completely evil persons. Solutions that Gates believes in could be devastating to millions if not billions of people and trigger unintended consequences that are almost unimaginably horrible.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/01/11/bill-gates-backed-climate-solution-gains-traction-but-concerns-linger/?sh=623c57dd793b

In 1988 Queen Elizabeth's departed consort Prince Philip said, “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.” My assumption is that Gates and others have similar aspirations and that they have seen opportunities to achieve their goals using the response to Covid. It is obvious that the response has had little if anything to do with their concerns about public health.

[Pajamajan]

Great analysis of the current insanity taking place world wide.

God help us.