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Post #29,285
by inthane-chan
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2/21/02 4:32:27 PM
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New I may have mentioned this before...
...but the one project that Melinda headed before marrying Mr. Gates was...


Microsoft Bob!

(Seriously!)
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #29,322
by nking
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2/21/02 10:03:38 PM
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New MS-Bob!
It was sooooooo great that nobody wanted to use it, so of course Billy Boy made the biggest decision of his life to marry the woman who wrote the worst selling piece of MS software for Windows that ever existed! ;)

BTW XP has an AI in it, that has a throttle setting for CPU power (it can toggle the speed and bandwidth for applications so that one app cannot monopolize the CPU cycles) is this AI based on MSBob?
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #29,382
by wharris2
2/22/02 12:44:40 PM
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New Speaking of Bob
XP does have some Bob-like elements, such as a puppy dog that goes to fetch information. (Yes, I turned it off.)

I may have mentioned this before, but several years ago a co-worker and I went to one of these periodic computer exhibitions/shows/sales. One thing on sale was a copy of Bob. He didn't buy it, and has been kicking himself ever since (it's a collector's item, if nothing else, right?)
Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt, from his Recluse series
     Who wants to buy a millionare wife? - (nking) - (11) - Feb. 16, 2002, 09:03:26 PM EST
         Not I - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 17, 2002, 12:10:03 AM EST
         Leveraged buyout - (mhuber) - (9) - Feb. 20, 2002, 10:13:14 AM EST
             Wasn't the banks who were supporting it :-) - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Feb. 20, 2002, 01:10:21 PM EST
                 What about S&Ls? - (mhuber) - (3) - Feb. 20, 2002, 08:34:06 PM EST
                     Didn't Poppa Bush have a son - (nking) - (2) - Feb. 20, 2002, 08:48:40 PM EST
                         That would be brother Neil - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Feb. 21, 2002, 12:05:39 PM EST
                             The Bush family - (nking) - Feb. 21, 2002, 10:02:13 PM EST
             People wondered why Bill Gates married a co-worker - (nking) - (3) - Feb. 20, 2002, 08:31:21 PM EST
                 I may have mentioned this before... - (inthane-chan) - (2) - Feb. 21, 2002, 04:32:27 PM EST
                     MS-Bob! - (nking) - (1) - Feb. 21, 2002, 10:03:38 PM EST
                         Speaking of Bob - (wharris2) - Feb. 22, 2002, 12:44:40 PM EST

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