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arjr111 · Seaman Apprentice Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 86

Check out how smart these Hollywood Halfwits really are.....

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ROTC DAD · Lt.Jg. Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 147

Gee, I guess that must mean Bill Gates isn't too smart. After all, he dropped out, too.

Marine4life · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject:

Good post, it has attracted more trolling but good post. They are truely the stupid ones. All I have to say to the people that bash our CIC for being dumb, well how does it feel to be out smarted by a dumby. Owe that must hurt. Doesn't say much for their intellegence. Semper Fi.
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ROTC DAD · Lt.Jg. Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 147

It's amazing how my responses seem to be disappear. But I'll repeat myself yet again. Like I always say; "Anyone can become president Cool

Marine4life · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject:

Hanoi John Kerry won't!!
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Scott · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject:

garb1015 · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:20 am Post subject: The Detroit Madman

Ted Nugent's name was mentioned earlier. I read on another site that he and a country singer (can't recall his name) performed for the troops earlier this month. Anyone hear anything about that?

LewWaters · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:50 am Post subject:

I believe it was Toby Keith that was with Ted performing for the troops in Iraq.

Me#1You#10 · Site Admin Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503

hist/student · Lieutenant Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 243

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ASPB · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:43 am Post subject:

The Birth of Microsoft
In December of 1974, Allen was on his way to visit Gates when along the way he stopped to browse the current magazines. What he saw changed his and Bill Gates's lives forever. On the cover of Popular Electronics was a picture of the Altair 8080 and the headline "World's First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models." He bought the issue and rushed over to Gates's dorm room. They both recognized this as their big opportunity. The two knew that the home computer market was about to explode and that someone would need to make software for the new machines. Within a few days, Gates had called MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), the makers of the Altair. He told the company that he and Allen had developed a BASIC that could be used on the Altair [Teamgates.com, 9/29/96]. This was a lie. They had not even written a line of code. They had neither an Altair nor the chip that ran the computer. The MITS company did not know this and was very interested in seeing their BASIC. So, Gates and Allen began working feverishly on the BASIC they had promised. The code for the program was left mostly up to Bill Gates while Paul Allen began working on a way to simulate the Altair with the schools PDP-10. Eight weeks later, the two felt their program was ready. Allen was to fly to MITS and show off their creation. The day after Allen arrived at MITS, it was time to test their BASIC. Entering the program into the company's Altair was the first time Allen had ever touched one. If the Altair simulation he designed or any of Gates's code was faulty, the demonstration would most likely have ended in failure. This was not the case, and the program worked perfectly the first time [Wallace, 1992, p. 80]. MITS arranged a deal with Gates and Allen to buy the rights to their BASIC.[Teamgates.com, 9/29/96] Gates was convinced that the software market had been born. Within a year, Bill Gates had dropped out of Harvard and Microsoft was formed.
You can find the whole history at: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html
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Marine4life · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:16 am Post subject:

In Gates defense, he does donate a lot of computer systems to schools. He has set up countless labs. So I won't slam him. But he was fortunate to be at the right place at the right time. Semper Fi.
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ASPB · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:29 am Post subject:

JN173 · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:21 am Post subject:

The Microsoft story always reminded me of the Saturday western matinee when the villian was always trying to swindle the poor homesteaders or ranchers out of their land because he knew the railroad was coming Evil or Very Mad

Not that it has anything to do with Kerry. Well come to think of it, he would have made a good villian. Laughing

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LewWaters · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:11 am Post subject: