Gates Nose-Dives at CES

Genesee · 01-06-2005, 08:58 AM

Gates Nose-Dives at CES

Posted by michael on Thursday January 06, @08:50AM
from the look-out-below dept.

Lots of submissions this morning about Bill Gates' performance at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. His Media Center PC presentation crashed. (The presentation is online.) Then he gave an interview to CNET, where he described anyone who doesn't support ever-increasing intellectual property laws as "communists".

Quote:

During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn't respond to Gates' pushing of the remote control.

Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded "blue screen of death" and warned, "out of system memory."

The errors -- which came during what's usually an ode to Microsoft's dominance of the software industry and its increasing control of consumer electronics -- prompted the celebrity host, NBC comedian Conan O'Brien, to quip, "Who's in charge of Microsoft, anyway?"

Gates, who was sitting next to O'Brien on a set staged to look like NBC's Late Night set, smiled dryly and continued with his discussion.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...37228&from=rss

2damncommon · 01-06-2005, 09:16 AM

I could have sworn I was on LinuxQuestions.org, but I seem to be on Slashdot now....

Genesee · 01-06-2005, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 2damncommon
I could have sworn I was on LinuxQuestions.org, but I seem to be on Slashdot now....

no, don't fear - you are still at linuxquestions.org. perhaps you were confused by the fact that it is a copy of a post from slashdot, also known as a "cut and paste".

such "cutting and pasting" is relatively common, and has several purposes. for example, to disseminate information to LQ.org members who may have missed it, or who don't visit slashdot regularly. additionally, it may serve to initiate informative and/or amusing discussions amongst a different group of people, as illustrated by your post above.

hope that helps, sorry for the confusion.

XavierP · 01-06-2005, 10:21 AM

I am closing this thread. Could you resubmit it to the News section please, these articles belong in there - and we can't move threads to that section. Many thanks.