Bill Gate's Computer Crashes During Presentation at CES 2005

[thebobman]

Full Story @ Canada.com

Microsoft's Gates endures PC crash during keynote speech at U.S. tech show


January 6, 2005

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Despite suffering through an embarrassing computer crash that prompted jokes and guffaws, Bill Gates promised that Microsoft Corp. would help consumers stay plugged into technology, during a keynote speech Wednesday.


In his seventh annual keynote speech at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft's chairman explained that the proliferation of high-speed Internet access and the falling price of data storage are compelling people to put music, photos, movies and other aspects of their life into a digital format.
But while promoting what he calls the "digital lifestyle," Gates showed how vulnerable all consumers - even the world's richest man - are to hardware and software bugs.

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."

Dear irony monthly...

[MissBehavior]

*copies and pastes into internal email*

:D

[decypher]

Oh man that is gold. I woulda paid to sit there with a bag of popcorn to watch little bill squirm hahaha....

[dapimpstress]

wow, cuz im so shocked.. a PC crashing?! thats jus unheard of...

[Sir_K]

I was going to post this in here when I saw it glad someone beat me to the punch

fricking hilarious

Maybe Gates will be embarassed enough to make a new Microsoft directive: "Come on guys, lets make this stuff stable... You are making me look like an ass!"

[COMATOS3]

anybody here a mac fan?

[decypher]

^^ I'd kill for a powermac dual 2.5... or a dual 3.0 when they came out... droool...

There too expensive though...

[dapimpstress]

got an imac g5, jus came out... its sickkkk

[miss.myra]

i'm going to put my money on thebobman being a fellow farker...?

[COMATOS3]

Originally Posted by Ashes

got an imac g5, jus came out... its sickkkk

yeah my old man has a Powermac G5...just got it too...mainly cause of me...i put Limewire onto the old G4 and it ate the hard drive haha...dont really care tho...now i have the G4, and it still runs pretty well for what im using it for

[dapimpstress]

the g5 is intense man.. its so funny rite cuz all its shiz is in the monitor.. ppl get so confused by it, they are always tryin to look underneath it to see where the hd is, but its not there.. lol.

[DJDeeb]

LOL!!....thats hilarious!

The thing is they where probably using driver/software that still haven't made it to the final version ( still had some bugs in it ). Either way it makes Microsoft look dumb.

I'd like to find a video of that presentation.

[mux]

Mac isn't the only alternative. I've installed Red Hat's "Fedora Core" project on all my machines (including work machines, that makes 38 computers total).

I have to admit, Linux has come a *long* way in the ten years I've been using it. I would trust my Dad to install Fedora Core 3 now, and I would put my Mom in front of a freshly-installed machine and expect her to be able to get work done on it. My Dad isn't exactly a technician, either... that's saying a lot.

[decypher]

Originally Posted by Ashes

got an imac g5, jus came out... its sickkkk

How does it run speed wise? How many things can you run before it gets bogged down... like dvd, mp3, burn cd, etc etc.

and how much ram does yours have... they are all at 1.6 or 1.8 G5 right?

[decypher]

Originally Posted by mux

Mac isn't the only alternative. I've installed Red Hat's "Fedora Core" project on all my machines (including work machines, that makes 38 computers total).

I have to admit, Linux has come a *long* way in the ten years I've been using it. I would trust my Dad to install Fedora Core 3 now, and I would put my Mom in front of a freshly-installed machine and expect her to be able to get work done on it. My Dad isn't exactly a technician, either... that's saying a lot.

agreed. It has come along way, but it has a long way to go in terms of integrating with more commonly used hardware and such. But i believe it could take over one day...

[MissBehavior]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

i'm going to put my money on thebobman being a fellow farker...?

And that bet would pay out. :p

(You've met Kieran, haven't you Myra?)

[Crazy Dave]

This also happened with Win98 years ago...

[COMATOS3]

Originally Posted by decypher

agreed. It has come along way, but it has a long way to go in terms of integrating with more commonly used hardware and such. But i believe it could take over one day...

for sure...it all depends on what your using the computer for. macs have always been more concerned with the graphics end of the equation and microsoft just daily usage i guess. if macs could start to incorporate some of the programs (games...anything that doesnt run on a mac now) used everyday on a PC i have no doubt that they could take over.

[dj_soo]

yay for fark!

planning on getting a g4 powerbook in the upcoming weeks...

[Crazy Dave]

Originally Posted by dekor

for sure...it all depends on what your using the computer for. macs have always been more concerned with the graphics end of the equation and microsoft just daily usage i guess. if macs could start to incorporate some of the programs (games...anything that doesnt run on a mac now) used everyday on a PC i have no doubt that they could take over.

Wow, U-R SMRT! Heck if any platform could do that then they'd take over,,, thats the gold dream in the first place.

[COMATOS3]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dave

Wow, U-R SMRT! Heck if any platform could do that then they'd take over,,, thats the gold dream in the first place.

i know:)...yea i guess ur right, but it could end up happening

[Crazy Dave]

To the Mac fans,,, start paying for your own Computers, and start doing real work... shorty you will figure out the though Macs are nice and all that,,, they cost 2-3 times a PC of equivalent raw PC power.

Also Mac don't crash much less then a PC.

If Mac are so wonderful why are the recording shops, and 3d rendering house are moving over to PC finally? If you are not sure go ask George Lucas.

Trust me I have 10 years on most of you kids,,, I'm not new to computer. I hate MS just as much as any of you,,, but when it comes down to it, it's all about getting the job done at the lowest cost.

[acidic_liquid]

I got an iBook g4. It's affordable, yet still great.

[Crazy Dave]

^name the price, name your work...

[acidic_liquid]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dave

To the Mac fans,,, start paying for your own Computers, and start doing real work... shorty you will figure out the though Macs are nice and all that,,, they cost 2-3 times a PC of equivalent raw PC power.

Also Mac don't crash much less then a PC.

If Mac are so wonderful why are the recording shops, and 3d rendering house are moving over to PC finally? If you are not sure go ask George Lucas.

Trust me I have 10 years on most of you kids,,, I'm not new to computer. I hate MS just as much as any of you,,, but when it comes down to it, it's all about getting the job done at the lowest cost.

Don't most recording companies, design companies, or anything related to those use Macs? I've read students at Berklee College in the US are required to have a Powerbook because using Macs in school "will prepare them for the real world." Also, there's another all girls private school wher every student is required to have an iPod.

Macs do cost more than most PC's, but there are iMacs and iBooks which are more conveniently priced than the Powermacs/books. Aren't Macs at a higher price not in spite of, but because of designers/artists using it for their work?

Was just wondering.