Bill Gates did an interview this spring with Peter Jennings (February 16, 2005). My favorite outtakes:
On the state of contemporary culture where even majesty, installed base, and very smart people wont protect you from dynamism:
that’s one thing I like about the Microsoft culture is that we wake up every day thinking about companies like Wang or Digital Equipment, or Compaq, that were huge companies that did very well and they literally have disappeared. Got bought up, you know went into a direction that was a dead end for them. So we have that lesson and we are always saying to ourself we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough.
And evidence that we might finally see Microsoft come up with a PDA capable of delivering text. This was one of the early promises of the digital world, and still languishes.
I am meeting with our tablet people about the idea of carrying text books around. They’ll have just a tablet device that they can call up the material on. That’s been a dream for a long time, we’re making progress there. So review of the software projects and encouraging them in terms of what they are doing well and telling them who else they need to work with. That’s the primary thing on my schedule.
References
McCracken, Grant. 2005. It can’t read! (Microsoft’s PMC illiterate?) Post on this blog, um, some time ago here
What I absolutely need is a program so I can put comments on top of PDFs. Ideally, I could do it with a lightpen. I read all my academic articles on PDF.. but it kills me (at hurts my productivity) that I can’t write on them. Does this exist? If not.. why not? Will this new Microsoft thingy let me do it?
I found it: PDF Annotator. Now I just need a tablet PC.
PDAs and Laptops are von Neumann machines. So PDAs should be called HVMs, Hand Von neumann Machines. People that can’t sync their HVMs shouldn’t be allowed to have them.
I can’t wait for Linux to add MacroScam to the list of Wang and DEC and Harris and Univac.
Now where is a good HVM that runs Linux?
Dal Timgar
Now where is a good HVM that runs Linux?
the Archos PMA400
[img]http://www.lordpercy.com/PMA400-1.jpg[/img]
http://www.lordpercy.com/archos_pma400_review.htm
more stupid acronyms. Pocket Media Assistant
It is an HVM with Linux that does multimedia.
30 gig hard drive could hold 15,000 books.
DT