Comments on: An apology to Bill Gates http://it.gen.nz/2008/09/05/an-apology-to-bill-gates/ Writings on technology and society from Wellington, New Zealand Wed, 02 May 2012 08:16:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: colin http://it.gen.nz/2008/09/05/an-apology-to-bill-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-973 colin Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:08:04 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=154#comment-973 Amazingly, not everything you read on the Net is true! Amazingly, not everything you read on the Net is true!

]]> By: Miraz Jordan http://it.gen.nz/2008/09/05/an-apology-to-bill-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-972 Miraz Jordan Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:22:42 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=154#comment-972 Thanks for clearing that one up Colin. Once these things take hold there's no stopping them. Thanks for clearing that one up Colin. Once these things take hold there’s no stopping them.

]]> By: Oliver Bell http://it.gen.nz/2008/09/05/an-apology-to-bill-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Oliver Bell Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:10:26 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=154#comment-894 This has always been an interesting one... I've been watching Bill talk at company events for the last 13 years, every presentation he gives has an overtone of Moore's Law and the opportunities that are ahead of us given the availability of more memory, processor power and network bandwidth. Bill would probably be the last person on the planet to suggest that any number was enough for any of these dimensions - but this "quote" somehow seems to have surfaced and stuck. This has always been an interesting one… I’ve been watching Bill talk at company events for the last 13 years, every presentation he gives has an overtone of Moore’s Law and the opportunities that are ahead of us given the availability of more memory, processor power and network bandwidth.

Bill would probably be the last person on the planet to suggest that any number was enough for any of these dimensions – but this “quote” somehow seems to have surfaced and stuck.

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