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- Swil, on 12/11/2008, -5/+203When will they stop rehashing the Bill G '640k is enough for anybody' myth? It's up there with a Nigerian prince wanting your help moving his fortune off shore.
- jameslopez, on 12/11/2008, -6/+134Sugar is a pretty sweet last name.
- tomarocco, on 12/11/2008, -2/+119This is the year of the Linux desktop.
- msissio, on 12/11/2008, -3/+80Aww man, could you guys imagine rocket mail? God Damn that sounds awesome!
- Chainheart2, on 12/11/2008, -1/+74"DirectX10 will revolutionize PC gaming"
- deepleet, on 12/11/2008, -0/+53Duke Nukem Forever is going to be outstanding!
- SSPink, on 12/11/2008, -1/+51It's a myth-quote, a miss quote that has become a myth, like Al Gore claiming to invent the internet. What he has actually been reported as having said in 1981 was "640K ought to be enough for anybody." And he was right, 640K of memory was probably enough for anyone using a personal computer in 1981. Gates never implied that it would be true forever, just that it was true at that moment.
If I say right now that "6GB of RAM ought to be enough for anybody" are you going to make fun of me in 20 years when that's no longer the case? - Hobbes24, on 12/11/2008, -0/+47anyone else confused that they said what half of them would be before the list even started, and then STILL had commentary on the list itself?
- DeathRay2K, on 12/11/2008, -3/+50Bill Gates really never made that comment, it was basically a misunderstanding of something he actually said.
Also, DEC wasn't the only one to say that home computers had no future. It was a hugely popular opinion at the time, and there was no evidence to the contrary. Really, who can blame them? - Wakkyweed, on 12/11/2008, -1/+48What about Professor Frink?
"I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them." - Gizza, on 12/11/2008, -4/+49"Bill Gates, meanwhile, enters the top ten twice with a pair of astonishingly inaccurate predictions.
His first gaffe came in 1981 when he stated that no personal computer would ever need more than 640KB of memory.
Most now operate with at least 2 gigagbytes, 3,500 times the figure.
As if this wasn't bad enough, he struck again in 2004 when he told the World Economic Forum that spam emails 'would be solved' within two years."
He didn't say the first quote and the 2nd quote is true. I haven't had a single bit of spam get through to my inbox since I started using Gmail. - DeathJux, on 12/11/2008, -5/+47Ban The Daily Mail.
- DephexTwin, on 12/11/2008, -0/+41Yeah, I've got a "message" to send to my enemies, and a rocket is definitely the best way to deliver said message!
- Useight, on 12/11/2008, -1/+42Meanwhile, on Hotmail...
- JekJob, on 12/11/2008, -1/+41Nuclear powered vacuums?
Seriously? - theone3, on 12/11/2008, -0/+38Yes. Because I'm a pedantic internet person.
- CrushThemTorg, on 12/11/2008, -0/+34I think I have a new pseudonym if I ever decide to become a pimp: Sir Alan Sugar.
- arunforce, on 12/11/2008, -3/+32Google actually killed spam.
- middlecon, on 12/11/2008, -0/+24Gmail has done a pretty good job of filtering spam..not that the attempts have stopped. I'd say Gates was half right.
- Wargasmic, on 12/11/2008, -0/+24Isn't every year?
- saikyan, on 12/11/2008, -0/+23"I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is in every corner drugstore but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by!"
- metapop, on 12/11/2008, -0/+23stealing other people's comments is a pretty sour thing to do.
- 007isbond1, on 12/11/2008, -5/+25i see what you did there
- onClipEvent, on 12/11/2008, -0/+19"John Romero's about to make you his bitch." - Daikatana
- benzzene, on 12/11/2008, -1/+19Terrible article. There were even spelling mistakes in addition to the factual errors.
- metapop, on 12/11/2008, -0/+17so when we colonize the moon and my grandma wants to send me my mandatory birthday letter with $40 inside, how do you think it will get to me? pony express?
- Salanmon, on 12/11/2008, -0/+15"Sir Alan Sugar claimed the iPod would be dead within a year, he had no idea that he had got it wrong 174million times."
He was only wrong 8 times, the Ipod hasn't been around for 174,000,000 years - pfhayter, on 12/11/2008, -0/+13Diabeetus.
- Murdats, on 12/11/2008, -0/+13the only constant of technology is it makes fools of those who try to predict it
- D3koy, on 12/11/2008, -0/+13That was the nuke era, we were doing everything we could with the stuff...Had it not been for the health risks we probably would have nuke vacuums by now...
- kouchan21, on 12/11/2008, -1/+14He probably meant power from nukular plants
- DNAspark99, on 12/11/2008, -0/+12Yea, thankfully I've just submitted this to the Department of Redundancy Department
- thetrev, on 12/11/2008, -0/+12can people please stop digging stories from the daily mail? that paper is the scourge of britain, we don't need our friends over the pond thinking that it's how we all think.
- inactive, on 12/11/2008, -0/+11http://www.rocketmail.com
Owned by Yahoo! - pezholio, on 12/11/2008, -1/+12Eeeew! The Mail. I feel dirty now.
- D4N747, on 12/11/2008, -0/+11This is the first time an article spoiled itself before I could read halfway through it.
- mrmaroon, on 12/11/2008, -1/+10+1.
Also, buried for 'gigagbyte' - apec766, on 12/11/2008, -1/+10now you're trying too hard.
- InfernoX, on 12/11/2008, -0/+9Hey, it COULD have. The potential was there... the problem was they only allowed vista users to run it so developers didn't bother implementing it if only 10% of the games userbase could actually use it.
- Mujokan, on 12/11/2008, -0/+9He makes you laugh, he makes you think.
- theone3, on 12/11/2008, -0/+9http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattribu ...
- PrintScrn12, on 12/11/2008, -0/+9If your enemies wisen up they'll give you a bogus address so the mail will "return to sender". Oh dear~
- Mujokan, on 12/11/2008, -0/+8"Smithers, I've got a rocket in my pocket."
"You're telling me, sir!" - spencemitch05, on 12/11/2008, -1/+9Is it just me or is the ipod not that big of a thing compared to these other pieces of technology\
- talonstriker, on 12/11/2008, -0/+8We aren't talking about Steve Jobs here...
- manitoba98xp, on 12/11/2008, -0/+8Email.
- eddieroger, on 12/11/2008, -0/+8Bitter?
- TMTurtle, on 12/11/2008, -0/+7Well all we have to do is build one nuclear hoover, then clean 5 houses with it. It seems doable.
- frieddonuts, on 12/11/2008, -1/+8It's the Daily Fail after all...
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