We're not good enough

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Study takes time yet Kiprobalhato takes time for dating and even takes time for a part-time job yet he still has enough time to study.

And bill gates built a billion dollar company.why aren’t you a billionaire? Could it be your not bill gates and everyone’s different?. I had a hard time just studying , I got B’s. If I’d taken less time I’d got c s or d s. Besides it’s no guarantee anyways. Women never approached me, only two times did a girl talk to me in middle and high school. One girl in college but she rejected me cause of my debt once she found out.

Because I didn't try as hard as him and neither did you. Unlike us Bill Gates is married.

No he more talented in lucky. That’s all. Hard work doesn’t many anything. Coal workers work way harder then bill gates, their hard work doesn’t lead to being rich. Billions of people work hard and try hard ever day they’ll never be rich. Do yonjust think billions of people now and through tour history just didn’t try hard enough?

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

But try to enjoy current part because you cannot rewind the movie anyway.

^ in that case i think i'll wait until it's out on DVD or blu ray.

connections and networking (scary words aren't they) probably play a big role too.

Indeed, the lack of those things certainly impacts my ability to make more money in my current business!

But then you might miss it completely. Not all movies get released on disc (or on streaming services). My advice is to see as many movies as you can right now. I saw a lot of bad movies in my lifetime, but those bad movies lead me to so many good ones which I wouldn't have seen otherwise.

I'm with you. I'll skip this session and wait for it to be released on other media.

I find not getting caught up on whether or not I'm "good enough" has been a useful strategy so far. Your own mileage may vary, but who here spends all their time beating up on themselves for not being good enough and has actually had (even the slightest) success at overcoming their social struggles?

Gates and other people are fundamentally tasked with taking care of people. Large, large numbers of people. They’re rich because so many people are counting on them to pull through. Do what Gates did and you’ll be just that rich, too.

The secret is Gates didn’t become a billionaire alone. He had a LOT of help. Without superior software, there’d be no demand. Without computer users, there’s no need for software. Without demand, there’s no need to innovate and produce. Without the need for innovation and production on an ever-increasing level, there’s no reason to hire more people to keep up with development. Gates brings in talent to do what he cannot, trains them to do what he already does. To reach consumers, he hires people to advertise. He hires people for distribution, gets product in stores or on website for download. There are thousands if not millions of hands and feet involved from developers to marketing to distribution to janitorial/custodial all the way down to the business and home users who have individual needs that must be addressed by Gates’s team.

And that doesn’t even count Gates’s charitable efforts. He has all that money because so many people are able to trust him to come through.

If you want to be that rich, by all means go for it. Just understand there are so many moving parts to this machine, and YOU are the one who takes ALL the blame for failure. Sure, you can fire people for doing a bad job. But that never changes the fact that something went wrong on your watch.

I’d love to just have the money. But dealing with all those people? Being that guy who has to tell someone whose kids are starving while his wife fights cancer that he’s being “let go” and will no longer have insurance to pay for chemo? No, thanks. These kinds of things are part of the harsh reality of possessing wealth, the responsibility you have to others whose success depends on your own. People like Gates are exceptionally gifted at serving others and making decisions that benefit those who make them so successful.

I’m not envious of their money. I’m jealous of their ability to do so much good for others.

He didn't do much good for others with Windows 8 and Windows 10. I really think he designed those two to be the operating system for the Microsoft Surface and just said "screw you" to all the people who are still using conventional laptops and desktops.

He's dumbed down Windows 10 to the point where it's almost as bad as using a Macintosh. Nowadays he only wants to go after the casual user.

Same with the Xbox. The Xbox used to be the best of consoles but he's dumbed it down for casual people with his ridiculous Kinect device. I think Bill is more concerned about whether or not the Xbox One can be used for Streaming NFL games from ESPN than he is about whether or not it can run games.

Skype has become an unstable mess since Microsoft bought it. And look at how he's redesigned (ruined) Microsoft Office by designing it for use with a touchscreen and not a mouse. Touchscreens are only suitable for very young children and childish adults. Toddlers feel with their hands. People who are more than 5 learn to use tools like a mouse and keyboard.

Controlling a computing device with just a touch screen is the equivalent of eating spaghetti with just your hands. If you're too young to hold a mouse then you're also too young to hold a fork. Either one reduces you to the level of a toddler.

Another way to think of it is that using a touchscreen is like fingerpainting. Both involve pressing your finger directly to a surface and both are suitable only for preschoolers. When an adult (or even an older child) produces a painting he's expected to use a paintbrush. If he can hold a paintbrush than he can hold a mouse.

And just look at the joke that is the Windows App store. If you want to download real PC games get 'em from Steam. All the games on the Windows App Store are designed for people who are either less than 5 years old or more than 75 years old.

Microsoft and Apple and Google are all infantilising computers to the point where they're just toys for babies instead of useful tools. They're also infantilising consumers. Apple started it and Microsoft finished it.

Bill Gates may be good at making money but he's not good at directing Microsoft to make useful products.

All Bill does any more is charity - it's Satya Nadella running Micro$oft now; I should know, I worked there. We had some useful touch stuff cooked up for the maps we were developing but I agree; we're totally short-selling the real capability of modern computers these days, I'm not typing this on Windows and the only native install I have of that lives on a 5+ year old laptop.

Anyways enough about being rich - I'm certainly not, why don't we continue my meager thread & instead discuss how we can turn geekiness, rich or not, to good advantage?

Aaaaaaaaaand yettt...

People are still coming back to Microsoft products.

On a purely personal note that has NOTHING at all to do with this conversation, I gently tweaked a cheap Celeron machine to run flawlessly under Win98SE and stuck with it until there was no support for the software I needed. I owned a couple windows laptops after that, whatever I could get off eBay for $50.

However, you get what you pay for.

I’d been forced to use Mac in grad school and had a love/hate relationship with them. But after being out of school for two years, I finally had to admit that there were no computers that could do what I wanted right out of the box quite like a Mac. I got an arctic white iBook G4. Used GarageBand for a little while, then got MasterTracks when I got sick of that (GB doesn’t do outboard sequencing) Finally I got Logic Pro 7 and a legit, paid-for version of Finale for the first time EVER. I never looked back and only use a windows machine if ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, generally if I’m at work and need to print something. I’ll bounce from my phone or MacBook Pro to Goodle Drive and open it on a Windows machine on the network and print it from there.

I have no desire to go to Linux. I understand WHY people prefer custom Linux machines. But the open source GNU stuff out there just doesn’t compare with what I’m used to and my preferred workflow. It could happen one day, sure. But right now there’s just nothing in it for me. Right now I’m using PureData for MIDI processing. Eventually I plan to expand my idea right now to the DSP side and add synthesis. Once I reach that level with PD, I’m strongly considering investing in a couple of Raspberry Pi’s. The goal is to create an ambient music system for sleep/relaxation. The Raspberry is sufficiently cheap and the onboard converters will suit my purpose; if not, I’ll buy separate USB converters for the task. Why do I bring up the Raspberry? It runs Linux, which DOES support PD. And it’s not Mac or Windows.

Anyway...like it or not, people are still flocking to Mac and Win. Like it or not, Jobs and Gates are still bringing it, from beyond the grave in the case of one it seems. In either case, the only thing that troubles me is that they seem anti-competitive at times. But on the other hand, at least with Mac you have XCode (no idea the Microsoft equivalent) and Swift. I haven’t gotten past basic math operations yet, and I’m easily frustrated in my efforts to learn coding. But I’m amazed at the ease people learn Swift and get iOS apps out. So since Apple makes becoming a developer so easy, and with tight integration between hardware and software, I’m in a really good place right now.

What else do you expect them to use when Apple is even worse?