Al Gore sticks with Windows 2000

[Synapse Syndrome]

I was just looking at more recent additions to the UltraMon multi-monitor
gallery, and I saw Al Gore in there. He uses Windows 2000.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery_browse.asp?ID=845&date=desc&nummon=false&mon=desc

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I was just looking at more recent additions to the UltraMon multi-monitor
gallery, and I saw Al Gore in there. He uses Windows 2000.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery_browse.asp?ID=845&date=desc&nummon=false&mon=desc

Actually, as my friend just pointed out, that does look like an Apple
keyboard, and the browser he's using looks like Safari. Also, he has three
monitors, not two, and those old video cards would struggle with high
resolution widescreens.

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[Frank]

Actually, as my friend just pointed out, that does look like an Apple
keyboard, and the browser he's using looks like Safari. Also, he has three
monitors, not two, and those old video cards would struggle with high
resolution widescreens.

ss.

Don't know about the os but the res is no problem for multi monitors
cause is says he's using Matrox multi monitor video cards.
Frank

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Don't know about the os but the res is no problem for multi monitors cause
is says he's using Matrox multi monitor video cards.

Yes, I have a G400 Max, a G450 and a Parhelia 256. But those older cards
will struggle at 32bits at the high resolutions that can be seen. They do
not have enough memory.

With those screens he must have a modern system with DVI connections and, by
the look of it, an Apple Mac.

ss.

 

[Guest]

It makes sense to me that he would be using Apple equipment - he is on their
Board of Directors.

 

[Dave]

Some of those setups make my 17" + 19" look pretty weak..... ;-)

 

[Guest]

Al who?

Some of those setups make my 17" + 19" look pretty weak..... ;-)

 

[NotMe]

He's advanced that far? In such a short time?

Last I heard he was inventing the internet using HP Basic with a 100 baud
connection and a tube based computer...but did he turn the air conditioners
off to save energy?

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Last I heard he was inventing the internet

I hesitate to wade into a non-technical discussion, especially with a poster
who won't post under their real name (and why not? Why are you hiding?).

But ... Gore has been unfairly caricatured for claiming he "invented the
Internet", during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. It is
well-documented he made no such claim.

Al Gore played a significant role in opening up the research ARPANET to
general public use; and in that sense, he can rightly claim to have helped
create "the Internet" as we generally know it today. For example, he
provided the legislative background for the Internet in the US, by
draughting and sponsoring the "High Performance Computing and Communication
Act of 1991". His role was publicly acknowledged by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf
who, everyone would agree, rank among the many genuine inventors of the
Internet:

http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/msg00311.html

So let's just drop all the "Gore sez he invented the Internet" crap. It's an
urban myth. People can have opinions for-or-against Gore, for other reasons;
but this isn't one of them.

Since US politicians and US politics are off-topic for
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general, I recommend we terminate the
discussion here.

 

[DP]

He's advanced that far? In such a short time?

Last I heard he was inventing the internet using HP Basic with a 100 baud
connection and a tube based computer...but did he turn the air
conditioners off to save energy?

Interesting that a man you apparently consider a dummy was preferred by
American voters over the dummy who took office.

 

[HeyBub]

Yeah, he's stuck in 2000. Countin' the votes.

 

[Opinicus]

Possibly the best reason I've seen so far for moving on to something else...

.... Anything else.

 

[DP]

Possibly the best reason I've seen so far for moving on to something
else...

... Anything else.

Yeah. Move to whatever it is the geniuses who planned the Iraq war are
using. I'm sure it's top-notch.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

An interesting factoid:

In NYC (where 9/11 happened,remember?):

Al Gore: 86%
George W. "Shit-for Brains" Bush: 9%
Other: 5%


I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!

 

[DP]

I'm defending Gore here, Cal Bear, but I have to point out in the interest
of honest argument that the 2000 election was before the 2001 attacks.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Just pointing out that, here in NYC, there never has been, is not now, and
NEVER will be, any love lost for that evil monster now in the White House.

And the results in the 2004 election were similar.


I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

Al who?

Al Gore, the guy who thought he got elected president but was wrong. The
same guy who lectures us all about global warming and conservation while he
flies around in private jets and consumes more energy per month in his home
than we do in an entire year. Yeah, that's the guy.

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

Interesting that a man you apparently consider a dummy was preferred by
American voters over the dummy who took office.

Intersting that the president you refer to as a dummy has a higher IQ than
the "intellectual" he beat in the last election.

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

Just pointing out that, here in NYC, there never has been, is not now,
and NEVER will be, any love lost for that evil monster now in the White
House.

And the results in the 2004 election were similar.

Don't even try to think you speak for all NYC residents. Their voting
habits just point out how clueless they are.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Who said ALL, numbnuts? Just 86%!

Now, who is that who is clueless?

For your sake I hope they open a Rent-A-Brain near you soon!


I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!