This is worse then the time I stumbled upon an inane thread on TWP.

iWork925 wrote:
This is worse then the time I stumbled upon an inane thread on TWP.

If you don't like the thread, don't waste your words posting in the thread then. Simple solution.

chickenmobile wrote:
I was talking to someone in the UK and they were telling me that if you didn't get education from one of the high-end universities like Cambridge or Oxford you will get nowhere in life.

My friend, pure bullshit.

Jomonay wrote:
chickenmobile wrote:

I was talking to someone in the UK and they were telling me that if you didn't get education from one of the high-end universities like Cambridge or Oxford you will get nowhere in life.

My friend, pure bullshit.

I am going to have to agree with that.

Lostprophetpunk wrote:
Jomonay wrote:

chickenmobile wrote:

I was talking to someone in the UK and they were telling me that if you didn't get education from one of the high-end universities like Cambridge or Oxford you will get nowhere in life.

My friend, pure bullshit.

I am going to have to agree with that.

Same here.

Jomonay wrote:
chickenmobile wrote:

I was talking to someone in the UK and they were telling me that if you didn't get education from one of the high-end universities like Cambridge or Oxford you will get nowhere in life.

My friend, pure bullshit.

I'll tell them that, and then they will ramble for an hour of how I am wrong.

At least for my area of the UK, I am forced to agree; the education here is the worst imaginable.

Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steven Spielberg (Star Wars), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) never graduated from college, yet they are arguably very successful. They just have a few billion dollars in asset.

satchmo wrote:
Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Considering he stole someone else's idea.

Lostprophetpunk wrote:
satchmo wrote:

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Considering he stole someone else's idea.

But why don't we know who that "someone else" is today?

Because that "someone else" is not smart enough to make it successful.

satchmo wrote:
But why don't we know who that "someone else" is today?

Because that "someone else" is not smart enough to make it successful.

Steve Jobs, as it was his idea to make a graphical interface OS, with a mouse as well.

Since then there have been many cases of Microsoft going up against people, simply for the fact of the intellectual property of them being copied and used by Microsoft.

Lostprophetpunk wrote:
satchmo wrote:

But why don't we know who that "someone else" is today?

Because that "someone else" is not smart enough to make it successful.

Steve Jobs, as it was his idea to make a graphical interface OS, with a mouse as well.

Since then there have been many cases of Microsoft going up against people, simply for the fact of the intellectual property of them being copied and used by Microsoft.

You are incorrect.

Steve Jobs stole the idea from this guy, whom none of us have ever heard of (until I Googled).

Why isn't he a billionaire? Because Steve Jobs is a thief. Bill Gates just stole from another thief.

By the way, this Doug guy is brilliant. He realized the potential of the internet decades before it existed: "harnessing the collective human intellect of all the people contributing to effective solutions was the key".

To sum it up, Doug invented the mouse and the internet, yet none of us knew who he was. A shame.

The more I read the article, the more fascinating stuff I find.

"The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 p.m, on October 29, 1969 from Boelter Hall 3420."

The internet was born exactly three years before I was born (so now you know my birthday); I had been to that Boelter Hall lab.