Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building 919
touretzky writes "Carnegie Mellon University announced on Tuesday that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had donated $20 million toward the cost of a new building to be called the "Gates Center for Computer Science". Some faculty have suggested that in acknowledgment of Mr. Gates' profound influence on the computer software industry, the building should be painted bright blue."
Before you ask (Score:5, Funny)
Blue (Score:5, Funny)
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Blue? (Score:3, Funny)
Why doesn't Bill Gates blow more of his money? (Score:4, Funny)
Why he's really doing it (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Blue (Score:1, Funny)
The infamous yellow screen of death... oh wait!
Unfortunately.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BSOD jokes (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Bright Blue eh? (Score:3, Funny)
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Other building features (Score:5, Funny)
2. All digital locks can be opened with the admin password 1-2-3-4-5
3. Vibrating Window panes will cause random crashes
4. All wall decorations are essential and directly integrated into the building and cannot be removed without destroying the entire structure
In front of the building... (Score:5, Funny)
That, and the building won't have any locks.
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In related news... (Score:2, Funny)
MOD PARENT DOWN! (Score:2, Funny)
If we had a beowulf cluster of Linux donations, we could overpower Bill Gates soooo easily!
Re:Before you ask (Score:5, Funny)
so sad for bill... (Score:5, Funny)
CB#
Re:Other building features (Score:3, Funny)
It should be sky blue... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:$20M but... (Score:2, Funny)
So maybe his half-ass donation is what he thought they deserve for the half-ass OS they've cranked out.
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Re:Poor Bill (Score:5, Funny)
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Microsoft Skynet has become self-aware (Score:3, Funny)
Well of COURSE bright blue.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Something not so funny about Bill Gates ... (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:IBM (Score:3, Funny)
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Architecturally speaking... (Score:3, Funny)
obligatory simpsons... (Score:3, Funny)
"I wouldn't do that, that's a load bearing poster.."
Re:Give the man a break (Score:5, Funny)
Gates Millennium Scholarship Program
To train more potential Microsoft employees! Obviously!
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
Only an attempt to keep people alive so that they can buy more Microsoft software!
teachers, administrators, school districts and schools
To obligate them to push a Microsoft curriculum and keep Apple and Linux out of the classroom!
Gates Library Program
Do they have any non-Microsoft Press books at these libraries? Probably not!
Children's Vaccine Program, Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer, global polio eradication, International Vaccine Institute, elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus, Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Again, keep the potential customers alive! This is one of the cornerstones of capitalism -- ever expanding markets!
The guy is obviously evil. That you can't see the motives behind these dubious donations just goes to show how easy it is to buy people's favor!
Bill Gate$ is teh eviL!!1!!!1! OMGOMG!!
--Jeremy
Just wait for SCO to get into this... (Score:2, Funny)
Sure, SCO's building and all the other buildings are based on far older principles and methods, but still they insist on owning the concepts because they were in the building they bought and thus it is theirs forever.....
Re:Something not so funny about Bill Gates ... (Score:3, Funny)
Pepsi Presents the Gates Center for Computer Science
- Tony
Re:Something not so funny about Bill Gates ... (Score:3, Funny)
But nobody's naming a building at CMU "Milosevic Hall."
Then again, it does have a nice ring to it....
Re:Something not so funny about Bill Gates ... (Score:4, Funny)
You mean Bill Gates beat him to death?
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Shortly? It'll take 4 years for the tenants to finish building it!
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Re:Something not so funny about Bill Gates ... (Score:3, Funny)
perhaps a donation to the FSF would clear the cynical fog ;-)
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Once the contractors are brought into the picture they'll wage a holy war over which building materials are the best. The original design will be built in steel b/c it's such a robust and flexible choice. One of contractors will completely reject the rigid structure steel requires you to work in, instead he'll choose a more flexible material, clay, because he used that once to make this wonderful outdoor grille. The left handed building will use brick b/c they're different and don't want to be mainstream.
The tenets will show up to help build the building b/c, this is a community project right. 98% of the tenets will walk around the construction site complaining about how nothing is done and how this and that need to be changed. Occassionaly people will jump in by building out their offices, or enhancing the restroom facilities near their office.
After 6 months a sign will go up announcing the completion of the project in 3 weeks. After another 6 months the sign has will still be there. 3 years later the clay project will have fallen in on itself several times, eventually becoming a worthless pile of unsightly clay. The left handed building will be completed, and will be loved by all left handed people, but will never be used by the faculty who tend to be mostly right handed. Teh left handed building will gain no mainstream acceptance. The steel building will be completed as well. Unfortunately it is the most sterile unsightly building you've ever seen. Minimilism could learn a thing or two from this building. There are no electrical outlets in the offices, only bare wires that "allow you to interface directly with the electrical module". Nice feature.
The residents of the Gates building have been watching for four years while these building were built. They'll talk about how much more robust steel is and how they wish they had more of it in their building. They'll talk about how nice the brick is, and the left handed tenets will dream of a day when they'll get left handed doors and talk about banding together and migrating all at once. Several people will talk about all of the space over in the steel building, but will complain that the tenets are hard to talk to because they're always fixing things in their building and all that manual labor makes the whole building wreak of sweat, the hygeine habit of the steel building's tenets is generally questioned. One of the women complain that when she went over to the steel building and asked to use the restroom, she was pointed an empty room, when she asked why the room was empty she was met w/ a nasty look and a sharp "Hey it's free lady! Build it yourself. We can't do everything for you... newbies."
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Re:XP BSOD == Cold Reboot (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, I'd like to send my dump to MS. Who should I send it to? : p
Water Proplems in Gates Building (Score:2, Funny)
Several leaks will appear in the roof, which will require a never ending number of *patches*. However, these patches will then cause an ever increasing static load on the roof, requiring removal of certain Fixtures in the building. These fixtures in the building must be removed because the building can no longer *support* them.
Next, due to all of the leaks and subsequent rise in relative humidity inside the building, mold will form at an astounding rate, spreading to other buildings. Then, one of the biology students in attemp to 'help', will introduce a mold *VIRUS* [seps.org] which will spread like wildfire to all of the *buildings* on campus