Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/16/2012 01:44 AM Report

30 million dollars is what he told us he paid for a space flight. Now NASA pays $50M a seat. WOW!

Can’t be claustrophic. Long term weightlessness has many issues. Space Adaptation Syndrome—50% of the people experience this and this is like being horribly car sick.

$50M, claustrophobic, and barf your guts out.

YES! Rocket Man.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/16/2012 01:36 AM Report

Artistic ability is represented bilaterally, but may show a right hemisphere superiority.[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function

So right side Charlie.

By the way, in one of the many Steve Jobs documentaries I remember Bill Gates saying he wishes he had more of the creative side that Steve Jobs had. Perhaps it was the LSD that Steve says provided him with that best of life experience.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/16/2012 01:28 AM Report

He forgets the "Blue Screen of Death" made famous by Microsoft and what used to be a great Halloween costume.

Yes, it may be more difficult to turn on a television in a hotel room than a computer and that is probably a good thing because that remote for the television is probably never, ever cleaned. (The remote in the average home is the dirtiest object in a house--much dirtier than the average toilet.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/16/2012 01:19 AM Report

Charlie, I would have asked him about his time at Xerox Palo Alto over Microsoft.

Founded in 1970 as a division of Xerox Corporation, PARC has been responsible for such well known and important developments as laser printing, Ethernet, the modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon (a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) for semiconductors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29

This is where the economic power of America was created. Microsoft simply exploited it.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/16/2012 01:10 AM Report

He tells us his Father was a teacher first and then a theorist in Electrical Engineering. He was a brilliant man who lived in Hungry. A Humanist. He created a wonderful library at home. Thousands of books. His father was the Google of the 1960s. He loved the life of the mind.

So his father was the key to what Simonyi has achieved today.

Let us not forget Bill Gates' Mother and the role she played with IBM and getting Bill work providing an operating system.

Both of these men have had incredible advantage provided by their parents.

It took the right stuff--from the parents.

REMant  05/15/2012 11:25 AM Report

Word tho is a prime example of both what is good and bad about computer programs. Thing drives me crazy on a regular basis.

NoPardonforMichaelMilken  05/15/2012 10:37 AM Report

Well, it's 10:35 a.m. EDT and one cannot access the discussion regarding JPMorgan. Perhaps Massah Jamie has not approved discussion for said viewing? Or perhaps Massah Jamie has threatened to withholding financing, be it direct or indirect, to Charlie unless certain elements of said discussion are removed from this website?

Charlie, it would behoove you, in the interests of credibility and not being seen as merely one in a long line of toadies for Massah Jamie, to provide a reason for said delay and/or to post the full, unedited video.