Saturday, August 15, 2009

Secret of Getting Rich (NOT A SCAM)

Boy, am i in a pinch....College starting next week and im still unsure what im feeling rite now....I mean, holiday was pretty boring for me...But...college is boring as well isnt it....Sigh.... So anyway, a little recap on what i did...Basically, it was a really productive 3 week break (if productivity is relatively related to the hour u spend on the bed, eat and poop) On the note of pooping, i poop really a lot during holidays....must be all the sleep im getting i guess. Oh well, enuf of such blabering. Haha. Btw, has any1 notice that my blog now looks more colourful?? xD

2day i wanna share a secret to getting rich like Bill Gates
Wanna knoe Bill Gates's secret? The answer is simple.
Version
So what do i mean exactly by version?? I'll explain it through a simple analogy. Imagine u brought a car version1.0 . U were driving it around and notice itz not moving properly, and it make loud scrapping noise n such. U study the problem for a while and notice the car didnt have any front wheel. So u drive the car back to the place u brought it and the salesperson explain to u that front wheel as well as back wheel will be featured in version 1.1 . So when version 1.1 is released, u happily upgrade to it which means u pay money. Now with ur complete wheel, u drive the car out and 30 minutes later, drove into your neighbour's porch. The salesperson again explain to u that brake arent scheduled to be released until version 1.3 . So, Microsoft started with Ms-DOS version 1.0 . In that version, all the DOS could do is;

A:>

No matter what u type inside, the response is always;

BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME

N instantly revert back to;

A:>

So many ppl spend many hour figuring what they could actually do with Ms-DOS. An example of such interaction between human and computer back then look sumthing like this;

A:> HELLO
BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME
A:> HELP
BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME
A:> DO SOMETHING
BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME
A:> RUN A PROGRAM DAMMIT
BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME
A:> F**K YOU
BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME A**HOLE!

This was pretty much all people did with Ms-DOS Version 1.0 . So u can imagine how excited every1 was when Microsoft came out with Version 1.1 , which had a whole new capability. In addition to doing this:

A:>

...it would sometimes also do this:

C:>

A new letter! This was very. very exciting news for those of us in the computer-geek world. We all immediately upgraded to Version 1.1 . Of course, no matter what we typed in, it still answered BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. But we felt renewed hope. Over the next few years, Microsoft continued to come out with new, improved versions of Ms-DOS, featuring a constantly expanding repertoire of incomprehensible and/or scary screen messages including:

NON-SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR
INVALID SWITCH
PATH NOT FOUND
WARNING! ALL DATA WILL BE LOST!

...and just about everybody's all-time favourite:

ABORT, RETRY, FAIL?

We loyal Microgeeks faithfully upgraded every time a new version came out until finally, somewhere around version 3.7, we have reached the point where we could use Ms-DOS to actually run programs on our computers and Bill Gates had reached the point where he had approximately 200 over private jets.

Even until 2day, almost nobody has any choice but to use Windows, the successor of Ms-DOS and the latest hype lately is Windows 7 which cost as much as a cheapskate computer (RM700++). Talk about being rich, Windows 7 would practically make Bill Gates richer than the whole Malaysia citizen put 2gether (as if he is not already that) and possibly buying over the Moon.

So there u hv it! The next time u do anything such as handing in ur business proposal or assigment and the lecturer noticed ur assignment only has the letter "A" in it, explain to ur lecturer that this is assignment Version 1.0 and if he/she wish to view more, it would be available in Version 1.1 and that she would hv to pay money to see it. There r chances she would give u score Version 1.0 too (0 marks) but HEY, what is business without RISK rite? Rite? Rite??

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

that was one whole toilet bowl of shits! haih =p