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i171.photobucket.com — I was flipping through my brothers "Bill Gates" book (he's 8) and found this picture. I found it quiet hilarious. Can you spot whats wrong?

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  • jt767, on 10/25/2007, -15/+2718Yeah I found whats wrong, that POS pic needs to be rotated by 90 degrees.
    • Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -16/+573I'm sure the mouse reference was wrong, but I can't remember what it says as I too broke my neck looking at the image.
    • Mephux, on 10/12/2007, -114/+12agreed.
    • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -130/+41hahaha.....that and the operating system is not Windows but the Mac OS.
    • jt767, on 10/12/2007, -13/+708I fixed it, you don't have to thank me.
      http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/789/diggmacpicaw8.jpg
    • tedlove, on 10/12/2007, -77/+24duhhh... its because its a MAC running MAC OS.
    • MtnXfreerider, on 10/12/2007, -14/+98http://www.4pron.org/general/b/src/117711624771461.jpg Mirror.. to rotated copy (I know jt was first, but his is through imageshack...)
    • stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -101/+24Spoiler:




      It's a Mac in the picture, not a pc.
    • BevansDesign, on 10/12/2007, -14/+497The correct answer is Xerox.
    • mv10, on 10/12/2007, -60/+14Apple and Bill Gates used to be a team for quite a while in the early days..
      There was nothing "wrong" with the picture back then.. Its is now
    • NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+87Should be "quite."
    • insomniasystems, on 10/12/2007, -56/+20This just reminds me of how OSX is just a rip off of Vista...

      I really shouldn't have to imply sarcasm...
    • mv10, on 10/12/2007, -63/+7Apple and Bill Gates used to be a team for quite a while in the early days..
      There was nothing "wrong" with the picture back then.. Its is now



      http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/01/27/business/20070128_BALLMER_SLIDESHOW_8.html
      Balmer and Gates

    • kcpwnsgman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+179there are many things wrong with that image, Xerox made the first mouse system, that image is of an Apple, and I have no idea about the first copy of Windows, I thought it was 1983 on the top of my head, probably am wrong about it though
    • beelz, on 10/12/2007, -30/+10rotated,cropped, fixed colors.

      http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/7830/dsc00276ux4.jpg
    • SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -7/+63@mv10

      Do you realize that you linked a picture with Steve Balmer and not Steve Jobs?
    • bebop717, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Could someone also fix that glare from the flash while they are at it?
    • Netrilix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21@sillyrabbits: That could be why it says Balmer and Gates right under the link. Just a guess...
    • eV64, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6/me tilts head 90 degrees...
    • LindzUSA, on 10/12/2007, -10/+117Actually the people saying this is wrong because Xerox invented or integrated the first mouse with a PC etc....

      They did use a mouse before Microsoft but not on the 'PC'

      a. they where not the first to invent or use it on a computer, Stanford University actually invented it and used it with NLS, Xerox simply used the research.

      b. Xerox used it in WIMP on the Alto computer which was not in any way a 'PC'.

      So Microsoft was actually the first company to develop a Mouse for use on a PC.

      However that is definitely an APPLE in the picture :)

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
    • latova, on 10/12/2007, -4/+269I found whats wrong: WHERES HIS LEFT HAND?
    • rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -32/+119Hes using a Mac.
    • fiftyeggs, on 10/12/2007, -47/+10Actually, everyone is wrong.

      The Kid is actually using an Apple Computer. That is what's wrong with this pic.
    • elcow, on 10/12/2007, -17/+7I find it most curious that an operating system is developing hardware. That's rather impressive.
    • kipcrist, on 10/12/2007, -16/+66@lindzusa
      You're right except about MS...Apple 'stole' the idea from Xerox and developed the mouse into the Lisa. Microsoft conned Apple into giving them prototype macintosh systems and stole the GUI and mouse from them.
    • TheGuruStud, on 10/12/2007, -9/+28@kipcrist

      I love how poeple digg you down for 100% fact. Hell, even Gates himself will admit it.
    • ggko, on 10/12/2007, -5/+75> Hes using a Mac.

      Not quite.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIgs
    • drkdaedvn, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2haha, that was GREAT!
    • Satertek, on 10/12/2007, -22/+12Luckily, my LCD rotates 90 degrees quite easily.
    • aussieNickuss, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37"Apple 'stole' the idea from Xerox"

      Didn't the Xerox execs reject the idea of the mouse that their team had developed and invited Apple to check it out? Then Apple used it on the Mac and Microsoft then "stole" it from Apple.
    • loserlife17, on 10/12/2007, -12/+0umm if you don't want to turn your head to look at the picture just hold down ctrl & alt and press the right or left arrow key and the screen will turn sideways so the picture looks upright.
    • loserlife17, on 10/12/2007, -24/+2
      abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
    • syco123, on 10/12/2007, -23/+18"Hate to burst everyone's bubble but God invented the first mouse."

      hate to burst yours rdrr but there is no god
    • RogerStrong, on 10/12/2007, -27/+7>> "Bill Gates" book (he's 8)

      That's NOT Bill Gates in the photo. Not unless Gates was -2 when he released his Basic interpreter ten years earlier, and maybe +2 when he founded Microsoft.

      >> Microsoft conned Apple into giving them prototype macintosh systems
      >> and stole the GUI and mouse from them.

      Both Gates and Jobs saw Xerox Parc's GUI, and both started developing thier own. Gates was demoing an alpha version of Windows the year before the Mac was released.

      >> Then Apple used it on the Mac and Microsoft then "stole" it from Apple.

      Microsoft was bundling a mouse with Word a year before the Mac came out.
    • Gameflyer, on 10/12/2007, -16/+11I, for one, welcome our crooked headed overlords.
    • Skanadian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@RogerStrong

      He means his brother is 8 years old.
    • zachlutz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9Why make a book to educate kids if it's just going to be wrong?
    • Simplex42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+72I don't think I've seen so many wrong guesses in a digg thread yet.

      What's wrong with the pic is its text claims "Windows was the first operating system to develop a mouse for use with PCs".

      First off, Operating systems don't develop mice, that statement makes no real sense. At the very least it's a grammatical mess.

      Next up, it's not a PC running Windows, but is an Apple IIgs. It's not a Mac and it's not running MacOS, but GS/OS which looked very similar. The IIgs was releases in 1986, so both Windows and Mac OS (at the time just called system software) predate it.

      The Macintosh system software (1984) predates the first release of Windows (1985), both of which were released after the Lisa and its mouse driven OS (1983)

      Even earlier are the Xerox Star (1981) and Alto, both using a mouse, a device first worked on at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.

      Part of the text is correct, depending on how you define "PC". Remember, "PC" was not a term widely used to describe the IBMPC in a way that differentiated it from any of the other number of personal computers at the time.
    • Zera, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12My Mom is an Elementary School Librarian, and she's found dozens of children's books with false or misleading information. Buying quality children's books is difficult because everyone and their brother thinks they can write children's books. Famous people are especially prone to think that they are good children's authors. For them it is an easy way to make a buck and somehow feel that they've 'given something back'.

      Even Terrell Owens has written a children's book. Children's books just aren't held to this type of scrutiny, so errors like this slip through frequently.
    • Splizxer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+91http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4955/dsc00276yn6.jpg

      am i doin it rite?
    • LachlanP, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I also noticed something else that's wrong, he's surfing with one hand:P where's the other?
    • Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's not a Mac, it's an Apple II GS Woz Special Edition.

      That little smudge-looking thing on the right side of the computer is Woz's signature.
    • robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20> You're right except about MS...Apple 'stole' the idea from Xerox and developed
      > the mouse into the Lisa. Microsoft conned Apple into giving them prototype
      > macintosh systems and stole the GUI and mouse from them.

      Not quite. Apple didn't "steal" anything from Xerox. Apple got Xerox's permission to use their ideas and paid them for it (yes, Xerox profitted from Apple's use of their ideas, so it's hard to call that "stealing.") Further, Apple developed Xerox's ideas, adding a lot to it. The concepts of the desktop, menus, trash, drag and drop and other things were Apple's ideas, developed by Apple, so that's not stealing either. MS came along and took all this without paying anyone for it and without adding any of their own ideas. That's stealing as far as I'm concerned.

      BTW, this isn't the opinion of a Mac fan. I'm a lifelong Windows user and have never owned a Mac, but at least be honest about it. Apple paid for it and developed it further. MS stole it.
    • tugger, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14Sorry to be pedantic, but macs are Personal Computers (PCs) so actually the mac was the first company to develop the mouse for use on PCs.
    • tugger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17This is the pic that Bill Gates did for Teen Beat whilst he was developing windows, draping himself seductively across a desk...

      http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/tech/images/bill_1983_1.jpg

      You can clearly see the source of his windows inspiration just over his right shoulder...

      is that a mac se, with an icon-based mouse-driven windows environment...???
    • charliecharlos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Is he getting off to spreadsheets? O.O
    • dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2SPOILER******

      its a mac
    • icoms, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1a kid using a spreadsheet?
    • inukki, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1he's not bill gates: Was he that young in the days of windows 95 era?
      even the first mac machine wasn't even that advanced in design and software stuff
      was I the only one to really notice it even before checking the comments of it?
    • adamchristopher, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3The problem is there is such thing as a "Bill Gates" book.
    • Combat247, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@robdazomba
      "good artists copy, great artists steal"
    • StefanArak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0You a ruth paul lookalkjie !!!!!!!!!

      www.google.com
    • striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/tech/images/bill_1983_1.jpg

      Wow i never noticed a Macintosh in that picture. I was always too creeped out to look further than the MICROSOFT logo.
    • SundayBrunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This kid is missing his left arm, for sure.
    • FortyCaliber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ insomniasystems
      It's unfair to say that Vista is a rip-off of OSX.
      Microsoft is forced to create operating systems that work with hardware designed by other ODMs.
      Apple has the luxury of creating whatever the hell they want because they design an O/S and then design a system to run it. On top of that only Apple sells those systems.
      Microsoft is not in direct competition with Apple. Never really has been. Microsoft never designed software for Apple or Macintosh hardware. That was Apple's job. Apple never designed software for the PC. That was everyone else's job.

      To say one is better than the other or one is copying the other is the same as saying an apple is better than a banana based on the merit that the banana isn't red and doesn't taste like and apple. When the banana starts tasting liek an apple... then you can start complaining.
    • catmistake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So... after Bill borrowed the professor's time machine in late 1963 at 8 years old and went forward in time to the latter half of 1986 to check out the New Apple IIgs Woz edition, when he got back to 1963 he still waited almost another decade before insipiring the minds at Xerox PARC, who then invented the interfaces that Apple ultimately assimilated.
  • fowleryo, on 10/12/2007, -12/+63it's sideways?
    • drouk1556, on 10/12/2007, -1/+162No, the problem is that the part in the boy's hair is a little bit TOO straight, even for 1985.
    • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60No, it's his shirt. The ugliest thing I have ever seen.
    • Sippi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27No his left hand is under the desk!
    • scarper86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21There's nothing wrong with a left hand under the desk while you're looking at a computer monitor. What's not normal is to do it while he's looking at that.
    • KiaserLies, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1its an apple mac dumbass
    • Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"Dumbass" indeed!

      (It ain't a Mac)
  • CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -15/+218Talk about a ***** job by the book's editor! The text reads "Windows was the first operating system to develop a mouse for use with PCs". Not only is that completely inaccurate, but in the picture he is using an Apple computer! WTF? And yeah, frickin'a, man, rotate the damn picture before you upload it!
    • KamikazeeDriver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+49"man, rotate the damn picture before you upload it!"

      No kidding. C'mon, how flippin hard is it to rotate a pic before you try to make a Digg out of it.

      On 2nd thought, how does someone who doesn't know how to rotate a picture, even find Digg?
    • stevealford, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7@Crimsonblur: PC stands for Personal Computer. Up until a few years ago, that term applied to every computer that you could use at home, including Apple computers. I'd bet this booklet was printed during that timespan and I personally think it's retarded to say an Apple isn't a PC. The only reason the distinction was made is because Apple decided to make all its proprietary software and hardware be incompatible with things that were standard on most PC, like software and games. That meant that a "PC game" that would run on any computer suddenly wouldn't work with an Apple PC, so people decided that Apple wasn't a PC anymore... most likely someone at Apple was behind the new classification.
    • cdcarter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7@stevealford:

      Yea, but xerox had mice before MS, and IBM
    • CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@stevealford
      Did you actually look at the picture and think before you posted a reply, or did you just automatically want to try to show everyone how "smart" you are? I know PC means Personal Computer, and Apple computers are in that category, and especially then the term didn't apply almost exclusively to "IBM Compatable" computers like it does now, or, more correctly now, anything other than a Mac. The point is, not only were they factually incorrect about Windows being the first OS to use the mouse as an input device, but they're also referring to the Windows operating system while it's obvious in the picture that the kid is using an Apple computer, which obviously does not run Windows. Seriously, do people not know how to use simple reasoning anymore when reading Digg posts or what?
    • theprez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Nothing wrong with the _picture_. It just doesn't go with that text.
    • bokchoi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Ironically this type of advertising carries on well over ten years later. "I'm a Mac, I get no viruses and I'm way more fun."

      Heh.
    • ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Just a guess, the photo is just a stock image. They needed a picture of a child at a computer with a mouse, and that's the best one that came in their search.

      Besides, do you think most if not everyone in the book's target audience is going to point at the picture and shout "Ha! That's an Apple computer! Dumbasses..." Looking at the comments here, many don't even know it's not a Macintosh.

      But the caption text, pretty bad.
    • xJVz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Y'know, everyone is complaining about the image being sideways, but the EXIF data says that the image should be rotated. This is a standard lazy way of doing portrait photos on a digital camera, so if your image viewer knows how to view it properly (e.g., I'm using KView, part of KDE), it won't be sideways.

      Of course, it would be a better idea to just rotate the damn image before you upload it, but we can't put effort into these images, can we?
  • jt767, on 10/12/2007, -26/+3lol
  • greymaxcat, on 10/12/2007, -46/+6That is not a Mac! Macs suck. That is a ||gs. Real apple lovers will still own one...
  • fivestarsoul, on 10/12/2007, -5/+126Is he fapping to colored blocks?
    • zjordan04, on 10/12/2007, -6/+54Who doesn't get off to colored blocks?
    • CatalystDM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Thanks to Google, I just learned the definition of 'fapping.'

      You learn something new every day.
  • cr125er, on 10/12/2007, -14/+95This made the front page HOW?
    • holyskeleton, on 10/12/2007, -26/+11because its about apple.
    • cakeeating, on 10/12/2007, -20/+5no, because it's about Microsoft.
    • lunasunshine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+961. Because it's a picture.
      2. Because it's about Apple & Microsoft.
      3. Because it offers a challenge.
    • 0o0Moylan0o0, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22Theres this little feature that is part of this Digg website. You see, when people 'Digg' this story, it makes it popular, therefore sending it to the front page...

      Now you know, you wont ever have to ask that again.
    • phirestyle, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6"This made the front page HOW?"

      Brainless Mac fan boys, that's how...
    • rdrr, on 10/12/2007, -17/+37Hate to burst everyone's bubble but God invented the first mouse.
    • JuyLe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Because it breaks ya neck !
  • 47knight, on 10/12/2007, -72/+8Microsoft didn't invent the mouse, Apple did. Plus there's an apple logo on the bottom left of that computer.
  • ZigZam, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3Its an apple computer.
  • ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2I must have this book, what is it called?!
  • Sliver85, on 10/12/2007, -17/+0That looks like an Apple on the computer. That could be a problem I suppose.
  • Etheo, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4Glowing liquid explosion?
  • uknow, on 10/12/2007, -14/+0Who wrote that big lie
    Another person must betraying to rewrite history

    http://blog.t1production.com/flashback-economy-those-where-the-days
  • viviwanu, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1It can't be more obvious - the picture needs to be rotated 90 degree clockwise.
  • Mooky555, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Ow, my neck
  • RaveRaveRave, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1Tut, Its a Acorn computer isntead of a windows,
  • fabiosir, on 10/12/2007, -14/+0Yes, it's an apple, but it's in a book that looks as if the picture on page 75 could reference something in the text on page 74.

    Also, it doesn't say PCs had a mouse first, but it sounded as if the topic in general was the mouse, and the caption says that Windows had the mouse on a PC first.

    Coincidentally funny.
  • ZainZXC, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4Get A Mac.
  • EllasIsKing, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4There is nothing wrong with the claim. Windows WAS the first OS to use a mouse on PC's. Apple/Mac's are generally not characterized as PC's. During the 80's they were actually referred to as "Home Computers". Infact, I believe the term PC eventually became synonymous with the x86 architecture (OR atleast the term IBM PC compatible).
    • willywong, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Wern't there a few graphical user interfaces that came out on the IBM before Windows but failed in the market? I don't know if they had mouse support though.
    • Speed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Actually, if you ask anyone who actually knows something about computers (not just new mac users who believe the Mac Ads about "PCs are only computer that run Windows"), you'll find out that Macs ARE personal computers. Ask Steve Wozniak what he's credited with inventing, you'll learn its the PC, even though what he invented was an Apple.
    • RogerStrong, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3> Windows WAS the first OS to use a mouse on PC's

      Nope. DOS was. Microsoft was bundling a mouse with Word a year before the Mac came out. Granted, Gates was also demoing an alpha version of Windows the year before the Mac, but that wasn't released yet so it doesn't count.

      And btw, that's NOT Bill Gates in the photo. Not unless Gates was -2 when he released his Basic interpreter ten years earlier.
    • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Nope. DOS was. Microsoft was bundling a mouse with Word a year before the Mac came out. Granted, Gates was also demoing an alpha version of Windows the year before the Mac, but that wasn't released yet so it doesn't count."

      You seem to forget the Apple Lisa, which was also released one year before the Mac, in January 1983...

      Anyhow, Microsoft got early access to Mac development prototypes years before its release because they threatened Apple by saying they would not release Mac software if they didn't grant them this exclusive access. MS even managed to make Apple cancel their MacBasic program using the same threats.

      Work on the Mac started at the end of the 70's with a team of people that worked on GUI concept on their own before Xerox did (Bill Atkinson for example, conceptualized Quickdraw in the 60's). The Mac team had some inspiration from Xerox, no doubt about it, and many Xerox employees willingly went to work at Apple during the Mac development phase. Interestingly, the Xerox team was also inspired back by some of the Mac concepts, like putting icons on a desktop.

      But the Mac team couldn't try to make a carbon-copy of the Xerox OS internals even if they wanted to, as the Mac specs were too modest compared to the Xerox hardware. Apple did have to "invent" their own ways of doing it so that it would fit. Apple is also responsible for "inventing" some GUI concepts like the menu bar and scroll-bars which didn't exist in the first versions of the Xerox OSes.

      On the other hand, the first versions of Windows, were developed with the idea of porting the Mac versions of Word and Excel to the x86 platform. With early access to Mac dev-kits, the Windows team set a goal of reproducing all needed Mac APIs on top of DOS so they could port their Mac versions directly. The result is that the first versions of Windows have a suspiciously similar set of APIs and internal structures.
    • phmfthacim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1In the nineties, you might have been right, but we usually don't say "mac vs. pc" anymore outside of those apple ads.
  • ipricku, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9i definitely had that computer... thats an Apple IIgs... must have played "heavy barrel" and carmen sandiego games for hours on that...
  • teiren474, on 10/12/2007, -13/+291. pic needs to be rotated 90 degrees
    2. thats a mac in that picture ( should be a pc)
    3. Microsoft dident invent the mouse... im pretty sure someone else did
    4. i don't think thats bill gates
    5. if you think about it that pic has completely nothing to do with the wording below it
  • yorxs, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I believe it was Xerox who wrote the first OS "Star OS" to support a mouse.
  • AntidoteSqrd, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1If you want to be really technical, Microsoft was the first company to use the mouse with a PC, Apple was the first computer to use a mouse. Of course this only works if you make the distinction between mac and PC.
  • runbmd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47Definitely something wrong. That kid needs to take an ergonomics class. With the keyboard positioned as it is, he is going to develop carpal tunnel syndrome in no time.
  • travisxedge, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1i find it funny enough that they make a book about bill gates intended for 8 year olds
  • pivovy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4The kid is jerking off that's what's wrong!
  • notoneofus, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Hey...he's often said Apple makes the best computers...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvskEGWMLp4
  • matyrice, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Is there something wrong with this description?
  • desistere, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The problem is that the paragraph talks about 1985, but the IIgs was not even released until 1986. Also, where is the disk drive? You've got to put those 5 1/4" floppies in somewhere (unless you opted for the sweet version that took 3 1/2"!)
  • CamperBob, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Not a Mac. Apple ][gs, limited "Woz" edition.
  • spilk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3er, that's not even a mac. it's an Apple IIgs.
  • falcon413, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6i can spot two things wrong with the picture: It's an Apple, and Windows wasn't the first to support a mouse (they were third I think), Xerox was first and then Apple acquired it from Xerox if I am not mistaken.
  • joltjake, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2there's a surprise, the Korean kid is on a mac.
  • TheAssuager, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1wow, i started hacking when I was 14.
  • wallryan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3half the people commenting on this story don't even realize that the funny part of the picture is the fact that the kid is using an apple computer!
  • danknerd, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Umm.. Mac arent PCs hehe, hence the notation about Microsoft being the first to develop a mouse on the [IBM]-PC
  • Unremarkable, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Anyone else notice the grammatical error? "Windows" didn't develop *****, at best Microsoft did.

    Also, PC stands for 'personal computer(s)'. While Xerox apparently invented the mouse, did they implement it in PCs, or just those massive boxens they used back-in-the-day?
  • R4wBon3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I didn't see anyone mention this yet but after the picture is rotated the caption blabs about Windows being the first to have a mouse, and the picture is clearly of an Apple IIgs - not a Mac, but an Apple just the same. Macs were out when this machine was made, but they were monochrome.
  • on9star, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I wasn't alive in 1985. I wouldn't know...
  • er1cw, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0That kid is using a Mac !
  • CommunistEagle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Is there something wrong with this description?

    "I found it quiet hilarious."
    • PsychoPNut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4someone said that about a thousand comments up
  • DonkeyTime, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Have you guys heard that there's a new hilarious video on the internet. Its got Will Ferrell in it. He argues with his landlord. Here's the funniest part. The landlord is a 3 year old girl. Maybe if we're lucky someone will post it on Digg someday.
  • SilverhammerMBA, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Well, this book was probably not written by Gates himself, in the first place. And the makers were probably told "Alright, for this page we need a picture of a someone using a computer with a mouse" and the computer-illiterate person in charge of this most likely had no idea what the difference between a mac and a pc was.
  • sonicrun222, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1yeah, hes on a computer that doesn't have a blue screen of death. :)
  • ismith, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I don't blame digg for this, I blam humanity. For breeding such stupidity. Please, I hope I never get a waste of time like this in my RSS feed ever again.

    Besides, the whole damn thing is wrong, not just the Mac.
  • Demitaka, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Hey guess what , PCs are still better than macs. That kids most likely dead now...
  • spocksbrain, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6The kid is tugging one off to brightly coloured low resolution porn!
  • microview2007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Thats not really Bill Gates, it is a look alike kid.
  • PenguinWrangler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1In that notation, however, PC means Personal Computer, regardless of manufacture or architecture, making that sentence erroneous.
  • swordphish, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Wasn't Xerox first? And then Apple "stole" the idea. And then Windows followed suit as they always do.
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