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Curious plaid wave patterns mark the placid waters of Lago Verde, Alter do Chão, Santarém, Pará.

Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3

I’m a PC.

Caught up with 366, thank goodness!!

I love all three of these books and although I've had the "Muhammad Ali" book for sometime I've just managed to read this following the passing of that great icon!

Going For 4 In-a-Row ~ 366 ....

52 in 2016 Challenge #33 Books ....

Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.

From a past negative scanning project done for Ann Yow-Dyson and Esther Dyson

And now some of these photographs from the collection are highlighted in the new 3 part Netflix production, Inside Bill's Brain.

Paul Allen, Asymetrix/Vulcan Inc.; Bill Gates, Microsoft; PC Forum, 1987

Photograph © Ann Yow-Dyson; aeyowd@gmail.com

A multi year PC Forum collection of photographs (1984-1992) is available via Getty Images

The very first album and album cover I ever loved.

I thought it an idea to put my own take on this famous cover. Using people, characters that I have enjoyed, been inspired by throughout my life so far. I have enjoyed attempting to put this together, not perfect but fun doing it :)

Ps there are so many more I would love to have added but there wasn't enough space!!!!!!

Thanks for leaving me high and dry...

You stopped backing old Windows systems...

I've got tons of crap on this 'puter...

But the rich are never rich enough...

You've abandoned me...

Word stopped working months ago...

Now copy and paste went south...

Your wife's the smartest gate on the property...

On a bright note, I'm finding lots of unused photos while I'm deleting everything...

and throwing your ass to the curb...

My big, beautiful iMac puts you to shame...

"Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies."

Bill Gates

Frida's is an expensive Mexican restaurant at the Americana that faces Brand Boulevard. As my friend and I were leaving the area, I stopped to get this photo. I don't know if they were serving drinks to go, but apparently one could buy the stuff they use to cook and clean at their restaurant. It's one way of making a buck in this crisis, I guess. (Notice there is no toilet paper where the sign for it is located?) Was the TV on for the staff, or for the customers? Anyway, they prefer CNN.

And the doors were open. Anyone could walk in, even though I didn't see anyone behind the bar. It was totally by accident that I grabbed an image of Bill Gates casually drinking a cup of coffee (we assume) when I tapped the white shutter button on my phone screen. I guess with his money he can afford to ride out this crisis.

Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, participates in the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development at the United Nations.

UN Photo/Evan Schneider

26 September 2019

United Nations, New York

Photo # 825161

Gulfstream G650ER ( msn 6357 )

Bill Gates . Ex N657GD , built in 2018 , delivered 29.3.19 . Arriving from King County Intl airport - Boeing Field , Seattle .

Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative

Plenary Session: Investing in Prevention and Resilient Health Systems

MODERATOR:

Betsy McKay, Senior Writer, Global Health, The Wall Street Journal

One-on-One Conversation:

PARTICIPANTS:

Bill Gates, Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Michael Gerson, Policy Fellow, The ONE Campaign

PARTICIPANTS:

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia

Michel Liès, Group CEO, Swiss Reinsurance Company

Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever

Charlize Theron, Founder CTAOP and United Nations Messenger of Peace, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Projec

Gulfstream G650ER ( msn 6357 )

Bill Gates . Ex N657GD , built in 2018 , delivered 29.3.19 . Arriving from King County Intl airport - Boeing Field , Seattle .

Bill and Melinda Gates' home Xanadu 2.0 aerial in Medina, Washington - © 2018 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions aerial photography archives - www.performanceimpressions.com

Gulfstream GVI (G650ER)

I have collected news magazines' special issues -- ever since I can afford to buy one almost a decade ago. I have always loved history. I learned a lot from it. These news magazines are souvenirs of history. So I collect special issues.

My latest one? Manny Pacquiao.

Just breaking the Netherlands series for this photo -- right after Pacquiao got his historical 7th title.

Billy Gates carrying his X-Box console into the Console Struggle between Sony and Nintendo

Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. While jointly developing a new OS with IBM in 1984, OS/2, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows, a graphical extension for MS-DOS, on November 20, 1985. Microsoft moved its headquarters to Redmond on February 26, 1986.

William Gates Building, University of Cambridge. The famous bicycle shed! Well, shadows of:-)

What is reality ? ...and who needs it !

FYI-Bill Gates has an honorary doctorate degree by the Addis Ababa University (AAU), so yes, it's bogus, but he is a philanderer, as is Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump. Media is a town in Pennsylvania. ... PS Eric Arthur Blair, is still dead.

N887WM Gulfstream 650 of Bill & Melinda Gates at Glasgow 1/11/21.

This aircraft was visiting in connection with the COP 26 World Climate Change Conference.

Credit: Cibele_Vieira / Clinton Global Initiative

Plenary Session: Investing in Prevention and Resilient Health Systems

MODERATOR:

Betsy McKay, Senior Writer, Global Health, The Wall Street Journal

One-on-One Conversation:

PARTICIPANTS:

Bill Gates, Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Michael Gerson, Policy Fellow, The ONE Campaign

PARTICIPANTS:

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia

Michel Liès, Group CEO, Swiss Reinsurance Company

Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever

Charlize Theron, Founder CTAOP and United Nations Messenger of Peace, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Projec

The Linux penguin sends his regards to Redmond. This shirt got me a lot of geek respect at E3. May 2006.

William Henry Gates III, aka Bill Gates, is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft. He is one of the wealthiest Americans.

The source image for this caricature of Bill Gates is a Creative Commons licensed photo from Steve Jurvetson's Flickr photostream.

Group of attendees for a Microsoft marketing event pose with Bill Gates

…with his jar of fireflies on stage.

Bill Gates: "If you gave me only one wish for the next 50 years, it'd be to invent the thing that halves the cost energy with no CO2. This is the one with the greatest impact."

Pretty sweeping statement for someone involved with many public health and welfare projects… (around minute 17:00)

Gates: “We need an energy miracle. Usually we don’t have a deadline. This is a case where we have to drive at full sped and get a miracle on a tight timeline.”

“All the batteries on Earth can store less than 10 minutes of the world’s energy needs.”

The video of his talk just went online.

My favorite parts are near the end, especially the Q&A on new nukes (fast breeder reactors that burn a U238 duraflame log for 60 years, with 99% efficiency vs 1% for today’s U235 reactors. No fuel to reload or waste to ship around. Existing nuclear waste could be used as fuel. He is funding Nathan Myhrvold’s Terrapower, which be testing this new reactor… in Russia (update: now China)). Around minute 19:00

By a show of hands, 75% of the TED audience was already pro-nuke as the solution.

10 interesting facts that you did not know about the world’s richest man “Bill Gates”

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft – the world’s largest and most successful PC software company – does not need any introduction.

In our article on Gates last month, we brought to you some unknown facts...

www.techalert.pk/2017/02/18/10-omg-facts-bill-gates/

Bill Gates home Xanadu 2.0 aerial in Medina, Washington - © 2018 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions aerial photography archives - www.performanceimpressions.com

Phew! Bill Murray and a brighter colour scheme have now been added to the original crew.