Bill Gates Essays (1124 words) - Big History, Bill Gates

Bill Gates PAGE 1: BILL'S LIFE William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955. "Bill" was called "Trey" by his father, since "Trey" means three. Trey was always smart, and always loved even the earliest computers he could get his hands on. He went to a public school at first, and made a few friends there. He was pushing all the school had to offer to the limits, until his parents decided to send him to a private school. He at first didn't like the idea, but shortly after decided to go. The new school he went to, called "Mothers' Club," was where he got his hands on his first computer. The mothers decided to have a rummage sale. The proceeds were used to buy a computer terminal, and buy computer time for the students. Trey said he has always been grateful for the computer bought, especially in the '60s, since computers were such an unusual thing to get at that time. The All through his teens, Trey as "rebelling" against his mother. He did everything his own way. He was always ! hard to get along with, unless he had at least some control. That was, as I have read about him, the way his personality was. He went to a psychologist for a few years, because his mother refused to give in to Bill's "rebellion." The psychologist just insisted that she must give in, because he couldn't help it, that was just the way he was. Bill wrote his first computer program, a version of tic tac toe, when he was only 13 years old! The way it worked was where each time you made a move on the keyboard, the extremely loud printer came out with the results slowly after each move. Although a 5 minute tic tac toe game could take as long as 2 hours, the kids at school, including Bill and his best friend, Paul Allen, liked it anyway since it was so extraordinary to be using what they actually made themselves. Bill and Paul were always best friends, and they were both very interested in computers. Paul was about four years older than Bill. When Bill went to college, in Ha! rvard. Paul got a job as a computer programmer while Bill was at his first two years in college. Paul constantly came to see Bill. One day, in December of '75,Paul came running to Bill with a magazine in his hand. The magazine was Popular Electronics, and on the cover was the Altair 8800, the first mini- computer kit. It was named after the planet in a Star Trek episode, Altair. Paul convinced Bill to start a company with him, and to drop out of Harvard. Bill, somewhat reluctantly, agreed. William Gates and Paul Allen started a company together, when Trey was 19, in 1976. They eventually decided to call it MicroSoft. The goal of Microsoft was to put a computer on every desk in every building. To make that happen, Microsoft aimed on compatibility. A few years after Microsoft was founded, Paul Allen left. He now owns a basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers. Bill is now married to his wife, Melissa, and a daughter. Bill Gates PAGE 2: ACCOMPLISHMENTS With all the technology advances related to PC's during the beginning years in Microsoft, Bill Gates knew that in order to have a chance in the computer revolution that he pictured, he would have to jump in the open door, because I was closing fast. He knew that Microsoft would have to be in the PC industry from the beginning if he wanted it to stand a chance. This page of my report is all about how Microsoft stayed on top, and what Bill accomplished individually, this year, and in the last decade. Before Microsoft was founded, Paul Allen and Bill tried to use all the top chips they could to make software in it. Right before they founded Microsoft, they sent out Basic programs to all top companies, but no one answered him. They didn't accept it, probably because Bill and Allen were teenagers. After Microsoft was founded, however, they made foreign software for Japanese. They were making it for a long time,

Words About Naming from Latin

Words About Naming from Latin Words About Naming from Latin Words About Naming from Latin By Mark Nichol The Latin word nomen, meaning â€Å"name,† is the source of many words in English that pertain to names and naming. Here are the most common of those words and their definitions. Nomen itself is the word for the family name of a Roman citizen, the second of the three names usually given. A praenomen (meaning â€Å"before name†) is a first name, and a cognomen (â€Å"with name†) is the third name. (The word can also generically mean â€Å"name† and can refer to an epithet or nickname.) An agnomen (â€Å"to name†) is an additional name or an epithet attached to a person’s name because of some achievement or honor. The adjective nominal (â€Å"of a name†) means â€Å"in name only† or â€Å"approximate† or â€Å"very small in amount,† though it has a more specific sense in financial contexts related to loans and interest. The verb nominate means â€Å"designate† or â€Å"name,† while a denomination is a name for a class of things, though the word generally refers to the value of a particular amount of currency (for example, a quarter and a twenty-dollar bill are denominations) or to a religious group (for example, Baptists and Methodists are members of specific Christian denominations). Noun, from Anglo-French and referring to a person, a place, or a thing, is directly descended from nomen; a pronoun (â€Å"for name†) is a word (such as it) used in place of a noun. Renown (â€Å"speak of name†), meaning â€Å"fame† or â€Å"respect,† was spelled renoun in Anglo-French; its adjectival form, sometimes misspelled reknowned (as if the root word is known) or incorrectly styled the same as the noun form, is renowned. A misnomer (â€Å"incorrect name†), meanwhile, is a name that is not appropriate or proper to identify something, and ignominious (â€Å"not name,† in the sense of not acquiring or retaining a good reputation) means â€Å"disgraceful† or â€Å"humiliating.† Words pertaining to naming for scientific classification include nomenclature (â€Å"name assignment†), meaning â€Å"a system of naming† or â€Å"the act of naming† or referring to a name itself. Binomial (â€Å"two names†) is an adjective referring to a two-word name for a species (as homo sapiens); these two words are often paired as â€Å"binomial nomenclature† to refer to the system used to create such names. (Binomial also has the meaning in mathematics of â€Å"an expression of two numbers connected by a plus or minus sign.) There is also a set of terms such as â€Å"nomen dubium† (â€Å"dubious name†) referring to the status of specific scientific nomenclature, and variations on binomial include trinomial, polynomial, and multinomial. Another word for classification that might mistakenly be assumed to derive from nomen is taxonomy (â€Å"arrangement method†; the second part of the word is the same suffix seen in economy and other words for systems), which originally applied to categorization of living things by their relationships but was later extended to general organization (as in the model of learning strategies known as Bloom’s taxonomy) and to the arrangement of data on a website. Two other words unrelated to nomen that appear to have the same etymology include phenomenon (from a Greek word meaning â€Å"to appear†), meaning â€Å"something impressive or popular because of an unusual ability or quality† or â€Å"something unusual or difficult to explain or understand,† and anomaly (Greek, â€Å"not even† in the sense of being not the same), meaning â€Å"something unexpected or unusual.† Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:The Meaning of "To a T"How to Play HQ Words: Cheats, Tips and TricksApostrophe with Plural Possessive Nouns