10-09-2002, 06:00 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Peanut Press released "Bad Boy Ballmer"
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/book.cgi/0060516445
It isn't like I don't already have 7-8 ebooks on my SD card that I haven't gotten to from Peanut Press yet. I'll probably be adding this one to the collection sooner or later.
"In January 2000 Bill Gates gave his responsibilities and the title chief executive officer of Microsoft to his best friend, Steve Ballmer, who had been at Gates's side almost since the company's earliest days. The news sent shock waves throughout the technology and computer worlds, making many people wonder about the man who was now entrusted with Bill Gates's baby. The life of Steve Ballmer is an incredible story of tremendous ambition, genius, arrogance, and charisma, an up-by-the-bootstraps saga of how the only child of a Swiss immigrant grew up in suburban Michigan and became the fourth wealthiest American while working for someone else. Bad Boy Ballmer also reveals a man so arrogant that after the Department of Justice filed its antitrust suit against Microsoft, Ballmer stood onstage in San Jose and proclaimed "to hell with Janet Reno," a man so intense and aggressive that he once ripped his vocal cords by yelling too loudly."
Well, with that kind of statement towards Ms. Reno, I'll probably be adding it sooner rather than later. :lol: Don't forget if you subscribe to the Peanut Press weekly newsletter, you can get 10% discounts off of most purchases.
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10-09-2002, 06:29 AM
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10-09-2002, 07:24 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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I'd almost buy the book just to see what Balmer was talking about with that comment about Reno. :-)
BTW, I can't get that first MPEG to play.
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10-09-2002, 08:03 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 248
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To Repeat the words of
a rich man named Ballmer "To hell with Janet Reno!" and Ashcroft too. That felt good, too bad I'm not the fourth richest man in America or it'd go in a book.
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10-10-2002, 08:46 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 28
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$15!? That's nearly AUD$30 for me, and that's pretty close to paper book prices. Sorry, but e-books are a no go at this price.
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