The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of Doom to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

Sams left Gates with the task of finding a usable operating system, and a few weeks later he proposed using the CP / M clone 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products ( SCP ).

The system was announced on 7 January 2007 by Bill Gates.

Gates and ticket counters were consolidated at airports where both airlines had operated, aided by the March 2007 transfer of all US Airways reservations to the QIK computer system used by America West ( US Airways had previously used a very different Sabre system ).

* Clifton has an old sewerage system, accessible to intrepid urban explorers and evidently not actively maintained by any municipal authority or utility, known to some as the " Gates Of Hell.

* 1975-Bill Gates founds Microsoft, which in time will dominate the home computer operating system market.

As adjutant, Horatio Gates created the army's system of records and orders and helped standardize regiments from the various colonies.

A series of provocations by Mullholland were each followed by threats and Los Angeles property destruction by the local farmers Finally, a group of armed ranchers seized the Alabama Gates and dynamited part of the system, letting water return to the Owens River.

The flowrate is regulated by Mighty River Power through the Taupo Control Gates as part of their hydro system planning, with Waikato Regional Council dictating flows during periods of downstream flooding in the Waikato River catchment.

* July – Microsoft's Bill Gates agrees to create an operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer.

A discussion he had with Mary Maxwell Gates while they were both serving on the board of United Way resulted in an IBM contract being placed with her son Bill's company Microsoft to create an operating system for IBM's first personal computer.

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates claimed that Noorda had a " tremendous vendetta " against Microsoft and that Noorda had supported the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigations of Microsoft in the early 1990s that led to a consent decree restricting its operating system licensing practices.

Of the fortification system only the northern side of the walls remain as well as parts of the 1st and the 8th bastion along with the northern gates known as ' Water Gates ' (' Vodena vrata ').

Its charter was to build technologies for a next generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates ' vision of " information at your fingertips.

The Serpent Isle does not have this deed system ; instead ships, barges, and the Serpent Gates are all triggered by the plot.

Most of the goddesses are specific to the Book of Gates, and do not appear elsewhere in Egyptian mythology, and so it has been suggested that the Book of Gates originated merely as a system for determining the time at night, with the goddess at each gate being a representation of the main star appearing during the hour.

* While in Paris with President Eisenhower on the first day of a summit with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, U. S. Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr. ordered a test of the American military alert system.

In November 2009, the school system in which White Station is included won a grant of $ 90 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, " The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ", could not survive translation to the theatre.

On March 25, 2010, Defense Secretary Gates announced new rules mandating that only flag officers could initiate discharge proceedings and imposing more stringent rules of evidence on discharge proceedings.

* The man who could have been richer than Bill Gates

" Gates added that Hezbollah is possibly armed with chemical or biological weapons, as well as anti-ship missiles with a range of that could threaten U. S. ships.

Demonstrations by Gates in San Antonio in 1876 showed that the wire could keep cattle contained, and sales then increased dramatically.

In the 16th century Caspar Peucer wrote that the Gates of Hell could be found in " the bottomless abyss of Hekla Fell ".

* The Supreme Court decision Illinois v. Gates lowered the threshold of probable cause by ruling that a " substantial chance " or " fair probability " of criminal activity could establish probable cause.

Seeking a land venture that could attract industrial and economic development while avoiding the vice-driven pitfalls of late 19th century company towns, Gates and fellow prohibitionists chartered the East Tennessee Land Company in May 1889 and in subsequent months acquired several hundred thousand acres of land around what is now Harriman.

Thence one may argue that the articulation Ianus-Ianitores could be interpreted as connected to the theologem of the Gates of Heaven ( the Synplegades ) which open on the Heaven on one side and on Earth or the Underworld on the other.

While Legion of Super-Heroes continues the adventures of the team from that title's previous volume, Legion Lost features Wildfire, Dawnstar, Timber Wolf, Tyroc, Tellus, Gates and Chameleon Girl stranded on 21st century Earth on a mission to save the future ; however, they must remain there after they fear they have contracted a pathogen that could destroy the 31st century if they return.

He was to interview Bill Gates but was suddenly in peril as his wallet was stolen and nothing could be replaced until that weekend was over.

In the July 1975 Computer Notes, Bill Gates described this as " the best demo program I've seen for the Altair …" Gates could not figure out how the computer could broadcast to the radio.

Gates was enamored with APL but Allen did not think they could sell this product.

Harvard officials were not pleased that Gates and Allen ( who was not a student ) had used the PDP-10 to develop a commercial product, but determined that this military computer was not covered by any Harvard policy ; the PDP-10 was controlled by Professor Thomas Cheatham, who felt that students could use the machine for personal use.

In 1996, O ' Reilly fought against a 10-Connection Limit on TCP / IP NT Workstations, writing a letter to the United States Department of Justice, Bill Gates, and CNN, concerned that the Internet is still in its infancy, and that limitations could cripple the technology before it ever has a chance to reach its full potential.

Daniel Defoe, in his book A tour through the whole island of Great Britain, passed through Baldock and commented: " Here is that famous Lane call'd Baldock Lane, famous for being so unpassable, that the Coaches and Travellers were oblig'd to break out of the Way even by Force, which the People of the Country not able to prevent, at length placed Gates, and laid their lands open, setting Men at the Gates to take a voluntary Toll, which Travellers always chose to pay, rather than plunge into Sloughs and Holes, which no Horse could wade through.

Gates left college prior to graduation so that he could pursue his radical political activism.

The article said, " While the market value of his stake in publicly traded companies could decline at any time, at the moment he is probably wealthier than Bill Gates ".

Though Ben's father, Patrick Henry Gates, tries to discourage Ben from following in the family line, as he had spent over 20 years looking for the national treasure, attracting ridicule on the family name, young Ben is encouraged onward by a clue, " The secret lies with Charlotte ", from his grandfather John Adams Gates in 1974, that could lead to the fabled national treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States and Freemasons during the American Revolutionary War that was entrusted to his family by Charles Carroll of Carrollton in 1832 before his death to find, and protect the family name.

Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician Gates, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the Byzantine Empire and the early Muslim invaders.

The Legion succeed in recovering the Arm, but suddenly the great volcano of Tharsis overlooking Seven Gates erupts, melting all the snow in the pass, allowing the forces of The Deceiver to cross the Cloudspine.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

Kościuszko's work at Saratoga received great praise from Gen. Gates, who later told his friend Dr. Benjamin Rush "... the great tacticians of the campaign were hills and forests, which a young Polish engineer was skillful enough to select for my encampment ".

* Gates took great confidence in his victory at Saratoga but erred in mapping the inexperience of Burgoyne ( his opponent in that battle ) onto Cornwallis, who was a gifted strategist.

Gareth Gates initially had great success as a recording artist with 7 top 5 singles and releasing 3 studio albums.

It was disclosed in the Louis Henry Gates program, Finding Your Roots, that Theodore Sedgwick is the fourth great grandfather of the actress of Kyra Sedgwick.

The film follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers who are recruited by a scout from St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominantly white high school with an outstanding basketball program, whose alumni include NBA great Isiah Thomas.

A technique can be categorized as forbidden if it either causes great harm to the user, such as opening the Eight Gates, or if the techniques are dark or sinister in nature, such as those used by Orochimaru.

Gates stated that " the musical is cartoonish by definition and hardly one of Broadway's great treasures, but the show grows on you ", opining that " most of the Johnny Mercer – Gene de Paul songs are forgettable, but " Namely Me " ... stands out ".

Susan Young Gates, a daughter of Brigham Young and women's rights activist, stated that “ great Heavenly Mother was the great molder ” in Abraham ’ s personality.

" Gates based his thinking in part on a debatable approach to intelligence estimates, which took account of Soviet intentions as well as capabilities, leading to the conclusion that the disparity between the number of Soviet and U. S. missiles by 1962 or 1963 would not be as great as estimated during the McElroy period.

Through Gates ' extensive research, the reader learns of Castle's considerable influence over the great films of his time, culminating in a collaboration with Orson Welles to make the acclaimed movie Citizen Kane, followed by a failed attempt to adapt Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the silver screen.

Some critics believe " The Thinker " was originally intended to depict Dante at the Gates of Hell, pondering his great poem.

Dorris documents his theoretical arguments with extensive case studies of a wide range of individuals, including Izzy Montemayor, Einstein, Elvis, Monet, Mozart, da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Watson and Crick, basketball great Bill Russell, Louis Armstrong, Bill Gates, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Guthrie, and Norma Jeane / Marilyn Monroe.

The Legion succeed in recovering the Arm, but suddenly the great volcano of Tharsis overlooking Seven Gates erupts, melting all the snow in the pass, allowing the forces of The Deceiver to cross the Cloudspine.

Another fly found in similar habitats was named after Gates ' associate Paul Allen, called Paul Allen's flower fly ( Eristalis alleni ); according to Chris Thompson, the describer of these species, both names were in " recognition of great contributions to the science of Dipterology ".

He hates Windows computers, and therefore Bill Gates as well, once taking great pleasure in pinching his toes.

Two great expositions marked the monastery during the 1990s: an exposition, entitled " 4 séculos de pintura " (), in 1992 ; and the exposition " Leonardo da Vinci – um homem à escala do mundo, um Mundo à escala do homem " (), in 1998 ( which included the Leicester Codex, on temporary loan from Bill Gates ).

Its breadth was not great, since it consisted of a mere strip between the mountains and Great Salt Desert which occupies the whole centre of the Iranian plateau, but it extended in length at least a hundred and fifty miles, from the Caspian Gates to the vicinity of Qazwin.

Of particular interest are the sketches of the Mongols and the people of Samarkand and its vicinity, the account of the land and products of Samarkand in the Ili Valley at or near Almalig-Kulja, and the description of various great mountain ranges, peaks and defiles, such as the Chinese Altay, the Tian Shan, Bogdo Uula, and the Iron Gates of Termit.