dennis708

GIB's preferences are enough to turn a stomach (a strong stomach). I have repeatedly witnessed it taking a preference to a doubleton (occasionally with a jump) while holding 4 or 5 card support for a second suit bid freely at the 3-level. In a similar vein, today it passed me in 4!c with a 12-count after I opened 1NT and we had already started cue-bidding. I've been filing "robot reports" to the point that my mouse is getting tired.

Fred, I haven't looked into the mechanics deeply enough to be certain, but the Safari running on the iPad is targeted by Dashcode as the desktop version and not the mobile version. That is probably a factor of the screensize, but it's possible that it is a "proper Web browser" and Apple has just disabled the support for plug-ins such as Flash.

I cannot imagine Bill Gates ever buying an ipad, an iphone, an ipod, or any other apple product. I once saw an interview in which he said his wife and kids all wanted iPhones, but that there was a family rule against owning any Apple products that they were just going to have to honor. Bill: "Zunes for Christmas, kids!" Gates kids: "awww" Then things have changed in the past decade for Gates, because he did an awful lot of demos in the 90s on Macs and Microsoft makes a lot of money off their Mac applications.