Thought you'd all like this.
Brad
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For those of you who have had experience with computers, their glitches
and idiosyncrasies, and
questionable logic of their workings, you'll appreciate the following:
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with
the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with the technology
like the computer industry
has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the
gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release
stating: "If GM had
developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with
the following
characteristics:
l. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You
would/have to pull over to the
side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart
it, and reopen the windows
before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept
this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause
your car to shut down and
refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the
engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "Car
NT," but then you would
have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun,was reliable,
five times as fast and
twice as easy to drive--but would run on only fifteen percent of the
roads.
7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
be replaced by a
single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt.
9. The airbag system would ask "are you sure" before deploying.
10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
and refuse to let you in
until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and
grabbed hold of the radio
antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Rand McNally Road maps
(now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them.
Attempting to delete this
option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50%
or more. Moreover,
GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn
to drive all over
again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as
the old car.
13. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
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