COZY Z COLE Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. 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 technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 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 (and I just love this part): 1. 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. 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 five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying. 8. 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. 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ON3GO Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 8. Occasionally' date=' 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. [/quote'] haha that killed me! mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Z Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Nice retort for GM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synlubes Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 To much truth to that. But, Bill kinda has a point also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akeizm Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 He stated we'd be driving $25 dollar cars, well how come computers arn't $25 or Microsoft Windows $25? Nice logic Billy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTenneZ Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 How would the infamous "blue screen of death" factor in to this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datsunlover Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 That would be when your car reached the end of it's life span, and nothing could be fixed on it ever agin. You'd just have to buy a new car, because even the dealership could not tell you what was wrong with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim240z Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 How would the infamous "blue screen of death" factor in to this? In California, that would be when you took it in for Smog test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Wasn't that the Comdex convention from 1996 or something. This one is OLD. You can find some sites where people added onto the list, I've seen some that were 50 points long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest comeandzpa Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 The blue screen of death comes in when the navigation system locks up. Especially on something like a BMW with its hideous iDrive piece of crap...one car magazine I read said their 745i's iDrive froze up and wouldn't move off the first screen till they got it fixed. This meant no changing anything on the radio, hvac, or navigation. I love how much easier this new technology makes our lives! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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