Cars and Computers
Humor:
The Battle of the Industries
[This one is changing based on good old oral tradition. It's been
around and around, and probably isn't true, but it is fun!]
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 twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the
gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press
release stating (by Mr Welch himself):
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be
driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they re-painted the lines on the road you would have
to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
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
"Car98" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun,
reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but
would only run on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would
be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
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 grab 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 needed nor wanted 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 Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model 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.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
Contributed by: Benito
This is one of my favorite jokes because it is so true, and I really think if Microsoft was as good as the PC's it is now on it would be 10 times the software it is. And still it would be behind a Mac. No, I do not own a Mac.
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