[AccessD] FW: Gates vs GM

Oh yeah, I know - most good jokes 'never happened'.

R
 

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Subject: Re: [AccessD] FW: Gates vs GM

You do know this joke never really happened? You can check
http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/autos.asp


On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Rocky Smolin
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

>
> An oldie - but still...somehow...current...
>
> R
>
>
>
>           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 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:
>
>        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 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.
>
>        11. When all else fails, you call 'customer service ' in some 
> foreign country and be instructed in  some foreign language how to fix 
> your car  yourself!!!!
>
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