Bill Gates & the Auto Industry

**Kimba** · January 7th, 2009, 01:15 PM

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 (and I just love this part ):

1. For no reason what so ever, 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.

I love the next one!!!

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

PS - I'd like to add that when all else fails, you could call 'customer service' in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!!!!

Please share this with your friends who love - but sometimes hate - their computer!

**d90king** · January 7th, 2009, 01:20 PM

That was great!!!!

**Dredly** · January 7th, 2009, 02:07 PM

And the auto industry wouldn't need a bailout...

**Perkascene** · January 7th, 2009, 07:32 PM

My computer doesn't do any of those things...

**d90king** · January 7th, 2009, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by Perkascene

My computer doesn't do any of those things...

You must have a mac like me.

**Perkascene** · January 7th, 2009, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by d90king

You must have a mac like me.

Nope, I use a PC with the Windows XP operating system on it. It only takes a few service packs to make it stable...

I run Peer Guardian, Spybot, and AVG Free to keep viruses and the like off, check what apps are running in the background in the task manager and close unnecessary items, shut it off when I am not using it instead of letting it run constantly, and go in the msconfig to turn off unnecessary startup programs. Being a PC user comes with a lot of responsibilities.

To hell with Vista though. What a resource eating pile of crap.

**tes151** · January 7th, 2009, 10:33 PM

I agree. You can keep your computer crap free using freeware programs. As far as Vista is concerned, my new Dell laptop came with XP Pro on it, and a DVD to downgrade it to Vista if I ever fall and hit my head real hard.