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ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 1807
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 9:11 am: |     |
A friend sent this to me and he can’t say for sure if this really happened, but it’s worth sharing anyway...
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For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, please 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:
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.
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Waiting for an all-day Jitney, or a better way we all can get around our community...
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howardf
Citizen
Username: Howardf
Post Number: 181
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 6:21 pm: | |
This is one of the older postings on the internet; I think I saw this back in 1993 when the firm I was working at then got outside email. |
naborly
Citizen
Username: Naborly
Post Number: 231
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 9:37 pm: | |
It is not a true story. It gains credibility by using a real person's name. Very funny anyway. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2014
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 10:32 pm: | |
There's "true", and there's "true".
Was this an actual exchange? Probably not.
Is the point true? Very, very true.
(And also  ) |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5057
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 11:39 pm: | |
It may be an old story, but having just gone through an upgrade to Windows xp professional, it's moral is up to date. Many of the old annoyances are still in place. "Unexpected error ff03ea9bc3" and the like. At least when I encounter the rare problem on one of my Macs it's "Error 41 - Your Finder may be corrupted" and I know I have to copy the Finder from my install disk onto my computer. One minute is expended.
Need to fix anything on Windows and I know hours will be shot. Immediately after installing XP I did the auto-update feature to get whatever service patches were available to protect the system followed immediately by a full virus scan. 4 virii found. That's 4 that weren't there an hour before the upgrade. I think MS is sending viruses with its updates.
The Control Panel seems the same until you actually try to use it and it sends you to the most unintuitive features ever designed for human beings. The IIS controls seem to be from another world. The documentation would be better if it were completely excluded. What's there is just a means of wasting the user's time and any time I got sent to the MS "Knowledge Base" it was like getting caught in a maze with no entrance or exit. After I figured out how to do what I wanted to do I wanted to scream because it was pretty easy, but it was so unintuitive and took a long time with such lousy documentation. I could go on, but why bother.
Maybe I will get used to it after a few weeks. But as a Mac user I'm used to performing simple and complex operations in minutes.
I still hate Windows. |
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