Ok, I have gotten this email once before, but it is just soooo funny that I had to share it with you. You may have already read it, but you'll laugh anyway, I'm sure!
For all of us who fell only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhansed out lives, read on. At a recent compter 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 wouls 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 freewayfor no reason whatsoever. You would pull over to the side of the road, cloase all 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 easy to drive - but would urn on only 5 percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This car Has Perfomed an Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag sustem woul 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 the antenna.
9. Every tim 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 your engine off.
I love it! That is the funniest thing I've read in a log time and got a great laugh out of it. Hope you do too!
Kathy
For all of us who fell only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhansed out lives, read on. At a recent compter 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 wouls 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 freewayfor no reason whatsoever. You would pull over to the side of the road, cloase all 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 easy to drive - but would urn on only 5 percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This car Has Perfomed an Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag sustem woul 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 the antenna.
9. Every tim 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 your engine off.
I love it! That is the funniest thing I've read in a log time and got a great laugh out of it. Hope you do too!
Kathy
...Carole
