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« on: July 01, 2011, 05:14:52 PM »

Sadly, I'm not so sure...




 
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 Ford 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, Ford issued a press release stating:

    If Ford 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.

    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!
     


    Another reason to read ROBOPOCLYPSE.
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2011, 11:35:29 PM »

Considering the American Automotive industry as a whole, I think that if someone were to start thinking up snarky quips about Ford they would easily outdo that list. One would think the Pinto alone would make Ford not want to get into a 'who made the most mistakes' contest, but of course I doubt that was really written up by anyone at Ford.

If things were done like Ford did them, there would be only 65 different passwords available. (In the late 60s to the early 80s, there were only 65 possible keys to any Ford).

Many of the things in that list are BS anyways, like the "start button to turn it off" line. Just exactly do you turn off a car? With the same thing that starts it. The whole "have to learn to drive it all over" is a crock, but not as much as the airbag line.
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2011, 11:20:18 AM »

I've worked on plenty of cars and most of the "poorly designed" vehicles and "unfixable problems" with them boil down to someone who didn't know what they were doing trying to repair it themselves.  (I once saw a cork hammered into an oil drain hole because the owner had lost the real plug.  Of course, it was Ford's fault the car leaked oil.)  I suspect the same is true of "bad" computers.
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