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En ven i Florida har send mig følgende:

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 the 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. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought
"CarNT" but then you would have to buy more seats.

6. 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 only
run on five percent of the roads.

7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt.

9. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying.

10. 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.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Rand McNally road maps (Now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither
need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately
cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM
would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.

12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn
to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in
the same manner as the old car.

--
Robert J. Widenmann
mari-bob@post8.tele.dk

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Vittigheden er jo ret morsom, men den kommer ikke fra Bill eller GM, joken
hørte jeg førstegang på lego for snart 4 år siden!!!!! Der er vel det man
kalder en vandre historie....

Dan Henriksen

> En ven i Florida har send mig følgende:
>
> 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 the 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. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought
> "CarNT" but then you would have to buy more seats.
>
> 6. 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 only
> run on five percent of the roads.
>
> 7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
> be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
>
> 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt.
>
> 9. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying.
>
> 10. 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.
>
> 11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
> Rand McNally road maps (Now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither
> need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately
> cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM
> would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
>
> 12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn
> to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in
> the same manner as the old car.

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Dan (1Way2Print) <dan@1way2print.net> wrote:

> Vittigheden er jo ret morsom, men den kommer ikke fra Bill eller GM, joken
> hørte jeg førstegang på lego for snart 4 år siden!!!!! Der er vel det man
> kalder en vandre historie....

I så fald er den effektiv. Berlingske Tidendes bilsektion refererede den
for et års tid siden.

--
- Christian. "Og naar de Skillerum, der lukker om Staterne,
Nationaliteten, om føje Tid falder for den kosmopolitiske
Bevægelse, vil Danskerne bogstavelig talt fordufte mellem Folkene."
Johs. V. Jensen (1901).