O/T Bill Gates & GM

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ent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:04 AM

Subject: FW: Cars and Computers

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 $25.00 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 (and I just love this part):

  1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

  1. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

  2. 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.

  1. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre 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.

  2. 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.

  1. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

  2. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

  1. 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.

  2. 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. _____________

Tippy

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tippy
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This myth has been floating around for years. Every so often someone quotes it again and starts the process all over again:

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and: "---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:06:40 -0400 From: Chris Maresh To: GN/T-Type Mailing List Subject: GM vs. Bill Gates

I thought you guys might get a kick out of this. I hope it's not too long or too off-the-subject.

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 twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon...."

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"As far as I can tell, the original remark was a commentary on Moore's Lawcomparing chips with Cadillacs, and neither was made by nor mentionedMicrosoft. You then get the normal divergence from the original, as people misquote it (and, I think, try and massage it to make it sound better ... eg "Who's heard of Roger Clarke? Let's make it Bill Gates!"). And of course, someone makes up a funny response, which is of course even funnier if you attribute it to General Motors (well, that's fair enough, GM owns Cadillac). Interestingly, the Snope article - while funny - is not all that much more accurate than anything else. The earliest citation I can identify dates itself 1994. Well, I don't necessary swallow that dating whole ... some PhD student can make their name by tracing the original!"

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Todd Copeland

It's still funny as hell

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Crooked-Ridez

About $32 billion funny.

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Todd Copeland

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