From tmpalazz@eos.ncsu.edu Thu Feb 26 17:32:26 1998 Received: from c00390-346dan.eos.ncsu.edu (c00390-346dan.eos.ncsu.edu [152.1.28.24]) by eos00mh.eos.ncsu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA13615 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:32:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from tmpalazz@localhost) by c00390-346dan.eos.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/EC02Jan97) id RAA05119 for kaltofen@eos.ncsu.edu; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:32:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Michael Palazzolo" Message-Id: <9802261732.ZM5117@eos.ncsu.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:32:22 -0500 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10oct95) To: kaltofen@eos.ncsu.edu Subject: MA305-joke Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: OR AT a recent computer expo, 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 mi/gal." Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" Additional problems Gates didnt mention(as usual): 1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car 2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on. 3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too. 4. You could only have one person in a car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But then you would have to buy more seats. 5. Apple would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 15 percent of the roads. 6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. 7. The oil, gas, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light. 8. New seats would force evryone to have the same size butt. 9. The airbag would say "are you sure?" before going off. 10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no ideas what happened.