For every 1 dollar MS makes the rest of the world makes 18...

[Nina DiBoy]

He run the company... what is your point?


Bill F.

That regardless of the fact that he runs the company, he is still a
fanboi at heart:

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[Nina DiBoy]

Um, what about the OS running on the computer in the car?


Bill F.

LOL, that's an easy one:

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:

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.




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[Mike]

LOL, that's an easy one:

Gee that was almost funny 10 years ago when we all saw it for the first
time.

Mike

 

[Alias]

Gee that was almost funny 10 years ago when we all saw it for the first
time.

Mike

Who is "we all"?

Alias

 

[Nina DiBoy]

Gee that was almost funny 10 years ago when we all saw it for the first
time.

Mike

And it's still hilarious because it's true!


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[Guest]

"For every 1 dollar MS makes the rest of the world makes 18..."

Funny that.

Where does this money come from?

The qoute would make more sense if it read "For every $1 of revenue
generated for Microsoft, the consumer spends $18"

Seems like a more lucid statement to me. Microsoft doesn't "make" money -
the governments of the world "make" money, and they create it because of the
efforts of the populace to purchase things.

And while it's true that that one dollar of earned revenue for Microsoft
creates eighteen dollars of earned revenue for other companies, that isn't
the point. Without consumption there is no revenue.

So what this actually says is that Microsoft is in fact an exceptionally
inefficient company based on consumer costs. Either Microsoft needs to
reformat their company so that they can retrieve more of that revenue
generate outside their walls, or they need to create products which create
fewer adjuntive costs to the consumer.

As Michael Crichton has become fond of pointing out "Nobody considers the
costs."

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Many, but aparently not you, know this for a well known fantasy.
Perhaps a little research:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/autos.asp

 

[Mike]

And it's still hilarious because it's true!

Only if you are still running Windows 3.11.

Mike

 

[Mike]

Who is "we all"?

Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.

Mike

 

[Alias]

Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.

Mike

And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?

Alias

 

[Mike]

And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?

Yes.

Mike

 

[Nina DiBoy]

And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?

Alias

LOL! And people think that Chad is self-important...


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[Nina DiBoy]

Yes.

Mike

*BWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!*

E-HEM
I didn't.


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[Lang Murphy]

Doubt very much that came from GM.

Lang

LOL, that's an easy one:

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:

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.





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[Nina DiBoy]

Doubt very much that came from GM.

Lang

In the beginning there was the command line...

http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.shtml

" The analogy between cars and operating systems is not half bad, and so
let me run with it for a moment, as a way of giving an executive summary
of our situation today.

Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated.
One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started
out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not
perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them...

....Eventually the big dealership (MS) came out with a full-fledged car:
a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal
of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it
was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a
hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT)
which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little
more reliable.

Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has
changed. The smaller dealership (Mac) continues to sell sleek
Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns.
They have had GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for
so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps
making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.

On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along
more recently.

One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the
BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans,
better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable
as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.

With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which
is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and
geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people
who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron
Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of
space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one
end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been
modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and
maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel
than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot,
at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the
edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply
climb into one and drive it away for free."

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