So True

[Bones]

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:

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 ctrl/alt/delete?
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.

[justjeff]

Oh that is good, at 1st wasnt going to read it, but couldnt agree more fucking Bill Gates richest man in the country, computot guru and MSN is the worst and slowest browser to use!! My service provider is MSN and that is as far as it goes!! Dont use no hot mail...you get my drift, a free service like yahoo is way above his crap he puts out!!
trying to find out more about linux, but still have to keep IE cause a lot of things wont run without it ( I smell conspiracy here) like these GAMES here, morty whats up with that?

[lilmamma]

do you kno that i seen on tv that bill gates and his wife get sooo much money and checks in the mail every, they just collect it throut the week and once a week they sit down and go threw it and make diff stacks that go to various charity.these people have so much damn money they just give it away.........must be nice

[MD Willington]

Jeff

There are several Linux distros that you can try without even installing them.

I'm not sure how you get on line, dial up, DSL, Cable, wireless etc...

You don't have to use MSN explorer to get on line either, once your on line you can use Internet Explorer instead.

For email I use gmail, it is google email.


For all of his misgivings Gates is actually a pretty good guy, yes you can all yell and hiss at me...but he does support a lot of charitable donations

Meanwhile on the other side of things his rival Steve Jobs at Apple, now that guy is an egotistical Emperor with a little man complex...

You could check out the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley", sort of a biographic movie about Gates and Jobs...they both actually stole the Xerox OS from Palo Alto (?spelling?) and called it windows

[Bones]

I neither like nor dislike Bill Gates. I just like making fun of people.

[justjeff]

I have to agree but what I am trying to say is that if I was him and supposed to be putor guru and have all that money, my browser would be #1 and everyone be using it! I mean he could do it. And I dont use MSN I prefere differnt ones for differnt things. Been using advance browser a lot lately it is IE based but alot faster
also use netscape (passworded to keep all my nekid girlfriends away from kids eyes) and just started using Opera. But MSN is so so so so slow i would put a hammer threw my sceen!! And Iam using DSL 214kbps i think it is broadband.

[MD Willington]

Yep DSL is considered broadband...

[Kase]

To be completely honest- he's trying to make computers be able to update themselves and stuff because they are mass producing the product, and most people don't know how to update + stuff, so there is a lot of extra stuff that comes with windows to do that for them. The rest of us have to learn how to shut it off, which because the people that don't know how to do stuff also tend not to know where they're not supposed to go, they made it harder to shut many of the options off. So the alternate choice is learn how to manipulate windows, or get linux. It's not so much Bill Gates that I don't like- it's the fact that everything to do with computers that is mass produced has to be old-fart don't know what to do- proof, and sometimes it's hard to get around that.

[Maximal]

First of all turn all the automatic updates back on!!!!
They are set up stupid proof so that all the computers get updated.

Second of all you don't need to get around the windows options that are running, if you have a half decent system that is.

Thirdly quit your belly aching and go write something better then!

[Kase]

How many people do you think know how to program an OS? I'm not one of them. I turn off automatic updates because if I don't do it manually it takes some updates that disable my hardware. I have a really good system, especially for the money that I make. I could leave all the settings to normal, but then shit would pop up every other program I open, I wouldn't be able to download or install anything with the new windows firewall, and even with a good system, when you work on computers for a living, sometimes you have programs that use up too many system resources to have windows continue running like normal, even with a top of the line computer.