Why Microsoft continues to suck...
12-31-2012, 06:35 AM
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" 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 General
Motors had kept up with the technology computer industry has, we
would the 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 G.M 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 on 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 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.
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.
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 General
Motors had kept up with the technology computer industry has, we
would the 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 G.M 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 on 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 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.
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.
12-31-2012, 07:13 AM
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Back in 1969 I never would have guessed that Ford would win the battle.
The latest design "retro" Camaro looks like Homer Simpson was in charge of design. They are pretty ugly.
If they came back with a 100% true original 69 model I think they would sell out before the cars got built.
The latest design "retro" Camaro looks like Homer Simpson was in charge of design. They are pretty ugly.
If they came back with a 100% true original 69 model I think they would sell out before the cars got built.
12-31-2012, 07:46 AM
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True, don't know if they have "won" the battle since right now the foreign car market has most of the automotive market share. Hopefully the US will gain some of that share and stay competitive. That may lie in the alternative fuel market in a few years, if we can be competitive on all fronts. Good luck to American.
12-31-2012, 08:10 AM
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Oh ya, I do agree. They were the coolest muscle cars around! 77 Transam/Firebird but a very rough riding vehicle. Comfort was not even thought of back then. Who thought to make a pickup truck ride like a pimp-mobile.
12-31-2012, 08:19 AM
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ORIGINAL: Fly RC II
Oh ya, I do agree. They were the coolest muscle cars around! 77 Transam/Firebird but a very rough riding vehicle. Comfort was not even thought of back then. Who thought to make a pickup truck ride like a pimp-mobile.
Oh ya, I do agree. They were the coolest muscle cars around! 77 Transam/Firebird but a very rough riding vehicle. Comfort was not even thought of back then. Who thought to make a pickup truck ride like a pimp-mobile.
Those leaf spring cars were tricky because the spring had to be weak enough to allow some squat during the launch but stiff enough to prevent the pinion's torque response from sending the front of the spring into oscillation [wheel hop]. Those ugly traction bars did the trick back then but now I see that coil springs and 4 bar suspensions have finally taken over.
12-31-2012, 03:53 PM
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Makes me wonder if the OP is as disgusted with "Windows 8" as I am![:@][:@][:@]!!
Needed a new laptop and also had to have Windows compatability....no choice other than the "Latest and Super-Extra Greatest" operating system software. Looks like a cartoon and locks up configuring updates for hours and sometimes days, yes days, every time it boots up. Reboots itself at random when you're not looking as well[:'(]
Microsoft will help but not guarantee to fix it for $99.95, BestBuy will send it back to HP for a few weeks, and HP has been useless as well..."We need the unit back to determine the problem"
No drivers or op system disks come with the units now and the motherboard supposedly won't run on XP or Win7.
Here's a neat twist...you can only go into safe mode after completely booting up!!! WTH!?!?![:'(][:'(][:'(]
Needed a new laptop and also had to have Windows compatability....no choice other than the "Latest and Super-Extra Greatest" operating system software. Looks like a cartoon and locks up configuring updates for hours and sometimes days, yes days, every time it boots up. Reboots itself at random when you're not looking as well[:'(]
Microsoft will help but not guarantee to fix it for $99.95, BestBuy will send it back to HP for a few weeks, and HP has been useless as well..."We need the unit back to determine the problem"
No drivers or op system disks come with the units now and the motherboard supposedly won't run on XP or Win7.
Here's a neat twist...you can only go into safe mode after completely booting up!!! WTH!?!?![:'(][:'(][:'(]
12-31-2012, 04:01 PM
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Sounds like some serious crap going on. Thank goodness I bought my laptop last October (2011) - still running windows 7.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
12-31-2012, 05:02 PM
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I've always said we're MS's beta testers. 
Only Apple stuff I have is an iPhone 4. At the last sw upgrade, I backed everything up to 'iCloud' as recommended, then did the install. All went well, until I went to recover my data. Wiped! Lost all my music and photos. My take: they're both as bad.
I doubt the 'GM engines based on Ford tech' thing. I know a senior GM engineering chief who helped pioneer the Northstar series (also the 4-6-8 Lol!), also know the former head of Ford Performance division. They are both buds but never share info or shop talk.
12-31-2012, 06:26 PM
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It's the same story every time Microsoft releases a new OS. The one exception I've seen was Windows 7, which seems to have actually been ready for the public market on its release date. Every other release has been pretty much worthless until at least a year of updating has been done.
12-31-2012, 09:02 PM
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Gawd, Windows 8 just blows!! I tried it on a new laptop I bought, got disgusted, reformatted the hard drive and loaded Windows 7. I made sure I had all the drivers for everything before I wiped the drive. Windows 8 MIGHT be okay on a touch screen, but it sure as hell has no reason to be installed on a regular PC!
12-31-2012, 09:15 PM
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As a person that works in IT I can say that all computers are problematic. Apple locks you into their way of doing things with little opportunity to change or configure them to do anything outside the original intent. Microsoft tries to please all the people all the time. So the PC has every capability but does nothing well unless someone spends a great deal of time configuring it (removing junk). With Windows 8 Microsoft is attempting to go against it’s previous philosophy of a general use computer. This results in conflicts between different components of the system. Symptoms of this are the random reboots and lockups. They are also on the cloud services path. No disconnecting a system from the parent. The umbilical cord is in place the whole life to manage it and how you can use it for you. I don't know how others feel about this but it's not a desirable path in many ways. I’m not sure they actually turned it on but these guys in the commercial sure like the new Surface Tablet.
http://youtu.be/iB5txqIl8jQ