"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
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> Who is "we all"?[/color]

Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.

Mike

Mike wrote:[color=blue]
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Who is "we all"?[/color]
>
> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>
> Mike
>[/color]

And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?

Alias

Mike wrote:[color=blue]
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Who is "we all"?[/color]
>
> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>
> Mike
>[/color]

And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?

Alias

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
news:%23OxzZUtHHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Mike wrote:[color=green]
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Who is "we all"?[/color]
>>
>> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>>
>> Mike
>>[/color]
>
> And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?[/color]


Yes.

Mike

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
news:%23OxzZUtHHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Mike wrote:[color=green]
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Who is "we all"?[/color]
>>
>> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>>
>> Mike
>>[/color]
>
> And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?[/color]


Yes.

Mike

Alias wrote:[color=blue]
> Mike wrote:[color=green]
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Who is "we all"?[/color]
>>
>> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>>
>> Mike
>>[/color]
>
> And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?
>
> Alias[/color]

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


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Alias wrote:[color=blue]
> Mike wrote:[color=green]
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Who is "we all"?[/color]
>>
>> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>>
>> Mike
>>[/color]
>
> And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?
>
> Alias[/color]

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


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Mike wrote:[color=blue]
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
> news:%23OxzZUtHHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Mike wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>>> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> Who is "we all"?
>>>
>>> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>[/color]
>>
>> And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?[/color]
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Mike
>[/color]

*BWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!*

E-HEM
I didn't.


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Mike wrote:[color=blue]
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
> news:%23OxzZUtHHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Mike wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>>> news:%23do111kHHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> Who is "we all"?
>>>
>>> Everyone who was old enough to read 10 years ago.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>[/color]
>>
>> And all these people elected YOU to speak for them?[/color]
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Mike
>[/color]

*BWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!*

E-HEM
I didn't.


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Doubt very much that came from GM.

Lang

"Nina DiBoy" <nin@di.boy> wrote in message
news:457ee8ec$0$15490$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...[color=blue]
> Bill Frisbee wrote:[color=green]
>> Um, what about the OS running on the computer in the car?
>>
>>
>> Bill F.[/color]
>
> 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 $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to
> the gallon.”
>
> In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release
> stating:
>
> If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving
> cars with the following characteristics:
>
> 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
> 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
> buy a new car.
> 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You
> would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut
> off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
> For some reason you would simply accept this.
> 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause
> your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have
> to reinstall the engine.
> 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
> reliable, five times! as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run
> on only five percent of the roads.
> 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
> be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation”
> warning light.
> 7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.
> 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
> and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle,
> turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
> 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn
> how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in
> the same manner as the old car.
> 10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.
>
>[color=green]
>>
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>> news:uaeD$NYHHHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> Actually, buying a car is much more stupid than buying an OS. OSes don't
>>> usually take you for a ride to the hospital or the morgue. Myself, I do
>>> cars as little as possible because I know that sitting in a moving
>>> vehicle is more dangerous than being in Iraq.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>>>[/color]
>>[/color]
>
>
>
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>[/color]

Lang Murphy wrote:[color=blue]
> Doubt very much that came from GM.
>
> Lang[/color]

In the beginning there was the command line...

[url]http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.shtml[/url]

" 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."
[color=blue]
>
> "Nina DiBoy" <nin@di.boy> wrote in message
> news:457ee8ec$0$15490$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...[color=green]
>> Bill Frisbee wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Um, what about the OS running on the computer in the car?
>>>
>>>
>>> Bill F.[/color]
>>
>> 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 $25.00 cars that got
>> 1,000 miles to the gallon.”
>>
>> In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release
>> stating:
>>
>> If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving
>> cars with the following characteristics:
>>
>> 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
>> 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have
>> to buy a new car.
>> 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason.
>> You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the
>> windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before
>> you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
>> 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would
>> cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you
>> would have to reinstall the engine.
>> 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
>> reliable, five times! as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would
>> run on only five percent of the roads.
>> 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would
>> all be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An Illegal
>> Operation” warning light.
>> 7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.
>> 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you
>> out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door
>> handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
>> 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to
>> learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would
>> operate in the same manner as the old car.
>> 10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
>>> news:uaeD$NYHHHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>>
>>>> Actually, buying a car is much more stupid than buying an OS. OSes
>>>> don't usually take you for a ride to the hospital or the morgue.
>>>> Myself, I do cars as little as possible because I know that sitting
>>>> in a moving vehicle is more dangerous than being in Iraq.
>>>>
>>>> Alias[/color][/color][/color]

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