Hi All,
I haven't posted a non-shell related item before, but the one thing
we all have in common besides shells is computers, so I thought you
might enjoy this:
 
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 miles to the gallon".
 
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a 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 at least 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 apparent
reason, and you would simply accept this, restart your cart, and
drive on.
 
4.  Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would
cause your car to shut down and refuse to start, in which case you
would have to reinstall the engine.
 
5.  Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT".  But then you would have to buy more seats.
 
6.  Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable,
five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only
five percent of the roads.
 
7.  The oil, temperature, alternator, door, and seatbelt warning
lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning
light.
 
8.  New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
 
9.  The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
 
10.  Occasionally, for no reason at all, your car would lock you out,
and refuse to let you in unless you simultaneously lifted the door
handle, turned the key, grabbed hold of the radio antenna, and kicked
the left front tire.
 
11.  GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither
need them nor want them.  Attepting to delete this option would
immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more.
 
12.  Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to
learn to drive all over again, because none of the controls would
operate in the same manner as the older model.
 
13.  You would press the "start" button to turn off the engine.