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2/5/2013 10:05 am |
And they get more complex by the day. Keeps us on our toes mentally. Spiritwoman ^i^
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Hi Abelle, when I worked in the auto industry, I remember this statement being published. Maybe it could make Alfie feel a little better...lol 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 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 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. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "car NT", but then you would have to buy more seats. 6. 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 only run on five percent of the roads. 7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light. 10. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying. 11. 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. 12. 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 nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the cars performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept. 13. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 14. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. **********************************************
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Moot's list is a hoot!!! Good luck Alfie!!!
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2/5/2013 11:59 am |
Hi Ann: I know so little about computers but wish I could help poor Alfie. Recently I had to get a new computer and had to make a much dreaded call to my internet provider to get my internet reinstated. OMG Ann the man from the customer service department was in Mumbai, India and we couldn't understand a single word the other was saying. The phone call took so long in fact that the battery in my cordless phone went dead during the conversation. 
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2/6/2013 8:30 am |
Mine has been acting strangely for several months. So I ordered a new one from Dell. The Dell Inspiron has twice the power, three times the HD space for $350. The one I am on at the moment cost $1,100 five years ago.
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2/6/2013 8:33 am |
Re: Moot's post. There is another version of that comparison. I don't remember all of the items on it, but it goes along these lines: If the auto industry had made the technical advances of the computer industry, we would be driving cars that run on solar power, using batteries good for 10,000 km before charging was required, and they would cost $500.
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Ann, Alfie looked at my profile a couple of days ago and the blurb on his photo says "widowed". A bit misleading, don't you think? High time for a modification.
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Ann, Alfie looked at my profile a couple of days ago and the blurb on his photo says "widowed". A bit misleading, don't you think? High time for a modification.  Alfie...
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