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Macintosh Flash - Zarathustra - 08-09-2003
Thought you guys would get a kick out of this.
Macintosh Flash - Quark - 08-10-2003
Ugh, I wish I could find the movie version of that ... it's much higher quality.
Here we go: http://networkgeek.org/archives/000170.html
Macintosh Flash - TaiDaishar - 08-10-2003
lol, thanks for the link, gave me a few much needed laughs :)
Macintosh Flash - Roland - 08-10-2003
Posted that at the DSF, thanks to you. ;) Still cracks me up.
Macintosh Flash - Destroy-Titus - 08-10-2003
I wonder, how much was he paid for that? Here's an interesting poll idea: How much money would it take for you to do that commercial (act in it)
A ) 500-1 thousand dollars
B ) 5 thousand to 10 thousand
C ) ROFL and LMAO put together
good link :D
Macintosh Flash - Zarathustra - 08-10-2003
Hehe, he wasn't paid for it actually. It was a sketch that was featured on a comedy troupe's website. And it wouldn't take too much for me to act in it. I rant like that at times anyway. =o)
Macintosh Flash - Obi2Kenobi - 08-10-2003
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 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 painted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. 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 re-install the engine.
4. 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.
5. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
6. 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.
7. 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. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
8. Every time GM introduced a new model, 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.
9. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
10. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after that year, instead of before.
11. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.
12. The oil, alternator, gas, and engine warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault'' warning light.
13. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft Gasâ¢.
14. Before your airbags deployed, you would get a message that asks, "Are you sure?"
//edit: Added some
Macintosh Flash - Artega - 08-10-2003
Amusing.
How nice of GM to reply like that, too.
Macintosh Flash - Bun-Bun - 08-10-2003
Except that, according to http://www.snopes.com , they didn't. It's still funny, though. I remember a Cringely column that riffed on that, remarking that if auto technology had progressed like computer technology, we could buy a Rolls-Royce for 1$ that would explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Macintosh Flash - Destroy-Titus - 08-10-2003
:lol: I typed it wrong :P...i meant to say the ACTUAL tv commercials (guess I just had a brain fart).
Macintosh Flash - Obi2Kenobi - 08-11-2003
Yes, I had a feeling that they didn't really say that... :) It is still funny, though. :P (Wait! You said the exact same thing)