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BILL GATES AND GENERAL MOTORS（比尔·盖茨和通用汽车） At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with the 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 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. 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比尔·盖茨和通用汽车据传，在最近的一次电脑展上，比尔·盖茨将电脑工业同汽车工业比较说：“如果通用汽车象电脑业一样跟上技术的发展的话，我们将会开25美元的汽车，每加仑的汽油行驶1000英哩。”作为对比尔的说法的回应，通用汽车举行新闻发布会称，如果通用象微软一样发展技术，我们将驾驶有如下特点的汽车：1、你的汽车会每天无缘无故撞车两次。2、每次路上的线重划，你都要买辆新车。3、偶然，你的汽车会在高速公路上无缘无故死车。你要停靠到路边，关闭所有的窗口，关掉汽车，重新启动，重新打开窗口才能继续驾驶。由于某种原因，你会完全接受这一点。4、偶尔，象左转弯一类的操作会使你的汽车关闭并拒绝重新启动，在这种情况下，你不得不重新安装发动机。5、 麦金托什（注：苹果公司生产的一种型号的计算机）将制造太阳能为动力的可靠性强的汽车，速度快5倍，驾驶简单两倍，但是只能在5%的路上行驶。6、汽油、水温、交流发电机警示灯将由单独的“该车执行了非法操作”警示灯代替。7、安全气囊系统在打开之前会问“是否确定”。8、有时侯，你的车会无缘无故地将你锁在外面不让你进入，直到你同时拉起门把手、转钥匙、抓住收音机天线。9、每次推出一款新车，买主必须重新学习如何驾驶，因为控制系统没有一处和旧车一样。10、要关掉汽车，你必须按“开始”按钮。
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