There should be a "OT" in the subject line
regards saswata
Shreyas Phadnis acewin_sp@phreaker.net wrote: __________
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:
For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
buy a new car.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" Warning light.
The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
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.
- 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.
- You'd have to press the "Start" button to stop the car.
jeez there so many dos and dont sont this mailing list ! i am out !
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 7:58:00 0530, scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
There should be a "OT" in the subject line
regards saswata
Shreyas Phadnis acewin_sp@phreaker.net wrote: __________
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:
For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
buy a new car.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" Warning light.
The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
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.
- 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.
- You'd have to press the "Start" button to stop the car.
me too...only thread becomes long here is how to teach newbies.. how they must stand up and salute..sucks...
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:08:39 +0530, Asit Vadhavkar avadhavkar@gmail.com wrote:
jeez there so many dos and dont sont this mailing list ! i am out !
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 7:58:00 0530, scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com
scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
There should be a "OT" in the subject line
regards saswata
Shreyas Phadnis acewin_sp@phreaker.net wrote: __________
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:
For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
buy a new car.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" Warning light.
The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
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.
- 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.
- You'd have to press the "Start" button to stop the car.
The reason one should use an appropriate subject and include appropriate tags in it is so that you get appropriate responses. The tag , be it [COMMERCIAL] or [JOBS] for job postings or [HUMOUR] for jokes or [OT] for offtopic, lets the reader know without going through the entire mail what to expect. Only interested readers need to go through the entire mail.
These are standard procedures which are followed in most of the mailing lists on the web. It makes lot of sense to follow them.
Thats right now this list is becomming a place to discuss rubbish things like this.
me too...only thread becomes long here is how to teach newbies.. how they must stand up and salute..sucks...
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:08:39 +0530, Asit Vadhavkar avadhavkar@gmail.com
wrote:
jeez there so many dos and dont sont this mailing list ! i am out !
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 7:58:00 0530, scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com
scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
There should be a "OT" in the subject line
regards saswata
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Rohit Baisakhiya spake thusly:
Thats right now this list is becomming a place to discuss rubbish things like this.
You seem not to have been on *any* other mailing list. That is standard netiquette. If you dont want to adhere to and respect what this community stands for, then you dont deserve to get any help from here.
I had never needed to use the kill file before on this list .. Looks like all these folks will go in there. That's seems to be the best solution as bandwidth cost's have come down. :)
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