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Windows vs Ford

I’ve been cursing my computer (again) this week.  So when I received this from Linda Younts this morning, I just had to pass it on to you.

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX),Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.” In response to Bill’s comments, Ford issued a press release stating

If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):

  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 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 manoeuver 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 engine turn the off.

PS [came as part of Linda’s email] – I’d like to add that when all else fails, you could call “customer service” in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!

I’m a Bit Muddled

If I don’t make much sense these next few days, forgive me.  My old computer died, forcing me to get a new one.  That meant having to leave my trusted, understandable Vista to go to Windows 8.1, which, at this point, makes little sense to me.  Oh, yes, there are instructions–on line, not in the packing box.  It took me a whole day just to figure out how to set up the computer enough to actually go online!  Now I find that some of my programs and files don’t like 8.1 and are rebelling.  My passwords hate me and are hiding.  And last night it took me almost an hour to figure out how to turn the &^%$*! thing off!

So, I’ll be spending the next week re-installing the programs I need and figuring out how to reconfigure my Comcast email, since 8.1 doesn’t allow POP settings.

Thanks for giving me a shoulder to cry on.  I’ll come up with some entertaining post soon, both for you and for me to stop taking life–and computers–so seriously.

 

 

Age-Appropriate Electronic Readiness

#@%$*!!! electronics!!!!  This morning I tried to do a recommended Windows update and got the message that I needed to go into the System Readiness Tool and do something.  I followed directions…no luck.  I called on “Help” and no luck.  I don’t have things with the same title they’re telling me to look for.  I AM SO FRUSTRATED!

Then I saw this in an email from a friend and realized that I need to find the Old Fogey Readiness Tool.  Happy Monday, all…..