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  Philip Shropshire, 12 May 2003 @ 3:46pm

  
  

  Neal Stephenson Short Story

  I think the most apt metaphor would be this Neal Stephenson short story called: "Jini and the Paranoid Chip", where if you didn't tell the AI that controlled the car the right answers the car would blow up!
  
  http://pacificcoast.net/~evavanemden/books/neals/jipi.html

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  Max Vincent, 13 May 2003 @ 7:28am

  
  

  I was going to make a joke about ....

  introducing a poison gas into the vehicle at some point in this senario, seeing as BMW did provide trucks to the Nazis during the second world war for just such a purpose, but that would be beating a dead horse, and might stir up anti-german feelings.
  
  So I won't.

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  thecaptain, 13 May 2003 @ 10:28am

  
  

  can you imagine?

  Can you imagine if Microsoft starts making those operating systems in those cars?
  
  Unless that's who made the one for that car...the link doesn't seem to work anymore...

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    EricTheMad, 13 May 2003 @ 11:10am

    
    

    Re: can you imagine?

    If the car was a Series 7, which I'm sure it was, then it uses Windows CE. It's not the first one to have problems, but it's the worst I've heard of so far.

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  Anonymous Coward, 13 May 2003 @ 3:55pm

  
  

  excess in the land of the poor

  The Thai finance minster probably deserves to be trapped in his Beamer... for at least a month or two...

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  fieldcar, 14 May 2003 @ 10:09am

  
  

  Gotta love MS Bashers.

  Well, we all have to love those MS bashers.

  I don't know about that basher, but I've never had any major problems with my own pc's (excluding a virii or two). You may be an idiot that has no clue on how to maintain a pc, and use it for that matter, but it's ok: bash away.
  But sure, go on, blame MS for your cheap pile of $hit that you try to call your PC.
  As for me, I'm running WinXP and I'm very happy with it.
  
  Anyways...
  Usually when a car (or any other application that requires dependability) has a "computer" controlling it, its usually a microprocessor such as the motorola MC6800. This doesn't use an operating system, it's a fully self contained logic device built upon the Assembly coding language.
  
  My guess is; heat caused the micro logic device to fail. But I don't know enough about those BMW's to tell.

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    FendorXM, 14 May 2003 @ 10:33am

    
    

    Re: Gotta love MS Bashers.

    i can agree with your microsoft stuff but i think im heard about windows ce running in cars. but it might just be for navigation and instrumentation.i also use windows xp but the home edition, i like it more better than the old ones.

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    George, 16 May 2003 @ 10:27am

    
    

    Re: Gotta love MS Bashers.

    No, you pussy fart, MS is responsible.

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    Vermine, 20 May 2003 @ 9:28am

    
    

    Re: Gotta love MS Bashers.

    I'm afraid you're wrong. BMW 7 series cars do run Windows CE, and yes, the situation was caused by it crashing.
    
    I agree with you. Windows XP is quite good, when you're not doing anything too complicated with it. As a home system for the novice, it's great, but still not commercial quality.

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      Anonymous Coward, 20 May 2003 @ 9:33am

      
      

      Re: Gotta love MS Bashers.

      Look at http://www.capitalistlion.com/article.cgi?466

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  Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2003 @ 9:51pm

  
  

  gotta love MS fanboys

  I have a genuine piece of bill gate's rectum you can insert your nose into...

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