Who Will Create A Crash Proof System First: Ford Or Microsoft?
from the physician-heal-thyself dept
Bill Gates is the target of so much humor and ire, that it hardly seems worthwhile to make fun of him most of the time. However, sometimes he sets himself up so perfectly, that it's impossible to resist. Today at the Microsoft Global Automotive Summit, Gates and Bill Ford Jr. were extolling the virtues of technology and how it will help cars of the future to fix themselves and avoid accidents. Addressing summit participants, Mr. Gates (yes, the creator of notoriously crash-prone Windows) told auto industry members that their goal should be to create a car that won't crash. (Alanis, take note: that's ironic.) If I'm Bill Ford, I have to be thinking, "Uh, Bill? Maybe your goal should be to create an operating system that won't crash."
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DOUBLE DOUBLE Irony
(1) Bill Gates wants every car to run embedded Windows in its control system.
(2) Bill Gates wants cars to be built that don't crash.
(3) Therefore, Windows has to become uncrashable first.
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