Gretawire: GM vs. Microsoft

From FoxNews' Greta Van Susteren's Greta Wire (Feb. 23, 2006)....

Email #2: A viewer wrote to Greta about computer problems:

I received this today and thought of you under your desk trying to fix your computer: For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.

At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with 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 (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 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.

Craig and Lola: TV's Hottest Couple

Who would you say are TV's hottest couple? Hmmmm....

How about Craig Stevens and Lola Albright?

I bet most of you have never heard of them. Of course, I remember them very well. When I was a teenager, I made a point of seeing all of Lola Albright's movies or TV shows. She was hot!

In early September 1958, I read a preview article in the Chicago Sun-Times about a new TV detective series in which Lola would play a singer at a nightclub called Mother's. The series was called "Peter Gunn" starring Craig Stevens. The article closed with a paragraph saying someone named Henry Mancini was musical director and a guy named Blake Edwards was the producer.

A few days later, I was in Santa Barbara, ready to begin my first year at UCSB. On the night Peter Gunn premiered, some of my new buddies and I watched it in our dorm lounge. What caught us by surprise was the music by this guy named Henry Mancini. He created a jazz soundtrack for "Peter Gunn" that played from beginning to end. And how he voiced the instruments was amazing, fantastic!

When the soundtrack album came out,I recognized the names of many of the sidemen on this album, the best West Coast jazz musicians around. I watched every episode of "Peter Gunn" during the three years it was on the air.

A couple of years ago, I watched a couple of reruns of "Peter Gunn" on cable TV. The picture quality wasn't that good, but the music was again fantastic. I pulled out my Peter Gunn LPs and listened to them for the first time in decades.

Now, almost a half century later, these albums still sound great! To see and hear what I mean, just click on the title of this entry!

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