Scottish Elises

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Microsoft have won the contract to produce all the ecus for Formula 1 cars form 2008

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"Motor Racing is dangerous, press F1 to continue"

So, does that mean that the F1 cars will now randomly crash? Will you need to press the clutch, neutral & reverse to get them to restart?

Roll on the other 'microsoft do cars' jokes that I have forgotten for just now.

I can just hear the pit to car conversations.......

No Kimi not Eff Juan it's F1 you need, now press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and a new rear wing will appear

You need to be old to remember Turbo buttons on puters.

I remember turbo buttons but I'm not that old!

Here's the alleged GM response to Bill Gates' comments about them:

If GM had developed
technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the
following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to
buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

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. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.

6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable,
five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run
on five per cent of the roads.

7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be
replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

10. 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 grab hold of the radio antenna.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they
neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option
would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or
more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the
Justice Department.

12. Everytime GM introduced a new model 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.

13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.

Flabbergasted. I wonder if they'll use any of their own technology (XBOX, WindowsCE/WindowsXP Embedded) or whether they'll realise that the only way to do it right is to ask Karl to knock one up out of a couple of M3DKs velcro'd together?

ECU security vulnerability anyone

Cheers,
Robin

does this mean that the teams that use DirectX will think they are faster, but the teams using OpenGL will know they are faster?

Might coincide with big bad bill stepping down. Now if he is coding the ECU it is a diff kettle of fish ....