Re: OT Very scary: Cars running on Microsoft software

From: Dirk Munk (munk_at_home.nl)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:35:00 +0100

Martin Vorlaender wrote:
> Michael Moroney wrote:
>
>>William Webb wrote:
>>
>>>All these posts and nobody came up with "Blue Dashboard of Death?"
>>>
>>>I'm disappointed.
>>
>>How about Blue Cockpit of Death?
>>
>>I saw on someone's jokes page a photo of some modern aircraft cockpit
>>with all kinds of knobs and displays -- including several screens,
>>each displaying a BSOD. The caption was something like "We assure
>>you, flying is very safe."
>
>
> Reminds me of a cartoon in c't (famous german computer magazine)
> where the screen in the cockpit in approach to the runway reads
> "Please update to version 2.0 to use landing gear". ;-)

Or the (later) cartoon where a laptop shows the following text:
"Windows discovered a new bluetooth device: Airbus A310"
"Would you like to initialize this device?"

>
> cu,
> Martin