From: "Jack" 
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Date: 8 Apr 1997 02:03:18 GMT

Lady Bathory  wrote in article
<5ibd0k$5mi@news.acns.nwu.edu>...
> In article <33490BDE.31F33D7B@clark.net>, klaatu 
wrote:
> 
> }Believe it or not, M$ intends to put a version of Windows CE (tm) on
> }literally every microprocessor on earth. Literally every appliance is
> }scheduled for a future version of Windows (tm) .
> 
> Hmmm, i might be interested in WebCoffeepot.
>
Actually, I have done some thinking on comparisons between automatic coffee
makers, and Wintel machines.  Like, why people put up with so much crap
from a computer that they wouldn't from a coffee maker.  I mean, if you're
coffee maker worked like your computer, you could expect lovely things
like:

Your coffee maker arbitrarily produces tea, iced tea, iced coffee, or soup,
in no particular order, and sometimes all at once.  Sometimes, if you leave
it on with a timer, you can get up to find your kitchen waist deep in soup
your coffee maker has produced over night.  

Sometimes, your coffee maker takes coffee and gives you nothing.  Sometimes
it takes an entire months supply of coffee, and turns it into sour milk.

Sometimes it makes the microwave and the refrigerator shut off for no good
reason. 

Sometimes, it takes your coffee, and sends it to fifty thousand other
people.

Sometimes it takes fifty thousand other peoples coffee, and sends it to
you, all at once.

Oh, and, if you keep it for more than three years, all the coffee, coffee
filters, and water become incompatible with your coffee maker, and you have
to throw it out, get a new one, and spend the next six months learning how
to make coffee all over again.

I could go on, but you get the picture.
-- 
-Jack-
"Death, it's not just for breakfast anymore."