First Venture

Yes, the whole GPS thing can get addictive. I use mine all the time, but like you, I love using it when I go to a new client far far away where I HAVE to depend on it. It has only let me down (which means that I didn't find something) about 2 or 3 times in about a year's time. Much better then mapquest or my brain.

I don't even print off directions anymore. Hope that the GPSr doesn't die.

Yeah, it's pretty damn cool what you can do with them. I'm always asking myself "How did you ever live without this thing". I don't think the trend will ever die but perhaps meld into a single device that will do EVERYTHING. Ie, phone, gps, mp3, web, language translation, camera, voice recorder...yada yada yada.

It is already here in it's baby form, more and more cars are intergrating microsoft into their cars!

Now that's scary! A car powered by Microsoft that would crash itself! (LOL) Where do you want to go today.....OH nooooooooooooooo BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! CRASH!! (LOL)

ROFL, how true!!!!!

Yeah, if Microsoft is going in the car business, then I'm riding a bike! (LOL)

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

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

2. Every time they painted new lines on 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 over 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. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT," but then you would have to buy multiple license plates.

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

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

8. The airbag system would ask, "Are you sure?" before deploying.

9. 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 antenna.

10. 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 nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

11. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

12. You'd have to press the "start" button to turn the engine off.

Oh that is priceless, btw, if you are running vista and sick of the constant "Do you really want to do this" warnings, you can cut it off by cutting off UAC (User Account Control) in the control panel under users. Number 8 reminded me of this.