<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p><font color="#008000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial" size="5"><strong>If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines...</strong></font><br><br><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>UNIX Airways</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>Everyone
brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They
all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece,
arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be
building.<br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Air DOS</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>Everybody
pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the
plane coast until it hits the ground again. Then they push again, jump
on again, and so on...<br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Mac Airlines</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>All
the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and
act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you
are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to
know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to
know, so just shut up.<br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Windows Air</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>The
terminal is pretty and colourful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage
check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in
the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever. <br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Windows NT Air</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>Just
like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes
out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.<br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Windows XP Air</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>You
turn up at the airport,which is under contract to only allow XP Air
planes. All the aircraft are identical, brightly coloured and three
times as big as they need to be. The signs are huge and all point the
same way. Whichever way you go, someone pops up dressed in a cloak and
pointed hat insisting you follow him. Your luggage and clothes are
taken off you and replaced with an XP Air suit and suitcase identical
to everyone around you as this is included in the exorbitant ticket
cost. The aircraft will not take off until you have signed a contract.
The inflight entertainment promised turns out to be the same Mickey
Mouse cartoon repeated over and over again. You have to phone your
travel agent before you can have a meal or drink. You are searched
regularly throughout the flight. If you go to the toilet twice or more
you get charged for a new ticket. No matter what destination you booked
you will always end up crash landing at Whistler in Canada.</font></p><p><br></p>
<p><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>OSX Air:</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>You
enter a white terminal, and all you can see is a woman sitting in the
corner behind a white desk, you walk up to get your ticket. She smiles
and says "Welcome to OS X Air, please allow us to take your picture",
at which point a camera in the wall you didn't notice before takes your
picture. "Thank you, here is your ticket" You are handed a minimalistic
ticket with your picture at the top, it already has all of your
information. A door opens to your right and you walk through. You enter
a wide open space with one seat in the middle, you sit, listen to music
and watch movies until the end of the flight. You never see any of the
other passengers. You land, get off, and you say to yourself "wow, that
was really nice, but I feel like something was missing"<br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Windows Vista Airlines:</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>You
enter a good looking terminal with the largest planes you have ever
seen. Every 10 feet a security officer appears and asks you if you are
"sure" you want to continue walking to your plane and if you would like
to cancel. Not sure what cancel would do, you continue walking and ask
the agent at the desk why the planes are so big. After the security
officer making sure you want to ask the question and you want to hear
the answer, the agent replies that they are bigger because it makes
customers feel better, but the planes are designed to fly twice as
slow. Adding the size helped achieve the slow fly goal.<br><br>Once on
the plane, every passenger has to be asked individually by the flight
attendants if they are sure they want to take this flight. Then it is
company policy that the captain asks the passengers collectively the
same thing. After answering yes to so many questions, you are punched
in the face by some stranger who when he asked "Are you sure you want
me to punch you in the face? Cancel or Allow?" you instinctively say
"Allow".<br><br>After takeoff, the pilots realize that the landing gear
driver wasn't updated to work with the new plane. Therefore it is
always stuck in the down position. This forces the plane to fly even
slower, but the pilots are used to it and continue to fly the planes,
hoping that soon the landing gear manufacturer will give out a landing
gear driver update.<br><br>You arrive at your destination wishing you
had used your reward miles with XP airlines rather than trying out this
new carrier. A close friend, after hearing your story, mentions that
Linux Air is a much better alternative and helps.<br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Windows 7 Airlines:</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>In
effect a cunning corporate-takeover rebranding of Windows Vista
Airlines with a new paint-job on all of the oversized over-slow planes.
Some of the annoying in-flight bugs have been fixed, but it's still
basically the same. Plus, when you bought the ticket, you later found
that because of an administrative flaw in the airline booking system
you had already paid for a duplicate ticket on Windows Vista Airlines,
which you now don't need.<br><br></font><font color="#ff0000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><strong>Linux Air</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br><br>Disgruntled
employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own
airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways
themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the
ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself.<br><br>When
you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a
copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is
very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single
problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of
the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You
had to do what with the seat?"</font></p>
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