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Halloween Document Revisited
GroundBounce writes: "The front page of LWN has an interesting three-year-after analysis of the predictions in the Halloween document, which was "leaked" from Microsoft around Halloween of 1998. It's interesting to see how their predictions have/have not panned out."
yay I got it!!!!! I rule!!!!! the rest of you deserve to be raped by the goatsex man!
damn hypocrites...where's the YRO article about what you people are doing??
mod me down, bitches!
We internet users need a new fad. All Your Base was cool. The Kiss Me guy was faggy. Any ideas?
Farking funny though...
These days, Linux is hardly "just an OS." By 1997, Free Software Foundation was calling it the most widely distributed operating system in the United States. And Linux's reach is global; the
foundation claims that it appears in 1,700 computers worldwide, in seventeen languages and fifty-one countries. The publisher of The
Linux Future says that every day "Linux is currently run by more than 150 million users."
Linuxization has just begun. With Linux hardcovers in the million-seller range, plenty more are on the horizon; in early 1997,
Entertainment Weekly magazine reported that "HarperBusiness will publish four more hardcover books in the next five years, and Andrews & McMeel hopes to roll out calendars and softcover collections of systems for the next seven." Meanwhile, across the planet, Linux
cartoons are appearing on calendars, coffee mugs, cards, clothes and scads of other products.
Perhaps most significantly in the long run, Linux has become a mass-marketed attitude a public way of coping. While we encounter the tightening vise of corporatization. The Linux phenomenon is part
of a process making people more accustomed to a stance of ironic passivity.
To say that the proliferation of Linux lacks social importance or impact is to claim that mass culture doesn't matter much -- that it
doesn't affect how we perceive or act on our perceptions -- that it doesn't influence how we talk and think and live. In fact, how we use
words is a marker and pointer for our outlooks. As George Orwell observed, everyday language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our
thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
Certainly no advertising exec can afford to underrate the consequences of words, images and marketed attitudes. The ad industry deals in hard
numbers and empirical results. Billions of dollars get spent every season in the USA on the well-tested assumption that what keeps
flashing before our eyes and ears has major effects on what we buy. And buy into.
Mega-marketing requires, more than ever, a capital-intensive blitz. To saturate the grassroots, mass-mediated "popular culture" needs a nod from a big-money suite somewhere. In the nationwide amphitheater, would-be creators are to remain in their seats unless summoned to the
stage bysomeone with appreciable monetary clout. The audience does not create. The audience consumes.
As Thomas Frank puts it: "No longer can any serious executive regard TV, movies, magazines, and radio as simple 'entertainment,' as
frivolous leisure-time fun: writing, music, and art are no longer conceivable as free expressions arising from the daily experience of a
people. These are the economic dynamos of the new age, the economically crucial tools by which the public is informed of the latest offerings, enchanted by packaged bliss, instructed in the
arcane pleasures of the new, taught to be good citizens, and brought warmly into the consuming fold."
thanks you jew bastard
So apathetic about /. by now, that I don't even feel like copying and pasting my standard KS troll.
/. for a while. Maybe a month. Maybe 6. Maybe forever if /. is still being maintained by VA Chicken Processing or whatever their business du jour is.
After the Karma is all burnt, think I'll abandon
3 years, over 900 posts. I think I ought to get a Pulitzer for some of the stuff I wrote. What the heck, if Koffee Enema can get the Nobel Peace Prize while a cold West vs. Middle East conflict bursts into a boil, I don't see why I can't get a Pulitzer.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Come on! Drink the Kool-Aid. Everybody's doing it. Don't you see??? Posting a troll is the only socially responsable way to earn Karma. So what if we haven't actually figured out a way to get modded up by posting trolls. This is the New Karma Economy.
(sung to the tune of the Free Software Song)
Join us now and trash your Karma,
You'll be Free.
You'll be Free, Losers, you'll be FreeeEEEeeEEE.
Good posts may get lots of Karma
Yes, that's true.
But they cannot post off topic
That's not good.
(end singing)
BANZAI for the Emporor!!!
Kamakaze Karma rrrrroooOOOAAARBOOM!!!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I know this is offtopic but...
Do you host email?
"Old Rallydrivers never die - they just fail to book in on time"
This comment is more Usenet plagiarism from spootnik.
Moderators: this is more Usenet plagiarism from spootnik.
Moderators: this is more Usenet plagiarism from spootnik.
Moderators: this is more Usenet plagiarism from spootnik.
Props man. That was pretty fucking sweet.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
How does the first post get moderated as "redundant?"
Who modded this up to Insightful? Can't you tell he's trolling>
If what you're saying is true, then what is Hailstorm supposed to be, if not a strategy to proprietize?
This "looks" like a troll that's being floating about? This IS the troll that's been floating about! Mod this shit down. Besides, we all know it's Linux, not BSD that's dying. Long live Windows. w00p!
I hope you remembered to use a proxy server this time. ;p~
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
My comments are distributed under the LGPL license. Moderating down my posts is a denying of the open source movement.
The post I originally made is at this place. I've been on a rampage ever since....so look for what I've said, if you wish...the brain-dead moderators (save one who said "underrated +1") have been attacking me ever since. Serves them right if they ignore this and get anthrax^h^h^h^h^h^h^h (never mind). I did not mean that. Honestly.
Your asinine moderators have been chipping away (and I don't really care) at my karma, because I can't shut up about...this situation:
I just MetaModded...for the umpteenth time, and felt it was pertininent to report that some moderators are "brushing away" stories posted that *might* have a bearing on our well-being. Case in point: "Anthrax at NASA?" Two "offtopic" mods (which I voted unfair after seeing that it has been reported in Kansas - See This... [thekansascitychannel.com]
The story *could* be a hoax (as are more than we like, even in the *accepted* stories lately, but WhoTF can tell, moreover, isn't almost every /. reader conditioned to this and ready to investigate and report it as such?
The post in question was regarding postal facilities in Texas. Is that so far from KC, MO? *NO*.
CNN is *not* reporting it, but if you can follow the link I provided, KC news *IS*.So is MSNBC... [msn.com]
So, those of you *blessed* with mod privs, start thinking out of the same "rare" brain-vein that Taco did on 9/11 - "Stuff that matters" never rang truer! As a community, if we can raise awareness, then WHY NOT DO IT?
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Slow news night or what?? How many times do we need to rehash the same old shit? Yes, we know MSFT is the evil empire, can we move on now?
Someone posted a fake mirror, claiming it was a yahoo link. It actually just used yahoo's redirector script to send people to the goat sex page.
Hey, they're circumventing the 'show link domains' feature... let's arrest them under the DMCA.
Nice of that moderator who -1'd me to actually LOOK at the link, before calling me redundant. Since when does yahoo mirror stuff?
It's really, really funny watching some people trying to be mad.
+1 Winner!
Need a job?
Heh, nice.
But it seems my Father is disturbed; He wants forgiveness for you all.
.sig clueless cult idiot.
Nice
have more faith.. HA! fucking sheep.
Track spootnik's posts and point out he's stealing them from usenet!
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Can those religous right nuts be right? Could it be that Haloween *Is* a celibration of Satan, and this is proof?