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Wired Releases Annual Vaporware List
alacqua writes: "Wired
has an article titled
Vaporware 2001: Empty Promises
which is a top-ten list of last year's vaporware.
'You've Got Smell!'
made it, but the Justice Department did not. Says Wired, 'Speaking of Microsoft, some smart-aleck readers opined that the most vaporous thing in tech last year was the Justice Department's failure to deliver on its promise to punish Bill Gates for his company's monopolistic misdeeds -- but we thought that a bit of a stretch.'"
who wants to bet Lindows tops that list?
aren't exactly vaporware, unlesss you consider vaporware to be something that is already designed, built and in operation.
OK so there was a lot of fuss made over them and unless your in Japan you're probably not going to get your hands on one. But realize that the phone companies buying 3G bandwidth was not a guarentee you were going to get the phones straight away, more like an insurance policy that the telco's would still be alive in a few years when they are providing it.
Also why does warIII make this list? It's just going into public beta, they could have at least selected 'World of Warcraft' instead.
He who defends everything, defends nothing. -- Fredrick The Great
Xanadu has definitely got to be the king of vapourware! Four decades in the making, and still not ready :)
I guess it will never be, really. The original concept was way too wacky, even for modern times. But three cheers to Ted Nelson for his advances in Hypertext systems! Many of his concepts are used on the internet nowadays. Modern version-control systems remind me of his "time-scrolling" idea, and although we dont need "visible" links we certainly would be better off having zero broken links. He even foresaw copyright problems in the digital age!
And it may be in others also.
What about prey? - it was on one of those lists...
Hrm. Last I checked, decent-looking text wasn't exactly eye-candy. GNOME is the only existing desktop for any modern system that doesn't have anti-aliasing. Even dead operating systems like BeOS had anti-aliased fonts years ago. KDE has anti-aliased fonts, and it runs on the same systems as GNOME. Support is available in XFree86 4.x via the XRender interface, it's now just a matter of the GNOME and/or GTK developers adding the support to their widgets.
While DIY is the core of open source, it's also one of open source's major faults. D'ing IY is not an acceptable answer to feature requests by users. The GNOME development team is developing GNOME for people to use, right? If not, why bother? In fact, Ximian has commercial interest in GNOME, so you'd think they would at least listen to user feedback and make corresponding changes, even if the core non-Ximian GNOME developers don't. Instead, people are told to DIY, and they do -- they do migrate to KDE (or even farther -- back to Windows, or over to MacOS) themselves, thus taking care of the "problem".
Get a free IPv6 tunnel from Freenet6 or Hurricane Electric.
Supposedly IPv6 will have enough addresses to give one to each of the angels dancing on the head of the proverbial pin. Can't wait.
I've got my block of 2^64 addresses...
What about the Tux2 file system that was announced on Slashdot last year? The SourceForge site is dead and Google only turns up the original announcement and links to dead pages.