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Wired Releases Annual Vaporware List

Posted by Hemos on from the where's-the-product dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:My vote for vaporware of the year.... by Osty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe the gnome developers have stuff to do that is actually useful, instead of spending time on eyecandy.

    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.


    DIY if you want it.

    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".

  2. Re:Vapor and PNG. by Dahan · · Score: 4, Interesting
    And, just to keep this on topic, my vapor vote goes to IPv6.

    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...