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Web Surfing Losing Its Luster
asv108 writes "The New York Times has an article about how trolling the web is not nearly as much fun as it used to be. Reasons for the decline cited in the article include: commercialization, lack of compelling content, instant messaging, P2P, and the fact that it's been mainstream for a couple of years now. The average online session decreased from 90 (March 2000) to 83 minutes in March of 2001."
It'll be interesting to see where the Net fits in relative to TV and movies
for pure entertainment.
Me Trolling the web right now.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying... AGAIN
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest
Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last... AGAIN in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying... AGAIN. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood, DEEPER than the first time *BSD was dying. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers... AGAIN.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business... AGAIN and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead... AGAIN, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share...AGAIN *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead...
...or is it?L DUM DUM DUM!!!
Then surfing would really pick up again!
There are few people willing to wage the fight to present interesting content. Those that hold the keys to access are either owned by hollywood or are interested in making a buck off your ideas more than entertaining and sharing. If you are lucky or smart enough to get around that ass pain, then most people won't be able to look at your more interesting content anyway because M$ will break anything but the latest activeX crap. So why bother? Let all the greedheads suffer in their lack of creativity.
Sorry, but I'm keeping my little ftp site quiet and among friends. I'd like to share more, but I'd be shut down fast by the same dumb ass company that gave me a user name with an @, at, character in the midle of the username and who's tech told me I should use Outlook because Mozilla was "internet unfriendly"!
"Broadband" as presented by the senator from Disney will push more crap at you and further destroy the web.
Have a nice day, folks.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.