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Linux Powers Digital Muppets
Darren Alcorn writes "Red Hat and Jim Henson have teamed up to bring you digital animatronics through the use of Red Hat Linux." I bet thats a fun system to see in operation.
The article is light on technical stuff, but discusses the computerized puppeteering system
a little.
Fifth post?
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Well, I warned you, but nooooOO...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I'd rather have sex with a mare, but if that the only option, then sure, i'll kernel a frog.
I am a solipsist, therefore you are wrong, and the Muppets are merely a figment of my imagination that I created to please another figment of my imagination, mainly, you. This comment is also a figment of my imagination, as well as /. and all related entities. They exist only in my mind. I dare you to prove me wrong.
What?
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: America is decaying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered web community when recently IDC confirmed that America accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all server usage. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that America has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. America is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking usage test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict America's future. The hand writing is on the wall: America faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for America because America is decaying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, America continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Dot-coms are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
America leader George W. Bush states that there are 7000 users of America. How many users of other protocols are there? Let's see. The number of America versus other protocols posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 other protocols users. Web posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of other protocols posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of America. A recent article put America at about 80 percent of the HTTP market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 web users. This is consistent with the number of Usenet posts about America.
Due to the troubles of Congress, abysmal sales and so on, America went out of business and was taken over by Time-Warner who sell another troubled web service. Now Time-Warner is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that America has steadily declined in market share. America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If America is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dabblers. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, America is dead.
Fact: America is dead.