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Will Instant Messaging Ever Unite?
scallion writes "An article in Technology Review titled Getting AOL To Talk To MSN points out that currently the world of instant messaging is "as factionalized as Afghanistan," then asks, what will it take to unite all these individual IM networks under one umbrella?"
Ooh, ahh, it hurts and stuff...
Trolling Stones' soon to be famous lyrics quiz!
See if you can get them all without using a search engine
You must provide the artist and song title for full credit.
Post your answers below.
1) gold coast slave she bound for cotton fields
sold in a market down in new orleans
scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
hear him whip the women just around midnight
2) suck a polar bear's funky ass
suck a racehorse's cock with heinz tomato ketchup
suck a donkey's shitty ass
suck a male camel's dick with hoisen sauce
3) took you out in back of the toolshed
put it right on top of your forehead
took you out in back of the toolshed
now you know what you're fucking with
4) Sweetness
sweetness I was only joking when I said I'd like to
smash every tooth in your head
5) admire me
admire my home
admire my son
he's my clone
Props to my homies and the ladiez
Eminem is a sucka!
FP, hos!!!!!
VI
4EVA!
Is it when the Ofice of Homeland Security makes us all standardize on M$ and takes over AOL for the war on terror?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
and say to hell with it, we'll all become bar
codes. i mean really. 6,200,000,000 people...
according to my calculator sais over
1 800 000 000 in hex...(but my calculator sucks
so i could be mistaken in here)
"hi im $FE10110039
and you could add descriptors/last names to make
the system even more usable...
"hi i'm FE10110039, decker. i 80386." etc etc.
and it would give them an excuse to give us barcode tattoos!. imagine how sexy you'd look with one of those.
GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
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Everyone can help, women, children, small cats. Even dogs. Now excuse me as I beat the lamness filter with the following:
We the people of Slashdot, established freedom, enjoyed unity, and in general thought that things such as this kick complete anus!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent 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 fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] 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. 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.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
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 and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *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 dilettante 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.
Fact: *BSD is dying
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