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Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites
Faeton sent in this article about a proposed space tugboat to refuel aging satellites. Looks like they're just going to bolt on some extra thrusters with a new fuel supply, guidance system, etc.
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That is the coolest thing since sliced bread. And I mean, that stuff is pretty cool. Because, you know, at first you're like "Oh I have to slice my own bread." Then you're like "Holy shit! No I don't!"
sad news goatse.cx guy died in terrible anal accident with anal cox oh no i cant use periods ahh help me i'm trapped in my own mind
I am so immensely bored at work. Someone please either kill me now or post something amusing. Today. Right now. Immediately. Without pause.
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 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. 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
oops. i guess i showed my hand. Didnt read the article. :)
i just dont like nasa. thats all.
think of my angst analogous to /. v. msn.
thanks for the info guy.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
Back about a year ago,
It was that long ago?
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Fat Chinamen are the worst, it's bad enough when you see their slant eyes in nearly all the Nintendo games. If Nintendo wants to include gooks in their games, why can't it be hot Asian sluts like Chun Li?
WTF does Microsoft have to do with this matter?
I intentionally call Japs, Chinamen. They know their ancestors crossed that sea from China to Japan. All the East Asians share yellow blood. One thing that'll piss off any Japanese: bring up his Chinamen ancestors.