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michael
on from the obligatory-earth-day-post dept.
i22y writes "With Greasel instead of Diesel in your tank, you can pull up to Jack-In-The-Box and fill up both your stomach and your gas tank. Run your car on old fryer grease and vegetable oil! Obligatory pictures and FAQ."
*BSD is dying
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Anonymous Coward
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It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
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
Re:*BSD is dying
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Anonymous Coward
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I say that there are 1 users of first post, and it's certainly NOT YOU!
YOU FAIL IT!
aye
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Anonymous Coward
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Run your car on FIRST POSTS!
Re:aye
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Anonymous Coward
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sorry boss
the us sucks
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Anonymous Coward
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and i rule. FP!
F1rst Repyl
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Anonymous Coward
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Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal.
ick! greasel?
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Anonymous Coward
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i would think itd be hard to get a greasel into the tank... especially after they started spitting poison at you.
sorry, id play new video games if i had a decent copmuter.
obligatory simpsons quote....
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xao+gypsie
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...my God you're greasy......
-Homer Jay Simpson
xao
--
xao
http://TheHillforum.hopto.org
FUCK YOU AND DIE, FAILURE!
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Anonymous Coward
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Not... Even... Close!
Re:Reminds me...
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Anonymous Coward
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I think you pucked that one up.
Run your car on Jizzum
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Anonymous Coward
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Get a fill-up from Michael's rectum.
http://www.matrix4.net with regards to pollution.
by
amanda19
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Why not run your car on hydrogen? It's cleaner and more widley available.
Why not make a reality generator and make living things? Why not do this and that? Why have a soul? Get real and know the truth on www.matrix4.net
Re:To all those saying this has been done before
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ansonyumo
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I think the general gripe is that/. is posting old news. Must be a slow day.
Re:I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it.
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BigBlockMopar
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My friend, I come from a 3rd world country and I am probably 10 years older than you. I responded to you because out of the blue, for no reason you included a stupid, ignorant political statement where it had no reason for being.
Absolutely it did. I was touching on the reason why vegetable oil isn't being used in cars. One of the reasons is the "feed people, not cars" nutjobs.
As for you being ten years older than me, well... I dunno. Let me put it to you this way: There is a sliderule sitting on my desk. It's a nice Pickett N3T.
And with a former job, I did travel a little.
The problem of starvation is not a problem of farming, it's a problem of economics. Lots of countries have crappy farmland, but aren't starving, take any mid-east oil producer as an example. The 3rd world economy isn't ruined by too many people; it's ruined by civil wars, and unstable government.
With the wonderfully stable governments and highly rational people of the middle east - with Israel as the one lone island of sanity stuck in the middle of that hell - I can't imagine that the picture you paint will be at all rosy the moment the oil runs out.
How much wealth or sustainability will Saudi Arabia have when the oil money runs out? Kuwait? Jordan? Iraq has farmland in the valley, but I doubt enough to feed their people.
They could have an excellent tourism industry, if there weren't so many fanatics running around blowing up innocent civilians in the name of Allah. But since I don't see that happening before the oil runs out, I don't think they'll be building new Marriotts in Tehran anytime soon.
With no GDP and no farmland, how long will the problem last?
You should have used Japan as your example of little arable land supporting a massive population. Japan built itself up after World Wars I and II. They don't use the land, and they have no natural resources like oil to sell. Instead, they studied hard, worked hard, and built an economy. Of course, you can't do that in the Middle East, because too many people are brainwashed by religion and will run around screaming that "The new cellphone factory is only 300 miles from the Sacred Mosque of Karim! The infidels!".
(Note that I have no problem with Islam. I have a problem with *any* religious fanaticism.)
It must be nice to think you're mature and superior because you don't care about the value of human lives lost thousands of miles away, and like to point it out for no reason whatsoever.
There was a point. Maybe you should view parent.
BTW Darwinism doesn't apply in this case (since the people born in bad conditions are disadvantaged, not inferior), and you make yourself look like a jerk by bringing it up.
I think Darwinism does apply here.
If a seed is carried by the wind from its native climate to elsewhere and that seed happens to be especially hardy, the plant will grow. Maybe even flourish enough for the plant and its progeny to suck 95% of nutrients out of the soil. When the plants die out in that new location, isn't it Darwin at work?
Isn't this the same thing? Oh wait. No. We can't objectify human beings, after all, we're not just an animal which happens to have technology.
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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
Run your car on FIRST POSTS!
and i rule. FP!
Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal.
i would think itd be hard to get a greasel into the tank... especially after they started spitting poison at you.
sorry, id play new video games if i had a decent copmuter.
...my God you're greasy......
-Homer Jay Simpson
xao
xao
http://TheHillforum.hopto.org
Not... Even... Close!
I think you pucked that one up.
Get a fill-up from Michael's rectum.
Why not make a reality generator and make living things? Why not do this and that? Why have a soul? Get real and know the truth on www.matrix4.net
I think the general gripe is that /. is posting old news. Must be a slow day.
My friend, I come from a 3rd world country and I am probably 10 years older than you. I responded to you because out of the blue, for no reason you included a stupid, ignorant political statement where it had no reason for being.
Absolutely it did. I was touching on the reason why vegetable oil isn't being used in cars. One of the reasons is the "feed people, not cars" nutjobs.
As for you being ten years older than me, well... I dunno. Let me put it to you this way: There is a sliderule sitting on my desk. It's a nice Pickett N3T.
And with a former job, I did travel a little.
The problem of starvation is not a problem of farming, it's a problem of economics. Lots of countries have crappy farmland, but aren't starving, take any mid-east oil producer as an example. The 3rd world economy isn't ruined by too many people; it's ruined by civil wars, and unstable government.With the wonderfully stable governments and highly rational people of the middle east - with Israel as the one lone island of sanity stuck in the middle of that hell - I can't imagine that the picture you paint will be at all rosy the moment the oil runs out.
How much wealth or sustainability will Saudi Arabia have when the oil money runs out? Kuwait? Jordan? Iraq has farmland in the valley, but I doubt enough to feed their people.
They could have an excellent tourism industry, if there weren't so many fanatics running around blowing up innocent civilians in the name of Allah. But since I don't see that happening before the oil runs out, I don't think they'll be building new Marriotts in Tehran anytime soon.
With no GDP and no farmland, how long will the problem last?
You should have used Japan as your example of little arable land supporting a massive population. Japan built itself up after World Wars I and II. They don't use the land, and they have no natural resources like oil to sell. Instead, they studied hard, worked hard, and built an economy. Of course, you can't do that in the Middle East, because too many people are brainwashed by religion and will run around screaming that "The new cellphone factory is only 300 miles from the Sacred Mosque of Karim! The infidels!".
(Note that I have no problem with Islam. I have a problem with *any* religious fanaticism.)
It must be nice to think you're mature and superior because you don't care about the value of human lives lost thousands of miles away, and like to point it out for no reason whatsoever.There was a point. Maybe you should view parent.
BTW Darwinism doesn't apply in this case (since the people born in bad conditions are disadvantaged, not inferior), and you make yourself look like a jerk by bringing it up.I think Darwinism does apply here.
If a seed is carried by the wind from its native climate to elsewhere and that seed happens to be especially hardy, the plant will grow. Maybe even flourish enough for the plant and its progeny to suck 95% of nutrients out of the soil. When the plants die out in that new location, isn't it Darwin at work?
Isn't this the same thing? Oh wait. No. We can't objectify human beings, after all, we're not just an animal which happens to have technology.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.