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First 1.1Mpixel 192MB SmartPhone
Daath writes "It just came to my attention, that LG Electronics announced a SmartPhone with 192MB memory and a built in 1.1 Mpixel CCD camera. It's a slide-down type phone, running on a 400MHz Intel X-Scale processor with a 2.8" 262K color TFT LCD. It runs MS PocketPC 2003. Personally I think it blows the SE P900 away. Ok, time to wipe the drool off the keyboard! ;)"
If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
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Tom.
Oh arse
Another humiliating bombshell has stricken what's left of the already
beleaguered *BSD community. Forrester has determined that *BSD's
presence has dropped for the umpteenth time, this time all the way down
to right around a fraction of 1 percent of all installed servers. This
development immediately follows a recent Netcraft study which makes
clear that *BSD has lost even more adherents in recent months. *BSD has
collapsed into absolute disarray, as appropriately illustrated by
placing dead last in March's Sys Admin comprehensive networking
shootout. Irrational optimism has given way to a painful acceptance
among developers and users alike. Everything from BSD's i386 origins to
the BSD licensing scheme is taking the blame for the crash. The recently
disclosed performance deficiencies in the 5.0 branch of FreeBSD are a
painful topic for *BSD zealots, but one that most are beginning to face.
Fingers are pointing in every direction for *BSD's spectacular failure.
As we pore over the sad story of BSD, we'll reveal a story of fatal
mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what
mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.
We should, of course, give BSD credit for its early successes. In the
1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to
the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as
the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD
product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract. The early successes
would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar
BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software,
claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated.
In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions
and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers
battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled
on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD
project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a
quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn
arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted
in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution. Problems with
BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design
approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The
Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are
inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development.
BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that
centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype -
BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any
achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license,
which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without
reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not
prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.
*BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at
this point in time. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival
prospects are very dim. FreeBSD is the most endangered of the *BSD
family, having lost 93 percent of its core developers. All major surveys
show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. Things are looking
very bad for *BSD. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to
underscore the point more clearly.
Fact: *BSD is dying
*BSD is dying troll generator version Wed Oct 22 13:50:05 CEST 2003
If only I still had my mod points!
This hits a very good point: either you're for somethin, or you're against it.
If you hate the RIAA, don't buy CDs
If you hate the MPAA, don't go to their movies
If you hate Microsoft, don't buy their products.
If whatever reason you have for hating these organizations isn't good enough to keep you from supporting them financially, then shut the fuck up.
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