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Kevin Smith set for Clerks sequel
bckrispi writes "Director Kevin Smith has announced an official sequel to his indie cult classic, Clerks. Currently titled "The Passion of the Clerks", the film will pick up with Dante and Randal ten years after the original as our two heroes trudge through the malaise of their thirties. Jason Mewes, now out of rehab, is back on deck to play Jay across Smith's Silent Bob."
First I see the story "Open Xchange Server Source-code Released" on AICN and now this.
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It is official; Netcraft 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
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And finally sounds like Kevin Smith will be going back to his roots and making a less $$$ based film...
Kevin is that you?
That's what I get for having an unpopular opinion on slashdot. Oh well, karma is cheap. I'll just post a few links to mirrors and I'll be okay.
Don't cry for me.
That's what you get for having an unpopular opinion and stating it in two inflammatory sentences.
If you'd written an explanation of what you didn't like about the movies, that's an unpopular opinion. Your post, on the other hand? Troll.
If you want to troll, go wild. I could be wrong, but I doubt anyone much cares. Just don't write this "Woe is my trampled on free thinking and speech, don't cry for me Argentina" bullshit as an epilogue to it.
Awe crap, when I type things out I normally do it in my word processor and had a few extra notes and what not in it... maybe I shouldn't have done that control-a and a quick paste and submit.
Anyway, here is what I was trying to say... but without having to fight through other stuff.
You don't have to believe it, but it is true.
Of those that I knew who'd had McDonalds as a career and had a lick of sense were not the low level grunts or slightly higher managers but were the salary managers and store managers. I'll grant you it's not the most glamorous job, but it can be a well paid one if you're good at it.
While some local school teachers were being shown how the store worked, one remarked "I'm so glad I went to college" to which a manager replied "I have an MBA." What is a man like he doing working at a McDonalds? Simple, it's an easy job and he was content with it (more so when he got his own store).
Fast food is one of those industries where to hang on at the higher levels you need to be damn good at your job, not just compared to those under them, but compared to any possible person to fill the job.
If you want someone who's got much more than a lick of sense... find someone who owns a McDonalds store as opposed to a store manager who just runs the store. Most of them worked their way up through the system (often starting as an order taker, fry person, etc) and realized that a great deal of money can be made in owning such a place.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
He'll blow the money on, well, blow, sure as night follows day, sure as every even numbered Star Trek film sucks ass.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
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I'll give away a GMail invite to the first 3 people who complete a Netscape or Blockbuster offer (because they're instantaneous credit. You can cancel as soon as the offer credit goes through, usually within 1 day.)