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Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful
Sector Bug writes "NASA's X43A research aircraft made its third and final flight today, firing its scramjet engine at Mach 10 (7,000 MPH) or close to it, setting a new record. "
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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 the Amazing 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
Imagine an OSX cluster of these!
I bet apple invented these too, eh fanboys?
Regular guy, Rex got a need
Rex, Racer X
Brother is Speed
Brother is Speed
Brother is sex
Shut up, Pops
Rex, Racer X
OK
Got a big white X
On the top of his car
Rex keeps his speed
In a little glass jar
Racer X on the road
Rex on the track
Little cartoon nips
Racer X on attack
OK
Just a man in a car
Racer X got a need
Come on, Five
I need a little more speed
He's just a regular guy
Racer X got a need
Come on, Pops
I need a little more speed
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
When you're hauling strips
Just a goddamn job
Rex needs his fix
OK
OK
Rex is a man
He's the brother of sex
Aw, shut up Pops
Here's to Rex, Racer X
OK
I'd like to smack the guy who was holding the camera in the chase plane! He pissed his pants at the moment of truth.
Seriously, the announcer was about as dry as the visine comercial dude.
What's a sig?
Did anyone else think of "X-10" when they saw this article's title? ... or even better... "We must destroy X-10... we must destroy all internet ad".. ??
Close-up pic of the jet
By the way (and massively OT), doesn't a "Guinness Record" sound like something you'd like to break yourself, at least if it involved consumption?
Sure Brain, the truckload of elephants is easy enough, but are we going to get Sir Alec Guinness to wear rubber pants?
NARF!
so with some level of class. Yelling "GOATSE TROLL" isn't going to convince anyone.
OT, but hey:
Wow. Their jets are far sexier than their cars. . . I really hate their cars, so ugly.
-nB
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Whether or not that's true, the folks at the Guinness Book have chosen to dodge the topic (here):
In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party and became involved in an argument. Which was the fastest game bird in Europe - the golden plover or the grouse? He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
AC my ass; I *know* who you are!
The last fucking thing you want is my undivided attention...