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Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards

Posted by michael on from the real-soon-now dept.

l3pYr writes "Based on user submissions, Wired Magazine has posted its 2004 Vaporware Awards. Duke Nukem Forever has garnered the 'Lifetime Achievement Award,' so it doesn't - officially - make the list. Some of the lucky winners this year are: Alienware, Valve, Microsoft, Apple and TiVo."

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  1. My favorite piece of vaporware is GNU/HURD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously. Does anybody actually use the beta/alpha version of it for anything? RMS has been promising it for such a long time.. especially after Linux took the GNU team by surprise.

    1. Re:My favorite piece of vaporware is GNU/HURD by uebermts · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Well, HURD is about to reach V1.0 ... in the meantime, Linus wrote some other OS:

      ===
      From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
      Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
      Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT

      [...]
      I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
      out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
      minix.
      [...]
      ===

      http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.mini x/ msg/2194d253268b0a1b

  2. Yes, I am Karma whoring. by Ssbe · · Score: 5, Informative

    10. Alienware's Video Array
    9. Intel's Pentium 4 at 4 GHz
    8. Apple Computer's G5 Chips at 3 GHz
    7. Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms
    6. Gran Turismo 4
    5. ATI's Radeon X800 series of video cards
    4. TiVoToGo
    3. Microsoft's Longhorn
    2. CherryOS
    1. Phantom Game Console

  3. Irony by patonw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would anyone find it ironic if Wired hyped their vaporware awards for an entire year and didn't come out with one that year?

  4. Re:x800? by Skier4Life · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was thinking the same thing. We have a system at work that has a X800 installed in it, we got it 6 months ago. Also we just got three X800 XTs in the middle of december. I don't see how these cards can be considered vapourware.

    Also, we didn't jump through any special hops to get these cards, we just placed an order with a local computer store, like any Joe Blow is able to do.

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    [SIG] Far better to be thought a fool then to post on /. and remove all doubt.
  5. My favorite piece of vaporware by mcc · · Score: 5, Funny

    is the second coming of Jesus Christ.

    1,900 years behind the original schedule, man.

    What the fuck?

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    Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
    1. Re:My favorite piece of vaporware by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

      early Christians all believed the coming of Christ would be immediate, this is actually explicitly refuted in the Bible in II Thessalonians 2:1-3.

      Even more clearly, Futurama 1:12 clearly states that the second coming of Jesus will be in 2443 (though apparently he will be a Zombie).