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Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005

Posted by timothy on from the this-year-will-be-shorter-than-last-year dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bob Cringley publishes his predictions for developments in the world of IT every year. His latest column contains his predictions for 2005 and a brief look back at his predictions for 2004."

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  1. BOBSLEIGH WITH YOUR OWN COCK JUICE by (TK19)Dessimat0r · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. FP? by ScrewMaster · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe?

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    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  3. Hmmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did he predict that Slashdot would stop updating the front page for logged-out users? What the fuck is going on? Please fix. KTHXBYE

  4. Does this guy have a real job? by Stonent1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just don't ever see anything interesting come out of him.

  5. Re:Duh... by UniverseIsADoughnut · · Score: 1, Troll

    Bring the PC to nearly everyone's home.

    Give them a platform that is virtually universal in the industry.

    Make computing easy

    Make computing cheap via making it everywhere and driving down the cost of hardware.

    Managing to get on the internet truck late and yet still be the driving force that brought it to home users via making it so easy to get on and use.

    etc.

    MS may screw up at stuff, but they also have largely gotten the computing world to where it is today. Without them we might just be getting to where we were in around 97 or so, and doubtful things would have been as cheep since apple wouldn't have dropped prices any. And without 1 driving player there would have been many mid size players thus making the whole of computing more expensive do to greater support issues.

  6. I hate GWB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GWB loves to use a so-called "wayward" bomb to kill Iraqi children. It's just his way of expressing his true belief -- that money makes the man and anyone without it is not human.

    Gotta love him. Although knowing that >60% of the American public are morons, it's no wonder why he is president. I say that as an American myself. I hate this fucking country and if I had enough money, I'd move in a heartbeat.

  7. This post may not contribute much to the thread by hedge_death_shootout · · Score: 0, Troll

    but I feel I must point out that Cringely is a towering, drivelling arse of mammoth figurative proportions.