Windows, Linux 25 Year Old "Clunkers"?

Phil817 writes to tell us that Bob Metcalfe recently gave a TV interview in which he stated that current operating systems (Windows and Linux) are outdated clunkers that wont be able to adequately handle the coming of "video internet" and suggests that new operating systems need to be developed to take hold in a few years. Also, when asked if current deals in the works like eBay's purchase of Skype were an indication of more investment hype he replied with "I'm looking forward to the next Internet bubble. I don't know what everyone's so negative about. The last bubble was lots of fun.". Let us at least hope we learned a few things from the last bubble.

Comments

Wait, who said

[zegebbers]

I couldn't watch video ?

Re:Wait, who said

[bre]

Wow. Nowadays I need a plugin to view ASCII in my browser.

Re:Wait, who said

[xs650]

"I couldn't watch video ?"

That's because you're using a clunker operating system.

Re:Wait, who said

[tigersha]

And for once there will be a woman you can literally read like a book!

Re:Where are the links?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mislabled Ask Slashdot?

I find the lack of hosts to /.

[Polarism]

disturbing...

The coming of "video internet?"

[Phariom]

So...this article is basically stating is that we need to build an entirely new O/S to streamline our viewing of pr0n?

Cool.

I, for one, welcome our new video internet overvixens.

It's true!

[MaestroSartori]

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Linux and Windows pass out at 31 Flavors last night! So I guess it must be pretty serious...

Re:Sorry?

[kfg]

What exactly does he mean by video internet?

"Give me free money."

KFG

Will someone think of the kittens?!?!?

[l0ungeb0y]

Everytime someone talks about video internet, God kills a kitten.
See?!?! You made me make God kill a kitten just now by talking about video interne... damn!

And you know what? By the time this thread is done with, tens of thousands of kittens will have died. How many at the hands of "In Soviet Russia" jokes alone, I do not know, but I shudder to think.

Frankly, I am saddend at the massive loss of furry lifeforms about to take place, all for the sake of a mental circlejerk about "all porn all the time all online". You're all just sick.

Re:Link?

[wild_berry]

It's your internet-incapable Windows/Linux/BSD/Plan 9/HURD/Be/Zeta/Symbian/AmigaOS* system not being able to handle the new Unicorn&Sasquatch Video Experience that is embedded in the story.

*: AmigaOS had this capability from day one, but a lack of advertising means I'm unaware of this fact.

Re:I don't get it...

[TallMatthew]

If you need a hookup, I've got 1,039 contacts.

"In the year 2000... In the year 2000!"

[croddy]

And how!

My future-viewing terminal informs me that that the Video Internet will be deployed just a few years after the widespread availablility of wall-mounted Video Telephones, but just before Honda release their premiere Flying Automobile.

I can only hope that our spinlock model is flexible enough for these paradigm-shattering technological earthquakes!

Re:Where are the links?

[CortoMaltese]

To say that the post was lacking substance would be an understatement.

You see, Bob said all this and more in a TV interview, which, according to the interview, can't be viewed because your favourite OS is an outdated clunker that won't be able to adequately handle the coming of "video internet".

Maybe the interview is available for download in a few years when the new video oriented operating systems he mentions have taken hold.

Re:Where are the links?

[Mr. Moose]

Take it easy, hopefully the /. editors will include a link, next time they post the story.

Re:And Sara McDonald didn't like DOS either

[Yirimyah]

Seems like the content should be: "Yes folks, we're here to confirm that you were all right. Metcalfe HAS lost it. :) "

Re:And Sara McDonald didn't like DOS either

[ceeam]

You just cannot see it because you are using an obsolete OS.

Re:fun?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, and my "SUV" can drive through your river.

Useful indeed. Personally, I use the bridges.
And I don't consider my car as my penis extension though.

Re:Where are the links?

[Karma Farmer]

Well, just check the "related links" section. That's where the editors put the links related to the story that don't belong in the body text itself. There's plenty for this story:

• Download Apache Geronimo Software
• Compare Prices on Windows Software
• Compare Prices on Linux Software
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• HP Sponsered Solutions
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That box is there for a reason. If you study those links, you'll know everything you need to know about this story, including why Slashdot chose to post it.

Fools! Hurd is the Kernel of the Future!

[porkchop_d_clown]

And it always will be...

Re:Where are the links?

[morgan_greywolf]

Until a killer app comes out that ONLY runs on a Video-based OS, nobody'll switch. One word: pr0n.

Re:Where are the links?

[Sax Maniac]

Nah, the editors have just realized that since we don't read the linked articles anyway, they can just omit them. After all, we prefer to talk about stuff we don't know about here.

Re:Clunkers.

[Hosiah]

Unfortunately, your insight has a devolved reciprocal capability to impact the paradigm metaphor. A compatible maximized GUI would be dependent on synchronised discrete middleware and a business-focused mobile protocol. Focused human-resource groupware isn't up to proactive uniform superstructure in a networked clear-thinking inheritance capacity situation.

A multi-phase strategic alliance would be required to address the market maximization retail potential of Generation D. And the syngergistic coherent intranet with fundamental well-modulated flexibility in a team-oriented client-server model paradigm functionality would be negatively combined with the polarised holistic flexibility contained within the progressive even-keeled structure.

Ah, I see my frappaccinno's ready. Ta-ta!

Finally!

[TheQuantumShift]

"the clunkers we have, you know Windows and Linux, are 25 years old "

Finally, I woke up this morning, mysteriously transported to the year 2016. Does this mean I can start wearing my jeans inside out? Or was that so last year?