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8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998
alphadogg-nw writes "Tired of being wrong too often, a Network World pundit applies 20-20 hindsight to this list of prognostications for 1998, which if he's right will turn out to be quite a year. Among the forecasts: The U.S. Department of Justice will go medieval on Microsoft, Compaq will buy what's left of DEC, AOL likewise Netscape, Apple will introduce something said to look like an Easter egg ... and then there's the deafening buzz about this new search engine called Google."
My predictions for 1988:
10. MS-DOS 4.0 will ship, finally, by mid-year. It will be so buggy and crash so much that Microsoft will be forced to release an update, MS-DOS 4.01, by year's end.
9. Liquid crystal will be discovered by Frederick Reintzer.
8. Someone will introduce a simple network management protocol, probably called SNMP. Nobody will care.
7. An alternative bus to IBM's Micro Channel Architecture will be introduced. Expect it to be called something like EISA -- Extended Industry Standard Architecture.
6. An Internet Relay Chat system called IRC will be developed.
5. A company called Creative Labs will introduce a sound card called the SoundBlaster, which will establish defacto standards for years to come.
4. People obsessed with clocks will introduce the Network Time Protocol, which will allow computers to sync their clocks over the Internet.
3. The first T-1 backbone will be added to ARPANET.
2. Motorola will release a new processor, the 88000. No one will care.
1. Apple will sue Microsoft over the trash can icon.
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Between the timeliness of this story, his spelling, and his belief that Bill Gates is facing criminal charges, Paul McNamara sounds like he'd fit in well here as an editor.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
6. Prediction: Congress to pass Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The skinny: Congress will approve the DMCA by a unanimous vote and President Clinton will sign it into law, because, well, everyone favors copyright protection.
Long-term outlook: The only possible trouble with this one that I can foresee would be if someone were to launch a Web site that allowed anyone and everyone to post video clips of whatever they pleased. That might get sticky.
I thought pornotube was stickier than youtube, but I suppose both are up to their necks.
liqbase
And tell Taco to RTFA too.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Just wondering if 'Alta' and 'Vista' were actually meant to be two words, as in "Old Vista". Looks like they are doing equally well as the "New Vista". sort-of-ok start, followed by a quick demise once a real alternative shows up...
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
What exactly are "students of Asian dissent"?
Would that include anyone who took a 20th century history class? Why be mad at them?
the front page isn't rife with spelling errors, grammatical errors, and poor headlines
Um WHAT? You're talking about slashdot? THIS slashdot?
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
I believe he was trying to keep his post on-topic.
;)
Clearly he is referring to the Slashdot of 1998
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman uses a Beowulf cluster built by CowboyNeal to submit a first post with the comment "frosty piss".
There you go, you can scratch one off of your list. You're welcome.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
Amazingly enough, 2008 will be the year in which everything collapses. All economic, social, and political issues will come to their inevitably horrible conclusions.
No, really, it will be this year. All the portents are there. Similar predictions for all previous years were due to misinterpreting the signs.
Of course, if my warning is heeded, we may stave off the collapse for another year. That just reinforces how correct my predictions were.