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OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society (os2world.com)
"From now on our communities will merge to became one single point of contact for OS/2 users and people investigating the truth about our planet earth," OS2World announced today.
OS2World's news master martiniturbide, also a Slashdot reader, writes: The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of OS/2. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
OS2World's news master martiniturbide, also a Slashdot reader, writes: The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of OS/2. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
Not even slightly believable.
Slashdot sucks hard on April 1st.
This Slashdot post is more recognition of the OS/2 Warp community than it got in a long while. Now all they need is to merge with the Satanic Temple and the world will be complete.
I dunno man, this feels kind of like making the downs kid in the back of the class the butt of the joke. Antagonizing is not how you cleanse this shit from the collective consciousness, and it's not even a terribly funny sentiment.
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The effort of the Flat Earth Society to flat-out flatten the structure of the OS/2 Warp Society has fallen flat.
The OS/2 Warp Society maintains its warped structure and no one can imagine what kind of warped thiinking is required to belive that it can be flattened.
Its not fun, its a waste of time and resources.
I bet you don't get invited to many parties.
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I'm up late and didn't realize it was APRIL FOOLS, I needed this truly, thank you!
With the 32 bit Linux and OS 9 users would have worked.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
always a belieber...
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If it were just about technical superiority, Amiga, Netscape, and Wordperfect also would have won.
Netscape 4 was a monumental piece of crap that had nothing at all to envy to IE4. Sorry, but on that one you got it reversed. IE4 brought the DOM and true dynamic content. Netscape was still on a staticly parsed page that you could do nothing with. Plus it crashed every other hour.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
I think he meant the OS2 Warp users.
You can't 'segregate' just one race, you stupid cunt. Funny how most racists would only be maybe, at best, the second-smartest chimp in a particular group.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for the OS/2 folks to hook up with the anti-VAXxers?
The "stories" were clearly not true to anyone who had some brains, for example the famous spaghetti tree story.
Easy to say now, but in the England of 1957, spaghetti was an exotic foreign food known mostly to soldiers returned from the war in Italy.
Numerous countries have already banned April fools, the Republic of San Serriffe being the latest.
Its time we did the same.
Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
But if the headline had been Donald Trump Announces Membership in the Flat Earth Society it would have been too believable to be funny. A good April fools joke should be both funny and believable. It should definitively not be a sad reminder of the reality we live in.
Heâ(TM)s just probably old enough to be fucking sick and tired of the stupidity that is April Fools on the internet. When I was in my 20s, April Fools on the net was hilarious. Now that Iâ(TM)m in my 40s, I canâ(TM)t stand it. Not because I donâ(TM)t get invited to parties (I assume orgies and BDSM munches fall under the category of âoepartiesâ?), but because I go to the internet for information and on April 1st, I canâ(TM)t trust 3/4s of the things I read. Also, some companies try and get involved with âoefunnyâ events, only to have them backfire horribly (see Googleâ(TM)s ill-planned âoemic dropâ Gmail feature from a few years ago).
A lot of people believed the spaghetti tree story.
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The correct response is to stand on the sidelines and see if anybody believes it.
The incorrect response is to stand there and shout "WATCH OUT IT'S AN APRIL FOOL'S TRICK!!!!!" to anybody else who comes near.
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... and in relation to the quality of humor, it produces too much CO2
Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
But if the headline had been Donald Trump Announces Membership in the Flat Earth Society it would have been too believable to be funny. A good April fools joke should be both funny and believable. It should definitively not be a sad reminder of the reality we live in.
Actually, if you think about it it's completely implausible. The flat earth society operates on a much higher intellectual plain than both Trump and the Republicans.
But i got a chuckle out of stackoverflow this morning
If you don't know anything else, of course it will be flat.
Aw come on, I still enjoy them. Much better to read a prank than to be the target of a prank.
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So, what, April starts with April 2, then? That would be weird, and people would just pull pranks on April 2.
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Didn't this happen in roughly 1995 already?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
The DOM (and JavaScript in general) originated with Netscape. IE's main innovation was CSS.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
April Fools day on the internet should be International Critical Thinking day. A day to teach what everyone should be practicing 365 days a year.
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Given that Conservatives think there are multiple Mexicos, I'd say not. (Not an AF BTW, this happened yesterday)
At least its not pink.
Looks like /. still hasn't figured out how tiresome these stories have gotten over the years. (OK... I'm off to read the moderation instructions to see if one can downvote entire stories.)
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I always knew those OS2 folks were a cult! Now where was I, oh, yes, 2019 is abso-posi-lutely the year of Linux on the desktop! I feel it in my bones!
Nope, April Fool's is a nice tradition.
I fired up Kerbal Space Program today and almost fell from my chair laughing ;-)
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Yeah right. Next you will want us to believe that you can grow spaghetti on the ground in a squash-like gourd.
I have a small business customer who still runs EComstation on relatively contemporary hardware. They only need it on a couple machines out of the two dozen or so that they have, but since they had some critical OS/2 software in use, it was cheaper and easier for them to update OS/2 than it was to get their software updated. One of the reasons I work with them is that I'm the only guy they could find with some background on OS/2.
It's not absolutely up to date. I don't think it supports USB3, for example, but it does work if you need it.
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Then again, I used OS/2 Warp quite successfully in a production environment.
We at Slashdot have the best fools, believe me! None are foolier, and none are Aprilier. We have a spring in our step, and it ain't bone spurs, like that lyin' CNN claims. MFGA!
Table-ized A.I.
" aimed at fools"
incorrect. It as to make people feel foolish. as in a unexpected and nonsensical change to their environment.
It was done BY Fools(it's there day) not to fools.
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Bah. I think it's fun to see what people come up with here in universe B. For years, the actual news has been chock full of stuff easily more ridiculous than this; we have much work to do if we are to develop the levels of satire and parody necessary to stick out in this twilight zone of a reality.
This is far more fun, in any case. If we're going to have a story about followers of something obsolete team up with followers of something remarkably ignorant, this is a nice light-hearted chuckle compared to, say, oh I don't know, Republican leaders joining with neo-nazis.
OS/9 is OS7/18 less awesome than OS/2
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Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
Great, software where susceptibility to viruses is actually a smug bragging point.
.... GEOWORKS!
...for a moment.
It'll never grow; dental floss is a TROPICAL crop.
And OS/2 still couldn't prevent a single rogue application from locking up the entire system.