2001: Pretty much the same as 2000. People are still so worn out from hype around the Y2K bug at the beginning of the year and the elections at the end that there's no energy to do anything creative and new this year.
2002: In a surprise move, Microsoft buys Napster and integrates it into a subscription-based Office suite. The RIAA backs off, recognizing that this is the end of Napster's functionality.
2003: Linux kernel 2.4 released (forgive me, moderators, I had to put that in somewhere).
2004: Microsoft ports Windows desktop to UNIX environments; KDE and GNOME are crushed like bugs. WDE, "The Windows Desktop Environment", is also released under GNU GPL. Simultaneously Microsoft announces layoffs in their R&D division.
2005: Richard Stallman stuns the world by announcing that Bill Gates is his robotic creation, and Microsoft was created to 1) fire up the Free Software community by providing it with a tangible adversary 2) was his secret source of income that kept him afloat while he worked on GNU and 3) to squash like bugs anyone who referred to a certain OS as just "Linux". Bill Gates 2.1.1 is released to the public, but is not a popular download.
2008: Richard Stallman uses his Microsoft riches to buy five Supreme Court justices and thus the Presidency. Renaming the country the "GNUnited States of America", he ushers in a period of sharing and cooperation unprecedented in history. Other notable achievements of his administration include the re-release of the Constitution under the GPL (so all countries can share and modify the Constitution to suit their needs), downloadable from a host of sites. Unfortunately, you must compile it yourself from source because package managers such as GNOME-RPM give a dependency error if you do not also have the Declaration of Independence.
2010: In a freak accident, a gust of wind blows my blinds open, and I glimpse the unknown world outside my window (TM). I get up from my computer, disconnect the caffeine IV from my arm, and go outside.
Anybody out there actually named Harry Potter and wants to cease-and-desist Warner Bros.? Or better yet, get somebody named Warner in there too and file class-action suit to reclaimthe names - Potter, Warner, et al vs. Time Warner...what a beautiful image that would be.
Here's hoping you meant it like you said it, and that "the reverse is opposite", because if you meant to say "it seems to me the reverse is *true*", you've got a problem, because you've just rattled off a list of instances of "false theories" and "imagined phenomena" that spread through and were persistent in the scientific community and had to be cast out by people like Galileo, Einstein, etc. It seems you just proved the point you started out by refuting...
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2001: Pretty much the same as 2000. People are still so worn out from hype around the Y2K bug at the beginning of the year and the elections at the end that there's no energy to do anything creative and new this year.
2002: In a surprise move, Microsoft buys Napster and integrates it into a subscription-based Office suite. The RIAA backs off, recognizing that this is the end of Napster's functionality.
2003: Linux kernel 2.4 released (forgive me, moderators, I had to put that in somewhere).
2004: Microsoft ports Windows desktop to UNIX environments; KDE and GNOME are crushed like bugs. WDE, "The Windows Desktop Environment", is also released under GNU GPL. Simultaneously Microsoft announces layoffs in their R&D division.
2005: Richard Stallman stuns the world by announcing that Bill Gates is his robotic creation, and Microsoft was created to 1) fire up the Free Software community by providing it with a tangible adversary 2) was his secret source of income that kept him afloat while he worked on GNU and 3) to squash like bugs anyone who referred to a certain OS as just "Linux". Bill Gates 2.1.1 is released to the public, but is not a popular download.
2008: Richard Stallman uses his Microsoft riches to buy five Supreme Court justices and thus the Presidency. Renaming the country the "GNUnited States of America", he ushers in a period of sharing and cooperation unprecedented in history. Other notable achievements of his administration include the re-release of the Constitution under the GPL (so all countries can share and modify the Constitution to suit their needs), downloadable from a host of sites. Unfortunately, you must compile it yourself from source because package managers such as GNOME-RPM give a dependency error if you do not also have the Declaration of Independence.
2010: In a freak accident, a gust of wind blows my blinds open, and I glimpse the unknown world outside my window (TM). I get up from my computer, disconnect the caffeine IV from my arm, and go outside.
Anybody out there actually named Harry Potter and wants to cease-and-desist Warner Bros.? Or better yet, get somebody named Warner in there too and file class-action suit to reclaimthe names - Potter, Warner, et al vs. Time Warner...what a beautiful image that would be.
Here's hoping you meant it like you said it, and that "the reverse is opposite", because if you meant to say "it seems to me the reverse is *true*", you've got a problem, because you've just rattled off a list of instances of "false theories" and "imagined phenomena" that spread through and were persistent in the scientific community and had to be cast out by people like Galileo, Einstein, etc. It seems you just proved the point you started out by refuting...