Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save *BSD at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
"Researchers who have analyzed recordings of the chimp have been able to identify four sounds he makes in different contexts indicating 'banana, grapes, juice and yes.'"
While I'm glad the scientific community has finally taken notice of DMX's 2001 release The Great Depression, they should have been able to identify the "words" 'pussy', 'gat', and 'nigga' as well.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Islamophobia and anti-Semitism fueled by the Sept. 11 attacks and the Middle East conflict are in danger of becoming acceptable in Europe, the European Union's racism watchdog warned Tuesday.
Presenting its report on racism in the EU, the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) called on leaders of the 15-nation bloc to deal with the underlying social and economic factors it said were fueling racial prejudice.
"Now it seems legitimate to have anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic views on some issues because people have mixed up the whole issue," said Bob Purkiss, chairman of the EUMC.
"The danger is... how it has now embedded itself."
In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on U.S. cities, people who "looked Muslim," mainly women wearing headscarves, became the victims of anti-Islamic sentiment, the report said.
The escalation of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and social and economic problems inside the EU resulted in a wave of attacks on Jews and synagogues across the 15-nation bloc, it added.
EU leaders were quick to condemn racist aggression against both religious minorities and call for dialogue, it said. But Beate Winkler, director of the Vienna-based agency, told reporters: "Immediately after Sept. 11 we had a lot of positive initiatives by politicians, but it did not continue."
FEAR FUELS RACISM
The report said racism and xenophobia were expressions of EU citizens' fears about issues such as globalization, unemployment and Islam, which the media and politicians failed to present in a balanced way.
Mainstream politicians in Europe had allowed themselves to be pushed into a negative debate on immigration by far-right populist parties, Purkiss said.
"People are playing politics with the immigration issue rather than dealing with the real questions that need to be addressed," he said.
Purkiss said the EU needed to deal with the broader context of immigration, which he said it needed to spur economic growth because of labor shortages as its population ages.
"We need that wealth to pay for pensions," he said.
The report also focused on problems faced by immigrants in the labor markets, saying they were often paid less and given less attractive jobs than EU citizens with the same skills.
Migrants faced problems ranging from direct racism such as verbal abuse in the workplace to indirect discrimination in the form of unrealistic language requirements.
On average, the unemployment rate for immigrants is twice as high as national rates in EU member states, ranging from 22 percent in France to 5.3 percent in Portugal, and many migrants worked in the informal labor market, the study said.
f00king over all the animals that rely on their inert sense of direction for migration.
Hey Einstein, animals did just fine when the Earth was 10 degrees Celsius warmer and there weren't any ice caps at all. I think they can figure out a microscopic shift in gravity.
Haha, it's funny cause it's true! Microsoft is much more evil than totalitarian states that starve their own people in order to fund weapons of mass destruction!
I showed your sister some facial techniques last night.
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Slashdot is definitely not a "realm of reality" to begin with. More like a "realm of paranoid, socialist nerds living in their parents' basements." In that realm, it makes total sense for Ashcroft to declare everyone who reads Slashdot a terrorist.
AIDS is good. It weeds out the fags, sluts, and niggers, and leaves only those who aren't so sex-starved that they repeatedly have unprotected sex with strangers.
"native american"... what's with that phrase? If you were born in a place, aren't you a native? Like the other words with the "nat" root it has to do with birth... natal, nativity, etc.
Both "Native Americans" and most "European Americans" were born in this country, and both had ancestors who immigrated here. It's not like the Iroquois evolved here from New World monkeys.
Slashdot Mirror
"new to area...horny, very....need to spread a smooth hispanic or white ass and slip some hot black cock into it and pump a poz load in it....."
http://cp.barebackcity.com/showmessage.asp?2573
"new to area...horny, very....need to spread a smooth hispanic or white ass and slip some hot black cock into it and pump a poz load in it....."
http://cp.barebackcity.com/showmessage.asp?2573
Year of the goat!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save *BSD at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dead
Shut up, Linux apologist. If this article was bitching about the state of video on Windows, I bet your would love it.
Why teach children how to use a soon-to-be-obsolete OS?
Nice job, astronomy boys! Now go point those telescopes as Uranus. I bet you'll find a moon in no time!
reprazent
Anyone else out there love Tux Racer?
No. At least not anyone who has played modern games for any other OS or console.
Typical stupid Slashdot moderating. Do your homework moderators.
Don't worry Tide, this crapflooder understands you!
"Researchers who have analyzed recordings of the chimp have been able to identify four sounds he makes in different contexts indicating 'banana, grapes, juice and yes.'"
While I'm glad the scientific community has finally taken notice of DMX's 2001 release The Great Depression, they should have been able to identify the "words" 'pussy', 'gat', and 'nigga' as well.
He's already admitted to the FBI that he distributed the documents over the Internet, fool.
At least he was honest enough to put the word news in quotes. As in: "News" for nerds. Stuff that "matters."
Make up your mind /.
Kinda like how they cant make up their mind whether karma is meaningless or should dictate how many posts you are allowed to make per day?
HAHAHA! Good one.
No, I think it was right the first time around.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Islamophobia and anti-Semitism fueled by the Sept. 11 attacks and the Middle East conflict are in danger of becoming acceptable in Europe, the European Union's racism watchdog warned Tuesday.
... how it has now embedded itself."
Presenting its report on racism in the EU, the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) called on leaders of the 15-nation bloc to deal with the underlying social and economic factors it said were fueling racial prejudice.
"Now it seems legitimate to have anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic views on some issues because people have mixed up the whole issue," said Bob Purkiss, chairman of the EUMC.
"The danger is
In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on U.S. cities, people who "looked Muslim," mainly women wearing headscarves, became the victims of anti-Islamic sentiment, the report said.
The escalation of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and social and economic problems inside the EU resulted in a wave of attacks on Jews and synagogues across the 15-nation bloc, it added.
EU leaders were quick to condemn racist aggression against both religious minorities and call for dialogue, it said. But Beate Winkler, director of the Vienna-based agency, told reporters: "Immediately after Sept. 11 we had a lot of positive initiatives by politicians, but it did not continue."
FEAR FUELS RACISM
The report said racism and xenophobia were expressions of EU citizens' fears about issues such as globalization, unemployment and Islam, which the media and politicians failed to present in a balanced way.
Mainstream politicians in Europe had allowed themselves to be pushed into a negative debate on immigration by far-right populist parties, Purkiss said.
"People are playing politics with the immigration issue rather than dealing with the real questions that need to be addressed," he said.
Purkiss said the EU needed to deal with the broader context of immigration, which he said it needed to spur economic growth because of labor shortages as its population ages.
"We need that wealth to pay for pensions," he said.
The report also focused on problems faced by immigrants in the labor markets, saying they were often paid less and given less attractive jobs than EU citizens with the same skills.
Migrants faced problems ranging from direct racism such as verbal abuse in the workplace to indirect discrimination in the form of unrealistic language requirements.
On average, the unemployment rate for immigrants is twice as high as national rates in EU member states, ranging from 22 percent in France to 5.3 percent in Portugal, and many migrants worked in the informal labor market, the study said.
but maybe because Rob has been busy with the wedding plans and shiznit.
Either that, or VA is close to bankruptcy. Gee, I wonder which one is more likely...
f00king over all the animals that rely on their inert sense of direction for migration.
Hey Einstein, animals did just fine when the Earth was 10 degrees Celsius warmer and there weren't any ice caps at all. I think they can figure out a microscopic shift in gravity.
Haha, it's funny cause it's true! Microsoft is much more evil than totalitarian states that starve their own people in order to fund weapons of mass destruction!
I heard about that sex change. You got a vagina, your grandmother think you're strange.
I showed your sister some facial techniques last night.
Slashdot is definitely not a "realm of reality" to begin with. More like a "realm of paranoid, socialist nerds living in their parents' basements." In that realm, it makes total sense for Ashcroft to declare everyone who reads Slashdot a terrorist.
AIDS is good. It weeds out the fags, sluts, and niggers, and leaves only those who aren't so sex-starved that they repeatedly have unprotected sex with strangers.
Please read my history of the development of AIDS for more about why the US government created this useful virus.
"native american"... what's with that phrase? If you were born in a place, aren't you a native? Like the other words with the "nat" root it has to do with birth... natal, nativity, etc.
Both "Native Americans" and most "European Americans" were born in this country, and both had ancestors who immigrated here. It's not like the Iroquois evolved here from New World monkeys.