I was playing Civ III the other day, and I noticed the game said "Plains have turned to desert becuse of global warming." I'm wondering why the game designers didn't also include a fairy that turns your mechanized armor into giant pumpkins, since that's just as realistic.
I actually agree. BSD is far better than Linux. I use BSD myself. Nonetheless, the *BSD is dying troll is a time-honored winner. Still getting bites, after thousands of posts.
yerricde, you seem like an intelligent individual, so I can only assume your are karma whoring. In that case, carry on.
I just wanted to point out that HBO and Showtime don't show movies anymore. They only show homemade programs like Sluts in the City, Queer as Fuck and that hour of constant buttrape known as Oz.
Plus, unless this movie has a lot of Julie Strain showing off her tits, I don't think anyone will confuse it with the real Showtime.
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.
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
Re:You gotta understand how publishing works
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You're asking for some heat. As if Dvorak and Cringley's names aren't flammable enough, you throw some conservative pundits in there!
In any case, reader reaction has nothing to do with keeping Katz at his post. He's a special case. CmdrTaco has said that he personally likes Katz, and doesn't really care what his readers think. For that reason alone, he will remain employed here. No amount of reader protestation (or approval) will change that.
By the way, I give up on MS certs. and am switching to Linux!! I am tired of have to start practically from scratch with MS every 2 years!
Good idea. Linux evolves so slowly that even a retarded cat could stay ahead of the curve. 20 years from now, the OS will be almost exactly the same, and your training will still be valid. Of course, the flipside to this is that only about 3 computers will be running Linux 20 years from now.
Re:what a bunch of semi-literate lamers
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It's odd that a group of supposedly intelligent people (geeks) like big, dumb, expensive epics like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. I guess such films lend an aura of drama to a life spent fixing computers, eating Cheetos, and masturbating.
It's been a very long time since Katz wrote a column of professional writing caliber. Like since he had an editor at Wired.
What irks me is that many user journals are much more intelligent and well-written than Jon Katz's stuff. These people post their ideas for free, and would be more than willing to have them posted to the front page. But CmdrTaco would rather pay someone who writes high school-quality bullshit. Dump Katz and maybe Slashdot wouldn't need big ads, eh?
This story was posted an hour ago, during online "prime time", and a standard Jew-hating crapflood remains the only post. Yeah, this 'subscription or ads' business model is working out beautifully.
Re:And let me be the first to say
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DOJ Dot-Narc
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Pardon me, sir. Could you please point out where that AC advocated the estblishment of a Nazi-like police state? All I saw was a condemnation of the previous poster's assertion that the DOJ was worse than terrorism.
The Department of Justice is an enforcement agency. All it does is enforce laws that are already on the books. If you don't like the laws, bitch about the people who made them, not the ones doing their job and enforcing them.
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I've found that a gentle douche is able to get most of the foul stuff out of my keyboard. Your mom, too.
seems pretty lame
Heh, good point. I also got "Forest has turned to tundra because of global warming." I don't know about the science of that transition.
One realistic thing though: I played as the Germans and was able to conquer France in one medium-sized offensive, facing only minimal resistance.
Only if it's a "terrorist" iceberg.
They've also tried ramming large, unsinkable passenger ships into them as well. Didn't work.
I was playing Civ III the other day, and I noticed the game said "Plains have turned to desert becuse of global warming." I'm wondering why the game designers didn't also include a fairy that turns your mechanized armor into giant pumpkins, since that's just as realistic.
I actually agree. BSD is far better than Linux. I use BSD myself. Nonetheless, the *BSD is dying troll is a time-honored winner. Still getting bites, after thousands of posts.
yerricde, you seem like an intelligent individual, so I can only assume your are karma whoring. In that case, carry on.
I just wanted to point out that HBO and Showtime don't show movies anymore. They only show homemade programs like Sluts in the City, Queer as Fuck and that hour of constant buttrape known as Oz.
Plus, unless this movie has a lot of Julie Strain showing off her tits, I don't think anyone will confuse it with the real Showtime.
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
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
You're asking for some heat. As if Dvorak and Cringley's names aren't flammable enough, you throw some conservative pundits in there! In any case, reader reaction has nothing to do with keeping Katz at his post. He's a special case. CmdrTaco has said that he personally likes Katz, and doesn't really care what his readers think. For that reason alone, he will remain employed here. No amount of reader protestation (or approval) will change that.
By the way, I give up on MS certs. and am switching to Linux!! I am tired of have to start practically from scratch with MS every 2 years!
Good idea. Linux evolves so slowly that even a retarded cat could stay ahead of the curve. 20 years from now, the OS will be almost exactly the same, and your training will still be valid. Of course, the flipside to this is that only about 3 computers will be running Linux 20 years from now.
It's odd that a group of supposedly intelligent people (geeks) like big, dumb, expensive epics like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. I guess such films lend an aura of drama to a life spent fixing computers, eating Cheetos, and masturbating.
And become a certified cocksucker in under two weeks!
Nice post. I'm sure 0xA will now see the error of his ways, and come to respect Katz for being the brilliant, postmodern pundit that he is.
Katz has never seen that one, because he couldn't find the DivX.
It's been a very long time since Katz wrote a column of professional writing caliber. Like since he had an editor at Wired.
What irks me is that many user journals are much more intelligent and well-written than Jon Katz's stuff. These people post their ideas for free, and would be more than willing to have them posted to the front page. But CmdrTaco would rather pay someone who writes high school-quality bullshit. Dump Katz and maybe Slashdot wouldn't need big ads, eh?
After examining CmdrTaco's desk, I'm fairly certain his Slashdot password is boysex69.
Also, the number of Linux users without a criminal history involving children is vanishingly small.
This story was posted an hour ago, during online "prime time", and a standard Jew-hating crapflood remains the only post. Yeah, this 'subscription or ads' business model is working out beautifully.
This whole subject bores me to tears. I can't even think up a proper flame or troll.
"This study brought to you by Wrigley."
Pardon me, sir. Could you please point out where that AC advocated the estblishment of a Nazi-like police state? All I saw was a condemnation of the previous poster's assertion that the DOJ was worse than terrorism.
Only in America can basic civil rights be infringed upon with nary a peep from the public.
What about China, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, and Lybia?
PS. The article you just read constitutes a "peep'.
The Department of Justice is an enforcement agency. All it does is enforce laws that are already on the books. If you don't like the laws, bitch about the people who made them, not the ones doing their job and enforcing them.