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- PhailQuail, on 07/24/2008, -1/+52Firefox 8, OpenOffice 6.2, FIOS 2, Ubuntu 16.04
Still no Linux 3.0 - Marumekomu, on 07/24/2008, -2/+32July 24th, 2016.
Josef Konsumer, an employee and portfolio manager for the ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank [and only a 50 minute commute], wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 6am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from lack of use. His morning double espresso with frothed skim milk and mocha from starbucks is all he has to look forward to, thanks to his wife leaving him earlier that month.
Josef walks downstairs to the kitchen to use his laptop. “I wish my ***** laptop battery still worked” he mutters, as he notices the battery charge indicator on the Windows Vista start menu bar still reads as empty. “At least I can use my 8th generation iPhone to catch up on diggoogle on the commute, providing it doesn't blink out of service too often."
After leaving the starbucks drive thru, Josef turns onto the highway. He’s been taking this commute for several years now, since Citigroup and JPMorganChase merged with the folks out in Shanghai and they had to downsize. To cut costs, Josef's local branch was closed down, but he doesn’t mind- even with today's ***** air quality, having only gotten worse with Bush 3 in office, it's the only time of his day he really gets to be alone with himself. Or, it was, until his wife left him. "Oh god," he thinks to himself, "she's really gone, isn't he?" Eager to distract himself, he scrambles for his iPhone.
Josef winces as his iPhone reads as having no reception, knowing what comes next- he'll have to open his window and take a breath of that *****, ***** air. He restrains his gag reflex and rolls down the window, sticking his his iPhone out and waving it around. Finally he connects, closes the window, and retreats again to the small comfort of his filtered air. - pogobouncepogo, on 07/24/2008, -2/+29Man I want that to happen. Lets get to work on this, Note the screenshot of Ubuntu 16.04 is still brown. Lol.
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -1/+26Next up, penguins on trampolines!
- cdawzrd, on 07/24/2008, -2/+26"He considers nudging his wife, Mindy, to get up and make him breakfast, but decides to leave her alone"
lol - rebotfc, on 07/24/2008, -4/+272016 will be the year of the linux desktop....
....maybe - mavsman4457, on 07/24/2008, -1/+20Good, now we can record the Linux channel with MythTV.
- lucasmaximus, on 07/24/2008, -8/+25FFS, someone gets paid to write crap like this.
- klitzbtc, on 07/24/2008, -0/+15I love Linux, but who cares. By 2016 cars better fly.
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -2/+15At this point, everyone will be complaining about how Windows 7/8 was the best OS and how they don't want to leave it for the bloatware that is Windows 8/9.
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -2/+15sudo make me a sandwich Mindy
- leamanc, on 07/24/2008, -3/+14I like how it's 2016, but he's watching TV on a monitor with 4:3 aspect ratio. What is that, 1024x768? 1280x960? We've got 16:9 monitors and TVs here in 2008, I don't imagine that we will be regressing back in the next eight years.
And that's just my complaints from the picture...
Buried for being lame. - inactive, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9XD
- deathtoartists, on 07/24/2008, -1/+10troll, nothing to see here move along
- SteelM, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9its the retro ubuntu theme...
- mooninite, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9Linux 2.6.50?
- scy1192, on 07/24/2008, -1/+9Everyone knows the world ended in 2012, how are we in the future now?
- deathtoartists, on 07/24/2008, -1/+9participate
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU - inactive, on 07/24/2008, -0/+8Actually, ID owns the code, so they can still sell it under another license. Who's going to sue them, themselves? Really, unless it contains GNU or someone else's code, they can swap that bastard right back into whatever they want. Of course, the already released GPL code is still legally GPL and people are free to do whatever GPL lets them...
The point is, If all copyright owners agree that the license should be swapped then they can do that - If there is only one legal copyright owner they can just do it out of nowhere.
Q3 was released under GPL after Q4 was released. It's not really GPL'd but the modified engine is.
Also, If you look, Trolltech Qt4 is offered for sale under a different proprietary license but also under normal GPL. An example of what i'm talking about in action. - gandhii, on 07/25/2008, -0/+7By the second sentence... I really really hate this guy.
- UltraDavid, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8"Crap, Time to dump.”
Best part of the article, in my opinion. - svivian, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7Pfft, OpenOffice won't be higher than version 3 in 2016, they move so slowly...
- Kral, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7Digg was all about tech and Linux before you got here and flooded it with lolcats and fail.
- diggmaddy, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7At the current rate of innovation in the car industry, I highly doubt it :(.
- Jeepinator, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8That happens a lot with windows. It's called a bug. Someone out there is figuring out how to fix it. The fix will come along much quicker than if Microsoft were to take it on.
- Kosher1947, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7I like Linux, and I LOVE.... BLENDER, but the community will have to change before things move forward. I mean I looked up an issue with Ubuntu and found people asking questions but no one giving answers. How sad is that?
- virtualball, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7While it will never happen by 2016, I do hope it happens. It sounds like a nice world (minus the bank merger :P)
- sigmaman2, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Linux kernel 2.6.999...
- bardo77n, on 07/25/2008, -0/+52016: Hyperinflation has ruined the economy. Hoping to find someone with a can of dog food so you can eat, you decide to leave the house and fight the roving gangs of thugs. The Government's cameras are the only sign of modern technology. They line the streets to remind you that you are a safe and happy citizen. As you watch someone get stabbed to death amongst a pile of burning trash, you remember what it was like in 2008 to argue trivial matters like which computer operating system is best. You curse yourself for your former decadence and you wonder why you didn't do more to stop the ever-growing police state of America.
- ramseypawlik, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Virgin.
- tywrenok, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5regardless of linux, mac, or whatever, does this really sound like a world you want to live in? Not to be too hippy, but i can only assume that the more things that are automatic (your coffee being auto-delivered from amazon for example) the more time you have to work. hell in 2008 it's bad enough with blackberries and never being able to unplug, do you really want to give that up entirely? i for one don't mind traveling
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -3/+8GPL can be pro-Business but also limiting.
i.e.
- The q3 creators released the game in gpl
- The game's code can't be closed and sold
- id software profits
if it was BSD,
- q3 releases code
- game code is used by multiple game development modders for the purpose to be sold.
I know what I'm saying, I know the modding community, many of them would just work more on open source if it lets them sell it later (at least as a possibility). - Nysul, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6In 2016 we'll be under a globalized socialist government so you can spend your one entertainment token on either a 1998 CRT 4:3 1023x768 monitor or a Packard Bell with CD-ROM technology and high speed 56k modem.
- Jeepinator, on 07/24/2008, -2/+7Linux is pretty easy to use as long as you aren't a dumbass.
- holyskeleton, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6Considering the number of Windows or Mac channels there are this is very probable.
- Raptor007, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5Er, maybe in the pic, but it said 1080p in the article. Still stupid though, by then they'd at least have QuadHD (3840x2160) standard.
- mctom987, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4@diggmaddy
I aggree, perhaps cars will be boasting 25MPG by then, running on the same oil we have been for years, and always saying higher efficiency cars are coming. - thechris353, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Mindy is a slut.
I did her back in 2009. - fani, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4***** the cars... at these gas prices, I better fly
- MrTea, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4I doubt hurd will be done by then.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Well screw the purists...
KDE itself and the current source of Qt4 will be GPL forever - Future versions of Qt4 may not be, but then the OSS community can branch Qt4.
I can understand their original concerns for using Qt (the whole nonfree concern thing was a much bigger deal at the time) but those concerns should be dead: Qt still hasn't gone bad, in fact they've improved vastly in their OSS version. - kahrn, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Would we really be watching TV in 2016?
- deathtoartists, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3which is why some purists wont use KDE
- ronaldmonster, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Yes but will it have a 10% marketshare?
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -1/+4I hope you're joking / trolling. If not then may god have mercy on your soul.
- ChayD, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4Dugg for Blender.
- sooperspook, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4What? You best be trolling like 10Gun said.
Anti-Americanism? Where? - worldnick, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Buried for being about something uninteresting happening in the future.
- t0x2c, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2The full screen 17" is badass though.
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