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• twitter

  2008-12-11 01:33:25

  Oxite n. 1. an oxygen depriving excitement. 2. an echo chamber that doubles as a place of asphyxiation by induced euphoria in a confined space. 3. a toxic crowd controll agent. 4. a padded cell for lunatics (obsolete and offensive) example of use:
  
  

  Internal Microsoft documents show that Gates was at the centre of a deliberate move to "cut off the oxygen supply" to Netscape. This failed so oxite was invented.

  
  
  

  Oxite use has been banned by the treaty of Boston as a cruel and unpredictable weapon of mass destruction.

• AlexH

  2008-12-11 08:22:57

  Difficult to see how Microsoft could "Embrace, extend, extinguish" their own product - that's like cutting your nose off to spite your face.

• Jo Shields

  2008-12-11 08:42:55

  I've taken a look at Oxite. There are licensing problems (a folder marked bin/ containing assemblies of indeterminate origin and license, possibly taken from blog examples)

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-12-11 09:14:08

  AlexH, not EEEing a product here but a mode of development (that's how they want the world to see it).

• cosplayfan

  2008-12-11 09:26:46

  Roy, M$ has bought Beranger, now!

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-12-11 09:35:16

  He's not bought. He's playing attention games again. Like "sad state of open source" and a migration to BSD...

• cosplayfan

  2008-12-11 09:38:11

  Well, I'll know what to think when the first Vista-adds turn up on his blog...

• AlexH

  2008-12-11 10:08:23

  @Roy: I'm not really sure what the mode of development has to do with anything, since they're basically developing this in private?
  
  @cosplayfan: at least Beranger's tripe is off the menu here, for now at least.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-12-11 10:10:58

  Yes, that's the upside of it.

• aeshna23

  2008-12-11 19:14:03

  The video reminded me of http://www.theonion.com/content/video/youtube_contest_challenges_users
  
  It was an utter waste. Please do a little quality control.

• jo Shields

  2008-12-11 19:16:12

  It was an utter waste. Please do a little quality control.

  
  
  Next you'll suggest proof-reading. Silly child!

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-12-11 21:10:08

  aeshna23,
  
  I'm OK with the choice. I put up one of this chap's videos before.

• G. Michaels

  2008-12-12 02:07:47

  sockpuppet n. 1. A a puppet made from a sock (or similar garment) which is placed over the hand of a puppeteer. 2. An online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community. In its earliest usage, a sockpuppet was a false identity through which a member of an Internet community speaks with or about oneself, pretending to be a different person, like a ventriloquist manipulating a hand puppet. example of use
  
  Note: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as documented here.
  
  

• Lord AGNUcius

  2008-12-12 23:54:51

  If only the photo were of a GNU instead of a Gazelle...

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-12-13 00:03:51

  I found one rather disturbing photo of a Python with a pregnant sheep in it. I wouldn't want to see innocent gnus harmed.