SlashNOT

Matthew writes: At the beginning of each year, SlashNOT makes a series of ten predictions for the coming year. Our surprising accuracy rate continues undimmed — 90% of our predictions for last year came true! Here is a recap of the predictions we made at the beginning of 2002.

1. Sun will sue somebody over Java.
2. Linux will continue to gain market share while Microsoft continues to wonder what to do about it.
3. Bill Gates will say something inane.
4. Yet another Slashdot parody site will appear.
5. HP will “merge” with a large rival as a method to gain marketshare in a stagnant sector.
6. Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader of North Korea, will invite Disney to create “Disneyland-Pyongyang”, an offer which Disney will decline citing a lack of significant tourism to the region. North Korea will retaliate by producing weapons of mouse destruction.
7. Hard disk drives will double in size without increasing in price.
8. Intel will release x86 processors that are 25% faster.
9. The Itanium processor will fail to gain significant inroads in the server market.
10. At least one journalist will use the phrase “light at the end of the tunnel” when talking about the tech economy.