SlashNOT

Matthew writes: At the beginning of each year, SlashNOT makes a series of ten predictions for the coming year. Here are the official SlashNOT predictions for 2003:

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. Miss Cleo will start “Miss Cleo’s Psychotic Hotline”, which clients can call to have incoherent insults and rants screamed at them in the comfort of their own homes.
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.