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It look pretty damn funny, http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1233.

I'm still not sure if i can believe this, because if it is true then i think i would explode

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/

Oh my.

That atom chip corporation is a hoax

7 gigaherz 64 bit processor, 2 terabytes flash hard drive in a laptop? sure...

I use a variant of Dvorak's Home Page:
http://www.dvorak.org/home.htm
It's all text so loads virtually instantly, and is saved on my local hard drive. It's occasionally of some use, and doesn't slow the browser down.

And don't knock Windows XP Porn Edition, as Dvorak would definitely be qualified to talk about that given that his personal blog, Dvorak Uncensored was recently categorised as sex-related...

I was able to hear Dvorak's Enter the New World crystal clear on nano's lowest volume setting while jackhammers busted up the street outside my window and parrots squawked within a meter of my ear.

Yes, and the sports scores are printed the next day too.

And we all die at some point

Life isn't about the end result, it's about fighting the fight to get there.
Slashdot is a glorified chatroom that periodically uses newsfeeds to continue long-going and pointless arguments. Hell, some people make a good living trolling these slashdot discussions.

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In the mean time, your geek card is hereby revoked. While you've made an honest attempt to pretend to be one, your lack of interest in an actual computing project that works well for the minority that uses it and uses technology in ways uncommon today shows a clear preference for the mainstream. Please return to Python "programming" and obsessing over how "Linux" will not be "ready for the desktop" until "Grandma" can use it, where I suspect, in pseudo-geekdom, never straying too far from the mainstream while dabbling in all that tech stuff, you'll feel more at home.

As I was reading your post, I began to have nightmares about reading John C. Dvorak articles!

Up until now, I thought that he was the only one who wrote like that.

If my policy is that anyone can reuse, alter and build upon my work for non-commercial purposes isn't easier just so say so--to encourage people--rather than replying to emails? I say everyone here on slashdot should send Dvorak an email asking if they can resuse his work and see how long it takes for him to see the point.

He has published his mail address here.

Read his bio at http://www.dvorak.org/shortbio.htm Dvorak spews for a living in copyrighted publications. Those are his credentials. End of story. Dvorak's boss likes him because when Dvorak spews he makes that publication's WinTel buying readership feel better about their own bad decisions. Ultimately Dvorak's drivel to an uninformed readership contributes to subscription renewals. That's it. Dvorak's publisher made Dvorak an authority and handed Dvorak his credentials because he sells magazines.

"Thirty-two cores on one chip by 2010. You heard it first here."

Actually, given the absurdity of that claim, I'll bet that Dvoraksaid it first ;)

I heard Dvorak on the episode 8 twitcast basically bragging he "called" this x86 switch a couple of years back.

he's completely extatic about it, and discuss the x86 switch as a done deal.

He's also going off on his blog.

I'm still not sold, and the debunk arguments by Gruber seems reasonable.

In early nineties, SCO bought a "license" to UNIX from Novel. Ever since Linux got big, they started demanding money from companies that had anything to do with Linux (AFAIR at least one huge hosting company settled to pay couple million dollars).

In general, everybody but MS (trouble for linux = they're happy) thinks it's a bunch of crap. Novel even states that SCO doesn't own UNIX copyrights...

Why embrace and extend? All they really need to do is support the evil bit.

But of course, being Microsoft, you're probably right. They'll make their own implementation of the evil bit, patent it, and charge royalties to others who want to support their new "EDDP" protocol (Evil Data Detection Protocol).

Not to mention that IIS, Exchange, IE, and Outlook will grow to require use of EDDP during transfers of data, locking Mozilla, Apple, Linux, and others from accessing much of the internet.

Finally, John C. Dvorak will boldly claim that EDDP is the wave of the future, and Apple, Linux, and Mozilla are clearly inferior for not supporting what is clearly a web standard, because if Microsoft says it is, it MUST be.

Here is the timeline for SCO vs IBM and Linux: Click here

Screw that, can I tether my jet ski to the back? 600 jet ski's might sound like a lot, but we're talking about a freaking cruise ship here, thing's probably over 1000 feet long.

from lavoice.org
"SeaCode would employ 600 developers - the bulk of them non-U.S. citizens "

um... if they're not US citizens how do they plan to visit the US? Are they all getting green cards or H1B's or whatever?

i hope they choose this as the ship ;)

At least one blogger seems to be equating them.

Dvorak also thinks Firefox is showing a good increase in usage. His numbers show that Microsoft only has a 50 percent of the market from visits to his sites. He then goes on to explain how it's almost certainly much lower. Check it out.

On John Dvorak's blog there is a picture of the founder of google in drag accompanying this headline. Perhaps playboy will include this photo in their article?

According to http://www.dvorak.org/scotimeline/, the SCO suit was launched on March 6, 2003.

According to http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Timeline %20of%20Linux%20development Linux Kernel 2.4 was released on January 4, 2001 so it would follow that the code for 2.5 would be under development until the release of 2.6 on December 18, 2003.

So it's possible that SCO code was incorporated into 2.5 at the time of the lawsuit, but if they had actually seen that happening when they filed the suit you'd think they might have mentioned it. Afterall, they would have been able to make a reasonable argument for an injunction.

No no! It's true! I have a sign right here a guy I used to know grabbed right from the front door of One Infinite Loop!It reads "Going out of Business! Everything must go! Up to 50% off BRAND NEW INSTOCK Macintosh II, IIx, IIcx, Mac Plus, Mac 512, Apple II, Apple III cpus and the BRAND NEW IN STOCK Apple Laserwriter!" I didn't think to keep it mylar, and it's a little yellowed and the edges are curling up a bit, showing a bit of wear. At one point I think I might have spilled coffee on it.

You're so right, because there's just no way for you to download thousands of UNIX utilities and run configure, make, and make install, and have it run on OS X.

And aside from the command line, there just aren't any software products, just as you say. Basically, with Macintosh, you get a word process, e-mail client, browser, and that's it!

And there's really no hope of that ever changing, what with the crappy, hard-to-use development enviroment Apple has released for their platform, and the total indiffernce from the developer community regarding the platform.

It's a wonder more people don't share the "insight" you do.

Thanks for the enlightenment!

How someone with horrible design skills like this, can be a writer at a major computer magazine is beyond me. He could at least have the sense to pay someone to design it for him . .

I wish someone could keep track a la Brill's Content of the computer pundits and how often their predictions come true. Dvorak would be batting like a .050. Anyone remember the "Unix is dead" piece? Also, anyone take time to read his other column in this month's issue, "Adobe is in shambles"? What the hell was that? I really have a hard time seeing where stories of Adobe's founders being taken hostage by terrorists fit in the rest of the content of the magazine. That column belongs in a tabloid, not a computer publication. The best part of the article is when he touts the "amazing" results he got from Adobe ImageReady - he was able to crank out this "amazing" page "in literally 30 minutes." What a disgrace. I can't believe PC Magazine lets him run one of his gossip columns each month, let alone two like he did this issue.