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Dvorak Admits To Trolling Mac Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone's-favorite-gasbag dept.

jalefkowit writes "Tech pundit John Dvorak has long been known for his inflammatory opinions. Many have suspected that these opinions are just a way to drive up traffic to his column. Now, we have it straight from the horse's mouth: Dave Winer has Dvorak on video describing his methodology for trolling the Mac community to pump up his stats." I have to admit I'm also guilty of posting the occasional inflammatory story, but I find it's usually best to suffix the title with a question mark, and let our ever-knowledgeable readers hash out the issue and decide for themselves.

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  1. Trolling the Mac community? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats an almost impossible task - mac users are too smart to take the bait ;)

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    1. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by mkw87 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just like they are too smart to operate the elevator at the NYC Store?

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    2. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by BobPaul · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey! That's not fair! That elevator is really super confusing. It has all of these buttons you have to push... It's hard.

    3. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

      > Hey! That's not fair! That elevator is really super confusing. It has all of these buttons you have to push... It's hard.

      An elevator with the Mac UI would have just one button "THERE". I mean, after all, I'm already HERE.

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    4. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
      Meanwhile, though, thanks to the underlying UNIXy OS, powerusers who type faster than they mouse can just open a terminal window and type (with tab-completion)
      open /Floors/14/Offices/Mike\'s\ Office
      to get right there.
    5. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by stunt_penguin · · Score: 5, Funny

      An elevator with a Google interface would be similarly easy to use, if slightly more text heavy, and there'd be some buttons off to the right hand side advertising what's on other floors based on the floors you've already visited, what you were talking about when you came into the elevator and what you're carrying.


      Reportedly, Ballmer now prefers to take the stairs

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    6. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey! That's not fair! That elevator is really super confusing. It has all of these buttons you have to push... It's hard.

      And they go, like, beep-beep-beep-beep... and the doors open up and the floor you were on is, like, gone!
      --Ellen Feiss

    7. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by kv9 · · Score: 5, Funny
      > Reportedly, Ballmer now prefers to take the chairs

      there, i fixed that for you

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    8. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by colinbrash · · Score: 2, Funny

      An elevator with the Mac UI would have just one button "THERE". I mean, after all, I'm already HERE.

      And the button would be in the middle of a big touch-sensitive circle that makes the elevator go up and down at varying speeds.

      Actually, that might be kind of cool...

    9. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by kimvette · · Score: 2, Funny

      But -- but -- but I thought the "mighty elevator" was the latest innovation! Mac users got confused by more than one button? Tell me it ain't so! I'm shocked! ;)

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    10. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by NMerriam · · Score: 3, Funny

      Um, the button might be helpful for telling the elevator there is someone inside wanting to go to the other floor. Just throwing out ideas here.

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    11. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by crashelite · · Score: 2, Funny

      it would also have a im feeling lucky button... just make sure ur safe lift filter is on unless u want to go to those floors....

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    12. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

      "An elevator with the Mac UI would have a picture of the building, and you'd drag the elevator over the floor you wanted to go to, at which point the picture would change to be a picture of that floor, and then you'd drop the elevator on the specific room you wanted to go to, and it would take you to that room."

      And if you want to exit the elevator, you intuitively drag the picture of the elevator to the trash can!

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    13. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by cafard · · Score: 2, Funny

      An elevator with the Mac UI would have just one button "THERE". "THERE" being randomly determined on the Elevator Shuffle, the only affordable one for trendy but short in cash companies.

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    14. Re:Trolling the Mac community? by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 2, Funny
      that would be "force quit".
      Since we're talking about the Apple store, I assume they'll have an emergency paperclip behind the counter.
  2. Disgraceful by Zeinfeld · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next you will be telling me that Ann Coulter only accuses the 9/11 widows of enjoying the death of their spouses to get attention.

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  3. Cowboy Neal in Slashdot troll shocker! by caluml · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cowboy Neal in Slashdot troll shocker! Read all about it for only $19.99 at all good book stores

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  4. Idiot moron troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Has anyone else noticed tags being censored, as Dvorak seems to be immune to the usual tags of "idiot moron troll"?

    1. Re:Idiot moron troll? by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 2, Funny

      People must not be rolling high enough to overcome his Tag Resistance.

  5. Question Mark ? by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have to admit I'm also guilty of posting the occasional inflammatory story, but I find it's usually best to suffix the title with a question mark, and let our ever-knowledgeable readers hash out the issue and decide for themselves.
    Ohwait, make that : Dvorak Admits To Trolling Mac Users ?

    :D
  6. Brace yourselves by BMonger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dvorak admits to trolling Mac users and Rosen admits the RIAA is wrong... apparently they know the second coming is happening soon and want to get some things off their chest.

    REPENT I SAY!

  7. Has CowboyNeal stopped beating his wife? by identity0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    We Slashdot users, of course, will never stoop to such measures just to get modded up :)

  8. Re:I've said it before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Two words for Ann Coulter: "Itsa Dude"

    S(H)e has man hands and an adams apple. Nothing like politics from a repressed christian transexual.

  9. Re:Trolling? by IntlHarvester · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't you heard? All Mac programs* should be rewritten in Objective-C and Cocoa, and any failure to do so is evidence of complete, traitorous disloyalty to the Mac community. In fact, there's strong evidence that Carbon programs aren't really Mac programs at all! Omni are the gods of Cocoa, and therefore the most loyal Apple developer and most deserving of Zealot support.

    Seriously, expecting any historical consistency out of this crowd is pointless. Intel processors suck because they are "CISC", remember.

    *except the Apple programs that are written in carbon (almost all of them)

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  10. Re:Overtonnage Overkillers by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Funny

    You and your comment should be annihilated, after being burned alive watching your family forced to cannibalize each other.

    See? It works, even in response to an overton attack. Of course, when opposing ends of a spectrum overton, the arms race makes the rubble bounce.

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  11. Horse's mouth? by Dorsai65 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or was that the other end of the horse?

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  12. Is this really shocking? by deviator · · Score: 1, Funny

    I like Dvorak. He's a smart & funny guy.

  13. Re:Trolling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you look at the Mac Community 10 years ago, the "Top technical elite" had almost entirely bailed off the platform.

    Yep. We were all on NeXTSTEP.

  14. Re:Slashdotted, see it on YouTube by blackcoot · · Score: 2, Funny

    this is standard procedure for dvorak --- if you don't believe me, listen to the "this week in tech" (aka twit) podcast. as far as i'm concerned, he gets filed together with used car sales people and 97% of politicians under "people i may or may not swerve to avoid on the street"

  15. So this is why... by chemindefer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Macs don't come with Dvorak keyboards.