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Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco'
theodp writes "PC Magazine's John C. Dvorak has a unique take on the cute One Laptop per Child XO-1, deeming the OLPC project a naive fiasco waiting to unfold that sends an insulting 'let them eat cake' message to the world's poor. When it comes down to a choice of providing African kids living in absolute poverty with access to Slashdot or a $200 truckload of rice, Dvorak votes for the latter. Buy ten OLPCs if it assuages your guilt, says Dvorak, but 'I'll donate my money to hunger relief.'"
Man does not live by bread alone.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to phish and he will eat for a lifetime.
... and he will eat for a day. Show him how to monetize his web site with google ads, and he can go to the market and buy fish with the money he makes.
Loose lips lose spit.
Dvorak needs to head over to ted.com and learn a thing or two.
For example: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister of Nigeria gives a talk on Aid versus trade:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/152
"Piter, too, is dead."
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day.
Teach a man how to 419 and he can fish for a lifetime.
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
"Light a man a fire and you'll keep him warm for a night; light a man afire and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life."
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Going back even further, I read an article of his in the DOS days where he said the average user didn't need multitasking. Around the same time he complained about TSR's not playing well together.
I wish he'd give stock tips. I could short whatever stock he recommended and make a fortune.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ
He admits that he says crap just to get hits and be famous. His column in PC Magazine is crap and so is his keyboard.
He's a bitter old man who's opinions mean nothing.
teach a man to spoof websites and he can phish for a lifetime.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
Don't think giving him that much attention would be good, but how about one section for just "Some Analcyst says.." stories? That would be great.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Just filter out Zonk and Kdawson. Judging from the summaries they give I wonder if either one of them made it out of high school.
Since your reading a dvorak article, its obviously not too effective :P
Slashdot degrades itself when it runs stories by Dvorak. It can't look good from any perspective when half the regular membership is tagging a story submission as troll. I'll show you how it works. Watch me degrade myself by making references to Woody Allen. In fact, I did watch Sleeper the other night. (An interesting calculation: when Allen wakes up in the year 2173, Soon-Yi will be 203 years old. Gaaa! Given enough time, he'll prove us wrong yet.) Dvorak is the Howard Cosell of the IT industry, and that's probably paying him a complement he doesn't deserve.
We have a special term for people like Dvorak in the UK. We call them cunts.
Teach a man to fish, and he can sit in a boat drinking beer for a lifetime.
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