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Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year'
twitter writes "The Vista Death Watch is PC Magazine's most popular column. That is just one of many items in Dvorak's review of yet another 'disappointing' year in Technology. 'I was not a fan of 2007. It was another crappy tech year--just the latest in a string of bad years dating back to 2000. Let's see some of the highlights and lowlights in no particular order ... The whopper for Intel, though, was its Viiv initiative, which was a dog from the get-go and was dropped--finally. Somewhere along the way, Intel bought into the Silicon Valley crock that CPUs were not important any more. What a laugh. Luckily for the company, it refocused on processor chips and found itself in the driver's seat once again. Of course, Intel will fall off the path again, of that you can be sure.'"
It's another bad year, Dvorak is still writing.
Microsoft must have given you the day off. I see the MS trolls are out with mod points.
"What is all this Windows Vista stuff we're hearing about? After so many years, it seems like Microsoft finally discovered that Windows are clear. You can see through 'em. Isn't that nice? But what if you are trying to read something in those Windows? My 4-year-old grandson writes on he windows all the time, and gets a good spanking for smudging the glass. Which reminds me: It seems like Microsoft has entered the Windex business - something they used to leave to real technology companies, like Symantec and Johnson Wax. Speaking of which, why doesn't Microsoft just start learning from Dow Corning, if they want us all to have clear windows in Vista?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
just the latest in a string of bad years dating back to 2000.
Translation : "I hate the 2000's, take me back to the late 90's! At least back then we were closer to the release of Duke Nukem Forever than we are now, somehow!"
You just got troll'd!
Somehow, that makes more sense.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
The tech industry looks back at another crappy Dvorak year.
bash dvorak.
:)
he makes more money doing nearly nothing and pisses off more people than any of you.
he's one of my heroes.
even all you people who claim to totally despise him. you went and read the article didnt you.. and gave them some ad money. lol
With all this talk about the imminent death of Vista I'm beginning to believe that Microsoft based it on BSD.
How can you say such a thing? Services are reliable! Everything is reliable these days. The network never goes down, the servers never go down, the drives never crash, the equipment's never taken offline for maintenance, the certificates never expire, the DNS hosts never get redirected, the security policies are never changed in the middle of the freakin' day (oh, that's a fun one!), the databases always replicate, the bandwidth is never saturated, latency is always zero, and the application software itself is flawless.
Hang on just a sec, there's a unicorn taking a leak on the rainbow on the next cloud over. "Get off my damn cloud, you freaks!"
John
Because people read his work (look it gets /.ed all the time).
Sure he might be of the tech industry. That doesn't mean that what he has to say is interesting. I read through half of the article before filing it in the "no shit" drawer.
All it will take for an interesting tech year is Duke Nukem Forever to come out. That will fix this whole mess.
The game.
I'd write up a look back at another crappy Dvorak year, but it'd be too depressing.
The Farewell Tour II
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
QWERTY is the best keyboard layout!