As much as I would love to gloat at the incompetence of two evil corporate giants like AOL and Time Warner, did anyone else feel uneasy about reading a scathing analysis of the financial fortunes of one corporate juggernaut from a news source that is owned by another corporate juggernaut that is in direct competition with it? The tone of the article seemed rather smug and self-serving -- even by Fox News standards.
Re:The trend of PDA's
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That's not my experience at all as a PDA user. I found that my first PDA (a Palm III) became an indispensible part of my life in short order. Over the years I upgraded to newer models and still use my for PDA for mundane tasks because it allows me to perform these mundane tasks more efficiently. But I also use it as a cellphone , to keep passwords secure, to connect to the Internet, read news, e-books, as a desk and travel alarm clock and for many more things. I don't know if children will really use the device in this article but this mature adult will never grow tired of his PDA.
There IS a hack (which has been around since Win95) that can be used to replace the START button with the image of your choice; that's what people refer to when they talk about covering it up, not an icon as such. The visible result would be that you'd use the "REAL" button, or the "DELL" button, or whatever logo was pasted there (instead of the traditional "START" button with a M$ logo), tho otherwise it would be effectively identical.
The only hack I'm familiar with is to replace the built-in windows icon in explorer.exe using a resourse editor. You can also hex edit explorer.exe and replace the word "Start" in the start button with any other five-letter word like "Begin" or "Bitch". There are several progams around to make this process a little easier.
But ultimately, you have to replace the regular explorer.exe program with your hacked version and you have to do it from outside the GUI. In other words, you need to go into DOS -- real DOS, not the command prompt you can open up from the start menu. This is why the hack is not more common. Most Windows users are fraid to go into DOS and legally, you're not supposed to alter Microsoft's executable programs anyway -- closed source and all that.
I recently upgraded a Win box (yes, the shame) from Netscape 4.75 to 6.11 and it's a dog.
It depends on how fast your computer is and how much memory it has. Older computers with less than 300MHz processors and less than 64MB or RAM won't run Mozilla/NS6.x well. If you have an older computer that's low on RAM get Opera. Is there much difference between the Mozilla 1.0 build and the Netscape 6.11? Should I have chosen native Win code during the install instead of "generic" code?
The Netscape version tends to run several builds behind the Mozilla version. This is because Netscape's people put together a custom build from the original Mozilla build and this takes time. Furthermore, the Netscape version is likely to be weighed down with a lot of AOL specific crap -- like custom themes, links, sidebars, and applications you don't need -- that will slow it down even more. Go to Mozilla's official website and download the latest build. It will have the latest bug fixes and improvements that won't make it into Netscape for weeks or even months.
I tried the Visor Phone when it was released, and always felt like I was going to break it. It was bigger than I was comfortable with, and really hurt my wrist trying to hold it to my ear. This sounds like it's a little more egonomic.
I upgraded from a Visor Platinum with a VisorPhone to a Treo 180g. The Treo is definitely a lot more comfortable to use. It's smaller, lighter, and fits in the hand better. Besides the earpiece, it also has a speakerphone which works nicely for hands free calling.
I'm pretty much in the same boat except that I've really enjoyed using my Palm IIIc during the past year and a half. But I just got a Handspring Treo, so this wouldn't be my primary PDA, since the Treo can do double duty as my cell phone does a great job at Internet access.
Still this new Clie sure is tempting. With the camera, keyboard, virtual Graffiti, hi-res screen, and MP3 support, it could come in really handy during the day even if I'm not using it as my primary organizer. Snapping quick pictures, light typing, music, games, and document handling -- it's almost like carrying around a bunch of devices in one box.
I could probably duplicate most of this machine's functionality with Handspring Visor Prism and several Springboards. But in that case, we're talking about one small box and several tiny boxes that need to be accounted for when they are not snapped into the main box. I wonder if a memory stick can be kept in this new Clie all of the time.
Re:Why yEnv is good for the software companies
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As a Deja.com shareholder, I followed the talks between Deja and Google last January very closely. I learned many interesting things about company strategy, usage patterns, and targeted markets. But one thing that I'll never forget is this one chilling statistic: 98% of binaries traffic on Usenet is pirated software or illegal pornography (by volume), and 93% by number of posts.
Ummm, you are familiar with the three kinds of lies right? Besides, pirated software and porn (whether legal or illegal) posts can take up hundreds of megabytes and are blown up by about 33% by less efficient encoding schemes like MIME and uuencode. This is why their "volume" is so high. For the first time, I truly felt appreciative to Deja for all of the efforts they expended in keeping this illicit content off of their fine service.
Actually, it was quite easy for them. They just didn't save any binary content on their fine service so it was easy to keep the illicit stuff off.
And just for the record, whoever wrote up that 93% pr0n and warez posts statistic wasn't focusing just on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation or alt.binaries.pictures.astro. I have never once encountered anything like what you'd see on goats.cx (something I alas can't say about/.) in a binaries group that was dedicated to something wholesome like aviation or astronomy. Those groups tend to be filled with pictures of airplanes and stars. And that brings me to my point: yEnc sucks. yEnc is a horrible standard. Just like uuencode, it forces you to track down all 56 posts that constitute the 1337 warez release or all 7 posts of your kiddie porn movie.
And just like uuencode, most serious Usenet users can use yEnc savvy newsreader like XNews or Agent to track down, join, and decode all 56 posts of your illegal copy of Bloatware 2002 automagically.
The funny part is the Mr Jurgen doesn't even like it's current inception. Check the Follwing link
That message is a week old and was sent in response to a one week delay in the release of Agent 1.91 (the first version with yEnc support). And in any case, the link you provided shows Mr. Juergen being very complementary to Forte Inc. and the Agent development team.
Since then Agent 1.91 has been released and Mr. Juergen posted this message to the Agent newsgroup thanking the Agent team.
I still use a dialup connection -- for connecting on the go with my Handspring Treo. Otherwise I use my DSL line.
On the one hand my local phone company charges me a lot more for my DSL line than they would for an extra phone line. On the other hand, I'm online all the time and downloading a lot bigger files since I have a much faster connection that doesn't tie up my phone line. So there is likely to be a trade off for the phone between the extra money that they squeeze out of me for my DSL and the extra bandwidth that I eat up just because I can.
In any case, these kinds of scary predictions have been appearing for years.
Quicklaunch is a dirty little hack to get around the real problem: slow start-up time. If Mozilla's state gets screwed up, I now have to go and kill it in task manager as it never exits when Quicklaunch is enabled.
This is true but I don't worry about it too much these days. The latest Mozilla releases have been quite stable on my system and I can always disable Quicklaunch if that changes in the future so I don't really care. In any case, I see Quicklaunch more as a dirty little hack to get around the fact that unlike Microsoft, the Mozilla team can't "integrate" its browser into the OS for faster start-up time.:-)
I really am trying to find a good reason to even keep netscape on my box anymore. If there were just a good repository of plugins Mozilla would be the best damned browser available... I would compare it to Netscape, but it has obviously surpassed netscape so I will compare it to the next best thing. I think it definantelly holds its weight against IE... In fact with all the new integration... I think it beats IE... all we need are the plugins... and we're set... at least crossover has started to help..
I'm inclined to agree. With the Quicklaunch option enabled, Mozilla is faster than IE on my system. I'm loving the new tabbed browsing. It's great for keeping my place on sites like Slashdot where there are a lot of links to outside sites. Mozilla's cookie management and form management is wonderful. And I'm really starting to like its sidebars and its handling of bookmarks.
Why do I always people saying things like: "Slashdotted already! What a pity... It should have been cached."
But when I click on the link anyway, the site loads with on problem. This is the rule not the exception. The amount of times I can't get to a link from slashdot is surprisingly low.
That's because those people are the ones who do the actual slashdotting. Usually by the time normal people like you and me click on the link, somebody at the other end has noticed that their site is down due to a DBS (Denial by Slashdot) attack and has set up a couple of mirrors that that future requests can be redirected to. After all, it's not somebody would lie about a thing like that.
However, yes, I did miss some of the episode because my cable company RCN [rcn.com] has such crappy service that my cable box went offline for 5 minutes during the "space station" scene.
That appears to have been a national problem. The Chicago UPN affiliate went out for a few minutes while I was watching and I have seen a few complaints on Usenet about the outage as well.
I thought it was best pilot of all the spin-offs - but no way does it compare to that great TOS pilot "The Cage"
That's a good point but rememer that "The Cage" was rejected by NBC when it was first presented. Gene Roddenberry actually had to start over with "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in order to sell the series.
You'd think that for Klingons this would be a perfect first contact. Remember, they *like* to fight.
Of course a *real* Klingon would have shot (or knifed) the farmer before he said, 'Freeze'!
And that may have been part of the problem. They didn't allow the Klingon to die with honor. Maybe the Vulcans were right about wanting to just pull the plug and return the corpse to Quo'nos.
Does anyone remember the "Encounter at Space JellyfishLand (er, Farpoint)" that was the pilot of TNG?
Personally, I thought it was EXCELLENT for a pilot. The show will get its legs--let it happen and enjoy what you can while it does. Or just watch Andromeda.
I agree, TNG's pilot was weak, "Broken Bow" was at least as good if not better then the DS9 and Voyager Pilot episodes. The truth is that the most worrisome part of this episode wasn't the episode itself but rather Brannon Braga's presence in the credits.
I've dropped my IIIxe a total of 12 times, from 1 foot to 15 feet (scaling a fence:)). Its gone into "self destruct" mode (cover flies off, batteries fly everwhere, battery cover takes a long trip), but no permament damage (screen is still fine, no cracks). I would call that rugged.
Much as I've liked the various Palms and Visors that I have owned, you've been lucky. My first Palm III fell two feet onto a hard bathroom floor and cracked its screen. My replacement Palm III never got damaged but I could feel its case flex when I squeezed it enough to know that it would probably suffer the same fate if I dropped it. My Palm IIIc feels a little more rugged as do my Visor Deluxe and Visor Platinum but they aren't very rugged compared to other devices like cell phones.
The only thing I can think of is "Hey, don't like our Linux distro? No problem! Grab a PalmOS image and load it up! Cheap PalmIIIs!" Illegal as they may be.
Of course, I'm a little hesitant to push that point so much. Sounds far too much like not-so-distant claims from Microsoft that if a whitebox shop didn't pay for a Windows license, they were obviously intending to pirate Microsoft products.
This sounds pretty logical. The LinuxDA machine costs about thirty dollars less than the cheapest Palms right now -- although a used Palm III costs the same as a new LinuxDA machine. I don't think that Palm is powerful enough to do what Microsoft has been doing to whitebox manufacturers. In any case, LinuxDA isn't a PalmOS licensee, so Palm wouldn't be able to hold the threat of yanking its OS license over its head the way Microsoft can do with whitebox shops.
Another possibility is that it can beam and receive information to and from the built-in Palm applications. That would be a form of compatibility. The LinuxDA machine also has a writing area, so another form of compatibility would be the ability to emulate Graffiti strokes.
So, did he die all at once in a sudden implosion, or gradually fade away over a long period of time?
According to the NY Times article, he died a month after suffering a stroke, from which he never recovered. So would seem that in death, as in life, Hoyle chose the unconventional route -- a sudden implosion, followed by fading away over a long period of time.
While it's nice that the X-10 provide a way for you to temporarily opt out of their popup ads, they still track you (even if it's only indirectly) through that same cookie that tells them not to popup their ads. That's how they know the thirty days have expired. So what's preferable, annoying popups or being tracked by company you find so annoying that you've opted out of its content? Is Junkbusters a good alternative?
Or do you just want to shut off Javascript and be done with it?
Suck is still posting their summer "reruns" and they haven't announced anything about shutting down permanently so there is still hope. But it is interesting to note that the banner ads that they used to run in a frame at the bottom of the page have been replaced by a plug for their summer reruns. It's hard to see how they will start up again with no advertisers.
My Favorite Dvorak Conspiracy Theory...
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I'm still wondering what happened to the thousands of black PowerPC machines that Dvorak claimed that IBM had stored in a big warehouse a few years ago. Supposedly IBM was going to flood the market with cheap, pc-compatible RISC machines and the entire industry was in for a blood bath.
Who gives a shit about TiVo seriously? Come on now, really if this was "Beergut: News for Couch Potatoes" maybe this would be on topic.
It's on topic because:
TiVo runs Linux. All Linux related news be posted even if the only Linux related part of the story is that the author bought Linus a beer in Cupertino five years ago.
It's an intellectual property issue. All IP issues are on topic.
Re:John C. Dvorak... he lost it
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I remember back when that was true, but as I recall, there was as many misses as hits. I first heard about DVD, MP3 and nickel-hydride batteries from his columns years before they became widely known, but if I recall correctly he also thought that push technology was going to become the next big thing. (anyone remember pointcast?)
Dvorak hated push technology largely because he thought that it was just a big scam to shove a lot more advertising down our throats. It's kind of ironic that he now condemns TiVo and its PVR brethren because they allow us to have less advertising shoved down our throats.
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As much as I would love to gloat at the incompetence of two evil corporate giants like AOL and Time Warner, did anyone else feel uneasy about reading a scathing analysis of the financial fortunes of one corporate juggernaut from a news source that is owned by another corporate juggernaut that is in direct competition with it? The tone of the article seemed rather smug and self-serving -- even by Fox News standards.
That's not my experience at all as a PDA user. I found that my first PDA (a Palm III) became an indispensible part of my life in short order. Over the years I upgraded to newer models and still use my for PDA for mundane tasks because it allows me to perform these mundane tasks more efficiently.
But I also use it as a cellphone , to keep passwords secure, to connect to the Internet, read news, e-books, as a desk and travel alarm clock and for many more things. I don't know if children will really use the device in this article but this mature adult will never grow tired of his PDA.
There IS a hack (which has been around since Win95) that can be used to replace the START button with the image of your choice; that's what people refer to when they talk about covering it up, not an icon as such. The visible result would be that you'd use the "REAL" button, or the "DELL" button, or whatever logo was pasted there (instead of the traditional "START" button with a M$ logo), tho otherwise it would be effectively identical.
The only hack I'm familiar with is to replace the built-in windows icon in explorer.exe using a resourse editor. You can also hex edit explorer.exe and replace the word "Start" in the start button with any other five-letter word like "Begin" or "Bitch". There are several progams around to make this process a little easier.
But ultimately, you have to replace the regular explorer.exe program with your hacked version and you have to do it from outside the GUI. In other words, you need to go into DOS -- real DOS, not the command prompt you can open up from the start menu. This is why the hack is not more common. Most Windows users are fraid to go into DOS and legally, you're not supposed to alter Microsoft's executable programs anyway -- closed source and all that.
The sad truth is, in the imposter derby, The Rock is a better at pretending to be an actor than Jon Katz is at pretending to be a writer...
What a horrible thing to say. The Rock is much more charismatic than Jon Katz.
I recently upgraded a Win box (yes, the shame) from Netscape 4.75 to 6.11 and it's a dog.
It depends on how fast your computer is and how much memory it has. Older computers with less than 300MHz processors and less than 64MB or RAM won't run Mozilla/NS6.x well. If you have an older computer that's low on RAM get Opera.
Is there much difference between the Mozilla 1.0 build and the Netscape 6.11? Should I have chosen native Win code during the install instead of "generic" code?
The Netscape version tends to run several builds behind the Mozilla version. This is because Netscape's people put together a custom build from the original Mozilla build and this takes time. Furthermore, the Netscape version is likely to be weighed down with a lot of AOL specific crap -- like custom themes, links, sidebars, and applications you don't need -- that will slow it down even more. Go to Mozilla's official website and download the latest build. It will have the latest bug fixes and improvements that won't make it into Netscape for weeks or even months.
I tried the Visor Phone when it was released, and always felt like I was going to break it. It was bigger than I was comfortable with, and really hurt my wrist trying to hold it to my ear. This sounds like it's a little more egonomic.
I upgraded from a Visor Platinum with a VisorPhone to a Treo 180g. The Treo is definitely a lot more comfortable to use. It's smaller, lighter, and fits in the hand better. Besides the earpiece, it also has a speakerphone which works nicely for hands free calling.
I'm pretty much in the same boat except that I've really enjoyed using my Palm IIIc during the past year and a half. But I just got a Handspring Treo, so this wouldn't be my primary PDA, since the Treo can do double duty as my cell phone does a great job at Internet access.
Still this new Clie sure is tempting. With the camera, keyboard, virtual Graffiti, hi-res screen, and MP3 support, it could come in really handy during the day even if I'm not using it as my primary organizer. Snapping quick pictures, light typing, music, games, and document handling -- it's almost like carrying around a bunch of devices in one box.
I could probably duplicate most of this machine's functionality with Handspring Visor Prism and several Springboards. But in that case, we're talking about one small box and several tiny boxes that need to be accounted for when they are not snapped into the main box. I wonder if a memory stick can be kept in this new Clie all of the time.
As a Deja.com shareholder, I followed the talks between Deja and Google last January very closely. I learned many interesting things about company strategy, usage patterns, and targeted markets. But one thing that I'll never forget is this one chilling statistic: 98% of binaries traffic on Usenet is pirated software or illegal pornography (by volume), and 93% by number of posts.
Ummm, you are familiar with the three kinds of lies right? Besides, pirated software and porn (whether legal or illegal) posts can take up hundreds of megabytes and are blown up by about 33% by less efficient encoding schemes like MIME and uuencode. This is why their "volume" is so high.
For the first time, I truly felt appreciative to Deja for all of the efforts they expended in keeping this illicit content off of their fine service.
Actually, it was quite easy for them. They just didn't save any binary content on their fine service so it was easy to keep the illicit stuff off.
And just for the record, whoever wrote up that 93% pr0n and warez posts statistic wasn't focusing just on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation or alt.binaries.pictures.astro. I have never once encountered anything like what you'd see on goats.cx (something I alas can't say about
And that brings me to my point: yEnc sucks. yEnc is a horrible standard. Just like uuencode, it forces you to track down all 56 posts that constitute the 1337 warez release or all 7 posts of your kiddie porn movie.
And just like uuencode, most serious Usenet users can use yEnc savvy newsreader like XNews or Agent to track down, join, and decode all 56 posts of your illegal copy of Bloatware 2002 automagically.
The funny part is the Mr Jurgen doesn't even like it's current inception. Check the Follwing link
That message is a week old and was sent in response to a one week delay in the release of Agent 1.91 (the first version with yEnc support). And in any case, the link you provided shows Mr. Juergen being very complementary to Forte Inc. and the Agent development team.
Since then Agent 1.91 has been released and Mr. Juergen posted this message to the Agent newsgroup thanking the Agent team.
I still use a dialup connection -- for connecting on the go with my Handspring Treo. Otherwise I use my DSL line.
On the one hand my local phone company charges me a lot more for my DSL line than they would for an extra phone line. On the other hand, I'm online all the time and downloading a lot bigger files since I have a much faster connection that doesn't tie up my phone line. So there is likely to be a trade off for the phone between the extra money that they squeeze out of me for my DSL and the extra bandwidth that I eat up just because I can.
In any case, these kinds of scary predictions have been appearing for years.
Quicklaunch is a dirty little hack to get around the real problem: slow start-up time. If Mozilla's state gets screwed up, I now have to go and kill it in task manager as it never exits when Quicklaunch is enabled.
This is true but I don't worry about it too much these days. The latest Mozilla releases have been quite stable on my system and I can always disable Quicklaunch if that changes in the future so I don't really care. In any case, I see Quicklaunch more as a dirty little hack to get around the fact that unlike Microsoft, the Mozilla team can't "integrate" its browser into the OS for faster start-up time.
I really am trying to find a good reason to even keep netscape on my box anymore. If there were just a good repository of plugins Mozilla would be the best damned browser available
I'm inclined to agree. With the Quicklaunch option enabled, Mozilla is faster than IE on my system. I'm loving the new tabbed browsing. It's great for keeping my place on sites like Slashdot where there are a lot of links to outside sites. Mozilla's cookie management and form management is wonderful. And I'm really starting to like its sidebars and its handling of bookmarks.
Why do I always people saying things like: "Slashdotted already! What a pity... It should have been cached."
But when I click on the link anyway, the site loads with on problem. This is the rule not the exception. The amount of times I can't get to a link from slashdot is surprisingly low.
That's because those people are the ones who do the actual slashdotting. Usually by the time normal people like you and me click on the link, somebody at the other end has noticed that their site is down due to a DBS (Denial by Slashdot) attack and has set up a couple of mirrors that that future requests can be redirected to. After all, it's not somebody would lie about a thing like that.
However, yes, I did miss some of the episode because my cable company RCN [rcn.com] has such crappy service that my cable box went offline for 5 minutes during the "space station" scene.
That appears to have been a national problem. The Chicago UPN affiliate went out for a few minutes while I was watching and I have seen a few complaints on Usenet about the outage as well.
I thought it was best pilot of all the spin-offs - but no way does it compare to that great TOS pilot "The Cage"
That's a good point but rememer that "The Cage" was rejected by NBC when it was first presented. Gene Roddenberry actually had to start over with "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in order to sell the series.
You'd think that for Klingons this would be a perfect first contact. Remember, they *like* to fight.
Of course a *real* Klingon would have shot (or knifed) the farmer before he said, 'Freeze'!
And that may have been part of the problem. They didn't allow the Klingon to die with honor. Maybe the Vulcans were right about wanting to just pull the plug and return the corpse to Quo'nos.
Does anyone remember the "Encounter at Space JellyfishLand (er, Farpoint)" that was the pilot of TNG?
Personally, I thought it was EXCELLENT for a pilot. The show will get its legs--let it happen and enjoy what you can while it does. Or just watch Andromeda.
I agree, TNG's pilot was weak, "Broken Bow" was at least as good if not better then the DS9 and Voyager Pilot episodes. The truth is that the most worrisome part of this episode wasn't the episode itself but rather Brannon Braga's presence in the credits.
I've dropped my IIIxe a total of 12 times, from 1 foot to 15 feet (scaling a fence
Much as I've liked the various Palms and Visors that I have owned, you've been lucky. My first Palm III fell two feet onto a hard bathroom floor and cracked its screen. My replacement Palm III never got damaged but I could feel its case flex when I squeezed it enough to know that it would probably suffer the same fate if I dropped it. My Palm IIIc feels a little more rugged as do my Visor Deluxe and Visor Platinum but they aren't very rugged compared to other devices like cell phones.
The only thing I can think of is "Hey, don't like our Linux distro? No problem! Grab a PalmOS image and load it up! Cheap PalmIIIs!" Illegal as they may be.
Of course, I'm a little hesitant to push that point so much. Sounds far too much like not-so-distant claims from Microsoft that if a whitebox shop didn't pay for a Windows license, they were obviously intending to pirate Microsoft products.
This sounds pretty logical. The LinuxDA machine costs about thirty dollars less than the cheapest Palms right now -- although a used Palm III costs the same as a new LinuxDA machine. I don't think that Palm is powerful enough to do what Microsoft has been doing to whitebox manufacturers. In any case, LinuxDA isn't a PalmOS licensee, so Palm wouldn't be able to hold the threat of yanking its OS license over its head the way Microsoft can do with whitebox shops.
Another possibility is that it can beam and receive information to and from the built-in Palm applications. That would be a form of compatibility. The LinuxDA machine also has a writing area, so another form of compatibility would be the ability to emulate Graffiti strokes.
So, did he die all at once in a sudden implosion, or gradually fade away over a long period of time?
According to the NY Times article, he died a month after suffering a stroke, from which he never recovered. So would seem that in death, as in life, Hoyle chose the unconventional route -- a sudden implosion, followed by fading away over a long period of time.
While it's nice that the X-10 provide a way for you to temporarily opt out of their popup ads, they still track you (even if it's only indirectly) through that same cookie that tells them not to popup their ads. That's how they know the thirty days have expired. So what's preferable, annoying popups or being tracked by company you find so annoying that you've opted out of its content? Is Junkbusters a good alternative?
Or do you just want to shut off Javascript and be done with it?
Suck is still posting their summer "reruns" and they haven't announced anything about shutting down permanently so there is still hope. But it is interesting to note that the banner ads that they used to run in a frame at the bottom of the page have been replaced by a plug for their summer reruns. It's hard to see how they will start up again with no advertisers.
I'm still wondering what happened to the thousands of black PowerPC machines that Dvorak claimed that IBM had stored in a big warehouse a few years ago. Supposedly IBM was going to flood the market with cheap, pc-compatible RISC machines and the entire industry was in for a blood bath.
Who gives a shit about TiVo seriously? Come on now, really if this was "Beergut: News for Couch Potatoes" maybe this would be on topic.
It's on topic because:
I remember back when that was true, but as I recall, there was as many misses as hits. I first heard about DVD, MP3 and nickel-hydride batteries from his columns years before they became widely known, but if I recall correctly he also thought that push technology was going to become the next big thing. (anyone remember pointcast?)
Dvorak hated push technology largely because he thought that it was just a big scam to shove a lot more advertising down our throats. It's kind of ironic that he now condemns TiVo and its PVR brethren because they allow us to have less advertising shoved down our throats.
Some pundits just don't age well.