32 posts tagged “john c. dvorak”
John C. Dvorak wrote in his latest article for PCMag: The iPhone Is No Desktop
"People are willing to make a device that you can drop in the toilet or leave in a taxi cab the next desktop computing platform. Ridiculous."
and...
So, I was doing the This Week in Tech show over the weekend, and one of the participants was singing the blues over spilling a cup of coffee on his two-month-old Apple laptop's keyboard. If this was a desktop rig—the old-fashioned kind—you'd have wrecked only a $50 keyboard, if that. Today, though, he's out over $1,500.
This is a more complete version of a previously blogged video of John C. Dvorak introducing the PS/2 in 1987 on the Computer Chronicles. As readers of this blog know, it's priceless.
TWiT 126 includes Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Roger Chang and Don Reisinger. Roger has some news to announce. The show will be released here on Monday morning.
Reports say this first aired on Dec. 13, 2001
Tonight was the largest TWiT panel in (recent) history, with no less than seven participants chiming in. A couple of TWiT panels recorded live on location have been larger, but this one was recorded, as usual, via Skype. The cast included Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, Wil Harris, Cali Lewis, Don Reisinger and Robert Scoble. Listen in at http://twit.tv/123 on Monday.
Tech columnists Bill Dubie and Dave Sciuto, formerly of The Computer Report radio show in Boston, write:
"We miss the good ol’ days of the TechTV cable channel. Since G4TV has absorbed our favorite network, it’s been sullied by fanboys and oh-so-hip under-30 personalities. Give us the down-and-dirty telepresence of tech veterans Leo LaPorte, “Cranky Geek” John C. Dvorak, Kevin Rose and Patrick Norton. Heck, we’d even take Martin Sargent."
Of course, on the video front, they can all be seen online now in various forms. "The Lab with Leo Laporte" posts guest segments to Google Video, John C. Dvorak has Cranky Geeks, and Kevin is on Diggnation. And if you'd even settle for Martin Sargent, check out "Web Drifter." Also, Patrick is on Tekzilla.
Apparently John C. Dvorak has created a new operating system, says this posting: "Dvorak Unveils New OS."
Dubbed “DvorOS“, the software is built on a mixture of Assembly, AJAX and Hypercard, and can be run on any digital device from top-of-the-line Dells to rice cookers.
The game is on. Steve Jobs (or at least someone pretending to be him) and his fans have taken on John C. Dvorak. In a slew of recent posts riffing on Dvorak's recent article titled "The Vista Death Watch," the cult of (Fake) Steve has weighed in on the subject of Dvorak leaving Windows for Mac (or Linux, etc.)
Dvorak to Microsoft: I'll switch to Linux or Mac, I swear I'll do it
Microsoft to Dvorak: Please go
Stallman to Dvorak: Welcome to freedom, your rulebook is in the mail
Apple to Dvorak: Please choose Linux
Shuttleworth to Dvorak: Please choose Red Hat
Red Hat to Dvorak: We recommend Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop
