Comments on: QotD: John C. Dvorak

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:12:07 +0000

Ah, complaining about my blog because you choose to read it elsewhere… I am sorry you have been inconvenienced by my reference to historical analysis that seems hilarious in retrospect. Next time, I expect a thorough flogging and evisceration for reflecting on Bill Gates’ famous suggestion that “640KB of RAM should be enough for anybody”. That Dvorak gives a crap about Linux is entirely irrelevant to the humour in this quote (and his general lack of clue).

Good try, though — your “righteous indignation about someone else’s sense of humour” style is definitely improving!

(Also, people deleting shitty comments on their own blogs can not even remotely be described as “censorship”. There are plenty of other places you can go to say whatever the hell you want. When you attempt to say something within someone else’s forum, they have every right to choose whether or not to publish it.)

By: Cas

Cas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:32:05 +0000

A lot of your posted drivel shows up on planet Ubuntu. I read the planet as a matter of course as I’m an ubuntu advocate and user. I see stupid stuff from your feed there from time to time, I come here and you have a comment section so I respond, and you don’t like the response so its “go find another playground?”
Cry me a river.

And oh that was a well thought out and meaningful response about a MAINSTREAM journalist who is beginning to advocate in said mainstream press the OS we both love.
-hopefully you understand sarcasm as I in no way have any illusions about swaying you.

You don’t like the guy, big whoop, the world is full of opinions, mine included. But you put your opinions out there for the world to see and then expect us all to fall into the Waugh-world lockstep with no other opinion or dissent?

Dvorak has been a mainstream well paid journalist/commentator for a long time NOT because of your opinion, but those of his peers in the community and the industry as a whole. He is respected because unlike your ‘take’ on the guy, he has been right far more times than wrong. He takes chances, and on this issue he was wrong. No one bats a thousand, but he has been critical of linux in general for years and this of course can be a real sore spot for linux folk. But in general he’s been critical of a lot of silly crap over the years, calling a lot of stuff out correctly.

Comments to the article posted can’t sway the poster (usually), but they can counterpoint the smack occasionally for others to be swayed in another direction, or to just provide another point of view to provide an opinion contrary to what has been published.

Unless of course the author of the article decides to censor said comments. Then of course another playground as you so eloquently put it would be found.

As I’ve never seen you do that, you have my respect for that at the least.

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:40:08 +0000

You think a single article which appeals to my particular tastes (with the usual smattering of easily avoided inaccuracies) might sway me, against a career of dunderheaded idiocies? Do find another playground.

By: Cas

Cas — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:20:05 +0000

Here’s some comedy for you then.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp

Now is Master Dvorak such an “asshat”, or……..hmmmm?
lmao

By: Chris Sherlock

Chris Sherlock — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:38:20 +0000

lol!

I thought it a bit ironic that Cas reads your blog.

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:50:47 +0000

Indeed — if you read Dvorak as comedy rather than analysis, there’s definitely humour to be found. Good try though!

By: Cas

Cas — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:51:26 +0000

The slam on Dvorak is funny as hell, especially coming from Waugh. Kinda’ like the kettle calling the pot black if you ask me. Dvorak COULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT. At that point in time, nobody used a mouse, and the application base didn’t need them. For Waugh to pull this outta his bum now and claim “oh look how wrong he is and whatta prat” is just another reason waugh don’t get paid what Dvorak gets paid.

Waugh here is just as opinionated an asshat, but he can’t hold a candle to Dvorak.

Also, Dvorak has been laughing all the way to the bank all these years BECAUSE he relishes the roll of asshat. Its his schtick. The difference ‘tween waugh and dvorak? I prefer reading Dvorak. At least he’s humorous.

By: Chris Sherlock

Chris Sherlock — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:23:07 +0000

deedeeflo, I think we all realise that nobody is right all the time. However, Dvorak acts arrogantly and positions himself as an infallible oracle of technology, so when therefore he gets slammed for when he gets things wrong. What can I say? If he wasn’t such an asshat, he probably wouldn’t get *called* an asshat, and people might be more forgiving when he gets it wrong.

By: deedeeflo

deedeeflo — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:48:57 +0000

Poster number 1 is nuts. Dvorak never wrote for PC World, nothing like fading memory in old age. He wrote for InfoWorld, another IDG Publication.
Meanwhile, taking quotes out of context, away from the era they lived in is the asswipe concept of life. Easy to see what was “oh so wrong” in retrospect. Get a few years under your belts and see what is going to hit and what will fade in todays’ market..and let’s see how you do.
I think Dvorak has been more of an observer of the time and pretty much right about the key things. (And, mice do suck, compared to on keyboard commands if you are busy, or trying to do any production work. But, I’m assuming some of you are two fingered typists…)

By: Tony Fisk

Tony Fisk — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:23:18 +0000

I can remember wondering why anyone would use the mouse on a Mac as well…

The year was 1997, and I couldn’t believe that people actually *liked* a system with a single click mouse!