[BLUG] Link to an interesting article

[Pawsitive Results]

While we're at it...today's Dilbert amused me muchly...
http://www.dilbert.com/

Ana


On 1/25/07, Jeff Welty <jtwelty_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> I predict this new breakfast cereal will really take off... it's logo is
> already being worn by trendy geeks.
> http://www.questionablecontent.net/shirts/midlarge.png
>
> Joe Auty wrote:
> > My opinion on the article:
> >
> > It's hard to take him too seriously as a Journalist when he says his
> > reasons for not liking the Mac is because it is "mushy"... WTF? A little
> > inarticulate there... How about a rational justification rather than
> > just personal emotional feelings? (Not that it is some sort of sin to
> > dislike the Mac)... This would be like reading a NYTimes article where
> > the columnist says that the Iraq war "just feels icky", and therefore we
> > should get out of that country =)
> >
> > There have been many times in history where Microsoft has copied Apple,
> > I don't think people will all of a sudden decide that they don't want
> > their Windows OS to be more Mac-like. In fact, with Apple's market share
> > and revenue stream growing, this might be all the more reason for
> > Microsoft to attempt to jump aboard the bandwagon. For a company of its
> > size with the vast resources it has, they don't seem to have a great
> > track record of innovating original ideas, nor do they have to to
> > fulfill their business goals. This is all nothing new, we've seen this
> > play out before.
> >
> > As far as companies having secret Linux ports of products, that is
> > likely... My main beef with his article is his opinion on the direction
> > of the industry. It seems premature to call Microsoft's demise, people
> > like him have been doing this for years. I'd love to see Microsoft
> > demise, but I don't think he can justify this argument right now, and I
> > expect good justification from somebody in charge of selling his
> > opinions =)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 25, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Pawsitive Results wrote:
> >
> >> I actually thought this was one of his more-on-track articles
> >> since...since I don't remember when. Odd.
> >>
> >> Ana
> >>
> >> On 1/25/07, Scott Blaydes <sblaydes_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> But he was right about Apple switching to Intel chips.  I don't take
> >>> much stock of what he says, but he has nailed some things that I
> >>> didn't think would happen.  Course if you predict as much as he does,
> >>> you're bound to be right sometime...infinite number of monkeys on
> >>> typewriters theory..
> >>>
> >>> Thank you,
> >>> Scott Blaydes
> >>>
> >>> On 1/24/07, Mark Krenz <mark_at_slugbug.org> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >   Heh, that's funny.  I was thinking about writing pretty much the
> >>> exact
> >>> > same thing.  But refrained.
> >>> >
> >>> >   John Dvorak just doesn't get it anymore.  He's a man from the old
> >>> > school days trying desperately to fit in and failing miserably.
> >>> Most of
> >>> > his articles are way off from reality.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:33:38AM GMT, Joe Auty
> >>> [joe_at_netmusician.org] said the following:
> >>> > > Not to dump on the person who posted this article or belittle
> >>> them or
> >>> > > anything like that, but John Dvorak, the guy who wrote this article,
> >>> > > has I believe confessed to coming up with provocative subjects and
> >>> > > saying crazy things to draw attention to himself and his articles.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I haven't had a chance to really dig into the article yet, but I
> >>> > > thought I would share with you my opinion that just about everything
> >>> > > of Dvoark's I've read in the past has made me believe that he is bat
> >>> > > shit crazy, the Bill O'Reilly of IT writing.
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Just my two cents/knee jerk reaction, not commenting on his opinions
> >>> > > in this article =)
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > > On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Paul Proctor wrote:
> >>> > >
> >>> > > >http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246401,00.html
> >>> > > >
> >>> > >
> >>> >
> >>> > --
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