John C. Dvorak
Overview
 
John C. Dvorak is an American
United States
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 columnist
Columnist
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 and broadcaster in the areas of technology
Technology
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 and computing
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. His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak is also the Vice-President of Mevio
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 (formerly PodShow) and well known for his work for Tech TV. He has also gained some notoriety for making predictions that have turned out to be spectacularly off-target.
John Charles Dvorak was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
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Quotations

The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.

There was always something about Creative Commons|Creative Commons and its name that bugged me, too. The name sounds like a variation of the once-powerful Common Cause political-action committee. A ring of days gone by—nostalgia. All I see here is making the very easy and simple U.S. copyright law|U.S. copyright laws more complex for no apparent reason, except maybe as a protest.

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse”. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices.

 
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