I'm actually a fan of Dvorak and I have seen all episodes of Cranky Geeks and listen to all Twits. I am just a bit dissapointed on his opinion about the OLPC project.<br><br>I also think that he was recently wrong saying nobody would find a use to a device like the Kindle.
<br><br>Perhaps we can instead simply show him the XO and convince him a bit that his column was relaying the sentiment that some of the critics out there have towards the project, but that they should consider if they are just misinformed.
<br><br>And perhaps Dvorak will write his next column appologizing to having mixed up the need to bring food to starving people and the need to bring cheap laptops to people who need education.<br><br>So if I was at OLPC, I would make sure that Dvorak gets to see and try an XO as soon as possible (it seems from his column that he has never even seen one) and give him some of the most relevant links so that he can learn a little bit more about the project.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 13, 2007 7:56 AM, Ivan Krstiæ <<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu">krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
[I speak only for myself, not my employer.]<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:40 AM, James Sayre wrote:<br>> Some of you may know that a nasty attack on the OLPC concept was<br>> written<br>> by John Dvorak of PCMag and ZDNet recently.
<br><br><br></div>Dvorak is a professional village idiot, and has been entirely<br>irrelevant for two decades. I should remind you of some of his<br>previous choice bits:<br><br>"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'.
<br>There is no evidence that people want to use these things."<br> -- Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 1984<br><br>"The noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging<br>use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions
<br>using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this<br>technology succeeding is zilch."<br> -- Dvorak, PC Magazine, September 1995<br><br>"When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is
<br>hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's<br>cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?"<br> -- Dvorak, PC Magazine, September 2003<br><br>"The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of
<br>time."<br> -- Dvorak, PC Magazine, July 2005<br><br>Just smile and nod at what he has to say. Or point people to Bill<br>Thompson's response at the BBC:<br><br> <<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7138061.stm" target="_blank">
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7138061.stm</a>><br><br>Cheers,<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Ivan Krstiæ <<a href="mailto:krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu">krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu</a>> | <a href="http://radian.org" target="_blank">
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