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Credit to him, he always had a bold take. One of the funniest things he used to do was write draft reviews of software simply by looking at the back of the box
by ColdStream 2mo ago
Credit to him, he always had a bold take.
One of the funniest things he used to do was write draft reviews of software simply by looking at the back of the box. He said you could get it like 90% right just doing that, I was a different era.
I also remember Leo Laporte constantly trying to take his phone back of him as John was trying to guess his passcode or unlock pattern based on the screen smudges.
Didn't agree with him at lot but he always brought something to the table.
- donatj 2mo agoMost of what I know him for was coming on TWiT, driving Leo Laporte nuts, and making claims that ended up not coming true. He was a hilarious curmudgeon. He will be missed.
- ghaff 2mo agoHe was a very readable columnist for PC Mag among other places. He was also more focused on being interesting and at least a bit provocative than being correct. >He was a hilarious curmudgeon. Agreed.
- duzer65657 2mo ago>> He was also more focused on being interesting and at least a bit provocative than being correct. So exactly like everyone today, but also interesting?
- smackeyacky 2mo agoHe set the style of being confidently incorrect. At least he was entertaining.
- smoyer 2mo agoHe would make a great AI!
- ghaff 2mo agoProbably. With some exceptions, he wasn't flat out wrong. But he did push the boundaries from time to time.
- acomjean 2mo agoCurmudgeon is the perfect term to describe. He was a great part of TWIT. I liked his obscure software references (lotus Jazz was one I think). He also found this new thing is like that old thing. His non positive takes were a great addition to the show.
- rbanffy 2mo ago> lotus Jazz I actually remember that.
- donatj 2mo agoWhen Leo banned him is actually when I stopped listening to TWiT. Apparently he came back a few years later, but I never did.
- pazimzadeh 2mo agoApparently Dvorak was against net neutrality. He had the worst takes https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=d0e55f3197099944345708652&id=031c00b6d3&e=53f8136959 https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=d0e55f319709994434570865...
- 0o_MrPatrick_o0 2mo agoThe tech world needs good heels! His worst takes were some of his best!
- jjayjay 2mo agoI listened to his many pontifications about net-neutrality at that time. His concern was not the theory and practice of "net-neutrality". It was that "net-neutrality" was being used by various industry lobbyists and politicians at that time to justify the creation of a definition of "lawful traffic". By their definition, only "lawful traffic" would be subject to neutrality. Traffic that was not deemed "lawful traffic" would not be treated the same and could be shaped and blocked. It was at the time that Pirate Bay was under constant legal attack (2015) and BitTorrent was the "unlawful traffic". IMO this was a good take that not many journalists paid attention to.
- rasz 2mo agoPraising IBM PS/2 modularity and ease of service on Computer Chronicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoAH1aHmwR0&t=637s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoAH1aHmwR0&t=637s He pulled one apart and couldnt put it back together for the rest of the episode :-)
- VCFundedGenYer 2mo agoHe was the original "uncle who still runs Windows <3.1/95/98/XP> long after support ended because 'Nothing newer is better'" guy.
- adamrezich 2mo ago> he always had a bold take Often quite literally, in his PC Magazine columns!
- rbanffy 2mo agoHis most hilarious predictions that were almost always wrong.
- adamrezich 2mo agoHe was right about the mouse, in the long run.
- ChickeNES 2mo agoI laughed at one I happened to spot recently, where he confidently said that Compaq would license Micro Channel from IBM according to "sources".
- antonvs 2mo agoIt’s amusing how nerdy IBM was back then: “Oh we’ve come up with a better bus design! Why isn’t everyone flocking to buy our product?”
- rbanffy 2mo agoThe MCA bus didn't hurt PS/2 sales that much. Of course, you wouldn't be able to get cheap expansion boards for them because MCA, but they had VGA, mouse, floppy, hard-disk, printer and serial ports, which is what the bulk of expansion boards were used for. What really killed them was that the ISA-based PCs were kind of better, and cost less. OTOH, I think that the Sound Blaster and the VGA card are the biggest factors in the Amiga's demise. From a user's standpoint (a user who doesn't care about planar graphics, a blitter, and so on), the PC had better graphics and sound, for less, and with all their software still available. Being a peripheral, the graphics on the PC were much easier to change and evolve, and quickly surpassed the Amigas, that had to preserve compatibility with what was, at that point, hardware getting less competitive.
- dylan604 2mo ago> by looking at the back of the box. He said you could get it Well that is definitely something different about today's software websites. How many times have you looked at a company's website for a product/service and still left wondering what it did?
- malfist 2mo agoWhen product websites are more focused on getting investors than customers the whole system breaks down
- fraXis 2mo agoToo bad him and Leo had a falling out years ago. I really loved watching those two together. I remember John was always borrowing Leo's equipment, such as camera lenses, and he would always forget to bring them back and Leo would always scold him for that.
- ColdStream 2mo agoAbsolutely, that was some of the best years of Twit.
- adamrezich 2mo agoListening to podcasts on an iPod era
- foo42 2mo agoor netcasts even