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Dvorak: Computers
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"Dvorak has been a long time critic of Apple Computer, even during his stint as a columnist for MacUser magazine. In 1984 he famously criticized Apple's inclusion of a mouse with their computers, saying “There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” In 1999, he ridiculed the iBook as “‘girly’”, saying, “It looks too juvenile— something a kid, a little girl, would like. Something you'd get at Toys 'R' Us.” For this he was slammed not only by Mac aficionados, but ... by female computing pundit Janelle Brown for reinforcing gender stereotypes. In 2005 he suggested that recent good press about Apple was due to media bias, writing “With 90 percent of the mainstream writers being Mac users, what would you expect?” He later predicted that Apple would release a Video iPod in spite of Steve Jobs' denials, suggested that the Mac brand should be discontinued, predicted that Apple would switch to Intel chips, and suggested that Apple might be switching over to Windows and abandoning their Mac OS to save money.
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Either Mr. Dvorak is being deliberately disingenuous, or he has a shockingly misguided understanding of the dynamics of the computer industry. MPU products are largely differentiated and priced according to perceived performance advantages; that is why Intel can charge more for a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 than 1.7GHz Celeron, or why nearly all microprocessor manufacturers are constantly pushing their technologies to the limits in order to gain performance advantages over their rivals.
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The concept of using digital IR data was originally proposed by Dvorak (1984). Based on these ideas, a computer-based algorithm was developed by the third author and is contained within McIDAS architecture (Santek et al. 1991). It utilizes specific McIDAS functions to read and analyze geostationary satellite IR data, and compute and output an intensity estimate for a targeted tropical cyclone. The technique is not applicable to weak tropical systems such as depressions or minimal tropical storms. The only user input is the specification of the storm center location.
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