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by Xav de Matos, Nov 04, 2010 5:00pm PDT

Although this is the post you've all been waiting for--to chat about Minecraft, no doubt--did you know Shacknews has been launching a ton of features over the last two weeks?

Net neutrality is dead. Long live net neutrality.
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LOL, Dvorak takes hyperbole to the max in predicting that Kinect signals the "End of Civilization":

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372145,00.asp

I can't tell how serious he is, but what the hell man. I'm not necessarily a huge fan of Kinect, but I am amazed that PC Mag continues to pay his salary. He is the ultimate troll.

Nov 04, 2010 5:09pm PDT

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  I'm not a Dvorak fan, but it's clearly a joke. : aethyr
  - I wish he would have made it more funny. : MaxPete82
- He's a miserable old bastard. You can hear it in his voice when he's on TWiT. : slax0r
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  that's one of my favorite words. 'hyperbole' : smax
  - hyperbole is the greatest word ever invented. : skinlab133
  - i hate it as i always read it as HYPER BOWL : CoRDS
- Articles like this are why I love the guy. He's my favorite curmudgeon. : ColoradoCNC
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  you just contributed to why they continue to pay his salary : spiderfill
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    Nov 04, 2010 5:13pm PDT
    
    I do what I can : MaxPete82
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    Is John Dvorak the Armond White of tech reporting? Or is Armond White the John Dvorak of film critics? : smax
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      dvorak has been writing idiotic shit in pc magazine since the mid-80s. : skryte
      
      All right, so who would be a good writer for a PC magazine? Jerry Pournelle? : Maddog_Delphi97
- What's the last thing he was actually right about? : riptyde
- Seems like an obvious joke to me : avatar_58
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  He is the worst, always has been : Serpico74
  - He's had his moments, but that was when CNet was a tv show : mrblarg
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  his picture in that article looks eerily similar to this: http://images.whatport80.com/images/c/cf/Trollf... : datoo
  - Wow, it really does. : pyrogen
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  Anything Dvorak says, you can basically bet the opposite. : BlackCat9
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  the comments section makes me cringe. Not a single person in there can recognize a joke (a very broad, n... : MamiyaOtaru
  - He is right about the spastic movements. But you get that with the Wii as well, elsewise overdone joke so... : Lukiopimp
- I don't understand how someone can read that and not come to the conclusion that it's a joke. : nodebug
- Dvorak. Troll before there was a word for one! :) It's all in jest of course. : dodob
- They really need to ban baby boomers from reporting on technology : red2lucas
- This guy also predicted the mouse would fail, IIRC. : uncleanmonkey