He ignores it because it is tangential to the point. The point is that windows 8 (or at least 8.1 imho) had a great ui for a touch interface and there is no reason to destroy that while trying to fix the desktop experience.
I used to be very biased against self-taught engineers until one passed our very difficult hiring gauntlet and turned out to be one of the best developers I've ever worked with.
Edit: I think my takeaway is to primarily judge people on demonstrated knowledge rather than declared knowledge.
Edit 2: But having said that I still wouldn't draw attention to the self taught thing if I were you.
Anybody with knowledge and evidence to answer a couple of questions from a very non-expert that were raised in my mind after reading the pdf and then the comments here?
1) It is the statement in the paper true that CO2 loses it's warming effect as concentration goes up?
2) Although I'm fuzzy on the warming, I'm pretty convinced we are killing our oceans. Still a little fuzzy on the exact mechanism though. If the oceans are acidifying from atmospheric CO2 (as opposed to fertilizer runoff or some such) is there evidence of this problem earlier in our planet's history when CO2 levels were much higher?
These are sincere questions hoping for informed answers.
I switched from bloglines.com to google reader years ago. I went back and checked it out after the redesign disaster and it looks quite good. I think I'm switching back to that.
I like the PBS NewsHour program. They seem to have a slight left bias that I find tolerable. I really like the way they pick two or three issues daily to go in-depth with and try to get opinions from multiple sides. I also like that the people they get opinions from seem to be the well thought, well spoken type rather than the "I can talk the loudest and make the other guy look dumb" type that the cable news networks seem to use.
Wow. I always knew Dvorak was insane but this is insane++. I don't even know what he is talking about:
1) Is he talking about the upgrade path from XP to Windows 7?
2) Does he know that there is an upgrade path from Vista to Windows 7?
3) Does he know that all three versions use the registry so it clearly has no impact on upgrade paths?
4) Is he advocating that microsoft make smaller changes in order to provide an upgrade path to older versions or is he advocating they make bigger, breaking changes like getting rid of the registry?
5) Is somebody checking his pill box to see if he took his medicine? Because I am sincerely worried for his health.