Cringely is a hack who somehow gets paid to write pointless bullshit.
The great thing about "predictions" is that noblody ever keeps track of them. When predictions are wrong (and they usually are) nobody notices because everyone has forgotten about them.
Would he reliably be wrong, then he'd be a very useful source of predictions. But he's probably not better than/dev/random.
Why do people never get, that real-world logic is always ternary: true, false, useless. Or, to be even more precise, a two-dimensional gradient: useless-useful and true-false. (Think of uselessness as transparencyy and truth as the color.)
2012 (Score:5, Insightful)
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Cringely is a hack who somehow gets paid to write pointless bullshit.
The great thing about "predictions" is that noblody ever keeps track of them. When predictions are wrong (and they usually are) nobody notices because everyone has forgotten about them.
Not even wrong! But *useless*! (Score:3)
Would he reliably be wrong, then he'd be a very useful source of predictions. /dev/random.
But he's probably not better than
Why do people never get, that real-world logic is always ternary: true, false, useless.
Or, to be even more precise, a two-dimensional gradient: useless-useful and true-false. (Think of uselessness as transparencyy and truth as the color.)
Re: Not even wrong! But *useless*! (Score:2)
You know you're on Slashdot when the car analogy has been upgraded to Photoshop analogies. (works for me =)