Walt Mossberg Is Retiring (theverge.com) 37
Walt Mossberg, a well-respected and long-time tech journalist, announced via The Verge that he will be retiring in June of this year. In his announcement post, he starts by reflecting on where it all began: It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of The Wall Street Journal and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970. That's not a typo. So it seems fitting to me that I'll be retiring this coming June, almost exactly 47 years later. I'll be hanging it up shortly after the 2017 edition of the Code Conference, a wonderful event I co-founded in 2003 and which I could never have imagined back then in Detroit. I didn't make this decision lightly or hastily or under pressure. It emerged from months of thought and months of talks with my wise wife, my family, and close friends. It wasn't prompted by my employer or by some dire health diagnosis. It just seems like the right time to step away. I'm ready for something new.
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And, in the best professional decision of my life, I converted myself into a tech columnist in 1991. As a result, I got to bear witness to a historic parade of exciting, revolutionary innovation — from slow, clumsy, ancient PCs to sleek, speedy smartphones; from CompuServe and early AOL to the mobile web, apps, and social media.
Walt should be revered for his foresight, and/or, his willingness to bet it all on the fledgling computer revolution. Nice.
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What notable articles has he written? (Score:1)
What notable articles has he written? I've read a lot of newspapers and many technical magazines and other publications, but I can't ever remember seeing his name before. I mean, I remember notable articles by journalists and authors like Robert X. Cringely, Roland Piquepaille and Bennett Haselton. But I can't think of a single thing I've ever read that this Mossberg guy has written.
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But I can't think of a single thing I've ever read that this Mossberg guy has written.
Perhaps you don't remember a single thing Homer or Shakespeare wrote either.
Cringely produced the print equivalent of clickbait, on a regular basis. I remain appalled that
Cringely ( IIRC that's not even the guy's real name ) was ever paid for the garbage he wrote.
Mossberg, on the other hand, was a journalist who was one of the most reliably accurate writers
of all those who covered tech in the English language. I think you will find that people who have
been around tech for more than a few years would tend ov
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Mossberg, on the other hand, was a journalist who was one of the most reliably accurate writers
Citations please.
Bill Gates & Steve Jobs Interview (Score:3)
First time I came across this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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It'd be nice if TFS explained why I should give a shit; I'm not going to bother with TFA if the poster couldn't be bothered to say who Walt Mossberg is.
It's a bit sad that people on a tech-site don't know who Walt Mossberg [wikipedia.org] is, but I suppose that is probably why you posted AC.
Perhaps that isn't something that interests the pure techie, but reviews of mainstream tech gear and trends in mainstream publications (like the WSJ) really used to make or break companies. For example, one thing contributing to millions of folks plunkog down hard money for the first iPhone [allthingsd.com] would be a positive review about it in a WSJ publication. The mainstreaming of the computer an
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Most ACs are trolls. I really do think it's time Slashdot disallowed AC posts.
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Oh come on now. I'm sure the AC knows plenty of tech names you don't in different fields of technology. Just because we're on Slashdot doesn't mean we're all 24/7 gear magazine readers.
Was it really too difficult to have a headline that read "Popular IT journalist Walt Mossberg is retiring", or was it supposed to be a test of geek eliteness?
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I see later reports that 20 jets were destroyed. Assuming they were mid-level fighters costing $10,000,000 each then they lost $200,000,000 of gear in lost aircraft alone. If they were low end fighters, much like what rich guys buy as expensive toys, then at $250,000 each that's still $5,000,000 lost. If these were high end jets, just off the assembly line from Russia, then they'd be about $50,000,000 each, in which case hitting just two of them would make the losses "equal" on both sides.
But you see, th
I'm walt mossberg, shut up (Score:2)
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Well, of course he was. Tim Cook obviously wasn't sending him enough gifts to garner the extra positive Apple product reviews anymore.
On the other hand, Microsoft shill (Score:1)
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It was pretty and safer than XP, the only problem is it required the best grade of everything. Like its successor, it makes 1024x768 feel cramped while XP was kind of comfortable at 800x600. So, you kind of needed a monitor upgrade if you wanted to fit a file manager and music player side by side. Also, sticks of 1GB DDR1 and 10k rpm hard drives weren't that cheap or common.
'Well respected'... (Score:2)