Fighting Stupidity with Stupidity
Cory Doctorow wrote a piece on why he won’t be buying an iPad (which extends to why you shouldn’t either. I don’t agree with his article, but the vehement arguments against some of his have been equally asinine. Joel Johnson wrote an otherwise brilliant piece that says: So what if you can’t make iPad programs on an iPad. I don’t complain I can’t make new dishwashers with my dishwasher. Doctorow doesn’t outright call this out as an issue, but it fits with the theme of what he wrote. The problem is this is analogy is flawed. Let’s see if you can tell the problem with it if I put it in mathematical format. ...