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| Apple posts Jobs tribute video |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-05 10:45:25 |
| Beautiful video tribute and written message from Tim Cook regarding Steve Jobs, who passed away one year ago today. |
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| RE: Comment by gan17 |
| By tracul on 2012-10-05 22:30:05 |
| Exactly. It bothered me a year ago and it bothers me now. How lots of people went (an still go) on about Steve Jobs and not a word about Dennis Ritchie. |
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| Comment by Luminair |
| By Luminair on 2012-10-05 23:13:51 |
| I like don't love the video because it looks like a powerpoint presentation or something equally cheap |
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| RE: Comment by gan17 |
| By UltraZelda64 on 2012-10-05 23:52:40 |
| Yep. That man has my respect. BTW, I would've modded you up for that comment, but I already posted here... |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[7]: The real tribute... |
| By brichpmr on 2012-10-06 01:08:46 |
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> So, to summarise your post: Apple builds on others != stealing. Others build on Apple = stealing. You are rather poor at 'summarizing' in this instance. Try reading the dude's post again.....slowly this time. |
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| RE: Made their website inaccessible |
| By brichpmr on 2012-10-06 01:12:28 |
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> If you do not have Quicktime installed it is now impossible to access the Apple website. Yep, those guys are marketing geniuses, block access to the site through which you sell your computers to a large percentage of people who run your competitors OS's. Bravo Sierra! I use a Dell at work running Win 7 Enterprise...no Quicktime installed, and I was just up at Apple's site yesterday....cool it with your FUD. |
| - Score: 1 |
| Ritchie/Thompson |
| By helix on 2012-10-06 01:26:38 |
| I wish there was the same public recognition of Dennis Ritchie's death, and his incredible legacy, but I'm afraid it's not going to happen. He, Ken Thompson, and others at Bell Labs, created an infrastructure that has stood the test of time. I'm sure Unix will still be here in one form or another long after other operating systems have come and gone. But Steve Jobs, love him or hate him ( or be conflicted about him, as I am), was a rock star. It doesn't make sense, but it doesn't have to. |
| - Score: 3 |
| Lets assume people copy Apple verbatim |
| By TechGeek on 2012-10-06 02:33:50 |
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Lets assume people copy things from Apple verbatim. Tony Swash, Hiev, others: What do you think should happen to Apple when they copy things from other people? You all want to see Samsung punished (and maybe rightfully so). So what should the punishment be for Apple? I mean, lets look at all the "things" they have stolen: 1. They used Nokia IP for "years" without a license 1b. They still have not paid a license fee to Samsung for FRAND IP, which Samsung is guaranteed to get. 2. They basically ripped off Kobfabulator 3. Apple copied notifications, Easy photo embedding, priority inboxes,.... quite a few things from Android 4. the clock interface from swiss rail 5. Heres a list of things they copied from Windows: http://www.infoworld.com/d/windo... Where does it end? Or will you finally agree that everyone uses the best attributes they know of when they design anything. To do otherwise is to intentionally create a bad product. Apple uses plenty of things they didn't create. Its time to give up the lawsuits and start making better products. Edited 2012-10-06 02:35 UTC |
| - Score: 8 |
| No video |
| By historyb on 2012-10-06 02:40:59 |
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There does not seem to be a video there. on edit: Had to have QuickTime installed to see it Edited 2012-10-06 02:54 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Comment by gan17 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-10-06 06:36:12 |
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You can make a huge list of important people, inventors, scientists, explorers, painters, etc... but most people will only recognize the likes of Brad Pitt, Rihanna (who has at least 10 US number one hits vs 0 for Depeche Mode, go figure) or the current boy band. Would anyone recognize Nikola Tesla? Or Isaac Newton? Or even heard of them or what they did? Dennis Ritchie earned his place in history, but he wasn't in a boy band. Nor was Steve Jobs, but he got much more media attention during his live and lots of people use Apple products and while Steve was in charge Apple and Steve were basically the same thing. Mention Ritchie and people don't know him. Mention C and it still doesn't ring a bell (pun intended), mention UNIX and some people may ask if that wasn't something like DOS where you had to type stuff. More people know what Britney Spears had for breakfast than people know Dennis Ritchie. |
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| RE: Made their website inaccessible |
| By moondevil on 2012-10-06 09:01:23 |
| There are Quicktime plugins for all OS that matter as desktop systems. |
| - Score: 2 |
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