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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[3]: Comment by gan17 |
| By M.Onty on 2012-10-06 09:08:09 |
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> Would anyone recognize Nikola Tesla? Or Isaac Newton? Or even heard of them or what they did? I think most people would have a fair idea of what Isaac Newton did, and might even recognise his portrait. That distinctive barnet and sour expression ... But your general point is valid. People's fame and adoration are not dependent of a fair measurement of their technical achievements. One of Jobs' greatest achievements (besides the Apple II and the Mac and all that, you know, computery stuff) is the fabled Reality Distortion Field. An excessively long and hysterical period of mourning only adds to the RDF, increasing the total sum of his achievements and thereby validating the excessively long and hysterical period of mourning. |
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| RE: Made their website inaccessible |
| By M.Onty on 2012-10-06 09:15:15 |
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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. Thats funny, because I've just viewed it on a new installation of Linux Mint XFCE with Firefox. Works fine. |
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| Comment by Stephen! |
| By Stephen! on 2012-10-06 12:45:12 |
| Maybe it's all a facade and Tim Cook actually welcomes the demise of Steve Jobs, since he gets the CEO position, more money and financial security in a bad economy. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by gan17 |
| By TM99 on 2012-10-06 13:15:15 |
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And right here is why this excessive worship of all things Steve is ultimately ridiculous. History remembers Tesla and Newton. They truly impacted culture and society. They advanced the human race. In the future it will be Ritchie and Woz who are remembered. Jobs will be like Brittany Spears and Brad Pitt. No one will remember nor should they. |
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| Steve Jobs' Legacy |
| By tupp on 2012-10-06 18:23:29 |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X... |
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| RE[4]: Comment by gan17 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-10-06 18:49:07 |
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What do you call excessive worship of Steve? The video on the website of his own company, a year after his death, was more a trip-down-memory-lane than any kind of worshipping. Apart from that I don't know anyone who has a Steve tattoo or do I know of any Steve worshipping groups. There are probably some that do worship Steve, but there are a number of strange people in this world. Had there been no Steve they would have picked someone else. Dennis Ritchie will go down in computing history. Woz too, but only in a very small role. What did he do after the Apple I and II? Segway polo and a celebrity dancing show. He didn't come back to Apple (well, technically he never left as he's still on the payroll), saved it and made it in a huge profitable company. If you talk about computer history from the 70's to the first decade of this century there is no way around Steve Jobs or Bill Gates with lesser roles, but important ones, for Jack Tramiel and Sir Clive Sinclair for example. Whatever you think of Steve and Apple or Bill Gates and Microsoft, their products, their way of doing business, they played a mayor role the last couple of decades. They can not be forgotten unless you forget these decades, which is hard to do considering the enormous progress that has happened. We're still talking about Steve. Do we ever talk about Michael Dell or any of the recent HP CEOs? And we only talk about Woz when he says something that the media spreads around. Dennis Ritchie probably deserves more recognition, because of C and UNIX, two things that still play a mayor role in computing today which is quite a thing in the IT world where things move fast and become obsolete even faster sometimes. But alas for Dennis C and UNIX and things that are hidden from the general public who do see iMacs, iPods, iPhones and iPads. You can't see that their inner workings can be traced back to Dennis, but you can see the Apple logo. Now I like history and credit, so I think it would be very cool if Apple recognized people like Dennis, even if it's some tucked away about box. How cool is it to know you're using a modern piece of hardware, running modern software, with roots all the way back to the late 60's? It's something you and I know, but also easy to forget. |
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| My tribute... |
| By BallmerKnowsBest on 2012-10-06 20:57:11 |
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QUESTION: What would Steve Jobs do if he were alive today? ANSWER: Frantically claw at the lid of his coffin. |
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| Gutless |
| By zaine_ridling on 2012-10-07 02:17:57 |
| Jobs was a gutless, egomaniacal control freak one-percenter who thought he invented frickin' rectangles, and even sued the Beatles for their Apple name. He was scum while he was alive, and he's scum in the grave. |
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| RE[5]: The real tribute... |
| By kovacm on 2012-10-07 09:42:03 |
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> Everybody is a thief, especially in the technology industry. Apple fans find that a bad thing (except when it comes to Apple, of course, when it's no longer stealing but "inspiration" or "doing it right"), while most others don't. ok, this becoming quite wrongfully. you can not comment Steve Jobs quote about "stealing" by watching short clip of 40 sec.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C... (Bob X Cringely made HUGE error by cutting this 40 seconds for his film Triumph of the Nerds) you NEED to see WHOLE contents so you will understand why Steve Jobs mention stealing at all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9... (3:50) --- btw Cringley make same SHIT again with this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v... if you cut Steve's quotes like this - it looks and sound ridicules and clueless! You can not take them out of contest... Edited 2012-10-07 09:43 UTC |
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| I get it |
| By rimzi on 2012-10-07 10:35:28 |
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It's futile to argue with Thom as he really seems not to understand the difference between copying and stealing, Pablo style. When you copy, then you create a thing that is indistinguishable from the original, usually you do that without any innovation, inspiration, knowing the "why" and etc. It's plagiarism. When you steal, Pablo style, opposed to the usual sense of the word, you copy the innovation, inspiration, and knowing the "why" to create your own product. It's copying the origin of the product, the idea, or part of it, not the product itself. At least that's what I understood. May Thom forgive me. |
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