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Steve Jobs Dead at 56

JohnWOlin said:
I am a huge fan of Apple, Mac, iPod, iPhone, Mac OS X etc. Steve Jobs was a great man in the same leagues as Henry Ford or Thomas Edison. His vision and companies (Pixar, NeXT, Apple) directly or indirectly touched every single one of our lives. He is one of my person heroes and his legacy will hopefully live on.
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jobs = edison?! :lol: the reality distortion field hath no sympathy for historical accuracy :rolleyes:.

Edison invented things. jobs invented nothing.

I challenge anyone to name a single original useful device or technology jobs invented.
 
solletica said:
How? I never owned his products and my life was better for it :)

The asses he kicked were all the poor schmucks who got stuck in his closed, proprietary reality distortion field.
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Really? Because I have had my Macbook Pro for five years and only twice did I have a problem with it. Apple fixed it without charging me. My windows laptop on the other hand has crashed twice since I have owned it in July, and my parents have gone through 3 windows computers in the time they got their Apple desktop six months before I got my laptop. I would say our lives were made easier and better with them.
 
soccerboy22 said:
Really? Because I have had my Macbook Pro for five years and only twice did I have a problem with it. Apple fixed it without charging me. My windows laptop on the other hand has crashed twice since I have owned it in July, and my parents have gone through 3 windows computers in the time they got their Apple desktop six months before I got my laptop. I would say our lives were made easier and better with them.
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I have a Lenovo running Fedora Linux (kernel 2.6.34) w/Chrome and it's never crashed, and it cost much less than your Macbook Pro, and has all the same functionality (minus the bloat).

Now please tell me again why your life is easier than mine .
 
solletica said:
jobs = edison?! :lol: the reality distortion field hath no sympathy for historical accuracy :rolleyes:.

Edison invented things. jobs invented nothing.

I challenge anyone to name a single original useful device or technology jobs invented.
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As capitalists go, Jobs outranks Edison by a mile. Sure, Edison could invent the mousetrap. But Jobs could make it better, and better, and better ;)
 
Google didn't do a homepage tribute...
 
Your Star said:
Some overly angry person not knowing what they are talking about. How surprising.
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They are actually right you know........

Jobs.. nor Apple... really invented any of this stuff. They were just very successful in marketing.


I, too, do not own any Apple products.
 
Fiddytree said:
Still ticking. 4 Macs from the 90s, G4 Cube, an iBook G4, a Macbook, 2 iPod classics, iPhone-all working well.

So are my Windows Machines.



That card doesn't fly with me. I have spent enough time with technology to know better. For instance, I enjoyed the iPod because of its sound signature, its OS, and had a great audio out. I still use it hooked up to my Headroom Desktop Headphone Amp----> Sennheiser HD-600's, HD-595's, the 497s, and sometime in the future the AKG-702s.
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Yawn... Im not impressed.....

That was what you were going for right.. by putting in all those numbers to products....
 
Caine said:
Yawn... Im not impressed.....

That was what you were going for right.. by putting in all those numbers to products....
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Those are the product names (I'd be doing the same with television displays or any other product which might have the misfortune of not being named cleverly), and I was striking back at the notion that Apple users can't be passionate fans of hi-tech like anyone else. I'm not doing it to impress you. I'm clearing up a stereotype.
 
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SheWolf said:
Google didn't do a homepage tribute...
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A student came up to me and pointed it out when we were in the computer lab today. There's a hyperlink at the bottom of the page forwarding to Apple.com, and text "Steve Jobs" followed by DOB and date of death. They are minimalist. I was expecting some of the kids to be playing on that Mrs. Pacman page of theirs that I guess is still up somehow.
 
Fiddytree said:
A student came up to me and pointed it out when we were in the computer lab today. There's a hyperlink at the bottom of the page forwarding to Apple.com, and text "Steve Jobs" followed by DOB and date of death. They are minimalist. I was expecting some of the kids to be playing on that Mrs. Pacman page of theirs that I guess is still up somehow.
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Oh.. there it is... I saw'd it.
 
Re: Steve Jobs Dead at 56: MSNBC

to OP:

We need more Americans like Steve Jobs! Though he many may question how much "Apple" products cost, He opened up new markets and gave momentum to great American Ideas!
 
Re: Steve Jobs Dead at 56: MSNBC

It was easy for alot of people to hate apple in say... 1993
Some of them just got worse when they started becoming successful again in 1998
and in 2011 theyre in a plain frothing psychosis
 
Re: Steve Jobs Dead at 56: MSNBC

MKULTRABOY said:
It was easy for alot of people to hate apple in say... 1993
Some of them just got worse when they started becoming successful again in 1998
and in 2011 theyre in a plain frothing psychosis
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I do not hate Apple but I did not like their advertising style a few years back and I do not like the "community" of their users. It really did seem as though they advertised to people who were too dumb to use a PC, meanwhile, their users could not be more smug in general. Brand loyalty is something I find to be silly. Buy what works best, at the best price, that best suits your needs.

*Edit to add: If Apple does have one thing going for it, I would say it is their ability to innovate and make quality products. Almost everything they sell is rock solid - but you pay for it.
 
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I used to like apple, then they went to pentium processors. Now there is no reason to buy one. You can litterally run Snow leapord on a windows PC, because it was designed for a pentium processor. Apple is nothing more than a style choice now, and a very expensive one at that. They used to be the rage with artists and grpahics people because of the ease with color spaces, when going from a home PC to a printer, or website. But that is a thing of the 90s, windows PCs have caught right up. Then they were cool because no one wrote viruses for the mac OS systems, but now that they are becoming more similar to windows, it's not going to be a big deal to write a virus for windows, then tweak it slightly for Mac. It's apples to apples, and one apple costs more than the other, because it looks better, even though it's the same inside.
 
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I use windows now... it's still ****. :shrug:
 
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MKULTRABOY said:
I use windows now... it's still ****. :shrug:
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Windows does not make as efficient use of system resources as Linux. which makes it slow.

But in any case, cloud-based (shared resource) computing will eventually take over, and the PC will die.
 
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St. Peter needs to use his drag and drop feature to add him to the invitees list.
 
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MKULTRABOY said:
St. Peter needs to use his drag and drop feature to add him to the invitees list.
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He will "accidentally" push the Delete button.
 
Fiddytree said:
Those are the product names (I'd be doing the same with television displays or any other product which might have the misfortune of not being named cleverly), and I was striking back at the notion that Apple users can't be passionate fans of hi-tech like anyone else. I'm not doing it to impress you. I'm clearing up a stereotype.
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Suggesting Apple fans are passionate fans of hi-tech is a contradiction, because part of true hi-tech is open environments and interoperability, which Apple products sorely lack.

Apple fans are just naive users who are unaware of the whole market because of jobs' reality distortion field.
 
Eighty Deuce said:
As capitalists go, Jobs outranks Edison by a mile. Sure, Edison could invent the mousetrap. But Jobs could make it better, and better, and better ;)
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jobs never made anything better. He just changed its shape, made it proprietary, and called it "cool."

And predictably, his cult bought it.
 
solletica said:
Suggesting Apple fans are passionate fans of hi-tech is a contradiction, because part of true hi-tech is open environments and interoperability, which Apple products sorely lack.
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Let's see here. MS-DOS or Macintosh? Which was more hi-tech? Well, the user certainly had to be more hi-tech to use DOS, but the technology of the Mac meant one could actually use the computer.

Windows (the shell for MS-DOS) versus Mac? Which is more hi-tech? Since Microsoft had to "borrow" ideas from the Mac to create Windows, it is obvious that the Mac was more hi-tech.

Some people spew their hatred for the Macs and Jobs here, but Macs are still a great innovative product.
 
LesGovt said:
Let's see here. MS-DOS or Macintosh? Which was more hi-tech? Well, the user certainly had to be more hi-tech to use DOS, but the technology of the Mac meant one could actually use the computer.
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When Linux came out, it was more advanced than the MSDOS/Win95 and MacOSs of the time. In fact, MacOS at the time still lacked pre-emptive multitasking--a fundamental component of any modern OS--when Linux came out.

Furthermore, Commodore's AmigaOS came out in the late 80s, had pre-emptive multitasking, and was more advanced than MacOS or Windows at the time.

LesGovt said:
Some people spew their hatred for the Macs and Jobs here, but Macs are still a great innovative product.
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No Mac that ever came out was the most technologically superior desktop OS at the time it was released, period.

The fact that you thought it was is just more evidence of the power of jobs' reality distortion field.
 
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