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RIP Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

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TopJimmyCooks:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on October 07, 2011, 12:32:35 pm --- Get a linux desktop for your grandma and see how much she uses it.  Give her an iPad and she will use the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of it.

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True dat.  I'm so freaking happy my mother in law has an Imac and ipad--tech support calls and visits to resuscitate their crap emachines virus target phish pond scum POS are a thing of the past.  Now if I can just get MY mother off her 10 year old Dell . . . 

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on October 07, 2011, 12:32:35 pm ---Get a linux desktop for your grandma and see how much she uses it.

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Last year called.  They want their argument back.   ;D

This used to be valid, when Linux meant text and a bash prompt.  Now, my 70 year old mother uses a netbook with Ubuntu on it and the only way she knows it's not her old windows machine is that it crashes a lot less.

amendonz:
never liked steve jobs after hearing the story about ripping off wozniak, the true brains of the operation at the time. if either of the 2 should have fans its woz by far.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Mikezilla on October 07, 2011, 12:05:33 pm ---Exactly. Its easy to improve on something when someone else already did the work, he just took the risk of making his face synonomous with the brand. I dunno, I dont get why people are going to apple stores and lighting candles and that he "changed the world". Cmon.  ::)
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Actually I think it is a very good comparison.  If you know the REAL Edison.  

Edison, in his early years actually did invent a few things, a few things that were fairly impressive.  As soon as he started to turn a profit from it though, things changed.  Edison "invented" products that flat out didn't work.  The lightbulb is one of these inventions.  Sure an electric light is a great idea, so long as it burns for more than 10 minutes.  ;)  Edison hired hundreds of inventors and engineers for his lab and once he "invented" a non-working prototype he threw it at them, the real talent, and they worked on it until it was actually functional.  Of course once it was, he got all the credit and royalities, because he was an ass.  

Once in a while he hired someone with real talent, like Tesla, and they quickly butted heads.

Years later Tesla invented alternating current, the only practical way to power as large a nation as the US, Edison was furious as it would cut into his lucrative DC power contracts with New York.  Edison started a (almost completely false) smear campaign on Telsa and AC the likes of which had never been seen.  He even went as far as electrocuting elephants with AC to show how "dangerous" it was.  


So yeah, replace "Edison" with "Jobs"  replace "Tesla" with "Gates" or "Waz" and picture the smear campaign as those damn mac commercials and you've pretty much told the apple history.  

I'm just saying... many "great men who changed the world" aren't all that great, it isn't just Jobs.  ;)

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 08, 2011, 12:17:15 am ---I had a science teacher that just went on and on about how his grandfather invented the modern lightbulb.  He had won a Nobel prize for something about surface tension of liquids.  I've googled it to death and all I can figure was the guy had -something- to do with the coiled tungsten filament.  Point being that reality is complex and boring and it's a lot easier to assign credit to one person and get on with our lives.

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You obviously haven't watched "Flash of Genius" then, or if you did, you didn't understand it's message.  Giving people proper credit is EVERYTHING, because, let's face it, about the only way a human being can make a lasting impact on society that will be remembered after their death is through invention.

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