RIP Steve Jobs

[paul]

(10-06-2011 09:44 AM)mrmody Wrote:  100 years from now, people will still remember Steve Jobs, few people will remember the "great" fundie leaders of our time.

I'm going to go out on a limb here. I hope not.

Here's why. I hope, sincerely, that Steve Jobs finds his appropriate place in the history books and that he is spoken of with the respect he so richly deserves for many generations. I hope, though, that when fundamentalism is fully exposed for what it is that it is remembered on equal par with Hitler, KKK, and Jim Jones. I hope the memory is so vivid as evidence of what we want to avoid and that it stays with us for as many generations. God willing, we will see the end of fundamentalism and see it take its place among the icons of "what we don't want to have happen again."

[DaisyDeadhead]

He was one of us, you know... (meaning Buddhist) I think I would get upset reading the Facebook walls, ugh. Glad I don't know any of those people.

If you listen to his Stanford speech, it is based on the Eastern Trinity... Creation, life, death.

[Scorpio]

(10-06-2011 09:44 AM)mrmody Wrote:  100 years from now, people will still remember Steve Jobs, few people will remember the "great" fundie leaders of our time.

The truth is few people (relatively speaking) even know who the fundie leaders are now.

[FinallyFree]

Those of us who are Apple fans feel like we lost a friend, even though we did not know Steve personally. He was perhaps the greatest innovator of the past century. His life was too short. May the legacy he built live on!

[Phatchick]

(10-05-2011 11:03 PM)NotUnderLaw Wrote:  MY facebook wall is crawling with horrible "Steve Jobs is in hell.. where will you spend eternity" status updates (not from me, but from fundies I haven't removed yet).

OMG! The mind boggles and the stomach churns.

[Beowulf]

(10-06-2011 01:49 PM)FinallyFree Wrote:  Those of us who are Apple fans feel like we lost a friend, even though we did not know Steve personally. He was perhaps the greatest innovator of the past century. His life was too short. May the legacy he built live on!

Steve Wozniak dated my wife's sister's best friend at one time Is that close enough to Steve Jobs to claim kinship? (that, and the dozen or so Apple products I own?)

[Scorpio]

(10-06-2011 02:20 PM)Beowulf Wrote:  Steve Wozniak dated my wife's sister's best friend at one time Is that close enough to Steve Jobs to claim kinship?

Only if he got to 3rd base with her.

[NotUnderLaw]

The tech guy at my work came in looking devastated today. I think he should have taken the day off to mourn.

He convinced the entire school to go Mac and is pushing iPads and running tutorials on how to use them in a class environment instead of active white boards (which are awful and I hate). Really nice Christian guy.

[Elijah Craig]

I work for a technology company and haven't heard a soul complain about Job's death. I was the first to bring it up, and only because I realized just how odd it was that software/system/network/storage engineers had nothing to say about Jobs' death.

He was really good at taking other people's ideas, and finding a way to market them to the general public. He did not invent the personal computer-- Steve Wozniak holds the patent to the first Apple. He did not invent the mouse-- Xerox did. Apple was not the first company to sell a touchscreen phone that could also access the Internet-- PalmPilot did that five, even ten years earlier. He did not invent the personal portable internet media player-- they were sold in 1997. He was just really good at connecting the people who knew how to make them with the people who knew how to put them in pretty wrappers, and was very good at coming on stage and selling it to the general public.

That technology engineers do not find him any more special than any of the other CEOs of technology companies, but the common person does-- this speaks to his salesmanship. He could not only sell ice to an Eskimo, he could convince the Eskimo that he invented ice.

[RobMille]

Says the clearly Microsoft and/or Unix centric developer....