Steve Jobs passed away!

[nicholas]

Surely we belong to the creator and to him shall we return.

Rest in peace Steve.

[nicholas]

Actually, I think Steve was a Buddhist... So I guess he will be reincarnated (dependant on which type of buddhisim he was into)

That was a quote from the Qur'an. It's what Muslims say whenever anyone dies, regardless of the deceaseds personal beliefs.

It's a mark of respect like "Rest in peace".

[nicholas]

Disgusting people!

 http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/144221/phelps-clan-tweets-intent-to-picket-jobs-funeral-via-iphone

[nicholas]

Want to know what made Steve Jobs great? He understood technology:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c&sns=em

He understood people too, the man was truly a genius.

[nicholas]

Actually, I think Steve was a Buddhist.

'According to Tate he “regularly belittled people, swore at them, and  pressured them until they reached their breaking point. In the pursuit  of greatness he cast aside politeness and empathy.  He verbal abuse  never stopped.”'

Not quite the humility a devotee of Siddhartha Gautama should display eh?

In business, only bastards succeed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2011/10/10/steve-jobs-was-a-jerk-good-for-him/

[nicholas]

Great as Jobs achievements were, his works will be forgotten by both the masses and the nerds in 30 years time.

By contrast, the achievements of Dennis Ritchie have never been known by the masses yet in 30 years the nerds will still remember him and his works.

[nicholas]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/16/john-naughton-dennis-ritchie-unix?newsfeed=true

[nicholas]

Oddly the article focuses on Unix... when IMHO C was his greater gift to the world... this is not to put down Unix, but rather to emphasise the importance of C.

Good point, I couldn't say which I love the most, UNIX or C. Too hard to choose.

I sent the article to my Apple addicted family members but I doubt it will make them appreciate Ritchie's contributions to the devices they take for granted.

[nicholas]

The more I think about this the more I feel that had Richie died at any other time, his death would have gone even more unnoticed... At least with his death so close to Jobs' the mainstream news was prepared to write about pioneers of the tech world.

Even in death, Jobs was a facilitator :lol:

:lol:

[nicholas]

The Pippin was just another stupid "multimedia" game console like the 3D0 or CDi. The Twentieth-Anniversary Macintosh is an overpriced, under-specced, ugly pile of shιt. And the G4 Cube looked cool as hell but didn't offer anything a contemporary Power Mac G4 didn't.

Shame about the Newton and the clone market, though.

3DO rocked! I still have my Panasonic FZ-1.

It wiped the floor with the POS that was the CD32.