Steve Jobs parked in Handicapped spaces and kicked old ladies?

[persia]

Computers are now consumption devices, be it tablet, laptop or desktop.  Most people just want music, facebook and pictures.  But it was the same thing with the automobile or any other piece of technology.  I know people who do amazingly creative things with just an iPad and people who do nothing but gaming on 8 -12 core behemoths.   I know the reverse too.  Computers are ubiquitous.  We don't even think about them now.

[nicholas]

Computers are now consumption devices, be it tablet, laptop or desktop.  Most people just want music, facebook and pictures.  But it was the same thing with the automobile or any other piece of technology.  I know people who do amazingly creative things with just an iPad and people who do nothing but gaming on 8 -12 core behemoths.   I know the reverse too.  Computers are ubiquitous.  We don't even think about them now.

+1

Computers are now no different to any other tool.

[persia]

Water pre-dates Islam.  Iranians have been using water to clean themselves long before the Arabs came in and tried to destroy the country.

[Iggy]

Water pre-dates Islam.  Iranians have been using water to clean themselves long before the Arabs came in and tried to destroy the country.

OK...now we're down to arguing who figured out how to wash their asses first.
I didn't mind when this got personal, because I'm pretty resilient.
But this is getting a little silly.

BTW - Wouldn't it be nice if the Arabs and the Iranians both got back to the noble ideals they maintained in centuries past?

[bloodline]

The GUI was not an apple invention, they "borrowed" that from xerox.

Jobs paid Xerox for the right for his team to visit the PARCS development project... The PARCS people weren't happy about that, but the Xerox managment were happy for the shares in Apple

Jobs almost caused Apple to go belly-up.

John Scully actually... Jobs had left apple by 1985, and set up NeXT computers, which  is the platform we now think of as a Mac.

[commodorejohn]

Computers are ubiquitous.  We  don't even think about them now.

Maybe you don't. I do.

[Iggy]

Maybe you don't. I do.

Como?

@bloodline - The OS'?  Definitely NeXT.  The hardware? Pure PC.

So Mac? A trademarked name.

[bloodline]

Como?

@bloodline - The OS'?  Definitely NeXT.  The hardware? Pure PC.

Pure PC? And antiquated view, I run Apple's NeXT operating system on Macs and iPhones and iPads... It's the same OS, and some pretty exotic hardware, especially the iPhone 5S!

So Mac? A trademarked name.

Yeah the Mac is just a brand name, because the public wouldn't have bought an iNeXT Cube.

[nicholas]

OK...now we're down to arguing who figured out how to wash their asses first.
I didn't mind when this got personal, because I'm pretty resilient.
But this is getting a little silly.

BTW - Wouldn't it be nice if the Arabs and the Iranians both got back to the noble ideals they maintained in centuries past?

Don't mind Persia Jim, he's an Aryan Supremacist and there's a lot of it about.

[nicholas]

Maybe you don't. I do.

Personal computers maybe.

[Thorham]

And we've been using the even superior method of washing our arses since ~600CE.

Yeah, but wouldn't you still use paper first to remove the worst of it? Wipe until there's nothing visible on the paper anymore, and then wash with water and soap?

[TheMud]

http://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-handicapped-spaces-the-pictures/

You must be a sick bastard to make fun of a sick man. He was very ill at that time, so of course he could use a handicap parking spot.

And he was brilliant. I love Amiga and Apple.

But the people behind Apple now have the world largest computer firm. Amiga? Oh they died because it was run by losers who knew sh** about business. Except for 2-3 years Amiga has always been a company diying.

Hope you get cancer and die and I'll post here and laugh... Get it stup**?

[nicholas]

Yeah, but wouldn't you still use paper first to remove the worst of it? Wipe until there's nothing visible on the paper anymore, and then wash with water and soap?

Nah, the bidet blasts it away then we use soap.

Amiga.org: Always off-topic since 1997.

[commodorejohn]

You must be a sick bastard to make fun of a sick man. He was very ill at that time, so of course he could use a handicap parking spot.

He was doing that long before he had any illness. The anecdote with Jean-Louis Gassee in the OP dates from the '80s.

Hope you get cancer and die and I'll post here and laugh... Get it stup**?

What a charming sentiment.

[Thorham]

Nah, the bidet blasts it away then we use soap.

I think I'll go with the paper :lol:

[kamelito]

http://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-handicapped-spaces-the-pictures/

 No one went to the moon in 69 (ever?), I don't have links but google plenty.