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The iThing thread ( iPod ... iPhone ... iPad ... )
Started by artcinco, Jul 11 2011 07:26 PM
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Posted 07 October 2011 - 10:38 AM
That's funny. People will remember Steve Jobs one hell of a lot longer than Sean what's-his-name.
It's a hoax, just thought it was funny. Don't think SC would be using 007 logo paper in 1998 (or any other time). And I think he'll be remembered.....
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Posted 07 October 2011 - 12:33 PM
Steve Jobs was a great businessman. He gauged the market and was able to meet its needs while producing an impressive profit. I admire that.
That being said, I have never owned an Apple product. A few years ago, I did work on a campus with exclusive Mac labs and was not really impressed enough with the operating system to take advantage of the administration's offer of free faculty laptops. Don't get me wrong; the laptop would have met my needs adequately. I just didn't see anything exceptional about the programming to make me choose it over my personal laptop. Also, I've always worried about privacy concerns when using campus equipment because they make faculty sign conditional use agreements.
I did participate in an Apple experiment for the public schools when I was a little kid. Two of us were chosen to sit alone in a conference room with an Apple. I think they just wanted to see what we would do with the computer. Steve Jobs would not have been proud of us because all we did was type in curse words to see them on the screen and complain about the lack of video games.
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Posted 08 October 2011 - 07:40 PM
"Gates would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once" 
http://politics.salo...nd_drug_policy/
It’s fascinating to juxtapose America’s reverence for Steve Jobs’ accomplishments and its draconian drug policy with this, from the New York Times‘ obituary of Jobs:
[Jobs] told a reporter that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life. He said there were things about him that people who had not tried psychedelics — even people who knew him well, including his wife — could never understand.
Unlike many people who have enjoyed success, Jobs is not saying that he was able to succeed despite his illegal drug use; he’s saying his success is in part — in substantial part — because of those illegal drugs (he added that Bill Gates would “be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once”). These quotes (first published by a New York Times reporter) have been around for some time but have been only rarely discussed in the recent hagiographies of Jobs: a notable omission given that he himself praised those experiences as an integral part of his identity and one of the most important things he ever did. A surprisingly good Time Magazine article elaborates on this Jobs-LSD connection further:
http://politics.salo...nd_drug_policy/
It’s fascinating to juxtapose America’s reverence for Steve Jobs’ accomplishments and its draconian drug policy with this, from the New York Times‘ obituary of Jobs:
[Jobs] told a reporter that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life. He said there were things about him that people who had not tried psychedelics — even people who knew him well, including his wife — could never understand.
Unlike many people who have enjoyed success, Jobs is not saying that he was able to succeed despite his illegal drug use; he’s saying his success is in part — in substantial part — because of those illegal drugs (he added that Bill Gates would “be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once”). These quotes (first published by a New York Times reporter) have been around for some time but have been only rarely discussed in the recent hagiographies of Jobs: a notable omission given that he himself praised those experiences as an integral part of his identity and one of the most important things he ever did. A surprisingly good Time Magazine article elaborates on this Jobs-LSD connection further:
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