Steve Jobs

[intelati49]

Not even close to road related, but significant enough. But Today it was announced that Steve Jobs has died of pancreatic cancer. 

[agentsteel53]

well, that's certainly one way of showing that he really is serious about the leave of absence.

[OCGuy81]

Guy was a genius in what he did for Apple.  In 2000, Apple was a penny stock (any stock basically trading under $5).  After his first year, he had the price "stabilized" above $10, and from there it blasted into the stratosphere.

Kicking myself for not buying back then, but I thought Microsoft would've swallowed em at the time.  First time I saw an ipod was in 2001, I think, and I saw it thinking that's what will save Apple.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

well, that's certainly one way of showing that he really is serious about the leave of absence.

While others just aren't serious enough.

[corco]

America needed domestic innovators, and whether or not you subscribe to Apple (I didn't), there's absolutely no denying we just lost one of the very best. This sucks.

[myosh_tino]

As an avid user of Apple products going all the way back to the mid-80's, Steve will be sorely missed.

Steve Wozniak already has Woz Way in downtown San Jose... so perhaps once the new Apple campus is built, the city of Cupertino should consider renaming N. Tantau Avenue (between Stevens Creek Blvd and Homestead Road) to Steve Jobs Avenue.  I think that would be a nice tribute for a Silicon Valley icon.

[formulanone]

America needed domestic innovators, and whether or not you subscribe to Apple (I didn't), there's absolutely no denying we just lost one of the very best. This sucks.

Here, here.

Not a big fan, but the Apple ][ is really what first sparked my interest in computers (thanks to a school lab that had a dozen of them). And my iPod is still working nicely despite lots of abuse over the past 6 years.

I mean, he's really one of the innovators of the personal computer, and of our times...for which many industries and pastimes blossomed as an extension of the desktop.

[1995hoo]

My wife and I have a few iPods, and I have an iPhone, but I've never been into the Mac thing in part because they're so expensive. But even people who use Windows-based PCs have to credit Jobs because it's pretty much universally recognized that Windows is a rip-off of the Mac interface. I'm not into the "Apple cult," but Jobs's statute as an innovator can't be ignored, and Bill Gates was one of the first people to praise him yesterday.

BTW, what would Steve Jobs have thought of this iPad docking station some guy made and named the Dockintosh?

[US71]

I'm not an Apple user, though my dad was. I have no doubt he was an innovator and has changed the way we communicate and changed the world overall.

[1995hoo]

As odious as the Westboro Baptist Church idiots are, their failure to appreciate the irony of their own announcement amuses me:

[OCGuy81]

LMAO @1995hoo.  That is the very definition of irony.

Reminds me of the Occupy Wall Street crowd we're seeing this week.  I find the "corporations are evil" speeches from a kid carrying Starbucks a bit ironical.

[agentsteel53]

As odious as the Westboro Baptist Church idiots are, their failure to appreciate the irony of their own announcement amuses me:

that message is actually serious?  I had thought it was the product of something like the Onion.

[1995hoo]

that message is actually serious?  I had thought it was the product of something like the Onion.

Been reported in the media here as a genuine announcement from those nutjobs. I'm not willing to visit any sort of website of theirs to find out whether that's accurate.

[agentsteel53]

yep, Poe's Law states that actual extremism, and a parody of said extremism, are indistinguishable.

[english si]

that message is actually serious?  I had thought it was the product of something like the Onion.

yep, Poe's Law states that actual extremism, and a parody of said extremism, are indistinguishable.

The Onion wishes it could do satire like that. Poe's law is wrong - Westboro 'Baptist Church' is always going to be unwittingly funnier than any satire of them can be.

[US71]

that message is actually serious?  I had thought it was the product of something like the Onion.

Appears to be. If it isn't, a lot of media outlets will look really stupid