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Ualdayan said:
I think it says a lot that when he knew he was sick, instead of blowing everything off and going nuts on a spending spree around the world like most people would do he stayed where he was and worked on something he believed in. (the iPad) Anybody who grew up into science fiction has wanted a tablet for a long time, and finally here was one that was thin, and light enough to take with you on the go just like we'd seen in all those scifi shows.

Quote: "People who work closely with Mr. Jobs said the project was so important to him that he was intimately involved in its planning even while recovering from his 2009 liver transplant."

How many of you would continue working where you are, doing exactly what you're doing right now, if you knew time was limited?
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QUOTED FOR FUCKING TRUTH. Glad to see that at least SOME people on the H have a BRAIN and a Conscience! And I think the stupid asshole haters here don't even remember Jobs' keynote lecture speech, I think in 2005(?), after he knew he had a serious cancer. The lecture he gave, at a university, was considered to be the BEST lecture of his life. I don't remember the words, but it was something about, living and making the most of your life, because the Reaper WILL come for you someday, so you must go after your dreams, because no one else will do it for you. Do not waste that opportunity.

It was something like this... although worded a bit differently.
And seriously, Steve Jobs was Apple, and Apple was Steve Jobs. He *LOVED* his work. His work and his company was probably as fun to him, as the *ENTERTAINMENT* we get from our computer games and other activities. He was working with Apple until the end, when he was simply too sick to walk anymore. Only a couple of months went from when he passed CEO to Tim Cook, and passing away.
 
the only good thing I can say about Steve Jobs is that he helped spur the smartphone war era and we got Android out of that.
 
msny said:
Tts about respect, how would the title be if it were Bill Gates?

Different I would bet.
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Not if Kyle writes the article ;).
He gets right to the point and i doubt it would be any different when Bill bites the big one.
 
msny said:
Tts about respect, how would the title be if it were Bill Gates?

Different I would bet.
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I doubt it.

BTW, I'm looking at the Wall Street Journal opinion page this morning, and under most popular stories the first item says:

Apple's Steve Jobs Is Dead

So are they also unprofessional and disrespectful?
 
pigster said:
I doubt it.

BTW, I'm looking at the Wall Street Journal opinion page this morning, and under most popular stories the first item says:

Apple's Steve Jobs Is Dead

So are they also unprofessional and disrespectful?
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The appropriate title is:

"Visionary Innovator, Steve Jobs, Has Crossed the Rainbow Bridge."
 
Disposed said:
Yeah the list is massive and he got it in months...

He didnt buy his way ahead of people that had been waiting for a long time right. :rolleyes:
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So if you had a billion dollars, you would wait patiently in line for you or a loved one to get their transplant?
 
Just gonna go ahead and say it.

The man was an Amazing CEO, there is no doubt to that fact. From that stance he had a ton of respect from me and I generally have little respect for CEO's. However on the other side of the coin, he was a massive douchebag when it came to his personal life. Granted that is entirely his right, but I am a little sick of seeing all the praise for his life. I will praise his achievements as a CEO, but nothing outside that.
 
Not to mention the fact that he really became relevant again in terms of great things in this decade, the 90's was Apple's bad years with the 80's as the starting off point.
 
evilsofa said:
If you believe that someone who doesn't need a liver transplant can get one under the UNOS system, you are deluded. If you believe that Steve Jobs was not near death when he got his liver transplant, you are deluded.
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I never said he didn't *need* an organ. I said he accepted one when he knew for a goddamn fact that was only going to extend his life by a short period vs. someone that may have had decades of life left, even with immunosuppresives.

And for the conspiracy theorists, who's to say he didn't make a contrabution to the surgery center when he was accepted?
 
evilsofa said:
Boomstick, Ruoh, and others who believe he bought a liver that he shouldn't have gotten:

UNOS decides who gets using MELD for ages 18+ and PELD for children under 18. MELD is:

"This system is based on the risk or probability of death within 3 months if the patient does not receive a transplant. The MELD score is calculated based only on laboratory data in order to be as objective as possible. The laboratory values used are a patient's creatinine, bilirubin, and international normalized ratio, or INR (a measure of blood-clotting time). A patient's score can range from 6 to 40. In the event of a liver becoming available to 2 patients with the same MELD score and blood type, time on the waiting list becomes the deciding factor."

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/liver_transplant/article_em.htm

Please note that MELD only reverts to time on the waiting list when they have candidates who are equally sick; MELD is about allocating transplants based on severity of need. Also please note that kids are on a different list than adults.

UNOS is so objective that many people are angry that those suffering from alcoholic cirrhosis get liver transplants.

The assumption that those of you who are disrespecting UNOS are making is that money will move you up that list. It does not. More money will let you join more lists, some of which may be shorter than others. This is not against the rules, you would do it if you had the money to do it, and whining about someone who had the money to do it is jealousy, plain and simple.

My objection is not what you think about Steve Jobs. My objection is that you believe either that you know better who should get a transplant than UNOS does or that it is corrupt. You are wrong on both counts.

If you believe that someone who doesn't need a liver transplant can get one under the UNOS system, you are deluded. If you believe that Steve Jobs was not near death when he got his liver transplant, you are deluded.
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I'm just going to quote this again because it's been a page since it was last posted, and there are clearly some problems with memory and/or a malicious desire to make up or repeat bullshit for some personal vendetta or outright stupidity. (Ironic that Apple fanboys are called the sheep. Yes it is.)

Just sayin'--and if there was a button I could push that would kill myself and take you all with me, I'd push the bastard. There's always the chance you'd be my slaves in hell.
 
While i wasn't a fan of his products or marketing or brainwashed apple fans, he did lots for the computer world(some good some bad, alot no one gave a damn about)...smart man, sad to see him go in some ways
 
Azhar said:
Stay classy.
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As classy as Apple making hundreds of millions of dollars off the backs of Foxconn workers plunging themselves to their own deaths and burning in huge fires? As classy as Jobs raiding the homes of journalists? As classy as jobs buying his way to the top of organ donor lists? Karma baby.
 
Archaea said:
Does Heaven have total 4G coverage?

R.I.P Steve...
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Jobs found himself in iheaven. Where everything was shiny and clean, but all was outrageously expensive and didn't work worth a crap.

Whoever got a hold of his iphone can send some pretty cool crank calls.........
 
eggrock said:
That's a lot of CEO's we can celebrate the death of.

Foxconn makes consumer electronics for a number of well-known companies, including:

Apple Inc. (United States)[16]
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)[17]
Asus (Taiwan)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Intel (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[18]
Dell (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)[16]
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)[19]
Vizio (United States)

And since you make money reviewing products from some of these companies...
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I guess he has to ride the bandwagon in order to stay popular these days.
 
Q: What does it say when you visit the Employment page on the Apple website?

A: No Jobs available!
 
It is a sad day indeed, that Steve suffered from iDeath. Just a shame that Apple was not able to invent the iLiver and iPancreas, in time to avoid the iPassing. Our iThoughts are with you Steve, who art thou in iHeaven.
 
eggrock said:
And since you make money reviewing products from some of these companies...
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Exactly. And since you use these products and use our services. We are just the same big pieces of shit Jobs was. All his cult followers that think he was not the same corporate profiteering scumbag working off the backs of the underpaid are in La La Land.
 
Q-BZ said:
Speaking of karma.
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Yeah, if I get cancer I'm sure it will be the normal mundane kind. I'm sure Jobs' cancer was magical and sparkly and somehow better than everyone else's cancer for some reason that no one can quite explain.
 
IronChef75 said:
Yeah, if I get cancer I'm sure it will be the normal mundane kind. I'm sure Jobs' cancer was magical and sparkly and somehow better than everyone else's cancer for some reason that no one can quite explain.
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Look man. I get it. I can get in to a bunch of stuff that I don't like about Jobs and Apple, too, and all that, but c'mon. Ease off a little. The man is dead and he died an ugly death. Pancreatic cancer is UGLY.

I'm very saddened by some of what I've seen in this thread so quick after the man dies and from a number of people, including yourself, that I've seen better from than the likes of this and I think I know better.

C'mon guys. Back the vitriol down a notch or two just for a bit. Please? :)
 
Ripperjack said:
Ahh yes, but will that cannon be water cooled, with a fire control mechanism powered by an overclocked AMD CPU? :D
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Hopefully I got enough time that off the shelf super cooling will be readily available.
 
i can see why people are mad.... Jobs didnt give 2 craps about the consumer.. so why should they give 2 craps about him....
 
LoneWolf said:
I respect you for a lot of things, Kyle.

But honestly, every time I hear you and Steve talk about Steve Jobs, I feel like I've entered high school all over again --and that makes me feel like I need to take a shower.

I'm just saying it like I feel it, and with no disrespect intended, but that's exactly how I feel every time HardOCP posts an Apple or Steve Jobs link.
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Well I guess since there will be no more Steve Jobs' links, you will be showering half as much. Look at is as if Jobs biting it is a win-win for you and I.
 
InorganicMatter said:
Jobs didn't invent, I'll give you that. He went further than inventing: Jobs perfected. That is, arguably, far more important than inventing. Bringing something that people WANT to use to market is an entirely different ball game than bringing something to market that people hold their nose while they have to use it.

Smart phones were bulky, expensive, and had short battery lives. Jobs perfected the smart phone and now everyone has one.
Tablets were bulky, expensive, and inefficient. Jobs perfected the tablet, and it's now a technology staple.
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Are you kidding me? If it wasn't invented, HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO 'PERFECT' IT.

And "perfect it", is your opinion. Do you honestly think things would have stayed bulky and expensive if it weren't for him?

EVERYTHING in this world has gotten better with TIME, and you're going to try and tell us PC's wouldn't have without Jobs?

You Apple people drink some serious kool aid. :rolleyes:

And ever hear of motioncomputing? Those tablets were excellent. Way before the ipad.
 
I think we should respect Jobs as a businessman, and his accomplishments in business are outstanding. But to look at him as this true amazing visionary and speak of him in the same breath as Einstein and Gandhi is completely laughable. He was no humanitarian, and he was not a friend of the consumer.
 
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