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Posted by itfc1959 on 25 August 2011 - 3:00pm.
Very interesting quote from His Steveness in the weekly mailout. I've often wondered what this project was, that was going revolutionise Apple's future and save it from history's dustbin. I know what it wasn't, and that was the iMac: sad old Apple watcher that I am, I know that the iMac was already well underway under Jonny Ive's tutelage during the final days of the Gil Amelio regime, so it wasn't that. Couldn't have been iTunes, either: far too early in the day.
Anyone got any ideas, however ill-informed? My money is on the Cube. I had one of them. Lovely machine, looked fantastic.
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Erm ...
what's the quote? And what are you talking about?
it's on the weekly Word mailout.
QUOTE: "I've got a plan that could rescue
Apple. I can't say any more than
that it's the perfect product and
the perfect strategy for Apple. But
nobody there will listen to me"
~ Steve Jobs, 1995
you can bet
that whatever it was, he'd have done a press conference a year later telling you that the one you had was rubbish, and that Apple were about to unveil version 2...which would be a 'game-changer'.
Was it a very early
intimation of the iPod?
(Very ill-informed idea, as requested.)
Erm …
Are you all aware that Saint Steve has just resigned as CEO? I assumed this would be the subject of the discussion.
Yes, I heard it this morning.
At first I thought he'd buggered off totally, which would have indicated (sadly) that his time was running out. For all I know it may well be, but apparently he's hanging around as Chairman.
Watched the news this morning and
saw that a fearsome dictator with no regard for ordinary people had finally relinquished his grip on power. No word on Gadaffi yet though
So a man who founded a
So a man who founded a successful computer company who also may be about to succumb to pancreatic cancer is akin to a tyrannical despot who has actually caused the deaths of thousands. Get a grip.
No.
Maggie didn't say that. She/he merely put some words together in a joke-shape that made 13 people laugh (make that 14 now). There was nothing off-colour about it at all in respect of Jobs' health, it's probably no different from a 100 different retirement gags that have done the rounds today, and right now, in Tripoli, people whose lives have been blighted by Gadaafi will be telling the same jokes freely for the first time in their lives.
Well done Maggie
Now grow up
From
Everyone Effected By Cancer
Not everybody
Don't presume to speak for everybody affected by cancer and any other life threatening illness. The only thing that got my family through when my mum had cancer was humour. So I'll have more of that thank you very much. Apologies if it offends others but it's one of the most important human qualities if you ask me. The world could do with more of it.
Go on then
Give us a cancer joke.
the only one I can think of:
'My Uncle died last week. The big C.'
'Cancer?"
'No - he drowned.'
a joke to be said not read, obv.
Yes, not everybody
I lost my father through cancer, my mother is currently in remission, and having a sense of humour about the disease has helped a great deal, IMHO. Either way, the joke you don't like isn't about cancer. It's about retirement and about Jobs' perceived despotism.
If he'd gone to spend more time with his cactus collection, or to explore the bottom of the sea, you could make the same joke without having to re-word it. It's about drawing ludicrous parallels with Gaddafi, not parallels with the sick.
For a discussion board
full of bona fide Apple fanbois, I'm surprised this thread is so inactive. I may write something more thoughtful tomorrow if I can be arsed.
oh gee
- now I won't sleep ;-P
From the New Yorker
Interesting article from their archive on the mouse :
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell
Thank you
That article was right up my street. The story of Doug Englebart is amazing. Here is a link to a video of a presentation he gave in December 1968 where the public got to see a mouse for the first time, a GUI for the first time (albeit rudimentary) and hypertext for the first time (y'know, text you click, like teh interwebs). Knowing what we know now, it's fascinating to see this technology being introduced the same month that The White Album was released.
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
To go even further back it's worth looking at the career and ideas of Vannevar Bush.
From Wikipedia:
Bush introduced the concept of what he called the memex (possibly derived from "memory extension") during the 1930s, which he imagined as a microfilm-based "device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility"
It's all interesting (if you're interested in that kind of thing).