Posted on 10/24/2011 10:59:42 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Steve Jobs called long-time rival and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates as "unimaginative" and not really a product person, according to a biography of the deceased Apple Inc chief executive.
"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology," Jobs told author Walter Isaacson. "He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."
Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died at age 56. Read more
"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger," Jobs added.
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“.”He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once ...”
he fact is that acid is best known for scrambling many brains and the ruining of lives. - lest we forget!!!
Thank God for IBM DOS.
In the early 80s I was forced to use program language to rewrite documents in basic language for several different languages. I couldn’t have done this with a “MAC”. MACs were developed for those with minds that were already burned out by drugs and had to have a graphical user inteface to even undersand an computer. I fought to the last inch against Windows. I could do anything I wanted using keypad commands until the time came that the programs I wanted weren’t written in DOS. Jobs and his generation were shortcut artist that couldn’t/wouldn’t ever understand computer language. MIcrosoft made the transition that MAC users could never follow.
Thank God for IBM DOS.
In the early 80s I was forced to use program language to rewrite documents in basic language for several different languages. I couldn’t have done this with a “MAC”. MACs were developed for those with minds that were already burned out by drugs and had to have a graphical user inteface to even undersand an computer. I fought to the last inch against Windows. I could do anything I wanted using keypad commands until the time came that the programs I wanted weren’t written in DOS. Jobs and his generation were shortcut artist that couldn’t/wouldn’t ever understand computer language. MIcrosoft made the transition that MAC users could never follow.
O.K. I didn’t expand before, because I didn’t want to go too far off the track of this thread.
I first considered writing “popular opinion”, or “received wisdom” — and that was certainly the case, in Columbus’ time. Amongst the masses, probably only navigators had an opinion grounded in empirical evidence. The overwhelming majority (if they thought of it at all) believed in a flat earth. I was using “scientific consensus” in much the same way as Gorebots talk about “global warming”. (Only I thought I was being clever and ironic. Unlike Gorebots, I know that science is not based on consensus.) An overwhelming majority of people, in 1492, would have told you the world was flat. If they used the language of today’s warmist masses, they’d say that the “scientific consensus” said the world was flat.
My point remains: however many people “knew” the earth was round; however many people “discovered” that fact before Columbus; it was Columbus that finally did something with the knowledge. That’s why there’s a Columbus Day; and that’s why Steve Jobs deserves credit for introducing the GUI to the great unwashed masses.
Better than that. They gave them a million dollars worth of pre-IPO Apple stock, then valued at $7 a share. That stake, if Xerox had held onto it, would be worth billions today.
Any man with an education knew that the earth is round. They figured it out in ancient Greece and by 1492 it was common knowledge. The misconception that Columbus's journey had any connection whatsoever with a belief in a flat earth is a modern fabrication. This error can still be found in some textbooks so it is not surprising that you would have read it somewhere.
Not many had the education 5 centuries ago. The knowledge from the ancient Greeks was lost to western civilization during the “Dark Ages”. It took a long time afterward to spread the knowledge to the masses.
Absolutely. Touchpad technology predates the iPad and touch phones.
Absolutely. Touchpad technology predates the iPad and touch phones.
The entire concept of the "Dark Ages" is part of the myth. The seedlings which would grow to be the trees of the industrial revolution were planted in ancient times and were being nutured in Medieval Europe. They experienced slow but steady intellectual and industrial development, and although universal education had to wait for Gutenberg's invention, the myth of general belief in a Flat Earth is a modern creation.
Okay, you’ve walked that back far enough, LOL! We’re good.
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