RIP Steve Jobs
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Yeah, that's contemptible even as a blatant trolling attempt.
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"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
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wtf, that's ps on the right....
omg, ryngofire sucks so much, what a lamer, sucking bill gates balls...
indeed. bill gates wasnt exactly a sweetheart either if you read how he wiggled the other microsoft founders out the company ;D
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"The truth is incontrovertible. Maali may attack it and may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
\o/
http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-steve-jobs-to-share-the-wealth
ha ha!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/steve-jobs/8811345/Steve-Jobs-adopted-child-who-never-met-his-biological-father.html
ha ha!
omg.
omg.
ha ha!
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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates recently launched the "Giving Pledge" [...] Steve Jobs, worth $5.1 billion, definitely qualifies for the Pledge. There's just one problem — the Apple co-founder and CEO has no public record of philanthropy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/steve-jobs/8811345/Steve-Jobs-adopted-child-who-never-met-his-biological-father.html
ha ha!
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His biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian Muslim immigrant who later married Ms Schieble. He has said they did not want to put their baby up for adoption, but his girlfriend’s parents would not initially allow her to marry an Arab.
omg.
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In 1978, his high school girlfriend, Chris Ann Brennan, had a daughter. Steve denied he was her father for two years, at one point swearing to a court that he was infertile.
omg.
z0mg rez got past the parental lock & nanny-net! ;P
Steve is dead and i (M77) am glad
Steve walks barely down the street
with an attention whore
my face when i was 22 is on the drum in Queen - Another One Bites The Dust music video
Steve walks barely down the street
with an attention whore
my face when i was 22 is on the drum in Queen - Another One Bites The Dust music video
although i feel dirty posting on this thread, here goes..
i like (some) apple products, and own a few. largely speaking they're well designed, powerful and are of a good build quality. i also cant help but respect their marketing - not just the up-front ads but the product placement etc etc. theyve done a great job in making the brand more than just a brand.
apple is now to some people more like a band or a football team. it's not just a brand they trust and buy from because the products are good, it's something they love - something they folllow blindly and irrationally.
im talking about the large number of people queuing up for the iphone 4s launch that i walked past on friday. they weren't queueing to buy it on launch day just because it's a good phone, or because their old phone needed upgrading or that this one would somehow change their life, allow them to do things they never could and that were essential for their continued existance (most of them, largely 20-30 year old men, looked like they were tweeting or facebooking on their current iphone 4).
no, they were there because that new phone would be the defining part of their own personal image, their social standing - like converse allstars and band tshirts to a teenage indie kid or a wayne rooney shirt to a man u fan. that new phone would instantly demonstrate everything they wanted to say about themselves to everyone else. it would make them look more creative, rebelious, cutting edge and with better taste than everyone else, just for a few hundred notes and a few hours in line.
sad fucks.
that is what irritates me about the apple fanboy. it's not just about the products - it's about the style accessories, and they're not even _good_ style accessories. they're style accessories of the geekiest kind, for people who know nothing else about style.
for me technology is a tool, not a fashion accessory; i want the best product for the job, and sometimes that means apple. it doesnt define me and it doesnt define my image. (i do own a couple of pairs of converse though. the indie chicks dig it.) when i buy a phone i like to read the reviews, try a few in the shop, have a go on one of my friends ones first and see if i like it, making an informed choice - something clearly no-one in that iphone 4s queue could have done.
apple are not a band, an artist, a fashion designer or a football team. steve jobs was not kurt cobain, michael jackson or coco chanel, he's the head of a very big corporation. apple sometimes do deserve your money, but they dont deserve your undying love, they shouldnt be allowed to tell you where technology is going and watch you follow blindly (no, i dont want to spend my train journey having a conversation with the 2011 mobile version of hal) and they shouldnt be allowed to define you. buy the products when they're right for you, but dont fall in love the brand.
ps. - i really dearly hope that someone in that iphone 4s queue waited for a few hours, got to the front, went in the shop, tried out the phone in the shop and said "nah, i dont like it" and left. :)
i like (some) apple products, and own a few. largely speaking they're well designed, powerful and are of a good build quality. i also cant help but respect their marketing - not just the up-front ads but the product placement etc etc. theyve done a great job in making the brand more than just a brand.
apple is now to some people more like a band or a football team. it's not just a brand they trust and buy from because the products are good, it's something they love - something they folllow blindly and irrationally.
im talking about the large number of people queuing up for the iphone 4s launch that i walked past on friday. they weren't queueing to buy it on launch day just because it's a good phone, or because their old phone needed upgrading or that this one would somehow change their life, allow them to do things they never could and that were essential for their continued existance (most of them, largely 20-30 year old men, looked like they were tweeting or facebooking on their current iphone 4).
no, they were there because that new phone would be the defining part of their own personal image, their social standing - like converse allstars and band tshirts to a teenage indie kid or a wayne rooney shirt to a man u fan. that new phone would instantly demonstrate everything they wanted to say about themselves to everyone else. it would make them look more creative, rebelious, cutting edge and with better taste than everyone else, just for a few hundred notes and a few hours in line.
sad fucks.
that is what irritates me about the apple fanboy. it's not just about the products - it's about the style accessories, and they're not even _good_ style accessories. they're style accessories of the geekiest kind, for people who know nothing else about style.
for me technology is a tool, not a fashion accessory; i want the best product for the job, and sometimes that means apple. it doesnt define me and it doesnt define my image. (i do own a couple of pairs of converse though. the indie chicks dig it.) when i buy a phone i like to read the reviews, try a few in the shop, have a go on one of my friends ones first and see if i like it, making an informed choice - something clearly no-one in that iphone 4s queue could have done.
apple are not a band, an artist, a fashion designer or a football team. steve jobs was not kurt cobain, michael jackson or coco chanel, he's the head of a very big corporation. apple sometimes do deserve your money, but they dont deserve your undying love, they shouldnt be allowed to tell you where technology is going and watch you follow blindly (no, i dont want to spend my train journey having a conversation with the 2011 mobile version of hal) and they shouldnt be allowed to define you. buy the products when they're right for you, but dont fall in love the brand.
ps. - i really dearly hope that someone in that iphone 4s queue waited for a few hours, got to the front, went in the shop, tried out the phone in the shop and said "nah, i dont like it" and left. :)
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for me technology is a tool, not a fashion accessory; i want the best product for the job, and sometimes that means apple
That sums it up for me too.
As to those people queuing up.. it's not just fanboys (although there are plenty!) When the iPad 2 came out I actually queued up to get one - because I'd written an iPad app and needed to test it seriously urgently, not because I actually wanted one (it's nice, but I wouldn't justify spending £400 on it except for dev work). There was a bunch of fanboys up at the front, but back where i was it was a real mix. The guy in front was in his 50s, and seemed to have been totally brainwashed by the marketing (he was going on for ages about how amazing it was...wtf!). Behind me was a family, their daughter (10-ish) wanted an iPad to play games and stuff on, they had no idea the ipad2 was out until they saw the queue, and her birthday was a few days later so they'd decided to get it.
There's a guy here in the office too who queued up to swap his iPhone 4 for a 4s on friday (outside an o2 shop in a very rough part of manchester... where he turned up 2 hours before opening, and was 17th in the queue.. again, wtf!) He definitely doesn't have it for fashion reasons - I'd say it's more like just wanting to have the latest + greatest, pretty much like the guys who upgrade their PC to the fastest parts every 12 months.
And yeah, I did get a 4s on friday :) I need to test my code on it, so no choice.. it's going to sit next to my 4, 3gs, iPod touch and iPad (of which only 1 phone gets much use for anything other than dev work). Is it worth the upgrade? Not really. It's exactly like my 4.. very fast, but the 4 was fast too, so it's a minor improvement. The camera is a bit better, but the old one was good enough. The hardware is a minor upgrade, not worthwhile at all. From a 3gs or earlier it would be appealing.
Siri on the other hand is actually *very* useful! It does what the best tools do: save a ton of time. No more pissing around typing or going into settings, I just ask it "remind me to turn the oven on when I get home" or "change my alarm to 7am tomorrow morning". I honestly would use that on the train - you just hold it to your ear, ask it to do something, then put it away. It's not really any different from a quick phone call, nothing like the old style "NEXT TRACK", "CANCEL! FUCK, CANCEL! I SAID NEXT TRACK, NOT DIAL THE FUCKING POLICE YOU CUNTING PHONE!" (I've had my phone start calling people in foreign countries before now when I just wanted it to play the next song in a playlist!)
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ps. - i really dearly hope that someone in that iphone 4s queue waited for a few hours, got to the front, went in the shop, tried out the phone in the shop and said "nah, i dont like it" and left. :)
Wins for me.
Apple fanboys: Worship Apple because they think it makes them look cool.
Pouet trolls: Bash Apple (and Apple fanboys, even though there aren't any here) because they think it makes them look cool.
Demosceners (and everyone else in the world): Just want to get shit done.
Pouet trolls: Bash Apple (and Apple fanboys, even though there aren't any here) because they think it makes them look cool.
Demosceners (and everyone else in the world): Just want to get shit done.
i am a tool, not a fashion accessory!
Good, because jobs require tools.
Wonder what the productivity level is like between apple/non-apple users on here btw?
Wonder what the productivity level is like between apple/non-apple users on here btw?
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Wonder what the productivity level is like between apple/non-apple users on here btw?
..........wat
non-apple users dont have 10 minutes walks to the nearest starbucks for a latte.. that's for sure! :D
makes me wonder about how the snobbery level is distributed between apple/non-apple users.. ^^
Nowadays you tend to see more "your platform sucks"-shouting from the non-Apple camp and from my personal point of view linux users seem to be worst in this regard.
inbetween compiling kernels, i can be quite productive!
happy linux & apple user, does that blow your head of? :)
Smash has the leading
& here's a nice website with great stories from Macintosh era Apple: http://folklore.org/index.py. You'll get a good idea of Steve Jobs' character from some of the stories (especially the reality distortion field one, and the one about the handicapped parking space :D)
& here's a nice website with great stories from Macintosh era Apple: http://folklore.org/index.py. You'll get a good idea of Steve Jobs' character from some of the stories (especially the reality distortion field one, and the one about the handicapped parking space :D)
-_-_-_- No, there are people that use these platforms and people that evangelise about them :)
Maali: Starbucks sell some of the worst coffee I've had outside of china (Chinese cappuccino should be avoided like the plague!)
Maali: Starbucks sell some of the worst coffee I've had outside of china (Chinese cappuccino should be avoided like the plague!)
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Nowadays you tend to see more "your platform sucks"-shouting from the non-Apple camp and from my personal point of view linux users seem to be worst in this regard.
Actually, I think in the past 12 months it has shifted to Linux users complaining that KDE 4 sucks, Gnome 3 suck, and Unity sucks. In fact since the release of these new desktop environments, I wouldn't be surprised if Linux Desktop usage has actually declined. I know I can't fucking stand them.
