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Well, there you have it. Even the couldn't-finish-college Jobs realized that he would be alive today with his entirely treatable cancer if he didn't waste nine months dicking around with herbal teas, antioxidant berries, and other fake science snake oil...

Oooh, grammar wars. :klin: That's hot.

But an interesting take from ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Corp): http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3318250.html

Seriously. And as entertaining flame wars go, I gotta say, bianconero and Deneb, yours would have been cancelled before the pilot would have been made.

I think I saw mass ditchings of iPhones into the San Francisco Bay now that Jobs is gone... :shifty: But dude -- you can't have it both ways. You cannot say, "The only thing that determines the quality of a product is the number of items sold around the world on a long period of time" and then...

What is so ":sergio:" is that people are treating someone who made his name building and selling technology products as if he were Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Pope John Paul II, and Abraham Lincoln all wrapped into one. Would any of this outpouring of flower arrangements and votive candle vigils...

Driving by the Apple store in Palo Alto, I joked to my boss about there being votive candles in front. Then I saw this. :sergio:

New Facebook friends list: Morons.

The joke is that this is from the Westboro guys, who protest at military funerals because the soldier might have been gay, etc. The point is hypocrisy. The person is tweeting that they're going to picket Steve Jobs funeral because he taught sin, etc., and they do it on one of his phones is the...

It is. And I love it. :heart2: Yes. He sold products people wanted, who in turn gave him a lot of money. That makes him a good person in God's eyes that we must all love and adore as if he was a living saint. Genius. That sums up Steve Jobs better than anything I've ever read. :lol:

But how could it not be that precarious, Martin? The guy had pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant, which is most often fatal eventually, and things got so bad he had to step down because he "could no longer fill his duties as CEO". He wasn't going to make it until the New Year, that was for...

10 years ago I was notorious where I worked for using my Palm Pilot obsessively and always staring into it, hunched over my handheld device, doing all sorts of data entry, etc. It was a joke among my coworkers. Today, it's almost freakish to see people who aren't doing that on the subway...

:P Have you ever seen Robot Chicken? They do some awesome Skeletor send-ups. OK, I had to read the hidden text to see what you did there. :D

...or Mrs. Potatohead

There is something fundamentally wrong with a person who wants to transform themselves to look like Skeletor:

It's a public eulogy. Unlike me, he's trying not to be a dick. ;)

But why is it so hard to celebrate a man's professionalism independent from who he is as a person -- instead of trying to bundle the two up as a convenient, harmoniously glamorous package? Peter Sellers is easily one of my favorite actors of all time. But I can accept the fact that he was a...

Ah, no. Seriously, dude. This is no exaggeration job. If you think Jobs was a good person to know in person, you have no clue as to who he was or what he was about. There's more evidence of this on him than anybody in the entire tech world just shy of only maybe Larry Ellison. I've lived in the...

Nope. I know people in the industry here. I gotz da first-hand rules. Just Google search "Steve Jobs is a dick". You'll be overwhelmed: the backstabbing of Wozniak, berating employees, temper tantrums, taking credit for the ideas of others, parking his Mercedes in handicapped spaces. This isn't...

But Pepsi, on the other hand.... Yeah, Steve said he tried to hold on for a few more days since you were just at the Apple store. But he couldn't hold on. :confused2 I think you're confusing the personal with the professional. Jobs was notoriously a dick to work for. I may think Peter...