Steve Jobs 1955-2011

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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby empath » 06 Oct 2011, 16:26

DOUBLE-POST ALERT:

Just this.

unable to form cogent thoughts to say more about it
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby gcninja » 06 Oct 2011, 18:51

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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby Fezzul » 06 Oct 2011, 19:08

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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby gcninja » 06 Oct 2011, 19:15

SHHHHHH. Nobody is supposed to know. Quick, bring in the bear corpse
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby epocalypse » 06 Oct 2011, 19:24

I salute the man, his drive, the great things he helped bring to the world, and his ability to refuse to quit until the end.

The thing that made Steve great (which is not to say good or perfect or anything of that sort, but a man of impact and vision) was not his keen sense for design and concept, his down right vicious drive a management style, or his commitment to new concepts like digital animation, touch control, or GUI, but the simple fact that up until the end, he refused to let anything keep him down.

To put it simply, with out the guy, there'd be no Pixar. The man was, at least in terms of net value, a force for good and awesome things.
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby tanatoes » 06 Oct 2011, 19:43

A sad day. The computer I'm posting this from is the first non-Apple computer I've owned in the last ten years, so clearly Jobs knew how to make products I craved.
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby empath » 07 Oct 2011, 01:56

The Onion's obit for Jobs really doesn't sound like a joke... :?
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby Geoff_B » 07 Oct 2011, 03:29

empath wrote:DOUBLE-POST ALERT:

Just this.

unable to form cogent thoughts to say more about it


That plus this leads me to think that she's more than a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Or maybe even a whole picnic short of a picnic.
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby WAYF » 07 Oct 2011, 04:03

Randall Munroe doesn't always get it completely right,
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it's for something really special.
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby ElementalAlchemist » 07 Oct 2011, 17:46

That was actually up yesterday (Thursday) and apparently is supposed to just replace today's update. That said, I do find that it works. I liked that one.
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby Evil Jim » 09 Oct 2011, 22:49

WAYF wrote:Randall Munroe doesn't always get it completely right,
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it's for something really special.
So for us non Apple users, what is that thing they're looking at?
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby Fezzul » 09 Oct 2011, 23:02

Spinning wheel of death
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby Ottoman » 10 Oct 2011, 04:14

It's the 'wait' cursor (or somesuch; can't remember the official name), which is usually referred to as the 'beachball of death', 'marble of doom', or 'goddamn shit'.

As I understand, it's similar to the hourglass cursor on Windows. Whenever an application becomes unresponsive for too long (either due to a crash that doesn't cause it to close, or because it's taking up an excessive amount of runtime), the cursor will turn into this whenever it is over a window of that application (or the menu bar if it's the active application).

Sometimes, usually in the latter case, the beachball will go away on its own after a few seconds. Other times, though, it signals that the application has essentially crashed, and will hang there indefinitely until the user force-quits / kills the application's process.

Despite it's bad connotation, or perhaps because of it, the beachball is one of the more iconic features of OSX. We sort of like it in a strange way. It is quite pretty, after all.
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby empath » 10 Oct 2011, 05:35

And notice that the 'Windows Hourglass' morphed into a blue spinning ring? Image
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby madrak_the_red » 11 Oct 2011, 00:28

I liked PVP's one

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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby empath » 12 Oct 2011, 12:35

So...having finished my last book, I just dug this out of a stack of marked-down books I'd bought some time ago.

Image Kinda glad Jobs was the business specialist and not the tech expert...

By the way....has anyone checked up on Woz? He's still happy, hale and healthy - no growing paranoia, incurable terminal illness or legit beef against a large corporation/nation/ethnic group/other organization, right? Image
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby gcninja » 12 Oct 2011, 12:43

posted yesterday
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Postby Fezzul » 12 Oct 2011, 15:13

I groaned and laughed.

Mostly groaned.
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Re: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

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