RE: Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
He died from pancreatic cancer.
LuckyPokeGirl said:
He died from pancreatic cancer.
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RE: Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
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And because I'll assume no one wants to read my wall of text either:
As angry as I am over Final Cut Pro X and Apple's PR since 2007, I'll give him that much, haha. How ironic it is to be patronizing the figure of a CEO in this day and age! …Or someone known primarily as a CEO during his lifetime, whatever. (Plus the now-irony of the iPhone 4S I guess…)
*Closes ramshackle iBook and goes to check email on iPod*
Hahaha, couldn't have said it better myselfBlastBurn said:
.And because I'll assume no one wants to read my wall of text either:
But in light of the recent event, my sincerest condolences to Jobs's family and friends, as well as the entire Apple/industry community. My dad's a scientist, and because his lab always had discounts on Apple products, I've been using Macs since the computer was called a Macintosh and Mac OS looked like your mom put the GUI code through the wash and threw it out the window (the glory days of the rainbow Apple logo and bumper stickers, haha); needless to say I'm no Apple fanboy (well maybe borderline…), but it's been a sublime privilege to be a part of the history and legacy Jobs so profoundly helped to create over all these years, no matter how much my usage of computers has grown and changed since way back when. That's even extending to now where the iPod Touch I own does just as much as "regular" computers to define so much of daily life. But my fear though, is that Steve Jobs will be remembered by the public for just these things, the iPad and the iPhone, etc., that one could consider mere trappings of Western or middle class life (granted, perhaps not so much anymore). "Products." I would ask someone to realize that this is just the syntax of what Jobs really accomplished, because it's a lot bigger than petty business and trade happenings, all of that. Jobs's overarching achievement lies in the fact that he was one of the very minds who birthed the notion of a "personal computer," and in doing so, became one of the first of now many Wright brothers and DaVincis who have defined a globalized world with digital technology. Even more than that, Jobs represented and kept alive a dedication to his craft and an image of how great the capacity of humans and the human mind truly is, right to the very end. He recognized that even if 99.999999% of people in this world are just sheeple moseying around our tediously average and self-centered lives, there will always be that .000001% who stand up, and to use a popular phrase, "change the world." The people who do something and shake the foundations of who we are, for better or worse and for whatever one thinks to be right or wrong, even if it's to the smallest possible extent. But fundamentally, he believed that all 100% of us have the capacity, the potential to create change, and strived for everyone to understand that as well and act on it, everyone from the third world to the top of the whole world. In fact he was one to create a platform where that change exists more than ever, especially when you take into account the Internet – a platform for that 100%, from the world's most influential artists and activists to those just waiting to be inspired towards the same, all with the capacity to think and then become extroverted in whatever thoughts and rhetoric come out therein. A platform that has the power to create mindless drones of people and societies, yet a platform that has the power to create the exact opposite. Ultimately, technology, such as that of Jobs and the combined minds of Apple, is a platform that reminds us all we have the choice to do something incredible, it's just a matter of when to act on it. In my opinion, only greatness can produce greatness, and in my opinion that's what Jobs should really be immortalized for. Utmost respect, and of course, maddest of props, Steve.
As angry as I am over Final Cut Pro X and Apple's PR since 2007, I'll give him that much, haha. How ironic it is to be patronizing the figure of a CEO in this day and age! …Or someone known primarily as a CEO during his lifetime, whatever. (Plus the now-irony of the iPhone 4S I guess…)
*Closes ramshackle iBook and goes to check email on iPod*
RE: Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
No one really heard of him until he passed. Yeah we here already knew about him to some extent for us as a whole but most never heard about him until now. He passed from pancreatic cancer which my grandma passed away from about 18 years ago. He was a great person and brought in many apple products like the Apple computer I pad and much more. I am not sure if he had any family though because I never heard anything about his family. So sad that it happened and I hope he will rest in peace.
No one really heard of him until he passed. Yeah we here already knew about him to some extent for us as a whole but most never heard about him until now. He passed from pancreatic cancer which my grandma passed away from about 18 years ago. He was a great person and brought in many apple products like the Apple computer I pad and much more. I am not sure if he had any family though because I never heard anything about his family. So sad that it happened and I hope he will rest in peace.
RE: Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
oh deer lawd how have you not evar heard of steve jobs. I use Windows and I STILL know who Stteve Jobs is >.<
xxashxx said:No one really heard of him until he passed. Yeah we here already knew about him to some extent for us as a whole but most never heard about him until now. He passed from pancreatic cancer which my grandma passed away from about 18 years ago. He was a great person and brought in many apple products like the Apple computer I pad and much more. I am not sure if he had any family though because I never heard anything about his family. So sad that it happened and I hope he will rest in peace.
oh deer lawd how have you not evar heard of steve jobs. I use Windows and I STILL know who Stteve Jobs is >.<
RE: Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
I'm pretty sure everyone who has ever heard of Apple.. or technology.. has heard of Steve Jobs.
xxashxx said:No one really heard of him until he passed. Yeah we here already knew about him to some extent for us as a whole but most never heard about him until now. He passed from pancreatic cancer which my grandma passed away from about 18 years ago. He was a great person and brought in many apple products like the Apple computer I pad and much more. I am not sure if he had any family though because I never heard anything about his family. So sad that it happened and I hope he will rest in peace.
I'm pretty sure everyone who has ever heard of Apple.. or technology.. has heard of Steve Jobs.
RE: Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
Like everyone else mentioned, Steve Jobs was no less of a common name than Bill Gates. He was well known, and will be remembered for awhile. As for his family, I know he has a wife, and I imagine that he has kids, so yeah, it's not just Apple that lost someone.
Like everyone else mentioned, Steve Jobs was no less of a common name than Bill Gates. He was well known, and will be remembered for awhile. As for his family, I know he has a wife, and I imagine that he has kids, so yeah, it's not just Apple that lost someone.
RIP Edd Gould
I don't know if any of you have ever seen animations from Eddsworld, such as Zanta Claws, but the man behind that died on the 25th after a battle with leukemia.
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkEvbOsr138[/video]
I don't know if any of you have ever seen animations from Eddsworld, such as Zanta Claws, but the man behind that died on the 25th after a battle with leukemia.
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkEvbOsr138[/video]
RE: RIP Edd Gould
Edd Gould
1988 - 2012, died at the age of 23.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkEvbOsr138
My favorite animator, led me to all of tomska, slomozovo and many more of his friends work. It's very depressing and hard hitting if anyone else has been following him for a long time.
Edd Gould
1988 - 2012, died at the age of 23.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkEvbOsr138
My favorite animator, led me to all of tomska, slomozovo and many more of his friends work. It's very depressing and hard hitting if anyone else has been following him for a long time.
RE: RIP Edd Gould
That made me smash my deck box that was next to me, now I'm going to be bored in the afternoons.
That made me smash my deck box that was next to me, now I'm going to be bored in the afternoons.
RE: D.ick Clark dies at 82
The title would be censored?
Gonna miss this guy. It's a shame he had so many health problems, but you gotta hand it to him for living to 82.
The title would be censored?
Gonna miss this guy. It's a shame he had so many health problems, but you gotta hand it to him for living to 82.
RE: D.ick Clark dies at 82
At first, I was like, hehe, silly censor.
Then I said, holy (bleep) D.ick Clark died. It's not like nobody expected it, he's been on the verge of death for years, but it's terrible just the same.
At first, I was like, hehe, silly censor.
Then I said, holy (bleep) D.ick Clark died. It's not like nobody expected it, he's been on the verge of death for years, but it's terrible just the same.
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