"There's always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return."
That's the tool tip text that is part of every XKCD comic. The beachball is the Apple equivalent of the hourglass when the program is busy doing something.
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Who is in charge of this product and why haven't they been fired yet?
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Did anyone post The Onion's take on Job's passing?
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Last American Who Knew What The F&ck He Was Doing Dies
CUPERTINO, CA—Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the #### he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his #### together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen. "This is a dark time for our country, because the reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over." Obama added that if anyone could fill the void left by Jobs it would probably be himself, but said that at this point he honestly doesn’t have the slightest notion what he’s doing anymore.
Edit: I had no idea the software here edits out swears. Neato.
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What in god's name are they picketing about? He was an inventor and a salesman, whats so un-godly about that?
They are saying that he was blessed by God with incredible resources and genious, but instead of using it to better mankind, he invented things that are used to spread sins... or something like that.
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Time Magazine has cancelled its previously scheduled print run this week in order to put together a retrospective issue on Steve Jobs. In it, Walter Isaacson -- Steve Jobs' biographer -- writes a preview of what's to come, via Fortune.
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That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction was to wonder, half jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor in that sequence. Because I assumed that he was still in the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire.
But I later realized that he had called me just before he was going to be operated on for cancer for the first time. As I watched him battle that disease, with an awesome intensity combined with an astonishing emotional romanticism, I came to find him deeply compelling, and I realized how much his personality was ingrained in the products he created. His passions, demons, desires, artistry, devilry and obsession for control were integrally connected to his approach to business, so I decided to try to write his tale as a case study in creativity.
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9to5Mac has another touching excerpt from Isaacson's Time Magazine essay, which will hit newsstands tomorrow, that reiterates the love Steve Jobs had for his family, especially his children:
A few weeks ago, I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant. We talked about his childhood, and he gave me some pictures of his father and family to use in my biography. As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye. In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? “I wanted my kids to know me,” he said. “I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”
I can't believe that the Westborough Church is planning to picket his funeral. They must need the publicity or something.
Steve Jobs has so many computer savvy followers and fans, lets hope this action indirectly leads to the destruction of the church itself when they become the target of the hacker's wrath. Normally I don't condone bullying, but I think in this case, I would seriously make an exception.
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Steve Jobs has so many computer savvy followers and fans, lets hope this action indirectly leads to the destruction of the church itself when they become the target of the hacker's wrath. Normally I don't condone bullying, but I think in this case, I would seriously make an exception.
Agreed. After briefly living with my nerdy 15 year old cousin and seeing him & his even more nerdy friends in action, I'm come to the conclusion that you just don't f*** with people that have a thorough understanding of computers. It won't end well for you.
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Not sure if it's true or not but I heard that the Westborough woman tweeted their intent to picket the funeral from an iphone.
Huh.
She was on the Toronto radio station The Edge this morning. Occasionally they have someone from the "church" on the radio so they can make fun of them and call them out.
Anyhow, the radio host asked her if she ever heard of an iPhone and she said she did and she was on one as they were talking.
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