The iPod changed my life. No longer did?

It was great---and now when I occasionally get it going again, I am amazed that I managed to use such a?

Oh well. From helping to install the Apple 11e computers in our school in 1981, to every computer, music playing device, mobile, laptop we own being an Apple, including those at work, kind of feels like the?

I guess Sony, Intel, HP, Microsoft and all the other companies whose assembly is done by Foxconn might object. I?m happy to have that discussion another day.

The one solid rule I do have with Apple products is to never buy?

Steve Jobs has had a big impact on my life. I ended up working for CED (Apple NZ) in the earlier 90s finishing?

Which one?

Yes. The asshole part ought to be remembered too.

Your job was to make people envious of Mac owners, I take it.

Plus, that. But I was thinking more of where computers were in 1983, pre Jobs doing his thing.

During the late 80s, formy first two years at varsity I had a cleaning job. One of the offices I cleaned as 7 College Hill – the home, at the time, of Apple NZ. They had a lot of promotional material around?

Thanks to the infamous Click of Death, the Zip Drive Parallel Port edition was the worst $345 (in 1997 dollars) I ever spent in my?

+1

I'm less informed on his faults and failures than I might be, however, for the moment I'm quite content to celebrate an inspiring life. May we all have such adventures. Vale.

If so, that's a bit rough. My grandma changed my world but she didn't get that.

There's a control and an alt key on both sides of the keyboard. It can be done one-handed, although it feels awkward. :-)

No, they were at half mast early this morning already. No idea why.

BUT, it's not?

My wife and I have side by side iMacs at home, we heard the news and went to the apple site. The simple heartfelt message there brought tears to our eyes. 56 seems far too young.

@Bart:
56?

The first computer I switched on was an Apple ][. I admired the way the first Mac had a massive full colour graphics environment even though the tiny built-in b&w display wasn't anywhere near there yet. Word for Mac?

But look at the sheer *quality* of achievement.

it crass and inappropriate at this time and in this thread.

No offence intended there Bart. Steve Jobs seemed to be one whose virtues and flaws enjoyed an uncanny overlap. I'd read the article a few days back and noticed that today it had slipped off the top stories. Perhaps?

dick

But on the day he died and in a thread intended to remember his contributions, it was out of place. Consider it the way you might consider the funeral of a member of your own family and?

And we have discussed them at considerable length at other times here. I'd be happy to discuss what Daisey says too, but I don't want to in this thread.

Thanks Bart. It would be nice if we could be given the opportunity to express our unfettered response to his passing without being accused of 'platitudes' and 'irrational reverence'.

The assumption?

I remember that. The year before, we'd all been told we would be getting new computers, and we could?

I've never, in my entire life, used an Apple product. Ever. But I still find myself mildy affected. The man clearly had a singlular drive, passion and vision of?

I think you're right. And that nature meant we were always going to have?

No doubt. I've not not used Apple because of some sort of philosophical objection. But I wass thinking about it this morning and I've never?

I almost depend on the left click buttons. Hence, Me too. But by holding down the ctrl key, I get the left click functions from the Mac?

Since OS X is Unix, if you want to fsck, you can just open a terminal and type ?fsck?. Why does it need to be a button on the mouse?

Actually, Apple mice in general. I can?t recall a good one, and some of?

I used "fscking" as a humorous alternative to "fucking". But you probably knew that ...

I do have the lines:
with Mac, iPad and iPhone my life is replete
He rescued my life from , and

You can't attach a file with an iPhone, either...

Well, having just been to the rather harrowing world press photo exhibition, I'm not really inclined to lose any sleep on my own behalf by white whining.

Besides which it just occured to me that I've seen all three 'toy story' films,?

That?s the joke.

ETA: Was meant to be animated. Oh well.

No, but I could edit the post so that's a bonus. Will try from home later on my Mac ;-)

that?s all I?ve got?
though ?un-buttoned blouse? comes to?

In fact, the "nouse" is the "nose mouse", as in nose-activated, too...

I can verify it looks damn fine on the free-to-use HP tablets down at their 'Wintergarden' demo dome at the far end of Wynyard Quarter's main drag (shared with Kokako coffee). Encouraged the HP reps to use this as a great example of a?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mclo3kYr9Y&feature=related

Oh well. From helping to install the Apple 11e computers in our school in 1981

irrational.

we all owe him

platitudes.

Consider it the way you might consider the funeral of a member of your own family

That?s hardly appropriate. I didn?t call him an asshole. He seemed more troubled than anything else.

would you please just take direction from this blog's owner about what tone is appropriate. no one thinks you're smart or funny.

Certainly. I was going for 'irrational' as you brought the word in – "2 without or deprived of normal mental clarity or sound judgment." We all grieve in our own ways JacksonP. Speaking for myself, I love heroes. PAS is?

and travelling back a year in time... the dating game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVtxEA7AEHg&feature=related

More than a whiff and more than faint, I hope. Some artists need impresarios.

I?m glad you put it that way. Daisey?s scathing response?

Calling honestly-expressed personal recollections "platitudes" is downright rude.

Slagging someone on the day they died is not good form in anyone's book. Basic human respect. The Standard had a thread of snarking from the get-go if anyone was desperate to show off their?

puhleeze

Last time I replaced my computer I opted to get another PC for reasons of value-for-money, and it?s a good machine. Windows 7 is a brainy and responsive OS, light?

This. It's far more amenable to mobo swaps than XP ever was – I made my latest major upgrade only last week.

I'd argue that – for better or worse – iTunes is the seventh pivotal waypoint in the history of recorded music*.

Jobs may have not invented the MP3 but he invented a way of dispersing them?

As far as I can tell, what Napoleon brought to it was superb vision and a?

I can?t see that at all. People imagined a personal connection with Diana because they?d read about her in magazines. People felt a personal?

Yep, I get that. I don't use it, but my boy does and it's pretty clearly the best Windows ever.

I accept that I'm out of step with the majority, and perhaps the problem lies with me, but it's all a bit Princess Diana to me.

Jobs was an IT rock star. There's always a massive scale lamentation when someone with?

I think I did.

Napster forced the issue no doubt and mp3 provided the technology but it was iTunes which opened the door to the digital delivery mechanisms that saved the big labels. And it was Jobs and Jobs alone who?

I missed it in your list of game breakers.

*The others being Edison's Cylinder, Berliner's Flat Disc, Bell Labs' Electrical Recording, BASF's Magnetic Tape, the RCA 45/CBS Microgroove, and Sony/Philips' CD.

Other than a mention that Apple did not invent the mp3. That's not really giving?

It was a vital technology of course, but so was the electric motor in the turntable (from Victor's labs), the diamond tipped stylus (same) and the introduction of vinyl (thanks to the US DoW and the V discs for troops offshore).?

It was an environment in which people felt comfortable buying music downloads and that hadn?t really happened at that point. The major labels had formed cartels and tried to be their own retailers and failed miserably. Windows?

+1

And even then it wasn't a single thing. It took several iterations to get even close to being right (if it is even right yet). But in the background I'm not sure anyone other than?

Elon Musk also seems to know what he's doing.

Not all the credit. There were many attempts to make online music work, and the reactionary dinosaurs resisted them all until Napster taught them that?

even his failures were impressive – like building a huge passenger ship so ahead of its market that it was available instead to lay the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, another step towards te internet.

true

New York Times makes a comparison I hadn't heard of.

In the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple?s co-founder was compared with the world?s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison,?

I was more talking of the in-industry delivery mechanisms and technologies rather than the marketing and exposure mediums.

Of course radio was massively important, but over the decades that power waxed and waned for a variety of reasons.?

not to be confused with the Palm islet! ;-)

Not to mention Sony used its own proprietary format. It helped that Apple used a generic format invented by a couple of guys in Germany.

It's definitive.

Steve Jobs: The godfather of fonts as we know them includes some comment from his calligraphy instructor at Reed.

and a "mouse" (a small rolling box with a button on it)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/43945579/Playboy-Interview-With-Steve-Jobs

True dat. Dennis, I take back everything bad I ever said about C and Unix. As I read somewhere (C programmer's tribute):

His pointer?

His process has terminated with status 0
(ETA although depending on what you believe it has not terminated, but now executes in kernel mode)

His malloc() has been free()d

He has fallen through in the case of life

His index is out?

Quite. And Bell Labs — what a place.

I think I will honour him by rewriting some stuff at work in old-school C. Java can bite me – pft!

You're a wild man!

/* you are not expected to understand this */

It's such an odd comment too. Much of the rest of the code in V6 Unix is commented sensibly and explains what's happening. But in that one place that's so crucial and so mysterious, you're?

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/odd.html

which to me took a little of the fun out of it

Was your Lions book a badly photocopied pile of paper? I just googled it it case my memory was failing and there really was a nicely printed version. Turns out Lions was?