Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

I meant that Apple had no obligation to contribute their code back to those projects. Didn't know CUPS was GPL. Good on them.

  On 8/25/2011 at 11:44 PM, chenGOD said:

BCM if you don't need the laptop, get the 27" iMac...your pron will never look better :)

don't think i can stretch to the 27" unfortunately...would have to be the 21.5 inch, or a 13" MBP... i might be able to afford the better spec 21.5" model though, but not sure if it's really worth the extra £250 odd compared to the base model - all the performance tests come out pretty equal really from what i've read. even the difference between the 21.5" base Core i5 model and the top spec 27" Core i7 isn't that much.

i have zero perspective of how this affects anything

  On 8/26/2011 at 12:16 AM, disparaissant said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSFFpDuGZU

hahaah well thats certainly one point of view

Regardless of what you think of Apple or any preconceived notions about Steve Jobs, you can't argue the fact that the man has made a huge impact on the computer industry, as well as the music industry and has changed how we live our lives to a certain extent:

Helped usher in the era of the home PC

the iPod changed how we listen to music, and how music is distributed and bought now

the iPad has put portable computing power in the hands of many, and made even the most techno-phobic able to approach computing in a positive manner

I'm sure there are more, but the point is - this is a very influential human being, and will go down in history as one of the visionaries of this generation.

I hope him stepping down is not due to some realization he has no time left, and it's simply his way of handing over the baton before that time ultimately comes.

Tim Cook's shareholder meeting where he announces 'I'm thinking printers" gives me pause to think though - I was hoping the world was moving away (finally) from a world where things are phyisically printed...

I'm not against technology, but I prefere reading something in hard format/copy form than on a screen. Do I read things on a screen? Yes I do... but I still prefer the hard copy/format. Same goes with music.

  On 8/26/2011 at 6:52 PM, asymmetrical head said:

I'm not against technology, but I prefere reading something in hard format/copy form than on a screen. Do I read things on a screen? Yes I do... but I still prefer the hard copy/format. Same goes with music.

And there's nothing wrong with that at all - I'd much rather have a choice to print something if I wanted a hardcopy instead of only having a hardcopy and then needing to make a digital version if I wanted it that way.

Still up in arms myself about physical music vs digital files - I just bought the Foster The People LP and got the digital version because I wanted it right away... didn't care one bit about the CD version!

  On 8/26/2011 at 6:41 PM, Joyrex said:

I was hoping the world was moving away (finally) from a world where things are phyisically printed...

as a graphic designer, art and creative director, i hope to god you are dead wrong.

  On 8/26/2011 at 6:41 PM, Joyrex said:

Tim Cook's shareholder meeting where he announces 'I'm thinking printers" gives me pause to think though - I was hoping the world was moving away (finally) from a world where things are phyisically printed...

Joyrex, you know The Onion isn't real, right? ;p

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers,21207/

  On 8/25/2011 at 9:09 PM, goDel said:

Huh? You linked to a piece from Fakesteve? You know sarcasm right? Is my sarcasm meter off? What?

 

 

welp!

the piece was sarcastic but since im not a big Apple follower i didn't even notice it was supposed to be a parody of steve jobs. It's not a very good one

poe's law

  On 8/26/2011 at 10:30 PM, chaosmachine said:

  On 8/26/2011 at 6:41 PM, Joyrex said:

Tim Cook's shareholder meeting where he announces 'I'm thinking printers" gives me pause to think though - I was hoping the world was moving away (finally) from a world where things are phyisically printed...

 

Joyrex, you know The Onion isn't real, right? ;p

 

http://www.theonion....printers,21207/

I just saw the headline on my Google Reader... I didn't bother to click and see what the news source was.

it's ok i did the same thing in the thread, and because of it about 75% of the articles i linked to were totally ignored heh

Have an opinion? Type it in google. Search. And it provides you with al the sources you need!

*zing!

woah!

it's working

He be dead before 2012.

that was shopped apparently to make him look worse but i doubt he looks that different anyway

doesn't look shopped to me...

i guess it's true what they say, black clothing really does make you look thinner

woah he has that disease where your face gets covered in clone brush artifacts

why is he wearing a skirt?

so you apple haters and mud-slingers aren't even reading the articles you are pointing us to as examples of how shitty of a company they are?