RIP Steve Jobs

  On 10/7/2011 at 12:10 AM, yikes said:

herp derp rich people are evil trolly troll troll

fixt

  On 10/7/2011 at 12:19 AM, jules said:

  On 10/7/2011 at 12:13 AM, yek said:

does dude have any family? they must be lolling in dough...

 

I'm sure they would trade it to have their father and husband back

for sure.

  On 10/7/2011 at 12:21 AM, yikes said:

foxconn looks like a fun place to work

http://www.dailymail...-make-iPod.html

I read something similar about a US Amazon warehouse (minus the horrifying slavery) a couple of days ago.

According to Wikipedia

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Foxconn makes consumer electronics for a number of well-known companies, including:

Acer Inc. (Taiwan)

Amazon.com (United States)[16]

Apple Inc. (United States)[17]

Asus (Taiwan)

ASRock (Taiwan)

Intel (United States)

Cisco (United States)

Hewlett-Packard (United States)[18]

Dell (United States)

Nintendo (Japan)

Nokia (Finland)[17]

Microsoft (United States)

MSI (Taiwan)

Motorola (United States)

Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)[19]

Vizio (United States)

Steven Fry does a pretty good write up

http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs/

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Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car, Rockefeller didn’t discover how to crack crude oil into petrol, Disney didn’t invent animation, the Macdonald brothers didn’t invent the hamburger, Martin Luther King didn’t invent oratory, neither Jane Austen, Tolstoy nor Flaubert invented the novel and D. W. Griffith, the Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg and Steven Spielberg didn’t invent film-making. Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers and he didn’t invent packet switching or the mouse. But he saw that there were no limits to the power that creative combinations of technology and design could accomplish.

Hey yikes - what computer are you using?

I'm almost willing to bet that it has parts made overseas. Why are you contributing to murder?

Foxconn makes products for lots of companies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Clients

But it's fun to single out apple cause they are shiny and in the news. There are also around a million workers in the company. In 2010 - 18 people committed suicide, for a rate of around 1.8 per 100,000. By comparison, the national rate in China is higher than 13 per 100,000.

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by the way, the ＡＡＡ　video games you like are also made overseas. There's no escaping it.

Richard Stallman:

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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

 

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.

stallman's open-source zealotry can get very tiresome at times.

  On 10/6/2011 at 11:26 PM, hardcode said:

basically, i hate anyone who uses a mac.

how's the DJ career going?

hello BCM. we meet again.

you wanna dance pretty boy?

yeah, that's what i thought.

somebody pls pull a dick out

  On 10/7/2011 at 3:21 PM, kaini said:

stallman's open-source zealotry can get very tiresome at times.

Jesus wept Stallman is an asshole.

  On 10/7/2011 at 3:47 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 10/7/2011 at 3:21 PM, kaini said:

stallman's open-source zealotry can get very tiresome at times.

 

Jesus wept Stallman is an asshole.

most zealots usually are.

open-source/FOSS guys are amongst some of the worst though. had to end a long friendship with someone because his cult-like diatribe against my choices as a musican (using proprietary tools because they do what i need them to do) just finally rubbed my rhubarb for the last time.

  On 10/7/2011 at 12:57 AM, chenGOD said:

Hey yikes - what computer are you using?

I'm almost willing to bet that it has parts made overseas. Why are you contributing to murder?

Foxconn makes products for lots of companies:

http://en.wikipedia....Foxconn#Clients

 

But it's fun to single out apple cause they are shiny and in the news. There are also around a million workers in the company. In 2010 - 18 people committed suicide, for a rate of around 1.8 per 100,000. By comparison, the national rate in China is higher than 13 per 100,000.

I could swear I read the same exact lines from a PR release or something.

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Apple boss Steve Jobs has spoken out for the first time about a string of suicides at one of the firm's Chinese factories. Since January this year 10 young workers have killed themselves by jumping from the roof of the factory building at Foxconn in southern China. Jobs today described the worker's deaths as 'troubling' but insisted that the factory 'is not a sweatshop'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1a6bVFUHc

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An investigation of the 500,000 workers by the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom) found appalling conditions in the factories. They claimed that: Excessive overtime was rife, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip showed a worker did 98 hours of overtime in one month, the Observer reported.

During peak periods of demand for the iPad, workers were made to take only one day off in 13.

Badly performing workers were humiliated in front of colleagues. Workers are banned from talking and are made to stand up for their 12-hour shifts.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1a6brssTZ

the daily mail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Last post in this thread, I will let you guys grieve Steve Jobs in peace.

Anyone else looking forward to this book?

I pre-ordered it. They just pushed up the release date to October 24th, it wasn't supposed to come out till November.

he touched the world and made it spin a little bit faster.

e-mail sent to: steve@apple.com

his real email was sjobs@pixar.com ;)

  On 10/7/2011 at 5:18 PM, chaosmachine said:

 

Anyone else looking forward to this book?

 

I pre-ordered it. They just pushed up the release date to October 24th, it wasn't supposed to come out till November.

yes. pre-orderred it as well.

until then, the stories in the businessweek are good. perhaps too good.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-beginning-19551985-10062011.html

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-wilderness-19851997-10062011.html

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-return-19972011-10062011.html

it's a fascinating record of his business career without venturing too much into the honey covered brown-nosing which is raging at the moment.