Steve Jobs Dead

[R. Richard]

Steve Jobs Is Dead

Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. Very sad.

Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer.

 

[El Folo]

Any bets on how soon it will take for Bill Gates to party hard?

 

[russellvilleman]

- "Last stop on a long journey, as yet another human being returns to the vast nothingness that is the beginning and into the dust that is always the end."

- Rod Serling - 3.18.1960

 

[Iamnotthe1]

very sad.

 

[Neonurotic]

RIP, Steve.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Any bets on how soon it will take for Bill Gates to party hard?

Know what would be awesome? If Bill Gates wore a black turtleneck to the funeral. Hell, if everyone wore black turtlenecks to the funeral. That would be a fitting send-off, I think.

My parents bought a macintosh sometime in the mid-eighties, and I've owned apples every since. He'll be missed.

 

[Iamnotthe1]

Steve Jobs was Apple and Pixar. The best of the best!

 

[annanova]

RIP.

I'm hearing from too many people about cancer lately. A dear friend of mine and now the four year-old son of an HS friend.

 

[TE999]

RIP, Steve. Another great mind forever stilled, but his brainchild and his legacy live on ... at least until some brain dead CEO that used to run a frozen food conglomerate fucks it up. Stay strong, Apple.

 

[Dragonlipz]

RIP Steve Jobs....hopefully one of those he mentored will step up and take the opportunity to express their vision.....

 

[YoursSINSerely]

My mom had the same thing. It's a horrible cancer and I give him so much credit for fighting it for as long as he did. May he RIP.

 

[jomar]

Visionary and corporate thief...stole wysywyg from Xerox...same 'ol sale 'ol...Apple stuff is art.

 

[Dual_Triode]

Not a surprise, but sad, nonetheless. Rest in peace, Steve.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Now, I may have this source wrong, because I heard it from my nerdy friend, and while nerds will eventually conquer the universe, please forgive me if this information is wrong.

Steve Jobs created the curved graphic.

In a simpler time, the only graphics in computers were sharp corners, and at the time, all of the knowlagable computer programmers (*snort* all FIVE of them) believed it was impossible to make a curve. Steve Jobs was NOT a computer programmer, so one day he walks into the den of the computer programmers that worked for the young company (I imagine it being a dim-lit, hot, sweatshop-like place littered with junk food wrappers and the bones of small animals) and Steve says

"I don't like the sharp edges of our screen, make them round."

The programmers gawked in stupefied awe. Did he really just ask that? Everyone knows it's impossible to make a *snort* ROUND graphic! After a few muffled guffaws, the head honcho, the alpha programmer shuffles up and giggles.

"Um... you see, that's impossible because...(science babble, science babble)"

Steve jobs rolls his eyes.

"Fuck that! Get me a curve by tomorrow, or I'm gonna fire your sorry ass and make him chief!"
*points to random nerd, who smiles winningly, believing that his promotion is surefire*

And the alpha programmer stays all night long, frantically working on science stuff, trying to defy the laws of physics. He is 'the one' from the matrix, so he comes up with a solution, somehow involving square roots... (I'm not a nerd...) and laughs hysterically, hyped up on a mixture of coffee and cocaine.

Steve Jobs looks at the fruits of the alpha programmers labor the next morning, shrugs, and says

"That wasn't so hard, was it?"

And goes off to his normal activities, breaking the laws of physics and punching tigers.

*As you may have guessed, I added to this narrative, but I believe that the core story, of inventing the curve is true. Steve Jobs invented the curve with his sheer pigheadedness. God bless you Steve Jobs, you're probably breaking the laws of physics in heaven, or maybe just confusing the devil, either way, Rock on in the afterlife dude!!*

 

[estragon]

I'm typing this on a MacBook. Here's to the man every one of the wiseacres counted out when Scully kicked him to the curb, who won because he never knew he was defeated. A true original. RIP Steve Jobs.

 

[Handley_Page]

Visionary and corporate thief...stole wysywyg from Xerox...same 'ol sale 'ol...Apple stuff is art.

I heard Xerox PARC gave it away to whoever.
Which accounts for IBM getting it, too.