http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3690178#3690183Oh my.
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-14-09 04:48 PM
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Steve Jobs Leave Of Absence, Tim Cook Stepping In As CEO
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announced today that he will be taking a leave of absence for at least five months to deal with health problems... developing. Tim Cook will be responsible for the company's day to day operations.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/14/steve-jobs-lea...
Redstone (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-14-09 04:51 PM
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2. It's pretty clear that he's been hiding a serious problem.
WriteDown (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-14-09 05:01 PM
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5. Yikes....
Yes he's been hiding his condition for a while it seems.
DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-14-09 05:01 PM
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4. If there is one person in this world who deserves to live a long life because of all of the good he's done for us in this electronic age, It's Steve Jobs.
My best wishes and prayers go out to him. We need him back healthy and clear headed.
tledford (276 posts) Wed Jan-14-09 05:10 PM
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8. Say what now?!
Please explain to me exactly what Steve Jobs (or Bill Gates, for that matter) has done that has made life better for anyone other than Apple stockholders.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against the guy (or Bill Gates, for that matter) and wish him well, hope he gets over whatever it is that is making him sick, but I don't understand your post *at all!*
onehandle (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-14-09 05:14 PM
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9. Switch off your computer and walk away.
If not for Steve Jobs (and others) the computer and the communications systems behind it would not be what they are today.
DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-14-09 05:20 PM
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11. Go away
AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-14-09 05:26 PM
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16. but I don't understand your post *at all!*
Oh please!
When I 1st worked on a computer in High School...it took up a whole room, that had to be kept at 60° while we type-punched a stack of cards 3 feet high just to get it to sort something.
Are you starting to "understand" now?
Wow. The Albertine feline primitive must be pretty old, to have done that in high school.
tledford (276 posts) Wed Jan-14-09 09:08 PM
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39. Then thank Wozniak, Gates and Kildall before you thank Jobs.
They are the ones who made computers WORK, Jobs was an "ideas" guy. (As it turns out, Gates was good at both and Kildall blew it from a business standpoint BIG TIME, but that is another story.)
I was building computers from kits sold in Popular Mechanics in 1975, I know a bit about their history.
Edited to add: FWIW, I am platform agnostic. I have one MacBook Pro running OS X and Windows XP, two desktop Vista machines, one Windows 2003 Server, one Fedora machine and one Ubuntu machine. Got nothing in the world against Apple, but the idea that all technological advances in computing during the last 30 years are due to things Jobs did (or didn't do) is absurd.
Hope he gets better soon!
Most of the bonfire is computer jargon, and lots and lots of wishes from the primitives.
You know, it's very odd.
Steve Jobs is just another big-business executive, nothing special.
Would the primitives be sending their best wishes to the chairman of Procter & Gamble, or the president of the Union Pacific railway, or the CEO (chief executive officer) of Campbell Soup, if one of them was ill?
It's just very odd.
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