maemo.org - Talk - RIP Steve Jobs

To be fair to debernadis, he did open by saying: I didn't like him.

You don't have to like someone to have respect for them, and just because you found a story to be gripping, doesn't mean you're necessarily puffering* up the story-teller by saying so.

* N.B. "puffer" is not a verb (it's a poisonous fish)

debernardis

2011-10-06 18:03

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I might be the only dense fellow on the net who can't understand the latest xkcd. Care to explain, please?

shallimus

2011-10-06 18:04

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Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 1104257)

I might be the only thick fellow on the net who can't understand the latest xkcd. Care to explain, please?

The colourful thing in the middle is the Apple hourglass equivalent. I believe it is notorious amongst iUsers, as some of them spend quite a lot of time looking at it, and could therefore be seen as a representation of eternity...

Ever said/thought to yourself: "Man this thing's so slow, it's taking for eeeeeever!"

gerbick

2011-10-06 18:07

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Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 1104257)

I might be the only dense fellow on the net who can't understand the latest xkcd. Care to explain, please?

The spinning beach ball, it's a wait cursor basically. In this case, it seems as if it is alluding to once it goes away, what got interrupted will resume; for example, Steve Jobs' life.

m_dk29

2011-10-06 18:10

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Steve - Man who set benchmark for mobile devices and technology.

R.I.P.

Boemien

2011-10-06 19:51

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I read somewhere on Internet that

Quote:

"GOD WANTED TO BE THE FIRST TO HAVE AN iPHONE5"

MaddogG

2011-10-06 20:38

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Originally Posted by danramos (Post 1104253)

Let's not puffer him up too much, folks. He was a great businessman and that's about it. He at least made electronics approachable to more people--but he was no saint. i.e. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ted-inhumanely

Tell me.. does that bring a tear to your eye as well? Let's not go overboard for a man you didn't personally know and kept telling people 'you're holding it wrong!' Think differently.

"any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee"

Nobody is a saint, but I think people here are just trying to say goodbye to a man who simply changed the world with his dreams...personally, I don't see anything wrong with this...

kjmackey

2011-10-06 20:48

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Originally Posted by fw190 (Post 1103839)

...how to get money from the stupid people-...Apple users feel better then the rest is annoying...

Mamma told me not to post in anger...but she's not here right now, so...

As one of the above-mentioned "stupid people", for I have bought and owned Apple products - even their phones in the past - I profess a certain satisfaction that such as I annoy you. It seems only fair.

shallimus

2011-10-06 20:51

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Originally Posted by kjmackey (Post 1104358)

Not content with being stupid, you also want to make sure we know you're annoying? ;)

Heh, I kid. I don't like Apple products, but if they make you happy, then they make you happy. That in itself is no bad thing.

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