Slashdot Mirror
Steve Jobs' Grand Vision
ejungle writes "The Toronto Star has an excellent article on Steve Jobs and his increasingly interesting role as head of both Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios. The article goes into the market pressures surrounding both companies, and goes a long way to explain their recent moves."
but I kind of wanted to stop reading after this:
"The late Walt Disney built his empire with a mouse. The same can be said about Steve Jobs"
Dial a cliche...
It's up to the reader to decide which is which.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Judge: Let me get this straight Mickey, you want a divorce from Minnie because you say she is crazy.
Mickey: No, I never said Minnie was crazy, I said she was fucking Goofy!
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Personally, if there IS a Pixarland, I'd go in a heartbeat, and I'll bet millions of people would too.
My god, the thought of a themepark run by Steve Jobs is frightening. First it'd cost you several hundred dollars to get in, everything would be stark white with accents of brushed steel and a few aqua bubbles.
There would only be 3 rides, and they'd be the really old ones "ported" from Magic Mountain, and before you entered the park, there'd be a little tutorial demonstrating how powerful and intuitive everything is.
Jobs, who is worth $1.7 billion (U.S.), according to Forbes magazine last year, routinely declines interview requests and could not be reached for comment for this story. What does Steve Jobs not wanting to do an interview for the San Francisco Chronicle have to do with how much money he is worth?
Hell, me and my $1.7 hundred (U.S.), according to my most recent bank statement, would decline an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Or even worse, a Bill Gates theme park. There they regularly have to reinstall the same rides, shuffle everyone out of the park for five minutes so they can turn the power off then on again, and charge everyone's admission through car manufacturers assuming that you want to go anyway. They also regularly report to the media that they are taking the defective rides (and associate deaths) seriously and are making it their top priority to fix them...any day now.
Then there is always the Linus Torvalds theme park, but not many people go there. Although the rides are rock solid, they are a lot less fun and harder to figure out.
Boom Shanka
If Steve Jobs is so great, why does AOL suck so much?
Not to start a flamewar, but I believe that not sucking and appealing to the general public in terms of features, usuability, etc are not necessarily mutually exclusive....
The Linus Torvalds theme park would be free to enter. You'd get roller coaster blueprints at the gate. The park would consist of 100 yards of roller coaster parts and a pile of oxyacetylene torches in the corner. The other patrons of the park would be happy to show you how to build a roller coaster, but if you haven't memorized everything on the blueprint as well as several physics textbooks you'll be yelled at for being too stupid to ride a rollercoaster.
Then Darl would come by and scream at the top of his lungs that he owns the entire thing because roller coasters make him puke, just like the paint he sniffs, so they must be one and the same.
Heretic! Burn him at the stake. If this sort of thinking takes hold then we'll never be able to get audiences for "Teen slumber party massacre 5: Return to the fluffy pink apocalypse".
"doesn't cost an arm and a leg"
Windows XP costs an arm and a leg. Mac OSX and the hardware to run it on costs an arm, a leg, a kidney, a testicle, a firstborn child, and a temporal lobe.
Pixar render farm uses Linux computers
True, but they use Macs and iChat AV to report to their leader.
It's like the linux airline, you get there, and it has the coolest, safest rollercoaster ever. New rides are tested daily, admission is low, but to ride the rollercoaster, you are handed a blueprint, parts, and a socket wrench. Parking is large, but a speedy mass transit gets you to and from your car quickly and easily. The food is good, the souvineers are resonably priced. When you get home and tell everyone they stare incredulously and ask "You had to do what with your seat?"
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
a Bill Gates theme park.
... and you might catch a deadly virus just reading the billboards.
Well, I'd go there just for the lickable reality-distortion buttons.
And if my aunt had bollocks, she'd be my uncle.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Inacceptable? That's unpossible!
... is to use his reality distortion field to bend all reality to his will until everything looks, acts, smells and otherwise behaves...
THE WAY HE WANTS IT TO.
Then he doesn't have to make real changes. They're all implemented virtually.