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Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery
Zycom writes "Reuters reports that doctors successfully removed a cancerous tumor from the pancreas of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. In an e-mail he sent out from his hospital bed after the surgery he explained the disease, saying, "I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)." He will not need to have any chemotherapy or radiation therapy and has an excellent prognosis. While he is recuperating, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations, will run the company."
Cheers!
Erick
http://www.busyweather.com/
and remove his anus
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Congratulations, Steve jobs! Huzzah! LiveSTRONG!
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
To keep the "funny" posts away.
It was iSurgery for an iCancerous iTumor.
...I don't think I'd be able to resist the temptation to say "By the way, I'm a hardcore Windows fan" right as he went under anesthesia. Then tell him the truth when he came back around.
I guess too much RDF causes cancer....
I'm glad all is going well for him. He's lucky he fell into that rare 1%. Pancreatic cancer is one of the more deadly types of cancer.
Obligatory Apple is Doomed Comment.
"can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)"
How do you dected pancreatic cancer early, i didnt know you could screen for it.
I would like to ask what would happen if, one day, Steve Jobs wasn't there for Apple anymore, will it still be as innovative as before? (not that I wish anything bad happens to him)
Uselessful technology (Air-Charged
How much would you pay for Steve Job's tumor?
was the operation covered under Applecare?
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
A rainbow colored pancreas with a bite out of it?
that the cancer is Bill Gates.
That droping acid to design new computer poducts causes cancer.
You mean he's not immortal!?
http://www.xpurple.com
Here's a link to an article incuding his full letter
The "Insert Quote Here" line is almost as predictable as inserting an actual quote.
Erick
http://www.busyweather.com/
Reuters reports that doctors successfully removed a cancerous tumor from the pancreas of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
They called it Microsoft.
Yeah, yeah, cancer isn't funny. But karma whoring overcomes all.
there must have been some pieces of APPLE somewhere there !!!
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history - Tom Veneziano
Nothing like serious illness to sober you up right quick. Steve, if you read this, hope you're doing well.
This sig no verb.
Think chemo.
I've had a love/hate relationship with Macs (as with windows), but I still wouldn't wish this on anyone. It's good to hear that he is recovering.
While he is recuperating, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations, will run the company.
Am I the only one who read the word "run" as "ruin" on first read?
"Gnome is better than KDE," Post #35135135 in the Gnome vs. KDE flamewars?
How about "Look, I made my computer overclock to 10ghz with a refrigerator the size of a house!!!"
Or, "With this dead stick and a coil of wire, I made my own Apple //e!"
Get well Steve. You are an inspiration, and someone to look up to in the industry.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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I wish the best for the man, because I don't want to see anybody go through the suffering of cancer. But I would be lying if I wasn't concerned over the future of his baby, Apple.
This is a good time to reflect on our own mortality.
..eh who cares. I JUST WANNA PLAY DOOM 3.
For all the whining, posing, Microsoft/Apple/Linux bashing we do; for all the work related stress we put up with and all the missed opportunities to spend time with loved ones; we only have a limited time on Earth.
The most important thing is....
And get well Steve. Take the time off to think about how great a colour iPod with bluetooth would be.
cheers,
Justin.
"My cat's breath smells like cat food." - The Tao of Ralph Wiggum.
Now would be the perfect time for a corporate coup attempt.
nerd
Steve Jobs gets a cancer so rare it shows up in 1% of cancer cases. Making it just rarer than the OS he runs, which shows up in 2% of comptuers ;)
And yes, we know that Steve Ballmer already has the much more statistically prevalent; Brain Cancer
That's rather misleading isn't it?
I find it interesting the way it was all handled, outside of stock trading hours.
I wonder if his doctor had a dark enough sense of humor to say something like,
"Well, we got your test results back. Your liver is fine, your heart is great, and your pulmonary health is excellent.
Oh, and one more thing..."
Great to hear he'll be fine.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
If they caught it early, then he has a good chance of complete recovery. If it spread of if he had another form of pancreatic cancer, then he'd be dead meat. Pancreatic cancer has the worst 5-year survival rate of any cancer. Though I'm no fan of Apple, I hope he cheats death.
Honestly... after seeing many relatives lose to cancer, it's good to see that Steve has an excellent prognosis...
All nerdiness aside, I hope that Steve makes a full recovery... He's not someone I'd like to see taken off this planet any time soon.
-AC
An apple a day keeps the cancer away.....oh....guess not.
Get well soon steve
If an apple a day truly kept the doctor away then this never would have happened. I knew that saying was just marketing hype.
Now that his islet cells have been removed, I guess Steve Jobs is now a Type-1 diabetic, condemned to survive on iNSULIN iNJECTIONS like many others (including me). Or maybe he'll get one of those hi-tech insulin pump/blood glucose monitor combos... i hope that stem-cell research now accelerates its effort to find a cure for type-1 diabetes. Poor taste in humor acknowledged (see above use of iNSULIN) and apologies submitted in advance.
Ah, the irony that your post gets modded as "Flamebait". Gotta love it around here...
Remember that everyone is a potential dead person. Live your life as if you are going to be dead tomorrow.
the last line of his memo:
PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express.
Note he stops just short of asserting it was the Airport Express that cured his cancer...
In all seriousness, any time anyone beats cancer it is Good News. Has there been any reports on how the cancer was caught so quickly?
~jeff
Stem cell research is only remotely related to cancer biology you silly twit.
That's because there's no "WTF?" mod.
Though not foolproof, you can sometimes detect specific cancer signatures via blood tests. There's new technolgies called "SELDI" where high troughput mass spectrometry is done : ciphergen press release here. There's a lot of kinks to work out to take this out of the research labs and into the clinics; but there is promise here. There's been some problems with people fucking up their research using this tool.
Holy shit! My heart nearly stopped when I read the headline! STEVE is the glue that holds the world together; if He were to (somehow?) die, everything man ever created, everything that has ever been important to the entirety of the human race would be instantly, violently destroyed!
STEVE is much more than a feeble that He is. STEVE is literally everything, and thus everything is STEVE. If STEVE were to be undone, so would all of creation.
Which ever doctor banished that satanic tumor deserves an annual day of celebration.
karma: ouch!
It figures that if Jobs is going to have pancreatic cancer, that he'd only get the rare type with 1% market share.
I remember hearing on a radio program (yes, I actually listen to AM) that pancreatic cancer is one of the deadlier types if gone unnoticed for a while. Lucky they caught it in time, I guess.
All competition put aside, the modern IT world wouldn't be the same without you. If you hadn't dragged Apple kicking and screaming into the new millennium, who would have given Microsoft a run for its money (until Linux on the desktop comes)?
As a child of a twice cancer survivour, I wish all of your family well, I know they are praying for you (Even if they aren't religious).
Does this mean that Steve is going to miss the Apple expo keynote in Paris on Augest 31? But how cool would it be if he did the whole thing useing iChat AV.
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
Thus dispelling rumors circulating for days (on MacOSRumors et al) that Steve was:
....and of course, various other unsubstantiated rumors not worth mentioning (everyone figured out the bionic legs were bogus right away).
Please help metamoderate.
Jobs should have had these folks work on his pancreas, he would have saved a bundle!
http://www.ipodbattery.com/
When I read "Steve Jobs" and "Cancer" in the same sentence, I saw my life flash before my eyes... yow... without that man, the computer industry ceases to exist.
Yeah that seems a little selfish, but come on, none of us know him personally, but we know what he's done.
So get well soon Steve, and don't leave us just yet!
"PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express."
What a guy.
Get well soon - We still need the iTablet/PDA!
and they replaced him with a robot.
PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express.
Are you allowed to use Wi-Fi in a hospital? Wouldn't it mess up some of the other electronics?
In close proximity to the Jobs Reality Distortion Field, the cancerous mass forgot what it had originally intended to do, and did what Steve required instead:
Allowed itself to become one of the rarer types (less threatening if found early), then went ahead and got itself found early. ("You don't need to harm me... Move along..." -- Jedi Mind Trick.)
Seriously, as others have said, get well soon Steve!
Hate to break it to you, but here's sorta how it works.
Jobs says "let's make an MP3 player better than anything else out there", or someone suggests it, and Jobs says "OK, let's look into it".
One person sees what "anything else" has. Another sees what people might be willing to pay. Another runs some numbers on what it might cost to build. Another works on a little concept art based on what the engineers think is reasonable in terms of size etc.
Then everyone comes back and presents their stuff- not necessarily to Steve, maybe someone under him, who then brings it to him. Jobs says "hey, looks like we can do this and make money off it. Let's whip up some prototypes", etc.
Please help metamoderate.
First, I am an Apple fan. Go Steve Go!
As a shareholder, and considering that Apple is a public company, does Jobs have a successor?
Case and point: We all saw what happened last time Steve left. He came back and essentially saved the company from destruction. He was quoted as saying something along the lines of "I am not going to let someone wreck this company again".
From what I see, Apple = Steve. Apple's success lies in Steve's hands, or more to the point, as goes Jobs, goes Apple.
Does anyone have insight on this? What happens if something happens and Steve is not at the helm any more? Does Apple die with him?
Im an IT guy, I got diagnosed with Testicular cancer two months ago, two surgeries, and I start my first round of chemotherapy tomorrow. So the doctor prescribes "Emend" which I did some research into. Apparently it's a synthetic THC medicine which costs $250 bucks(I have insurance, I paid $50) and it only comes with three pills.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HIGH QUALITY WEED I CAN(and will) BUY FOR $50??? Damn, I guess I'm a terrorist now. I love America.
Steve Job's Distortion Field must be losing its power... he would have spun this cancer into "an unscheduled upgrade."
Get well Steve, I'm still saving my coin for a powerbook.
Unfortunately Steve Jobs is the only person who is sufficiently out of his mind to run Apple. When he dies, Apple dies.
So I guess ODing on LSD really does cause cancer... ;)
.. that the reality distortion field was ionising?
Using SELDI ProteinChip technology and bioinformatics tools, Dr. Goggins and colleagues analyzed serum samples from 60 patients with pancreatic cancer, 60 age- and sex-matched patients with non-malignant pancreatic diseases and 60 age- and sex-matched healthy patients in the controls group. Analysis of the data revealed two protein biomarkers that could discriminate pancreatic cancer patients from healthy controls with specificity (true negatives) of 97% and sensitivity (true positives) of 78%. The addition of CA19-9 to the two-marker panel further improved its overall performance. Because the study analyzed patients with surgically resectable cancer, it is possible that this marker panel will be diagnostically useful even for patients with small cancers. Ciphergen's Diagnostics Division and the Johns Hopkins research team are currently recruiting additional patients in order to perform follow-on validation studies.
Pancreatic cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death and has the poorest survival rate for any solid cancer. The American Cancer Society projects that, in 2004, about 31,860 people in the U.S. will be found to have pancreatic cancer and about 31,270 will die of the disease. The disease is often very advanced by the time symptoms occur and diagnosis is established, as a result of which the five year survival rate of pancreatic cancer patients is less than 5%. If detected early and treated by surgery, 5-year survival rates improve to approximately 15-40%. Thus, there is an unmet clinical need for accurate non-invasive tests for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. A currently available serum test, CA19-9, can be used for monitoring patients already diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but there is no serum test today for the initial diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
Who know, maybe Steve just wanted some time to play Doom 3 too and made up an elaborate story about getting cancer so he could get some time away from Apple and Pixar to do a little fragging! ;-)
That constant exposure to a Reality Distortion Field was carcinogenous.
Overview
Definition:
A pancreatic islet cell tumor is an uncommon tumor of the pancreas that arises from a distinct type of cell in the pancreas, the islet cell. Normally, islet cells produce insulin and other hormones, and islet cell tumors can also produce hormones.
Alternative Names:
Islet cell tumors; Islet of Langerhans tumor; Neuroendocrine tumors
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
In the normal pancreas, cells called islet cells produce hormones that regulate a variety of bodily functions, such as blood sugar level and the production of stomach acid.
Tumors that arise from islet cells of the pancreas can also produce a variety of hormones, though some do not. Although islet cells produce many different hormones, most tumors secrete only one specific hormone that leads to specific symptoms. Pancreatic islet cell tumors can be benign or malignant (cancerous).
Islet cell tumors include insulinomas, glucagonomas, and gastrinomas (Zollinger-Ellison syndrome). A family history of multiple endocrine neoplasia, type I (MEN I) is a risk factor for the development of islet cell tumors.
Symptoms:
* Sweating
* Tremor
* Rapid heart rate
* Anxiety
* Hunger
* Dizziness
* Headache
* Clouding of vision
* Confusion
* Behavioral changes
* Convulsions
* Loss of consciousness
* Skin rash that migrates on the face, abdomen, perineum, buttocks, or lower extremities
o May be crusty and scaly
o May have raised lesions filled with clear fluid or pus
* Inflamed mouth and tongue
* Weight loss
* Weight gain (unintentional)
* Peptic ulcer pain
* Vomiting blood
* Diarrhea
* Abdominal pain
Note: The symptoms depend upon the type of tumor and the hormone produced.
Signs and tests:
The type of tests performed may vary depending upon the symptoms associated with the condition. Some of the following abnormalities may be detected on testing:
* elevated serum glucagon level
* an abdominal CT scan may reveal a pancreatic tumor (sometimes the tumor may be too small to see with a CT scan)
* elevated fasting glucose level
* abnormal glucose tolerance test
* catheterization of the pancreas to show high hormone level in the veins (this involves putting a wire into a blood vessel and taking blood out for measurements)
* MRI of abdomen to show pancreatic tumor (MRI can sometimes see smaller tumors than those seen with a CT scan)
* elevated serum insulin level
* elevated serum insulin C-peptide
* low fasting glucose level
* increased gastrin level
* positive secretin stimulation test for pancreas
* positive calcium infusion test
Treatment:
Treatment will depend upon the type of tumor discovered and whether the tumor is benign or malignant. Malignant tumors spread to other organs, grow aggressively, and may not be treatable. In general, tumors are removed surgically, if possible.
If malignant cancerous cells spread (metastasize) to the liver, a portion of the liver may also be removed, if possible. If the cancer is widespread, various forms of chemotherapy may be used to shrink the tumors.
If the abnormal production of hormones is causing problems, medications may be given to counteract their effects. For example, the overproduction of gastrin in the case of gastrinomas results in oversecretion of acid in the stomach, and medications that block acid secretion can be taken to reduce symptoms.
Expectations (prognosis):
Patients may be cured if tumors are surgically removed before they have spread to other organs. If tumors are malignant, chemotherapy may be used, but is usually unsuccessful at cur
I don't know if he does, but the neuroendocrine tumor in his islet cells would have affected insulin production which in turn would have caused symptoms such as:
Steve's doctors would have tested for a number of things including:
They would have have then ordered abdominal MRI scans, because these tumors (in the Islet of Langerhans) would likely be too small to see by CT scans). If the MRIs were positive, surgery would be next.
If the tumor had metastasized, a portion of the liver would have also been removed, and chemotherapy would have been used. As that appears not to be the case, Steve's tumor is likely a pre-malignant lesion.
Somewhere in WA Bill Gates has hidden a VERY expensive voodoo doll.
but my mother died last December 1 from pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is pretty much a death sentence except for this type that Jobs got. It's a fucking horrible disease (though I'll readily admit that there are far worse ways to go) and a shitty way to die. I hope Steve all the best and if nothing else hope that maybe this will cause him to direct some of his enthusiasm and vision towards raising funds for research. He is one of the very few lucky ones.
PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express.
dude's in the hospital and still manages a plug. bravo, mate.
...keeps the doctor away. Opps.. maybe he stood to close to the Windows®
Life is not for the lazy.
I am aghast at the some of the remarks to this news.
First of all, Steve is a father to several children and is sick with a serious illness. This alone should cause you to some show sort of decency in your remarks.
I have a nephew who is fighting Leukemia. When you visit someone you know or who is a member of your family with cancer, it is hardly funny.
The Slashdot community may not respect Steve Jobs for what he did for modern computing. That is their ignorance. I just cannot understand the callousness of some people who poke fun other's tragedies.
I wish S.J. a speedy recovery, foremost for his family. I do not know him, but I know the result of his imagination. We should all strive to have that impact on the world.
Since cancer isn't really one disease but rather a symptom of aging cells suffering from genetic screwups that turn off normal cellular signalling and protective mechanisms, it's a lot less likely to be meaningfully "cured" by the time we get old. And as people are surviving longer and longer, more people will get to the point where they have some cancerous growth somewhere. Anyway, having seen it first hand, getting very ill from cancer is about the worst thing I can imagine. And there are lots of drugs, all of which seem to work somewhere between decently and not too well, depending on the type and malignancy of the cancer you are dealing with.
Anyway, we'll all end up dead some way some day. Personally, I can think of a lot of ways I'd rather go than cancer. Like a massive heart attack while having sex with a 20 year old.
Jobs' Unreplaceable Pancreas Lasts Only 588 Months!!
I regularly report MSN spam to the Hotmail admins.
Who would like to wager that Steve Jobs expressed concerns about the aesthetics of his pancreas post-surgery?
"But Mr. Jobs, if we bevel your pancreas, it might no longer function at the same capacity."
"Just do it."
I would not be surprised if his tumor was detected using a somewhat-newly developed technology known as a PET (positron emission tomography) scan.
The one thing that all cancerous cells have in common is a heavily anaerobic metabolism that works very quickly in order to support the continual state of mitosis that cancerous cells are in. An amount of radio-tagged sugars are introduced into the body and an image can then be created where areas that metabolize the most show up the darkest. Some areas are obviously normal tissues that simply use more sugar (muscle tissue, liver, etc.) but an area that stands out could be a candidate for further testing.
Reolysin, the product of
http://www.ocolyticsbiotech.com
Full Disclosure: I'm a shareholder, but that's because I believe in their products effectiveness. Not the other way around.
What troubles me is that he's using RF-generating equipment in a hostpital... Any one know if 802.11 interferes with sensitive medical equipment as much as cell phones do? Probably not, but just curious...
Damn. It blue screened AGAIN?
Slashdot, home of supporters of free software, free music, and free speech.Except for Moderators that disagree with you.
This is starting to be one of those lessons in being specific with an explanation because the most common result on a search engine is not what you want people to think (also more examples of Google as a verb).
Get well Steve and long, happy life
Like what?
I am serious, what has HE done? Not Woz, not others, what has he done? It appears to me that he has done a lot more for Animation than he has done for computers.
Try using the long power cable that came with your power supply. You will find that it plugs very nicely into power outlets, and does not obscure the plug below it.
Someone should suggest the health benefits of the cannabis for his struggle/recovery. It is a widely accepted medical fact that cannabis is very beneficial to all cancer sufferers for relief of pain, an increased ability to stay on their drugs, as a hunger stimulant & of course as a very powerful anti-depressant. In Califonia, Canada and across the world it is already well known & used for this purpose. United States Marijuana Party http://www.usmjparty.com
io get out of introducing the new iMacs. /kidding
Hope all is well with Steve, and here's to a speedy recovery!!
I couldn't resist. It was futile.
wow, they found a part of Steve Jobs that was merely malignant
The inside story on Steve Jobs
Here's to wish Steve the best, and hoping he has a swift and smooth recovery! Mike
Gamblers Forum
In other news, Steve Jobs dies an untimely death Monday morning when one of the hospitals computers, running Microsoft Windows, suffers a minor "glitch" and prescribes an overdose of medication. Investigations are still underway.
The flippy one is only two prong. If you're connected to a USB item without ground, you'll get a shock through the case of the Powerbook if you're using only the two prong adapter.
It happened to me a lot when I was overseas with flakey main power.
The superheated air that comes out of a G5 case, coupled with the 1.8 GHz radiation (the same frequency of a Microwave Oven), just can't be good for you, can it?
I don't think anyone else could keep me glued to an hour-and-a-half+ keynotes feed every year! go Jobs!
I wish the very best for Steve Jobs and His family. A speedy recovery and no complications.
I for one knows what He is going through and I hope He does not get the side effects of his condition. I have chronic pancreatitis from a congenital abnormality of my pancreas and complications from a previous surgery. It very painful and I am disabled from it. I just hope Steve Jobs does not have to cope with this also.
Steve Jobs has a great imagination and a ton of great people working for Him.
I have only used Apple products at a prior employer(school district). Great product for kids and graphic enthusiest(sp).
Get well....Take it easy for recovery might be long...
Walt
Without Steve, a lot of us wouldn't have the jobs we do have (or don't have?) right aboot now - nor would we be using some of the taken-for-granted-now-but-revolutionary-at-the-tim e gadgets that we rely on every day.
Get well soon, Steve. If the comments to this post are any gauge, you have the support of the nerd community across the globe.
I swear, if I see another Slashdot comment with "It will be interesting to see"...
Doc: I've got great news.
Steve: I'm fine?
Doc: No, you have cancer, but i just saved a bundle by switching to Geico.
Horrible, i know, but he's gonna be fine, so we can joke.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
n/t
This P.I.G. will walk on the water, This P.I.G. will walk on the sea, This P.I.G. will walk whereever he wants.
"Duck head". Called that because it looks vaguely like a Disney(R) trademarked character when viewed at the right angle. If you squint. It's true it's not normally covered by warranty: they're very simple physical parts that would only normally break due to abuse by a user. If you can explain the nature of the failure to AppleCare support, and indicate you didn't mistreat the poor thing, they might send you a free one. Hope this helps. :-)
Live simply, that others may simply live. -Gandhi
... one of the authors of PearPC was hit by a train and killed.
More on their site
Sig: I stole this sig.
Same thing (pancreatic cancer...not necessarily the rare kind) got him. Though I doubt he's all that peaceful; all things considered.
N.B. No one should get this hideous mallady.
Ok everybody, let's get together and buy Steve an iPod to cheer him up a little.
-my other sig is your mom
In all fairness, he did say that Steve should think about how good a color iPod with Bluetooth would be.
I think it's fair to assume that he intended for Steve to go, "Hmm... hmm... hmm... not at all," and then go back to thinking about whatever the next big thing is going to be.
I write in my journal
Get well soon, Steve!
Did you just seriously imply that you need to "talk to developers at WWDC" like you do(nice horn tootin' by the way) to know Jobs micromanages? It's probably his most infamous personality quirk, aside from his massive ego, aka the Steve Reality Distortion Field.
You missed my point entirely. The original Jobs Fanboy said "ohmygosh, because, without Steve, we wouldn't have had..."
Which is absurd, and ignores the fact that even if Jobs pushes his nose into everything, at the end of the day, 98% of the work was done by other people. I can't stand it when people attribute the end product entirely to CEOs...
Please help metamoderate.
"I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)."
No doubt accompanied by a whizzy graphical presentation with lots of graphs and that spinny cube effect thing, preceeded naturally by the intro for the iPod.
Glad he's ok though.
...Keeps the Doctor Away!
Maybe that was too obvious to be stated.
Seriously, I hope he get swift and healthy recovery, and that Apple pay some of thier iPod profits to cancer research.
Or anti-smoking campaigns. Or petitioning for stricter monitoring of electrical installations around homes. Or anti-pollution campaigns. Or fighting against chemical farming, and modern farming methods, overproduction and under delivery. The limitation of artificial colours and preservatives in all food and drinks.
I think that covers most reasons why we have cancer.
Get well soon!
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Steve Balmer said Linux is a cancer...
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No idea - just my feeble attempt to think like Steve :-)
My Guess:
Bluetooth = wireless iTunes with random folks on the bus. An "I'm single and looking for man/woman/other" flag would make it a sure fire hit.
Colour = it will only be seconds before someone ports MAME. Huzzah! Apple jumps in a steals the handheld market in the transition between Nintendo Gameboy and DS, Sony PSP etc.
I didn't read the cell phone article - thanks for the pointer.
j.
"My cat's breath smells like cat food." - The Tao of Ralph Wiggum.
Being from California and a former "head" I would just assume Jobs would be into health food so what the hell happened? He looks great for an old hippy and has had a whole second coming with Pixar and Apple.
Hi Yall & you know who,
my father died of a pancreatic (sp?) cancer, back in 1992, about eight weeks after diagnosis. I find the "humour" understandable, but in *very* poor taste. To take pleasure at another's suffering, I find somewhat pathological.
Steve, you have a second chance at life-that is a gift beyond value.
Enjoy & may you fully recover.
Greek Geek.
1%? You mean like Apple's market share?
Sorry, couldn't resist... Good luck Steve.
Posted from my trusty G4/400
Cancer is never trivial.
BS. So if he was filing for divorce, we'd need to hear about that here too? This is getting like People magazine and the Olsen twins...
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Apple CEO Steve Jobs was found dead in his Cupertino, CA home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to technology. Truly an American icon.
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Get well soon, Steve.
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I wish you a quick recovery.
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So how many times do you think Steve is going to be checking in on Tim? I say he gets about 5-10 calls per day, then of course Steve will show up for un-announced visits.
I certainly hope there is not a single slip-up when Steve is gone, otherwise Tim is out the door in September.
you'll get a shock through the case of the Powerbook if you're using only the two prong adapter
In the winter, even the gentlest brush with my Powerbook case would generate a loud static pop. A firewire hard drive, hooked up to to a different computer that was plugged into the same outlet, would disappear and that computer would complain "improperly removed firewire device . . ." xyz. It would also happen if my Powerbook on a different outlet but plugged into the Ethernet.
I never did figure it out but became very careful about discharging any static electricity before getting near the PB.
And just to stay on topic, two things. First, I wish Steve Jobs the quickest of recoveries. I'm glad his surgery went so well and the the form of cancer with which he was diagnosed was so easy to handle. I hope it is gone for good.
Second, I know given this life-and-death situtation there are a thousand more important things to him and those close to him than computers, but I can only despair at the thought of what would happen if he were not around to drive Apple.
I don't know him personally, but my life would be drastically affected, professionally and emotionally
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I guess too much RDF causes cancer....
Yeah, and the thing had to be near his lap!
It was diagnosed by a sudden case of jaundice- turning orange and peeing black. The pancreas outlet is near the bile duct, so the tumor messed that up. This is basically a good sign, because if you diagnois it by adominal pain, it has probably spread too far for the operation.
The Whipple operation removes a good fraction of your digestive system- part of pancreas, part of stomach, part of colon, gall bladder. My friend lost 50 pounds from post-op recovery and radiation. However has gained half that back. He's had to learn how to eat on a diminished digestive system. A sliver of the pancreas was left, so no insulin is necessary.
I find it interesting that the New York Times version of the story is titled, 'Apple Chief Has Emergency Cancer Surgery' seems they had to throw that 'Emergency' in there. The other places I have seen the story never mention 'Emergency' in the title or the body of the article.
How about:
9am: Go to work, call boss a fascist pig
10am: Have sex with his wife
11am: Tell boss's wife she's a fascist pig
12pm: Eat again
etc.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those with loaded guns, and those who dig.
Maybe the new guy has a set of balls and we'll get a 2 button mouse now that the primary obstacle is temporarily out of the way.
What would happen to Apple if Steve Jobs was nolonger CEO for some reason?
Steve is obviously the key driving force in Apple and this is not good for the long-term, unless a good succession plan is in place and someone is being groomed for the job.
Companies that tend to last ages (doing very well) generally don't have to have CEOs like Steve Jobs (charismatic etc) but they do have to have a strong vision and core values (amongst other things).
Importantly, they also need a good succession plan and grooming of future CEOs.
Unfortunately, I think Apple is too heavily reliant on Steve Jobs, the whole company is sort of like the hands and feet for his "mind," which doesn't bode well if his mind leaves.
Let's hope that Apple is trying to groom someone with the same characteristics (not necessarily charisma) as Steve, and building the vision and core values into the company itself.
Long live Apple (and Steve Jobs)!
MrHatken.
It makes me cringe when I see iTunes.
Its clunky and makes you manage the tunes according to the ID3 tags, which is clumsy and limiting.
Playlists are poorly implemented. I have an iPod, but iTunes is too much to bear. I use Xplay, which isn't any easier to use, but at least it has the saving grace of staying out of your way.
Actually, they're brushed metal, like Iron Man.
Yeah, because Slashdot is really qualified to be commenting on useful features...
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First: Steve, best wishes and speedy recovery. Millions of people are praying for you and wishing you well.
Second: Does anyone think this will serve as a 'wake up' call to Apple's leadership and innovation practices?
I am a Switcher and what I found when I started following the world-that-is-Apple that Steve === Apple. He was a founder, when he was outed the company went on a death spiral, when he came back it got a second life with the 1st gen iMac and now Appel rules digital music.
But is that the best way to run a company? Certainly you NEED a strong leader, but it seems a bit pied piper to me. What would the next years look like for Apple if Steve had had terminal cancer? Has Apple grown into an organization that can go on without him?
I work for a small business and our founder and president of three decades will soon retire. He has run his company very patriarchially (sp) and it has been interesting to see senior managment change their styles to rely less upon the president for decision making and instead, take that on themselves.
I use that as an illustration of growing pains that Apple may one day soon face. How to instil the innovation and business savvy of Steve Jobs throughout the organization so that Apple will be a strong company well past Steve's tenure.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Because this is a rare tumor there is not a lot of information available about the expected duration of survival following diagnosis. Based on a very small study of patients who had surgical treatment for nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas (the relevant category for neuroendocrine tumors) the median survival among patients is more than 10 years if the cancer has not spread to the lymph nodes. If the lymph nodes are positive for cancer then median survival is about 6 years. Because these statistics are based on only a few cases it is really impossible to say what Steve's individual prognosis would be. However, he's clearly better off with this type of tumor than with an adenocarcinoma, which has a median survival of about 18 months for the 20% of patients who are lucky enough to be diagnosed early enough to have surgery. Median survival is only about 4-5 months among those for whom surgery is not an option.
I hope things continue to go well for him.
Please get better! the world still needs you! :)
-*-
hitting bottom never felt so good
And Slashdot expects a body.
Best wishes for luck and a speedy recovery.
Hello Steve,
Get well soon. Speedy recovery and God Speed...
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Apple is dying! :-P
Yeah, too bad Steve was never a homeless schmuck standing on a street corner holding a sign reading, "will try to change the world for a jet." I don't worship billionaires, I worship Wesley Willis-- oh wait, he's dead, isn't he? Well there are plenty other nutjobs to worship, who would you choose?
Geez, ever hear of gallows humor? Who among us hasn't lost someone dear to cancer, or has someone close to them battling the disease. Yeah, it happens. I haven't seen a single post that wished ill upon Steve Jobs. Get a sense of humor... by the way, they say laughing reduces the risk of cancer. So consider this group therapy.
Wow! He's very lucky they caught it early. Most people don't survive pancreatic cancer as it will usually metastisize much easier than other cancer types.
Interesting coincidence that I just had a lecture (med school) this morning about a pancreatic cancer case and then get on slashdot to read that Jobs has it.
I wish him well. It's one of the worst cancers to get.
I being a PearPc user since my Powerbook was stolen, have noticed that PearPC has steadily progressed in areas of speed and use. Apple, fearing that PearPc will soon be able to fully emulate the PPC architecture, decided they had to do something. Frightened, they killed off one of the developers. Who's next?
Bill Hicks died from pancreatic cancer on February 26, 1994.
:)))
He was a stand up comedian known for his controversial political topics, showing a --fairly uncommon-- tendency to tell the simple, naked truth.
I wish all the Bills out there were the same... yes Mr. Gates, I am talking to you
Here there are some of his quotes.
In these strange days we are living, we cannot afford forgetting his humour.
Dear Steve,
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:-) Having fun yet?
... (tap, tap, tap).
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Here are a few things to help you pass the time (yes, we know you read Slashdot).
You are for all intents and purposes "on mandatory holiday", make the most of it.
We assume you have a Powerbook on your roll over table and some kind of mouse, so shoo everyone away and have 'em close the door.
First update your OS, go to
Hmmmm, to get started, let's smack some penguins.
http://henriluoma.net/pingu/
If anyone comes in, go here on a tab in Safari, CLICK! lalalala-I'm doing business.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
OK, that's enough excitement, chill for a bit, this is a girl I used to know - made a few records back in the day, you might like it.
http://www.universalrecords.com/quicktime/edieb
OK, awake? Let's have some real fun, First, get a throw away email account.
http://mail.yahoo.com/?.intl=us
You know get a screen account name like "ByteMe!@yahoo.com"
Set?
So, ask yourself what have you wanted to say to some of these jokers on certain sites that you couldn't because, well, you haven't had the time?
Go crazy. the Hospitals IP number IS temporary, right?
(practice your maniacal laugh) It helps if you give the morphine drip a couple of sqeezes.
Take a break, more music.
http://corinnesmusic.com/
(yeah, I like her)
Back?
What to do, what to do
These guys are always fun:
http://www.appleturns.com/
Don't split a stitch Steve-o.
Alrighty then, since your're pretty much left to your own devices here, I think the Army still has that free shoot 'em up on their site:
http://www.americasarmy.com/
I know you got the hang of it, so I'll be wishing you the best, get well, you know we love you.
(Never mind the Bullocks
P.S. Ask for the ICE CREAM - they have it you know.
~hylas
Steve had a variety that comprises 1% of the pancreatic cancers - roughly the same as Apple's market share :-) :-)
Not a single treatment has come out from embryonic stem cell research.
Yeah, and in 1920 not a single treatment had ever come out of mold either.
And you mean you want to INJECT someone with a VIRUS in order to cure them of it??? burn the witch! Burn him! If Jesus wanted us to cure smallpox he'd vaccinate us Himself!
was implanted to control his insulin levels.
The replacement battery's gonna be VERY expensive.
iTunes playlists are quite nice. You are perhaps the kind of user who likes to mantain a deep hierarchical folder-structure to sub-categorize according to your own categories. As iTunes playlists are "flat" you are unhapy with it. iTunes uses the ID-tags just for the purpose they where invented for.
CDDB is sometimes really bad when it comes to proper tags, but that's not iTunes fault.
I've seen X11Amp, music match and a bunch of other mp3-players, none of them was half as good as iTunes. But there is one thing that bothers me: I sometimes change a song attribute that is a selection criteria for my current view. So the song pops away and it takes more than 3 clicks to find the song again (even if it is currently playing). :-/
Pretty sure he doesn't read Slashdot, but seems appropriate to post ;-)
:-)
He also did a very good job of keeping it quiet -- I wonder if Apple's PR folk were enlisted for that?
-psy
notice how he remembers to capitalize Google but not god. gotta love him.
We wish you a speedy and full recovery!
Bluetooth = wireless iTunes with random folks on the bus. An "I'm single and looking for man/woman/other" flag would make it a sure fire hit.
;)
You've been reading The Register again, haven't you?
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In Korea, long hair is for old people!
Pancreatic killed my grandpa in '98. I'm glad they found Steve's in time. I'm curious how they came across it. Is there a new simple examination that would show such a problem like the mamograms for women?
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Why?
The answer is obvious to the corporate powers that be: Too Expensive To Implement.
-- 1 Timothy 6:10 of KJV Bible at umich.edu
And what of it?
cheers,
j.
"My cat's breath smells like cat food." - The Tao of Ralph Wiggum.
Call this guy offtopic if you will, but Troll gets metamodded as Unfair.
But Pakistan, and other ex-British colonies, are still using the 15 amp eound-pin plugs we banned around 1954 for new installations. No fuse, and likely no fuse anywhere because in the less well-developed parts (i.e. most), many houses have an illegal connection to the public supply. The prospective fault current could be many thousands of amps if they are near the sub-station. Should cause lots of fires.
I do wonder if the reason some parts of the far east have become economically successful is because they have handled basic things like electricty supply properly, whereas others have not. And yet Japan has a mixture of both voltage and frequency, and if I remember correctly they are one of the places with an odball 3-phase system in some parts with one phase grounded and a very non-standard voltage. I used to have a chart of all this, can't find it now but I expect it is all on the net somewhere.
In one part of Holland I once measured about 140V from one pin of the socket to ground, and 130V from the other, but only just over 200V between pins, so obviously they had some stange phasing problems or the neutral had become ungrounded, or my measurement ground, a copper water pipe, may have been live. Quite dangerous for those from elsewhere in Europe who plug in with an adaptor, their equipment and extension leads etc may be single-pole fused and this "seemed" to be a double-pole system. But again, the ground may have been the thing that was wrong........ And I was trying to keep musicians with guitar amplifiers and keyboards and PA systems safe, not easy at the best of times.
Large parts of Europe use reversible plugs (not a good idea) and some have grounds that only make contact after the live pins, very bad indeed. This seems to have happened because each country had their own standards and some idiot found that by compromising the tolerances a little bit here and there, most countries plugs would just about go into another's sockets, so they improvised a horrid plug with side contacts for grounding in some places and a female ground contact for others. What they forgot is that it will fit into absolutely any ungrounded socket, so you can have potentially lethal equipment such as washing machines (lots of water, many possible leakage mechanisms in the motor windings and other places) plugged in and running in a kitchen, within touch distance of grounded plumbing. Not nice.
In the UK we have standards for inspection and test before a new installation will be connected, but these in many instances are not mandatory, although fairly well enforced. But, after that, there is no check on what people do, and as in other areas, I have seen some real horrors in domestic installations. But I guess most installations are OK as there are not many electrical accidents. I do my own wiring, which is legal here, and I take a lot of trouble to make it safe. A little over-engineering such as separate circuit breakers for the computer room has other benefits as well. I may have spent a little bit more on materials than most people, but at least the labour was "free".
Good luck with the house in the Phillipines. The weather tends to be very nice, at least it was when I was there, but only passing through, sadly.