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Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO
An anonymous reader writes "The title says it all, really; Steve Jobs has resigned as the CEO of Apple, and would like to become Chairman of the Board. Reasons are not specified, but his declining health of recent years is a likely candidate. He's named Tim Cook as his successor."
Sucks to be you.
I can't number the times I moved iTunes from OS 8 to OS 9 to OS X, from a 5500/225 to a G3 B&W, to a G4 MDD, to the current G5 dual processor. Can't number the number of hard drives I migrated all my apps and data between OS reinstalls or updates.
I can, however, number all the times I lost the content on the iPod:
0. That's ZERO. The big Goose Egg.
Sorry about your fuckup. Sucks to be you. Next time, read the instructions and don't click OK on every popup without reading and understanding what you are about to do.
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The iPod is just a cache of your music. It's not a backup.
By any reasonable definition, it's a backup, since the files are physically there. It does, however, deliberately pretend for them to be inaccessible, unlike every other similar device on the planet.
Case in point: when I bought my (non-computer-savvy) mother an iPad, the first thing that got her extremely annoyed was that she couldn't just drag and drop files to it in Explorer like she used to do with her USB sticks, MP3 player, and camera, but had to go through setting up sync in iTunes. She doesn't know what iTunes is, and doesn't want to learn yet another way of doing the exact same thing she already knows how to do.
not again...
NO.
Xerox PARC *DID NOT* "do" the original GUI environment. Doug Engelbart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart) did it at SRI.
Xerox PARC *DID NOT* invent the mouse. Engelbart did it also at SRI.
People overestimate PARC's importance, downright ignore Engelbart and underestimate Apple's contributions (when they don't say that Jobs & co. "stole" from Xerox)... this cheeses me off royally. /rant
Apple itself announced that Jobs has been elected chairman of the board.
Perhaps you didn't hear that Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985, then Apple failed in his absence, then Jobs came back and orchestrated the greatest comeback in corporate history, and made stockholders like myself a fortune.
Apple also bought NeXT from Jobs for millions, and it became the Mac OS.
Oh, and this thing he bought called "Pixar" for $5M? He turned it into the most successful movie studio in history, and sold it for like $6 billion.
Epic history fail.
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PEBCAK.
1) Wipe iPod and enable for disk use.
2) Back up music library before reinstalling OS.
3) Drag music files back into iTunes.
4) Go on with life.
Unless you meant that the lesson learned was to back your shit up before reinstalling, you learned the wrong lesson.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
Yeah, it does. It told you EXACTLY what it was going to do. You decided to ignore it, and let it do what it said it was going to do.
"Xerox PARC *DID NOT* invent the mouse. Engelbart did it also at SRI."
Um, Telefunken had a mouse with a ball before Engelbart had his with the wheels. That is, the German mouse was already like the (mechanical) mice we have today. See http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/misc/telefunken.shtml