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Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo
An anonymous reader writes "To pay his tribute to Steve Jobs, Joseph Tame, a media producer and a marathon runner from Tokyo, ran 21 kms in 2 hours — starting from the western side of the Imperial Palace, across to Roppongi, through Omotesando, then up to Shinjuku. The leaf is in Kagurazaka, and the start/finish point just by the entrance to Yasukuni Shrine. The route, when mapped, shows the famous Apple logo in the center of Tokyo."
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It's a space station.
what what?
But the AIDS will do its work soon.
Looks suspiciously like the Apple logo. He's going to get sued for trademark violation...
a bit defensive aren't we? besides your OSX came from the same OSS cesspool
I have two of them. Had a 3rd one but the last one died prematurely.
So your "poverty" argument is just silly.
It's not that we refuse to "pay more", it's that we refuse to "get less".
It's a shame neither one of the survivors will run the new Civ or any older RTS games. They were kind of obsolete the day they were made (the Macs that is).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Snap out of it, people.
yeah but in fairness he's fairly close looking.
I'd want to get my tributes before I die so I can enjoy them rather than after I'm dead when I can't. Maybe this is his way of doing that.
Isn't that what Apple zealots really want? Can't think why. Cult leader, death's door?
Running: the most boring sport for old people
In other news, Apple has announced a lawsuit against Joseph Tame for copyright infringment
.. news for nerds, stuff that matters, huh?
I know many people will bash this guy as "an Apple fanboi", or having "drunk the Kool-Aid®" (BTW, the Jonestown incident used Flavor Aid®, not Kool-Aid®, but don't let facts get in the way), but what those people are overlooking is that this is both clever and creative.
Side note: Creative people don't care whether or not you like or agree with their choice of tools. If you don't like Apple or Apple products, fine. But all the Apple, Apple product, and "fanboi" bashing is ridiculous. The company and products aren't perfect, but they are good and they do inspire creativity. They're tools that for many people make working easier, faster, and allow them to create. Nothing more, nothing less. And, no, I don't particularly care if you agree/disagree with this post.
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What a retard you are.
Really, anything in this vein ought to at least "touch" Akibahara, no?
Why the fuck is this news? Some slant eye ran in an apple pattern? wtf cares
Don't feed the trolls, please.
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Yeah, but for Apple fans, resigning as CEO is just about the same as dying.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
I thought New York was supposed to be the big apple.
will he be known as Steven Jobless?
Read between the lines. Jobs has authorized an official biography, codified management guidelines at the company for when he's gone, submitted his resignation, and has been photographed looking extremely thin. He has previously had cancer as well as as liver transplant. What do you think is likely to happen in the next six to twelve months?
have you seen this pic of him?
http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick/
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Was that a tribute to Steve Jobs as well?
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We have to finally admit, that Apple is a cult. It has all the same traits as a religion. (No, there is no difference between a cult and a religion, other than perhaps the amount of penetration of the population).
This is not meant in a judging sense. Everyone does what he does, because he thinks it's good for him.
But especially with craziness like this, it is pretty obvious that it's actually rather harmful to them.
- The added price for what is still just cheap Foxconn stuff.
- The lock-in into the golden cage that China would be jealous of.
- The crippling of the own abilities through oversimplification. (Same thing Microsoft [MS Bob, Clippy, Office in general], Gnome [3, related: Unity], KDE and Mozilla are guilty of, in varying degrees..)
- The dumbing down that that crippling results in.
- The loss of resources like money earned and information gathered/processed that this inefficiency results in.
Apple products would clearly not be bought by any rational mind. They are emotional purchases. Dreams. Bloomy dreams with a bad reality. Schizotypic delusions. In other words: Religion/cult.
Oh, fuck you.
After posting his Apple logo-shaped tribute, Apple sued his employer "Mother Theresa Services for Homeless People" for unauthorized trademark usage.
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I think it's just the dress that makes him look thin.
That guy must be thankful that Bill Gates isn't ill so he doesn't have to die trying to create the Microsoft logo.
WRONG! You are just a heretic and a blasphemer. Death to you and all the other infidels.
Linux is garbage, deal with it. You could have at least pretended that you were smart enough to run one of the *BSDs.
To pay his tribute to Steve Jobs,
The man who underpaid a business partner (Woz - he lied so he'd end up with more money in his pockets), a man who denied that his daughter born out of wedlock (Lisa) was his, who's business 'sense' claimed a production need on the Mac and Mac+ line needed 30,000+units when Apple sold less than 2000 in the same time period, who claimed the education market would move NeXT to #1 (channeling how education moved many Apple ]['s and missed Desktop publishing not to mention the Wall Street/NSA market for NeXT/NeXTSTEP)?
Tribute to a liar, an engineer who demonstrated a lack of understanding of thermal issues with the Apple /// and Mac (no cooling fans), and a guy who blew "what the market wanted" with the Apple ///, the Lisa, NeXT and statements about where the Mac's were gonna sell. THAT Steve Jobs?
Pull the other one - it has Newtons with color screens.
If someone does something you think is great, why not tell them ..before they die?
has to be said. Creative my ass. Creative people have better things to do; people who know the history, know that Steve Jobs is not equal to Apple. (Jesus: a guy who wears nothing but khakis, becoming known for "design." Americans are such ... boobs).
I think it was the Adobe Postscript group that said about the time of the release of the Apple Laserwriter they could have a font character the "size of New Jersey". While a bit of hyperbole considering no such output device existed, it was a change of perspective for typographers who not much later made inkjet billboards using Postscript and/or EPS.
I am glad Steve got to see this stunt.
Jerry
In other news, I did some stuff back in the 1980s I'm not proud of, too. I got better, and so did Steve Jobs. Did you?
Is an anonymous coward.
Snap out of it, people.
So what? Someone doesn't have to die before you honor them for their contributions. Love him or hate him, Steve has changed the industry, and it's appropriate to honor him at a time like this when he's stepping down from the role at which he made those changes.
I wonder if he's heard from Apple's lawyers yet.
...would have been if all Tokyans(sp?) disconnected their phone-calls at random throughout the day as a tribute to King Steve's mandate that a phone -- even one in it's 4th revision -- shouldn't have a founding principle of being able to maintain a phone simple connection.
Yeah, but have you seen how clear his thetan is?
The picture may well be a fake.
sig? Oh, that sig...
He'll attain divinity and ascend into heaven?
What do you think is likely to happen in the next six to twelve months?
An endless run of stories about Steve's health so Slashdot can serve ads.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Apple products would clearly not be bought by any rational mind. They are emotional purchases. Dreams. Bloomy dreams with a bad reality. Schizotypic delusions. In other words: Religion/cult.
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"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
have you seen the tmz pics? it doesnt look like he has much left.
How can you run 21 kilomilliseconds in 2 hours?
OSX didn't come from a cesspool, it was intelligently designed!
I have a question, which I'm sure to get hate over but WTF it has always struck me as weird....why? I mean I could understand a Mac during the PPC days, there were some things that supposedly PPC ran better, no real worry about bugs because those were all written on X86, but now? now it is just a REALLY expensive Intel laptop. I haven't seen anything on one I couldn't get for cheaper with better specs.
The iPad, iPhone, and iPod? i don't have any of those but I GET IT, again non standard hardware with Apple UI equals win. The closest Android competitors frankly just haven't gotten the Apple smooth and seamless thing down. maybe by Android 6 they'll have it, but not yet. And while I love my sandisk frankly i'll be the first to admit that butt simple UI it ain't, nothing like an iPod. hell my mom could work one of those with no manual.
So I just don't GET it. Anybody who has the tech skills to read /. can follow a fucking google page and make a Hackentosh if they have a hard on for OSX that badly, and get better specs along with a free license for Windows for dual booting while they are at it. So why pay crazy Apple prices for less powerful hardware? i just don't see the appeal, unless you are one of those "keep up with the joneses" types that care more about flashing a label than anything. if that is the case fark is that way.-->
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
The leaf points directly towards Fukushima.
That must be a coincidence...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
MacOS only impresses the ignorant. Get over it.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> The closest Android competitors frankly just haven't gotten the Apple smooth and seamless thing down.
It doesn't have anything to do with "smooth". It's about getting basic core features right. Apple doesn't get basic core features right. If you use your phone for anything remotely "productive", you will likely find Apple's tendency to forget the power user a problem. Despite of all of the hype surrounding "Apple design", they can't quite seem to manage accommodating slightly less trivial use cases.
Entirely too many people buy into the idea that "Apple does it right" without actually bothering to check the basic facts of their assumption/
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Yeah, so what? Is there some reason that Slashdot has to be above getting page hits to pay the bills just like virtually every media outlet does on the internet?
>He'll attain divinity and ascend into heaven?
There aren't even reports of his having made it to the castle yet, let alone having recovered the amulet.
Speculation as to ascension is premature.
Once he enters the planes, let us know, and we'll all watch live.
Apple products would clearly not be bought by any rational mind. They are emotional purchases.
Well duh. You ever hear of a little concept called marketing?
People bought his company's overpriced products. I'm sure that's all the thanks from the hoi poloi that matters to Steve.
Pull the other one
...The one involving the guy who completely revolutionized the portable music industry? ...The one that pretty much created the smart phone market? ...The one who made Apple the richest company in the US?
Oh, I see, you're just a butthurt douchetroll.
Yea enjoy your android phones, android tablets and desktop PCs in a world without Apple. They'd certainly be a lot different, and frankly, I say this not as an Apple customer, they'd be worse. Snap out of your own anti-Apple bullshit.
Oh I'll be the first one to point out apple sucks ass for power users, BTW notice how I got modded down for daring to ask a question that consists of anything other than "gee, isn't apple like the best thing ever Skip?" but in this case i was talking about the "dad" factor, as in they make a phone simple enough my dad can use it without having to keep the manual in one hand.
I tried getting my dad a Droid phone but frankly he just couldn't get the hang of it, it would scroll crazy fast or too slow and we never could get a comfortable medium with it. His brother who is likewise clueless has an iPhone and it works perfectly for him, everything he would want to do with a phone is built in and is easy to manage.
Personally i told dad to wait for the nokia WinPhones to come out before we make any final choices. Everything he has is on Windows anyway, so if MSFT can get the integration between the WinPhone and Windows down hopefully it'll be a better fit.
That STILL doesn't change the fact the current Mac makes no damned sense. As I said in the PPC days one could argue that the combo of exotic hardware+software made for better performance in certain apps, but today all a Mac is is a VERY expensive Wintel box, with hardware that is outdated before it even reaches the shelves. By the time the Mac refresh hits the shelves there is usually at least one new generation of Intel chips, not to mention Intel IGP still blows nasty chunks. The base model Mac is an i5 with 2Gb for $1000? Are you kidding me? for INTEL graphics?
So I'm sorry I still don't get it. They have to be making 40%+ profits on old tech! It isn't like the old days where one needed an exotic CPU folks, these are Wintel laptops. If you want a non Windows OS so bad run Linux or build a Hackentosh and get better specs and a free Windows license.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Every time you post, you're saying: "Please Slashdot, give me more stories about this topic!"
So, yes, there is. Use your brain to work it out.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Uh, by that logic, you're doing the same thing. A page hit is a page hit whether you're expressing an negative or positive opinion. The wonderful thing about Slashdot is that if you don't want to see Apple stories (which are typically slanted as fanbois fodder, or Apple-hater jerky), block them.
Uh, by that logic, you're doing the same thing.
You are correct.
A page hit is a page hit whether you're expressing an negative or positive opinion.
Also correct. Additionally, you are creating more content for people to read. This means more ads served etc.
The wonderful thing about Slashdot is that if you don't want to see Apple stories (which are typically slanted as fanbois fodder, or Apple-hater jerky), block them
Again correct. You'd think the people bitching would do that. Personally, I enjoy bitching about it. At least I can admit it.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I don't have any special opinion about Steve or Apple, normally don't use any of their products. ..But I still think it's good that the running dude did it while Steve personally can enjoy his tribute.
No, they'd be better. And they would not be Android crap (that's just imitating Apple in all the wrong places) in the first place.
Because then Nokia would not have gotten Elop out of fearing Apple, and Microsoft would not have tried to sting Nokia out of the same fear.
Then we would buy the successors of the N900 today, with Linux with root access, an actual keyboard, shitloads of 100% free open-source software, a battery that you can remove, quality electronics, and Java.
Now stop projecting your self-hatred onto others and yourself snap out of the delusion, "believer".