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World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction
New submitter Dega704 writes with an excerpt from El Reg: "Before Steve Jobs came up with the iPhone or even the Apple II, he designed paddles for ball-flipping games at Atari where the scruffy 19-year-old was employed to improve game design. Sotheby's New York will auction off a document dating from Jobs's time there: a 1974 report that Jobs wrote for his boss suggesting ways to improve arcade game World Cup. According to Jobs' biography, his Atari days are most notable for his clashes with colleagues, who he considered to be 'dumb shits'. He was made to work night shifts there partly because he was in a phase of refusing to wash and so he apparently smelt bad, causing complaints from his co-workers. But Jobs obviously did some work at Atari too, with the document laying out his ideas for improving player experience. The typed four-page document includes three circuit designs in pencil and additional designs for the paddles and alignment of players defending a soccer goal."
Damn, it's only a memo about improving a video game? I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol. (Yeah, and here come all the non-Americans to talk about how superior it is to basketball/baseball/football. I don't care. Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch.)
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
how much can i get for a magazine he farted on once
Far better people than him die everyday and no one gives a shit about them.
Really? Founders of multi-billion dollar companies (who each touched the lives of everyone) die everyday in your country? Where is this land of milk and honey, so I can move there?
Thousands of people die every year and we only seem to care about the ones who are rich or on magazine covers.
Well fuck, man. You did know that life is a competition......right? We have too goddamn many people here already as it is, and things are only going to get worse the more who are born into it. Some people I care about, sure, but others simply aren't worth the effort to help. No, sorry, I don't give a fuck if some random hobo on the street, or some idiot elsewhere dies because he's too damn stupid or mentally ill to take care of himself. Go ahead and spend all your resources trying to save him if you want. I'm too busy contributing towards humanity's future.