While Xerox had the people with the skills to build the future, their leaders lacked the ability to foresee (at least at the level that mattered) what they were holding onto. They obviously had no clue, even when informed by their own employees, as to what it was they held in their hands. This allowed someone like Jobs, who possessed this ability to comprehend, far before it was obvious to the rest of the world, just how important the technology being developed would become; to take that ball and run with it.
Gates and Jobs were actually visionaries, in their own ways. Gates with not a lot of strokes of genuine creativity, except where it came to money, and Jobs, who had this great talent to say "Hey, this is going to change the world", while most everyone else sat back and laughed, in the beginning. True genius leads to all kinds of idiosyncrasies. Actually believing in something so strongly that it becomes an obsession is usually what makes real, large term change, in any industry or field. To be able to handle the strain of pushing against a large tide of naysayers to make it actually happen on such a large scale, something gives, usually. That's my take on Jobs downfall, and the downfall of Apple.
Gates can be the richest man, financially speaking, in the world, but he's still that rather pathetic little guy, in my opinion, who you felt sorry for at high school dances. There is nothing charismatic about him, again, IMO, because his zeal doesn't stem from much belief in something, as much as it does in the almighty buck. It's a tangible, noticeable difference.
And as I typed this, and was just going to enter it, using Win98 (because it's early and I'm too lazy to go upstairs to my other machine), just as I was going to regale anyone bored enough to read this; stack dump. Retype. Typical. Sorta said it all to me this morning.
You have the richest man in the world, offering subpar code to the misadventure of anyone using it, while amassing huge piles of dough from that inferior stuff. You have your ego-driven, self obsessed 'arteest', who gets waylaid by the big bad wolf, out of his self involvement and aggrandizing. A smoother system, yet not many people know that fact, or give a rip.
That last scene, with the Giant Talking Head in the background, while small Jobs smiles boyishly at the camera, was a great ending. Talk about imagery.
Who now, at this point in time, would we call "visionary"? Who, now, is working at calling the world round, when the rest of us know it's flat? That's Jobs, back then. Gates, motivated on a less intensely personal field than Jobs, was able to exploit Jobs' ego driven tunnel vision and his eccentricities, and won the monetary war, if not the code war. Woz may have been, and still is, a talented, good hearted guy, but without Jobs driven nature, would Apple have ever happened to the extent it has? I think just about anyone who becomes an icon of their generation is going to be vilified and judged, and rightly so, sooner or later. After all the hype, people get tired of it, and want some dose of reality, or possibly just dirt.
The TNT flick was rather typical of made-for movies. It was "ok", as long as you take it with a hefty dose of salt. I wonder what kind of slant TNT would have on a flick about Turner himself?
Please. You cannot really believe the rest of the world should revolve around your little area or time zone, right? I live in Hawaii, and as such, get the news, tv, movies, everything later than the mainland. I read many msg boards, etc, and I have never imagined to try to make everyone one else clam up about something they are excited to talk about, just because I haven't gotten to see it yet. I'm not Queen Of The World, just yet.
People are going to talk. Deal with it. Don't read it. It's simple. They have every right to talk about a film they've just seen, and most likely have been waiting to see for a long time. Just scroll, use your head, realizing that if it has the letters TPM in the title, you may not wish to view it, and live a less bitter life; it's just plain silly to expect people half way around the world to live by your rules, IMO. : )
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While Xerox had the people with the skills to
build the future, their leaders lacked the ability to
foresee (at least at the level that mattered)
what they were holding onto. They obviously had no clue, even when informed by their own
employees, as to what it was they held in their hands. This allowed someone
like Jobs, who possessed this ability to comprehend, far
before it was obvious to the rest of the world,
just how important the technology being developed would become; to take that ball and run with it.
Gates and Jobs were actually visionaries, in their
own ways. Gates with not a lot of strokes of
genuine creativity, except where it came to
money, and Jobs, who had this great talent to say
"Hey, this is going to change the world", while
most everyone else sat back and laughed, in the
beginning. True
genius leads to all kinds of idiosyncrasies. Actually believing in something so strongly that
it becomes an obsession is usually what makes
real, large term change, in any industry or field.
To be able to handle the strain of pushing against a large tide of naysayers to make it
actually happen on such a large scale, something gives, usually. That's
my take on Jobs downfall, and the downfall of Apple.
Gates can be the richest man, financially speaking, in the world, but he's still that rather pathetic little guy, in my opinion, who
you felt sorry for at high school dances. There is
nothing charismatic about him, again, IMO, because
his zeal doesn't stem from much belief in something, as much as it does in the almighty buck. It's a tangible, noticeable difference.
And as I typed this, and was just going to enter
it, using Win98 (because it's early and I'm too
lazy to go upstairs to my other machine), just as
I was going to regale anyone bored enough to read
this; stack dump. Retype. Typical. Sorta said it
all to me this morning.
You have the richest man in the world, offering
subpar code to the misadventure of anyone using it, while amassing huge piles of dough from that
inferior stuff. You have your
ego-driven, self obsessed 'arteest', who gets
waylaid by the big bad wolf, out of his self
involvement and aggrandizing. A smoother system,
yet not many people know that fact, or give a rip.
That last scene, with the Giant Talking Head in
the background, while small Jobs smiles boyishly
at the camera, was a great ending. Talk about
imagery.
Who now, at this point in time, would we call
"visionary"? Who, now, is working at calling the
world round, when the rest of us know it's flat?
That's Jobs, back then. Gates, motivated on a
less intensely personal field than Jobs, was able to exploit Jobs' ego driven tunnel vision and
his eccentricities, and won the monetary war, if
not the code war. Woz may have been, and still is,
a talented, good hearted guy, but without Jobs
driven nature, would Apple have ever happened to
the extent it has? I think just about anyone who
becomes an icon of their generation is going to
be vilified and judged, and rightly so, sooner or later. After all the hype, people get tired of it, and
want some dose of reality, or possibly just dirt.
The TNT flick was rather typical of made-for movies. It was "ok", as long as you take it with
a hefty dose of salt. I wonder what kind of slant
TNT would have on a flick about Turner himself?
Please. You cannot really believe the rest of the
world should revolve around your little area or
time zone, right? I live in Hawaii, and as such,
get the news, tv, movies, everything later than
the mainland. I read many msg boards, etc, and
I have never imagined to try to make everyone one
else clam up about something they are excited
to talk about, just because I haven't gotten to
see it yet. I'm not Queen Of The World, just yet.
People are going to talk. Deal with it. Don't read
it. It's simple. They have every right to talk about
a film they've just seen, and most likely have been
waiting to see for a long time. Just scroll, use your head, realizing that if it has the letters TPM in the title, you may not wish to view it, and live a less bitter life; it's just plain silly to expect people half way around the world to live by
your rules, IMO. : )
uilani
Well stated. Woof.
It seems that even though it was bitterly cold,
Mr. Malda has had no packet loss whatsoever.
:)