Strawman. I never generally claimed no one ever said it.
"not a phrase commonly used" != "never uttered by anyone, ever"
Here's the AP article context:
Hofmann's hallucinogen inspired the 1960s hippy generation and was immortalized in the Beatles' hit "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," although the band denied any connection. It was also known as Like Swift Dead.
The implication is that it was known as "like swift dead" in the 60's by the "hippy generation", or at least enough of the hippy generation to warrant a mention in an AP article. If this were true, Google would undoubtedly have a reference to it. It does not. True, it may have once been called "like Swift Dead" by someone's uncle Earl back in '71, but that's not what we're talking about.
Figure it out already
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HaggiZ writes "Vitacraft are claiming to have what they call RFIQin Robotic Cookware (unfortunate name). It's basically pots and pans that you can place RFID cooking cards in the handle with.
Hey HaggiZ, "RFIQ" != "RFID". Seriously, there are a lot of people out there calling anything small that passively or with minimal self-powering communicates via RF radiation (i.e. radio waves) "RFID". RFID is a specific thing. It's basically a small, cheap device that echoes back a unique ID number for tracking purposes. Calling this RFID is as fucking stupid as calling everything with 2 wheels and a motor a "scooter". Get a fucking clue, people.
Before the AP article that mentioned "Like Swift Dead", that phrase (in quotes) returned zero results. That means nobody who ever talked about LSD mentioned "Like Swift Dead" on a web page that got indexed by Google. That's all it means.
That's all it means, but that actually says a lot. "The web" being an essentially uncensored medium, drug slang is exhaustively covered. If a slang term for a drug doesn't come up in google, I'd wager any amount you'd name that it's not a term in common usage.
Also, just looking at the phrase you can tell it's not real because it's grammatically meaningless. "Like Swift Death" would have had the barest smidgen of believability, but even then it'd be clear that it's not a phrase used by anyone who's actually ingested LSD. An acid trip makes you feel, if anything, like you're entirely too damn alive. No, it's entirely obvious, both from utter lack of google hits and from common sense that this is a slang term made up by some dumbass fucktard who fancies himself a wit.
But over the last two years, Apple is growing at a faster rate. Much faster.
Bad dog! valuless metric! The relative growth rate of dissimilar sized companies is laregely meaningless. The growth rate of my company makes Apple look like they're standing still. I went from one employee and a net income of $150 to four employees and over $300,000. That's 300% and 200,000% respectively! Apple can't even come close to a 200,000% revenue growth. I win!
It's not a patent on regenerative braking, it's a patent for a rather clever use of planetary gears with two motors to get infinitely-variable output speed (and regenerative braking) without excessive stall-condition losses.
Thing is, it's not a particularly clever use. It's the obvious solution. Generators work best at a certain constant speed. Braking input by nature will start at high rpm and continuously go lower until stopped. Solution: add a continuously variable transmission. Multiple inputs on a planetary gearset to effect variable output is old hat (GM's Dynaflow transmission, FIFTY years ago). Applying such a solution to regenerative braking obviously requires a small slave motor opposite the generator. That, basically, is their patent. Two wheels driving one shaft through a differential to a computer controlled planetary gear set into the motor generator. Crafty, but I think it's fairly obvious. It's a design waiting not for discovery, but for technology to make it usable. If you set a mechanical engineer to the task of converting variable mechanical input to constant mechanical output to a generator, this, or something very like it, is what you'd get. Differentials, CVTs, and generators are very old tech. It's what Toyota came up with. I think it's obvious, as does Toyota, likely. But the patent office has a different standard for such things.
I don't know why you got modded funny. It should be a well know fact (especially to/.ers) that OPEC buys up every alternative energy/locomotion patent it can get its hands on, and then calls it "Research".
And I don't know what nut(s) modded you "insightful". The only "evidence" supporting such a crazy claim is a bunch of urban legends. Name one technology that OPEC "bought up" and kept secret. Ah, that's right. It's being kept secret! Complete absence of evidence is the sureset sign the conspiracy is working, right? Does it not seem odd that in fifty years of this (or similar) story floating around that not once has there been a leak, or a parallel discovery by a non-bought off inventor? Gimme a break.
You could just as well blame the application developers for providing no autosave feature.
If you're going to go to that extreme, you might as well blame them for not coming over and pressing CTRL-S for you. Ultimate responsibility for saving documents lies with the user.
How is a 2GB flash drive with only 100,000 erase cycles supposed to rival a much faster 500GB hard drive with a much, much longer life span? I think someone just wants to push their product...
Well, NAND flash like this is good for 1,000,000 writes rather than the 100,000 of NOR flash; but yeah, even that doesn't sound like enough. I don't know though. How much is enough?
It is confirmed. I have the book right here. Sam I Am has a plate with green eggs, and a green ham next to it. It's a bit of linguistic ambiguity there in the title phrase. Is it (Green Eggs) and Ham, or Green (Eggs and Ham)? Common usage would have just the eggs green, but the artwork shows the ham green as well. As a small child my mom offered to make me green eggs and ham, and I distinctly remember requesting JUST THE EGGS be colored, as green ham is just...wrong.
Well, sometimes a good cup of coffe is what you want, but if you were to have any now you'd be wide awake for hours.
You choose your words carefully, my friend, as I will not hear blasphemy! Coffee is like unto religion. It's not a buffet where you can say "I'll take the Eternal Salvation with a side helping of the Divine Plan, but I'll pass on the prohibition of graven images and the praying 8 times a day"*. It's all or nothing. Coffee without caffeine is like god without smiting. The sweaty palms, heart palpitations, and eyeballs spinning in your head are the price of the privilege of drinking coffee. That's why decaf tastes so horrid. The vital essence of the precious bodily fluid has been removed, leaving nothing but a bitter husk.
* concept lifted from "Going Postal" with apologies to Terry Pratchett
And yet, much like taxi drivers, the quicker a lawyer finishes with one client, the sooner they can move on to the next, so they can receive more money.
You've just described "contingency". Now address "billable hours"...
Yes, it is unfortunate that you can't see any motive for lawyers to become lawmakers other than the opportunity to line their own pockets.
He is, perhaps, a bit pessimistic. Lawyers becoming law makers and passing laws that end up being lawyer-centric in application and administration might seem "evil", but this seems like a classic case of Hanlon's Razor (substitute "unimaginitiveness" for "stupidity"). Lawyers, particularly the ones that go into politics, will naturally see every problem as a nail waiting for the hammer of law.
the main point is for Bill Handel to tell you you have no case
Without having actually listened to him at all, I'd suppose if he's too quick to say that, you could probably troll him pretty hard by digging up some obscure historical case and reciting it to him as though it were your own. After he says you have no case, you inform him that what you just described was taken straight from a real case which someone won.
You could, but to what end? He never makes any claim that his word is worth listening to. In fact, that's part of his schtick. He plugs the show saying "Handel on the Law, where I give you marginal legal advice and tell you you have no case". It's not infrequent that a caller describes the situation and he basically says "nah, you got nuthin'", but near the end of the call the caller says "well, the lawyer I have is telling me I can win based on (whatever)" and Handel will say "well then, maybe you do have a case. Realistically, you probably know more than I do whether you do, so I'm not sure asking me was a good idea!" So yeah, you could concoct a lame troll like that, but it wouldn't be anywhere near as amusing as real life and probably wouldn't get on the air (calls are taken off the air after 9am all week, then the best stuff is edited into the pre-recorded show for Saturday*).
*6-11am Sat on KFI640 in Los Angeles, where he broadcasts/records. Syndicated stations elswhere are often different. Hell, forget my ramblings-- go to his site if you're interested.
More than you wanted to know about the show, I'm sure.
It's not to reject interesting stories just because some people are so stupid that they see the name of a submitter and become instantly filled with hate.
Trouble is, these people are flooding the submission queue with mediocre articles. Contrary to Taco's insinuation, most of their submissions are neither unique nor particularly timely. It is a rare submission by Roland or Beatles^2 that does not draw a comment from at least one person saying "I submitted the same thing X [days|weeks|months] ago, and mine was [written better|factually correct|more informative]." As others have indicated, getting a submission accepted is largely a numbers game. Once the bare minimum criteria of relevance and legibility have been met, it's simply a matter of statistics. Taco even admits that if your craptastic article shows up during a slow period, its chances of acceptance go up. Simple logic says that keeping a constant presence in the submission queue will increase the liklihood of successfully hitting a slow period.
Even though Rolland or Beatles Beatles may submit a horendous amount of articles, whats to say that this is bad?
The objection is that when editors just select a bunch of articles from one submitter and essentially post them en bloc on the front page, it turns the site from the "community" based site it purports to be into "The ** Beatles Beatles Show". People flooding the submission queue with that many stories invariably have an ulterior motive. Roland's goal is clearly to drive traffic to his site. His site is a news aggregator like slashdot and his slashdot submissions link to the weak summary his site rather than the original source. * * Beatles Beatles is apparently trying to improve his pagerank or something, because while his link always points to some unreadably bad beatles-themed page loaded with an odd assortment of links. These kinds of activity just seem dissonant with the "community spirit" slashdot is supposed to engender.
Heck, even Rolland or BB aren't on the Most Active Submitters Hall of Fame
Uh...roland is #2: 251 rpiquepa
* * Beatles Beatles isn't there, but he's only recently started
Now the motivation for getting a Slashdot story accepted...is a return link to the website of your choosing. Your creds. Your 'Reward' for sharing a cool URL with a half a million Slashdot readers.
Is it really? Are you saying that if no freebie link is given then submissions will dry up? That's ridiculous. That's as stupid as saying authors and composers will stop creating if their copyright term isn't life plus 70 years! I think you want to encourage submissions from community-minded people rather than dirtbags looking for a free high-visibility reference to their worthless, ad-riddled link farm. You're sticking to your policy without regard for whether that policy is having a positive net result.
Then don't come whining when somebody blasts out your door with a riot gun and plunders your house when you're on vacation.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Really, there is nothing short of posting an armed guard that will keep a burglar out of an unoccupied house he has decided to burgle. I can only assume you're arguing on the "pass a law" side vs. the libertarian "guard your house" side. Sorry to tell you, but when it comes to small property crimes like burglary, cops and laws are like the goggles, they do nothing. Cops take a half-hearted report after the fact so you'll have something for your homeowners insurance claim. If you're extraordinarily lucky and have a valuable item with a unique serial number it might show up at a pawn shop.
Seriously, why the fuck do you think anything government does is going to stop someone from shotgunning your door open?
As hard as it is to believe about a president, Jimmy Carter knows something about nuclear reactors.
But that's just it. He could almost be excused for banning breeder reactors if he was as typically ignorant of the science as most presidents usually are. But he studied nuclear physics and reactor design in college, for gob's sake! There is nothing technically bad about fuel reprocessing. His decision was based solely on his idiotic populist "lead by example" philosophy. -"If we dismantle our nukes, so to will the soviets, seeing that we're serious about it."
-"I we ban breeder reactors because they produce Pu, so too might other nations less trustworthy than us, following our example."
-"If I turn the White House thermostat down to 66 degrees and wear a sweater, the people will know I'm serious about energy consumption."
-"If I walk the inaugural parade route people will know I'm not a limo-riding elitist."
The executive order wasn't based on science, it was based on his hare-brained philosophy that we ought to do exactly like we want others to do, even if we know they won't ever reciprocate. And the really stupid part? The plutonium produced by waste reprocessing is mixed Pu isotopes and can't be used to make nuclear weapons anyway! So yeah, nuclear physicist or not, Carter made a moronic decision based on bad science and saddled us unnecessarily with tons of waste which is illegal to reprocess.
How about doing a review from the perspective of someone who has never used a computer before
That's a silly and pointless as getting a book review from someone who's never read a book before.
"It had a lot of words I didn't know. Compared to street signs and comic books, it was really, really long. I couldn't follow what was going on so I gave up about half way through."
Then they should rate it "+1 Underrated" instead. Underrated just adds 1 point without changing the "reason" visible, i.e a "Score 3, Funny" will turn into "Score 4, Funny" and the poster gets a karma point as well. If one mods a funny post "+1 Insightful" just because one wants to award points, it inevitably draws "-1 Overrated" mods in response-- just like this one did.
You can get a full experience of (most) PC Games with several days of dedicated play.
How can you expect a comparable review of a motorcycle?
Off the top of my head, the best reviews I can recall are where Caranddriver takes a car and makes it a daily driver for x0,000 miles.
FWIW most biker rags tend to review only the aspects of bikes that can be figured out in a couple hours of riding, and then only because that's what their readership is interested in. Unlike cars, bikes tend to be a luxury purchase rather than transportation. Riders are generally more interested in 0-60 times, weight distribution, maneuverability, etc. They don't care how the bike will be in 20K miles because they're probably going to sell it after 10K.
Yes, and back when I was 14 I picked on this girl till she cried. I was a dick. Now I don't do that anymore because I have matured and grown up. So how does something that Jobs did 2X years ago justify you still calling him a prick? Who has he personally screwed over in the last year to warrant that?
Every 14 year old is a little asshole. There is a distinct difference, though, between some kid teasing a girl and a 21 year old man lying to and fucking over one of his (supposed) best friends for a few thousand dollars. His autocratic management style is also well known. I've met enough borderline sociopathic hard-sell types to know one when I see one, and Jobs is one of them. People like that are pricks. You don't get to the positions where Jobs is and has been by being a nice guy, you get there by being a charming, intelligent, asshole. Nice guys don't stay CEO anywhere. They end up taking things personally and going off to become a schoolteacher. I have nothing personal against Jobs, I just recognize him for what he is: an intelligent, charismatic, "nothing-personal-it's-just-business" type prick.
Didn't the Soyuz 11A511U have Gimballed Thrusters?
Indeed, as was the Rocketdyne J-2 on the Apollo command module. Both the Soyuz and Apollo thrusters are main engines. These gimballed thrusters are for the Reaction Control System, used for fine positioning and attitude control. RCS thrusters have traditionally been fixed, rather than steerable.
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Strawman. I never generally claimed no one ever said it.
"not a phrase commonly used" != "never uttered by anyone, ever"
Here's the AP article context:
The implication is that it was known as "like swift dead" in the 60's by the "hippy generation", or at least enough of the hippy generation to warrant a mention in an AP article. If this were true, Google would undoubtedly have a reference to it. It does not. True, it may have once been called "like Swift Dead" by someone's uncle Earl back in '71, but that's not what we're talking about.
Hey HaggiZ, "RFIQ" != "RFID". Seriously, there are a lot of people out there calling anything small that passively or with minimal self-powering communicates via RF radiation (i.e. radio waves) "RFID". RFID is a specific thing. It's basically a small, cheap device that echoes back a unique ID number for tracking purposes. Calling this RFID is as fucking stupid as calling everything with 2 wheels and a motor a "scooter". Get a fucking clue, people.
That's all it means, but that actually says a lot. "The web" being an essentially uncensored medium, drug slang is exhaustively covered. If a slang term for a drug doesn't come up in google, I'd wager any amount you'd name that it's not a term in common usage.
Also, just looking at the phrase you can tell it's not real because it's grammatically meaningless. "Like Swift Death" would have had the barest smidgen of believability, but even then it'd be clear that it's not a phrase used by anyone who's actually ingested LSD. An acid trip makes you feel, if anything, like you're entirely too damn alive. No, it's entirely obvious, both from utter lack of google hits and from common sense that this is a slang term made up by some dumbass fucktard who fancies himself a wit.
Bad dog! valuless metric! The relative growth rate of dissimilar sized companies is laregely meaningless. The growth rate of my company makes Apple look like they're standing still. I went from one employee and a net income of $150 to four employees and over $300,000. That's 300% and 200,000% respectively! Apple can't even come close to a 200,000% revenue growth. I win!
Thing is, it's not a particularly clever use. It's the obvious solution. Generators work best at a certain constant speed. Braking input by nature will start at high rpm and continuously go lower until stopped. Solution: add a continuously variable transmission. Multiple inputs on a planetary gearset to effect variable output is old hat (GM's Dynaflow transmission, FIFTY years ago). Applying such a solution to regenerative braking obviously requires a small slave motor opposite the generator. That, basically, is their patent. Two wheels driving one shaft through a differential to a computer controlled planetary gear set into the motor generator. Crafty, but I think it's fairly obvious. It's a design waiting not for discovery, but for technology to make it usable. If you set a mechanical engineer to the task of converting variable mechanical input to constant mechanical output to a generator, this, or something very like it, is what you'd get. Differentials, CVTs, and generators are very old tech. It's what Toyota came up with. I think it's obvious, as does Toyota, likely. But the patent office has a different standard for such things.
And I don't know what nut(s) modded you "insightful". The only "evidence" supporting such a crazy claim is a bunch of urban legends. Name one technology that OPEC "bought up" and kept secret. Ah, that's right. It's being kept secret! Complete absence of evidence is the sureset sign the conspiracy is working, right? Does it not seem odd that in fifty years of this (or similar) story floating around that not once has there been a leak, or a parallel discovery by a non-bought off inventor? Gimme a break.
If you're going to go to that extreme, you might as well blame them for not coming over and pressing CTRL-S for you. Ultimate responsibility for saving documents lies with the user.
Well, NAND flash like this is good for 1,000,000 writes rather than the 100,000 of NOR flash; but yeah, even that doesn't sound like enough. I don't know though. How much is enough?
Go on. Look it up.
It is confirmed. I have the book right here. Sam I Am has a plate with green eggs, and a green ham next to it. It's a bit of linguistic ambiguity there in the title phrase. Is it (Green Eggs) and Ham, or Green (Eggs and Ham)? Common usage would have just the eggs green, but the artwork shows the ham green as well. As a small child my mom offered to make me green eggs and ham, and I distinctly remember requesting JUST THE EGGS be colored, as green ham is just...wrong.
No, that was DHS, and it also wasn't true.
You choose your words carefully, my friend, as I will not hear blasphemy! Coffee is like unto religion. It's not a buffet where you can say "I'll take the Eternal Salvation with a side helping of the Divine Plan, but I'll pass on the prohibition of graven images and the praying 8 times a day"*. It's all or nothing. Coffee without caffeine is like god without smiting. The sweaty palms, heart palpitations, and eyeballs spinning in your head are the price of the privilege of drinking coffee. That's why decaf tastes so horrid. The vital essence of the precious bodily fluid has been removed, leaving nothing but a bitter husk.
* concept lifted from "Going Postal" with apologies to Terry Pratchett
You've just described "contingency". Now address "billable hours"...
Yes, it is unfortunate that you can't see any motive for lawyers to become lawmakers other than the opportunity to line their own pockets.
He is, perhaps, a bit pessimistic. Lawyers becoming law makers and passing laws that end up being lawyer-centric in application and administration might seem "evil", but this seems like a classic case of Hanlon's Razor (substitute "unimaginitiveness" for "stupidity"). Lawyers, particularly the ones that go into politics, will naturally see every problem as a nail waiting for the hammer of law.
Without having actually listened to him at all, I'd suppose if he's too quick to say that, you could probably troll him pretty hard by digging up some obscure historical case and reciting it to him as though it were your own. After he says you have no case, you inform him that what you just described was taken straight from a real case which someone won.
You could, but to what end? He never makes any claim that his word is worth listening to. In fact, that's part of his schtick. He plugs the show saying "Handel on the Law, where I give you marginal legal advice and tell you you have no case". It's not infrequent that a caller describes the situation and he basically says "nah, you got nuthin'", but near the end of the call the caller says "well, the lawyer I have is telling me I can win based on (whatever)" and Handel will say "well then, maybe you do have a case. Realistically, you probably know more than I do whether you do, so I'm not sure asking me was a good idea!" So yeah, you could concoct a lame troll like that, but it wouldn't be anywhere near as amusing as real life and probably wouldn't get on the air (calls are taken off the air after 9am all week, then the best stuff is edited into the pre-recorded show for Saturday*).
*6-11am Sat on KFI640 in Los Angeles, where he broadcasts/records. Syndicated stations elswhere are often different. Hell, forget my ramblings-- go to his site if you're interested.
More than you wanted to know about the show, I'm sure.
Trouble is, these people are flooding the submission queue with mediocre articles. Contrary to Taco's insinuation, most of their submissions are neither unique nor particularly timely. It is a rare submission by Roland or Beatles^2 that does not draw a comment from at least one person saying "I submitted the same thing X [days|weeks|months] ago, and mine was [written better|factually correct|more informative]." As others have indicated, getting a submission accepted is largely a numbers game. Once the bare minimum criteria of relevance and legibility have been met, it's simply a matter of statistics. Taco even admits that if your craptastic article shows up during a slow period, its chances of acceptance go up. Simple logic says that keeping a constant presence in the submission queue will increase the liklihood of successfully hitting a slow period.
The objection is that when editors just select a bunch of articles from one submitter and essentially post them en bloc on the front page, it turns the site from the "community" based site it purports to be into "The ** Beatles Beatles Show". People flooding the submission queue with that many stories invariably have an ulterior motive. Roland's goal is clearly to drive traffic to his site. His site is a news aggregator like slashdot and his slashdot submissions link to the weak summary his site rather than the original source. * * Beatles Beatles is apparently trying to improve his pagerank or something, because while his link always points to some unreadably bad beatles-themed page loaded with an odd assortment of links. These kinds of activity just seem dissonant with the "community spirit" slashdot is supposed to engender.
Heck, even Rolland or BB aren't on the Most Active Submitters Hall of Fame
Uh...roland is #2: 251 rpiquepa
* * Beatles Beatles isn't there, but he's only recently started
I would say you have little to gain with dual core if you're a gamer. You're never better off with single core vs. dual core.
Is it really? Are you saying that if no freebie link is given then submissions will dry up? That's ridiculous. That's as stupid as saying authors and composers will stop creating if their copyright term isn't life plus 70 years! I think you want to encourage submissions from community-minded people rather than dirtbags looking for a free high-visibility reference to their worthless, ad-riddled link farm. You're sticking to your policy without regard for whether that policy is having a positive net result.
No, I'm pretty sure he and his monkey got nothing to hide.
C'mon, everybody's got something to hide, except....
oh.
Then don't come whining when somebody blasts out your door with a riot gun and plunders your house when you're on vacation. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Really, there is nothing short of posting an armed guard that will keep a burglar out of an unoccupied house he has decided to burgle. I can only assume you're arguing on the "pass a law" side vs. the libertarian "guard your house" side. Sorry to tell you, but when it comes to small property crimes like burglary, cops and laws are like the goggles, they do nothing. Cops take a half-hearted report after the fact so you'll have something for your homeowners insurance claim. If you're extraordinarily lucky and have a valuable item with a unique serial number it might show up at a pawn shop.
Seriously, why the fuck do you think anything government does is going to stop someone from shotgunning your door open?
But that's just it. He could almost be excused for banning breeder reactors if he was as typically ignorant of the science as most presidents usually are. But he studied nuclear physics and reactor design in college, for gob's sake! There is nothing technically bad about fuel reprocessing. His decision was based solely on his idiotic populist "lead by example" philosophy.
-"If we dismantle our nukes, so to will the soviets, seeing that we're serious about it."
-"I we ban breeder reactors because they produce Pu, so too might other nations less trustworthy than us, following our example."
-"If I turn the White House thermostat down to 66 degrees and wear a sweater, the people will know I'm serious about energy consumption."
-"If I walk the inaugural parade route people will know I'm not a limo-riding elitist."
The executive order wasn't based on science, it was based on his hare-brained philosophy that we ought to do exactly like we want others to do, even if we know they won't ever reciprocate. And the really stupid part? The plutonium produced by waste reprocessing is mixed Pu isotopes and can't be used to make nuclear weapons anyway! So yeah, nuclear physicist or not, Carter made a moronic decision based on bad science and saddled us unnecessarily with tons of waste which is illegal to reprocess.
That's a silly and pointless as getting a book review from someone who's never read a book before.
"It had a lot of words I didn't know. Compared to street signs and comic books, it was really, really long. I couldn't follow what was going on so I gave up about half way through."
Then they should rate it "+1 Underrated" instead. Underrated just adds 1 point without changing the "reason" visible, i.e a "Score 3, Funny" will turn into "Score 4, Funny" and the poster gets a karma point as well. If one mods a funny post "+1 Insightful" just because one wants to award points, it inevitably draws "-1 Overrated" mods in response-- just like this one did.
FWIW most biker rags tend to review only the aspects of bikes that can be figured out in a couple hours of riding, and then only because that's what their readership is interested in. Unlike cars, bikes tend to be a luxury purchase rather than transportation. Riders are generally more interested in 0-60 times, weight distribution, maneuverability, etc. They don't care how the bike will be in 20K miles because they're probably going to sell it after 10K.
Every 14 year old is a little asshole. There is a distinct difference, though, between some kid teasing a girl and a 21 year old man lying to and fucking over one of his (supposed) best friends for a few thousand dollars. His autocratic management style is also well known. I've met enough borderline sociopathic hard-sell types to know one when I see one, and Jobs is one of them. People like that are pricks. You don't get to the positions where Jobs is and has been by being a nice guy, you get there by being a charming, intelligent, asshole. Nice guys don't stay CEO anywhere. They end up taking things personally and going off to become a schoolteacher. I have nothing personal against Jobs, I just recognize him for what he is: an intelligent, charismatic, "nothing-personal-it's-just-business" type prick.
Indeed, as was the Rocketdyne J-2 on the Apollo command module. Both the Soyuz and Apollo thrusters are main engines. These gimballed thrusters are for the Reaction Control System, used for fine positioning and attitude control. RCS thrusters have traditionally been fixed, rather than steerable.