Personally, I haven't owned a television since 2003, but I'm also the type of person who would never watch an inauguration. I'm having difficulty imagining a person who would watch an inauguration but not own a television. Are there any of you out there?
This is why you always give a fake address when asked unless it's a (reputable!) company where you're actually paying for something at the time or if it's a (reputable!) company which is actually going to send you some physical object.
Apparently she thought she was downloading from a reputable company; that's why she was downloading from them in the first place. She didn't realize until she got the bill that the company she gave her information to wasn't what she thought it was.
the word Hell itself is a corruption of the name of the Norse goddess Hel, surprise, an evil ruler of the Norse afterlife. Her domain was a place of suffering for those souls not taken to Valhalla. Sound familiar? It should, because Christianity stole these ideas.
Merriam-Webster says the English word Hell came from the Old High German word "helan", but the word actually used in the New Testament is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew word Gehenna (also Jahannam in Arabic). Whether there's any connection between Gehenna and Valhalla, I have no idea. They do seem to have a consonant and some vowels in common.
Hope you Christians are enjoying your made-up religion which is demonstrably a white-washed amalgam of other historic religions. I'm certainly enjoying mocking you for it.
It hasn't been legal in most societies throughout thousands of years of history
You should really read some history, you know...
I'm certainly not suggesting that there hasn't been homosexuality, or that same-sex marriage has never been legal anywhere. Wikipedia acknowledges that same-sex unions have existed throughout history, although "it should be noted these relationships were generally substantially different from traditional marriage."
There's also a subset of people who are straight, but would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that tramples on the civil rights of a minority. Can't forget about them.
Nor can you forget the subset of people who would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that permits same-sex marriage. It hasn't been legal in most societies throughout thousands of years of history, and a lot of people don't think abruptly reversing this policy is a good idea. Enough people, in fact, that they managed to get Prop8 passed in the first place.
Not all positions are available in all locations. The job you want may only be offered in Mountain View. For example, if you want to work in AdWords customer service, you can't do it in The Dalles, because that facility is just a datacenter.
Gay people living in other states may not want to move to California to work for Google, if they know they won't be able to marry someone of the same sex there. Google doesn't care whether they're gay as long as it doesn't affect their work; Google just wants to hire the best people, and if the best people happen to be gay and turn down the job because of Prop 8, then Google has to settle for someone else.
Obviously not all gay people would balk at moving to California because of Prop 8. I know a straight couple who have been living together in California for about 10 years now, and they don't seem to have any interest in getting married, even though they certainly could. Also, not all of the best people that Google could hire are gay (I'm sure most aren't), but as long as the numbers are above zero, it's a potential issue for the company.
Do the people on the street buying Apple really know who Jobs is?
Yes, absolutely. Not all of them, but the ones drooling over Apple's latest products, certainly. Steve Jobs is the man who announced those products to the public.
Is he the cool factor for Apple?
Not entirely. The cool factor is inherent in the products themselves, and Jobs has a lot to do with that; internally he's directly responsible for a lot of the design decisions that result in a "cool" product, and externally he's the charismatic figure that enthusiastically shows the world how cool it is. Plenty of other people can do the latter, but the former is a rare gift.
I think once we get outside the little geek and nerd demograph of Slashdot you'll find that a majority of Apple's cashflow has less to do with Jobs and more to do with that little logo.
This is true, but the logo is "cool" because Jobs pushed the company to make "cool" products which have become associated with the logo. That alone will bring them success in the next several years, but beyond that, they have to keep doing "cool" things, or the logo will lose its meaning. Personally I think Apple will still be able to do some very cool things without Jobs at the helm, and there's a chance they might even be able to do more cool things (things that Jobs didn't think would be cool enough, but the rest of us might like). Some people disagree. Time will tell.
as long as they keep concentrating on things they're good at, and not wandering aimlessly into dozens of disparate and mundane product areas
...like a portable MP3 player, an online record store, a UNIX-based operating system that runs on Intel processors, and a cell phone. Wandering into those areas would definitely be bad for the company.
Oh wait.
Sometimes wandering into new areas is a good thing - you just have to know which new areas to wander into, and which ones to avoid. Jobs has been good at that.
The same applies to different versions of Word on different computers. Your point?
Too much time is wasted on presentation in place of content. Students increasing font sizes and spacing to try to make a 2-page text meet the 10-page requirement, for example.
We'd all be better off if scholastic submissions were all in plain text, with carriage returns between paragraphs.
Except that school is supposed to prepare you for life in the real world, and in the real world, presentation is far more important than you're giving it credit for. Is this a good thing? Of course not, but you won't get far if you deny this reality.
(To avoid the problem of a 2-page paper being stretched into a 10-page paper, many instructors will specify the font and margin settings they want to see, e.g. 14pt Times New Roman double-spaced with Word's default 1.25" left/right and 1" top/bottom margins. For something without any complex formatting, OOo should have no problem exporting this.)
What version of IE are you using, 6 or 7? It's fairly unusual to find things that work correctly in IE7 but don't work in Firefox, because when IE7 came out and everything designed for IE6 broke, most companies added support for Firefox while doing the redesign for IE7.
Have you tried spoofing your user-agent string to trick the site into thinking you're running IE? The problem might not be a software incompatibility, but just a redirect on the front-end that denies you access if it doesn't like your user-agent string. If that's the case, it's a cheap and easy fix to relax the restriction on the redirect, and it's possible they might be persuaded to do so, if you can figure out how to get the message to the appropriate person. Of course, if spoofing the user-agent string doesn't work, then the only solution is to spend a lot of money to upgrade the software, and nothing you can say will make that happen any faster.
OOo may not get the formatting exactly right, but the documents it saves should at least look somewhat reasonable when opened in MS Office, unless you're doing some tricky formatting. Are these basic papers and reports, or something more complicated like brochures (using Word as if it were a DTP app)? Since you obviously have both programs available, what do you see if you create a document in OOo and save it in Word format, then open it in Word? If you can identify a specific problem, can you create a test case and submit it to OOo?
Obviously these suggestions are intended for a Slashdotter, not for a member of the general population.;-)
You're right that paying someone to solve her problem would have been a very reasonable expense compared to the cost of the classes she was taking, but the classes you cite would not teach her anything about how to install Windows. In fact, both of the classes you mentioned probably require the student to have access to a working computer with Internet access, which she didn't have at home.
but she should have developed better problem solving and critical thinking skills than what she obviously has not seemed to developed, well before university.
You've hit the nail on the head here... but since she currently lacks problem solving and critical thinking skills, what can she do about it now?
Don't forget, a huge swath of the population does not have these basic skills, and I'd much rather have them go to this "joke" of a college than ask me to teach them!
And as someone else here pointed out, you don't need to install verizon's software to use the internet.
The addon software really has no benefit that I've been able to determine and I prefer less software on my machine.
But that's not what Verizon will tell you. They'll tell you that once you've got the hardware plugged in, the next step is to insert the CD and follow the on-screen instructions. Their marketing people don't know that this doesn't work for everyone, so they don't mention it anywhere. Their sales people are aware that Macs work differently, but that there is a way to make them work, they just don't know what that way is. Their first level tech support people know the minimum level of information they need to give a competent Mac user to get them online, although they probably can't help a novice Mac user. None of these people have even heard of Linux, and it wouldn't occur to them that the information they give to Mac users might be helpful (because she's definitely not using a Mac).
So, how is she supposed to know that Verizon's software is not required? Presumably they use PPPOE, so some configuration is required, but they'll never tell her they use PPPOE unless she asks, and she doesn't know that's what she needs to ask.
You've obviously never used Verizon DSL. Their system requires a login/password which is generated via their Windows-only software when you're setting things up. Once you have that you no longer need Windows to connect to the internet, but you do need to that once to get the system & modem set up.
Does anyone have more information about this? I don't live in Verizon territory, so I don't have first-hand experience. Presumably the username/password in question is for PPPOE, but I would expect them to simply tell you what it is, then have you type that into their Windows-only config program, not the other way around.
Actually the early days of Apple are rather revisionistic. While Apple cannot be denied to have influenced the IBM PC somewhat, I personally do not think Apple has invented the personal computer which became the IBM PC, Apple was sort of third behind Commodore and Radio Shack also in the timeline (I do not mention the Altair here which was just an important footnote in history albeit being the first)
It is rather clear that IBM took a serious lesson from the early Commodores and TRS models... more than it did from Apple!
Wikipedia does seem to back you up; they also credit the Atari 400 and 800. I wonder where I got the idea that it was mostly Apple that IBM was afraid of.
You indirectly suggested Steve Jobs is the only CEO who has personally made noticable changes to the world. It's hard to imagine how that could be anything other than worship.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that Jobs is the only one, merely that he is one of them.
I know it's nice for some Apple fans to take things a little to the extreme and suggest Jobs really is Jesus, but seriously? Do you really believe Jobs is so special he's changed the world more so then many other CEOs or people?
More than any other CEOs or people, no, of course not. More than many CEOs, yes, absolutely - that's the point I was trying to make.
I'd have more respect for the guy if him and Apple were a little more philathropic.
That would be nice. Hopefully he'll start shifting in that direction.
Job's achievements should be recognised for what they are- impressive achievements as a leader in the technology industry, but to blow it up to be more than that, to suggest that he stands out as entirely unique in the scale of his achievements or that he's even necessarily a nice man is ignorant of the facts.
Again, I didn't mean to imply that he's unique in this respect, only that he should indeed be recognized for his achievements. My point was merely that Jobs taking a 6-month leave of absence for health reasons is significant and notable, which is why we're discussing it here. The CEO of Blizzard getting a hangover is not.
Apple still has a "spare" Steve available... though he's currently only a part-time employee and probably has no interest in becoming CEO.
But maybe he (Woz) can deliver keynotes? The fanbase will love him.
Woz doesn't even work for Apple anymore. The keynote address needs to come from someone who's involved in day-to-day operations at the company, otherwise they could just hire some actor to do it and you'd wind up with essentially a live on-stage TV commercial.
Jobs isn't good at this because he's a good presenter, he's good at this because he's an integral part of the company's operations. He truly represents the company. Nobody on the outside can do that.
Interesting. It occurs to me that Linux having Qt and Gtk+ apps is vaguely similar to Mac OS X having Cocoa and Carbon apps, although because a single entity completely controls both Cocoa and Carbon, they've managed to make things like localization settings work across both. Still, there are minor details like the Services menu, standard text-input features like inline spellcheck and emacs-style key bindings, and other Cocoa features that aren't available in Carbon applications.
I'm going to make a/. post next time Michael Morhaime (head of Blizzard) is hung over. Honestly, what other CEOs get this cult level of worship?
What other CEOs have personally made noticeable changes to the world?
Jobs was indirectly responsible for the IBM PC, which is what "PC compatible" computers were imitations of. IBM created the PC in response to the threat they felt from Apple.
Jobs was responsible for bringing a lot of the ideas from Xerox PARC to a mainstream market, something Xerox couldn't have done. Most people don't realize that Apple pioneered the "noun, then verb" paradigm we're all familiar with in GUIs (select an icon, then choose something to do with it); Xerox's GUI required the user to select an action first, before selecting the item upon which to perform it. This makes sense if you're used to a command line, but it's less intuitive to the masses.
After leaving Apple, Jobs created NeXT, which was the source of much of what became Mac OS X. Microsoft has been incorporating a lot of Apple's ideas into Vista and Windows 7.
Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas, and was at the helm during the creation of the first feature film ever to be entirely computer animated. Jobs now sits on the board of directors of Disney and owns 7% of the company. RenderMan has become an industry standard.
This isn't worship; Jobs has been genuinely influential in a lot of areas. The fact that you (correctly) felt the need to add "(head of Blizzard)" after Morhaime's name is why he doesn't get this kind of attention. Sure, Blizzard has had a significant impact on computer gaming... but what else has he done?
When he first came back to Apple in 1998, he was known as the iCEO, because for awhile it was thought that he would only be interim CEO until they could find a replacement.
That's usually when WWDC happens. I think he's planning on doing that keynote.
-jcr
I don't think so. WWDC was June 9-13 last year, and Jobs' announcement specifically says "until the end of June." There will be tons of cool stuff to show off at WWDC this year, and it doesn't make sense to bet on Jobs' health improving enough to be able to do the keynote, especially if he won't be involved with operations beforehand.
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Personally, I haven't owned a television since 2003, but I'm also the type of person who would never watch an inauguration. I'm having difficulty imagining a person who would watch an inauguration but not own a television. Are there any of you out there?
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This is why you always give a fake address when asked unless it's a (reputable!) company where you're actually paying for something at the time or if it's a (reputable!) company which is actually going to send you some physical object.
Apparently she thought she was downloading from a reputable company; that's why she was downloading from them in the first place. She didn't realize until she got the bill that the company she gave her information to wasn't what she thought it was.
the word Hell itself is a corruption of the name of the Norse goddess Hel, surprise, an evil ruler of the Norse afterlife. Her domain was a place of suffering for those souls not taken to Valhalla. Sound familiar? It should, because Christianity stole these ideas.
Merriam-Webster says the English word Hell came from the Old High German word "helan", but the word actually used in the New Testament is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew word Gehenna (also Jahannam in Arabic). Whether there's any connection between Gehenna and Valhalla, I have no idea. They do seem to have a consonant and some vowels in common.
Hope you Christians are enjoying your made-up religion which is demonstrably a white-washed amalgam of other historic religions. I'm certainly enjoying mocking you for it.
I'm glad we were able to brighten your day.
It hasn't been legal in most societies throughout thousands of years of history
You should really read some history, you know...
I'm certainly not suggesting that there hasn't been homosexuality, or that same-sex marriage has never been legal anywhere. Wikipedia acknowledges that same-sex unions have existed throughout history, although "it should be noted these relationships were generally substantially different from traditional marriage."
There's also a subset of people who are straight, but would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that tramples on the civil rights of a minority. Can't forget about them.
Nor can you forget the subset of people who would not feel comfortable moving to a state/country that permits same-sex marriage. It hasn't been legal in most societies throughout thousands of years of history, and a lot of people don't think abruptly reversing this policy is a good idea. Enough people, in fact, that they managed to get Prop8 passed in the first place.
Not all positions are available in all locations. The job you want may only be offered in Mountain View. For example, if you want to work in AdWords customer service, you can't do it in The Dalles, because that facility is just a datacenter.
Gay people living in other states may not want to move to California to work for Google, if they know they won't be able to marry someone of the same sex there. Google doesn't care whether they're gay as long as it doesn't affect their work; Google just wants to hire the best people, and if the best people happen to be gay and turn down the job because of Prop 8, then Google has to settle for someone else.
Obviously not all gay people would balk at moving to California because of Prop 8. I know a straight couple who have been living together in California for about 10 years now, and they don't seem to have any interest in getting married, even though they certainly could. Also, not all of the best people that Google could hire are gay (I'm sure most aren't), but as long as the numbers are above zero, it's a potential issue for the company.
Do the people on the street buying Apple really know who Jobs is?
Yes, absolutely. Not all of them, but the ones drooling over Apple's latest products, certainly. Steve Jobs is the man who announced those products to the public.
Is he the cool factor for Apple?
Not entirely. The cool factor is inherent in the products themselves, and Jobs has a lot to do with that; internally he's directly responsible for a lot of the design decisions that result in a "cool" product, and externally he's the charismatic figure that enthusiastically shows the world how cool it is. Plenty of other people can do the latter, but the former is a rare gift.
I think once we get outside the little geek and nerd demograph of Slashdot you'll find that a majority of Apple's cashflow has less to do with Jobs and more to do with that little logo.
This is true, but the logo is "cool" because Jobs pushed the company to make "cool" products which have become associated with the logo. That alone will bring them success in the next several years, but beyond that, they have to keep doing "cool" things, or the logo will lose its meaning. Personally I think Apple will still be able to do some very cool things without Jobs at the helm, and there's a chance they might even be able to do more cool things (things that Jobs didn't think would be cool enough, but the rest of us might like). Some people disagree. Time will tell.
as long as they keep concentrating on things they're good at, and not wandering aimlessly into dozens of disparate and mundane product areas
...like a portable MP3 player, an online record store, a UNIX-based operating system that runs on Intel processors, and a cell phone. Wandering into those areas would definitely be bad for the company.
Oh wait.
Sometimes wandering into new areas is a good thing - you just have to know which new areas to wander into, and which ones to avoid. Jobs has been good at that.
Really, without the internet, what good is a computer?
Do you have any idea how ridiculous that would have sounded 15 years ago? Amazing how far we've come. :-)
The same applies to different versions of Word on different computers. Your point?
Too much time is wasted on presentation in place of content. Students increasing font sizes and spacing to try to make a 2-page text meet the 10-page requirement, for example.
We'd all be better off if scholastic submissions were all in plain text, with carriage returns between paragraphs.
Except that school is supposed to prepare you for life in the real world, and in the real world, presentation is far more important than you're giving it credit for. Is this a good thing? Of course not, but you won't get far if you deny this reality.
(To avoid the problem of a 2-page paper being stretched into a 10-page paper, many instructors will specify the font and margin settings they want to see, e.g. 14pt Times New Roman double-spaced with Word's default 1.25" left/right and 1" top/bottom margins. For something without any complex formatting, OOo should have no problem exporting this.)
What version of IE are you using, 6 or 7? It's fairly unusual to find things that work correctly in IE7 but don't work in Firefox, because when IE7 came out and everything designed for IE6 broke, most companies added support for Firefox while doing the redesign for IE7.
Have you tried spoofing your user-agent string to trick the site into thinking you're running IE? The problem might not be a software incompatibility, but just a redirect on the front-end that denies you access if it doesn't like your user-agent string. If that's the case, it's a cheap and easy fix to relax the restriction on the redirect, and it's possible they might be persuaded to do so, if you can figure out how to get the message to the appropriate person. Of course, if spoofing the user-agent string doesn't work, then the only solution is to spend a lot of money to upgrade the software, and nothing you can say will make that happen any faster.
OOo may not get the formatting exactly right, but the documents it saves should at least look somewhat reasonable when opened in MS Office, unless you're doing some tricky formatting. Are these basic papers and reports, or something more complicated like brochures (using Word as if it were a DTP app)? Since you obviously have both programs available, what do you see if you create a document in OOo and save it in Word format, then open it in Word? If you can identify a specific problem, can you create a test case and submit it to OOo?
Obviously these suggestions are intended for a Slashdotter, not for a member of the general population. ;-)
You're right that paying someone to solve her problem would have been a very reasonable expense compared to the cost of the classes she was taking, but the classes you cite would not teach her anything about how to install Windows. In fact, both of the classes you mentioned probably require the student to have access to a working computer with Internet access, which she didn't have at home.
but she should have developed better problem solving and critical thinking skills than what she obviously has not seemed to developed, well before university.
You've hit the nail on the head here... but since she currently lacks problem solving and critical thinking skills, what can she do about it now?
Don't forget, a huge swath of the population does not have these basic skills, and I'd much rather have them go to this "joke" of a college than ask me to teach them!
And as someone else here pointed out, you don't need to install verizon's software to use the internet.
The addon software really has no benefit that I've been able to determine and I prefer less software on my machine.
But that's not what Verizon will tell you. They'll tell you that once you've got the hardware plugged in, the next step is to insert the CD and follow the on-screen instructions. Their marketing people don't know that this doesn't work for everyone, so they don't mention it anywhere. Their sales people are aware that Macs work differently, but that there is a way to make them work, they just don't know what that way is. Their first level tech support people know the minimum level of information they need to give a competent Mac user to get them online, although they probably can't help a novice Mac user. None of these people have even heard of Linux, and it wouldn't occur to them that the information they give to Mac users might be helpful (because she's definitely not using a Mac).
So, how is she supposed to know that Verizon's software is not required? Presumably they use PPPOE, so some configuration is required, but they'll never tell her they use PPPOE unless she asks, and she doesn't know that's what she needs to ask.
You've obviously never used Verizon DSL. Their system requires a login/password which is generated via their Windows-only software when you're setting things up. Once you have that you no longer need Windows to connect to the internet, but you do need to that once to get the system & modem set up.
Does anyone have more information about this? I don't live in Verizon territory, so I don't have first-hand experience. Presumably the username/password in question is for PPPOE, but I would expect them to simply tell you what it is, then have you type that into their Windows-only config program, not the other way around.
Actually the early days of Apple are rather revisionistic. While Apple cannot be denied to have influenced the IBM PC somewhat, I personally do not think Apple has invented the personal computer which became the IBM PC, Apple was sort of third behind Commodore and Radio Shack also in the timeline (I do not mention the Altair here which was just an important footnote in history albeit being the first)
It is rather clear that IBM took a serious lesson from the early Commodores and TRS models... more than it did from Apple!
Wikipedia does seem to back you up; they also credit the Atari 400 and 800. I wonder where I got the idea that it was mostly Apple that IBM was afraid of.
You indirectly suggested Steve Jobs is the only CEO who has personally made noticable changes to the world. It's hard to imagine how that could be anything other than worship.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that Jobs is the only one, merely that he is one of them.
I know it's nice for some Apple fans to take things a little to the extreme and suggest Jobs really is Jesus, but seriously? Do you really believe Jobs is so special he's changed the world more so then many other CEOs or people?
More than any other CEOs or people, no, of course not. More than many CEOs, yes, absolutely - that's the point I was trying to make.
I'd have more respect for the guy if him and Apple were a little more philathropic.
That would be nice. Hopefully he'll start shifting in that direction.
Job's achievements should be recognised for what they are- impressive achievements as a leader in the technology industry, but to blow it up to be more than that, to suggest that he stands out as entirely unique in the scale of his achievements or that he's even necessarily a nice man is ignorant of the facts.
Again, I didn't mean to imply that he's unique in this respect, only that he should indeed be recognized for his achievements. My point was merely that Jobs taking a 6-month leave of absence for health reasons is significant and notable, which is why we're discussing it here. The CEO of Blizzard getting a hangover is not.
Apple still has a "spare" Steve available... though he's currently only a part-time employee and probably has no interest in becoming CEO.
But maybe he (Woz) can deliver keynotes? The fanbase will love him.
Woz doesn't even work for Apple anymore. The keynote address needs to come from someone who's involved in day-to-day operations at the company, otherwise they could just hire some actor to do it and you'd wind up with essentially a live on-stage TV commercial.
Jobs isn't good at this because he's a good presenter, he's good at this because he's an integral part of the company's operations. He truly represents the company. Nobody on the outside can do that.
The word Purgatory doesn't exist in the Bible at all. Sheol (Hebrew) and Hades (Greek) do, though.
Interesting. It occurs to me that Linux having Qt and Gtk+ apps is vaguely similar to Mac OS X having Cocoa and Carbon apps, although because a single entity completely controls both Cocoa and Carbon, they've managed to make things like localization settings work across both. Still, there are minor details like the Services menu, standard text-input features like inline spellcheck and emacs-style key bindings, and other Cocoa features that aren't available in Carbon applications.
I'm going to make a /. post next time Michael Morhaime (head of Blizzard) is hung over. Honestly, what other CEOs get this cult level of worship?
What other CEOs have personally made noticeable changes to the world?
Jobs was indirectly responsible for the IBM PC, which is what "PC compatible" computers were imitations of. IBM created the PC in response to the threat they felt from Apple.
Jobs was responsible for bringing a lot of the ideas from Xerox PARC to a mainstream market, something Xerox couldn't have done. Most people don't realize that Apple pioneered the "noun, then verb" paradigm we're all familiar with in GUIs (select an icon, then choose something to do with it); Xerox's GUI required the user to select an action first, before selecting the item upon which to perform it. This makes sense if you're used to a command line, but it's less intuitive to the masses.
After leaving Apple, Jobs created NeXT, which was the source of much of what became Mac OS X. Microsoft has been incorporating a lot of Apple's ideas into Vista and Windows 7.
Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas, and was at the helm during the creation of the first feature film ever to be entirely computer animated. Jobs now sits on the board of directors of Disney and owns 7% of the company. RenderMan has become an industry standard.
This isn't worship; Jobs has been genuinely influential in a lot of areas. The fact that you (correctly) felt the need to add "(head of Blizzard)" after Morhaime's name is why he doesn't get this kind of attention. Sure, Blizzard has had a significant impact on computer gaming... but what else has he done?
When he first came back to Apple in 1998, he was known as the iCEO, because for awhile it was thought that he would only be interim CEO until they could find a replacement.
That's usually when WWDC happens. I think he's planning on doing that keynote.
-jcr
I don't think so. WWDC was June 9-13 last year, and Jobs' announcement specifically says "until the end of June." There will be tons of cool stuff to show off at WWDC this year, and it doesn't make sense to bet on Jobs' health improving enough to be able to do the keynote, especially if he won't be involved with operations beforehand.