Can you get a 50mm machine gun, or does anyone in the public need one? NO. And I'm very happy that is the case. Your rights to own such a thing are already limited, and for good reason.
You are nuts if you think any type of assault weapon need to be sold to citizens.
You are nuts if you think by restricting access to certain types of weapons THAT SERVE NO PURPOSE BUT MASS MURDER is somehow going to lead to restricting all of your rights.
Good riddance to these weapons, we do not have any need for them in this society.
If you are getting headaches from using a computer, you have more serious issues than the color of a webpage. You should really get that checked out.
The internet, and computer applications as a whole do not give people headaches because of the color schemes used. If this were the case, computers would be labeled with warning stickers - "May cause headaches". This is simply not the case. You are straining so hard to try to make an erroneous point. Just because you get headaches from a specific color scheme on a screen does not mean the rest of us do. I've been staring at computer screens 12+ hours a day for the last 30 years and I've never once had a headache that I thought was induced by the default colors of the applications open on my screen.
Developers aren't "forcing their own color schemes", they use color schemes that are widely accepted as being productive and useful and that work for the majority of people using their products. Catering to an edge case only makes the job that much more difficult if they have to satisfy the functional requirements as well as make it work with any color choice the user wants. It's absurd.
What kind of rock do you live under? You really expect users to tweak the colors of a webpage?? I think you are giving too much credit to the vast majority of users that make up the internet. Not everyone is an uber-nerd. Nobody really cares about changing the color of every webpage, or even a single webpage. The vast majority of users simply do not care or even know that it is possible, and would never think twice about doing it.
>Any designer can create a webpage that looks good when a user tweaks the colors.
Here you are just being plain crazy. Have you ever worked with a designer?? Have you ever created a webpage? It sure doesn't sound like it.
>Another mediocre experience is when I have to use another persons computer who has Ctrl and Capslock in the place modern keyboards assume. I always change that to the way the FSM intended.
A mediocre experience would be what OP has written about his edge case - "but have to constantly tweak it so that certain elements and transparent images are visible."
The fixation on custom colors is what is creating the mediocre experience, not the web page that was designed to look a specific way. No designer can create a web page that will look good when a user tweaks the background color and other colors. It just isn't going to turn out well.
Sometimes being different is difficult. You are an edge case, and a very insignificant one at that.
If you want your own color schemes in everything then you're gonna have a bad time. Software and webpages aren't created for your edge case, these things are created for people who don't have a color scheme preference.
Learning to "go with the flow" will get you better mileage than trying to make everything bend to your edge case.
"I mean, if i copied 200 gig across 3 drives in a jbod raid, could i plug just one drive in to access the information on another machine? Suppose my laptop only has 2 usb ports and i do not have a hub plus i'm running a different OS, does this mean i can't look for information on the set?"
This falls outside of what OP is requesting. He just wants to backup 24TB of data onto multiple USB drives.
USB can support up to 127 devices connected to a single host controller, so with a few hubs OP could connect all the drives he'd need for the back up all at once. I've run my own drives via external USB for a time, probably around 8TB of various sized drives using cheap USB-to-SATA adapters ($3.00 on ebay), and cheap 7-port USB hubs ($5.00 on ebay). It's not the fastest solution but it never gave me a problem. It was an experiment to see how many drives I could hook up with cheap Chinese parts. I had it running for a year before I started switching things over to USB3.
"the asteroid would need to be split at almost the exact point that it could feasibly be detected at 8 billion miles, the students said"
The distance from the earth to the sun is only 92 MILLION miles. I think their estimate of 8 billion miles is probably a little bit off.. and maybe so is the rest of their math.
YOU are a ridiculous twat. Wow, just wow...... surely, Iran is really going to design nuclear weapons on an IPAD. Give me a break!!!! Seriously?!?! Is that what you think? You are a waste of electrons.
Chrome's auto-update killed our business that relies heavily on SVG. They introduced a bug to their SVG code that made our product unusable, and since we were relying on chrome-frame for IE, it didn't affect just our chrome users. Fortunately it was fixed within a month but that was a month of hell for us.
Sounds like Facebook spent $200,000 fixing their security holes that he found. Security through obscurity is not security. In light of his 'tax-registered security company' status, and past efforts with Yahoo, I think the judge in this case made the wrong decision.
Javascript is NOT a 'poor language' with 'horrible compatibility'. Your statements are the hallmark of a troll. You do not really know what you are talking about.
Arduino is not a way to program EEPROM / PROM / PIC / GAL chips. What Arduino is, is a way for noobs to get their feet with with microcontrollers. Arduino will not solve every problem, and you might in fact need an EEPROM / PROM / PIC / GAL and a way to program it.
I quit developing for facebook before the graph API came out, so I can't comment on it. It was atrocious before, and I still hear tales of facebook removing API functions or changing them and breaking a ton of 3rd party apps. It's stuff like that that will keep me away from facebook for as long as I can. Oh, and I hate their CIAesque creepy data mining of it's users.
Too bad Facebook doesn't realize that 3rd party developers are important, because their API is probably the worst thing I've ever seen in computing. If Google could deliver a consistent and unchanging API (unlike facebook), they would have a winner.. but Steve was right, google just doesn't see the light where APIs are concerned. I've used a few google APIs, for google earth and google maps, and their documentation is piss poor compared to MSDN. Not just that, but there are many things that are ridiculously convoluted to attempt in those APIs. They don't even include mercator-to-cartesian in their API, which is a HUGE miss in that arena. It's a pitiful attempt at an API really. Wake up Google! You aren't too big to fail!
Yeah, linux/bsd, big difference there. really big difference, huh? It's all a flavor of Unix, and Apple replaced their crap OS with another crap OS (imho). At least MS didn't just ditch everything and run to a flavor of Unix (though maybe we'd all be better off if they did?). Yes, they are going to make windows run on ARM - not that OSX runs on ARM, iOS is really nothing close to OSX. Maybe they share some of the same tools and stack, but they are fundamentally different in function, scope, and capability. Microsoft has compiled windows to run on different CPUs before, though it was more of a niche, and ARM has recently made a lot of progress in the market. It's a natural step for MS to want to support it since it is now used in server farms. I don't really see it as them trying to compete with Apple just because Apple uses ARM in their phones and the tablets. I think we'll see much more capable ARM+Windows systems than what iOS offers. It remains to be seen what Microsoft will bring to ARM though. Since Gates left MS is struggling a bit to find direction and it does seem that they are trying to follow Apple a bit, but now that Jobs is gone too, it's going to be like the blind leading the blind. Technology might stagnate a bit for a while, until MS and Apple both take a back seat to something new. Yes, OS/2, AmigaOS, BeOS, and the rest failed, but so did OS9, and Windows 3.1 if you want to nitpick.
You know, I forgot what we were even arguing about. We're both opinionated, so I'll just agree to disagree with some of your points, though I do respect your experience in the industry. I've been working with computers since the 70's, and I've seen the evolution just as you have though from a different perspective it seems.
>Do I wish that IOS allowed side loading? Actually yes I do but I can also see the value in to allowing. People can have some security in what they choose download and install without having to make a lot of effort.
And lose their ability to freely do what they want with a device they purchased. Not a great trade-off.
>For my sister that can not Text without the help of her daughter the iPhone is ideal.
So a child can do it, but your sister is too dumb? Maybe your sister should wake up and try to learn something.
>The thing is that if there wasn't the Mac would would be stuck still with DOS as a mainstream UI.
this is a strawman. You don't really think DOS would have been the dominating platform do you? There were plenty of other competitors other than Apple. OS/2 was pretty good for it's time, and everyone stole the GUI idea from Xerox anyway (apple included). If you think if apple didn't exist we wouldn't have windows or any other modern OS, then you obviously haven't been paying attention to the industry at all in the last 20 years. Mac OS was crap. They stole linux to replace their crap operating system. Apple also ditched their entire hardware platform and stole that from PCs too. Yeah, they really were driving the competition, weren't they.
> If their had not been NeXT we might not have had the WWW. "The first browser was written on NeXT".
Another strawman. If NeXT never existed, then the first web browser would undoubtedly have been brought into the world on SUN hardware, or whatever other hardware was laying around CERN at the time. NeXT had little to no influence in creating the world wide web. It could have been done on any other hardware. TBL just happened to have been gifted a NeXT so that is what he used.
> If it wasn't IOS we would probably still be stuck with PalmOS, Windows Mobile, and Sybian all on restive touch screens using stylus.
Uh, Apple did not invent the capacitive touch screen, and they weren't even the first to use it in a modern computer - Microsoft demo'd a multi-touch capacitive touch screen interface for a computer way before Apple started putting them into their handsets.
> MP3 players I think would have still take off but would they have had the deals with record labels. I know some people have mixed feelings about that.
Apple ruined the mp3 player and with their iTunes software they have created the walled garden that so many despise. They have pushed computing into the world of fascism. It's not a good thing.
>Even in FOSS world Gnome and KDE borrow from Apples legacy of GUI design. Yes they got it from Xerox but Xerox would have let it sit and rot kind of like what they did with Smalltalk.
Apple and Microsoft both approached the GUI paradigm at the same time. Don't credit apple for being the only reason we have the modern GUI interface, because that is just totally false. Windows would still exist with or without OS-whatever.
>No sir. Apple is not as open on it's mobile devices as I would like but then no one is as open as RMS would like. However Apple pushed the concept that a computer could be both powerful and easy to use.
Macs are no easier to use than Windows. Sorry, this is just fallacy. There are so many retarded things about OSX, but apple fans are totally oblivious. The fucking minimize/maximize window gadgets are fundamentally broken in their OS and they always have been. If i click the fucking green + on a window, i don't want it to just maximize vertically, I want the window to maximize horizontally as well, but no - this is so easy to see and it is so flawed, I really don't know what they are smoking over at apple. It's a common complaint from even mac fans, and the only way to fix it is to use a 3rd-party utility, and even that doesn't quite fix it. Ok, so you might say 'viva la difference', or that it's not wrong, it's just 'different'. Well it's wrong and it's broken thinking, and this type of flaw is pervasi
I have an iPad and I love it. What I do not love is the blind idol worship which is blanketing the internet (and other news outlets), by people who don't really know or want to know the truth about the man they are idolizing. If you knew anything about Jobs real personality (not the persona that apple has sold to you), then you wouldn't be half as upset about my comment than you seem to be.
Maybe you didn't read the entire message from RMS, did you fanboy?
"Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective."
This is constructive, and RMS's was not far off the mark at all. Apple's walled garden is the height of hypocrisy. Did you ever see the "1984" commercial made by Steve Jobs and Apple, back in the day? Well, Steve Jobs turned into that exact persona in that commercial, the one on the big screen controlling his minions. The evil one that must be destroyed. The fact that you probably can't see him this way, is just sad. To praise Jobs so much without also seeing him for what he was - a huge hypocrite - is just delusional. You seem blinded by your love for a product.
You are absolutely correct. You aren't trolling, you are just stating the truth about Jobs (and it is all very well known), and someone has labeled you a troll because they probably bought apple stock, or they confuse love with brand identity. Your post should be 'Insightful', but the fanboys have labelled you a troll. That sucks.
Lady Di was involved with many charitable organizations. Steve Jobs, none. They both 'got stuff done', but one of them was more interested in making money and profit than helping people in need. You can praise whoever you want for whatever reason, but the praise lobbed on Jobs last week was misguided.
There are many books written about all these people. If you care to read a few of them, you would know a bit more about their lives, and probably enough to make a claim that Alan Turing > Steve Jobs. But you are right, it's opinion, although I doubt Alan Turing earned a reputation for being an asshole like Steve Jobs did.
Apparently you haven't been reading the tens of thousands of comments pouring out adoration and worship for a businessman who made basically the same products in the same factory everyone else makes their hardware in (Foxconn), but he just put a pretty shell on it and dumbed it down. It's these thousands and thousands of sheep who are creating this obscene display of mourning over the loss of a businessman. Whether they know it or not, their beloved Steve turned into the thing he despised most - the 1984 commercial. Yes, let's praise a man who was probably the biggest hypocrite ever, and turned everyone who purchased his locked-down products into hypocrites, because "Think different" with a locked-down, dumbed-down device is so much cooler. It's kind of sickening to watch.
>While I'm not a fan of Apple's business practices, Steve made a lot of advances in technology.
Like what exactly? What advances in technology did Steve Jobs make? I'd really like to know. What did he actually invent instead of borrow or steal?
The Apple II was not 'the most important step into the world of comptuers in the home, school and business', not at all really, this is just stupid. Commodore far out-shined Apple in bringing computers to the masses. The early apple computers were way overpriced compared to their competition (and they had plenty of competition), much like their later models. The commodore 64 was the best selling computer model of all time. Apple were one of many, and not even the most prolific. Apple computers still hover around only 10% market share. Saying all this stuff to aggrandize apple because stevie is dead is just lame. I love my iPad, but really, all this over-the-top praise of a dead businessman is making me a bit nauseous.
Hippies and "wannabie" hippies are the minority of people you will meet at Burning Man. I find a lot of overachievers, highly educated people, and even millionaires and billionaires (google founders are attendees). If you think it's just full of hippies, then you have no clue what Burning Man is. By itself, Burning Man is nothing but a bunch of porta-potties, a large center camp tent and a collection of dirt roads. There's nothing to see there except for what people bring to it, and for a week it grows to be a huge city built on art, fun and interactivity. And people build and bring amazing things there. Some are shoddy, but over half of the art/art cars/theme camps/performances I see there are nothing less than awesome, and they all take way more focused work to produce than the average hippie could muster. I built a joystick controlled electric car that seats 8 comfortably and shoots lasers and flames, nothing hippie about it really.
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Can you get a 50mm machine gun, or does anyone in the public need one? NO. And I'm very happy that is the case. Your rights to own such a thing are already limited, and for good reason.
You are nuts if you think any type of assault weapon need to be sold to citizens.
You are nuts if you think by restricting access to certain types of weapons THAT SERVE NO PURPOSE BUT MASS MURDER is somehow going to lead to restricting all of your rights.
Good riddance to these weapons, we do not have any need for them in this society.
If you are getting headaches from using a computer, you have more serious issues than the color of a webpage. You should really get that checked out.
The internet, and computer applications as a whole do not give people headaches because of the color schemes used. If this were the case, computers would be labeled with warning stickers - "May cause headaches". This is simply not the case. You are straining so hard to try to make an erroneous point. Just because you get headaches from a specific color scheme on a screen does not mean the rest of us do. I've been staring at computer screens 12+ hours a day for the last 30 years and I've never once had a headache that I thought was induced by the default colors of the applications open on my screen.
Developers aren't "forcing their own color schemes", they use color schemes that are widely accepted as being productive and useful and that work for the majority of people using their products. Catering to an edge case only makes the job that much more difficult if they have to satisfy the functional requirements as well as make it work with any color choice the user wants. It's absurd.
>It should be expected in fact
What kind of rock do you live under? You really expect users to tweak the colors of a webpage?? I think you are giving too much credit to the vast majority of users that make up the internet. Not everyone is an uber-nerd. Nobody really cares about changing the color of every webpage, or even a single webpage. The vast majority of users simply do not care or even know that it is possible, and would never think twice about doing it.
>Any designer can create a webpage that looks good when a user tweaks the colors.
Here you are just being plain crazy. Have you ever worked with a designer?? Have you ever created a webpage? It sure doesn't sound like it.
>Another mediocre experience is when I have to use another persons computer who has Ctrl and Capslock in the place modern keyboards assume. I always change that to the way the FSM intended.
Now you're just babbling, or trolling.
A mediocre experience would be what OP has written about his edge case - "but have to constantly tweak it so that certain elements and transparent images are visible." The fixation on custom colors is what is creating the mediocre experience, not the web page that was designed to look a specific way. No designer can create a web page that will look good when a user tweaks the background color and other colors. It just isn't going to turn out well.
Sometimes being different is difficult. You are an edge case, and a very insignificant one at that.
If you want your own color schemes in everything then you're gonna have a bad time. Software and webpages aren't created for your edge case, these things are created for people who don't have a color scheme preference.
Learning to "go with the flow" will get you better mileage than trying to make everything bend to your edge case.
"I mean, if i copied 200 gig across 3 drives in a jbod raid, could i plug just one drive in to access the information on another machine? Suppose my laptop only has 2 usb ports and i do not have a hub plus i'm running a different OS, does this mean i can't look for information on the set?"
This falls outside of what OP is requesting. He just wants to backup 24TB of data onto multiple USB drives.
USB can support up to 127 devices connected to a single host controller, so with a few hubs OP could connect all the drives he'd need for the back up all at once. I've run my own drives via external USB for a time, probably around 8TB of various sized drives using cheap USB-to-SATA adapters ($3.00 on ebay), and cheap 7-port USB hubs ($5.00 on ebay). It's not the fastest solution but it never gave me a problem. It was an experiment to see how many drives I could hook up with cheap Chinese parts. I had it running for a year before I started switching things over to USB3.
"the asteroid would need to be split at almost the exact point that it could feasibly be detected at 8 billion miles, the students said"
The distance from the earth to the sun is only 92 MILLION miles. I think their estimate of 8 billion miles is probably a little bit off.. and maybe so is the rest of their math.
YOU are a ridiculous twat. Wow, just wow...... surely, Iran is really going to design nuclear weapons on an IPAD. Give me a break!!!! Seriously?!?! Is that what you think? You are a waste of electrons.
Chrome's auto-update killed our business that relies heavily on SVG. They introduced a bug to their SVG code that made our product unusable, and since we were relying on chrome-frame for IE, it didn't affect just our chrome users. Fortunately it was fixed within a month but that was a month of hell for us.
Sounds like Facebook spent $200,000 fixing their security holes that he found. Security through obscurity is not security. In light of his 'tax-registered security company' status, and past efforts with Yahoo, I think the judge in this case made the wrong decision.
Javascript is NOT a 'poor language' with 'horrible compatibility'. Your statements are the hallmark of a troll. You do not really know what you are talking about.
Arduino is not a way to program EEPROM / PROM / PIC / GAL chips. What Arduino is, is a way for noobs to get their feet with with microcontrollers. Arduino will not solve every problem, and you might in fact need an EEPROM / PROM / PIC / GAL and a way to program it.
I quit developing for facebook before the graph API came out, so I can't comment on it. It was atrocious before, and I still hear tales of facebook removing API functions or changing them and breaking a ton of 3rd party apps. It's stuff like that that will keep me away from facebook for as long as I can. Oh, and I hate their CIAesque creepy data mining of it's users.
Too bad Facebook doesn't realize that 3rd party developers are important, because their API is probably the worst thing I've ever seen in computing. If Google could deliver a consistent and unchanging API (unlike facebook), they would have a winner.. but Steve was right, google just doesn't see the light where APIs are concerned. I've used a few google APIs, for google earth and google maps, and their documentation is piss poor compared to MSDN. Not just that, but there are many things that are ridiculously convoluted to attempt in those APIs. They don't even include mercator-to-cartesian in their API, which is a HUGE miss in that arena. It's a pitiful attempt at an API really. Wake up Google! You aren't too big to fail!
Yeah, linux/bsd, big difference there. really big difference, huh? It's all a flavor of Unix, and Apple replaced their crap OS with another crap OS (imho). At least MS didn't just ditch everything and run to a flavor of Unix (though maybe we'd all be better off if they did?). Yes, they are going to make windows run on ARM - not that OSX runs on ARM, iOS is really nothing close to OSX. Maybe they share some of the same tools and stack, but they are fundamentally different in function, scope, and capability. Microsoft has compiled windows to run on different CPUs before, though it was more of a niche, and ARM has recently made a lot of progress in the market. It's a natural step for MS to want to support it since it is now used in server farms. I don't really see it as them trying to compete with Apple just because Apple uses ARM in their phones and the tablets. I think we'll see much more capable ARM+Windows systems than what iOS offers. It remains to be seen what Microsoft will bring to ARM though. Since Gates left MS is struggling a bit to find direction and it does seem that they are trying to follow Apple a bit, but now that Jobs is gone too, it's going to be like the blind leading the blind. Technology might stagnate a bit for a while, until MS and Apple both take a back seat to something new. Yes, OS/2, AmigaOS, BeOS, and the rest failed, but so did OS9, and Windows 3.1 if you want to nitpick.
You know, I forgot what we were even arguing about. We're both opinionated, so I'll just agree to disagree with some of your points, though I do respect your experience in the industry. I've been working with computers since the 70's, and I've seen the evolution just as you have though from a different perspective it seems.
>Do I wish that IOS allowed side loading? Actually yes I do but I can also see the value in to allowing. People can have some security in what they choose download and install without having to make a lot of effort.
And lose their ability to freely do what they want with a device they purchased. Not a great trade-off.
>For my sister that can not Text without the help of her daughter the iPhone is ideal.
So a child can do it, but your sister is too dumb? Maybe your sister should wake up and try to learn something.
>The thing is that if there wasn't the Mac would would be stuck still with DOS as a mainstream UI.
this is a strawman. You don't really think DOS would have been the dominating platform do you? There were plenty of other competitors other than Apple. OS/2 was pretty good for it's time, and everyone stole the GUI idea from Xerox anyway (apple included). If you think if apple didn't exist we wouldn't have windows or any other modern OS, then you obviously haven't been paying attention to the industry at all in the last 20 years. Mac OS was crap. They stole linux to replace their crap operating system. Apple also ditched their entire hardware platform and stole that from PCs too. Yeah, they really were driving the competition, weren't they.
> If their had not been NeXT we might not have had the WWW. "The first browser was written on NeXT".
Another strawman. If NeXT never existed, then the first web browser would undoubtedly have been brought into the world on SUN hardware, or whatever other hardware was laying around CERN at the time. NeXT had little to no influence in creating the world wide web. It could have been done on any other hardware. TBL just happened to have been gifted a NeXT so that is what he used.
> If it wasn't IOS we would probably still be stuck with PalmOS, Windows Mobile, and Sybian all on restive touch screens using stylus.
Uh, Apple did not invent the capacitive touch screen, and they weren't even the first to use it in a modern computer - Microsoft demo'd a multi-touch capacitive touch screen interface for a computer way before Apple started putting them into their handsets.
> MP3 players I think would have still take off but would they have had the deals with record labels. I know some people have mixed feelings about that.
Apple ruined the mp3 player and with their iTunes software they have created the walled garden that so many despise. They have pushed computing into the world of fascism. It's not a good thing.
>Even in FOSS world Gnome and KDE borrow from Apples legacy of GUI design. Yes they got it from Xerox but Xerox would have let it sit and rot kind of like what they did with Smalltalk.
Apple and Microsoft both approached the GUI paradigm at the same time. Don't credit apple for being the only reason we have the modern GUI interface, because that is just totally false. Windows would still exist with or without OS-whatever.
>No sir. Apple is not as open on it's mobile devices as I would like but then no one is as open as RMS would like. However Apple pushed the concept that a computer could be both powerful and easy to use.
Macs are no easier to use than Windows. Sorry, this is just fallacy. There are so many retarded things about OSX, but apple fans are totally oblivious. The fucking minimize/maximize window gadgets are fundamentally broken in their OS and they always have been. If i click the fucking green + on a window, i don't want it to just maximize vertically, I want the window to maximize horizontally as well, but no - this is so easy to see and it is so flawed, I really don't know what they are smoking over at apple. It's a common complaint from even mac fans, and the only way to fix it is to use a 3rd-party utility, and even that doesn't quite fix it. Ok, so you might say 'viva la difference', or that it's not wrong, it's just 'different'. Well it's wrong and it's broken thinking, and this type of flaw is pervasi
I have an iPad and I love it. What I do not love is the blind idol worship which is blanketing the internet (and other news outlets), by people who don't really know or want to know the truth about the man they are idolizing. If you knew anything about Jobs real personality (not the persona that apple has sold to you), then you wouldn't be half as upset about my comment than you seem to be.
Maybe you didn't read the entire message from RMS, did you fanboy? "Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective." This is constructive, and RMS's was not far off the mark at all. Apple's walled garden is the height of hypocrisy. Did you ever see the "1984" commercial made by Steve Jobs and Apple, back in the day? Well, Steve Jobs turned into that exact persona in that commercial, the one on the big screen controlling his minions. The evil one that must be destroyed. The fact that you probably can't see him this way, is just sad. To praise Jobs so much without also seeing him for what he was - a huge hypocrite - is just delusional. You seem blinded by your love for a product.
You are absolutely correct. You aren't trolling, you are just stating the truth about Jobs (and it is all very well known), and someone has labeled you a troll because they probably bought apple stock, or they confuse love with brand identity. Your post should be 'Insightful', but the fanboys have labelled you a troll. That sucks.
Lady Di was involved with many charitable organizations. Steve Jobs, none. They both 'got stuff done', but one of them was more interested in making money and profit than helping people in need. You can praise whoever you want for whatever reason, but the praise lobbed on Jobs last week was misguided.
There are many books written about all these people. If you care to read a few of them, you would know a bit more about their lives, and probably enough to make a claim that Alan Turing > Steve Jobs. But you are right, it's opinion, although I doubt Alan Turing earned a reputation for being an asshole like Steve Jobs did.
Apparently you haven't been reading the tens of thousands of comments pouring out adoration and worship for a businessman who made basically the same products in the same factory everyone else makes their hardware in (Foxconn), but he just put a pretty shell on it and dumbed it down. It's these thousands and thousands of sheep who are creating this obscene display of mourning over the loss of a businessman. Whether they know it or not, their beloved Steve turned into the thing he despised most - the 1984 commercial. Yes, let's praise a man who was probably the biggest hypocrite ever, and turned everyone who purchased his locked-down products into hypocrites, because "Think different" with a locked-down, dumbed-down device is so much cooler. It's kind of sickening to watch.
>While I'm not a fan of Apple's business practices, Steve made a lot of advances in technology. Like what exactly? What advances in technology did Steve Jobs make? I'd really like to know. What did he actually invent instead of borrow or steal?
The Apple II was not 'the most important step into the world of comptuers in the home, school and business', not at all really, this is just stupid. Commodore far out-shined Apple in bringing computers to the masses. The early apple computers were way overpriced compared to their competition (and they had plenty of competition), much like their later models. The commodore 64 was the best selling computer model of all time. Apple were one of many, and not even the most prolific. Apple computers still hover around only 10% market share. Saying all this stuff to aggrandize apple because stevie is dead is just lame. I love my iPad, but really, all this over-the-top praise of a dead businessman is making me a bit nauseous.
Hippies and "wannabie" hippies are the minority of people you will meet at Burning Man. I find a lot of overachievers, highly educated people, and even millionaires and billionaires (google founders are attendees). If you think it's just full of hippies, then you have no clue what Burning Man is. By itself, Burning Man is nothing but a bunch of porta-potties, a large center camp tent and a collection of dirt roads. There's nothing to see there except for what people bring to it, and for a week it grows to be a huge city built on art, fun and interactivity. And people build and bring amazing things there. Some are shoddy, but over half of the art/art cars/theme camps/performances I see there are nothing less than awesome, and they all take way more focused work to produce than the average hippie could muster. I built a joystick controlled electric car that seats 8 comfortably and shoots lasers and flames, nothing hippie about it really.