A day dedicated to Steve Jobs? California thinks so.
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California would...
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;32867661]So, is there going to be a day for Dennis Ritchie, too?[/QUOTE]
Dennis Ritchie was more important but it's not like he ever made himself known to he public so I don't know why people are bitching about how people talk about Jobs but not him.
God dammit; I don't want to live in this state anymore.
I don't see the problem in this at all, it's not like it's a national holiday where businesses and schools would close. It's just a day of remembrance.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;32868511]I guarantee that people will get better grades if they had an extra monday off to catch up on their homework. They would also be less stressed.
Lets make congress give us another monday off[/QUOTE]
The community college I go to has been doing that for 3 years now.
No classes on Monday, 'erry Monday. Shit is cash.
Though I generally use that day to play games while laughing at my friends who go to high school still and who have class on Mondays.
California thinks a lot of things...
Also:
[QUOTE=J!NX;32868353]We should devote an entire day to Facepunch
National facepunch day[/QUOTE]
People celebrate by throwing clocks, boxes, and lightning bolts at each other.
Zeus approves of National Facepunch Day.
they should call it diarrhea day
[QUOTE=J!NX;32868507]i didn't even realize you were paid
also gyazo please don't use ever again[/QUOTE]
first time I've ever used it. yep, it's shit.
Day dedicated to Steve Jobs,
Android fans go rampant.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;32869816]Day dedicated to Steve Jobs,
Android fans go rampant.[/QUOTE]
More like PC enthusiasts and PC Gamers.
Now this just over glorifying a man who made computers cool and shiny.
So.. Do we get the day off :v:
[QUOTE=Chessnut;32869998]So.. Do we get the day off :v:[/QUOTE]
It's a stupid idea but yeah, if we get a day off I'm all for it
lol my state has the craziest ideas
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;32868796]The community college I go to has been doing that for 3 years now.
No classes on Monday, 'erry Monday. Shit is cash.
Though I generally use that day to play games while laughing at my friends who go to high school still and who have class on Mondays.[/QUOTE]
Last semester I set my schedule up so I didn't have class on fridays and I when I had class, I was hardly even at school. This semester I have it 5 days a week and my first 3 days are HELL then it chills out
The guy was a CEO of a tech company, he never made any charitable efforts and was a complete and total capitalist. He doesn't justify a holiday any more than the CEOs of Exxon, Halliburton, or Enron.
Why couldn't it be Friday.
Then we could get the day off.
[QUOTE=DamagePoint;32868571]Most of what Apple did was take ideas that were only half-realized and made them into something that regular people would want to use. That's why Xerox was willing to give away the Alto, they had no idea what they were throwing away.
The same thing goes for smartphones, before the iPhone smartphones mostly appealed to business people and executives, but after the iPhone came out smartphones became much more mainstream, and pretty much every modern smartphone borrows from the iPhones design somewhat.
So when I said he helped shape the modern digital world, I mean there were a lot of great ideas out there that were half-realized and probably would have never been used by regular people without Apple.[/QUOTE]
Yes, lets give Steve attention and ignore the man who gave Steve the ability to do his great shit.
The man who created C and Unix is dead.
If anything, a Tesla and Dennis Ritchie day would be appropriate, as they actually shaped the world in new, innovative ways. Jobs and Edison (mentioned earlier) only got along by stealing other peoples ideas, and improving them.
[QUOTE=Jobby;32867762]No Jobs Day[/QUOTE]Lets do it.
He's way more influential than you'd like to believe. For example, I recently learnt that he made the investment in Adobe, when it was just a start-up, that helped turn them into the company they are.
[QUOTE=Randdalf;32871953]He's way more influential than you'd like to believe. For example, I recently learnt that he made the investment in Adobe, when it was just a start-up, that helped turn them into the company they are.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but Microsoft gave apple a big bailout in the nineties.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;32867661]So, is there going to be a day for Dennis Ritchie, too?[/QUOTE]
A day?
Make it a week
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;32871964]Yeah but Microsoft gave apple a big bailout in the nineties.[/QUOTE]
Only after Steve Jobs persuaded them too, after rejoining the company. (Also I don't get why this is relevant to what I said)
[QUOTE=Randdalf;32872226]Only after Steve Jobs persuaded them too, after rejoining the company. (Also I don't get why this is relevant to what I said)[/QUOTE]
Investing means giving they were giving away money in exchange for a nice profit [B]in the future if all goes well[/B].
Microsoft giving them a bailout means they receive money.
[QUOTE=Van-man;32872253]Investing means giving they were giving away money in exchange for a nice profit [B]in the future if all goes well[/B].
Microsoft giving them a bailout means they receive money.[/QUOTE]
"Microsoft made a $150 million investment in non-voting Apple stock"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#1994.E2.80.931997:_Attempts_at_reinvention[/url]
[QUOTE=DamagePoint;32868571]Most of what Apple did was take ideas that were only half-realized and made them into something that regular people would want to use. That's why Xerox was willing to give away the Alto, they had no idea what they were throwing away.
The same thing goes for smartphones, before the iPhone smartphones mostly appealed to business people and executives, but after the iPhone came out smartphones became much more mainstream, and pretty much every modern smartphone borrows from the iPhones design somewhat.
So when I said he helped shape the modern digital world, I mean there were a lot of great ideas out there that were half-realized and probably would have never been used by regular people without Apple.[/QUOTE]
what lol
they weren't half-realized
Apple just create markets and sell their copied wares to them
just like cosmetics companies created metrosexuality
[editline]20th October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Van-man;32872253]Investing means giving they were giving away money in exchange for a nice profit [B]in the future if all goes well[/B].
Microsoft giving them a bailout means they receive money.[/QUOTE]
that's how bailouts work
bailouts aren't blank checks
the funders expect to get their money back eventually, if not more money
I think it's up to the individual person to celebrate a person who has passed away. I think it is way over the top to make a national dedicated day to Steve Jobs.
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