Steve Jobs we will miss you

No wonder people are leaving these forums. I propose to put some comments in the Anderson Cooper "Ridiculous" column. How does a eulogy turn into a love hate battle of digital versus analog or a business man's ethics?

If people feel strongly about a topic not related to the original theme, start your own thread. It is real tiring to keep reading threads from people who constantly waste time attacking each other detracting from the enjoyment of majority of others who remain on the forum for specific themes and causes.

@Inna,

"We are not supposed to deliver a eulogy"

So you are the eulogy control manager for this forum and therefore everyone has to listen to you? Who put you in control what people say of others?

No wonder people read these forums in disgust and are leaving. Coherent and intelligent remarks are not the norm here anymore.

Cultural Dictionary
eulogy [( yooh -luh-jee)]

Words of praise, often for a dead person, but also a staple in introducing speakers, in nominating candidates, and on other such occasions


Save your sarcastic evolutionary thought processes for someone who cares.

Your right about having thick skin nowadays. It seems you need it everywhere, be it at work, sometimes at home (for those who are owned by their spouses), and of course places like this, where it is very easy to speak your mind freely and opposing opinions clash. The beauty of our way of life in the USA, is that each of us as individuals are afforded the opportunity and right to speak openly because of our ancestors who died and fought for our freedom to to so. Noto so lucky in some other countries.

Back to the topic at hand. I can only think of another person in the technology real who had a profound impact during the dawn of supercomputers, Seymour Cray;

"When asked what kind of CAD tools he used for the Cray-1, Cray said that he liked #3 pencils with quad paper pads. Cray recommended using the backs of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant. When he was told that Apple Computer had just bought a Cray to help design the next Apple Macintosh, Cray commented that he had just bought a Macintosh to design the next Cray.[7]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray

How interesting that these two companies, Apple and Cray, were intertwined years ago for the sake of building each others computers.

I remember reading years ago about research Cray was doing to duplicate the electrical impulses found in plants to create the next processor, fascinating.