"Brilliant, yes, but not an Einstein"

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Slootvreter said:
Link: http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/news/brilliant-yes-but-not-an-einstein-1.1153225

This is easily one of the stupidest articles I have read this month. An Wilson...please put down your pen forever :cry:

Um, you're taking things out of context. He clearly stated the following before you're out-of-context quote
Stephen Fry, who, when Jobs resigned his post at Apple through ill-health earlier this year, opined: “There are few more important people on this planet.”
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These people are still alive you stupid broad. I'm sure they will get a much bigger send-off than Steve Jobs.
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You're taking things out of context here. He clearly stated before your out-of-context quote:
Stephen Fry, who, when Jobs resigned his post at Apple through ill-health earlier this year, opined: “There are few more important people on this planet.”
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But I do agree he should stop writing. All his examples make reference to the internet. Jobs didn't create the internet.
 
Slootvreter said:
Hey who's got penis envy!!!! :mad: :o
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:D

When Mandela dies we should all write to news papers about how not great he were, i men he only did what was happening already,all over the world, its not as if apartheid would not have ended it Mandela was not around.

Stupid people should not have access to write articles.
 
Mila said:
:D

When Mandela dies we should all write to news papers about how not great he were, i men he only did what was happening already,all over the world, its not as if apartheid would not have ended it Mandela was not around.
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But what does that Englishman know? I wonder if he still would've mentioned Tutu if he read recent articles of him.
 
Slootvreter said:
Link: http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/news/brilliant-yes-but-not-an-einstein-1.1153225

This is easily one of the stupidest articles I have read this month. An Wilson...please put down your pen forever :cry:



These people are still alive you stupid broad. I'm sure they will get a much bigger send-off than Steve Jobs.
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Actually, probably one of the truest articles written. Jobs didn't really invent anything (no, he didn't invent the GUI, ask Xerox), he merely knew how to make things sell. Great business man, terrible inventor. As for innovator, maybe, but there have been innovations with much more reaching implications than his (where's Claude Shannon's world cry-a-thon?).

Anyways, flame away fanboys. Fact is, he's done little for humanity except for increasing consumerism and I guess if one doesn't know the real processes of research, invention and innovation, they wouldn't be able to comprehend this.
 
UnUnOctium said:
Actually, probably one of the truest articles written. Jobs didn't really invent anything (no, he didn't invent the GUI, ask Xerox), he merely knew how to make things sell. Great business man, terrible inventor. As for innovator, maybe, but there have been innovations with much more reaching implications than his (where's Claude Shannon's world cry-a-thon?).

Anyways, flame away fanboys. Fact is, he's done little for humanity except for increasing consumerism and I guess if one doesn't know the real processes of research, invention and innovation, they wouldn't be able to comprehend this.
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Precisely, well put.
 
UnUnOctium said:
Fact is, he's done little for humanity except for increasing consumerism
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True. What he did well was making craploads of money and that's about it. Doesn't make him a bad person of anything, sure a lot of ambitious people have a lot to learn from what the man did.
 
UnUnOctium said:
Actually, probably one of the truest articles written. Jobs didn't really invent anything (no, he didn't invent the GUI, ask Xerox), he merely knew how to make things sell. Great business man, terrible inventor. As for innovator, maybe, but there have been innovations with much more reaching implications than his (where's Claude Shannon's world cry-a-thon?).

Anyways, flame away fanboys. Fact is, he's done little for humanity except for increasing consumerism and I guess if one doesn't know the real processes of research, invention and innovation, they wouldn't be able to comprehend this.
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I agree with you on the consumerism thing but its still a stupid article. I've never so much as touched an Apple product so I'm the furthest from a fan boy as you can get.
The truth is it was his foresight and vision that put a GUI on every desktop and will eventually lead to a smartphone in every pocket and a tablet under every arm.
Were it not for Jobs there probably wouldn't be an Android phone. At least not one many people cared about.
 
I agree. It is the worst article ever written on Steve Jobs. She obviously has zero knowledge on anything IT related and it shows. She should rather be writing for tabloits.
 
UnUnOctium said:
Actually, probably one of the truest articles written. Jobs didn't really invent anything (no, he didn't invent the GUI, ask Xerox), he merely knew how to make things sell. Great business man, terrible inventor. As for innovator, maybe, but there have been innovations with much more reaching implications than his (where's Claude Shannon's world cry-a-thon?).

Anyways, flame away fanboys. Fact is, he's done little for humanity except for increasing consumerism and I guess if one doesn't know the real processes of research, invention and innovation, they wouldn't be able to comprehend this.
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Well said,
 
UnUnOctium said:
Actually, probably one of the truest articles written. Jobs didn't really invent anything (no, he didn't invent the GUI, ask Xerox), he merely knew how to make things sell. Great business man, terrible inventor. As for innovator, maybe, but there have been innovations with much more reaching implications than his (where's Claude Shannon's world cry-a-thon?).

Anyways, flame away fanboys. Fact is, he's done little for humanity except for increasing consumerism and I guess if one doesn't know the real processes of research, invention and innovation, they wouldn't be able to comprehend this.
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Well said,
 
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