Steve Jobs has Passed Away!? (UPDATED)

[Madara XIII]

He's dead. I feel awful because I keep making jokes about it already. Suppose its an antisad coping mechanism.

Don't feel bad. I kept cracking 9/11 jokes this past september mostly because my friends and I were doing a sort of THE ARISTOCRATS get up that day. It went amazingly well and no one was offended at least not that I know of. Humor helps ease the pain over time.

 

[erztez]

Did you not read what I said?

You're entitled to your own opinion. However, how fucking smart is it to blurt it out on here where pretty much all people are sympathetic? All you're doing is getting raised eyebrows and people muttering something foul about you.

You must be new here, troll. If you want to be disrespectful about someones death, go to another forum board. Otherwise, yeah, your opinion isn't going to be respected.

And it's amazing how you're acting like you're much higher and superior compared to everyone else. What, do you consider yourself the next generation of different thinking in morality? Get out.

Call Steve Jobs what you want, but the thing is, much more people are going to remember him - and respect him - then yourself. For the things that he has done for this world. What you have you done? Nothing, except spew negative thoughts. You're not helping anything at all but yourself.

Selfish.

Bye.

Yes, actually. I do tend to read everything even tangentially relevant.

So...not sharing the majority opinion is stupid by definition, eh? I'll let you think about that for a second because I still have enough faith in humanity to believe that you can figure out what's wrong with that idea.

Actually, I've been here for a while, judging by the join date, longer than you.

No, I don't believe I'm the "next generation of different thinking in morality"... You see, us amoralists have been with humanity for a while now.

So, my worth as a human being is judged by how many people remember me? Yikes. Time to start carpet bombing someone or something, that'll get me some recognition, right?

What have I done? Made my day slightly more entertaining. And that is all that matters. To me. Which is the only important criterion.

Hypocrite.

Bye.

 

[awsome117]

This is a Gaming forum, is it not. Steve Jobs and his computers that don't play games aren't welcome here. Although it is always sad when someone other people love die.

EDIT: Someone at Apple HQ should make the next model iPods start playing "Still Alive" randomly.

Well actually, this is the off-topic discussion, where a whole lot of non-game related topics are talked about here.

Just sayin'.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

As much as I dislike Apple because of their control freak policy, to deny their influence on technology development would be retarded. And Steve Jobs made all that possible. He was a great man. Maybe not a good man, but he did great things for technology advancement. Rest in peace.

 

[Angus565]

R.I.P Steve, you'll live on forever in i-pods and i-phones in pockets around the world.

 

[Madara XIII]

"So, today at Apple, we'd like to show you our latest creation. We think it's going to revolutionize, not just how we interact with each other, but the very way we all live our lives. We call it: iDead."

...I'm a terrible, terrible person.

Have a sense of decency will you?

Oh calm yourself. It's a nice little quip, and if I've learned anything it's that NOTHING is taboo. I know it's wrong and very untimely to make a joke about Cancer, but I'm sure he feels some remorse considering he felt guilty for doing so.

 

[cookyy2k]

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Ok we get it you have some need to troll.

Whatever you say you can't deny the impact that Stave Jobs has had on technology. Even if, as you claim, everything he did ever was stolen or done by someone else, you can't however deny his funding and marketings because without those, the technology would have been scrapped as not a viable product for a company trying to make money.

Analogy time, EA they are of a similar ilk, fund but take the IP from devs and market ruthlessly. You know what though without EA marketing like that and funding the project the devs couldn't make the game.

Jobs clearly had an impact on the tech industry and for the positive.

 

[Awexsome]

WTH? Really? That's...incredible.

But he's so young. It's like...damn...like MJ dying in 2009, except for computers.
Never saw that coming.

So, an egomaniacal child molester and an egomaniacal tyrant...

Good company, that.

People... We're talking about someone who's death we're alive for personally who will be mentioned in history textbooks thousand of years from now. It's not about how tragic or not tragic just one certain death is it's about the death of a legacy.

One that has impacted history greater than almost any other in the digital age.

Ehm...no
Alan Turing, Konrad Zuse, John von Neumann.
Those were the REAL pioneers.
In a 100 years, no one will remember who Jobs was, and they'll only remember Gates as the nutbag who gave 90% of his cash to charity.

Haven't ever heard of one of those people. Have heard of Gates and Jobs. That may not compute for you but it does for the rest of the world.

 

[Madara XIII]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Not REALLY, is it?

Jobs aside, surely we can agree that some deaths are either necessary or funny as hell?

Now you're speaking my language! I can agree that not all deaths are tragic.
Some would say that Hitler's death was Heilarious

 

[cookyy2k]

WTH? Really? That's...incredible.

But he's so young. It's like...damn...like MJ dying in 2009, except for computers.
Never saw that coming.

So, an egomaniacal child molester and an egomaniacal tyrant...

Good company, that.

People... We're talking about someone who's death we're alive for personally who will be mentioned in history textbooks thousand of years from now. It's not about how tragic or not tragic just one certain death is it's about the death of a legacy.

One that has impacted history greater than almost any other in the digital age.

Ehm...no
Alan Turing, Konrad Zuse, John von Neumann.
Those were the REAL pioneers.
In a 100 years, no one will remember who Jobs was, and they'll only remember Gates as the nutbag who gave 90% of his cash to charity.

Haven't ever heard of one of those people. Have heard of Gates and Jobs. That may not compute for you but it does for the rest of the world.

Agreed, Jobs will be remembered rightly or wrongly as a pioneer.

Think of many everyday inventions and who invented them, a lot of the time you'll be wrong.

 

[Blue Hero]

Looks like Death...
*puts on sunglasses*
...did his job.

 

[Madara XIII]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Not REALLY, is it?

Jobs aside, surely we can agree that some deaths are either necessary or funny as hell?

No,not really.

Yeah, Kinda really. After all humor is subjective amirite? So by that logic somewhere someone will find death funny.
In short.
DON'T APPLY YOUR LOGIC TO EVERYONE ELSES

 

[Greatjusticeman]

Did you not read what I said?

You're entitled to your own opinion. However, how fucking smart is it to blurt it out on here where pretty much all people are sympathetic? All you're doing is getting raised eyebrows and people muttering something foul about you.

You must be new here, troll. If you want to be disrespectful about someones death, go to another forum board. Otherwise, yeah, your opinion isn't going to be respected.

And it's amazing how you're acting like you're much higher and superior compared to everyone else. What, do you consider yourself the next generation of different thinking in morality? Get out.

Call Steve Jobs what you want, but the thing is, much more people are going to remember him - and respect him - then yourself. For the things that he has done for this world. What you have you done? Nothing, except spew negative thoughts. You're not helping anything at all but yourself.

Selfish.

Bye.

Yes, actually. I do tend to read everything even tangentially relevant.

So...not sharing the majority opinion is stupid by definition, eh? I'll let you think about that for a second because I still have enough faith in humanity to believe that you can figure out what's wrong with that idea.

Actually, I've been here for a while, judging by the join date, longer than you.

No, I don't believe I'm the "next generation of different thinking in morality"... You see, us amoralists have been with humanity for a while now.

So, my worth as a human being is judged by how many people remember me? Yikes. Time to start carpet bombing someone or something, that'll get me some recognition, right?

What have I done? Made my day slightly more entertaining. And that is all that matters. To me. Which is the only important criterion.

Hypocrite.

Bye.

No, actually, I never told you to share the majority opinion.

You're just putting out your opinion - one that is unpopular and not welcome - to all these people that don't want to hear it. That's why I recommended you go somewhere else. Just because people don't like yours doesn't mean you can go off and insult what they think - which is what you are doing. In fact, you're actually 'bombing' this site with this barrage of trolling. I don't understand where you are going by jumping at everyone at why they are wishing this man the best.

Don't ever accuse me as someone who oppresses the opinion of the minority. Because I even hold beliefs that belong in the minority. Yet you don't see me shoving it in everyone's faces.

Funny how you think having to gain notable recognition is by having to go bombing people. Are you being serious?

If you make your day more entertaining by sprouting 'Steve Jobs is a dick, and didn't do anything for the world' on a thread that appreciates his death, I don't know what to say, other then that something good happens to you some day. Because nothing positive is going on with you now.

You remind me of those people who shove their religion down others throat.

 

[m3nt1a]

I hate it how when someone dies, people assume that I care. The only difference (to me) is that now there may be a leaked autopsy video if one is performed, and I've had a hard time finding such videos so far.

I had a feeling this would happen a few days ago after I learned he had stepped down as CEO or something.

 

[Madara XIII]

yeah... Im actually glad.

Not, and i repeat NOT because of the loss of human life. I was never an apple supporter, but I never would have wnated jobs to die.

Im just happy cause yesterday a kid in my Accting Class bought apple stock saying they were ready to make a come back and it was going to be solid. And I mean he bought a very good portion of apple stock. And now Apple Stock will plummet, and I'll just get to laugh and laugh at his "stable" stock.

That's actually pretty harsh. Laughing at someone because they just lost a significant amount of money is pretty petty.

...

Eh, he's a dick so its about time someone called him on something like this.

Which I have no problem doing. Harsh as it may be, you have a right to express your feelings on the matter.

 

[erztez]

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Ok we get it you have some need to troll.

Whatever you say you can't deny the impact that Stave Jobs has had on technology. Even if, as you claim, everything he did ever was stolen or done by someone else, you can't however deny his funding and marketings because without those, the technology would have been scrapped as not a viable product for a company trying to make money.

Analogy time, EA they are of a similar ilk, fund but take the IP from devs and market ruthlessly. You know what though without EA marketing like that and funding the project the devs couldn't make the game.

Jobs clearly had an impact on the tech industry and for the positive.

True, I can't deny the impact Steve Jobs had on technology. I also cannot deny the impact of World War II on technology. As I stated before, if Jobs wasn't in the picture, the tech we have today would probably still exist. It might be slightly less user-friendly, but it'd be BETTER.

EA, like Apple, made several large contributions to technological progress...And then they pissed all that goodwill away by being absolute and utter dicks.

Oh screw it, I'm gonna Godwin this.

You know Hitler actually started out by restarting the German economy, providing jobs, building the best highway system on the planet, and restoring the German people as a nation?
None of that makes what he did next any nicer.

 

[Eoghain Macleod]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Not REALLY, is it?

Jobs aside, surely we can agree that some deaths are either necessary or funny as hell?

No,not really.

Yeah, Kinda really. After all humor is subjective amirite? So by that logic somewhere someone will find death funny.
In short.
DON'T APPLY YOUR LOGIC TO EVERYONE ELSES

Plus Darwin awards....

 

[erztez]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Not REALLY, is it?

Jobs aside, surely we can agree that some deaths are either necessary or funny as hell?

Now you're speaking my language! I can agree that not all deaths are tragic.
Some would say that Hitler's death was Heilarious

I'd say it was siegnificantly more funny than that!

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

WTH? Really? That's...incredible.

But he's so young. It's like...damn...like MJ dying in 2009, except for computers.
Never saw that coming.

So, an egomaniacal child molester and an egomaniacal tyrant...

Good company, that.

People... We're talking about someone who's death we're alive for personally who will be mentioned in history textbooks thousand of years from now. It's not about how tragic or not tragic just one certain death is it's about the death of a legacy.

One that has impacted history greater than almost any other in the digital age.

Ehm...no
Alan Turing, Konrad Zuse, John von Neumann.
Those were the REAL pioneers.
In a 100 years, no one will remember who Jobs was, and they'll only remember Gates as the nutbag who gave 90% of his cash to charity.

Haven't ever heard of one of those people. Have heard of Gates and Jobs. That may not compute for you but it does for the rest of the world.

Have you ever heard of a Turing machine? If not, let me introduce you to one; you're using it to post on these forums. The man invented the entire concept of computers as we know them. If the patent office had been in the state it is now back then, nobody would be able to make a computer without paying off his estate. Just because the average person, for whom, let's face it, technology isn't a major part of their lives to begin with, doesn't know as much about him as they do Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, doesn't mean that he didn't invent the very concept of the machines they dedicated their lives to. It's like saying the founding fathers were less important than the current congress, just because people are more familiar with the modern politicians than those of the past[footnote]Yes, everyone knows Washington, Franklin, Hancock and the like, but how many have heard of Henry Lee? There were a lot more people in significant roles in the founding of the US than most people realize. I can guarantee you that most people could name a higher percentage of current politicians than they could of the founding fathers, assuming you include the entire continental congress in that list.[/footnote].

 

[erztez]

I hate it how when someone dies, people assume that I care. The only difference (to me) is that now there may be a leaked autopsy video if one is performed, and I've had a hard time finding such videos so far.

I had a feeling this would happen a few days ago after I learned he had stepped down as CEO or something.

Hmm...think that when they cut him open they'll find he was running iOS 4? That'd actually explain a lot...