>> ^chilaxe:

>> ^NetRunner:
A real TED talk would be titled "The Impact of Technology on Society in the 21st Century: From the Android phone to Androids, and Beyond" and would be given by an unassuming but compelling professor of some sort, rather than a businessman intent on making himself a physical manifestation of pure hubris.
But, good idea for a viral marketing campaign.

They're positioning him like a Steve Jobs or Craig Venter: the guys who can make the future work years before anyone else can figure it out.


Ah, a soulless sociopath.

(Jobs, not Venter. They really don't belong in the same sentence or thought process.)

>> ^NetRunner:

A real TED talk would be titled "The Impact of Technology on Society in the 21st Century: From the Android phone to Androids, and Beyond" and would be given by an unassuming but compelling professor of some sort, rather than a businessman intent on making himself a physical manifestation of pure hubris.
But, good idea for a viral marketing campaign.


They're positioning him like a Steve Jobs or Craig Venter: the guys who can make the future work years before anyone else can figure it out.

Finally someone to match the charisma and presentation skills of Steve Jobs...

I thought the title was "Ricky Gervais Electrocutes Steve Jobs"...
WHAT A FUCKING DISAPPOINTMENT!

FAKE! Everybody knows Steve Jobs is not going to Heaven...he's going somewhere else...he's going down below...




...the Earth about 6 ft.



Just kidding, Steve jobs is going to burn...



...so that his ashes may be place in an urn.

Gates always struck me as the more ruthless businessman, but not a genuine asshole.

MS exists in China, and has popular products here, but obviously has had to adopt a widely different approach to piracy than Apple. While they're not so open, MS is not so restrictive either.

Also, their products don't tend to bring out the worst in people(check out the photos): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/iphone-4s-beijing-apple-store_n_1203661.html>> ^NetRunner:

Two things I never would've imagined 15 years ago:

1. Bill Gates retires and becomes a widely philanthropic figure helping the needy, leaving behind an open, responsive Microsoft.
   
2. Steve Jobs dies relatively young, leaving behind an Apple that has become a monopolistic juggernaut fueled by a Faustian fusion of genuine innovation and Chinese slave labor.
   

>> ^NetRunner:

Two things I never would've imagined 15 years ago:

1. Bill Gates retires and becomes a widely philanthropic figure helping the needy, leaving behind an open, responsive Microsoft.
   
2. Steve Jobs dies relatively young, leaving behind an Apple that has become a monopolistic juggernaut fueled by a Faustian fusion of genuine innovation and Chinese slave labor.
   

>> ^NetRunner:

Two things I never would've imagined 15 years ago:

1. Bill Gates retires and becomes a widely philanthropic figure helping the needy, leaving behind an open, responsive Microsoft.
   
2. Steve Jobs dies relatively young, leaving behind an Apple that has become a monopolistic juggernaut fueled by a Faustian fusion of genuine innovation and Chinese slave labor.
   

Two things I never would've imagined 15 years ago:

1. Bill Gates retires and becomes a widely philanthropic figure helping the needy, leaving behind an open, responsive Microsoft.
   
   
2. Steve Jobs dies relatively young, leaving behind an Apple that has become a monopolistic juggernaut fueled by a Faustian fusion of genuine innovation and Chinese slave labor.
   

There are many reasons not to follow your hart for example if you have the self reflection and ability to identify when your actions may do harm to others.

of course if your a largely self centred person then sure the knowledge of impending death would motivate you and override anything else.

Also I wonder if people would put the same Wight on Steve jobs words if he hadn't lucked out with apple ?

granted allot of what is said in this video is not bad advice and jobs was hard working and made his success but there are hundreds of thousands of people who are just as imagantive and just as hard working as jobs ever was but would be scoffed at because they have not happened to be as tangibly successfully.

No. Bill Philips is one of the nicest people I have ever met. Tom Cech is a nice guy. I can name dozens of super famous scientists that I have met that were very nice. Warren Buffet is very nice, according to an acquaintance.

Assholes are not great because they are assholes. Some assholes are great because they happen to be intensely curious and they have a clear vision of how they can change the world.

Based on my experience, it is not a requisite for making a difference in the world.

It is funny. My advisor and I had this discussion after he read the Steve Jobs biography. My wife thinks Steve Jobs was great because he was an asshole. I disagree.

1. Kim Jong Il, Steve Jobs and Andy Rooney will come back from the dead and form a Rush cover band. They will split up a year later to do mediocre solo projects.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Too soon?>> ^Deano:
Good try but not quite as impressive as the wailings over Steve Jobs.



Comedy = tragedy + time

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Too soon?>> ^Deano:
Good try but not quite as impressive as the wailings over Steve Jobs.



Well put it like this, I wouldn't try putting that comment in the YouTube comments

Too soon?>> ^Deano:

Good try but not quite as impressive as the wailings over Steve Jobs.