Steve Jobs dies at 56

[justbroke]

Wow! TNT is showing the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (1999) in place of Bones tonight! Impressive ratings grab, I mean... impressive tribute.

[donnao]

it's truly a very sad day for our times and for technology, live each day like it was your last, no regrets!

[donnao]

I was very sad to hear of his passing, such a great mind. A great human being who will be truly missed, but a great legacy. Live each day like it's your last!

[GoingDown]

I feel really bad about his passing, what a genious. Just goes to show, all the money in the world can't buy health. God bless him and his family.

The sad thing is that he could have easily afforded to have a full body MRI scan done every year, and maybe they would have caught this cancer early enough to completely remove it before it had a chance to metastasize to other parts of his body.

Since cancer kills about 1/3 of the population, if they really wanted to help all of us in terms of health, they would provide one free MRI full body scan per year to try to catch cancer at its earliest stages, when it can still be cured.

Notice I say MRI and not CT SCAN. CT SCANS have a lot of radiation which can cause cancer, but MRI's don't use radiation.

[shark66]

The sad thing is that he could have easily afforded to have a full body MRI scan done every year, and maybe they would have caught this cancer early enough to completely remove it before it had a chance to metastasize to other parts of his body.

Since cancer kills about 1/3 of the population, if they really wanted to help all of us in terms of health, they would provide one free MRI full body scan per year to try to catch cancer at its earliest stages, when it can still be cured.

Notice I say MRI and not CT SCAN. CT SCANS have a lot of radiation which can cause cancer, but MRI's don't use radiation.

Do bear in mind that pancreatic cancer is deadly in more than 99% of all cases...

What worked for Jobs were two things:

a) That the form that he had was somewhat less aggressive and therefore allowed him to

b) Place himself on waiting list for liver transplant in two different states...and get it in time to buy himself a couple more years.

All of that said, I strongly encourage everyone and anyone to undergo *all* preventive scans for *any* cancer imaginable...

Good luck to us all.

[banca rotta]

Steve Jobs predicted Obama would be a one-term president

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/steve-jobs-predicted-obama-one-term-president-144644675.html

Steve Jobs, known for his aggressive and sometimes prickly personality, didn't hold back when he met President Obama in 2010: The Apple CEO warned Obama he wasn't going to win re-election.

"You're headed for a one-term presidency," Jobs said during a meeting with the president that took place a year prior to Jobs' death related to pancreatic cancer, according to his upcoming biography as reported by the Huffington Post.

Walter Isaacson, who wrote the forthcoming Jobs bio, reportedly reveals that Jobs argued that Obama was jeopardizing his re-election prospects because of what Jobs took to be a pervasive anti-business climate in his administration. Jobs cited excessive federal regulations and operating costs for businesses as harmful legacies of the Obama White House.

[IamOld]

Jobs was full of it - his company grew during the 80's 90's with FAR more regs than now. This country gave him the brains - the people - to grow his company. Regulations aren't holding anything back - the lack of regulation caused the banksters to run wild. He just begun to "lose" it when he became part of the 1%. Let's face it - he as many successful creative people can be - also became very arrogant. That's not a criticism, just an observation.

[shark66]

Jobs was full of it - his company grew during the 80's 90's with FAR more regs than now.

*ALL* computer manufacturers with any remotely realistic concept grew during the aforementioned era. They had an ignorant, yet hungry market. It doesn't get better than that...

This country gave him the brains - the people - to grow his company.

Those same people wouldn't have been able to do much of anything without Jobs' leadership...and they could've come from *any* country...

Let's face it - he as many successful creative people can be - also became very arrogant.

I know a few folks that used to hang out at Wozniak's house with the two of them long before anyone made any serious money...make no mistake, Steve Jobs was not changed by becoming a zillionaire. He was always like that - "arrogant" - as you would put it...

I would say that he understood his own worth, as well as the value of time..

Good luck to us all.

[IamOld]

Right Shark66 - my really only criticism of Jobs is that he was a master of marketing more than anything else...he created a BRAND rather than necessarily better tech - but hey, Apple employes folks, and is successful.

My other criticism is that he simply was reading talking-points...nations with greater regulation have just as successful businesses...and frankly sounded like an egotistical curmudgeon.

[shark66]

my really only criticism of Jobs is that he was a master of marketing more than anything else...he created a BRAND rather than necessarily better tech - but hey, Apple employes folks, and is successful.

Agreed 10001% on all points.


My other criticism is that he simply was reading talking-points...nations with greater regulation have just as successful businesses

I don't know about that...yes, there are successful business elsewhere but nothing that remotely resembles Apple which is a true-blue-American-concept if I've ever seen one, in all senses imaginable...simply put, you'll never have anything like Apple in Germany or France - even Japan - but there are *many* things that grow over there that don't like the American environment...

and frankly sounded like an egotistical curmudgeon...

May he rest in peace, but I don't believe that anyone would've accused Steve Jobs of having anything less than a Gargantuan ego...

Good luck to us all.

[IamOld]

Right Shart - ultimately Apple is very American and is something that this nation used to be good at - innovation, etc. I just wish Apple would make their stuff here - if they made the Iphone here I'd even get one (sometime...)