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Accomplishments don’t matter unless people know about them.
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There are no words to describe how ridiculous that comment is.
True. After all, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on no basis at all. Too, the Academy Awards were created by Jack Warner so he could give his own movies awards. The world is full of this sort of nonsense, Professor Farnsworth.
And that’s why i don’t wanna live on this planet anymore!!!
no obama got the award by shooting more missals then all other Nobel peace prize combined
You’re pretty dumb.
dumb. You’re pretty
Pretty dumb. You’re
are you pretty dump?
….. please no combo breaker, please no combo breaker…..
C-c-c-c-c-combo thegame!
I lost!
yoda?
“loltehobamasdidntdonothincuzimpublicanandh8obamaslulllzzz”
Dude, stop taking drugs….. or take more
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Clearly republicans are all idiots.
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Typical illiterate Liberal voter.
I’m neutral to politics and don’t comment on it much other than to mention the fact that both the far right and the far left both have some impressively stupid people.
The differences are in where their interests lie.
Though, you’ve got to admit, regardless of your interests, you have to admit, George W. Bush Jr. was not the brightest of our presidents.
Intelligence is not always the factor. Jimmy Carter was arguably the most intelligent of all American presidents (who worked on the nuclear part of nuclear submarines) though he was one of the most failed and hated presidents of all time.
And yet the only one who REALLY deserved the peace nobel prize. DUMBASS
In the context of what the post above is, it makes perfect sense.
Complaining that a guy whose accomplishments aren’t widely known wasn’t celebrated upon his death? HELLO-O-O MCFLY!
No, you’re still not making sense. Sorry.
Why, exactly? This image is precisely about not being appreciated for achievements. If people don’t know about them they can’t appreciate them, can they?
Logic, my friend.
“If people don’t know about them they can’t appreciate them…” “Creator of the most widely used programming language of all time…” “…most widely used…” I’d say people appreciated it. A lot. And something tells me you’ve never heard of Unix… Which is what Apple is always bragging about. You know… OS X being Unix compliant and all. Now what were you saying about logic?
Except Unix is one of the most widely used operating systems in the world, and we literally would not live in such a technologically advanced society without it
if OS X is Unix compatible Unix isn’t an operating system…
Are you retarded?
I was referring to Moosh’s comment, not the image itself, in case you missed that.
Just because an achievement isn’t appreciated, that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t matter.
So you intentionally took my statement out of its context?
Win comment is a win.
I really don’t see how it could have been taken out of context. It looks quite clear to me.
But if I did take it out of context, I can assure you it was not intentional.
The statement was not made in a void, and you read it as if it were. My statement should be read in relation to the post it was commenting on.
I agree it matters big time considering that the mac os is unix based…
no ones saying that it doesn’t matter. they’re saying that because people don’t know about him, they can’t appreciate him, no matter how important the accomplishments are.
Ok, I must be misunderstanding what Moosh meant when s/he said “Accomplishments don’t matter unless people know about them.” Could you explain it to me?
Accomplishments cannot matter to anyone who doesn’t know about them.
In other words, Pics or it didn’t matter.
All of you don’t matter.
That’s the smartest thing I ever read here on memebase.
Nothing really matters – nothing really matters to me
to me….. -looks into the distance-
Pics!
http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.png
An accomplishment doesn’t have to be globally known to be an accomplishment. That man lived his life knowing that his programming went on to be what it is and I bet he died happy because of it. I don’t care about one thing any of you people may of accomplished but to yourselves I bet they meant a lot. Steve Jobs made it his goal for people to know about him and his actions, which is a separate accomplishment all together.
Maybe they mean a lot, but apparently they don’t matter.
No, but it does need to be globally known to be globally mourned when the achiever of those accomplishments dies…
But I agree, it isn’t Dennis Ritchie’s fault that people are ignorant of his achievements. It’s those people’s fault for taking his **** for granted and not thanking him for it… (or even knowing it was him they should thank)
C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER
this isn’t true. Consider for example scientific advancements that are only obscurely known, but a researcher finds them and uses the concept to develop a better known, useful study or drug.
I can.
“Trolol. Troll, trololol trol. Lolotrol troll; trolo trolo troll. Celery.”
Happily. In the context of discussing people being remembered and mourned for their achievements, he explained those achievements don’t matter if no one knows about them. You can’t celebrate what you don’t know.
I feel like half the people here are speaking some version of English where they just make up the meanings of the words they use as they go along.
Something can matter without being known or celebrated. People have only known about the existence of oxygen for a few hundred years, but it has sure as heck mattered for a lot longer than that.
You’re not alone my friend…
English is not cut and dry. The fact you can squeeze different meanings out of the same statement doesn’t make the statement incorrect, particularly when the context of that statement is right in front of you. This is why context is important for interpretation, and the ability to recognize and understand said context is an important communication skill.
It’s pretty obvious I wasn’t saying that achievements only matter if people know about them. There was more meaning there than the words themselves carried, provided by the context of the Steve Jobs vs. Unix Guy post.
It’s called a joke. Insert humor.
I think there’s also something intended about the presumed value of human life, as though being famous means one’s death is perceived as “sadder.”
Just as I was referring to your reply to Moosh’s comment. Glad we’ve cleared that up.
I can only assume you’ve completely misunderstood his(?) point. We’re in a very specific context of people being celebrated for their achievements; as Moosh said, achievements don’t matter here if no one knows about them.
Moosh is a prophet. Praise him.
The real problem here is that they don’t know it.
This is a very stupid submission. The reason: This site is not about recognizing people for achievements, posting about some stupid agenda, or making a statement about injustice. This is an internet joke site. It’s about humor.
People, please save your stupid, stupid, stupid little “lessons” for some other site that I’ll never visit because it sucks.
i took it as a joke at the general stupidity of life as i thought that the farnsworth meme was meant for
You could have just said, “I don’t like this because I don’t agree with it.”
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without the second guy, the first guy achieves nothing
but i guess cause you are ignorant to how much he really has helped the computing field he doesn’t matter right 
To be perfectly fair, the first guy would have accomplished SOMETHING without the second guy, but he wouldn’t have accomplished the same things and may not have been so celebrated.
I wish I could punch you. You’re dumber thank our fellow troll, monkyyy.
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Exactly. How can I care if I don’t even know who he is?
Steve still deserves respect.
Agreed. People only hate what’s mainstream like hipsters. “Steve Jobs is greedy!”
If Steve Jobs donated money: “OMFG, Steve Jobs is showing off his wealth, he’s so self centered.”
Oh let’s see here, horrible boss who yelled at his workers for a single line of code wrong, jipped one of his friends out of thousands of dollars, donated to charity, once. Got supplies from a company where workers routinely offed themselves to save a buck, yeah that type of human REALLY deserves respect. Nope.
Bobby Kotick?
BURN!
Zing~
And many others fit the description posted as well.
Bill Gates seems to think he deserves respect, and he donates to charity on a regular basis.
no matter what kind of person they are, great accomplishments deserve respect from anyone who benefited from them.
So nobody here knows that donating to charity gives you tax cuts? And donating to charity is more profitable than paying tax?
OMG…
when he dies his family will only get very few percents of his wealth.
Everything else will be donated.
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The noob above you tried to combo break. This has been resolved.
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Are you retarded? Giving money to charity is never more profitable than paying taxes. The tax credit means that if you give 1 million dollars you don’t have to pay tax on that million dollars. At a 40% tax rate for example you would not have to pay 400k in tax on a million dollar donation, but you still gave 1 million dollars, so you are 600k in the hole.
@Well
Yeah that’s not how it works at all, there’s no way to make more money giving to charity than not giving to charity. If there were everybody would do it, and Bill Gates having given away 50+ billion dollars would be in the 100s of billions of dollars.
@Well
There is no scenario in which donating to charity get’s you more money than paying taxes, deductions only help to reduce the burden of a charitable donation. I.e. giving a million dollars by a 400k deduction becomes more like giving 600k.
@Well. No it doesn’t work that way, there is never any case where giving to charity is more profitable than keeping the money and paying tax.
I don’t find great accomplishments in personal wealth to be worthy of praise…
Their charitable donations? Yeah, praise that.
They donated to charity once and made the iPhone? Big whoop…
They don’t want my respect, they want my money, which is perfectly fine, because I don’t respect neither Jobs, nor Gates.
There aren’t any perfect human beings, Vlad. Everybody has flaws and made mistakes. Everybody deserves respect.
So, by your logic, Jobbeybob – Hitler deserves respect?
Being an anti-Semite, murderer, and all around horrible person is wrong. But he still led more people than you ever will, even to do unimaginably awful things. So yeah, he deserves respect. Not admiration, or emulation; but he should be taken seriously.
He WAS good at what he did, after all.
This. Respect does not imply support, advocation, or even a vaguely similar thought process. Steve Jobs played a huge role in inventing the personal computer, just like Adolf Hitler had such a massive impact on world politics that he’s got a f***ing internet meme named after him, over 50 years after his death.
Say what you want about the morals of these people, they single-handedly shaped the world we’re living in today.
Ever heard of this one?
“Respect your enemy.”
This only further proves your point.
As for Hitler being deserving for something – what he did is certainly admirable, however real credit goes to certain accomplishments of German scientists from back in the day. Much of what we use today.
Yeah, something to that effect came from The Art of War, right?
If you want to have the best possible chance of winning a war, don’t remark about how “Panzer” sounds remarkably close to “panzy.”
No, it doesn’t if you pronounce it properly.
Sun Tzu deserves respect, hitler does not. The difference is worlds apart.
A huge role in “inventing”? Steve Jobs was a great business man but he was not an inventor despite what people say, Steve Wozniak was the Inventor and Steve Jobs convinced Wozniak to take the Apple 1 to market. If anything he helped supply competition but there was already rival competition but it was IBM that really takes the huge role of inventing the PC. I’d say the same thing about Bill Gates but he did legitimately make a BASIC interpreter.
Despite Hitler’s political ideals, if he had not been so… anti-semantic and caused a massive war then he’d probably have been remembered as a great man. He rebuilt Germany but his hatred of the Jews and his belief in the Aryans over shadow his achievements greatly. He has achieved what Obama and Bush could not, he got a country out of recession/depression.
People forget he was “Man of the Year” in TIME magazine (1938 I think?). If some of the earlier assassination plots against him had succeeded, he may very well have been a hero to the Germans. Kind of makes you think about that one quote from Batman. We either die as heroes or live long enough to become the enemy (or something like that).
So… you would be kissing his ass if he were still alive today?
Hitler WAS a great orator, no matter how horrible he was of a person. I’ll give him respect for that, if not much else.
If he was good at it, we’d all be living in a Nazi world LOL.
Why shouldn’t he? His nation succeeded in taking over numerous nations, only to be taken down unfairly by a lot of other nations.
Godwin’d b*tches!
Respect is earned not given away.
superb commenting supercereal
win^^
your sir, are an idiot
damn it, with all the frames I can’t tell who the person you’re calling an idiot is D:
Some friendly advice for you: If you aim to portray someone as an awful villain, you should have a pretty good example as the first in your list. If you think someone doesn’t deserve respect and everyone who mourns their passing is wrong, you’re going to have to do a whole lot better than he shouted at people. I’m sure his employees are all big kids now who can handle their boss being a bit of a grumpyguts on one occasion.
Donating to charity probably shouldn’t be in the list at all, come to think of it.
HURRR I LIEK MAC BECUASE IT MAINSTREEM. ONLY HIPSTERRS H8 MAC.
Hate to break it to you but only hipsters use macs and you are the hipster that you hate so much, but you’re so underground you wouldn’t even know it.
…at this point, “hipster” is becoming another synonym for “horrible human being”. You’re an idiot, if someone is a hipster we all agree it’s silly, but don’t try making it into the next “communist” where we control others by calling them by the name. China is a communist country and we have no problem with them, chances are something in your room is the fruit of communist labor, and something else in your room was designed by an eccentric hipster- nobody freaking cares so stop trying to start a computer war on that basis.
Lol China isn’t a communist country anymore.. Just an authoritarian Capitalist country.
Obvious troll etc.
No. He’s right. They are only Communist in name. The people in power will keep the governmental structure the way it is until they can figure out a way to make it so that their children will still be in power when they try to change it over to a more democratic system. They realize that capitalism is inherently a more profitable system, i.e. Hong Kong.
What’s the difference?
You deserve a high five, to the face, with a chair.
A chair… made in China?
Um actually, plenty of people use macs. Generally if you use a computer on a daily basis for your job (like designers and programmers) you use a mac.
Oh let’s see here, slave driver who yelled at his workers for a single line of code wrong, scammed one of his friends out of thousands of dollars, donated to charity, once. Got supplies from a company where workers routinely killed themselves to make a quick buck, yeah that type of human REALLY deserves respect. Nope.
steve jobs treated his business partner unfairly.
he did not donate to charity
Maybe he was so philanthropic that he didn’t tell anyone he was giving to charity.
There’s nothing wrong with underpaid labour in the third world.
not sure if trolling.
im pretty sure hes troling
Steve got what he deserved for what he did. He got money.
Respect comes, or ought to come, when someone make massive, significant contributions to our way of life WITHOUT otherwise suitable compensation.
You require some commas.
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I don’t even know who the guy on the right is. XD
Dennis Ritchie
The guy without whom you wouldn’t be able to write crap on this very website.
Exactly.
Me neither. Besides, Steve Jobs was great. Man’s prob’ly just jealous cause he don’t got an iPhone.
“Lol i’ve got an iPhone those who don’t have it are just haters”
Grow up kid.
I did that, but nothing happened
“I did that, but nothing happened”
Then obviously you did it so very, very wrong.
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ijustcamefromlunch uses “grow up”.
It is not very effective.
Those are your words, not Jake’s. You’re the one who took that leap.
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This has to be one of the most ignorant comments I’ve ever read. You have no idea who he is so he’s probably jealous of something.
can’t tell if trolling, or if can’t tel troll is trolling.
trolololololololololled
Learn about the people who are really responsible for the technology we have today. Stop bragging about the iPhone your parents bought you and quit being an Apple fanboy.
let’s put it this way, without the guy on the right, you’d probably have never heard of the guy on the left…. since the guy on the right is one of the couple of guys who made this thing called Unix… Apple Mac OS is actually a Unix Distribution…
there is more to it then this, Dennis Ritchie actually made the C programming language as well, without that we’d probably be about 5 years behind where we are in terms of software… without apple we’d probably still be where we are… the guy on the left is less famous but massively more influential. Next you’ll say you never heard of Norman Borlaug, the man cited for saving over a Billion lives.
correction: the guy on the right is less famous…
Props for mentioning Borlaug! woot for being a Bio major!
Norman Borlaug = better than both these people combined.
I’ve actually made this same observation with Michael Jackson and Norman Borlaug. They died within a few months of each other. Jackson: Massive international mourning period and media extravaganza. Borlaug: *crickets*.
Well said.
Project, much?
Shame on you, ignorant imbecile
Clearly he just wasn’t in the spotlight as much as Jobs. He didn’t really market himself.
Brofist. Stole the words right out of my mouth!
he was humble, he didn’t flash his goods like jobs did… ALL THE TIME
Describes Jobs as a greedy misanthropist is a tad………. biased.
And if no one knows who you are when you’re alive, why the hell would people recognise you once you’re dead?
STOOPID OP.
so don’t live, kill yourself.. not a single newspaper will care too..
Also that’s not even fair, you’re talking about steve job’s personal life and comparing it to technological improvements of the guy on the right… comparing apples to oranges
I don’t know who the guy on the right is. As far as I know he was a child molester.
He’s Dennis Ritchie
Never heard of him. It is sorta hard to remember the death of a man you never knew existed in the first place. Secondly, what is Unix?
How old are you? 7? Everybody in the computing field knows what Unix is.
I see what you did there
lol I just noticed what I did there
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What part about the Steve Jobs text was about his personal life? “Greedy misanthropist” pretty much sums up how he ran his company.
Apples and Oranges are quite similar- both are fruits, grow on trees, and contain citrus.
Citrus is a genus of plant that does not include apples.
Nope. You’re retarded.
Troll or stupid
Apples are designed to be considerably more functional and are offered at a comparable price point than oranges. Maybe you’re OK with an ugly orange fruit covered in a bumpy ugly looking peel, but the shiny thin skin of an apple is considerably better and you know it. Oranges need anti-frost software to be even remotely secure, apples are clearly the better choice and require much less maintainance.
The taste, mo*o!
Do you have any idea what you’re talking about?
Cool story bro.
i smell bs
What if Dennis Ritchie kicked puppies and sent viruses to old people?
Who invented the English language? Spanish? German? Chinese?
Does history remember them?
Nope. Who does history remember then?
Those who use language and master it.
So until it has actual application and meaning to an individual, no one cares.
And as far as sweatshops go… would you rather they not have jobs? Because the alternative is usually living in the streets or prostitution on places that create clothing and electronics for us white folk who use technology and then feel bad about it.
Do you really think one person invented a language?
Too late in my reply. No, but since Unix is a computer language I used it as an example.
That just proves you’re a total idiot.
Do you really think, one person invented Unix or C?
Well, technically speaking, even though C was based on B and BCPL, Ritchie was the single creator of C
And Ritchie also had a hand in the creation of B as well.
WHAT?
Then he went on to the rest of the alphabet, but it didn’t catch on.
stop it you idiot
No, no-one really uses D. R is midly popular, though…
With statisticians.
There’s also programming languages titled F#, J, K, L, M, P#, Q, S, T, X++ and Z.
R is popular in the pirate community.
Wikipedia page for B programming language:
… mostly the work of Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie …
well if wikipedia says it’s true then that MUST be fact…
Ooh, another “Nevar trust Wikipedia!!!! It can’t be trusted!!!!!!” person.
Wikipedia is quite reliable, especially for technical articles like that one. Vandalism and incorrect statements tend to get corrected pretty quickly.
m00t created /b/, not Ritchie.
And without C we wouldn’t have Unix. So….
Yeah yeah, before anyone replies that spoken languages were a slow and gradual development, I’m referring to the creation and innovation aspect. Learning how to make steel is an innovation. The creator of the steel ibeam is the one who put it to practical use.
So are you trying to say that Rush Limbaugh is more important than the people who invented radio?
Now you’re just being silly.
No, that’s pretty much what you said. Steve Jobs didn’t invent anything, he just used and sold other peoples inventions. Rush does the same thing, he uses what other people creates to make money and he’s very good at it.
He actually had several inventions and his name on quite a number of patents thereof. But that’s not what he largely gets credit for.
He does deserve credit for making good things marketable, like the Mouse/Xerox thing, because it *did* refine computing.
He’s a businessman, not an inventor, when it comes down to it, and he played the game well. Whether or not you like him, he *did* change things, but with money.
I hate him as a person, he could’ve done a lot more (like worked on open-source a lot more than he did), but if you’re using a computer with a mouse, at least know who made that possible, even if he didn’t invent the thing~
The mouse was not invented by Xerox, a company called Telefunken invented the first mouse.
Steve Jobs did not make that possible and let’s remember the whole single mouse button thing came from who again? A stupid idea that a company forced in policy, while they do not do this anymore, it was entirely ill-conceived and unpopular. As it goes another company would easily have gotten in there on the mouse, as Xerox got in after Telefunken.
Steve jobs has influenced the industry but the vast majority of it is leeching off of the inventions of others. Let’s remember all the patents he broke all the companies he has destroyed, forced out of the market or steam rolled over who legitimately invented before apple stole their ideas, like how the ipod has infringed and broken many creative patents… creative built up the industry and deserve credit for popularizing the MP3 player but it’s apple that everybody thinks did it… shameful really.
Again, well said. A few folks really know there stuff in here.
*raises glass*
Salute
pretty sure we would be using a mouse today even without Apple.
Of course not. He’s obviously saying NPR is more important than the creation of radio.
I think he’s saying NPR is more important than the creator of radio. At least more well known and important. Which is true. I don’t spend an hour each day reading the wiki page for the creator of the radio, but I do spend an hour at least listening to the radio in my car.
Life isn’t science. One falsehood under the principle of an idea is not always a falsifier of the entire idea.
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Nobody invented English, Spanish, German or Chinese. They evolved. Dennis Ritchie also not only invented C but also mastered it and applied it to create Unix.
The guy on the right, Dennis Ritchie, was one of the primary developers of the UNIX operating system. Literally every modern server/desktop/handheld/embedded operating system is a direct code descendant or based on UNIX. In addition, the C programming language is used for most major parts of most every operating system and application in existence today. Dennis Ritchie is far more important historically than Jobs will ever be.
You idiot.
You think Apple doesn’t have enough money to pay people more than 2$ a day?
apple doesnt pay them
Yay, plausible deniability!
“So until it has actual application and meaning to an individual, no one cares.”
Every OS is coded using the C language…
Including the one you used to post your rant.
The fun thing about C is that not only is the OS written in C, but so is the C compiler itself. Every modern C compiler out there is itself written in C.
Providing work opportunities is great, sure, but if you do it the way Steve Jobs i.e. Apple did (forcing workers to sign a non-suicide pact, building nets around the compound so people can’t jump to their deaths etc.), I wouldn’t be too proud of it. As a leading industrial power Apple could have set an example, but chose not to. That’s sad. But hey, if you’re happy with your shiny iPhone…
Except that Apple was so successful, so influential, and so overpriced that they could have changed the sweatshop situation.
Things do change, the fact that people bring it up as a criticism shows that there is a demand for ethical production.
If they’d pay them as much as they do to American workers, the production being in a third world country wouldn’t make sense. They’d lose money on transportation costs etc. So the options really are sweatshops or nothing. Might not be very ethical but that’s the way it is.
A) living costs are lower. A wage that isn’t pure poverty would cost less than in the western world. Plus it’s not just about money, the conditions are also dreadful.
B) and? So spend more, charge more if you have to. You know the hipsters would lap it up.
Not all that long ago fairtrade was something relegated to hippie shops, now you can go into your local soulless grocery shop and buy it right off the shelf, from some of the biggest brands in the world.
(And yes, I know there is some controversy about the various fairtrade schemes, but the trend still stands)
you should watch more john stossel videos
John Stossel is a rodent of indeterminate parentage.
You need help.
The options are maybe you don’t get as filthy rich as you’d like – but tough titty.
Are my options you become my slave or I have no life?
Maybe business shouldn’t be about profits over people.
Not maybe – it shouldn’t.
Changing sweatshop conditions would also mean societal upheaval. You support Apple toppling governments and economies? Giving the sweatshop more money means the owners will simply keep more. Threatening to use a competitor won’t help much either.
Oh, I forgot. Apple is the only company in the US that buts from sweatshops.
Have you ever heard of this thing called a contract, if the companies in China do not fulfill their contractual obligation you sue them and switch to another supplier. In this contract you can enforce a half-decent minimum wage, at least enough so that people can have more then half a bowl of rice a day between them and the rest of their family.
As to say it’s social upheaval, what you’re doing is basically saying you support the exploitation of the people of another country because if it’s not exploitative it could change the social status of the country… no it’s you self-justifying buying products that are the result of exploitation.
key phrase COULD HAVE
they didn’t have to
they had no obligation to
and to top it all off, THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE
it would be a waste of time, effort, and money.
Because people are cheaper than machines. At least, in China they are.
You do realize that a large amount of everything you buy or use is made in China?
It’s fun and edgy to take a stab at Apple or Steve, and rant about how they use sweatshop labor to make their pretty devices. You know as you press the Snooze button on your Chinese-made clock-radio, boil a cup of tea in your Chinese-made kettle, and iron your shirt with your Chinese-made iron.
If you were really serious about this, you would be up in arms about all those companies as well. Someone wasn’t would just be an arbitrary poser nob.
OMG, no I didn’t realise that!
Thank you so much internet stranger.
My point was that they all do this, but some companies have the chance to change it. Most don’t have that chance, but if one influential company started the rest would have to to catch up.
There was that whole part about pioneering UNIX, you know, the underlying bits of Mac OS? I’m pretty sure inventing the most influential (and imitated) operating system of all time is a far greater achievement than making shiny copies of pre-existing technologies (for 2.5x the price).
this^
whats the top two non unix based os’s? windows and ummmm react os?
And even then, Windows uses quite a few UNIX concepts under the hood.
Windows and Linux, Remember Linux is GNU. Remember Linux is Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix (etc …)
But I agree, the invention of Unix is far more influential then the entirety of Apple.
Linux is not GNU. Just ask GNU.
That said, GNU isn’t Unix because Unix is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Which isn’t GNU.
2.5 times zero is still zero?
Wait.. You’re actually trying to justify sweatshops that build security fences around their factories to stop their employees from committing suicide because they treat them so badly?!? Those people generally don’t have a choice to work there, they are slaves. I don’t see how you can justify that while you’re sitting in your nice comfy chair with your laptop.
Education for you all.
The guy on the right is Dennis Richie, he co-created the C programming language, which is (As it says) one of the most widely used, you will have multiple programs written in C or its variants; C++ C#, PHP…
Now I want to live on this planet, there still is hope!
Who was Steve Jobs? A guy who invented a phone and also other gadgets and PC’s, but nothing new and nothing better.
All fat americans owned an iPhone because they think it’s cool. Yep, now they tweet about Steve Jobs’s death while eating a hamburger and drinking cola.
Hope died years ago, moron.
i see what you did there.
You dont think he made things better? He made things better by making things more fun, efficient, incorporating different things into one device. *facepalm
He didn’t do anything, he payed people who did. Apple never made anything more “fun” or “efficient” and they were no where close to being the first to make smart phones or tablets.
You dont own an iphone do you? Because if you did, you would understand how much funner pooping is with an iphone
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No, but they still made the best sellers with the most powerful marketing campaign in class.
so throwing money at something is respectable now? the only thing i learned from the apple corporation is if you have a lot of money you can sell overpriced equipment to idiots.
Apple marketing > all apparently. Much like Rambus’s legal department > all.
Better marketing does not make a better product. Ask the dissolusioned activision gamer crowd for more input on that.
I hated job’s egotistical attitude. I like Android far better than iOS anyway, and have never owned an apple product.
*and I am an American. I concur on the Cola part (not the burger part).
DR. HAX?!??!?!??!!?!?
I think apples taste better than oranges, and i havent even tasted oranges!
You only try a phone after you’ve bought it?
To get the real experience you have to own it. I thought iPhone was crap until i got one myself. (why did i get an iPhone if i thought it was crap? It was free)
You can’t hate oranges until you’ve tried them all.
Both of which are Unix-based, ironically enough.
I own an iPhone because it’s light years ahead of my old phone. I’m American, not fat, and I don’t like Twitter.
WHOOOOOOEEEEE! I JUST BROKE THAT ‘DER STEREO-TYPE. YEE-HAWW! *gallops away*
oh hey me too
guess we aren’t real Americans. :Ia
Yer trying to hard at being hipster there.
LOL ME I was drinking a coke and reading that on a Mac but I’m not fat so HA.
And Steve Jobs was very innovative (Ipod, Iphone, Itunes anyone?) And I think an Ipod is a little bit more innovative than a Walkman. Also, I read you comment in a stereotypical Swedish accent.
There were MP3 players before the iPod, phones before the iPhone. iTunes is pretty cool, I use it because it’s free, but probably not the first of it’s kind either.
I didn’t know Steve Jobs invented the phone … I guess I learn something new every day.
Geeve said he invented a phone, not the phone. l2read n00b.
Make sure to try and impress everyone (and fail) by making an unnecessary, loosely-associated slight at Americans because you so worldly and cultured maaaan.
The guy on the right is Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming language and UNIX. He died a week after Steve Jobs.
Just in case anyone wanted to know.
this^
Oh, crap! I should be as sad as I was when Jobs died. Not at all. It’s not like they were my uncles, so I wasn’t concerned. However I will be severely TICKED OFF if Apple goes under, because that will give my native Microsoft a reason to make an even WORSE Windows later on.
don’t worry the next one will suck the even numbered windows OS’s always suck ie. vista, 2000, 98
This is why I’m a native Linuxian. If my flavour of Linux (Ubuntu) becomes worse or goes under, someone else will copy and fix it.
*Misanthrope
Who is the guy on the right?
You should learn to read above you. Im going to write insults on your ceiling of your house and everyone will be laughing at you becuase u won’t see them.
^THIS IS BI-WINNING
WINWINWINWIN
I don’t get the reference but this is the best threat ever.
Jesus, how dare you even put Ritchie side-by-side with… who is that one in the left, again?
R.I.P., grandmaster. Your legacy will go on.
Inventor of shiny candy colored plastic turds for the average American retard vs. the godfather of all modern tech. Sad.
It’s not apples to oranges. The fact that you don’t know Dennis Ritchie is the point. Ritchie actually did something, as opposed to Jobs, who just promoted himself. And the fact that we can say these things about Jobs’ personal life and not about Dennis Ritchie is also the point. Ritchie lived a decent life. Jobs leaves a legacy of corruption. In 20 years, people will wonder why we idolized Steve Jobs.
i could care less about steve jobs, pc is way better
Could care less implies that you do care a bit. You mean couldn’t?
whether or not you like or own an apple product you do have to appreciate this, he was a driving force in the industry, and forever changed the way millions of people live.
Can’t tell if microsoft fanboy or….
How did he change the way millions of people live, except in the sense that millions of people now walk around with his products in their pockets?
^this
…is probably one of the most illogical comments I’ve ever read.
How is it illogical? He made a flashy, slightly improved version of something that everybody was already using, and a lot of people bought it. That doesn’t mean he “changed the way millions of people live.”
If I designed a new kickass wallet that looked awesome and sold for only $10, and tons of people bought it and carried it around, you wouldn’t say that I “changed the way people lived.” You’d just say that a lot of people bought the wallet I designed.
The guy on the right is the inventor of the C language, probably one of the -most- important guys, in the IT world. Far exceeds Steve Jobs (All respect to Steve). Every major IT company is pretty much standing on the shoulders of this guy.
R.I.P Dennis Ritchie
I would go as far to say any company that uses computers in any way stands on the shoulders of this guy (and Ken Thompson).
Indeed; truly one of the Elder Gods.
There was complete silence before three tolls were rang at the temple of the tech god the day he passed.
Windows operating systems currently hold 77.69% of the market share.
Windows doesn’t use linux, and as far as I know doesn’t rely on C or it’s derivatives so much. In terms of his literal contributions to the field of computer science, he may have created more than Steve Jobs. But, Steve Jobs is still much, much more famous, and there’s a good reason for that.
Dennis Ritchie developed Unix….
Steve Jobs` OSX is written on Unix…..
Who is most important here?
steve jobs had an annual salary of 1$ a year, and lived in a 3 bedroom 2 bath house in woodside… my cousin went to their somewhat small house, and said they were some of the smartest nicest people hed ever met. steve only had an annual income of about 300,000, and he reinvested all of his spare money into apple. he was not greedy.
The man had a net worth of over $8 billion.
Ah but who had the best beard?
CHUCK NORRIS
Richard Stallman’s beard trumps all.
+9001 internetz to you good sir.
i will oblige:
ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!
I appreciate your candor, but Chuck Norris HAS the best beard. Still, I congratulate you with, say, 4500.01 internetz.
his name is dennis ritchie and its a shame that nobody cares about him
Mac OS uses a unix-like kernel. Without Ritchie’s innovations we wouldn’t even cry about Steve Jobs. Next thing you’re gonna say you don’t know Donald Knuth. o_O
I do agree that Dennis Ritchie was a MUCH bigger loss than Steve Jobs. But you can’t exactly blame people. Steve Jobs was a much bigger public figure than Dennis Ritchie ever was.
this comment makes the most sense out of anything on this thread.
If I woke up and saw Dennis Ritchie in my room I’d call the cops. If I saw Steve Jobs in my room I’d cry tears of manly joy.
I’d hesitate to call your tears “manly”. What’s manly about seeing a man with a beard standing in your room and then crying because of it?
I blame AT&T.
If it makes anyone feel better, i didn’t really feel awful for either of them
How in the world does that make anyone feel better?
+ 1
^ THIS!
This could have been the other way around if he chose other words. He forgot to mention that Apple is the best growing computer brand in the world. That Steve Jobs invented the iPhone, which leads to numbers of other smartphones on the market and that apple has changed the way people live.
You seem to think Steve Jobs single handedly came up with, developed, built the prototype for, and marketed the iPhone. Way to give credit to the dozens, if not hundreds of people who ACTUALLY did the work, and that’s IF the idea was orginally his at ALL.
Ok, what faults of Dennis Ritchie’s would you list if you put him on the left side?
And how exactly did the iPhone change the way people live? People were e-mailing each other and playing games on their phones before the iPhone came along. They were just doing it at a lower resolution and with tactile buttons.
Then explain all the iPhone wannabes that have been coming out of the woodwork for the last few years. Explain the existence of Android. Explain WP7. Explain all the app stores that are cropping up. Explain the iPhone fakes in China.
If the iPhone didn’t trigger any of this, then you explain what did.
l2read n00b
Actually, Android was founded in 2003, 4 years before the iPhone was announced, so there, I’ve explained the existence of Android.
You’re arguing against a claim I never made. Even if Apple were the only company to think of a touchscreen smartphone (which I’m pretty they weren’t), that doesn’t mean that iPhone changed the way people live. How are they living differently than they were before, aside from posting Facebook status updates while driving?
Did the person who invented 3D television “change the way people live” because most TVs have that feature now?
mad love for you rn bro
Explain nokia patents first before you go off on random tangents and rants.
Android was founded in 2003, as was mentionned by RS.
Now for the claim that WP7 was inspired by the iPhone, need I remind you that Windows Pocket PC launched in 2000 and had email, word, excel, a media player and a browser? This is more than the Iphone currently has and was over 10 years ago. Its like saying mac os 10.4 is the only reason Windows 7 exists.
Also the development for WP7 started in 2004 but was stopped for some reason, but it still predates the iphone.
As a bonus, check out the Symbian for touchscreens and the IBM Simon for general smart phone origins.
As for itunes, IUMA was founded in 1993 and the first store was Rimoteca.com (1998).
Finaly, the iphone fakes are caused by the iphone (obviously), but its only because they are shiny and people over thee are litteraly willing to sell their organs to get apple products (this really happened).
Dont even get me started on the ipad.
Well, in Denis Ritchie’s faults I’d definitely list the segfault 1st….
Steve Jobs didn’t invent the iPhone, it was probably some low ranking designer dude who invented this magical device and probably received something stupid like a 100$ bonus for inventing something that apple could sell.
I really don’t like how everyone thinks that steve jobs invented ALL apple products, HE DIDN’T
He could have also mentioned that Apple and their precious products wouldn’t exist at all without Ritchie (the guy on the right). And Steve Jobs didn’t “invent” the iPhone. In fact, Cisco already had a product called the iPhone well before Apple did. There was quite a scuffle between Apple and Cisco for a while, especially when Cisco asked Apple to change the name of the iPhone and Apple released the product as the iPhone anyway. The concept of a smartphone wasn’t invented by Apple either. The Japanese had that technology well before anyone in Europe or America did. But hey, you tried.
Why no mention of Wozniak? Apple wouldn’t have even made it into the current era if it didn’t meander through the previous ones, which rested on his shoulders and others who worked directly with him.
He didn’t invent the iPhone, he marketed it.
The only people who claimed Steve Jobs invented the iPhone are the people attempting to cast him as some kind of arrogant know-it-all megalomaniac. Or are so disconnected from technology that they think the nice man holding the nice device must have invented it.
At EVERY SINGLE keynote (if you bothered to watch them), he raves on and on about all the wonderful people who made the product possible, particularly Jonny Ive and the OS team. They even show videos with the managers of the various teams. And then post them on their website (go look there now). Apple never claimed he invented the iPhone. Steve never claimed he invented it.
Nope, but the Apple fanboys here claim he invented it.
Since when is Jobs greedy? I’d say he’s a freakin’ genius as a substitute. Also, those “Shiny Gadgets” changed the world.
How did they change the world again?
I’m Commander Shepard and if Ritchie didn’t exist, I wouldn’t exist…on the Citadel.
Nor I, the greatest monitor thrower in Gmod.
I literally had a “Steve Jobs is Dead Celebration” at my place the Saturday after it was announced that he had died.
all hail dennis ritchie!
Every person should have respect when they die. Unless they’re evil. Is it really people’s fault that they didn’t really knew about him? >_>
Steve Job worked for a dollar a day.
Except he own tons of stock from his own company, so he was actually rich.
His salary was a dollar a year. That doesn’t mean that’s all the money he got.
Yeah, you have to remember all the share dividends and bonuses he got for Apple reaching specific performance based targets
Can’t tell if trolling or just reeeally really stupid …
Neither, you ignorant tool.
While we accept that you still have a boner for Steve Jobs, we’d all like it if you could express it calmly and logically.
With little research along common sense I found out that the guy on the right is a guy that initially worked in the making of C, Unix and some other languages.
It is indeed surprising to me that he died Wednesday, and I didn’t even know about it.
+1 for meme author, if it wasn’t for the guy on the right (Dennis Ritchie), Jobs would be nothing.
Man, look at all there, comments. You would’ve thought someone offended the atheists again.
As an Atheist, I find this comment offensive.
As a comment, I find this Atheist offensive.
and as a comment, I find this offensive an atheist.
And as an offensive, I will comment this atheist.
As an atheist offensive, I , this comment, find.
As a find, I comment this atheist offensive.
As an Atheist, offensive, I find this comment.
*offended the Christians
Atheists don’t react nearly this bad, unless they’re just trying to be hipsters that get their jollies from converging on anything that seems anti-humanist. Which is hilarious, but sad.
Also, inb4 atheists saying I’m a bad person. I AM atheist. I just don’t disturb the peace.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011),[1][2][3][4] commonly known by his username dmr, was an American computer scientist who “helped shape the digital era.”[1] He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague, Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system.[1] Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.
That’s because he never sold a UnixPod.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was mentioned by This Week on ABC this (Sunday) morning on their usual “In Memoriam” section at the end. So, at least he WAS recognized! =D
Steve Jobs was not greedy, he earned his money and put it back into the company which has found numerous amounts of technology and made life so much easier, and even if he did have millions, HE EARNED IT. HE ATE AT A SOUP KITCHEN HE WALKED EVERYWHERE, SLEPT ON HIS FRIENDS FLOORS AND NEVER ONCE ASKED FOR WELFARE. Idiot.
“ATE AT A SOUP KITCHEN”
“NEVER ONCE ASKED FOR WELFARE”
Lulz…
IT’S FUNNY COZ FREE SOUP WOULD BE CONSIDERED WELFARE BY SOME! OFTO
You realize soup kitchens don’t just serve soup, right? And yes, systematized free food is welfare.
i didn’t know taking already existing inventions and placing them in white covers with an apple logo and charging 2.5x more for them was founding “numerous amounts of technology”.
the more you know.
I just can’t get over the fact that people think Jobs invented all these Apple products on his own. Most likely he said something along the lines of “let’s make a phone” or “let’s make a portable music player” and then left everything else up to the tech department and just decided when they had done enough work for him to like.
In later years he hasn’t done ny of the heavy lifting-. Granted he was great at marketing and really seemed to know what people like. But f*ck off with all this “he invented the iPhone” BS.
Furthermore, there woudln’t even have been an Apple or any Steve Jobs if it wasn’t for Dennis Ritchie.
In order to make a comment like this, you have to know everything about Jobs, Apple and their strategies.
Well, it’s a good thing everyone in Apple’s product design department are still alive (and probably still knee-deep in discarded iPod mockups).
In order to know nothing, you had to know nothing… oh wait – i think you got that covered, good job.
Anyone that thinks Steve Jobs did nothing to further and innovate technology is blind; anyone that thinks he’s the most prolific innovator in the last century is also blind.
Just like anybody who thinks that he wasn’t just an egotistical prick who enjoyed taking other people’s technology and sticking it into a shiny device that spoiled kids went nuts about knows nothing…oh wait, it seems you have that covered.
“The most prolific innovator in the last century.”
Thomas Alva Edison. Ever hear of him? He operated the same way.
~Zing
Strange how some get put on high perches simple due to circumstance rather than actual ability isn’t it?
first of all Steve jobs was the inventor of PC’s together with bill gates and some other persons
in his garage then they splitted up trough an dissagreement
Second his yearly pay was 1$ each year
because he did not need it.
he refused an higher payment
People remember steve jobs because he was a pioneer on Quality
he did not make his products unless they were of highest quality
Crazy people and people who think they can change the world
are the ones that actually change the world
Lol, made by a pc user…
What we have here is a great example of envy. Just like the top students are hated for their successes, or the lazy people at work hate you when you get a promotion. People hate on Steve Jobs for doing some thing most of them could never in a million years do.
I hate Hitler so much. Cause you see, I couldn’t do what he did in a million years. Yeah, envy must be it.
+1
I’m pretty sure anybody can steal, repackage, and talk your way into fame. Look at most of Hollywood.
Exactly. And they hate us for our freedom. Which they can’t have because their weak and stupid.
See, I know what I’m talking about.
Steve Jobs created the first personal computer..
Is it bad that I don’t remember Steve Jobs having a beard?
I don’t care about any of those people.
Not a single newspaper cares?!
My favourite Austrian Newspaper “Der Standard” reported about it – online and in their printed paper.
http://derstandard.at/1318461119120/1941-2011-Unix–und-C-Miterfinder-Dennis-Ritchie-gestorben
Followup:
http://derstandard.at/1318461330920/Unix–und-C-Miterfinder-Dennis-Ritchie-hatte-groesseren-Einfluss-als-Steve-Jobs
not everyone can afford a mac.
Macs are _not_ that expensive. The same people sorts of people who say this also go out and buy an Android phone on contract, for $300 more over the life of the contract than outright purchase. Or smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. You can have a Mac from $999. The people who can’t afford a Mac are the people who can’t afford a computer, period.
you are being dishonest here.
The level of dishonesty is the shocking part. This is expecially profound with the lack of full disclosure on comparable items as well making the parity even more absurd.
Dude, too soon. Imagine if while you’re having a good laugh, his family saw this? Consider that.
This is a great example of a logical fallacy (cherry picking).
Dennis Ritchie still had a bigger impact on information technology than Steve Jobs.
Ritchie was a genius, and most of us owe him a lot (statistically, more than one in ten of you are using unix, and god only knows how many are using a program written with the help of C, C++, and related developments that wouldn’t be around without Dennis Ritchie), however the man was no visionary, probably didn’t have much of an interest in public life, didn’t have the charisma Steve had, and simply wasn’t the type of person people are interested in.
Steve Jobs created a multi-billion dollar corporation from the ground up.
Ritchie was a Harvard graduate who worked in computer science.
One created something that greatly helped in shaping the technology world. The other showed the everyday person how and why technology can shape their own world.
I haven’t read all of the preceding comments, but Jobs was actually a VERY impressive entrepreneurial leader whilst working with Pixar.
Ritchie is pretty important too, of course, but Jobs stood as a buttress that kept what was available of the 3-d animation biz from going bankrupt (which was a HUGE part of the economy, and still is).
What about Woz? I mean, he’s not dead, but he, Jobs, and Gates were all in it together. You only ever hear about the other two…
And you never hear about Ronald Wayne
Every time someone says/types Woz it makes me think of Code Monkeys…
poo advances to the next level~
thank you, OP.
Well, you see, the thing here is that Steve Jobs actually DID something with that language… If it wasn’t there we would just use another…I could, say, make up a new language. Should I be praised? No, but the poet who actually MADE my language into something should…
And writing the most widely-used operating system on the planet doesn’t count as “doing something with the language”?
Sorry, I can’t hear y’all over Gary Jules’ sweet melody playing in my head.
well that’s perfectly okay, since you read comments, not hear them.
I’m no fan of Macs, always have and always will prefer a PC (yay for the ability to upgrade my machine without buying a whole new one), but Apple revolutionised the mobile phone industry at the very least. Their impact on desktops and laptops was, imo, marginal at best, but the iPhone kick-started a snowballing chain reaction of technological leaps that lead us to having phones with more processing power than some laptops.
“yay for the ability to upgrade my machine without buying a whole new one”
Uhh… I just upgraded my MacBook from Leopard to Lion, and didn’t have to buy a new machine.
thats not what he meant dumbass. he meant hardware changes
I think he was referring to upgrading the hardware not the software.
Can’t tell if trolling or just really that stupid…
Trolling, definately trolling.
Farnsworth hates Jobs. He’s a PC.
And, neither of them would have been anything without Robert William “Bob” Bemer (February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) who invented the escape sequence without which the Internet, networking, and even modems wouldn’t exist.
I don’t have Steve Jobs, but without Ritche, there would be no C and Unix, and guess what…. A LOT of the software that you’re using was programmed in that language and a lot of servers use Unix.
Including Mac OS X.
What matters is, steve jobs worked to earn his title. And, too he’s more known, cause he’s more successful.
I know. when I learned of his death, I immediately knew it would be overshadowed my the death of jobs, who’s company’s primary product line is still closely linked to the achievements of ritchie.
additionally, I thank this page for the 2k votes award. I can make or break you.
This is the most pretentious thing that I’ve ever seen on memebase. of course people won’t mourn your death if they didn’t know who you were. Everyone knew Steve Jobs not just for his contributions, but as a likeable face of Apple. He just seemed like a nice guy. Of course people are going to be sad when he dies. And if more people KNEW about this guys contributions than I’m sure most people wouldn’t understate them. The fact of the matter is that Steve Jobs was both the innovation and the PR face of Apple and head a strong connection with his following. Not many people know who this guy is. And that’s really no one’s fault.
The text in the original image is mainly criticizing the news media for making Ritchie nothing more than a footnote. Ordinary people can be excused for not knowing who he is, but that doesn’t excuse news outlets. It’s their job to know this sort of thing.
so just to point out what the poster’s complaints were:
if only I had more internetz to give
May I just say, without Jobs, we wouldn’t have Toy Story. Or any of Pixar. Or a mouse. Or 99¢ songs.
that makes absolutely no sense, please explain.
Umm… it’s self explanatory.
You do know who Steve Jobs is, right?
Actually no it’s not really, I was not aware that Steve Jobs was the executive producer of Toy Story or that he was most likely the savior of Pixar studios. However he did not invent the mouse nor would he have been responsible for the standardization of the cost of music to one dollar. Regardless, I guess I should thank you because I decided to read up on him to figure out what i was saying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
Steve Jobs just you know… Revolutionised computers. Apple was always miles ahead of Microsoft and any other company into terms of technology.
Apple is miles ahead in term of computers on one aspect : The skyrocketting price.
FAIL. Apple’s product prices have _decreased_. MacBook Air? $1000 less than when introduced. And cheaper than the same PC computer speced to the same configuration.
Trolling with 15 year old information makes kitty sad.
I disagree, and so does this infographic:
http://www.itcouldsaveyourlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Why-You-Shouldnt-Buy-a-Mac.jpg
$999 MacBook air = 1.6ghz i5, 2gb RAM, 64gb flash drive, 1366×768 13″ display.
$699 Dell Inspiron 14z = 2.4ghz i5, 6gb RAM, 640gb hard drive, 1366×768 14″ display.
Better processor, bigger screen, three times the RAM, 10 times the drive space. I guess you think an “aircraft aluminum” case is worth $500?
HE’S HEATING UP
10 times the drive space in a format that costs 1/10th the amount. Don’t compare SSD to Platter drives, it’s assinine. RAM, I’ll grant you, Apple overcharges for. Apple LCD displays tend to be far higher quality than bargain basement laptops (Which the inspiron most decidedly is) giving a much better colour and brightness quality.
Hi, you can get intel drives for less than the apple retail price on the SSDs. Or you can go OCZ and get it for around 1/4th the cost. Also, SSDs have little use outside of a subtitute RAMdisk outside of high end corporate sever applications where throughput is the first priority. In which case you would be getting fusion i/o products that are not found inside laptops.
Even going beyond that, it is not that hard to swap out a drive in a laptop and still beat it in price and performance. And then there is the issue of hybrid drives doing the best of both worlds for most practical applications.
you are a hero of our generation sir.
64gb ssd = $100
640gb hd = $60
Not quite “ten times the cost.” Enough to explain $40 out of a $300 cost difference. Dell didn’t offer SSD and Apple didn’t offer HD, so that’s what I was stuck with.
PS:
(1) “Asinine” has one “s.”
(2) I use a Macbook Pro. Its biggest selling point is not the screen, IMO. It’s a keyboard with good tactile response (second only to Lenovo among laptops) and its touchpad (much better than any PC laptop I tried). And its biggest downside other than price, is the wrist-cutting sharp edge at the front when it is open.
You actually like using a touchpad?
Mind = blown.
Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing them done away with entirely and focus development anywhere else. Like for example, just make the screen touch based input instead on laptops. And yes on a laptop, not a pure tablet, because even a compressed keyboard is more efficient than limiting the view space of the screen to accomodate a virtual keyboard that has poor keystroke recognition or simly going to a optical keystroke input via projection through the “standard” webcam on any current mobile device….
Oh wait, that is thinking outside the box. Sorry, my bad.
And if you wish to avoid reinforcing the statement being made by the poster, would you care to describe the effect the other guy made on computers?
The C programming language and Umnix revolutionized the computer world more than Apple ever could. And if it’s just because MAC OS and iOS are based on Uni.
Almost every operating system is written in C, and Unix is a role model for many modern operating systems.
Steve Jobs did more than invent the iPod. Sure, someone else invented the C language, but Steve Jobs used it to develop personal computers. Say it like this, if someone makes a good film, would you give credit to the crew who made it or to the company who made the cameras they filmed with?
all steve jobs did was tell people to do it his way or the highway and fired them if they didn’t he didn’t make any of the inventions he just made it a priority to make it happen whether it was a window based OS or a functional mp3 and then he marketed the $hit out of it
This is one of the most retarded posts on memebase I’ve seen so far. Even though I knew that Dennis Ritchie died, I felt that his dead was not that great a loss as compared to Steve Jobs’. Steve saved Apple from bankruptcy and made it’s net worth go up to 300+ billion. If that is not such an impressive feat, then I Don’t Want To Live On This Planet Anymore.
I heard about both death on my local news channel. Your argument is invalid.
Richie created the language that most computers work on today, this is a great accomplishment, Jobs along with many others took that language and used it to create things to help people with their lives, and now people are getting rich creating things that go on these things, some more famous than others. It will keep going until the end of time. There were many who came before Richie that created things that he needed to create his programming language, probably even less famous than him. This is the way the world works.
Jobs knew how to market his things and himself, I am guessing Richie did not make much of an effort to market himself so fewer people knew about him. they both deserve respect and they will both be missed it is not Jobs fault that so many people attached so strongly to him.
Hey sweatshop labour is awesome!
I know who they both are. The biggest difference is Unix wouldn’t really be known about to most news companies, let alone the majority of the world. Sure, I think Dennis Ritchie did far more than any other computer geek ever will, but he wasn’t the only one who helped craft Unix. Many people made it, and they all avoided the spotlight. Jobs was a primary founder of Apple Inc, and a major spokesperson.
And then there’s the fact that a newspaper featuring the death of Dennis Ritche wouldn’t sell as well as one featuring the death of Steve Jobs. Money money money.
This is outrageous. Do your research. Steve Jobs was not a greedy old bastard, he was all in all a good person trying to advance. This is terrible.
too true
Anybody that hates on Steve Jobs is a racist……… there, I said it.
Steve Jobs created more jobs then the Republicans and Democrats created combined. Software development has skyrocketed since the introduction of the iPhone. There is a huge movie industry now possible, thanks to Steve’s involvement with Pixar.
What Foxconn did is bad, but Apple only had a production contract with them. You can’t blame Apple or Jobs for the workconditions created by local management.
In china, india, and other south east asia countries.
Large majority of production and support no longer exists in the US. Speaking about events in the past as if they are the present really doesn’t do much good.
Michael Jackson dies on the same day as Farah Fawcett; nobody cares that Farah Fawcett dies.
Lol this image was such a troll-bomb.
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
everyone can stfu about this
I’ll run up a statistics count on those who actually care about this guy’s death. Let’s see… 50% of those who care bout this guy’s death are those in the computer software industry and the other 50% are just a bunch of people on the internet who never knew that guy before seeing this post and they repost things like this so they can look like a mature, exceptional adult that cares about news like this.
I mourn for neither of them. Death is a normal part of life. Problem?
He’s on the front page of wikipedia. Who reads newspapers any more?
2much tl;dr commets
commets; icy balls of words with fiery tales falling from this guy.
Haley’s Comet is coming soon, please take the time to read it’s context to me please!
since when does it matter if Steve Jobs donated a lot of money to charity? It was him that worked countless hours to make his fortune, I think he has a right to keep it if he goddamn wants to keep it.
I thought you couldn’t take it with you…
I’m not reading all these to see if it was corrected already, but I’m going to do so anyway, just in case:
It’s not “misanthropist”; it’s just “misanthrope”. DUH.
Yes… Godwin’s Law is strong in this one indeed.
Nazi’s!!! Where?!!!! Arrrrrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/mike-daisey-goes-after-apple-the-late-steve-jobs-20111014-1lnj5.html
I get more and more depressed when I find out more info on how my high end electronics are manufactured, be great to be sixteen again and not know as much as I do now
this guy is the master of flame wars (slow clap)
everyone who’s using their so praised iWare should cry a river.. without Unix, Mac wouldn’t be this far…
Gold Star
Steve Jobs created Unix. This is wrong.
FIRST!
GET THIS GIRL A MEDAL!
Which is why the original poster made the sad commentary via the memebase submission…
My bad, he is dennis ritchie, and died a few days ago. May he rest in peace, he really gave the world a great thing.
WHOEVER MADE THIS MEME IS A GIANT LOSER/NERD/ IS VERY ENVIOUS OF STEVE JOBS
You know… Brazil cares. I saw a lot of newspapers saying it. But Steve Jobs is, like, a celebrity! It’s like Daniel Radcliffe and Chris Columbus. Chris made the Harry Potter movie possible, but all the credits were for the ones that we saw on them.
Yes Dennis Ritchie made C, but that’s it has anyone else heard about something else he has made no.
Steve Jobs on the other hand got kicked out of his own company, started two others, and then came back and started making all kinds of revolutionary products which is why people just forget about Ritchie.
Now I’m not trying to degrade Ritchie or C, but people just like a story, and Steve just has a better story, and the people like revolutionary things, Steve made revolutionary things. Which is why it makes sense he got more publicity upon dying.
In what ways were the products that Jobs made revolutionary…?
Better yet, in what ways was the invention of C NOT revolutionary?
^this
He invented the personal computer, the interface mouse screen. He also understood the importance of having a good text’s font when he took calygraphy classes.
So if you think about it, if Steve Jobs never did this you wouldn’t have a computer or laptop to go on memebase and argue about him.
WRONG! The first point an click computer was not Apple it was the Xerox Alto. In addition I would argue that the idea of personal computers was an inevitability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
pwnage!
+10 internets
Perhaps you forgot the part where Xerox closed down that program, and Jobs was the one who saw what they did wrong, saw how to do it right, and made it palatable — offering the first commercially successful GUI computer ever manufactured. Also, if it weren’t for Jobs, UNIX would be practically forgotten today — only familiar in the Linux world as the inspiration for the kernel Linus and Company wrote from scratch. Jobs saved Ritchie from *total* obscurity, really.
Without Jobs, the smartphone would still be limited to businessmen and computer nerds, the MP3 player would be nothing compared to what it is today, there’d be no Microsoft Windows (Unless you count DOS), no Linux, no Pixar — and imagine the world with no competition to Microsoft! Even if they had come up with a GUI, and managed to sell it to half the world, it would suck even worse than t does today! If you need an example, just look at what DirectX has become since Microsoft used anticompetitive tactics to cripple OpenGL’s market.
Jobs didn’t make the computer, he made it idiot proof so you can use it without consulting a thousand page manual. Just note that the technologies in apple products were used by other companies for years, I’ve used touch screen over ten years ago when LCD had no colour. All he did was polish a turd and sold it for an overinflated price.
it aint idiot proof.
^ That’s for sure.
He did NOT invent the personal computer, that was bill gates. steve jobs invented the mac witch was made some time later.
fail sir, Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak invented the first (idiot proof) PC as in Personal Computer, they then, much later, called it a mac. Bill Gates borrowed the OS it was running, altered it, and started windows.
Prior to the moniker of “PC” affixed to all things having Wintel in them they were known as IBM Compatible PC’s, vs an Apple PC. Apple’s then came out with the Macintosh PC (which was completely different from their prior computers and for some time even competed internally with Apple’s other Computers such as the Lisa series), and to further differentiate themselves they labeled it “Mac” later on.
After some time (a really long time later, like around late 90′s) stores finally stopped calling computers which ran with Wintel IBM Compatible PC’s and just reduced to “PC” since Apple didn’t like using the term “PC” anymore. You’ll also notice real programs, like the good ones, call it “Mac” and “Windows” compatible, not “Mac” and “PC” because that would be like saying “BMW” and “Car”.
As a note PC stands for Personal Computer. PC is not used by any technical firm as anything other then a very broad scope of computers. Now if you’re talking x86, 64-bit x86, RISC, Power PC then you’re talking a TYPE of computer processing unit at the heart of each PC.
Lastly: Bill Gates did not steal his idea’s from Apple in anyway. He stole his idea’s from Xerox, just like Jobs stole his idea’s from Xerox.
Also, lets get things straight. Steve Jobs is the idea man, Steve Wozniak invented the first computer, and it was not idiot proof, it was the first computer. Later on Mac showed up, but only after several other PC’s, like the Apple, Apple II, Lisa, Lisa II and Lisa III and so on. Mac wasn’t even a product until later.
BBC, VIC etc etc.
you’re very stupid.
The first PC was IBM 5150. I have on sitting at my house and is the first ‘PC’ and was made by Philip Don Estridge… Good fight though
See below comment to other idiot, idiot.
Steve Jobs didn’t invent the personal computer. Steve Wozniak did.
There would be far better solutions than the mouse screen if the people at that time would have tried. They just underestimated the might of controlling abilities.
Steve Job is the reason why everyone uses it and very few alternatives are on the market.
Actually, it’s a well known fact that the GUI and Mouse were taken from Xerox by Apple. Steve Jobs freely admitted that they were invited to see a product demonstration at Xerox. Upon seeing the technology, Jobs decided to take it for his own. Xerox didn’t see the marketability of it, so they let Jobs run with it. That’s not visionary. That’s just taking someone else’s pioneering work.
The company I work for owns Xerox, therefore, I invented the PC.
It worked for Edison. Isn’t an innovator simply someone who takes many ideas and makes them into something even better?
Edison is a thief, and an expert at dirty pool, I don’t think you want to use him as your defense sir.
We’re talking about a guy who down right stole a French man’s pioneering development of motion pictures, and when the man went to court proving he invented it first with French patents, Edison just said, “That’s in France, not here in the US.” and continued on his merry way.
He also posted propaganda against Nicoli Tesla’s High Voltage Low Amperage Direct Current electricity, as well as against Westinghouse’s High Amperage High Voltage Alternating Current electricity, so much so that he fried animals and eventually a human being to prove how unsafe Westinghouse’s AC was. I forget exactly what he did to make it look like Tesla’s stuff was look dangerous… but the guy did walk around passing current through people with harm so it had to be a pretty good stretch.
Philip Don Estridge made the first PC which was IBM 5150. Have one sitting at home but good fight.
Steve Jobs made ordinary things that were pretty and shiny. Dennis Ritchie made the modern technological infrastructure.
Both dying was upsetting. My first computer was an Apple 2GS though way back when so Steve Jobs dying was more upsetting to me. How was Jobs revolutionary? You can’t say he opened up smart phones and tablets, if you say “someone else would have ended up doing it” then would you be arguing that they weren’t good enough? Get off your high horses, he was brilliant, he had a family just like everyone else and it’s sad that he died so young.
I guess you missed a word from the ‘opened up smart phones’ line of drivel, he did no such thing, what he did, was spot an all ready massive smart phone market, and spot the srop off line of users technical ability, so he made a semi smart phone to fill the gap by using pilfered technology and a nice design team and some of the best guilable person targeting marking ever concieved. Case in point beautifully demonstrated by your good self.
As the image’s caption says, he also made Unix. That and C are some pretty big freaking contributions to the computing world.
His death was all publicized because he “made” computers easy to use because people are incredibly stupid. And by “made” I mean he probably didn’t even write a single line of code. He banked off of the fact that people are complete idiots and need everything done for them. Basically, he has done wonders for the continuing of human stupidity and laziness. Ritchie made C which is the foundation of programming languages. Jobs is nothing without him because he was never creative enough to invent his own stuff, i.e. the mouse idea being taken from Xerox. All Jobs ever did was use people’s ideas and advancements, as well their stupidity and the need for things to be dumbed down, to make a buck. Ironically enough, Apple’s market is mainly college kids which are learning how to be smarter and yet they need a laptop that does everything for them and over-pay for it? (shrug). My Apple broke? well better send it in to get it looked at. My PC broke? Well let’s figure out how to fix it and actually gain knowledge in doing so. And yeah, it’s true, people like a story more than actual accomplishments and inventions; but it just goes to show how pathetic, shallow, and absolutely stupid people are. He’s right, I DON’T WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE.
Exactly, Jobs was a marketer at heart. He may have had some decent ideas, but you’d have to convince me of that. Dumbing down technology so far as to restrict the user from the ability to control the product or make a mistake is making a product that is inherently weaker. It might be great for some applications, but anyone with half a mind can do the same on Windows, UNIX or LINUX.
*ding ding ding*
We have winners!
It’s like riding a bicycle. If you know how to fix it, you never have to take it to a bike shop to get it fixed. You just do it. You save a ton of money and gain lots of knowledge. Eventually, you start wanting to build your own bikes and you save even more money.
If you don’t know how to fix it, you take it to a shop and pay for someone else to do it.
Apple users are like people who take their bikes to bike shops and then brag about how easy it is to not have to know how to fix it themselves.
Ease of use is great, but if it comes at the expense of actually knowing how to use or repair something, it’s a handicap.
Basically, ignorance is nothing to brag about. Learn how to use a computer or don’t use one. You don’t have to know how to fix a car to drive one, but you DO have to know how to at least operate it with competency… or you can just take a taxi and pay out the rear for not knowing how to do things properly on your own.
Well, you’re actually wrong about that — I break and fix my own Mac all the time on purpose, and since it’s a UNIX-certified system with full core access, it’s actually really easy to fix/modify. But, since you *are* accurately describing the way most people use their Macs…
For a moment, imagine bikes cost on the order of thousands of dollars, and they are your only mode of transportation other than walking. You can get a simple bike that’s easy to repair yourself, but breaks a lot; or you can get a bike that is very dependable, moves faster with less pedaling, is gyroscopically stabilized to prevent you from falling, has damage-resistant tires, and only costs a few hundred dollars more.
If I buy the first bike, I can fix it really easily, but learning how to fix it is a *mandatory* investment of my time, or else whenever my bike breaks, I won’t be able to get anywhere. My bike will sometimes fail me when I don’t have time to fix it, so instead of going to work, I have to fix my bike. Alternatively, I can get the second bike. Since it’s designed modularly, and not meant to be user-servicable, it’s harder to learn about. However, it never breaks down on me, so I don’t need to know how it works. But if I want, I can take it apart and learn about its inner workings in my spare time, when I don’t have places to be. Over time, I come to understand the second bike just as well if not better than I would have understood the first bike. And since my bike operates very similarly to those spiffy and free open-source bikes, I’ll already know how to fix and operate them should I ever need or want to. Whereas, if I owned the first kind of bike, I’d only know how to fix DOS bikes, which doesn’t really help me fix any other kind of bike.
Problem is, OS X, Windows, Linux, etc. are written in C, or variations thereof. Not to disrespect Jobs, but everyone who uses a computer of any kind, is using a product that is running the C programming language on some level.
Boochi,
Can’t tell if trolling…
or just stupid….
THIS IS A FAIL
You are a fail
Seriously? Just a comment with a reference to yourself?
But… Steve Jobs created Unix…
Don’t know if trolling …
… or just very stupid.
I think (s)he’s just trolling…
Steve Jobs: I care about his death because I like Apple products, especially compared to my crap laptop. I care more about it because he helped create my childhood with Pixar.
Did you just say you like apple? I hope hope you die of squirrel aids.
^this
^that
^wiffle ball bat
I still don’t see whats so bad about apple.
Did you just say you have your head up an anus?
I like Steve Jobs because of his Disney involvement. I could care less about the crappy Apple products he ‘made’ though.
I find this meme difficult to masturbate to.
But that comment was easy.
I disliked Steve Jobs before it was cool? He innovated but is; I hate to use this word; over-rated.
I disliked this post before it was cool? It tried but; I hate to use this word; failed.
Well I started liking his post before you decided to stop liking it, so stfu and gtfo.
Steve Jobs never invented anything and never innovated anything. His company didn’t invent the GUI, they didn’t invent the computer tablet, they didn’t invent the smart phone. They didn’t innovate either. Please Mac fans who praise this man, what did Apple innovate that really helped the computer industry?
Mouses -.-
Idiot. Mice were part of the original pitch Xerox employees made to their management. It was turned down, and this was the source of the first MAC and the first PC.
^This.
Wopple is right
try again man
+1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
I heard a reputable news radio station give Jobs credit for creating both the .mp3 and the .mp3 player. I still have my Nomad Jukebox that says otherwise.
why hate?
It makes ppl remember good ppl
Greedy? He made about 1 dollar per year as CEO of Apple. Yeah.
and made millions off of over 5 million shares of stock in Apple. so he would avoid taxes on his income. thats about as greedy as you get
No, he made millions of dollars per year. He set his salary at 1 dollar (as many CEOs do) because he had so much other income.
and how exactly is that greedy?
he had so much income and decided not to take more.
it was his to have
Depending on where the other income is coming from, it’s to dodge federal income tax
“I make millions of dollars elsewhere so I’m not going to give myself a large salary, thereby making MORE money in tax avoidance…”
how is that not greedy?
The first mouse prototype was developed and demonstrated in ’63 by Douglas Engelbarr. So all you delusional crapple enthusiasts can suck it. God how i despise thee.
Engelbart*
Jobs was a good guy, I don’t have a bias towards apple like so many do, because they did do things that other companies didn’t, and that was bringing innovative features to the millions. Yes, they didn’t invent the mouse, but they did bring it to the masses, same thing with the personal computer, the mp3 player, the tablet computer, the smart phone, honestly, the average consumer never heard of many of these things until apple came out with it. (May I repeat, average consumers, not tech geeks)
I would say that where things originated and where things started are irrelevant. I would say anyone’s life is meaningful, not just the guys with big ideas. In the end, it’s the people who made the most impact, had the shiniest turd, did the most meaningful things. Both of these great gentlemen did many a great thing, but none of them did it alone. Whether they were in the limelight reaching many through example, or in the background changing deeply only a few, these people and all those who’s shoulders they stood on are to be commended for forming this technological generation.
Steve was the face of a company. Everybody knew him and when I see a apple Product, I still think about him. This secound guy is probably a genius inventer and Programmer, but he isn’t well known at all.
Sure, Steve Jobs didn’t just sculpt the internet out of a rock with his bare hands, but if you are using a computer at all today you owe it to him. Pretty much everything he was a part of was a drastic improvement over something that came before. Have you ever seen an Altair 8800? A keyboard and monitor were optional extras. If you bought the base model you had to build it yourself and program it in binary with switches. A year after it was introduced to rave reviews, Jobs saw that his friend Steve Wozniak had built a cheap, simple computer with a keyboard, built in BASIC, and color video and convinced him to market it. The Xerox Alto was very impressive for the early 1970s, but Xerox didn’t want to market it and it was far from easy to use. Jobs, with Xerox’s permission, took the most basic aspects of the design (mouse, icons, desktop metaphor) and spent years working with the Macintosh team to turn it into something that anyone could immediately use.
Try watching a computer animated short from before Steve Jobs bought Pixar and turned it into an animation studio. Try going back to a 15″ square computer monitor after using a high definition widescreen 20″ one. Try using an MP3 player from the year 2000. Try using a Palm Treo, or a BlackBerry, or any other smartphone from before the iPhone taught the industry how it is done. Try finding a three year old multimedia tablet that was as well designed as the iPad. Even the World Wide Web itself was created on a NeXT Cube, the computer Jobs created while he was away from Apple.
The technologies may have existed before he got his hands on them, but then again the automobile was invented in 1769 and didn’t catch on until the early 1900s when a few visionaries figured out how to make it successful. Steve Jobs wasn’t really an inventor, but he was a brilliant visionary, and without his direction most of the computer products we all use today wouldn’t exist. No matter what you may think of Apple as a company, denying the impact of Steve Jobs is just plain ignorant. Dennis Ritchie was also an important innovator, and it is a shame that no one seemed to care about his death, but the amount of stupidity in this post completely invalidates the message.
you, sir, are an idiot. Altair was the guy from assassin’s creed. i believe you’re meaning atari8800.
and YES! you had to buy a keyboard and monitor to use the thing JUST LIKE YOU HAVE TO TODAY!!!
oh and pixar was the only thing steve jobs ever did that I truly applaud. and john lasseter did all the work.
I hope for your sake that you are just trolling. Atari 8800? Really? It would be one thing to make that mistake on your own, but do some research before you make a fool out of yourself. And sure, you can buy a Dell desktop computer with no monitor or keyboard, but just try to use it that way. Go ahead, I’ll wait. It’s not working? That’s because while those components are sold separately, they are still required. The Altair didn’t need them, you could buy it and use it for years before adding a keyboard or video screen. The Apple II was by no means the first computer to come standard with keyboard and video output with high resolution color graphics, but it was the first hugely successful one, and for decades it was the first computer anyone used. Just like the iPhone today it inspired countless clones and competitors, practically creating the cheap, easy to use personal computer market and pushing it forward until the GUI revolution took over a decade later.
“If you bought the base model you had to build it yourself and program it in binary with switches.”
fap fap fap
Sweatshop labor? Actually, Apple products rank much higher in terms of fair labor compared to Microsoft (and most other brands). That’s one of the reason it’s more expensive — because they don’t exploit on such a large scale. If you’re going to make biased statements, at least get your facts straight.
Yeah, you’re totally not just paying an extra $1000 on mid-range hardware (when you’re buying a new computer) for the name alone.
I mean, it’s not like I couldn’t build my own computer with better parts for FAR, FAR less…
Psssh!
Because of all the “labor” involved in software, eh? Dumbsh!t. Don’t make facts up.
uhhhhh….. he has several sweatshops in china.
People die. So what?
All of you just cut the crap and use what works for you.
I fail to see how anyone who runs a company that uses child and, by definition, slave labour to produce products a good person. Plus, Coltan is a mineral essential to the production of electronics. 80% of the world’s Coltan is in the Congo and 10% and rising of mined Coltan is Conglese. The Congo has been dubbed one of the worst places to live. Numerous reports of incredibly dangerous working conditions, almost no pay and companies running the mines murdering workers and their families if they revolt against the terrible working conditions and pay. That’s not to mention the slave/child labour involved in putting together the electronics. Apple, therefore Steve Jobs, is/was totally aware of these disgusting human rights abuses yet continues to support the mining companies by buying their Coltan. Anyone who supports the above suffering is a murderer and does not deserve to be mourned.
alright…so turn off your computer and go ahead screaming in the streets about that
I didn’t have the patience to read all the comments, but from all I’ve seen, I feel disappointed that no one took the time to pay their respects to those two gentlemen who passed away in the same week.
They both gave society their best and I thank them for that. Although jobs can be seen as a glorified salesman, Wozniak would never have marketed his invention by himself and Xerox would have never found an investor for their inventions. If you feel confused by all the technical history in the comments, check out the “Pirates of Silicon Valley” movie.
As for Mr Richie, I think it is our duty as geeks to spread the word to the public and explain that a giant in the computing world has left us today. Steve Jobs was popular because of his charisma and public appearances. But none (or very little) of his products would have been in the showrooms without the invention of Unix or C. OS X is built on top of C and is based on Unix, Windows is built on top of C, all computer games are coded in C++ (popular full 3D ones, that is). We owe a huge portion of our digital lifestyle to Mr. Ritchie, but people don’t know yet.
RIP Computer pioneers
Moreover, Steve marketed himself as much as he marketed his products, and with the technology at his command when the products were released, could get that marketing to a vastly wider audience. Richie, on the other hand, was (I can only assume) considerably more humble about his creation and whilst it’s effects on modern technology and technological process are undeniable, he didn’t set out to become a celebrity.
once again, people are missing the point. when u say that steve jobs “invented,” you’re saying he not only came up with the idea, but built it up himself, when the reality is that he was never any useful at programming. most of the work was done by people around him. saying “let’s make a computer smaller and let it run multiple tasks” doesn’t mean all credit for such a product is due to you. people give him credit for more than he deserves. he didn’t invent the iphone either. it’s a combination of several technologies invented by other people, such as the multi-touch screen, the os, the interface, etc…
im a programmer and i know the easiest part of any project is planning out the idea and the interface. to give someone such credit for simply coming up with an idea this simple is disrespectful to the people that do the real work, whether that person is dead or not. creating a language like C is miles beyond what jobs or any business man is capable of doing. just earn a degree in CS and tell me jobs’ work was worth something in the industry. his simple ideas were inevitable and were going to be reached at some point or another. general users would see it as if he did something, but the reality is that you can only hear his speech and not his actions.
RIP Dennis Ritchie.
Since when is Jobs greedy? He kept working until the day he died, even though he knew he was dying, and anyone else would have retired years before. Also, you all know you own atleast one of those shiny gagets