Jobs had his good and bad moments just like every other person the tech business (well save Steve Wozniak...who...well let's face it, he's his own freaking category of awesome that separates him from everyone else). That "bastard" (as you put it) was a major influence in the technology world when he and Woz founded Apple Computer. Apple's Apple I was the first computer that didn't require some sort of RGB monitor or a converter for display output.
In spite of his attitude, it was his vision to get an easy to use home computing appliance into the home computer market. My avatar resembles the 512K Mac...which is the predecessor to the original. The original Macintosh did raise the bar in affordable home computing. It only had 128KB of RAM and had yet it had a fully bitmapped GUI which is something to be said.
So while I don't blame you or judge you for not buying an iPhone or iPad, I will condemn anyone who might judge him as selfish without looking how the original Macintosh affected the world.
The purchasing system for both Anazon and iBooks were as good as each other. Amazon itself had fairly cruddy hardware to read e-books on.
Keep in mind that by this time, Steve Jobs was having his first treatments chemo therapy done and they gave him steroids so his body wouldn't shut down. This makes a person crotchety and downright squirrelly.
My family's first computer was a Mac Plus. My dad being a teacher, the bitmapped typeface GUI made it 100 times easier to make tests. Our first CD-ROM attached to to via SCSI and my old man had to basically install 4MB of RAM to support the CD-ROM drive and the game that was bundled with it...Cosmic Osmo.
Historically speaking, that's the same type of crap that got Steve Jobs ousted from Apple in the first place.
He was initially booted from the Lisa project (named for his daughter) and so to get revenge he poached both former Xerox STAR and current Apple staff...some of the latter were working on the Lisa. It's when his obsession with a quiet appliance got the better of him with the Apple III that got him fired.
Other things about Steve Jobs people really didn't like is that if he didn't like your idea, he would totally ignore you. That attitude sparked the development of the Macintosh II series after his ouster.
Wouldn't that flood the e-book market if Apple's purchasing system was fully interchangeable with Amazon's?
I ask this because doing that was one of the the main cause of the North American Video Game Crash of 1983. The Colecovision could play Atari 2600 software natively and all you needed was a hardware adapter to for the differing pinouts. Oh sure it's good for the consumer, but that also needs balance with making a profit off of licensing.
I really cannot justify the words shown though. Personally though, at that time, the Kindle Fire was a terrible product unless you decided to root it.
Well think of all the information Assange is willing to give the public access to that may or may not be classified and compare that to Snowden who is actively leaking information that should not be classified. Assange's run was from accusations charges of rape in Sweden...Snowden ran because he would have been killed on sight if spotted.
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Yes......because the reason why we have them now is that it happened enough to become a regular ongoing standardized event to have a firee drill or tornado drill several times a year. This drill was nothing more than to just show people what the police would do if a certain scenario occurred elsewhere in the state of Ohio. People involved with it volunteered.
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"Students volunteering is not the issue here.
So, by definition it is not fear mongering when there are volunteers - good to know."
Fear mongering (or scaremongering or scare tactics) is the use of fear to influence the opinions and actions of others towards some specific end. The feared object or subject is sometimes exaggerated, and the pattern of fear mongering is usually one of repetition, in order to continuously reinforce the intended effects of this tactic, sometimes in the form of a vicious circle. You want a good dose of fear mongering and what it is....watch Reefer Madness on NetFlix or any negative campaign ad during the election season. Or watch this advertising campaign ad for the reelection Lyndon B Johnson implying that his opponent, Richard Nixon who vowed to keep it cool with the USSR and try to talk peace with them for a nuclear arms armistice treaty.
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"The defense industry is massive - in case you were unaware.
Be afraid, be very afraid."
??? So tell me how the school profits from doing as they did. after all that was my question you failed to answer. Just to make sure we are both on the same page here, and please keep in mind that it was a local school district who set this up with the local municipality, not the other way around:
Note, people took unpaid time from their day to do this and that the industries you mention aren't paid except via contract with the local municipality and city board.
Can you please cite who made a profit from this considering that the State of Ohio funds its schools based on local property taxes?
I'm not the one wearing a tin foil hat it seems.
Note, people took unpaid time from their day to do this and that the industries you mention aren't paid except via contract with the local municipality and city board on a yearly basis for upkeep..municipalities have a finite amount of budget to work with.
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I posted my point several times and that repeated point was the original rebuttal to you. Yet you still had the gull to say that I hadn't answered your question like a whiny little baby....I repeated myself because I got tired of having to think of something new when what I wrote was actually justified. I am sorry you missed my justification to your otherwise completely pointless question about the ethics of involving "unknowing" children.
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"Building evacuation was actually needed in my school in a non-drill situation. It's uncommon but it happens enough that you want a plan. Bus hijacking? Seriously, how often does that happen? If you spend an hour preparing for each million-to-one scenario, you literally won't have any time left for anything else."
The hijacking drill is a one time a year thing it seems. So it demonstrates what to do in those situations should they arise.
"Think 9/11, where the passengers on one of the flights attempted to take the plane back. It didn't work, but sitting back likely would have resulted in them dying AND one more landmark destroyed. "
Terrorists are not the only types of criminals capable of hijackings. Anyone can hijack a school bus if they are that infinitely desperate.
" For one thing, they aren't going to graduate next year. For another, the first responders and SWAT would likely be involved in the situation if they got a call that ANY bus in the area was hijacked, instead of having to be riding on the bus at the time."
They often use actors to do this sort of simulation work. They have radios that are connected to the bus station where they could talk down a hijacker. When drilling you have to cover most of the things that could happen. anyone can use twitter to do that f none of their followers are on the bus. Or simply dial 911 on their cell phones silently.
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"They can't happen" and "they won't happen in our lifetime" are the same thing.
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He didn't say anything about people getting killed and I didn't imply the real life situation wouldn't kill people. I am only saying that this was merely a drill that is like a fire drill or tornado warning drill or bomb threat. Ohio does this type of thing all the time.
Snowden is not Assange...you have to remember that nothing Snowden has leaked should have been classified in the first place. Assange and Snowden are two different stories. Assange never worked for the agencies he leaked info on, and is not a whistleblower, where as Snowden has only leaked information that should not be classified at all.
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Yes, but since the local police department and Sheriff's Department are involved....I am pretty sure that the 911 dispatchers aren't dullards...and I must note that school buses some times have tinted windows and that hijacker isn't always visible.
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So while I don't blame you or judge you for not buying an iPhone or iPad, I will condemn anyone who might judge him as selfish without looking how the original Macintosh affected the world.
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Keep in mind that by this time, Steve Jobs was having his first treatments chemo therapy done and they gave him steroids so his body wouldn't shut down. This makes a person crotchety and downright squirrelly.
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Type of attitude...
He was initially booted from the Lisa project (named for his daughter) and so to get revenge he poached both former Xerox STAR and current Apple staff...some of the latter were working on the Lisa. It's when his obsession with a quiet appliance got the better of him with the Apple III that got him fired.
Other things about Steve Jobs people really didn't like is that if he didn't like your idea, he would totally ignore you. That attitude sparked the development of the Macintosh II series after his ouster.
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Wait..
I ask this because doing that was one of the the main cause of the North American Video Game Crash of 1983. The Colecovision could play Atari 2600 software natively and all you needed was a hardware adapter to for the differing pinouts. Oh sure it's good for the consumer, but that also needs balance with making a profit off of licensing.
I really cannot justify the words shown though. Personally though, at that time, the Kindle Fire was a terrible product unless you decided to root it.
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So, by definition it is not fear mongering when there are volunteers - good to know."
Fear mongering (or scaremongering or scare tactics) is the use of fear to influence the opinions and actions of others towards some specific end. The feared object or subject is sometimes exaggerated, and the pattern of fear mongering is usually one of repetition, in order to continuously reinforce the intended effects of this tactic, sometimes in the form of a vicious circle. You want a good dose of fear mongering and what it is....watch Reefer Madness on NetFlix or any negative campaign ad during the election season. Or watch this advertising campaign ad for the reelection Lyndon B Johnson implying that his opponent, Richard Nixon who vowed to keep it cool with the USSR and try to talk peace with them for a nuclear arms armistice treaty.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Commercial-LBJ1964ElectionAdDaisyGirl. ogv
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Be afraid, be very afraid."
??? So tell me how the school profits from doing as they did. after all that was my question you failed to answer. Just to make sure we are both on the same page here, and please keep in mind that it was a local school district who set this up with the local municipality, not the other way around:
Note, people took unpaid time from their day to do this and that the industries you mention aren't paid except via contract with the local municipality and city board.
Can you please cite who made a profit from this considering that the State of Ohio funds its schools based on local property taxes?
I'm not the one wearing a tin foil hat it seems.
Note, people took unpaid time from their day to do this and that the industries you mention aren't paid except via contract with the local municipality and city board on a yearly basis for upkeep..municipalities have a finite amount of budget to work with.
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The hijacking drill is a one time a year thing it seems. So it demonstrates what to do in those situations should they arise.
"Think 9/11, where the passengers on one of the flights attempted to take the plane back. It didn't work, but sitting back likely would have resulted in them dying AND one more landmark destroyed. "
Terrorists are not the only types of criminals capable of hijackings. Anyone can hijack a school bus if they are that infinitely desperate.
" For one thing, they aren't going to graduate next year. For another, the first responders and SWAT would likely be involved in the situation if they got a call that ANY bus in the area was hijacked, instead of having to be riding on the bus at the time."
They often use actors to do this sort of simulation work. They have radios that are connected to the bus station where they could talk down a hijacker. When drilling you have to cover most of the things that could happen. anyone can use twitter to do that f none of their followers are on the bus. Or simply dial 911 on their cell phones silently.
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