Everyone's life has many stories..his story isn't any better\worse than yours J
Anthony Melbourne StuffUps.learn from others, share with others! http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ NOTICE : The information contained in this electronic mail message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. (*13POrtC*) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013 5:09 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Your "hero" - Steve Jobs or Dennis Ritchie? I think we should he's done more in a life time than I will likely do, so that has to count for something... the cure for cancer could have been written in a language based on C as a source inspiration butterfly effect thinking :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: Should we really be so grateful for Richie's contributions of C and Unix? Well, I suppose C wasn't so bad in that was "structured assembler" and made programming more general and popular, but I think I wrote more bugs and had more null pointer and corrupted memory crashes in C code than I ever had in 10 years of assembler coding. Thank heavens C has been relegated to its rightful place these days of writing system software and not applications. Unix (and Linux and all the other flavours) eventually grew up, but it took a while before they had friendly shells and were usable by mere mortals or non specialists. Who ever worked in old times at the Unix command prompt running gcc and then had to scroll through the output piped into a text file? Who ever spent 3 hours trying to get the floppy drive recognised by a fresh install in a 386. Who ever managed to get Unix to install at all? -- Greg On 25 September 2013 14:53, <[email protected]> wrote: Totally agree with you Scott.I'm never impressed and\or inspired by people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs..sure they maybe smart people and great leaders BUT so are many other that do not have the wealth like them. I have learnt that some businesses can make a lot of money even though the poeple involved may not be the reason for its success. For example, petrol..do you think the bosses of these companies are great people? Petrol sells itself! We are all hypnotised by wealth and glamour..so it Google introduced a new type of pen..i'm sure they would sell many, even if it was not innovative or useful. Anthony Melbourne StuffUps.learn from others, share with others! http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ NOTICE : The information contained in this electronic mail message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. (*13POrtC*) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013 1:02 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Your "hero" - Steve Jobs or Dennis Ritchie? Slippery slope and objection leading the witness. On one hand yes you have a guy who creates the foundation and on the other hand you have a guy who could hire the right people to do the jobs he wanted to make happen. I think it's not a Zero Sum response but in reality do you celebrate the person who made the pencil or do you celebrate the person who used the pencil to write the first letter. In truth the world gives way to much credit for Steve Jobs. I mean he appears to have been a smart executive / leader but i look at the iPhone and don't think "Steve made that" ...i think "Jonathan Ive designed that". I look at Windows and don't think "Bill Gates made that.." I look at the entire Windows team and think "they made that..." Today's history is governed by a really good PR team :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: This is really OT, and has probably been circulating for a while - but what the hell? Also, I like it; it reinforces my irrational distaste for all things Apple. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
