or release it on imax
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
it's a VHS transfer; it'd look pretty silly on imax
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
fuck you
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
D:
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 11 November 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
The book is ace. I was expecting gushy worship of the bloke but it's not that at all. Very much a profile of a businessman. Huge (I'm only halfway through it) but also very entertaining.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
wait is he still dead?????
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 November 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
I think he dies at the end
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
I bet the Woz did it
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 November 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
real genius: the steve jobs story
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/Real_genius.jpg/220px-Real_genius.jpg
― am0n, Monday, 14 November 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
I had no idea Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson were siblings! Weird.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Monday, 14 November 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
But I thought you knew everything [/alfred]
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
sorry
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Monday, November 14, 2011 10:47 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
in all fairness, neither did they
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
MONASIMSON_REAL
― am0n, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 November 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Think Jobs was listening in on my Sunday School when I was six:
But what I've always felt that a team of people doing something they really believe in is like is like when I was a young kid there was a widowed man that lived up the street. He was in his eighties. He was a little scary looking. And I got to know him a little bit. I think he may have paid me to mow his lawn or something.And one day he said to me, "come on into my garage I want to show you something." And he pulled out this dusty old rock tumbler. It was a motor and a coffee can and a little band between them. And he said, "come on with me." We went out into the back and we got just some rocks. Some regular old ugly rocks. And we put them in the can with a little bit of liquid and little bit of grit powder, and we closed the can up and he turned this motor on and he said, "come back tomorrow."And this can was making a racket as the stones went around.And I came back the next day, and we opened the can. And we took out these amazingly beautiful polished rocks. The same common stones that had gone in, through rubbing against each other like this (clapping his hands), creating a little bit of friction, creating a little bit of noise, had come out these beautiful polished rocks.That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about.
And one day he said to me, "come on into my garage I want to show you something." And he pulled out this dusty old rock tumbler. It was a motor and a coffee can and a little band between them. And he said, "come on with me." We went out into the back and we got just some rocks. Some regular old ugly rocks. And we put them in the can with a little bit of liquid and little bit of grit powder, and we closed the can up and he turned this motor on and he said, "come back tomorrow."
And this can was making a racket as the stones went around.
And I came back the next day, and we opened the can. And we took out these amazingly beautiful polished rocks. The same common stones that had gone in, through rubbing against each other like this (clapping his hands), creating a little bit of friction, creating a little bit of noise, had come out these beautiful polished rocks.
That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
yo thanks for the link
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
I work at a software company, Apple products are great, but I don't want to be one of those rocks!
― lukas, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Moral: when a scary-looking guy says "come on into my garage I want to show you something," follow him
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol AA
― dogs in hot cardies (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DyuvZ.png
ILU, Jedward. Never change.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
And people think I'm irreverent
― mh, Friday, 18 November 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2C2oCsrqcM
yo mh this looks good
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
this is the event that that clip of gassee i linked to a couple of days ago is from -- just found it
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/379824_10150352571516721_362474601720_8394224_2131142578_n.jpg
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
did i just blow your minds or
http://fun.resplace.net/Emoticons/Uncategorized/Amazed.gif
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
that malcolm gladwell piece was 100% horrible
― Mr. Que, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
^^ it was like a book report
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
like, he was working off the same facts from the biography that were AVAILABLE TO EVERY OTHER SINGLE PERSON WHO HAD READ THE BIOGRAPHY. + some bullshit half-baked tweaked shit about tweakers.
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
did you read the biography
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
+ some bullshit half-baked tweaked shit about tweakers.
the other stuff where jobs yelled at everyone around him and stole ideas i knew about. . . the tweaker stuff was half baked, even for gladwell
― Mr. Que, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
if you read the biography and want to hear someone smart talk about it, this is good: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42
part two drops later today
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
i listened to that and it was not very good. computer people don't know how to talk on air. so many awkward gaps. and the interviewer kept asking stupid questions.
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
and the guy's main points were completely unsupported, and then he went on to do some really trivial nitpicking.
dogg, dayo... thats what book reviews in the nyer basically are
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
the tweaker stuff is basically right but havent people been saying that about jobs for like... decades now?
it wasn't a book review tho, it was "annals of technology"
― Mr. Que, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
i havent read this article but im assuming "tweaker" isnt referring to meth?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
I read the nyer for the articles, man
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
oh i thought it was in the critics section
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
heres the article slock
― Mr. Que, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I meant 'book report' in the sense that it was just a summarization of facts - what irked me was that gladwell was trying to push his specific interpretation of those facts as if they were something revelatory and not at all self-evident from the biography when it was basically just what every single other review of the book out there was saying
like he was trying to pass it off as some brilliant insight that he garnered from his own investigative sleuthing and in depth research when really he got the book on release date same as everybody else and was busting ass to get this article out so he could collect $50k from the nyer, because he's maclolm gladwell
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
at least he may have stopped pretending to be a scientist
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
xp he didn't even tell us which washing machine steve ended up getting.
― Quoth the raven "Nevermind" (ledge), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
"We ended up opting for these Miele appliances, made in Germany."
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
markers do you have that page bookmarked
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=steve+jobs+german+washing+machine
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
its pretty well known that miele makes the best washing machines
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link