Category: Sad

Say what you want about Apple, but the world of technology and business (and the world of movies, for that matter) would not have been the same without Steve Jobs, who passed away today. Apple’s announcement is here (and they did the right thing and took down their iPhone 4S promo on the front page of the site). To quote the man himself:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Cancer sucks. It took my uncle last week, and took Steve Jobs this week.

This will more than annoy the heck out of my in-laws, who have PBS running pretty much non-stop all day long (minus the evening local news). Instead of the sponsor messages between the shows, they’re going to start running commercials during shows, starting this fall. Here’s a graph on how a typical hour-long show might be broken up.

Does anybody else find it hilarious that a company that spends so much time and money on copy protection and DRM for Blu-rays spent so little effort on protecting paying customer’s personal information? They had a huge security breach on their Playstation Network last week, revealing the information (possibly including credit card numbers). Whoops. Sony’s spin on it (a week after it happened, mind you) is here and Motherboard.tv has a good write up of the whole mess.

It’s quite depressing, actually.

(Reminds me of another similar favorite of mine.)