California Declares Today "Steve Jobs Day" 333
First time accepted submitter onezeta writes "California Gov. Jerry Brown, in an announcement via a Twitter post, has declared it 'Steve Jobs Day.' The Apple co-founder's life as a technology trailblazer will be marked Sunday by his company's home state at a private memorial service and in a television documentary airing tonight at 8 pm EST on Discovery."
Re:NO (Score:2, Interesting)
iSorry but I declare it Dennis Ritchie Day!
I agree. How about we honor a few more true creative minds too. Steve Jobs day? Might as well declare a Nelson Rockefeller day, or a British Petroleum day. The fact that it's California doing this makes it suspect from the beginning, so I would suggest the following as more rational substitutes (feel free to add more):
Ken Thompson Day (yeah, Apple, where would you be without C and Unix?)
James Clerk Maxwell Day
Max Planck Day
Nikola Tesla Day
Einstein Day
Marie & Pierre Curie Day
Darwin Day
Jonas Salk Day
Galileo Galilei Day
Copernicus Day
Van Leeuwenhoek Day
I left Edison off the list because he was a bit too much like Jobs for my taste.
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He didn't look nor act like a magician ...
That was the best part of his act.
Just think, what, forty years ago he designed a programming language in order to port an operating system that would eventually run on everything from PDP-11's through cell phones, so they could play a computer game on (then) new hardware.
Who but dmr comes up with !@#$ like that? That was a class act.
I still haven't seen any mention of his passing in my newspaper. He's like a ghost in the machine, just as he always intended. Awesome.
Re:Another holiday: (Score:5, Interesting)
Jobs was an over-perfectionist. He commissioned a logo from Paul Rand for $100,000, and then sent memos to every retail store specifying the exact colors to use and that the logo absolutely must be tilted at precisely 22 degrees. He mandated that the NeXT Cube be a perfect cube - most manufactured cubes have a shallow draft of half a degree or so so it can be removed from the mold; at the time there was only one foundry in the country capable of forming absolute perfect cubes. His market research showed that universities (his main target demographic) wanted a powerful computer for ~$6,500; the first NeXT computer was $9,999 because of all the perfectionist things Jobs demanded be added. He bought $10,000 sofas for the office and had a full-time art curator.
If any of those things sound like bad business decisions for a company that never employed more than 600 people and never had significant sales, congratulations, you're a better businessman than Steve Jobs.