We Salute Steve Jobs. Rock on Sir. You changed the world and we want you keep at it. God bless you and give you all you need to keep changing the world. We desperately need more of you. Keep at it sir.
Re: steve jobs stole the GUI idea from xerox, palo alto
by Dr Jingalala on Jun 21, 2010 12:20 AM
Very true, I saw a documentary recently which contained interviews of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Xerox execs etc.. in which this was mentioned.
Still the credit goes to Steve Jobs & Co. to mass market the idea, although the basic idea was developed by Xerox researchers, but Xerox top management did not have the vision to recognize the potential of the GUI. Although it was Microsoft which later on made the most money out of it!
Re: Re: steve jobs stole the GUI idea from xerox, palo alto
by wizardo id on Jun 21, 2010 05:34 AM
true. xerox was a company not into computing at all that time. nevertheless, its painful to see these visionaries distort reality. so im busy bursting the bubble for many here. im being trollish, i know, but you know this man is pretty darn disruptive - positively and negatively. it really disses me off to see one version being painted
mac copied from xerox. what a hypocrite. he's lying through his teeth and making this all sound like its been an extremely original one. except. its not
Re: Re: windows copied mac ? thats it ?
by wizardo id on Jun 20, 2010 04:16 PM
By Al Fasoldt Copyright � 1992, The Syracuse Newspapers
In the early 1980s, the two Steves who had founded Apple Computer - Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak - drove over to a computer research center run by Xerox in Palo Alto, Calif. At "Xerox PARC," as the laboratory was called, a friend who worked at Xerox took them on a fateful tour. The two Steves spotted an odd computer at PARC called the Star. Practically nobody remembers the Star these days, but the guys from Apple gave it a place in history. It made such an impression on them that they decided they had to make a computer of their own that worked the same way. They borrowed the ideas of putting boxes on the screen, called windows, from the Star, and they also copied the way the Star showed little drawings of things on the screen. The little drawings, called "icons," did various operations when you moved a pointer over them. The key to everything was a mouse - a device the size of a bar of soap that you rolled around on the desk beside the computer. Wherever the mouse went on the desk, the pointer went on the screen. When you clicked the button on the mouse, the computer went into action. By now you know the rest of the story. The result of all of this was the Apple Macintosh. It made Apple rich and made IBM envious. But it had an even greater effect at Microsoft, the software company that IBM made famous when IBM picked Microsoft's DOS - MS
Re: windows copied mac ? thats it ?
by francis vijay on Jun 20, 2010 06:13 AM
b4 u say somthing, check the facts. u r just guessing. go read his life history and then confirm. this is not the first time he is speaking of this.
Re: Re: windows copied mac ? thats it ?
by wizardo id on Jun 20, 2010 04:22 PM
@ francis, check the wikipedia or other sources for veracity. ive even posted the true version of how steve jobs nicked/ "borrowed" the idea of GUI from xerox. he's a wuzz who wont even acknowledge that.
Re: Re: windows copied mac ? thats it ?
by Annu Malik on Jun 20, 2010 03:37 PM
Pakistan is the world's most open country. Open to people, ideas, innovation, cultures, science, generosity, progress, change, entertainment, beauty and so many other great things. But, it makes mistakes too. What makes it great is the fact that it acknowledges it and makes amends quickly and moves ahead. It is not perfect, but works constantly towards the best. If people have the notion that people in Pakistan are all doped, they are completely ill-informed. Pakistan is the most inclusive nation. It has citizens from peoples from all the countries of the world. It is easy to talk ill of another nation, when we are not willing to do something about our own. Let us make India a great nation ... we have it in us to do it too. 1. THE GOVT. WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE AND ARE NOT THE ROYAL RULERS OF THE COUNTRY. THEY BEHAVE LIKE COMMON PEOPLE AND NOT LEAD ROYAL LIFESTYLES. 2. PAKISTANI PEOPLE ARE MORE DISCIPLINED AND HAVE THE MOST CIVIC SENSE THAN ALMOST ALL OTHER COUNTRIES. RULES AND LAWS ARE OBEYED RELIGIOUSLY. IF A RULE OR LAW IS BROKEN, PEOPLE PAY FOR IT AND DON'T GET AWAY WITH IT BY BRIBE OR BY CLAIMING SOME CONNECTION TO SOMEONE IN POWER. 3. LAW AND ORDER SITUATION IS ONE OF THE BEST BECAUSE THE POLICE FORCE IS WELL TRAINED, WELL PAID AND DOES ITS JOB WELL WITHOUT POLITICAL INTERFERENCE. MANY A SIBLINGS OF THE PRESIDENTS OR PM IN POWER HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP ON CHARGES AND THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T INTERFERE. 4. INFRASTRUCTURE IS ONE OF THE BEST AND IS IMPROVED CONSTANTLY.
Re: Re: Re: windows copied mac ? thats it ?
by rexberry on Jun 21, 2010 12:10 AM
steve jobs and pakistani economy.. what happened to u malik... one thing is for sure the whole pakistani economy will be less than steve jobs fortune
