like edison or ford, i think jobs was uniquely his own person. there will undoubtedly be other tech pioneers, but there will only ever be one steve jobs.

So, all I need to do is knock up some hippie chick then get her to give our child
up for adoption?

Check.

FlashHarry: like edison or ford, i think jobs was uniquely his own person. there will undoubtedly be other tech pioneers, but there will only ever be one steve jobs.

except all three were businessman not tech pioneers. It's the old Edison vs. Tesla debate.

Yeah... pretty much anyone who has done anything of note has had a checkered past.

zedster: except all three were businessman not tech pioneers. It's the old Edison vs. Tesla debate.

this is true. but all three were brilliant businessmen who recognized emerging technology and marketed it to the masses.

I don't know much about Steve Jobs, but I'm going to guess that his parents weren't trying to "raise the next Steve Jobs". How about you just be a good parent for your child and be happy that you have a little mini-you running around and enjoying life?

You need to vaccinate your child in order to get the autism that made Jobs intensely detailed and focused....and a prick

Mock turtlenecks. Black as night and thousands of them.

Well good news then! I've already given the little Snarcoleptics pancreatic cancer. The rest is up to them.

Can't raise a kid to be open-minded without letting them explore.

Oh easy. LSD, learn to steal others ideas, take credit for said ideas. Profit. Game over.

/hopefully Jobs is roasting in hell.

KrispyKritter: zedster: FlashHarry: like edison or ford, i think jobs was uniquely his own person. there will undoubtedly be other tech pioneers, but there will only ever be one steve jobs.

except all three were businessman not tech pioneers. It's the old Edison vs. Tesla debate.

"The page "Edison Tesla debate" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered." -wikipedia

please, do tell

Tesla was employed by Edison and create alternating current (well the first viable ac commercial system) a direct competitor to DC, Edison's baby. Edison would have no part of it and shoved Tesla out. Tesla went to go work for Edison's main competitor, Westinghouse, and brought AC to market pushing the inferior DC tech out of the market. Edison ran engineering parks were he employed others and often patented and profited off their ideas. Edison was more of a businessman, venture capitalist and showman to Tesla's more inventive, socially awkward (he was OCD), hacker-eqse persona

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents (new window)

for another interesting look at Edison look into his control of movie patents, the whole reason Hollywood happened on the west coast was to escape Edison's patent war against them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company (new window)

J. Frank Parnell: FlashHarry: zedster: except all three were businessman not tech pioneers. It's the old Edison vs. Tesla debate.

this is true. but all three were brilliant businessmen who recognized emerging technology and marketed it to the masses.

Not in Edisons case. He did everything he could to stop AC/DC from being adopted, and spent the latter years of his life trying to peddle machines people could allegedly speak to dead relatives using. Why he's held in such high regard is a mystery to me.

same with Ford, he opposed the model A, he lost to GM because they allowed for customization and factory orders and was a huge supporter of the Nazi's. His sons pretty much shoved his senile crotchety butt out of the way

Leeds: J. Frank Parnell: FlashHarry: zedster: except all three were businessman not tech pioneers. It's the old Edison vs. Tesla debate.

this is true. but all three were brilliant businessmen who recognized emerging technology and marketed it to the masses.

Not in Edisons case. He did everything he could to stop AC/DC from being adopted, and spent the latter years of his life trying to peddle machines people could allegedly speak to dead relatives using. Why he's held in such high regard is a mystery to me.

Tell us more of this "AC/DC" that Edison fought against...

You don't know about the beef between Edison and Bonn Scott? Those two hated each other

mekkab: zedster: KrispyKritter: zedster: FlashHarry: like edison or ford, i think jobs was uniquely his own person. there will undoubtedly be other tech pioneers, but there will only ever be one steve jobs.

except all three were businessman not tech pioneers. It's the old Edison vs. Tesla debate.

"The page "Edison Tesla debate" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered." -wikipedia

please, do tell

Tesla was employed by Edison and create alternating current (well the first viable ac commercial system) a direct competitor to DC, Edison's baby. Edison would have no part of it and shoved Tesla out. Tesla went to go work for Edison's main competitor, Westinghouse, and brought AC to market pushing the inferior DC tech out of the market. Edison ran engineering parks were he employed others and often patented and profited off their ideas. Edison was more of a businessman, venture capitalist and showman to Tesla's more inventive, socially awkward (he was OCD), hacker-eqse persona

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents (new window)

for another interesting look at Edison look into his control of movie patents, the whole reason Hollywood happened on the west coast was to escape Edison's patent war against them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company (new window)

you are probably the only person who I could make a "westinghouse/electrocuted" joke to, who also might laugh*.


/*I say "might" becuase the chances are quite large that the joke wouldn't be funny, even if you knew the back-story.

It would have to be an elephant joke