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breaking news: Steve Jobs stepping down from CEO at Apple due to health. Medical leave of absence until the end of June.
Daniel Schildt, Alberto Pose, VC Freak and 98 other people liked this
COO Tim Cook to be responsible for day to day.
- Thomas Hawk
at least a 5 month hiatus for Jobs.
- Thomas Hawk
I'd scream "FAKE", but it's Thomas Hawk.
- Ben Parr
oh my - look for my $ to go down the tubes tomorrow!
- planetMitch
SELL! SELL!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Nope - 5 month leave of absence - for health reasons
- Brian Roy
Source?
- Faramarz Hashemi
Twitter just borked
- Hutch Carpenter
Ditto - where are you hearing or seeing this ?
- Christopher Chan
FUCK
- orionstarr
source: CNBC
- Thomas Hawk
Uh-oh. In this economy Apple stock is going DOWN.
- Roberto Bonini
Well, it's not like we didn't see this coming.
- Derrick
analyst saying he expects stock to open at around $75 tomorrow down $10 from today's close.
- Thomas Hawk
Wow. End of an era.
- Tris Hussey
to be expected
- Adri Munier
It's on CNBC and trading is halted on Apple stock. Whoa.
- EricaJoy
Give it at least 2 years, and Jobs will force his way in again, and manage to oust his successor somehow...
- Tyson Key
Anyone want to keep sayign it is non of our business how his health is?
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
I'm sorry all - this is all my fault. This always happen when I buy some companies stock.
- Andy Roth
Let the lawsuits begin...
- Kevin Pedraja
check out the "Steve Jobs Lives" t-shirt :) http://tcritic.com/archive...
- karl
I was on Friendfeed when the world stopped turning
- morten saxnaes
Link to respectable source or it isn't happening.
- Jared B. Luther
email jobs sent out to all apple employees today: http://in.sys-con.com/node...
- Thomas Hawk
http://online.wsj.com/public... The breaking news banner.
- mikepk
This is the end of an era. His health must be pretty bad at this point. I wish Apple would have just taken the "we don't comment on the health of our executives" position rather than lie and lie.
- drew olanoff
:( what can you do. the company has been doing it's best to prolong the inevitable. there shouldn't be any panic in the market.
- Faramarz Hashemi
This is certainly not a good sign for him. Apple will survive and likely thrive; he may not.
- Karoli
Last time he stepped down apple went to crap I hear, I'm not happy at all.
- orionstarr
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits... Reprint of the letter
- mikepk
Heard about this about 10 mins ago, spent the next 10 mins frantically trying to get some AAPL to short.
- Steven Cains
AAPL->SELL! :(
- AJ Batac
Jim Goldman on CNBC quoting a tech industry executive as saying that Jobs health is dire and that Jobs is in denial.
- Thomas Hawk
you guys are funny
- Josh Haley
Goldman is a moron and unreliable.
- Mona Nomura
Who is Steve Jobs?
- Morgan Haley
Sold my stock momments after the announcement was made that he wasn't going to be at MacWorld. Got around $88.00 a share. Seems now to have been prudent.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Will he be resuming the CEO post then, or just sit on the board when he returns at the end of June?
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Steve's health isn't good -- anyone could see it. The exec moves over the past several months were removing contenders for the successor. Steve cultivated people with similar passions, but only one could win. Like Mac design. One ring to bind them all. It was Steve, now he won't be back.
- Mitch Ratcliffe
I hate to be cavalier, but my Mac is still running and my iPhone still works too... Time will tell if the board learned from what happened last time Steve left. WE should also be aware that the circumstances were VERY different last time.
- Brian Roy
so much for scoble's yogurt guy (ducking)
- Dave Winer
OK folks, lets all take a pill and calm down. While there is no reason to think Jobs won't be back, Apple will survive without him. To say that Apple is going to fail without him is an insult to all the creative, intelligent people at Apple who actually design and build the products.
- Kenton
CNBC says that the stock should reopen in extended trading in 10 minutes at 5pm EST.
- Thomas Hawk
There´s a rumour Jobs may be back in a white bionic iSuit already in March at 110% strength ! buy... buy my stock.. nah. ;) (Seriously hope he´ll recover though, whenever).
- Thomas Bøhm
Stock and geeky concerns aside, I gotta wish Jobs the best.
- Tom Landini
We have 5 months it install cut/paste in on the iPhone and develop a 2 button mouse, go go!
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew - when you're done can I have Flash? EDIT: Mona rightly points out that this was a tactless comment. Oops.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@Kenton; Sure but the market will overreact, hence there's money to be made.
- Steven Cains
I agree with @Kenton, Apple isn't only Jobs.
- Thom Allen
For investment purposes, people have to assume he won't be back, because a week ago he said he wasn't going anywhere. But agree with Landini, I wish Steve a long healthy life.
- Mitch Ratcliffe
+++ Matthew
- Josh Haley
This and now "Kahn" died today? What is Geekdom coming to?
- Jared B. Luther
This man is ILL and you guys are discussing FLASH ON A PHONE? Are you KIDDING ME?
- Mona Nomura
This is the next move in a series of calculated plans to have Steve step down. 5 months will be permanent.
- Spencer
I think it has been pretty crummy how Apple has bene trying to hide this from investors, so now many of them are blindsided. I hope Steve recovers but frankly Apple needs to ditch him now... no one can trust anythign Apple says about him.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Jobs become obsolete - Talent prevails (Ad on msnbc.com a couple of days back, truly not my words.)
- Tomi Itkonen
Damn. In the end this won't matter at all. Hoping for the best personally for His Jobness though!
- Mike Flynn
There is a time and place to discuss certain things. The thread is about Steve Jobs, his health, and him stepping down to go on medical leave. That is like going to a funeral and small talking about the person who passed away's funeral expenses. Disgusting and tactless.
- Mona Nomura
watch'in it on tv, shitty :(
- videopixil
Apple stock opening now. Trading around 76.
- Thomas Hawk
On search.twitter.com/?q=Steve%20Jobs you can only go back to &page=100 (100 pages back chronologically) and the oldest tweet I could see had a link to Thomas' FF post right here where we're all commenting.
- Micah Wittman
$76.60 down -$11.21 real time.
- Thomas Hawk
Mona: He ain't dead. And he certainly wouldn't wouldn't appreciate you acting like he was.
- Matthew DeVries
stock coming back a bit. down $8.72 now at $78.80.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm getting to this thread late -- is it known that he has Pancreatic cancer?
- Marko Bon
Part of Steve's problem is he is not getting enough protein. Somebody get him a steak stat!
- gfurry
damn, fight on cnbc too
- videopixil
gfurry: Were it anyone else, you could suspect the Vegan thing, because it's not easy and you have to be very smart and responsible to live a Vegan lifestyle and stay healthy, but Mr. Jobs has more money than god, he has top dieticians and cooks. It ain't the Vegan causing this.
- Matthew DeVries
Are you really asking for permission? Or looking to e-fight? -- rhetorical, which means you don't have to answer. Clearly you have no tact, so this conversation is done (from my end). Carry on.
- Mona Nomura
how can i buy some apple stocks?
- hector juarez
Mona, Chris Crocker, separated at birth? Have respect for the living, there's few things more rude than mourning someone who is ALIVE and well.
- Matthew DeVries
hector juarez, just what i was wondering. never bought stocks/shares before.
- Simon Wicks
Breaking news: Apple stock plummets!
- Tamar Weinberg
Great all my Apple stock down the drain!
- Sweyn Venderbush
Yep. $88.00 was a good price. I'll start buying at $50.00 right now. Offers?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I don't really worry about occasional dropped stocks. It will go back up again. We're in a recession anyway... the stock was naturally better in August.
- Tamar Weinberg
yikes. It's sad that one person could make or break a brand like this.
- Tsega Dinka
Tsega: it's not sad. It's human. I know Michael Jordan. How about Tiger Woods. Barack Obama? Superstars cause stuff to happen.
- Robert Scoble
That's why there is a "face of the company" position. I hope for a speedy recovery...
- Anthony Farrior
Here's the bothersome part: Yes the stock is down, yes his health is bad, but why isn't the SEC looking in to the blatant lies told by both? I don't think I'll believe anything Apple says for a long time after this.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
@Robert Scoble, Warren Buffett would be a better example, he is to Berkshire what Steve is to Apple. Even with a team of experienced leaders to succeed him, he's still the figurehead.
- Steven Cains
If a person is ill, but otherwise neurologically intact, does that really mean they can't make decisions anymore? Not in my professional opinion.
- Victor Ganata
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1... - is this news.
- yodhe
it's probably good for Jobs that this news is out. Not having to hide his health anymore means that's one big stressful thing to be out from under. Hopefully now that this news is out he can distance himself a bit from the intense scrutiny I'm sure he's been under and work on getting his health back.
- Thomas Hawk
Direct: http://www.apple.com/pr...
- Nick Humphries
I guess he hasn't been eating his apples.
- Tanath
Wow… "eating his apples"? :D That's quite creative.
- Daniel Schildt
Eight Great Banh Mi in Seattle - http://www.gourmet.com/restaur...
Kenny Louie, Steven Perez, Vicki and 16 other people liked this
"Like tacos, banh mi tend to be better the less you pay for them. When I started eating these Vietnamese sandwiches—which typically feature a choice of meat with crisp pickled vegetables (carrot, daikon, and cucumber), jalapeños, cilantro, and nuoc cham sauce on a crusty baguette—in Seattle a few years ago, they were $1.25 apiece. Now they generally start at $2.50—still the best cheap lunch in town, and one of the most popular.Here are eight of my favorites."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Oh god, I haven't had one of these in so long. I want one now!
- Miriella
Wow yum!
- BEX
I normally hide all food related posts, but damn, I can't hide this. Now I need some Banh Mi!
- Sparky
What a strange sandwich. For me it's typically American that 'Vietnamese' cuisine uses jalapeños and baguettes, but whatever tastes good works :D
- Will Higgins™
Oh man, I love a good croissant. It's the same here, lots of the Bakeries are run by Vietnamese. Still, doesn't explain the jalapeños ;) Surely they'd just use chili's over there.That being said, I LOVE jalapeños, I eat them on their own whenever I can.
- Will Higgins™
*sigh* the two spots in atlanta that i knew of that served banh mi both closed. i might have to hit buford hwy and pleasant hill road to see if i can find a new spot. mmmmm
- tiffany
O_O will need to hit that place up, ASAP....[edit] I'm sorry, hit THOSE places up, ASAP....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Perhaps, Lindsey. I go out of my way to check out food everywhere, but love the ethnic food on the Pacific Rim, of which Seattle is part of. :)
- Derrick
As a rule, I don't eat Vietnamese food, but these sandwiches are really tasty. There's a hole-in-the-wall place in Alhambra that has good ones.
- Admiral Anika
Conservatives MPs, led by Fred Nile, want topless, nude bathing banned on NSW beaches | NSW/ACT | News.com.au - http://www.news.com.au/story...
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Boooooo Booooooooooooo
- Johnny Worthington
from Bookmarklet
IMPEACH!!1!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
why??? these laws never make sense.
- anna sauce
You know how often I've heard "world's only true democracy" from Aussies since I've been online? Alot :P The things your elected reps are doing of late makes me think you shouldn't be allowed to say that anymore ;)
- Michael W. May
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
- Duncan Riley
wow and i thought only americans were scared of public nudity
- cjmart
American Pruditty has invaded and infected Aussies.
- CW™
lol, sorry!
- cjmart
Chris, it's what happens when we allow christians into parliament.
- Duncan Riley
Canon's 50mm f/1.2 lens is a piece of crap. I kick myself almost every day for spending so much money on this lens. How can such an expensive lens suck so badly at something as simple as autofocus?
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Was considering getting that among others, with a Cannon 50D. What are you using it with?
- Kevin Mullett
yeah too expensive to be failing like that... my 1.8 also sucks at autofocus but its a 70 dollars one. hehehe
- Oscar Juarez
So which 50mm do you recommend? the f/1.4?
- Alex Scoble
Try this for serious lens review: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews...
- Pierre
I was considering getting the f/1.4 it is better at autofocus then the 1.8?
- Mark Groves
Yeah, I was much happier with my f/1.4 for a helluva less amount of money. I'm using the f/1.2 on a 5d. What use is buying a fast expensive lens to shoot in low light if it's too dark to manual focus in low light and the thing can't autofocus for crap. This lens is my biggest regret of any photographic purchase I've ever made.
- Thomas Hawk
I didn't know anyone even made a f/1.2 autofocus lens. It seems technically very, very difficult.
- Kevin Fox
And that's saying a lot...because as far as I know you've made a lot of photographic purchases...well you sure saved me some money for whenever I get a Rebel.
- Alex Scoble
That sucks big time. The AF on my Nikkor 1.8 is also meh, but like Oscar said both of us paid about a fifth of what you did for the 1.2.
- Josh
Thomas do you have the same problems with your 1.2 in normal lighting conditions or just low-light? If it is only low-light it might not be just the lens. Just a thought.
- Kenton
1.2 is a quick lens, and should kick ass in low light. maybe defective?
- Morgan Haley
was it an 'L' lens?
- Morgan Haley
Low light autofocus sucks the most, but even in more reasonable light I've still been unhappy. I might not bitch so much if I only paid a couple hundred bucks or so, but when you pay $1,600 for L Series glass you really should get more than the performance that I've gotten out of this lens.
- Thomas Hawk
I'll agree that it does suck at focusing in low light, but the back focus issues some have hasn't been a problem for me. I do love the lens for normal use. I used to have the 50 1.4 too it was a great lens, far and away better than the 1.8 (some asked in this thread). I just got my 5DMII, so I'll be re-evaluating it on that body shortly...
- Ryan
Right. The jump from the f/1.8 to the f/1.4 represents great value. But the jump from the f/1.4 to the f/1.2 does not. A big part of the appeal of f/1.2 is to shoot in low light in my opinion and for the money I give the f/1.2 a fail in this regard. Will be interested in how it handles with your m2 - as well as mine if I can ever get one.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, I've found that on a 5D, the 50mm f/1.2 only focuses reliably when using the center AF point (i.e. the sole cross-type AF sensor). This speaks more to the AF system in the 5D than the lens, methinks. FWIW, I've generally been happy with the sharpness of the low-light photos I've taken at f/1.2: http://bit.ly/50mm-f1...
- Jason Chen
if it's the L lens, Canon should replace or fix it for you because it sounds like it's not working as it was designed to work. i'm sure you have looked into this deeper than anyone, but just wanted to make sure you weren't forgetting that the lens is supposed to kick all ass. when it fails to do so, i'd tell Canon. the 'L' lens mystique is something like like to maintain. if that doesn't work, i'll buy it from you for $50 bucks.
- Morgan Haley
TH - don't chuck it in until you pay with the low light on the 5d'II ;)
- Phill Price
The 50 f1.4 on the 5DMkII is awesome - I used it on my 350D until I received the 5DMkII yesterday - cheez I love Full-Frame!
- meckimac
I have been shooting the 50 f1.2 on my RED. genius stuff.
- mikehedge
Good to know, then I'll make sure to get the 1.4 - THANKS!
- Richard G
@jackhodgson it's as if Arthur sucked whatever talent was left out of Heroes' writers.
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Diddy Wants to be First Black 007 - http://75.101.134.194/rd...
Glenn Batuyong, Give 'Em DBizness, Mo Kargas and 6 other people liked this
I want a BMW 335i convertible. Neither of us will be getting what we want.
- Derrick
++D
- Carmen is cold!
This is Diddy we're talking about.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Yeah, this is Diddy we're talking about. He can't act. He can't even rhyme.
- Admiral Anika
wow, next thing you know he'll want to be a popular rapper/producer. the nerve of some egos.
- Morgan Haley
Hmm.. thinking about it - Don Cheadle ftw.
- Shawn Farner
2 words: Martin Lawrence
- Morgan Haley
Derrick, you rock.
- Michael Pardee
oooohhhhhh, don cheadle for 007. *drools*
- B. Hatin
I love Don Cheadle and I don't think he gets enough appreciation for how awesome he is. That said, he is no Bond.
- ♥patricia♥
okay pea, then who?
- B. Hatin
I really like Chiwetel Ejiofor but no one knows him (he was in Children of Men and Talk to Me w/Cheadle). Could filmmakers go with an unknown, or does the part of Bond demand a name?
- Derrick
Shemar Moore.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Omar Epps would be a great black Bond.
- Admiral Anika
OK, a bit sideways here but... who says a 007 has to be a man?
- Johnny Worthington
Shemar Moore is too pretty. Shouldn't Bond be more rugged?
- Derrick
Barack Obama? ;)
- Derrick
I'm still waiting for the OTHER "License to Kill" stories to come out. There's more 00s than 7.
- brian alexander gray
from twhirl
@Derrick The current 007 is TOO rugged.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Shey, I didn't see QoS (namely because the reviews and people who saw it gave it a meh), but not because of Craig. I thought he was all kinds of awesome in Casino Royale.
- Derrick
I don't think Diddy is capable of passing himself off as a Brit of any race. Isn't that one of the requirements that Bond is a Brit?
- April Russo (app103)
I think one of the requirements of Bond is that he's portrayed by an actor. Diddy ain't no actor.
- Derrick
Diddy wants to be 007, and I want Diddy to leave planet Earth. It's nice to want things.
- Steve Isaacs
Add him to the list of "celebrities" that Just Needs to Go Away.
- rowlikeagirl
Hadn't thought about it, but Derrick is right, Ejiofor would make a good Bond.
- Louis Simoneau
The idea of a woman playing Bond would be awesome. Find one with the looks and accent of Vanessa Mae that can portray Bond in a similar fashion as Peta Wilson played La Femme Nikita.
- April Russo (app103)
On second thought, just give the part to Peta Wilson.
- April Russo (app103)
I'm all for a rugged James Bond. Bond has been too wussified for years. Craig has brought a rugged grittiness to the role that's never been there before IMO. I had never heard of him before and boo'd the choice initially but I'm definitely a Daniel Craig fan now. I thought QoS was really good by the way.
- Give 'Em DBizness
Seriously, she would make the perfect Bond, and she is familiar with portraying that type of character: http://venus.provocateuse.com/show...
- April Russo (app103)
Derrick: I just checked that car out online. Wow. That's some bad-ass metal right there! I don't know much about beemers, but that's a sexy looking car for sure! I hope you get one and that Pdiddy doesn't get to be 007. I don't want to be selfish in what I wish for.
- Morgan Haley
I thought we cleared this up already. bond has to be British and the only black British actor that's sexy enough to pull it off is my future baby daddy, idris elba
- tiffany
Will Smith. Think about it.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Yeaahhh!! - http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008...
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awwww.... :(
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
That's what you get for teasing.
- Andrew Trinh
DENIED
- Mo Kargas
This is why people hate cops.
- Andrew
Fail.
- Colby Olson
Hah!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Just how "Boooed" do you think those cops got eh?
- Josh Haley
lol, no ladies liking this one... :)
- Zee.
She made a few happy for a while.. but alas..
- embee
Bait and Switch!
- Steve Lowe
TITS OR GTFO!
- Andrew Trinh
Wait; I think one of the pictures might be missing....
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
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