Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant

[vow66]

http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-tech-technology.html

Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month.

[patriotvoice]

1. Mortality countdown.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/704293

Best wishes, Mr. Jobs.

[Ilsa]

2. That's a login page. nt

[patriotvoice]

20. Sorry about that: the article describes current research on increased mortality risk from...

the most common post-transplant stabilizer.

[Ilsa]

23. Thanks. I wasn't up to registering to another site. Seems like there's one-a-day now. nt

[patriotvoice]

24. I second that!

:thumbsup:

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Can't see the article

But Phil Lesh & David Crosby have been around for years on spare livers, and I'm guessing they both damaged their old ones a lot worse than Jobs did, back in the day.

[rcrush]

3. I bet he didnt have trouble getting one at all.

[Lorax7844]

5. considering he gave the world personal computers and the ipod

He also helped fund the creation of the world wide web, so yeah I'm gonna say he's earned it.

[Confusious]

11. He didn't invent the personal computer

Where you getting your facts from? the back of the ipod box?

[Fearless]

22. Umm... that is so unethical I'm just going to stare at you in disbelief.

[tomreedtoon]

4. If he needs to get a heart transplant...

...I don't think there's an animal species small enough to provide him one that would fit.

[Lorax7844]

6. say what you will about him personally

but he has made your life a lot easier so the snark is really not deserved

[BirminghamExaminer]

8. Apple provides benefits for same sex couples to its employees

and it gave a lot of money to fight Prop 8 in California. If, for no other reason than that, I will always root for Apple.

My gay son works for Apple. My sister works for Apple too. So yeah, I'm an Apple fan and hope Jobs gets well.

[vow66]

15. Apple only donated 100,000

for prop 8, that's not a lot of money for a multi-billion dollar company like Apple.
100,000 would not buy a average home In California.

Apple also paid 1 Million+ for the iPhone.com domain.

Priorities :eyes:

Apple donates $100,000 to fight Prop. 8
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=31899

Apple secures iPhone.com for seven-figure sum
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/02/apple_secures_iphone_com_for_seven_figure_sum____report.html

[tomreedtoon]

18. Easier? With the monopoly CRAP he's pulled?

In another message I mentioned that you have to buy anti-virus programs from other people because Microsoft won't include one inside Windows. And then there's the bloatware of Office, the vaporware that put independent small companies out of business, the Ponzi scheme of Windows licensing, their outright ripoff of the Macintosh desktop GUI...

He's made life easier for himself and his empire. J.P. Morgan is looking up from Hell and cursing, because Gates has built a monopoly even greater than his own.

[Auggie]

16. Maybe. But he's kept the technological bar raised

in innovation, quality, and ease-of-use.

[tomreedtoon]

17. His "technological bar" has beaten companies to death.

Has everyone forgotten how many companies were destroyed when Microsoft introduced "vaporware" that beat their unique apps...and then Microsoft never put out? Not to mention that Microsoft has never, ever tried to protect its users against viruses and intrusion. (Why don't they include their own damn intrinsic virus checker in Windows at no extra cost? Why are they so lazy?)

I know some IT people, and they all agree that Microsoft has used tactics that the bastardly monopolists and dirty-dog millionaires of the 1900's would envy. And no matter what crumbs he throws to charity, Gates is at the top, where the stink comes from.

[sabbat hunter]

9. full article

for those who do not want to pay murdoch to access it on WSJ website

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_12653039

[lindisfarne]

10. Treated for pancreatic cancer and gets a liver. Did he really have to wait his turn? Hmmm.

Thanks for the link. I haven't used any of his technology since the Power Mac.
Love the menu system that Microsoft stole.

[Confusious]

12. Microsoft steals from everyone.

Windows 95-vista GUI copies unix Xwindows

[vow66]

13. Great Artists Steal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRl0wuyiU1w

[Confusious]

14. Yea, but microsoft is just so blatant about it

Then tells how they are "innovating"

I wouldn't say microsoft is a great artist

Never really liked Picassos' art either

[lindisfarne]

21. Great artists create functional pieces of work. n/t

[PfcHammer]

19. Surprised he didn't go to Pakistan or India. Could've gotten a new liver

laid off his employees, and opened a new office. All at once.