I wasn't specifically talking about Indians, but in the places I've been poor people tend to eat the same food week after week. It's true that Indian food is delicious, but they don't exactly go out of their way to learn how to make foreign dishes and try new things that aren't part of their usual diet. In other words as a Mexican friend of mine said "To you it's 'Yay tonight is Mexican night!' To me every night is 'Mexican night'".

And yes McD's, Taco Bell and corn dogs are considered a special treat in a large part of the world. I'm not talking about middle class people here who are bored with that food. I'm talking about people who would spend several days wages on a Big Mac and think it's a delicacy.

Really in the 3rd world temperature is not normally used in cooking. Stoves and ovens run off propane tanks or kerosine and only have "hotter/colder" controls. Also the oven designs are so cheap and awful you can't broil nor get a consistent heat throughout. Besides that locals normally have their own tradional bread types that better match their cooking implements. Such as roti, tortillas and that spongey bread tablecloth stuff the ethiopians make.

Really they don't cook what we do and generally are uninterested in it. They're not foodies.

However if you make them some corndogs in a coffee can on a stove people will love you forever. :-)

That's just my 3rd world experience.

That's a known ADD trait, self-destructiveness and antagonizing those in relationships with them. I'm surprised it never seemed to show up in his business dealings, that is doing something suicidal to the company and wrecking things from the inside out.

Or maybe he just got lucky and his suicide moves turned out to be market successes.

Fanboy alert, I did read the Issacson book.

It had an interesting bit about the RDF and Jobs' reasoning behind it. The basic gist of it is that while a young guy he went to India and found himself a guru while immersing himself in "Eastern religion". Apparently during this time he learn the power of intuition and that at times it can triumph over the facts or what reason would tell you. It seems that this became a core belief of his and would color his views of what is and isn't possible.

So basically in rejecting western thought processes and harsh rationality he believed he could bend reality to his will. This later comes up when he is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and tries to cure himself with odd diets and fasting.

True at times he would use it as a marketing trick to assert things that he didn't want the public to know about, such as denying that certain products were in development. At other times when using the RDF he indeed did believe such things and often succeeded in accomplishing what others would view as impossible. Such as negotiating record company contracts, getting Gorilla glass for the iPhones in time and forcing product thinness on his engineers.

Actually it was caused by an innocent misunderstanding and translation error.

Bob said "Hey Steve, why don't you go pick up salami for us?"

Steve heard this uncommon local slang for "Go to the store and buy us Salami sandwiches" and misunderstood it to mean "Arrest S.Allami as a terrorist".

It's a completely understandable mistake and shows not that the US government has gone overboard with fears of terrorism, but their love of juicy salami sandwiches. Keep your eye on government employee waistlines.

This chart has already been torn apart on Junk charts. Basically their statistics and reporting are so vague as to make it worthless. But yes, you may be surprised ... lies, damn lies and statistics.

Bazinga!

Wanted to pick up a copy of Tucker: The man and his dream today. So I check out used prices on Amazon and Paypal. Both selling used from $60-90. Daaaang. Well I wanted to avoid DRM and have a nice portable copy, but $60 is a bit much for that, so I figured I'll get it for $10 on iTunes and only play it on iDevices. Eh.

Well it's only for rent at $4. Every single comment in the reviews mentions that it should be for sale. Huh... oh maybe Amazon is selling it. Dang, $4 rental there too.

What's the point in making it rental only? It's not like the makers profit off the used DVD market, or did one of them buy a pallet of them? Besides that, the movie is from 1994, it should be $0.99 and not "new release" price.

Oh well, I'm not going to pirate it... I'm going to wait for it from the library. If I can't own it I won't pay to rent it. Total cost to the movie studios? -$10.

There you have it, one good rant deserves another.

Cuz of killer bees.

If you like text bigger than the average person, and zoom in to get it, then you end up having to scroll back and forth to read lines.

That sounds pretty big, making it what... a 432 point font? That is assuming 6 foot tall would be bigger than the average person. Lots of scrolling indeed!