Please give the man a rest!

Now it's not good to remember the Stanford speech where he wrongfully took credit for introducing fonts in graphical interfaces:

"I decided to take a calligraphy class (at Reed College)... . . . None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. [1]"

However, Bravo was the 1st WYSIWYG editor that used multiple fonts and it was created in 1974 [2]. It was a Xerox Alto [3] software.

[1] Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1422863/posts

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(software)

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

Wondering why no-one took into account the snow factor: in my professional opinion, the sub-zero temperatures of the bay area are what caused the problem in the first place.

This is exactly what happened with the Minneapolis bridge!

From the article:
"Their ears are the most sensitive organ they have"
"The big question is what causes them to strand"

Here's an idea: if you overload their "most sensitive organ" to a point of leaving it numb for 40 minutes, that is pretty much torture.

Imagine that happening to you: a loud noise powerful enough to leave you deaf.

The answer: you run!

In the beaches, where they are stranded, these noises probably are not perceived (their ears are out of the water).

I'd rather die than continue listening to you!

We will sell you one 2 Ghz processor. But it will only be activated @ 500 MHz. You want it to run faster? mmmmmm well pal, you'll have to pay us $50. How it will be activated? send us the money, we'll send you a password. Oh naughty boy!, don't try to get this password at those ugly hacker sites. The password is wired to a serial number inside the processor. What, you want 2 Ghz? sorry, the $50 I was talking about was for 1 Ghz. For 2 GHz is $80. Oh, by the way, that is just the 1 yr fee. At the end of the period your processor will go back to 500 Mhz. But don't worry, you know where to reach us! Think about it this way: we love so much to increase the speed of your CPU that we will do it regularly!! In a way, we are liberating your CPU. (I love that word, you can use it for almost anything these days). Thanks for shopping Intel!