a campus full of employees wielding camera and internet equipped iphones coudn't get photographic evidence of Steve showing up to work? not even an SL55AMG parked a crypt spot?
ohh, and they reported it to an italian website...
a campus full of employees wielding camera and internet equipped iphones coudn't get photographic evidence of Steve showing up to work? not even an SL55AMG parked a crypt spot?
ohh, and they reported it to an italian website...
Having spent time around his Steveness, I would guess that to be the easiest way these days to become a "former" Apple employee. I mean really, the man is fighting a battle with pancreatic cancer. He may or may not be in remission, but it will be years, if ever, before he gets a clean bill of health.
Leave him be.
Or would you rather his every waking move be blasted about day and night like the tabloids have done with Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Swayze and their battles with cancer?
Oh, and for all the folks that have bashed about the issue of the Handicap parking space. You do realize that under California law he does qualify for a badge, right?
Having spent time around his Steveness, I would guess that to be the easiest way these days to become a "former" Apple employee. I mean really, the man is fighting a battle with pancreatic cancer. He may or may not be in remission, but it will be years, if ever, before he gets a clean bill of health.
Leave him be.
Or would you rather his every waking move be blasted about day and night like the tabloids have done with Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Swayze and their battles with cancer?
Oh, and for all the folks that have bashed about the issue of the Handicap parking space. You do realize that under California law he does qualify for a badge, right?
I agree that people ought to leave the guy alone. That said, I really and truly do hope this bit of news is true. Steve has done so much to revolutionize the way products are designed and built that frankly it makes me sad to think of Apple without him. And, I'll confess it: hearing that he was well and back at Apple did actually brighten my day.
Instead of you all acting like a bunch of 60's school girls outside of a beatle's concert waiting for a glimpse of your hero you should instead be concentrating on the obvious question.
Why was Jobs back on campus so soon? Yes, perhaps he is speaking to his teams about the keynote address. But do you think there might be something more specific or urgent that has come up that would make Jobs come back to campus almost a month early?
Good to see the sandostatin injections have allowed him some mobility as he begins his goodbye to Apple.
For those that haven't had their rational thinking lobotomized by acute emotional investiture, here's a sample of some of the countless quotes all over the web making the obvious diagnosis from patient history,( eg long delay of recommended URGENT risk reducing surgery) with the starting point made easy from Apple's consistent/predictable RENOWN history of deceit;
I am a physician, and my best guess is that it is a glucagonoma. The tests to confirm diabetes and thyroid disease are not very "sophisticated," and it would not take months to diagnose these ailments. Glucagonomas are associated with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. This does not bode well for Apple or Steve- this is a poor prognosis with a life expectancy of 3-4 years . Try looking up "glucagonoma" on wikipedia, you will see that it is associated with excessive protein catabolism, and treated with sandostatin injections (which will only help temporarily).
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I believe that DoctorJ is correct -- it is a glucagonoma. I say that because I have a glucagonoma and the time course and symptoms of my illness parallel Jobs'. I had surgery 4.5 years ago to remove the tail of my pancreas and the main tumor. For about 18 months after that, nothing happened. Then metastasis was detected in my liver and it is getting steadily worse. I have lost weight in a manner similar to Jobs. I get monthly Octreotide (Sandostatin) shots which chemically neutralizes the excess glucagon produced by the tumors. Thus I have no visible skin symptoms, though I do have a constant rash hidden by clothing. The Apple characterization "hormonal imbalance" is technically truthful since glucagon is a digestive hormone. But the liver metastasis is inoperable (many small tumors) and also not a good candidate for radiation or traditional chemo. Sloan-Kettering has a clinical trial underway for a non-traditional chemo (a monoclonal antibody). Another treatment that buys time is called chemoembolization of the liver, which cuts off the tumors' blood supply (but which is not a cure). Glucagonoma is extremely rare -- the estimated annual rate of occurrence is 1 in 20 million people. Like most glucagonoma patients, I had terrible skin rashes for 4 years that were misdiagnosed as atopic dermatitis by multiple (8)dermatologists. A deep vein thrombosis almost killed me in 2004 and led to the diagnosis and subsequent surgery to remove the main tumor. I had no prior risk factors for cancer (e.g., smoking). Maybe glucagonoma will be known in the future as "Steve Jobs' Disease."
I vote for Steve coming into the campus to put his blessing on the final production version of the forthcoming Apple tablet/netbook (think Always Innovating Touch Book, done Apple-style); with complimentary iPhone nano product that tethers with previously mentioned tablet/netbook to provide 3G mobile broadband connectivity?
ENJOY your Apple brainwashed induced delusion while you can !
I heard a pastor once say that "When you put pressure on someone, what is hidden inside comes forth." I think there is a corollary to that too: when you remove constraint, what is hidden becomes visible.
The internet has this curious effect in that it removes the social pressures that normally keep people from acting like complete buffoons, and the perceived anonymity and lack of constraint in it seduces them into showing off just what sort of people they really are under all the social veneer.
We are talking about a person, here - this is a real human being who has, according to you, a terminal disease. Don't you think you might muster up just a tiny bit of common sense and basic decency in how you behave about that, or is it asking a bit too much of you?
I have mixed feelings. While I am ecstatic for his family and friends, I think it's time for him to let go, and extinguish once-and-for all the 'Jobs-put' in the stock price.
He should take on a BG-like role.... e.g., "Chief Guru" or something along those lines.
Sadly its not steve who has to let go .. We all should look in the mirror .
Good to see the sandostatin injections have allowed him some mobility as he begins his goodbye to Apple.
For those that haven't had their rational thinking lobotomized by acute emotional investiture, here's a sample of some of the countless quotes all over the web making the obvious diagnosis from patient history,( eg long delay of recommended URGENT risk reducing surgery) with the starting point made easy from Apple's consistent/predictable RENOWN history of deceit;
ENJOY your Apple brainwashed induced delusion while you can !
Unless you've actually spoken to his doctor and can produce documented proof, you're full of enough baloney to make a sandwich.
The truth is no one knows for certain what Jobs' problem is and what his current condition is.
Medical geniuses like you who barely made it past pig dissection in high school (you ARE out of high school, right??) have already put him on his deathbed months ago. Yet here he is, months later, walking around the Apple campus, and by the looks of it unescorted and under his own power.
The only way anyone can be remotely certain of anything is to just wait it out. A lot of members on AI are happy to have received what looks ot be positive news about his health, for once, and it's natural to be a little more hopeful because of it. There's some excitement over it and rightly so. It's Steve Jobs after all, the man to whom the entire tech industry owes its thanks for binging us out of the dark ages of computing. It's just that simple.
And really, if you're going to post like that, you won't have much fun around here. Windows shills, astroturfers, and the masses of poor Windows Stockholm-syndrome sufferers rarely do.
Ever hear of "Cabin Fever"? For someone who's always on the move sitting still at home has got to be driving him crazy.
I would bet though he's been out of the country. The whereabouts of Apple One would give you a clue. Cancer medicine in Europe is far more advanced than here. Fewer lawsuits and better research have led them ahead of US in many ways in the medical field.
Either way, welcome back Steve, don't push it. C-Ya at WWDC...
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NICE.
I feel the force...
Can someone make Steve into Captain Kirk? Steve is a trekker!
ohh, and they reported it to an italian website...
Written like someone who has never worked for him.
You beat me to it...
Thanks.
a campus full of employees wielding camera and internet equipped iphones coudn't get photographic evidence of Steve showing up to work? not even an SL55AMG parked a crypt spot?
ohh, and they reported it to an italian website...
Having spent time around his Steveness, I would guess that to be the easiest way these days to become a "former" Apple employee. I mean really, the man is fighting a battle with pancreatic cancer. He may or may not be in remission, but it will be years, if ever, before he gets a clean bill of health.
Leave him be.
Or would you rather his every waking move be blasted about day and night like the tabloids have done with Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Swayze and their battles with cancer?
Oh, and for all the folks that have bashed about the issue of the Handicap parking space. You do realize that under California law he does qualify for a badge, right?
Having spent time around his Steveness, I would guess that to be the easiest way these days to become a "former" Apple employee. I mean really, the man is fighting a battle with pancreatic cancer. He may or may not be in remission, but it will be years, if ever, before he gets a clean bill of health.
Leave him be.
Or would you rather his every waking move be blasted about day and night like the tabloids have done with Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Swayze and their battles with cancer?
Oh, and for all the folks that have bashed about the issue of the Handicap parking space. You do realize that under California law he does qualify for a badge, right?
I agree. Leave the guy alone.
When do we get the thread on when he enters and leaves the building?
How about his bathroom trips?
#1 or #2?
A little something from MDN today.
Oh wow, yeah that pretty cool.
Why was Jobs back on campus so soon? Yes, perhaps he is speaking to his teams about the keynote address. But do you think there might be something more specific or urgent that has come up that would make Jobs come back to campus almost a month early?
For those that haven't had their rational thinking lobotomized by acute emotional investiture, here's a sample of some of the countless quotes all over the web making the obvious diagnosis from patient history,( eg long delay of recommended URGENT risk reducing surgery) with the starting point made easy from Apple's consistent/predictable RENOWN history of deceit;
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/05/steve...eryone-relax/2
I am a physician, and my best guess is that it is a glucagonoma. The tests to confirm diabetes and thyroid disease are not very "sophisticated," and it would not take months to diagnose these ailments. Glucagonomas are associated with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. This does not bode well for Apple or Steve- this is a poor prognosis with a life expectancy of 3-4 years . Try looking up "glucagonoma" on wikipedia, you will see that it is associated with excessive protein catabolism, and treated with sandostatin injections (which will only help temporarily).
I believe that DoctorJ is correct -- it is a glucagonoma. I say that because I have a glucagonoma and the time course and symptoms of my illness parallel Jobs'. I had surgery 4.5 years ago to remove the tail of my pancreas and the main tumor. For about 18 months after that, nothing happened. Then metastasis was detected in my liver and it is getting steadily worse. I have lost weight in a manner similar to Jobs. I get monthly Octreotide (Sandostatin) shots which chemically neutralizes the excess glucagon produced by the tumors. Thus I have no visible skin symptoms, though I do have a constant rash hidden by clothing. The Apple characterization "hormonal imbalance" is technically truthful since glucagon is a digestive hormone. But the liver metastasis is inoperable (many small tumors) and also not a good candidate for radiation or traditional chemo. Sloan-Kettering has a clinical trial underway for a non-traditional chemo (a monoclonal antibody). Another treatment that buys time is called chemoembolization of the liver, which cuts off the tumors' blood supply (but which is not a cure). Glucagonoma is extremely rare -- the estimated annual rate of occurrence is 1 in 20 million people. Like most glucagonoma patients, I had terrible skin rashes for 4 years that were misdiagnosed as atopic dermatitis by multiple (8)dermatologists. A deep vein thrombosis almost killed me in 2004 and led to the diagnosis and subsequent surgery to remove the main tumor. I had no prior risk factors for cancer (e.g., smoking). Maybe glucagonoma will be known in the future as "Steve Jobs' Disease."
http://blog.delawareinc.com/2009/05/...health-issues/
etc etc etc
ENJOY your Apple brainwashed induced delusion while you can !
ENJOY your Apple brainwashed induced delusion while you can !
I heard a pastor once say that "When you put pressure on someone, what is hidden inside comes forth." I think there is a corollary to that too: when you remove constraint, what is hidden becomes visible.
The internet has this curious effect in that it removes the social pressures that normally keep people from acting like complete buffoons, and the perceived anonymity and lack of constraint in it seduces them into showing off just what sort of people they really are under all the social veneer.
We are talking about a person, here - this is a real human being who has, according to you, a terminal disease. Don't you think you might muster up just a tiny bit of common sense and basic decency in how you behave about that, or is it asking a bit too much of you?
Thanks;
TT
I have mixed feelings. While I am ecstatic for his family and friends, I think it's time for him to let go, and extinguish once-and-for all the 'Jobs-put' in the stock price.
He should take on a BG-like role.... e.g., "Chief Guru" or something along those lines.
Sadly its not steve who has to let go .. We all should look in the mirror .
Good to see the sandostatin injections have allowed him some mobility as he begins his goodbye to Apple.
For those that haven't had their rational thinking lobotomized by acute emotional investiture, here's a sample of some of the countless quotes all over the web making the obvious diagnosis from patient history,( eg long delay of recommended URGENT risk reducing surgery) with the starting point made easy from Apple's consistent/predictable RENOWN history of deceit;
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/05/steve...eryone-relax/2
http://blog.delawareinc.com/2009/05/...health-issues/
etc etc etc
ENJOY your Apple brainwashed induced delusion while you can !
Unless you've actually spoken to his doctor and can produce documented proof, you're full of enough baloney to make a sandwich.
The truth is no one knows for certain what Jobs' problem is and what his current condition is.
Medical geniuses like you who barely made it past pig dissection in high school (you ARE out of high school, right??) have already put him on his deathbed months ago. Yet here he is, months later, walking around the Apple campus, and by the looks of it unescorted and under his own power.
The only way anyone can be remotely certain of anything is to just wait it out. A lot of members on AI are happy to have received what looks ot be positive news about his health, for once, and it's natural to be a little more hopeful because of it. There's some excitement over it and rightly so. It's Steve Jobs after all, the man to whom the entire tech industry owes its thanks for binging us out of the dark ages of computing. It's just that simple.
And really, if you're going to post like that, you won't have much fun around here. Windows shills, astroturfers, and the masses of poor Windows Stockholm-syndrome sufferers rarely do.
I would bet though he's been out of the country. The whereabouts of Apple One would give you a clue. Cancer medicine in Europe is far more advanced than here. Fewer lawsuits and better research have led them ahead of US in many ways in the medical field.
Either way, welcome back Steve, don't push it. C-Ya at WWDC...
Maybe helping finalize the content of the keynote address?
I hope he comes on stage in a cocoon as if being reborn and hopefully not stuck in it ala Spinal Tap.
That's the funniest thing I have pictured in a while!
WWDC 2009: Smell the Glove
We wish you the best Steve!
When I read the report, my first feeling was skepticism - it was on a foreign website, and one I'd never heard from before.
Any information confirming or denying the accuracy of the message would be very helpful, thanks.