Steve Jobs Exhibit on Display at U.S. Patent Office Museum

bobringer said:
(related... WHY IN THE WORLD is there a PUBLICLY FUNDED museum in the US Patent Office at all??? We're $15 TRILLION in debt. Isn't it about time we make some decisions as to what the government does with the money it confiscates from me after I have earned it?)
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Bubba Satori said:
Where are the candles and incense?
Doesn't look like there is any place to kneel, either.
I wonder what that cost the country that's $17 trillion in debt?
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The patent office is one of the government agencies that doesn't cost the taxpayers anything. In fact, they tend to make more than they need, it seems.


DudeAbides59 said:
Is this the same patent office that went panhandling to congress for funding recently? Nice to see that they are spending taxpayer money wisely!:mad:
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Wikipedia says otherwise. Of course, Wiki can be wrong. What's your source?
 
Bubba Satori said:
Where are the candles and incense?
Doesn't look like there is any place to kneel, either.
I wonder what that cost the country that's $17 trillion in debt?
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bobringer said:
Since when is it the patent office's role to look for opportunities for "good press." They have a job to do. They do it poorly. They should do it better. They should not use a DIME of my tax dollars to worry about spinning their poor work for good press.
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If you guys like. you could contribute to the organisation that actually operates it.

Invent Now operates the National Inventors Hall of Fame at the headquarters of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. The museum features exhibits about all the honorees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, including digital portraits. Other exhibits include artifacts and documents from the collections of the Patent and Trademark Office.
 
Peace said:
If you guys like. you could contribute to the organisation that actually operates it.

Invent Now operates the National Inventors Hall of Fame at the headquarters of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. The museum features exhibits about all the honorees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, including digital portraits. Other exhibits include artifacts and documents from the collections of the Patent and Trademark Office.
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Donde esta tu avatar? :confused:
 
Grow up and make some more money

bobringer said:
Since when is it the patent office's role to look for opportunities for "good press." They have a job to do. They do it poorly. They should do it better. They should not use a DIME of my tax dollars to worry about spinning their poor work for good press.
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Seriously?! Go direct that argument else where, filing and maintaining a patent portfolio cost a lot of money. This office supports itself. I am willing to bet all in that it breaks even or brings in money!
 
Next iPhone?

That looks like the next iPhone with aluminum back. Can these guys know something more than the rest of us? They are the patent office, after all. Let the Rumors begin! :apple:
 
Finally, a benefit to living in northern Virginia. I will definitely go check it out in a few weeks after I'm done traveling.
 
It's cool, but I'm thinking it's probably not a good use of public money at a time when the US Government is going through a very public and painful debt crisis and tens of millions of Americans are out of work.

Let's work on cutting federal spending and fixing the economy before commissioning the next expensive Steve Jobs memorial display at the Department of Education, OK?
 
bobbleheadbob said:
It's cool, but I'm thinking it's probably not a good use of public money at a time when the US Government is going through a very public and painful debt crisis and tens of millions of Americans are out of work.

Let's work on cutting federal spending and fixing the economy before commissioning the next expensive Steve Jobs memorial display at the Department of Education, OK?
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https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13902799/

In simple English. The Museum is run by a private nonprofit organization.
 
Those all look like iPhone 3Gs. I wonder if Apple gave the patent office their old store displays to use for the exhibit.
 
People die...

People die but important people live on in our memories and in what they created. Didn't SJ have the most patents in his own name of any executive of a top company? That is what the homage is about in my eyes: He was not only leading Apple, but he continued to innovate his world. The right place for pointing that out is - of course - this place! :)
 
He prolly stole 150 of the patents, people need to realize Jobs is way overrated as an inventor, he didnt engineer *****. All he did was come up with ideas how about giving credit to the people who actually engineered the tech to make the iPhones possible most o the credit would go to samsung engineers. Get off his d!ck people! we now continue are normal broadcast of brainwashed fanboys comments.
 
bobringer said:
(related... WHY IN THE WORLD is there a PUBLICLY FUNDED museum in the US Patent Office at all??? We're $15 TRILLION in debt. Isn't it about time we make some decisions as to what the government does with the money it confiscates from me after I have earned it?)
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Yup. That's the real question that few were asking.
 
In all seriousness, jobs didnt create or invent ****; lol... He was just a good presenter for the market to make other peoples ideas and creations come to life for the user.
 
bobringer said:
WHY IN THE WORLD is there a PUBLICLY FUNDED museum in the US Patent Office at all??? We're $15 TRILLION in debt. Isn't it about time we make some decisions as to what the government does with the money it confiscates from me after I have earned it?)
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I am curious if you believe all publicly funded museums or historical monuments or libraries be completely shut down because we have a national debt and what being located in a patent office has to do with anything.

not sure why the location of the museum makes any difference, it is not like they just started this museum, it has been around since 1973

personally I feel remembering innovation and invention is more fundamentally important to our future than something like paintings or even war monuments (the actual monuments not the history)
 
Finally! iPhones that are impossibly thin! Check out the aspect ratio of the display panels . . . :)

Very cool that this was done. Tasteful too. Merry Christmas Steve. Good travels.
 
pwhitehead said:
In all seriousness, jobs didnt create or invent ****; lol... He was just a good presenter for the market to make other peoples ideas and creations come to life for the user.
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Now, I haven't read his bio yet, and maybe you have, but my understanding is that he very much invented the things that came from apple. He didn't understand the exact technological details of everything, but he had the vision for exactly how everything would work. He was the leader and visionare (visions are patentable, as are the exact technical workings that make them reality,) if not the engineer that made it reality.
 
I am starting to believe marketing outweighs true genius.

Here we have Steve Jobs being remembered as a god. All he EVER did was simplify modern UX on mobile devices. Did not really invent anything but put his 2 cents in on how it should be done. he did not design the aesthetics. Coded, implemented etc.


But then you have Dennis Ritchie not being glamoured for his genius. Created
C programming. THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING C right now. Key dev of UNIX.

Without Dennis Ritchie. Everything Steve Jobs made happen would have never happened.

No UNIX (Mac os X) No C- no iphone/ipad. coco. So who really is the genius?

The guy demanding and shouting at the people doing it. Or the person that actually created it?

Sad part about it is. Down the line my son/daughter will be shoved with steve jobs legacy as the most important era completely disregarding TRUE GENIUS.
 
miniroll32 said:
[...] If they put this much effort into meaningful ventures such as war memorials [...]
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These guys are dead and war will never cease to exist, get over it world. Works here too, huh.

There are many things worth remembering, and I think Steve Jobs is just one of them. If you can't share this, then just don't say anything about it. Nobody here says that Steve Jobs' death is more important than war or poverty or discrimination of minorities or any of all these so important problems. But you know, personally, I don't wanna think about these anonymous problems that I can't relate to or change anyway all day. Sometimes I am glad that there is this inspiring person that did something on his own, because if people like him wouldn't exist, than there would be only people like you who like to talk about all these great problems and feel so very important about it. And believe me, then there would be no hope that anything would ever change in this world.
 
Interesting. I sent MacRumors a couple of pictures from the National Portrait Gallery exhibit entitled "In Memoriam" from a very interesting 1985 picture of Steve Jobs honoring his accomplishments. He was standing on the roof of the Apple building and long hair blowing in the wind...

MacRumors published nothing.

So I gotta ask, what's the difference between these photos and the ones I submitted? Is it just because the display is "cooler?" :rolleyes:
 
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