No, it's actually not "very easy". The 5-year survival rate for pancreatic NET is about 54% on average. Not bad but hardly a guaranteed cure. Steve actually ended up making it 8 years. It's not clear that a 9 month delay in treatment at the very beginning, out of 8 years, would have made the difference between life and death. It might have, but we'll never know; and it certainly doesn't warrant 99% confidence.Steve was diagnosed with an extremely rare type of cancer which is actually very easy to cure. I'm 99% sure that if he got the help he needed right away he would be still the CEO. It's makes me so angry that such smart man believed such bs.
I missed having to use punch cards in my college programming classes by one semester. Glad I missed them.I remember using COBOL, tapes, punch cards and Fortran.
Same here, I really like the community here. Before I started posting regularly, I also would visit Cult of Mac, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider. I still visit those sites, but no where near as much as MacRumors.While there aren't too many Macrumors these days, I'm still glad this site is around. They outlived every other early 2000s rumor site in editorial and community. The fact we have a 'Mac forum' not in Facebook or Reddit is fantastic. Us old-geezers still get to talk with other Mac users on an independently ran site.
Same here, I really like the community here. Before I started posting regularly, I also would visit Cult of Mac, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider. I still visit those sites, but no where near as much as MacRumors.
And I have not had any desire to register for those sites and post in the forums - either the forums / posts seemed to be low volume, or I just didn't care for the general tone of most of the posts / posters. Sure, I don't agree with everything everyone says here in the MacRumors forum, but:
A) I doubt everyone agrees with what I say
B) There are a lot of smart/funny/good people posting here
C) I learn a lot about technical matters that are deeper than what I have worked with as a developer and BA in IT (especially @cmaier, but not just him).
I don't participate in a lot of forums because there is a lot of toxic behavior, but I don't see that much at all here at MacRumors.
Care to explain how Musk is a scammer ?Happiest birthday Steve I wish you were still around so we could have someone to smack the scamming conmen Zuckerberg/Musk/Dorsey upside the head. This trinity of tech leaders today is poison.
Happy half day anniversary to this post!This wishing products a websites a happy birthday has got to stop.
it’s a nice anniversary for the creator but that’s it.
I'm proud we've survived and grown since early 2000s. The Mac-web is very different today than it was when we started. There used to be a lot of smaller Mac/Apple-sites around, but I guess there's been consolidation over the years with the smaller publications being unable to survive.
I wonder if Cook gets sick of living under Jobs' shadow...
I mean - it's not every job you take that every time the previous, now dead person would have had a birthday, you have to publically write some inspiring dross.
Happiest birthday Steve I wish you were still around so we could have someone to smack the scamming conmen Zuckerberg/Musk/Dorsey upside the head. This trinity of tech leaders today is poison.
You joined on my BDay lol and like 2 months after me lol. We be old lol.Right behind you! Joined MacRumors in ‘ought two. Started on mainframes in ‘68, programming Apple stuff since ‘85. Loved ya Steve!
Yeah this board has always been a mainstay for me. Check it every day even though I no longer own anything AppleYou should be very proud. Virtually all the automotive forums I used to love are now long gone or are desolate wastelands, with the only posters being spam bots. It's a real shame as there were so many funny threads, discussions, photo how-to guides that have proved invaluable, information and sales areas, all been destroyed by Facebook and YouTube videos.
Long live MR. We members might not all agree on stuff on this site, but on that one I think we can.
I wonder if Cook gets sick of living under Jobs' shadow...
I mean - it's not every job you take that every time the previous, now dead person would have had a birthday, you have to publically write some inspiring dross.