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Perhaps less frightening when you consider that he manage to cut the end-user price of kerosene by 90%.
Cut prices on a finite and polluting resource. No, not really less frighting. Also a reminder that the term "visionary" is very relative to your horizon.
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What pain and suffering did he cause, other than running his business better and offering a better product to customers than his competitors? He cut the price of kerosene by 90%, which must have vastly improved the quality of life for a lot of people.
Blowing up competitors comes to mind.
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Blimey. Fascinating. Sounds like a rather frightening and ruthless individual. Am curious. What would your nominations be for the Rockefeller of the tech (software/hardware) world? Ever thought about that?
Bill Gates with Microsoft. At its peak Windows was running on 90% of computers and the biggest rival Apple (Steve Jobs) was taking money from Microsoft (Bill G) to survive. Bill was able to leverage almost all other software companies to create software for Windows to create a lock in fro the customers.
It's hard to see how many people suffered who didn't fail thanks mainly to their own mistakes. I'd put DR, IBM (Lotus), Novell and Netscape in that group.
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> Hmm, does his charitable efforts these days make up for the pain and suffering he caused back when he was a barracuda? No. Changing doesn't remove your past sins and helping one person doesn't balance your hurting another. To believe so would mean saving a life makes up for taking another life, obviously it doesn't.
Does that mean he should stop and go back to being a barracuda? It's certainly not fair to make the comparison of saving one life in exchange for taking another. A better comparison would be saving many (millions?) of poor, non-white lives in exchange for stealing money from privileged white men (majority of people in the software industry during his era).
In the 1980s, Apple went round Hong Kong, Taiwan and China suing companies for making knockoffs of the Apple II (ie better, faster, more reliable and much cheaper versions of the Apple II). Then along came the PC industry, which welcomed them -- and their innovations -- with open arms.
How do you balance a handful of self-righteous American programmers against the wealth and the millions of jobs generated by Acer, Asus, MSI, Hon Hai, Wistron, Pegatron, Quanta, Compal, Inventec, etc?
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Blimey. Fascinating. Sounds like a rather frightening and ruthless individual. Am curious. What would your nominations be for the Rockefeller of the tech (software/hardware) world? Ever thought about that?
Bill Gates with Microsoft. At its peak Windows was running on 90% of computers and the biggest rival Apple (Steve Jobs) was taking money from Microsoft (Bill G) to survive. Bill was able to leverage almost all other software companies to create software for Windows to create a lock in fro the customers.
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I would equate only Musk to him with respect to creating lasting change.
What lasting change has Musk effected? The potential is certainly there, but the average person's life isn't much different than it would be had Musk never existed.
http://www.teslamotors.com/de_AT/blog/promise-electric-vehic...
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What stylistic means, if you don't mind my asking?
Overtly bias portrayals to an extent that it becomes celebratory in nature. While I can understand the need to do so, it has become so ingrained that it is impossible find any historically objective documentary that allows viewers to understand the mindset of the period.
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Overtly bias portrayals to an extent that it becomes celebratory in nature. While I can understand the need to do so, it has become so ingrained that it is impossible find any historically objective documentary that allows viewers to understand the mindset of the period.
Thanks. So, hagiographic? Or just plain biased.
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Did you read my comment? The average person can't take advantage of anything offered by the private space industry.
The average person doesn't make use of communication satellites? Ok, maybe not directly, but without them you wouldn't be able to live sports on TV. http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/14/falcon-9-launches-orbc... http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/08/06/spacex-launches-asiasa...