Junto aqui duas das melhores homenagens que vi sobre Steve Jobs:
A primeira do xkcd.com teorizando sobre o que seria um memorial a ele na imagem acima.
A segunda é um texto do The Onion enviado por @alexferrer que verdadeiramente capta o espírito dessa perda, onde o mais louco é fazer isso com humor ao mesmo tempo.
CUPERTINO, CA—Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuck he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his shit together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen. "This is a dark time for our country, because the reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over." Obama added that if anyone could fill the void left by Jobs it would probably be himself, but said that at this point he honestly doesn’t have the slightest notion what he’s doing anymore.
Agora eu entendo perfeitamente quando alguém enche a boca para falar que viu Pelé jogar.
Essa é a primeira imagem que se tem notícia no formato "digital". Foi nessa foto em que Russell Kirsch mandou seu filho aos bits através de um scanner, ela marca quando a sutileza do analógico deu espaço ao quadrado/aproximação dos pixels.
Hoje aos 81 anos, Russell Kirsch está disposto a consertar seu "erro" através de um algoritmo mais robusto para apresentação das imagens. Abaixo a foto do mesmo filho dele (hoje com 53), num comparativo entre o velho e o novo método:
About:
Russell Kirsch says he's sorry.
More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film was shattered to bits.
The square pixel became the norm, thanks in part to Kirsch, and the world got a little bit rougher around the edges.
Kirsch's method assesses a square-pixel picture with masks that are 6 by 6 pixels each and looks for the best way to divide this larger pixel cleanly into two areas of the greatest contrast. The program tries two different masks over each area -- in one, a seam divides the mask into two rough triangles, and in the other a seam creates two rough rectangles. Each mask is then rotated until the program finds the configuration that splits the 6-by-6 area into sections that contrast the most. Then, similar pixels on either side of the seam are fused.
Faça uso dessa invenção maravilhosa que é a barra de rolagem e dê uma olhada em tudo que já foi feito com um dos personagem fictícios mais importantes do século XX de 1933 a 2013.
