[leveller] Re: Farewell Steve

Well said, Ray. 
And I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with OS X and iOS. Leveller on OS 
X? Leveller is still the best software I've found for creating/editing 
heightfields.

David Fierstein

On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Ray Gardener wrote:

> As many places are reporting, Steve Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple and 
> former CEO, passed away today at the age of 56.
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> I just wanted to say, for what it’s worth, he was someone I admired. He was 
> there doing great things from the beginning of my IT career, and was doing 
> them right up to the very end of his all-too-short life. I always envied his 
> ability to pursue quality at a level I wish I could. Too often I find it a 
> struggle; he made it look easy.
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> Occasionally, people are impressed by something I’ve done and I tell them, it 
> shows what is possible if you stick at things. But Steve Jobs did that much 
> better, he really showed what is possible. While most everyone else was 
> incrementally trying to improve the status quo, he went and reinvented it. He 
> didn’t wait for the future, he created it. We are all so much further ahead 
> because of this extraordinary individual.
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> Before I was a programmer, I was a typesetter using Macs and 
> Illustrator/PageMaker to make a living. Even that far back, Apple saved me 
> the headache of having to use the PC, which was nowhere near that ease of use 
> at the time for that type of work. Today I carry around an iPhone 4 which has 
> vastly more computing power and display quality than the first machines I 
> learned on in school. Sometimes I have to pause and reflect on just how far 
> we’ve come in only 30 years. And a big part of that is due to him.
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> As a developer with some time on the Mac, I didn’t always like some of the 
> technical particulars of the various APIs the Mac OS’s used back in the late 
> 90s. But Jobs refused to let Apple die, and he slowly but surely made things 
> better. It was my pleasure to re-up as an Apple developer a few months ago, 
> and I’m looking forward to learning to develop for OS X and iOS.
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> It’s not going to be the same without him. I don’t even want to think about 
> what people closer to him are going through; this is so terribly hard even at 
> a distance.
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> Thank you Mr. Jobs -- for everything -- and may you rest in peace.
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> Ray Gardener
> Daylon Graphics Ltd.
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