edit: don't open the spoiler if you love Apple and/or Steve Jobs.
Spoiler:
First, let's just say it's now 100% sure Steve Jobs is not going back to Apple, ever. I like that, and hope Apple will be gone in 10 years. Pity. They came close in '97 already. I really don't like anything that company stands for, and if you come across as the "typical Apple user" to me, I won't like you either.
(Note: I'm not saying that I automatically dislike anyone using Apple products. I'm talking about the people that go like: "Apple is king, emperor and god of the computer world and nothing else is worth looking at, and as soon as they release a TV, a car and a washing mashine, then Samsung, Mercedes and Miele will go out of business.")
As I mentioned in another thread, some time ago, a colleague of mine ones said:
"Why should I think? Steve Jobs is doing that for me, all the time."
(In my not so honest opinion, if you say something like that, you're an idiot.)
Poor guy. Must be a hard life, living with a dead brain.
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Originally Posted by Billi
This.
And connected but slightly off-topic: to a German ear the thread title sounds a little bit strange. You wouldn't leave out the family name until you're personally familiar with the other person and he offered you the "Du" (an informal way of addressing someone instead of the formal "Sie" between strangers). But this may just be a cultural thing.
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It's becoming "modern" to do this in the Netherlands as well.
"So, that latest decision by Mark really ruffled my feathers, and the others just go along with it!"
- "Heh, what?"
"You know, about the increased tax on gasoline!"
- "Oh, you mean the prime minister?"
People are calling politicians and famous people by their first names for some time, and it really gets to me.
You don't talk about the prime minister or king or any public figure by just calling them by their first names. I know a few people called "Mark" or "Willem" on the top of my head, so it confuses me.