{"id":270,"date":"2007-03-08T19:46:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=270"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:30","slug":"an-encouraging-motto-for-a-day-of-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/an-encouraging-motto-for-a-day-of-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"An encouraging motto for a day of disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>\u201cAll the best things I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever.\u201d <\/strong><\/span><span><strong>Woz (Apple)*. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is round about 7 years ago now that we started working intensively on building up the brand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biestmilch.de\/index.php?id=6\">biestmilch.com<\/a> and it is 4 years now that we began consequently telling \u00bbthe other story\u00ab about regulatory principles of our body, about phenomena of balance that are beyond mainstream biology.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"288\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.biestmilch.de\/fileadmin\/flashfiles\/biest_reguliert_final.swf\" \/><embed width=\"445\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biestmilch.de\/fileadmin\/flashfiles\/biest_reguliert_final.swf\" wmode=\"transparent\" quality=\"high\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Today we tried to implement a video conference between Germany and Australia. The plan was to do an audiovisual documentary on the whole process. We failed to do so because the connection to Sydney was too slow, the delay between the US and Australia finally added up to 400msec, much too long a time to build up solid video stream. I had to send all my guests home. You can imagine how frustrating it was. Especially, if you try to be innovative and compensate for ideas your shortage of money.<\/p>\n<p><span>In situations like this a sentence like the one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woz.org\/\">Steve Wozniak*<\/a> can be encouraging at least for one day <\/span><span>disasterous <\/span><span>like ours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1975 with a &#8220;Blue Box&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/woz_jobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Woz_jobs\" alt=\"Woz_jobs\" src=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/biest_blog\/images\/woz_jobs.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"344\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Steve Wozniak <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades. He is Founder, Chairman and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woz.org\/\">Wheels of Zeus<\/a> (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple&#8217;s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span>For his achievements at<br \/> Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by<br \/> the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed<br \/> America&#8217;s leading innovators. <br \/> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>In 2000 Steve was<br \/> inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the<br \/> prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for<br \/> \u201csingle-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his<br \/> lifelong<br \/> \u00a0 passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of<br \/> excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.\u201d <br \/> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>Making<br \/> significant investments of both his time and resources in education,<br \/> Wozniak \u201cadopted\u201d the Los Gatos School District, providing students and<br \/> teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art<br \/> technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier<br \/> Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon<br \/> Valley Ballet and Children&#8217;s Discovery Museum of<br \/> \u00a0 San Jose. <br \/> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>Steve is currently a member of the board<br \/> of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony<br \/> solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless<br \/> Internet platform. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we tried to be innovative by implementing a videoconference between Germany and Australia, and in the same time do a audiovisual docmentary of the whole process. We failed at the end because the signal transmission between the continents was too slow. Frustration was difficult to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}