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nghtvsn
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Joined: Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:13 pm Posts: 11016 Location: Warren Theatre Oklahoma
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Just broke in as a special report. Terrible news but I guess it was expected. One of the last photos of him he looked so frail. I hate it when people die so young as I age and get closer to his age. Plus, he was younger than my parents. It's just a big bummer. 
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Libs
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48678 Location: Arlington, VA
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RIP.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:49 pm |
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xiayun
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:41 pm Posts: 25109 Location: San Mateo, CA
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R.I.P to a genius.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:53 pm |
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xiayun
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:41 pm Posts: 25109 Location: San Mateo, CA
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I did expect his health to be deteriorating pretty fast, especially given the tone of his resignation and the type of cancer he had to deal with. Still, feels sad and sudden when hearing it.
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Argos
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Joined: Sat May 13, 2006 2:20 pm Posts: 7952 Location: Wherever he went, including here, it was against his better judgment.
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Magnus wrote: Love him or hate him, he was one of the most important people to live in the past 50 years. The world would be a completely different place without him. Osama bin Laden?
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:06 pm |
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Rev
Romosexual!
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:06 am Posts: 32632 Location: the last free city
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Very sad  he was one of a kind. RIP Mr. Jobs
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:14 pm |
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Rev
Romosexual!
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:06 am Posts: 32632 Location: the last free city
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:22 pm |
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matatonio
Teh Mexican
Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:56 pm Posts: 26066 Location: In good ol' Mexico
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sad sad news... RIP
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:49 pm |
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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The World lost a genius. Sad.
RIP.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:15 pm |
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i.hope
Defeats all expectations
Joined: Fri May 26, 2006 5:04 pm Posts: 6665
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I hope he died without suffering much.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:12 pm |
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Brian
Ocarina of Time
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:21 pm Posts: 7951 Location: Hyrule
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TERRIBLE, I am sooo sad with this THANKS Steve for what you have done to APPLE and PIXAR R.I.P. STEVE!    
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:57 am |
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STEVE ROGERS
The Greatest Avenger EVER
Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 18501
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Magnus wrote: RIP
Love him or hate him, he was one of the most important people to live in the past 50 years. The world would be a completely different place without him. It'll be different for a while, but 1 has to know that once Jobs first found out about his condition, you can sure bet he layed the blueprint for the next CEO to carry on in his tradition and he will...
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:41 am |
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Jedi Master Carr
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Joined: Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:51 pm Posts: 11637
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He was a genius, our generations Thomas Edison. He made a huge impact on the world in the last 20 years, and life would be very different if he hadn't lived. He will be missed.
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:13 am |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Edison was a thief.
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:14 pm |
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Jedi Master Carr
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Joined: Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:51 pm Posts: 11637
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Magnus wrote: Jobs is really not like Edison. Edison was a inventor/scientist. Steve Jobs was a businessman/entrepreneur. He's more similar to Henry Ford than Edison. Well most of the news makers were making that comparison. I think he is like Edison in some ways because his inventions changed how we lived.
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:13 pm |
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Bradley Witherberry
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Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:13 pm Posts: 15197 Location: Planet Xatar
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Quote: Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies
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.
(via The Onion)
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:27 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11624 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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Jedi Master Carr wrote: He was a genius, our generations Thomas Edison. He made a huge impact on the world in the last 20 years, and life would be very different if he hadn't lived. He will be missed. You are more right than you think you are. Magnus is half-way right though. Steve Jobs was more of a businessman/entrepreneur than an inventor/scientist, but the same is true of Thomas Edison. Both Edison and Jobs have a large amount of patents to inventions they never invented. Both Edison and Jobs profited heavily the inventions of others. That's what they did. But in the long run, everyone will think Jobs invented the MP3 player even though they existed before iPods, just like everyone thinks Edison invented half the shit he claims to have, even though Edison operated Menlo Park where he hired scientists (many of whom were black) to invent things for him to patent, take credit for, and profit there off of. The only difference between the two is that Edison did invent a few things.
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:50 pm |
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Rev
Romosexual!
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:06 am Posts: 32632 Location: the last free city
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Quote: Patton Oswalt, comedian and comic book writer
"RIP Steve Jobs. Closest thing we had to Tony Stark."
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Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:35 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11624 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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I can see the Henry Ford comparison and ultimately can see the final line as well.
However, just to be nit-picky, I want to say that the assembly line can also be credited to Fredrick Taylor. After all, the nickname for the assembly line process was called Taylorism.
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Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:29 am |
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resident
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Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:25 pm Posts: 855
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Hey, I'm still here. I've spent time in Ford City, Pa. What about me?
Tomorrow I begin converting LASER digital disk pickups to either Ferromagnetic or Diamagnetic pickups in order to read the data bits on a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disk by either their Magnetic or Diamagnetic metallic/semi-metallic properties instead of the current systems which read CD/DVD/Blu-Ray data Optically, producing errors. Optical reading of a disk becomes a problem when dealing with scratches and smears. Reading the metallic/semi-metallic properties may eliminate that problem.
And then, I will be exploring adding full-duplex remote control smartphone functions to TIVOs and other devices for use when you are away from home and just have to have that program on file.
Later, I will be adding bar code scanners to smartphones so that, when food items are running low, simply scan them at home, then connect to the supermarket database to convert the list of bar codes into a shopping list. This conversion can also be sent to your shopping helper's smartphones as well, or to any of the online supermarkets such as vons.com or wholefoodsmarket.com .
And on Saturday I will be reconfirming the smartphone to home security camera system that automates the remote viewing on a smartphone with 911 with automatic uploading of the suspect's photos/videos to the proper authorities, and the delivery system for electronic delivery of search warrants to police car computer systems.
Have any good ideas? Post them here!
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Bradley Witherberry
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Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:13 pm Posts: 15197 Location: Planet Xatar
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Darth Indiana Bond wrote: I can see the Henry Ford comparison and ultimately can see the final line as well.
However, just to be nit-picky, I want to say that the assembly line can also be credited to Fredrick Taylor. After all, the nickname for the assembly line process was called Taylorism. Stephen Fry (who will sadly be in The Hobbit, but is perhaps better known as a general humorist in Britain) wrote a very good article on Steve Jobs (definitely worth reading the whole piece), in which he sets out to define the role of true innovators... Quote: Here's an excerpt:
"Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car, Rockefeller didn’t discover how to crack crude oil into petrol, Disney didn’t invent animation, the Macdonald brothers didn’t invent the hamburger, Martin Luther King didn’t invent oratory, neither Jane Austen, Tolstoy nor Flaubert invented the novel and D. W. Griffith, the Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg and Steven Spielberg didn’t invent film-making. Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers and he didn’t invent packet switching or the mouse. But he saw that there were no limits to the power that creative combinations of technology and design could accomplish.
I once heard George Melly, on a programme about Louis Armstrong, do that dangerous thing and give his own definition of a genius. “A genius,” he said, “is someone who enters a field and works in it and when they leave it, it is different. By that token, Satchmo was a genius.” I don’t think any reasonable person could deny that Steve Jobs, by that same token, was a genius too."
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Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:36 am |
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snack
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:18 pm Posts: 12159
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i just heard. . .
RIB sterve jops
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Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:06 am |
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resident
Wall-E
Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:25 pm Posts: 855
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And a not-so-flattering recollection of his days at Atari. http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.p ... ail&id=395
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Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:39 am |
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Darth Indiana Bond
007
Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11624 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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Bradley Witherberry wrote: Stephen Fry (who will sadly be in The Hobbit, but is perhaps better known as a general humorist in Britain)
Thanks, because no one's EVER heard of Stephen Fry. Please, A Bit of Fry and Lourie is a brilliant sketch show
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Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:57 am |
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Bradley Witherberry
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Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:13 pm Posts: 15197 Location: Planet Xatar
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OMG - - he's evil! (How would you like to be judged on one minor event when you're 19 years old and then have it assumed you made no progress in the following 37 years?)
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