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    Steve Jobs is dead.

    Apple confirms former CEO Steve Jobs has died.

    He'll be remembered as one of the most influential people of the early 21st century.

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    With his passing, does this mean the iPhone and iPad will finally get pr0n apps? :chin:
    "Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."

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    Sad. He brought Apple back from the brink and influenced product design across the board, even outside the tech industry.

    Check out Apple's main page. Not something you see every day on the the Web site of a major corporation.
    Last edited by NQ6U; 10-05-2011 at 07:17 PM.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Woah.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Very sad, indeed. Jobs was a visionary from the beginning. He'll be missed.

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    Jobs was good at taking technical ideas and bringing them to market. He was a true visionary in that sense. Indeed he and true tech visionaries like "Gustav Vergen""The Wizard of Woz", Doc Searls, Tim Berners Lee, Vint Cerf, were true visionaries of technology. Then you have false fake pseudo tech visionaries like Bill Gates, Esther Dyson Monkey Man and other looser's who couldn't vision themselves out of a wet soggy paper bag on a rainy day.
    Last edited by n2ize; 10-05-2011 at 09:01 PM.
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    From the commencement speech that Jobs gave at Stanford a few years ago:

    No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

    Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
    Full text here.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    He was a good guy.
    "Friendships come in strange packages
    The best ones are opened with a smile"

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    From the commencement speech that Jobs gave at Stanford a few years ago:



    Full text here.
    I generally hate it when tech visionaries get philosophical . But in the case of Jobs he is on the mark.
    Last edited by n2ize; 10-05-2011 at 09:12 PM.
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    A very innovative man of vision who will truly be missed by many.
    A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory

    RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL





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