Steve Jobs Has Died
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Poor guy. This is sad, though sadly not unexpected, news. Under Jobs' guidance, Apple changed the way we approach information technology.
Judy Waxhorn
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Did anyone remember to make a backup copy? 
Did anyone remember to make a backup copy?
He's still there in the cloud(s).
(oh come on, I'm allowed one affectionate gag, aren't I? It's far more affectionate than the less tasteful one that came to mind after Squiggy's post earlier in the thread!)
From the Observer.com, Steve Jobs, speaking at a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005:
Steve Jobs said:
Very sad. I've certainly criticized Jobs in the past, and I'm sure that when the time is right, there will need to be a debate about the full impact of his legacy. But for now: 56 is far, far too young. Whatever else I may think about him, the man put intuitive, consumer-friendly computing at the forefront when no one else did, and revolutionized the artistic and computing worlds by doing so. To say nothing of founding Pixar, one of the greatest collections of artists and storytellers Hollywood has ever known.
Incredibly sad. One of the true innovators of our age. So much stuff has come out in the last 30 years by so many talented people that it's much harder today for the true geniuses to stand out. But he did. They'll think of him with Edison, Ford and Disney in 100 years.
As much as I hate Apple products, I had respect for the man. He truly was a visionary.
Met Steve Jobs in 1977 at the First West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco, (My father bought his Commodore PET there)..
To a boy of 15, he seemed almost otherworldly, as his "Reality Distortion Field" worked on me full blast.. I knew the world would be changed for the better, and like James Doohan, he assisted me in my choice of careers...
The high tech world has lost one of it's founding fathers, and it's greatest innovator..
'Requiescat in pace' Steve Jobs..
To a boy of 15, he seemed almost otherworldly, as his "Reality Distortion Field" worked on me full blast.. I knew the world would be changed for the better, and like James Doohan, he assisted me in my choice of careers...
The high tech world has lost one of it's founding fathers, and it's greatest innovator..
'Requiescat in pace' Steve Jobs..
This man...was a great man. While I've been a PC-guy all my life--and probably always will be--there's no denying that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were rivals worthy of each other.
Jobs was a pioneer, an innovator, a visionary, a genius, a creator, a producer...a generator of wealth, for many others as well as himself--a creator of many jobs (his name, all too appropriate), and an inspiration to computer geeks and general dreamers the world over.
Bringing this into Trek...his i-Pad in particular seems very much a prelude to the Okudagram technology of the 24th century. He was a man of the future--who saw it, and brought it to today.
He was always driven and ambitious--letting nothing and no one stand in his way, setting for nothing less than sheer perfection in his products.
He was the ideal businessman--the embodiment of everything good about the American Ideal, about Capitalism, about Success!
He will be surely missed. Here's to Steve Jobs--a legend for our time.
RIP
Jobs was a pioneer, an innovator, a visionary, a genius, a creator, a producer...a generator of wealth, for many others as well as himself--a creator of many jobs (his name, all too appropriate), and an inspiration to computer geeks and general dreamers the world over.
Bringing this into Trek...his i-Pad in particular seems very much a prelude to the Okudagram technology of the 24th century. He was a man of the future--who saw it, and brought it to today.
He was always driven and ambitious--letting nothing and no one stand in his way, setting for nothing less than sheer perfection in his products.
He was the ideal businessman--the embodiment of everything good about the American Ideal, about Capitalism, about Success!
He will be surely missed. Here's to Steve Jobs--a legend for our time.
RIP
Oh, man...this is sad. He was way too young to have suffered and died as he did. I'm just glad--as others have said--that he seems to have lived his life, however short it was, on his own terms and made an impact on the world.
He was way too young to have suffered and died as he did. I'm just glad--as others have said--that he seems to have lived his life, however short it was, on his own terms and made an impact on the world.
