RIP, Steve...

Cancer sucks. I hope it wasn't too painful.




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JesseD said:
Cancer sucks. I hope it wasn't too painful.




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I agree,,, Cancer sucks.:yesnod::yesnod::yesnod:

And Steve suffered through that and a liver transplant,,, Both are not easy to live with..:nonod::no:
 
What an incredible man with an incredible vision to apply technology to our lives.

He will rank amount the greatest inventors and innovative geniuses of all time.

In reading an article about his life I learned he was a Budist. Interesting that such a smart intellectual man knew there was something even larger in life than himself.
 
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There isn't an app for that yet.. Too soon? Seriously though an iPhone has more computing power than NASA did when we put a man on the moon and here we are playing angry birds. I guess cancer doesn't care about how much money you have or how many great things you do.

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Wow. I didn't see this coming. I haven't been following the news though, but wow.

RIP
 
It would have happened eventually. Sorry to see him go. Amazing how much a small, enterpreneurial team had accomplished since the days when they developed the first PC's in their garages.
 
Sac Arrow said:
It would have happened eventually. Sorry to see him go. Amazing how much a small, enterpreneurial team had accomplished since the days when they developed the first PC's in their garages.
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Surprising what a company can do with out government intervention.
 
Tom-D said:
Surprising what a company can do with out government intervention.
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And those with patents they were infringing upon thinking that they weren't a threat...

IBM could have crushed them many times over with various technology patents in the early years. They thought "who cares?" and let them grow.

Apple was formed in a rare time before every single thing you did was followed-up by a call from an Intellectual Property Attorney, but the technology was advancing at a heady pace.
 
denverpilot said:
And those with patents they were infringing upon thinking that they weren't a threat...

IBM could have crushed them many times over with various technology patents in the early years. They thought "who cares?" and let them grow.

Apple was formed in a rare time before every single thing you did was followed-up by a call from an Intellectual Property Attorney, but the technology was advancing at a heady pace.
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Heck, the GUI was practically handed to them. Don't forget that they were bankrolled by some pretty impressive people as well. I'm not knocking them at all. IBM was ignoring the idea of a personal computer, just like AT&T thought IP networking was impossible, and they filled that void. Don't deify them though. They didn't actually "start" the company on a string and a prayer. In fact the law and order types should have shivers. The seed money? Part of their own (before the big boys backed them) seed money came from selling phreaking boxes.

/snicker
//Apple, Microsoft, Linux all steal
///the quote was good artists copy but great artists steal, right?


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So in a more modern vein, "Anonymous" could just be a bunch of Security guys breaking into stuff in their spare time to make sure they have day jobs? :)
 
denverpilot said:
And those with patents they were infringing upon thinking that they weren't a threat...

IBM could have crushed them many times over with various technology patents in the early years. They thought "who cares?" and let them grow.

Apple was formed in a rare time before every single thing you did was followed-up by a call from an Intellectual Property Attorney, but the technology was advancing at a heady pace.
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Patents do the opposite of their intention. They slow technological development not help it. Look at MS suing cell phone makers for using linux because they can't sue Google.. sore losers. Its basically extortion.

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Actually, I'm surprised he lasted that long. He was on the high end of pancreatic cancer survivors. Tough thing, doesn't really care how smart or successful you are. RIP.
 
ScottM said:
I hate cancer!


RIP Steve.
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I do too.

steingar said:
Actually, I'm surprised he lasted that long. He was on the high end of pancreatic cancer survivors. Tough thing, doesn't really care how smart or successful you are. RIP.
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Way high end. I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer, and he lasted over 18 months.
 
Ghery said:
Way high end. I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer, and he lasted over 18 months.
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Even though my mom was officially diagnosed with ovarian we think it was probably pancreatic. Apparently it was common for them to tell people it was something else back then because pancreatic had such an impossible survival rate. She lasted about 9 months I think.
 
Cancer will take out most of us...:sad::sad::sad:

Last January my dad thought he needed a stronger set of reading glasses because the print was kinda blurry.He was 78 and never been sick in his life... Eye doc said eyes were ok,,, go get a cat scan... a week later they did the CS and the expert said you have Glioblastoma brain cancer.... They gave him 8 weeks... he made it 7 weeks and 4 days....

I REALLY hate cancer.:eek:

Ben.
 
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He will be missed.

On the day of his death you have to love the irony: Wall Street protesters spewing hate for the rich and advocating the tearing down of capitalism, pause to honor the memory of Steve Jobs...one of the richest men on the planet who's success was made possible by a free, capitalist society. As they tweet and Facebook their antics via their iPhones and iPads, they'll completely miss the absurdity of their actions.

Rest in peace.
 
bartmc said:
Umm i think maybe POA is filtering out the link cause it has a naughty word.
replace the stars in the link with Friendship Unity Caring and Kindness

http://www.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-****-he-was-doing,26268/

EDIT.: yep it's the POA software filtering the link.
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I'll just paste it here and save everyone the trouble

CUPERTINO, CA—Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuc* 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 **** together and knew what the h3ll 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.
 
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