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Old 10-05-2011, 09:41 PM
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Default R.I.P. Bill Gates. 1955-2011

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Old 10-06-2011, 12:50 AM
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alright... every other post on facebook or G+ is how Jobs made the world better.


Can someone tell me how?

Im not trying to start ****, but in my eyes, a rich guy who made overpriced computers and music players died. The End.
 
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Old 10-06-2011, 01:30 PM
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Gates didnt die Steve Jobs did...
 
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Old 10-06-2011, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Boss98A4T
Gates didnt die Steve Jobs did...
Pretty sure the OP knows that Jobs is the one who died. Don may be an ***, but he's not dumb.

Sad deal, but no more saddening than any other celebrity / big-name death.
 
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Old 10-06-2011, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by kolbs_91
Pretty sure the OP knows that Jobs is the one who died. Don is definitely an ***, but he's not dumb.

Sad deal, but no more saddening than any other celebrity / big-name death.

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luvre you Don, no homo
 
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Old 10-06-2011, 05:51 PM
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And I do believe that's Linus Torvalds in that pic.


But my question is still unanswered!
 
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Old 10-06-2011, 07:42 PM
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I thought it was Harry Potter.
 
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Old 10-06-2011, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by achTTung
alright... every other post on facebook or G+ is how Jobs made the world better.


Can someone tell me how?

Im not trying to start ****, but in my eyes, a rich guy who made overpriced computers and music players died. The End.
alright Mr. Answer My Question because it is all about ME ME ME ME ME.

Steve Jobs made the world better by understanding how to use technology to appeal to the general public. For instance, before the Apple II, computers were sold in kit form to tinkerers. You could kind of use them to do some interesting tricks, solve some problems and not too much else. Then IBM came along and marketed the computer to Corporate America. The idea being that computers are machines that exist to do work.

The Apple II was a computer that was designed to make computers accessible to the common man. A computer in every home. Computers in classrooms. Computers for kids. the Apple corporation continued with this philosophy pretty much throughout it's history. If you look at the computers that are used for "artistic creation" they are pretty much apple products because they are designed to make the tech side of what they do transparent. No apple computers are still the ones that do "work", are easy to repair/replace.

I do agree with you that overall he was a rich jerk who made overpriced computers and music players. BUT they are the computers and music players that people want to buy (because they do what they do better than other things that do what they do not as good)

and yes that is Linus Torvalds in Don's picture.
 
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I still use my walkman
 
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Old 10-07-2011, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by achTTung
And I do believe that's Linus Torvalds in that pic.
it is... He died... sad story
 


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