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Steven P. Jobs Memorial [Chat]
Arivia
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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.
In the late 1970s, Jobs—along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others—designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
In addition to this little bit of copy pasta, I want to call out folklore.org, a collection of stories and tales about Apple II/III/Lisa/Macintosh-era Apple from someone who worked there at the time when Steve was first running the show. They're funny, touching, and a really good personal reflection of what we all liked about the man.
The other [chat] got struck down by a forum error that's been going around, when that happens you just have to make a new thread. Use this instead.
Because this is an emergency [chat] I am not making it about ponies.
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I would hug them.
Kill Baldric.
that's good enough for anyone
I looped through it a couple of time
before I was just all "uh.. Imma leave the thread now. It is confusing."
(or: RMS Oceanic has precognitive powers)
edit: okay maybe not die
but he irritates me so much.
"Please state the nature of the [Chat]ing emergency."
I only asked. Ultimately, it's up to Rivs to make the decision or not.
(you can skip to 0:30 if you want)
But, I'm never really sure about my state of mind, so I'm just thinking that I'm having weird ass dreams or something that foretell the future. Then I saw my own post.
I feel much better now
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I recommend fans of Red Dwarf read Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life, novels based on the show written by the writers.
Todays dude is filing a credit card charge back for something he bought FOUR months ago, which I show as delivered on time, and he has never emailed me about it once. There just arent many circumstances where that doesnt look shady. If you dont get something in the mail, at some point you ask about it. You dont wait 4 months and then try to get your money back out of the blue.
Done.
not even God gets that many threads, arivia
you're toying with dangerous forces
It's just a name change, silly.
Cass, what is best in life?
Assuming one of the mods doesn't bogart it, anyway.
i want to be in bed all day, forever
Your bed is now lava.
well, Jobs has done more for me in my life than God, so I think I'm cool with that.
Yeah, kakos was pretty bleeeh on people being dicks in the actual Jobs thread.
SFDebris has some pretty good reviews of the first seven series.
Series, not seasons. This is a British Show.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to sleep in bed the whole day.
no no the floor is lava
come on you are the worst six-year old danny