Steve Jobs died today.

[dnoblett]

This is a shock! I knew he was not in good health, that's why he stepped down as CEO a few weeks ago, it was more serious than he led on. WOW!

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http://www.apple.com/

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http://www.latimes.c...0,7210103.story

Bill Gates:

I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.

Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.

The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.

For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

http://www.facebook.com/BillGates

 

[Thomas Promise]

This is a shock! I knew he was not in good health, that's why he stepped down as CEO a few weeks ago, it was more serious than he led on. WOW!

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Misc%20Junk%20for%20posting/Jobs.jpg

 

http://www.apple.com/

 

http://www.azcentral.../20283#phototop

 

http://www.latimes.c...0,7210103.story

 

Bill Gates:

I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.

 

Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.

 

The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.

 

For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

http://www.facebook.com/BillGates

The world has lost a fine innovator. RIP.

[Linda_Sutton]

So people say IPhone4S means iPhone for Steve. Peace........

[credzba]

Truly a shock.

 

I cannot even imagine working until I only have a month to live. He had cancer, and he must have known his time was short, still he contributed to the company until his last.

Somehow, for me, it is a terrible thing to die before you get to live.

 

 

 

[Randy W]

From a lesson from my English language class that I taught last year -

 

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like, "If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror each morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

 

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

[knloregon]

Great quote, Randy,

 

And lets face it----Steve Jobs always---long before he faced death, was a Rocket Man ---- Who knows what motivates some to live their entire lives at such a frenetic pace. In the hands of genius its a gift----for some others, its a curse.

[Randy W]

Where Wozniak and Jobs got their start -

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Blue_Box_in_museum.jpg/280px-Blue_Box_in_museum.jpg

 

An early phreaking tool, the blue box is an electronic device that simulates a telephone operator's dialing console. It functions by replicating the tones used to switch long-distance calls and using them to route the user's own call, bypassing the normal switching mechanism. The most typical use of a blue box was to place free telephone calls

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box_%28phreaking%29

[Randy W]

Steve Jobs and the Blue Box Story

 

[dnoblett]

Nice artilcle on China Daily.

Apple fans bid final farewell

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/us/attachement/jpg/site1/20111007/0022190fd2dc0ff88e5401.jpg

 

Chinese fans Yang Zihan (left) and Zhang Lingyi lay apples with bites taken out of them to mourn Steve Jobs in front of the Sanlitun Apple store in Beijing on Thursday. [Photo / China Daily]

 

Outpourings of public grief and appreciation sweep globe

 

BEIJING / SHANGHAI - Apple stores in China were once again packed with people on Thursday - but this time they didn't come for any new gadget unveiled by the company, but to mourn Steve Jobs, the company's visionary who died on Wednesday at the age of 56.

 

In Beijing and Shanghai, emotional diehard fans came to pay tribute to the legendary figure who never came to China, but who changed people's lives here with inventions like the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

 

"What Jobs brought us was quite different," said Tian Yang, 32, a worker with a mobile company who was paying condolences in front of the Sanlitun Apple store in downtown Beijing.

 

"When he showed up at each news conference with some new Apple products, I usually felt quite excited to see the innovation," Tian said.

 

MORE: http://www.chinadail...nt_13842747.htm

[dnoblett]

Steve Jobs and the Blue Box Story

 

 

Ahh the early days of hacking, called phone phreaking. Yep I would believe they would have done that, they were the hackers of the 70's

 

A good read is a open book called "The Hacker Crackdown" http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101