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You're Like a Steve Jobs …
Without all that Genius Baggage
(— nod to Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog),
by Tom Ersin
I got my first computer — a “PC” — in 1998. I got my first Mac in 2003. I’ve used both formats regularly, since. So when it comes to the PC-vs.-Mac debate, I’m relatively unbiased. And now that Steve Jobs has passed on, rest his soul, it’s time for someone to speak up.
In my early personal computer years (late 1990s), I had many coworkers and a boss who were Mac fanatics. To them, Apple ... (continued)
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DIED: John F. Mitchell, Inventor of Cellphone Prototype
No more uninterrupted dinners at Denny’s.
You (or your grandfather) may remember Michael Douglas walking along a private beach in the 1987 film “Wall Street.” He was conducting some sinister business on a wireless contraption introduced by Motorola in 1983 called the DynaTAC. It weighed nearly three pounds and listed for $3995. This first commercial version of today’s cellphone was as big as Michael’s head, but it was amazing — and very cool. Lovingly nicknamed “the brick,” Mitchell’s invention changed life as we knew it (Romero, 2009).
No more standing in serene lines at the grocery store. No more uninterrupted dinners at Denny’s. Those times when we could ... (continued)
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Another thing about Steve Jobs: He was not a people person. And Tiger Woods was not monogamous. Apparently, Steve thought nothing of trashing a subordinate’s psyche or brutalizing an employee’s ego to get results.
No more standing in serene lines at the grocery store.
Bill Moyers
Delivers the First Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture
(2010-1103)
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