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ramoss Member (Idle past 633 days) Posts: 3228 Joined:
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 305 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Lynn Margulis is dead, and say what you like about her (which I shall start doing again after a brief period of respect for the dead) she did figure out the endosymbiotic origin of organelles.
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
So sad, her books have been a staple part of my life (and my childrens' lives) for decades.
Her son Todd has some big shoes to fill.
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.4 |
RIP
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Shield Member (Idle past 2883 days) Posts: 482 Joined: |
RIP Dennis Ritche. The world would not have looked the same without him. The programming language he created are the worlds most widely used and the operating system he cocreated is boss.
He died a few days after Jobs died, i was sad that it didnt get any media attention. Afterall, Jobs was nothing but a businessman.
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
rbp writes: He died a few days after Jobs died, i was sad that it didnt get any media attention. Afterall, Jobs was nothing but a businessman. Where I work it got attention right away. You may be selling Jobs a bit short. He was the Thomas Edison of our time. --Percy
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jar Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
dmr could be said to have invented one or two things as well.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.4
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You may be selling Jobs a bit short. He was the Thomas Edison of our time. You have to be kidding me. No-one will know who Jobs was in 2091; they'll still know who Edison was.
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NoNukes Inactive Member
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You may be selling Jobs a bit short. He was the Thomas Edison of our time. I can buy that analogy, and let's take it one step further. Dennis Ritchie is the Nikolai Tesla of our times (minus the weird stuff). I cannot fault anyone who would value Tesla over Edison.
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Mr Jack writes: You may be selling Jobs a bit short. He was the Thomas Edison of our time.
You have to be kidding me. No-one will know who Jobs was in 2091; they'll still know who Edison was. I've been reading Isaaacson's biography of Jobs and just came across this near the end:
Isaacson writes: Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He was, indeed, an example of what the mathematician Mark Kac called a magician genius, someone whose insights come out of the blue and require intuition more than mere mental processing power. Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead. Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he wasn't just a business man. Jobs is listed as one of the inventors on 212 different patents (Edison has 1093 patents). But I agree with you rather than Isaacson. Jobs worked in an arena of short product lifetimes, and nothing he invented was iconic in the same way as movies, the phonograph, and light bulbs, so I don't see why he would be remembered by anyone but historians a century from now. Still, he was responsible for products like Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. He bought Pixar, drove animation technology forward, and made the company successful. He created industries like on-line music stores and app stores. It is for these reasons that I agree with Isaacson in ranking him way up there with Edison and Ford. --Percy
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 305 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
He was only 45.
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Artemis Entreri  Suspended Member (Idle past 4250 days) Posts: 1194 From: Northern Virginia Joined: |
but he died 13 years ago, I thought this was for recently passed.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1426 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Harry Morgan dies at age 96
News, Sports, Jobs - The Nashua Telegraph
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Granny Magda Member Posts: 2462 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.8 |
RIP, Jerry Robinson, 1922 - 2011, iconic comic book artist and creator of the Joker.
Full tribute here. Mutate and Survive
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