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  1. MacMan

    The Steve We've Lost: A Quick Look at His Accomplishments

    By the way, you may be correct. Indeed, I've read it, but that doesn't mean it's true... I could have read a false story, but somehow it just stuck in my brain..... we old people are like that, I guess! :O)
  2. MacMan

    The Steve We've Lost: A Quick Look at His Accomplishments

    It's not a fairy tale, Steve told Mr. Packard he was going to start a company that would give HP a hard time, I just don't remember the exact place I read it; it was years and years ago. Just because you never read it, doesn't mean it didn't happen, ok?
  3. MacMan

    The Steve We've Lost: A Quick Look at His Accomplishments

    As I said earlier, I don't remember all of the finer details, but here is one link of Steve asking HP for spare parts, I believe one of the was an oscilloscope or something.? I'll try and get a more detail link later, if I ever remember, but here is a quick link even though its breif: "When...
  4. MacMan

    The Steve We've Lost: A Quick Look at His Accomplishments

    I'm recalling this all from memory, but give me a few days (boy I'm I busy lately!) and I'll get the source for you. As far as Steve contacting HP's, I believe it was Bill Packard, Jobs actually brought that up when he presented Apple's billion dollar new campus to the Cupertino city council...
  5. MacMan

    The Steve We've Lost: A Quick Look at His Accomplishments

    Steve truly practiced what he preached when it came to Apple's famous logo: "Think Different". He never sought wealth, but got it in the process of truly thinking different. When Steve was only 13 years old, for example, he phoned one of the founders of HP and told them very boldly something...
  6. MacMan

    The loss of a Visionary: Steve Jobs Passes

    To me Steve was more than just a tech visionary, he was like family! I'm around his age and I literally grew up reading, listening to and buying, as well as enjoying his great products. Steve might have been one of the world's richest men, but he said many times that he never did it for the...
  7. MacMan

    Apple Launches iPhone 4S; Introduces Siri Voice Recognition

    Apparently, the iPhone 4S is a stop-gap measure, and according to some analysts the iPhone 5, complete with 4G and a newer uni-body aluminum body and larger screen will be out early in the first quarter...
  8. MacMan

    Apple Launches iPhone 4S; Introduces Siri Voice Recognition

    Like many others, I feel that the lack of a new form factor, with a larger screen, is rather a big disapointment, but Assistant is mind-blowing as noted by Gizmodo, and as they aslo noted how very similar to Apple's Knowledge Navigator of 24 years ago...
  9. MacMan

    Amazon Launches Four New Kindle Devices

    I agree 100% on the above, and I believe that the current Amazon devices are nothing more than a stepping stones to bigger, better and more compelling devices in the future. I recently had the idea that there would only be two real tablets around, namely Windows 8 and the iPad, but now I'm...
  10. MacMan

    Amazon Launches Four New Kindle Devices

    Frist of all, I simply outlined what other sites have said, including major sites such as Gizmodo that referred to Jeff Bozos as Steve Jobs: http://gizmodo.com/5844863/jeff-bezos-is-the-new-steve-jobs or Atlantic Wire...
  11. MacMan

    Amazon Launches Four New Kindle Devices

    I lot of people noted that Jeff Bozos copied Steve Jobs style on stage, and more importantly, he pulled it off! I've seen a lot of people try to emulate Jobs, but Bezos is the first ever to pull it off! Good showing all the way around. As far as the new devices go, well even though I love...
  12. MacMan

    BlackBerry PlayBook Seeing Price-Drops at Some Retailers

    I really like the Playbook, it was much like the Touchpad in ways, tablets that I thought cut-the-mustard, so to speak. Even though some like the 7 inchers like the Playbook, to me they're just too small, which was my main complaint about it. So far, however, the only tablet that looks to be...
  13. MacMan

    Microsoft to Utilize UEFI to Make Boots Faster with Windows 8

    So, what I want to know is: what-in-hell is the difference between EFI and UEFI?
  14. MacMan

    Daisy-Chaining Not Possible with mini-DP and Apple's Thunderbolt Displays

    Simple: Apple dosen't think the way we normal people do, but rather they 'think different' and from where I sit, they seem to be out of their cotton-picking minds, but maybe that's how they got to be not only the world's biggest tech company, but now the biggest and most valuable company on...
  15. MacMan

    Microsoft to Release Public Windows 8 Build Tonight

    I think it looks rather spiffy and I give Microsoft kudos for not copying every little detail from Apple like Android does, but brings a lot of their own unique innovation to the table. In many ways, the U.I. is even better than iOS, so Apple is going to have to add something like this to keep...
  16. MacMan

    A Quick Look at Mandriva 2011

    This looks interesting, but I'm still having so much trouble with my other Linux distros I think I'll just advoid this one, at least for awhile. I am, after all, a curious type of fellow.
  17. MacMan

    Microsoft Bringing Hyper-V Support to Windows 8

    This is exciting to say the least!
  18. MacMan

    Revamped Ribbon-based File Manager Coming to Windows 8

    When it comes to this, well... .I absolutely love it, only I kind of hate it, if that makes any sense?
  19. MacMan

    Linux Celebrates its 20th Birthday

    Happy Birthday, and many, many more! :O)
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