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Woz to Speak at MacWorld SF
EccentricAnomaly writes "Steve Wozniak (co-founder of the Wheels of Zeus start-up) is coming back to MacWorld after a six-year absence, and will be speaking as part of a panel discussion of Mac OS X. This is Woz's first speaking engagement at MacWorld in 10 years."
I hope this is an indication that Woz supports OS X. He was the thrust that made Apple what it is today. I know, I know, you could agrue that what Apple is today is what NeXT Step was 10 years ago ( Steve Jobs started). But Woz was really the forces that brought Mac's to elementary schools nation wide. Maybe now we can start to bring that back
Steve Wozniak (co-founder of the Wheels of Zeus start-up)
In unrelated news, Paul McCartney (former frontman for Wings) will be touring soon.
Perhaps...Just Perhaps :)
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
...is Woz still so, um, strange? I owned (own, actually) an Apple ][+ and have been aware of him for many years, including the "US Festival" diversion. He has seemed like the member of the Beatles who never grew up. :)
But with a name like the Woz, what can you do? He also symbolized the counterculture aspect of Apple Computer the startup, as opposed to Apple Computer the multibillion-dollar Jobs corporation.
I found his new company far more interesting than the fact he's going to drop a few live lines somewhere.
1. "Being clear-headed about money, how do you view open approach to technology? Do you think that making Macintosh parts open (as in clonable hw and free sw) would have leveraged information tools better than what happened back in 80's and what's still happening today? If, how? Now that you are free to try again, are you considering taking care that APIs and HW specs are available for others to build on, reverse engineer and share?"
2. "I found to my surprise that you took part in forming EFF. What was your role there then and how do you view its current behavior? In which issues/attitudes would you separate your personal views from EFF's? Are you still active there?"
Those are my 0.2 wishes.
(Oh, am I happy that my gf's out? I'll have the whole evening for our 'puters!-)
I think, therefore thoughts exist. Ego is just an impression.
While true, I think more people would recognize him as "co-founder of Apple", or even "the guy who invented Personal Computers". The point of such parenthetical phrases is to remind the reader who this is you're talking about. Wheels of Zeus, while a swimming concept, hasn't really proven its worth yet, even if it is abbreviated 'WoZ'.
Perhaps submitter works at Microsoft.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I went to the Wheels of Zeus inquiries page and clicked on the Job Inquiries link the email address was "jobs@woz.com".
I checked the ground temperature and looked for airborne swine, and then figured it all out.
My other sig is extremely clever...
freakin' awesome! this is a positive injection to macworld!
(go woz, go woz,..)
"Dig deeper, Whaz'on"
:P
It wouldn't. At the time, IBM was The Really Big Blue. As in the wallpaper in The Big Blue Room. Apple was just some upstart with a great commercial.
In other words: IBM held the corporate world by its accounts. Apple held a possibility for unnerdy people to become nerdy. It's image was all it had, and it kept it. Miraculous, thinks me. What W0z would have thought... better hear the horse when it's still alive.
Sorry, it's friday night and I'm terrrribly dwunk. Leaving you with your thoughts and going to pub to meet an old irc friend to kill the rest of mine
I think, therefore thoughts exist. Ego is just an impression.
He's so far behind the times that his entire spiel will be based on two-year old beer commercials, with him leaning in to the mic whenever it's his turn and going, "I'm Woz. Wozzzzzzz up!"