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Growing Up Geek: Steve Dent

Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an attribute where we have a look back at our youth, and tell stories of expanding up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have our personal Steve Dent!

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If you make a bad career selection when you’re young, do not worry– I’m living proof that every little thing can still exercise. Possibly I should’ve understood I would not be a great civil engineer when I pursued it after high school. My predilection for fantasizing wasn’t fit to such a strenuous field, and resulted in early youth trauma like the infamous “spacing out in class during a fire drill” episode– which was not excellent thinking about that the school I visited at the time actually did burn down a year or two later (thankfully while empty). In truth, as a child living in Vanderhoof, BC, Canada, I was happiest with a book, or Spider-Man comic, and being plopped in front of the TV, and it was a great thing that video games still hadn’t arrived. When Pong ushered in that era, I became dangerously obsessed, despite the fact that we had a bum Atari device that just worked for a couple of minutes prior to the ball would weirdly pass with the paddle.

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Steve Jobs manga portrays the man as a dreamy, drug-fueled genius that Japanese girls could love

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It doesn’t star Ashton Kutcher, and it isn’t written by Aaron Sorkin, but it might be more interesting than both: it’s the Japanese manga adaptation of Steve Jobs’ life. You could be forgiven for thinking that the juice has been squeezed out of this particular story, following 2011′s official biography by Walter Isaacson and a brace of upcoming movies — but if ever there were a medium that can put a new spin on an old tale, a manga series would be it. Today’s publication of Mari Yamazaki’s Steve Jobs, then, is a somewhat notable event. The first volume is now available in the May 2013 issue of girls’ comic anthology Kiss, oddly enough, and it’s quite unlike anything I’ve read before.

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Steve Jobs to be featured in upcoming manga comic series

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Apple’s late co-founder and tech luminary Steve Jobs will be the topic of a forthcoming manga comic book illustrated by Japanese artist Mari Yamazaki. The multi-part comic arc is set to run in Kiss journal, published by Kodansha– the exact same business that launched a localized variation of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs bio. Yamazaki’s manga, also stated to be officially accredited, will reportedly take inspiration from Isaacson’s book. Evaluating by a sample image shared by the artist, she’s managed to show Jobs quite accurately– down to his popular black turtleneck clothing. Yamazaki is best understood for another manga, Thermae Romae, which has actually gained various awards and is published under Yen Press in North America.

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Steve Ballmer admits Surface won’t dominate PC sales, but is a ‘real business’

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After describing Surface as a “design point” to “prime the pump” and “sell a few million,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is describing the company’s tablets as a “real business” this week. In a brief interview with MIT technology Review, Ballmer avoids answering Surface sales questions, but says he’s “super-glad” Microsoft did the Surface as it’s important for the Windows ecosystem. “Surface is a real business,” says Ballmer. “In an environment in which there’s 350 million PCs sold, I don’t think Surface is going to dominate volume, but it’s a real business.”

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Steve Wozniak turned down offer to work on ‘JOBS’ after reading early script: ‘I felt it was crap’

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hasn’t been mincing words with the new JOBS biopic, which debuted at Sundance Film Celebration last night. We connected to Woz with descriptions of vital scenes we saw and some quotes from his character (played by Josh Gad) to see if he had various other ideas. We’ve heard from others that Woz did not have any contribution to the Kutcher-helmed film, however that isn’t the entire tale.

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How Steve Jobs bought Bill Nguyen’s Lala for $80 million

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When the late Steve Jobs acquired a brand-new business, he didn’t mess around. That’s according to Aubrey Johnson, a former lead designer on the Costs Nguyen-led app Color, who has actually detailed how Jobs wound up getting an additional Nguyen venture, songs streaming service Lala, back in 2009. In spite of some battles, Lala had a huge selling point: for a lot of tracks, it ranked at the top of Google’s search outcomes. This lead to interest from both Nokia and Google, however their offers obviously just weren’t near enough. Enter Apple. As Johnson recounts it, Nguyen contacted Apple and managed to arrange a conference with Jobs, Tim Cook, Eddy Cue, and various other execs– the conversation didn’t last long:

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How Steve Jobs bought Bill Nguyen’s Lala for $80 million

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When the late Steve Jobs acquired a new company, he didn’t mess around. That’s according to Aubrey Johnson, a former lead designer on the Bill Nguyen-led app Color, who has detailed how Jobs ended up acquiring another Nguyen enterprise, music streaming service Lala, back in 2009. Despite some struggles, Lala had a huge selling point: for most songs, it ranked at the top of Google’s search results. This lead to interest from both Nokia and Google, but their offers apparently weren’t near enough. Enter Apple. As Johnson recounts it, Nguyen contacted Apple and managed to arrange a meeting with Jobs, Tim Cook, Eddy Cue, and other executives — the conversation didn’t last long:

Steve led the conversation while eating a beet salad: “I’m…

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Beats CEO spent three years trying to convince Steve Jobs to launch streaming music service

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Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Beats Audio, formally announced his new Project Daisy streaming music service today and gave an interview with All Things D. In it, he talked about his relationship with Apple over the years — while at Interscope, Iovine worked with Steve Jobs during 2002 and 2003, saying that “we were really close. We did some great marketing stuff together.” However, Iovine quickly began to realize that music was going to move toward streaming and tried his best to bring Jobs along. “I was always trying to push Steve into subscription. And he wasn’t keen on it right away,” Iovine said. “[Beats co-founder] Luke Wood and I spent about three years trying to talk him into it.” Obviously, that still hasn’t happened, despite recent…

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Steve Ballmer makes surprise appearance at CES 2013, the show he abandoned

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Right now, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer just rushed up on stage to steal the show from Qualcomm during its CES 2013 keynote. Let us clarify that: We just went from Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs’ generic discussion of how important smartphones are in our lives, to a demonstration of Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT. This is insanity, brought to you by Steve Ballmer.

Update: He’s gone, but he didn’t leave before uttering our new least favorite catchphrase, “Born Mobile” while passing on the torch. Don’t fret; you can re-live the Ballmer party-crashing again and again by re-reading our Qualcomm liveblog.

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