Woz To Be Immortalized In Wax 72
mikejuk writes: Having already made wax figures of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, the Madame Tussauds museum recently put out a call for nominations for who should be next, with the stipulation that the nominees have a connection with the Bay Area. The shortlist was then whittled down to ten, including Google co-founder Larry Page, Tesla's Elon Musk, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo. Any of them would look great as wax figures, but outcome of the public vote was a clear winner — Steve Wozniak. Once his statue is complete Woz will be on display next to Steve Jobs in San Francisco and an ideal setting for a selfie.
Fitting (Score:4, Insightful)
He's the real man behind apple. After all, he's the creator. Jobs only marketed it. (But he did do that well.)
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Jobs also put himself in the place of the end users and had the power to request/reject features at will.
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And he rejected stuff that end users wanted. But sometimes the devs snuck them in anyway. As in the original Mac was not expandable despite being short on memory.
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Hopefully they'll be far enough apart that you can easily get a picture with just Woz.
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Although, the reality is that Woz gets the last laugh in this case.
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Can they fit in a a statue of Dennis Ritchie too?
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Why modded troll? He died almost the same time as Steve Jobs. He was about 10 trillion more times important to the computer industry.
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Thank you, I never knew about this man....
Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language, a key developer of the Unix operating system, and co-author of the book The C Programming Language, and was the 'R' in K&R (a common reference to the book's authors Kernighan and Ritchie). Ritchie worked together with Ken Thompson, the scientist credited with writing the original Unix; one of Ritchie's most important contributions to Unix was its porting to different machines and platforms.[8]
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The did Zuck before Woz? Are you f-ing kidding me?
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The pre-internet generations still don't fully grasp what they've lived through, and the post-internet generations will never know the window in human history they missed. I'm just glad they're recognizing some of the unsung heroes while those of us who've lived through it are still alive.
So don't expect much going forward. :)
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Yeah, that's a total crock of shit.
Woz was a genius -- from using the 6502 to read floppies and do the decoding in software, to the whole design of the Apple such as getting 6-colors @ 280x192 with 8K that normally would take over 13K. Fuckerberg has done jack shit of inspiring people to get into hardware or software, aside from dropping out of college (Harvard.) He was extremely lucky Harvard's own social program didn't take off. Zuckerberg admits: If I wasn't the CEO of Facebook, I'd be at Microsoft [venturebeat.com]
A wax
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Oh yea? Has Zuckerberg ever been on Dancing with the Stars [youtube.com] ?
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He's the real man behind apple.
He was in 1985. By 2005, Jobs probably had done his fair share.
Woz was still much more respectable, though.
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I wonder why he is not creating these days. :(
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Probably he is, quietly. He's never really been a publicity seeker.
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Has he released any recent creations? I haven't seen or read any yet.
Re:Fitting (Score:5, Informative)
False, if Jobs and Woz didn't get together, Apple would never have happened. This is really a case where the two together were more than the sum of their parts.
You have to remember Woz was your typical socially awkward geek who worked quietly and did things behind the scenes. When he designed the Apple 1, or rather bits and pieces of it, he was working at HP. He designed the video terminal first just as an exercise (just a bog standard video terminal that got him to play with NTSC signals), then decided to add on a CPU board to give ti "smarts" - so what you had was a standalone computer connected to a video terminal, and there you had the Apple 1. But that's it, Woz was happy to just let it be.
However, given Jobs and Woz's close relationship, Jobs realized what Woz has done and basically realized the potential.of that invention, thus turning this oddball CPU board with video terminal contraption into the Apple 1. Woz then went to HP about commercializing it, and HP rejected it because they feared allowing users to use any old TV would result in all sorts of problems.
Basically you needed the engineering wisdom Woz has, and couple it with the business acuity that Jobs has in order to create a successful company. Heck it was Jobs' idea to sell blue boxes - after he read the article in Esquire. Jobs basically went to Woz and asked him to design a box, and Woz made a clever design and Jobs sold it.
Alone, each wouldn't have accomplished much - Woz would've just been Yet Another Anonymous Engineer with a lot of clever circuits at home collecting dust. Jobs would've just been a dissatisfied manager. But because both got together did they make history together.
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You sound like a real informed expert on the subject.
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Marissa Mayer? (Score:1)
Among a list of men who built their companies from the ground up, we get a CEO who is just maintaining an established one? I know its PC, but WTF?!
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She's responsible for Google's early simple and unfestooned search page layout, with a simple search box and little else. She was one of the earliest employees at Google. That was in a day when competing search engines were throwing up all kinds of crap on your screen, from ads, to animated things in huge cluttered layouts.
That's a more important contribution than being CEO of yahoo.
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No. She was promoted to a manager later, but she was hired as an engineer and was an engineer when doing that work.
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Especially when she's not a good one. She has instituted employee-hostile policies (killing remote workers), then feigned compassion by throwing back a bone (maternity leave extension). Like most CEOs, she implements bad policies and her response is, "everyone else is doing it", which is the opposite of leadership.
There must be a better female CEO out there.
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I want her as a real doll, not a wax figure.
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RealDoll2
Michelle - Face A
What about Carly Fiorina? (Score:5, Funny)
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It would be redundant. She doesn't need to be in wax to give people the creeps.
Woz already waxed ... (Score:2)
... blew up like a balloon.
which version? (Score:2)
I was going to ask it'll be the current version of early 80s version...
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Milk? (Score:2)
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Be carefull when visiting (Score:2)
SF (Score:2)
Myspace (Score:1)
That some new programming language? (Score:2)
It's so hard to keep up with these things nowadays.
I've Seen The Museum in London (Score:2)
And if you ever find yourself there, or near any display of these wax sculptures, I highly recommend you take the time to see them. They are amazing works of art. If you have children with you, it can be a great history and cultural experience, too.
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Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and um, screaming. - Dr. Ian Malcolm
Wax != Immortal (Score:1)
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They will be using Woz from the Future.
Don't laugh, he's nearly done inventing Mr. Fusion.
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When we wax Woz, we will wonder which was waxed.
Still (Score:4, Funny)
Once his statue is complete Woz will be on display next to Steve Jobs in San Francisco
Still a better love story than Twilight.
Encasing him in amber... (Score:1)
Encasing him in amber would allow scientists millions of years in the future to make use of his brilliant genetics to rebuild apple.
Not a cost-effective choice (Score:2)
Who? (Score:2)
Isn't part of the deal with waxworks is you're supposed to be know what the people look like? So you recognise their uncanny likeness in wax?
Steve Wozniak is the only one of those suggested I'd have any hope of recognising. Heads of IT companies are not really people I need to see or remember. I'd consider myself doing well if I recognise the name. It's their product that matters, not their faces.
which vintage woz (Score:1)
I hope they use the 1983 era Wozniak as the model. He looked great!
http://www.vhnd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Steve_Wozniak_David_Lee_Roth.jpg