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- cr125er, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1199% of people on Digg aren't going to take the time to read that.
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Great artical.
I had no idea Paul Allen created Dreamworks SKG.
Damn super rich people owning everything. - Switch22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Waiter.... theres a dick in my shoup!
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Good read. Always wondered about Pixar.
- muikano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The article really makes Steve Job into a profiteering oppurtunist. He prolly wasn't into the day to day running of the place but he let the company use his money for a long time without ever knowing the business model. All he knew was that the ppl he had were smart and the product he had was unique.
I can tell you that most ppl can't withstand such 30k operating loss much less 100 mill. It's not luck that Steve Jobs is involved with so many influential products. Smart people flock to him. Why do you think that is? That's because he's the guy with money that listens to the right people, mostly. - Darthmalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow fanboy much?
I wouldn't say smart people flock to Jobs. But he is good at finding talented people and trusting them with minimal oversight. - cannibaljp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6XEROX... again...
what is in the water in that place?
i'm a big fan of pixar,so i quite enjoyed the read.
dugg! - gregdigg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Automata are abstract mathematical models of machines that perform computations on an input by moving through a series of states or configurations. Was it too difficult for you to click on the link yourself?
- ptsd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4heres some more information on superpaint, pictures of the system and some of the first video and animated graphics ever made on a computer. you can even download a windows version of superpaint.
http://www.rgshoup.com/prof/SuperPaint/ - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Please Digg the above comment down. I don't know if that was supposed to be a joke or what. Here's a timeline of computer graphics and the development of 3D:
http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html
IBM developed the first commercial CAD system before Xerox PARC even existed. - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5would that be a large bowl, or a cup, of dick shoup?
- SabahArif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I prefer Second Coming of Steve Jobs and DroidMaker. Both devote a lot more space to Pixar's history. iCon's major weakness is that it tends to read like a press release. Just release dates and major names.
- schibs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There was a great visualization in Wired a few years ago about Disney/Pixar/Apple/Lucas. It was a timeline that showed each company's major accomplishments. Does anyone know what I am talking about? It was one of my favorites and I can't find it anymore.
- funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"The employees were scared that the halt meant Disney was reneging on its agreement, but executive producer Bonnie Arnold knew better. She was an industry veteran and knew that distributors like Disney were likely to shut down production for the smallest problem. She enrolled Lasseter in a screenwriting class, and, in the interim, devoted some of Pixar's 110 employees to commercial projects."
No mention of Joss Whedon's screenwriting talent lending tremendously to the creative writing process? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1[quote]Fascinating article - thanks for posting it. I was very interested in learning more about Lucas' involvement.[/quote]
Whatever it was, I'm sure it was counterproductive.
"... and then I want a shark with a laser, riding an elephant." - Lucas' original script for Toy Story
[quote]I had no idea Paul Allen created Dreamworks SKG.[/quote]
Did he really create it? I thought it was Spielberg and Katzenberg. Why isn't his initial in "SKG"? I guess it just wouldn't sound as good. Dreamworks SKAG? - LloydDobbler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Feel free to flame away if you feel so-inclined, but I actually had to digg this one down because of the horrible use of grammar and (more importantly) the lack of editing. It was sheer agony to read & try and understand what the author is getting at by the first 2 paragraphs.
(Even if I AM a huge Pixar fan).
I mean, if you're a blogger, you would think you would learn to write a bit...(of course, I am an editor, so that may make me a little biased - but I'm just talking about meeting standards of writing & proofreading your article before putting it out into the world.) - bubba9999, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4because he loves us back.
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+229 Pixar viideos at http://www.mousevids.com/mv/cat.asp?c=pixar&n=Pixar&k=29&d=2*hours
- MrBlackthorne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interestingly, criticizing "Mac Fanbois" must be an integral focus of your life, considering the effort it took to drag the term "Mac Fanboy" into a thread that had, in reality, nothing to do with Macs except that the article was posted on an Apple-history website.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He must get that all the time.
"Yes, god-dammit, my name is Dick Shoup!"
"Sir... do you have a lisp?"
It's actually pronounced Shoo-paye'. - Darthmalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Spam link digg parent down and block
- brotherfranciz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WTF
You can go to the Pixar website to see trailers and short films.
Here's one for starters:
http://www.pixar.com/theater/trailers/rat/rat_t1_640.html - brotherfranciz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Crap, I just realised I replied to a spammer... look further down, eastoninc223344 posts the same thing, and he joined on January 23, 2007...
I feel so stupid now... - jobyyboj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One thing the story skipped is that Loren Carpenter was also instrumental in creating the critical genesis effect. He invented code for stochastic generation of the terrain. (~=fractals). The quiet man behind the scenes.
- chrisirmo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2No, books generally have editors that ensure things aren't that poorly written.
Interesting story? Yes. Well written? No. - DanielJansen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4The origins of 3D computer generated video going back to Xerox PARC, through Lucasfilm, to Pixar.
- rupertz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Anyone else feel like this was just copied from a book? It sure reads like it.
- mglmouser, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I'm sorry but I stopped reading at "dick soup".
- Emmo213, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0The book iCon (http://www.amazon.com/iCon-Steve-Jobs-Greatest-Business/dp/0471720836) has a large section on Pixar when he was running it too. It's an interesting book and worth a quick read.
edit: donelson just beat me to it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+9Kind of typical I guess. Jobs taking credit for what his employees have slaved over while he did bugger all other than give them some cash to get going with.
- FuriousGopher, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Why do we love Steve Jobs so much?
- AlanLivingston, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I'm quite familiar with Automata, Greggy. And I didn't need to click on the link or Google it, either. It's this Automa theory that has me baffled. Hence the comment.
- AlanLivingston, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Typical Mac Fanbois. "Smith was a brilliant mathematician and economist who wrote his PhD thesis on automa theory." Let's toss around these real cool and awesome sounding words without even an inkling of understanding of what they mean. WTF is automa theory? An American-Chinese collaboration for research into a horse powered automobile?
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