New Lucas Headquarters To Open in San Francisco

Afroloop writes "This article (with pics) in the SFGate covers the opening of the new Lucas Headquarters in San Francisco's famous Presidio. It will house up to 1,500 employees by next fall. From the article: 'The Presidio will feature 600 miles of fiber-optic cable. 4,000 processors and 150 terabytes of storage -- massive computing power and speed, with the ability to work 10 times faster than they can today.'"

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How callous and mirror of pics

[winkydink]

Lucasfilm President Micheline Chau says, "We do have to exist after George. He's not going to live forever. The man's in his early 60s."

Geez! I mean dig a hole and send out the obits already! What's the matter, getting impatient?

The pics are pretty non-exciting (an aerial shot of the Presidio, wide-angle shot of Presidio, outsdie shot of generic-looking hq bldg, pic of map showing location of Presidio, and a headshot of the man himself), but you can see them here if you want to decide for yourself.

Re:How callous and mirror of pics

[stu_coates]

When asked to comment, George Lucas said: "I've got a bad feeling about this." ;-)

Oh great

[FosterKanig]

now he can spread his suckiness even further.

That's funny.

[xor.pt]

Presidio means jail in Portuguese(from Brasil).

Re:That's funny.

[richdun]

Later, by the mid-22nd century, it became home to Earth's Starfleet Command, and when the United Federation of Planets was founded, became home to the UFP's Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy.

thanks george

[misterlump77]

and it's a half block from my apartment.

there goes my rent...

Re:thanks george

[cutecub]

More like... there went your Rent.

The Presidio borders the San Franciso Marina district, where a condo will set you back a million bucks. And a Studio Aparment rents for $1300-$1600 per/mo.

Where, pray tell, have you been living in that area that's affordable up to now?

No, Really. I need to find a new place.

Re:thanks george

[kesuki]

No, Really. I need to find a new place.

If you're looking for living on el-cheapo, outfit a nice, cheap fleet vehicle type van (they usually have a few unfurnished models in the fleet vehicle section that only have the captain's chair for furnishing) get the tinted window option, or just buy some mini-blinds, get a port-a-potty of some type (they sell things just for van owners that will probably work) install a bed, buy an annual membership at the Y (coz that's where you're gonna need to go to shower in the mornings or whenever you need to shower) and then buy/rent some kind of parking space that someone is renting out who dosen't have a clase saying they can kick you out for not leaving your vehicle while it's parked overnights etc.. TCO is probably going to be under $30,000 for 10 years of reliable dual use as house and transportation... the car's alternator can probably be used to keep a spare lead acid battery charged (when you drive) enough to run a low power notebook, or posibly even an imac g5.. you might want to find a shade filled place to park so that you don't die in the summer, and even then it'll still be hot, but you've got that cool ocean breeze, if you can find a shaded parking place near the ocean.

And if you ever get laid off, you're ready to move anywhere in the us or canada you need to go to to find a job, as long as the town has a Y or similar place whhere members can shower day or night as they please...

Re:thanks george

[JargonScott]

You can also throw footballs just over your camcorder, and dream of getting back to '82.

Faster or Better?

[Shadow Wrought]

'The Presidio will feature 600 miles of fiber-optic cable. 4,000 processors and 150 terabytes of storage -- massive computing power and speed, with the ability to work 10 times faster than they can today.'

Wow, so for every Jar-Jar rendered, there can be 10 more just like him! Flippancy aside, I do wonder that the ability to make eye-candy that much faster might actually have a negative effect on movie going.

Re:Faster or Better?

[Anonymous Coward]

the ability to work 10 times faster than they can today.

In other words, if Moore's Law were to hold, this new facility would be obsolete in less than 6 years.

Re:Faster or Better?

[Anonymous Coward]

Going by the two shots that show the suns, they appear to be (impossibly of course) in the area of 10 sun radii apart.

Some scientists believe there's a third dimension (I know it souds crazy). I think they call it "depf" or something. It's a direction that is not sideways or upwards, but is a direction that is perpendicular to both, if that makes anysense..

Anyway, the theory goes that two objects that are side by side can actually be very far apart in this third dimension.

Re:Faster or Better?

[Frostalicious]

(Plus, it's near-impossible to put more CG in his films anyway...)

He could create a CG director. Which might be a good idea actually.

Pride and Presidio

[Tackhead]

Don't be so proud of this technological terror you've constructed... the ability to make two out of your past three movies suck galactic superclusters through buckytubes is insignificant next to the power of the Farce.

Re:Leather Pants

[winkydink]

You haven't spent much time there, have you? Ayy more solid and they'd have to invent another state of matter just to describe it. :)

Re:greebo shot first!

[nomadic]

Did you hear about the special edition of Raiders of the Lost Ark? The guy with the scimitar shoots first.

Mixing SciFi -- The Presido is Home of Star Fleet

[HighOrbit]

Noooooooo! Not even the "Temporal Cold War"(R)(TM)(C) can explain this.

The Presido is the home of StarFleet Command. Not the seat of the Galactic Empire.

Somebody call for a re-write!

Re:Great News!!

[__aaclcg7560]

Maybe they can have the Bush Presidential Library on campus!

In San Francisco... sure. I know there has to be some closet Republicans there, but I don't think there's enough of them for a parade much less for a conservative presidential library. You might have better luck putting the Nixon presidential library on Alcatraz Island.

We are moving

[OneArmedMan]

To the Precedio .....

Employee : But i dont wanna..

GL : Search your feelings , you know this to be true.

E: No thats not true, thats impossable!!!!

GL : It is your ..... *Destiny*

Mega-whoring here

[GuyMannDude]

Slashdotters may wish to look through the comments in the article posted two years ago when they were first breaking ground. And, hey, who's that handsome stud who submitted the article?

Give me a break. That was my first accepted submission to slashdot. I'm very proud. I've got a printout of it hanging up in my cubicle next to my stuffed Tux doll, a defaced photo of Bill Gates, and a poster of that blonde swordswoman from Lord of the Rings in a chain-mail bikini!

GMD

4,000 processors

[xfmr_expert]

...and lot's of air conditioning.

CONSUME

[Cryofan]

CONSUME

Sounds like a Star Wars character.

[isny]

Meet my new apprentice...Darth Presidious.
And my backup apprentice, Darth Congeniality.