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.

That's funny.

[xor.pt]

Presidio means jail in Portuguese(from Brasil).

thanks george

[misterlump77]

and it's a half block from my apartment.

there goes my rent...

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]

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.

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: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!

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