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New Lucas Headquarters To Open in San Francisco

Posted by timothy on from the empire-building dept.

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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  1. How callous and mirror of pics by winkydink · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. That's funny. by xor.pt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Presidio means jail in Portuguese(from Brasil).

  3. thanks george by misterlump77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    and it's a half block from my apartment.

    there goes my rent...

  4. Faster or Better? by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny
    '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.

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    1. Re:Faster or Better? by Trogre · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Perhaps one day they'll come up with a way to fix one thing that's always bugged me about the Tattooine sequences in old and new SW movies:

      Shadows.

      On a planet with two suns, all shadows cast would look deicdedly different from what we're used to. Going by the two shots that show the suns, they appear to be (impossibly of course) in the area of 10 sun radii apart. This would produce two sharp, light shadows for each object, with a darker patch where both shadows intersect.

      Because they were filmed in mono-sunned Tunisia, it would have been impossible to give the correct effect when filming the OT, and very difficult with the last 3 films. Even with current state-of-the art CG post-processing such a task would be very time-consuming, and would probably involve creating a 3D model of the objects and environment to get the shadow casting looking anywhere near realistic.

      Of course some shots would need to remain unaltered for artistic reasons (for example the shadowed Padme/Anakin hug on the igloo wall in AOTC), but you could use the justification that this was late evening and one of the suns may have already set.

      If done well, this would be one CG revision that I would welcome.

      I can't believe I just typed this.

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    2. Re:Faster or Better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
      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.

  5. Pride and Presidio by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. Isn't it funny how . . . by dgrgich · · Score: 4, Interesting

    . . . a terabyte just isn't as impressive as it used to be? After all, it is possible for a relatively green computer tech to go down to Best Buy and slap three 400MB drives into her rig (ahem...) and have a terabyte ready for whatever goodness she chooses to place there.

    I know, I know, in three months, this will be quaint but it used to be - not so long ago - that a terabyte was this massive hill on the horizon. Now - well, not so much.

  7. Huh? by K8Fan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought the Presidio was supposed to be for non-profit organizations, like the Internet Archive.

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  8. Re:greebo shot first! by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  9. Mixing SciFi -- The Presido is Home of Star Fleet by HighOrbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  10. We are moving by OneArmedMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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*

  11. Mega-whoring here by GuyMannDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  12. Presidio is required to be self-supporting by aaronrp · · Score: 4, Informative

    From http://www.nps.gov/prsf/

    On October 1, 1994, the Presidio became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Since 1998, the Presidio has been jointly managed by the National Park Service and the Presidio Trust. The Presidio Trust is a special public-private governmental agency tasked with managing most of the buildings of the Presidio and making the park financially self-sufficient by 2013.

    Certain areas are rented to non-profit groups, and much is set aside for public space, but development in the Presidio is required for it to pay for itself. It is the only National Park Service unit expected to do so.

    The Presidio Trust site is here.

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  13. New Lucas Headquarters by Knightcrawler · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lucas bid on putting something on the Presidio as a lark and was surprised when he won. The new headquarters combines all of Lucas's companies into I place; Lucas Arts, Lucasfilm, THX, ILM, Lucas Merchandising. Before this alot of it was at Skywalker Ranch and the rest scattered throughout California. He thought that since the video game company and the movie company were often working in much the same thing that they should work together more. Also, no more episodes even after he dies. Lucas has specifically made it so that no one can use the Star Wars property after he dies.