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The Story of Tron
An anonymouse reader writes "Tom's Hardware has a feature up on the makings of Tron which may interest latent fans. Through interviews with the creators they explore the makings of Tron, from how it came to be picked up by Disney to how the effects were put together ('While the majority of the film takes place in the computer world, only 15 minutes worth of footage actually used CGI', because it would have taken years to make the film otherwise). They then explore why the film flopped at the box office. 'It was like we put LSD in the punch at the school prom and it was just way more than they can handle,' said Steven Lisberger."
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From The Economist print edition
A new Steve Jobs; a second coming. But is it the same old Apple? The firm's predicament is that in the desktop computer market there is bound to be only one winner--markets based on standards tend to work that way--and the IBM-compatible PC is it. Apple, dazzled by its own brilliance, chose to go it alone, refusing to allow an industry of cloners to arise, as IBM did. As far behind as the original PC may have been, it was only a matter of time before the collective efforts of Microsoft, Intel and a horde of others would overtake Apple. Now that day has come, and no amount of restructuring, marketing or price-cutting can disguise the fact that Apple is the Betamax of computers.
Those who expect the returning prophet to change this ghastly situation reckon without the change in the prophet himself. [In 1997,] Mr Jobs demonstrated his own grasp on reality by selling all but one of the 1.5m Apple shares he had received for NeXT. He did not, he said, see much of a future for Apple. Moreover, he has told Pixar staff that he will not be leaving [...]
This is hardly the Steve Jobs that Apple enthusiasts know and love. Where is his vision for restoring Apple to its rightful place in the industry it did so much to create? Intact, actually: the newly level-headed Mr Jobs knows that Apple's rightful place is a niche, at best, despite its glorious history. Today he talks about refocusing on its strengths in the publishing and education markets, tomorrow he may steer it to the cheap "network computers" Mr Ellison is so enthusiastic about. But it is hard to see a future in which Apple is not a smaller firm, less obsessed by the victory of the inferior PC, and probably without Mr Jobs.
His own fortune assured, and Pixar a success, Mr Jobs has little to prove by taking the helm of a sinking ship, even one he built long ago. At least he is well placed to break the bad news that, having lost the desktop war, Apple must now find something different to do. Having once distorted reality, his duty now is to make Apple face up to it.
I had a professor that looked even more like Flanders than that guy. He even sounded like him. If he would have dropped a Flanders line in one of his lectures I think the class would have fallen out of their chairs laughing.
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