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POPSSteve Jobs - 61st out of the 400 Riches Americans Quote: Jobs dismisses health worries, but shareholders fret his pancreatic cancer has returned after gaunt pictures of the King of the iGeeks surfaced in June. Stock up more than 100% between January 2007 and January 2008; now down 16% as the market reacts to health concerns. Launched new iPhone 3G in July. Sleeker, faster gadget sells for $300, half the price of the original; sold one million units on first weekend. Original iPhone took 74 days to reach millionth sale. Founded Apple in garage. Created Macintosh 1976, fired 9 years later after power struggle with chief exec John Sculley. Bought Pixar for $10 million, transformed firm into animation darling with hits Toy Story, Finding Nemo. Sold to Disney 2006 for 7.3% stake in the company—now worth $4.3 billion. Returned to Apple 1996. A third of Apple's $24 billion annual revenues are from iPod. Tweaked iterations introduced last month.
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POPSRobot builders seek a little help from sci-fi
"People that thought of it as a camera with legs were really pleased, but people that thought of it as a photographer were really disappointed," he says. Smart thinks those raised expectations were down to the impact of unrealistically human-like robots in movies and books. "People don't really know what they are. C-3PO in Star Wars is very humanlike, intelligent and capable, but real robots are not like that at all." Instead of just forcing people to alter their expectations, Smart thinks it makes sense to study how people's ideas about robots are influenced by fiction. That knowledge could be used to design robots that make the most of those expectations. "My real concern is to get people and robots to play together nicely," says Smart. Engineers might learn from fictional robots in other ways, says Sharkey. "It would be worthwhile to study the way computer animators make us connect with simple, non-human objects." Pixar's WALL-E, for example, is easy to connect with, he
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POPSCrystalxp, les news Les news (le plus souvent écrites par un (ou une) pirate informatique qui a justement piraté les news lol)
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POPSWhy Americans Are Shunning Hollywood’s Wares
aside to make movies that embody traditional values, it often scores big with the public. Consider 2004’s Spider-Man 2, a sequel far better than the original. The movie is a fable about duty and heroism. The movie resonated powerfully with the public, grossing a whopping $374 million domestically, and it took in another $400 million or so overseas. Factor in DVD sales, and you’re getting close to a billion-dollar movie. The Incredibles affectionately embraces the bourgeois family, flaws and all. The Parrs have their difficulties: teenager Violet is sullen, the kids fight, Mom and Dad bicker, Bob hates his drab insurance job, but for the Parr kids, the family bond is all-important. Pixar’s 2003 runaway winner Finding Nemo, the movie shows children “what adults are supposed to do,” writes author Frederica Mathewes-Green on National Review Online—“to be brave and self-sacrificing, to defend children even at risk to themselves, to give, even in the face of ingratitude.”
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POPSCorporate Marital Bliss Great article outlining how Disney and Pixar have made it work and how Pixar has maintained some degree of entrepreneurial culture within a large corporation.
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POPSReading Is Dead Not really but that's going to be my new shirt so I can be ironic. But here is a great op-ed piece by Tim Egan from the NYT about Steve Jobs and his ridiculous comment about how people do not read. Has he looked at "People Reading" blog or all the various book review blogs that people post, has he stepped into a library (school or public or university)? Well, from where I sit behind the reference desk, or on the metro or in a park...tons of people still read.
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POPSWaLL*E search for Disney's new character and enjoy the previews of this new soon to be released pixar movie at Wall e official site fun character ET, C3po,and others rolled into one
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POPSWTF? How sad is this? The article then goes on about a "clearly depressed Oscar the Grouch" being another problem. I am depressed enough to now want a cookie.
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POPSTRASH PIXAR PIXAR sait aussi faire du trash. C'est bon, c'est beau et ça décoiffe. Ames sensibles, s'abstenir........
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POPSRatatouille sparks French rat craze Hope my grand kids don't see this film. Daughter had a pet rat which she released in the vegetable garden. Dug a burrow which I finished up in when I pushed a shovel into the soil to turn it over. Bloody hole was enormous for such a little animal and the dirt had all been moved away from the hole.
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POPSUltimate Disney World Savings Guide Disney vacation articles. Information about Disney vacation packages, Disney world vacation resorts and how to save money in Disney world. Even Disney pictures for kids.
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POPSDisney Wallpapers Disney vacation articles. Information about Disney vacation packages, Disney world vacation resorts and how to save money in Disney world. Even Disney Wallpapers.
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