Chapter 18: The Stars Shine at the Oscars (2)

Of course, these guys are not only concerned about Jerry's Grammys awards, but also about the nine-headed beauty who appeared on the Grammys with Jerry and is known as the Japanese pop diva named Namie_Amuro (Namie Amuro's English name). The group smelled something unusual from Jerry's intimacy with Namie Amuro on the Grammys. Well~ Yes, the occupational diseases of the paparazzi, especially the occupational diseases of some paparazzi in the United States who like to go crazy. This time, though, there wasn't anything wrong with their noses, because something did happen between Jerry and Namie Amuro. And this kind of encirclement like a long gun and a short cannon has not stopped since the Grammy Awards Gala. Bringing Namie Amuro to the Grammys, in fact, it wasn't Jerry doing it on purpose, but, but he really didn't know who to bring with him. All of TY's staff were sent out by him to help Girls' Generation promote the album.,Yi Tian Xun? Ita Tatsumi is the same, Girls' Generation's landing battle in Asia has been in full swing, not to mention this time, there is really nothing to do with DreamMusic, because the single itself was released through the channel of DreamWorks Music. David. That guy from Geffen? Come on, although David is a good friend, but being stared at ambiguously by this middle-aged glass, Jerry will still have goosebumps anyway, so he will bring Namie Amuro, who came to the United States with her.

Hmm~ He also hopes that An's mother will not be bound by Japan, a place with a big egg, shijie is big

However, it is precisely in this way that trouble ensues.

After Zuihou left the Grammy Awards with Namie Amuro, Jerry still let Carlos go on a rush before finally getting rid of the annoying guys.

And after that, even Namie Amuro went in and out of the villa, and she was careful and careful. Although Jerry's villa in Billfield Hill is more heavily guarded, there are no fewer paparazzi squatting with cameras on them.

"Rammy, go to Los Angeles Airport" Jerry, who got into the Mercedes Benz, leaned back directly, "Don't care about the paparazzi, let those boring guys follow." Namie is resting at home today and won't go out with me. ”

"Miss Namie is not going out? It's really boring, I thought I could throw these paparazzi a few more streets" Carlos was a little depressed. For him, tuning the driving skills of those paparazzi is what he is looking forward to the most now. Whether to make them hit each other against the bumper or let them hit the wall, or use the fluttering to make them roll over on their side, this is a very jishu job. Of course, the situation would be even more interesting if you met the Hollywood traffic police

"Okay, hurry up and drive, I've made an appointment with Alvey, you don't play drift jishu with those paparazzi anymore, your boss, my stomach can't stand the toss."

Carlos rolled his eyes, and the vehicle was safe out of the villa.

Soon, a group of sneaky guys were following behind the butt of the car.

For the "stubbornness" of this group of guys, Jerry has no way at all.

Thinking that this group of guys forced Michael to death in his previous life. Jackson drove Britney Spears crazy, and Jerry felt he should do something. Hmm~ Let's wait a while and wait until the filming of "This Man is from Earth" is completed, and then consider this

The Mercedes-Benz didn't take the group of paparazzi behind the ass to make a few rounds of routine, but rushed directly to the Los Angeles airport, and then the two guys threw the Mercedes-Benz sports car to the parking lot of the Los Angeles airport, and flew directly to Oakland, and then transferred from Oakland to Emmoryville. Pixar is located on Park Avenue in Emeryville

Meet Alvey. Thunder. Smith was in the Pixar lounge and laughing with his men

The working atmosphere at Pixar is pretty good, without Stephen. Jobs's interference in Ed. Cattermole, John. Russell and Alve. Thunder. Under the joint management of the Smith Triumvirate, the company's development now includes not only computer animation, but also home game consoles. Of course, the development and software development of X-Station, a product in the field of home game consoles, was all entrusted to Pixar Japan, in collaboration with CAPCON and Square Enix. In addition to the original Pixar computer hardware department director Porter. In addition to Luce, Alve is another dominant player in the field of home consoles. Animation jishu, whether it is used in animated films, or in animated games, this field, will always be Alvey. Thunder. The center of Smith's attention. Obviously, compared to John. Russell, for his part, is better suited to the jishu field. ,

"Hey~ Alvey, long time no see."

Seeing Jerry walking with Carlos from the door of the break room, Alve blasted up a crowd of subordinates who were in a commotion and wanted to sign autographs, he looked at his watch, and then said with a smile, "Boss, you're half an hour late." ”

Jerry was really a little embarrassed about this, "There is a traffic jam in Los Angeles, and Emeryville is also in a traffic jam, if it weren't for the fact that I was on the plane today, I don't think you would have seen me today." ”

Pixar's tradition is that the lower level collides with the superior.

Jerry had long known that Jobs just couldn't stand the collision and could kick Alve away. Thunder. Smith, if it weren't for that, the animation jishu of Pixar in the previous life, would be more than that. Therefore, when facing Alvey, he did not show his identity as a boss and spoke to him in a condescending tone.

"You have to be considerate of me, Alvey, after the weekend this week, my schedule is full. Unless you want to see me at the end of the year, or if you're flying from Emoryville to Hollywood, or Long Island, New York, you're only going to know my whole Jihua on the phone. ”

"Jihua of the new anime?"

"It's not just Jihua of the new anime. Well, if it's just Jihua of the new anime, I can find Ed and John, and you know, your main area now is jishu innovation. ”

"I'll admit, I'm curious about my boss now, hey~ Jim, can you bring me two cups of coffee?"

A middle-aged man with glasses smiled and walked over with two cups of coffee, "Alvey, you guy, don't you bother to take a step around at such a close distance?" ”

Alwei smiled and took the coffee from his hand, then handed one of the cups to Jerry, "I'll introduce you, Jerry." My old friend, Jim, Jim. Dr. Clark is the founder of SGI. ”

Jerry was stunned for a moment.

Lucky...... Jim. Clarke? Are you kidding?

The creator of three IT companies with a market capitalization of more than $1 billion (SGI, Netscape, Healtheon/WebMD), the leader of the Internet wave, and the huge reformer of the computer industry. Clark, right now, actually in Pixar.

You may not be familiar with the SGI, but you are all familiar with well-known films such as "Toy Story", "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "The Lord of the Rings", "Emergency Landing", "Avatar", and "The Day After Tomorrow", all of which were produced on SGI's graphics workstations. For example, the success of Titanic, one of the most expensive and successful films in the history of Shijie cinema, is largely due to its use of a large number of computer animations, which have been used to successfully simulate tragic scenarios. This mass of computer animation is the result of a year and a half of a year for Shijie's famous digital studio Digital_Domain the company, which used more than 300 SGI Super Workstations and sent more than 50 stuntmen to work on a 24-hour-a-day rotation.

That's right, the SGI has the most extraordinary graphics computing power on shijie.

And now, the founder of SGI, stands in front of him.

"You...... How did you meet? Mr. Clark, now an employee of Pixar? ”

"Pixar employees? Not yet. He is now alone. ”

"Huh?"

"Last year, those Jobs-style venture capitalists cut his stake in SGI to about 5 percent and kicked him out of SGI."

Jerry looked at Jim. Clark, the latter just shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "Relying on other people's funding has always been the biggest mistake, these vampires have planned from the beginning, the seeds they planted in your company, and then, when these seeds gradually grow into a big tree, you will find that the soil you live on has long been occupied by them, and I, I have paid such a price." ”

OH~Shit~Another Eduardo. Saverin, another Alve. Thunder. Smith. (Eduardo. Saverin and Mark. After Zuckerberg created FaceBook, he also encountered something similar to Jim. In Clark's case, his Stake in FaceBook was condensed to less than 10% and then swept away. ）

"It's a great misfortune." Jerry took a sip of his coffee, his eyes already rolling.

"Jim and I have known each other since we were on Long Island."

"Long Island?"

"Well, yes, at that time, we were all in Alexandria. At Mr. Shure's Fort Gucire estate, it was supposed to be the Long Island Animation Working Group. Toy Story has entered the production stage of Zuihou, and Jim, who is now homeless, is very interested in this. So I invited him over well~ Just take a break, he originally had an idea of using graphics software to access the Internet, but Microsoft's Bill. Gates seemed to be ahead of him. ”,

With the release of the WorldWideWeb protocol (i.e., WWW protocol) of the European Institute for Particle Physics based on the hypertext protocol, the development of Dephi's all-round network services, and the loss of the status of NFS (International Science Foundation) Internet hub, the full use of large-scale commercial networks began to emerge at the end of 1994.

Jereh knew very well that in 1995, with the overall improvement of network docking speed, the first wave of the Internet would soon be swept in full swing.

And the leader of this wave should have been Jim standing in front of him. Clark and his netscape. However, due to Jerry's appearance, Mosaic, a graphics browser with a market value of more than $1 billion, has been lost to Microsoft. In other words, this IT giant who has been swept away by the SGI is likely to have nothing to do for a long time to come. However, this IT giant has unrivaled creativity in the field of graphics.

"Oh~ another piece of unfortunate news. Bill. Gates bastard, he's got a pretty good brain," Jerry said this when he was talking to Bill Melinda, who was in love with Ms. Melinda. Gates involuntarily sneezed.

"Huh? Since Mr. Clark is now alone, perhaps Mr. Clark can come to Pixar. ”

Jim. Clark smiled, "Computer animation? I'll admit that I'm interested in computer animation, though, I don't think that's where I want to go."

"Pixar has more than just computer animation. All industries that have to do with graphics are our domain. Mr. Clark, you should know about X-Station," Jerry continued to sip his coffee, the adrenaline pumping in his body compared to his apparent calmness.

Jim. Clark nodded, "As an innovator in the field of home consoles, the use of 2D engines and RISC integrated processors is very good. I'm even more impressed by the software company that created Final Fantasy, which can take this kind of engine to such an extent. ”

"What if I said that Pixar's X-Station would eventually turn Final Fantasy into a 3D game?"

"3D games?"

"A three-dimensional space game based on light and line."

"However, the current computing power and data processing speed of computers cannot handle such a large amount of data. With one more dimension, the increment of data can be more than doubled. ”

"That's the next work Pixar is going to do. However, this is not the main thing. Pixar's main job is to operate such a 3D game online. ”

"What?" Jim. Clark was shocked and excited.

Bringing a 3D game that requires a lot of computing power and data processing power to the Internet? How is this possible? Even though he anticipated the advent of the Big Bang of the Internet, he only thought that with the power of the Internet, it could only support the dissemination of graphics at best, such as using the Microsoft browser created on the basis of Mosaic to view images, which should be the limit of Internet throughput. He had never had the idea of anything like this black-haired, black-eyed guy

And this thought made his blood rush all over his body, just like when he founded SGI and made it public.

"I know you're scrupling about something, Mr. Clark. One of the problems you think about will be solved with the operation of NFS, and the other problem is what Pixar needs to do. Or rather, it's you, Jim. What Mr. Clark needs to do. Jerry finally put the coffee cup down in his hand, "Mr. Clark, I want to ask you, do you want to get revenge on the vampires at the SGI?" ”

Revenge on the SGI? Jim. Of course Clark thought, he had dreamed that yes, there was no fault at all to steal the SGI that he had worked so hard to build and lead it to success, and swept him out of the SGI like a dog. McCallane's bunch of revenge

He, by nature, is an avenger

"Your words are really tempting, I didn't believe it much at first, but now, I believe it."

Jerry was stunned for a moment.

Alve, who sat on the side and listened quietly. Thunder. Smith hahadaxiao, "Look, I'm right, I was kidnapped by him like this in the first place. ”

Jerry broke out in a cold sweat, "Hey~ Alvey, you might as well say, you bought it directly from me." ”

Three people together hahadaxiao.

"What Pixar needs to do is build a powerful 3D data processing base station. And to build such a data processing base station, Alway to do it, maybe it will take ten or twenty years, I don't underestimate Alve's ability, he has his field of expertise. And this matter is handled by Jim. If Clark were to do it, perhaps, it would only take two, three, or five years. Because all of us know that you have the capabilities that you have in the field of handling the use of base stations at SGI. ”,

"You mean you're going to build on the SGI and do further research and development?"

"Is there a more powerful graphics data processing base station than SGI?"

Jim. Clark smiled.

What Mr. Clark needed to do was to develop the SGI graphics base station into a more powerful 3D graphics data processing base station. It's not a simple matter, but, for Mr. Clark, I think, it's not a big problem. Jim, allow me to call you Jim, these things are destined to happen in the next three, five, or ten years, and the question now is, would you like to join me, with Pixar, to witness the birth of this history. ”

"Weishenme is going to tell me this? You're not afraid ......."

Jim. Clark didn't say any more, but Jerry knew exactly what he was trying to say, and he just smiled, "Because I'm also an investor, but I'm not like those VCs, I invest in talent, talent that exists at the cost of original shares." Alwe knows that. ”

"I gotta say, I'm impressed by you."

"Welcome, Jim Alvey, then, bring me two more cups of coffee."

Alvey. Thunder. Smith made a bitter face, "Hey~ I'm going to throw me to work as a coolie when I'm done."

The three of them are daxiao again.