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Dents
panel 1: Nemesis spots Anise and Kana in the classroom. He's dressed up in a blazer with rolled up sleeves.
Nemesis: Hey Henshin Slowpokes! Whoa. Look at the two of you! What are you supposed to be?
Anise: Ugh.
panel 2: Anise can't seem to stand him.
Anise: Let me guess... you're a used car salesman.
Nemesis: Who me?
panel 3: Nemesis explains what his career choice is about.
Nemesis: I'm a FAMOUS MOVIE EXECUTIVE. I make and break the big stars. I produce big budget movies and mingle with the Hollywood elite.
panel 4: He then notices that Ani has an iPad!
Nemesis: Pretty important stuff! So what's your story? Didja choose a career working at a monastery or something? Whoa! Is that an iPad?
SFX: SWIPE
panel 5: Anise is busy looking at something....
Anise: MY story? I make dents in the universe.
Nemesis: !
SFX: SWIPE SWIPE
panel 6: And pulls out a chart showing how high the stock price has gone!
Anise: Oh... and I've made $35 MILLION since you started talking.
Nemesis: HUH?
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First! Wow, Anise is trying to be smart! haha..
I'll be honest...this arc is a bit cringe-worthy to me (There was always something dark about Jobs I could never figure out...).
But this strip I like. Seeing Ani snark like that is awesome. Especially since Nemesis outcringes her by looking all Tom Cruisey.
here comes the fireworks!
Niiiiiice! Ani, you go girl! And LOL, Nemesis does look like a used car salesman XD
Oof, Nem picked a bad one. If there are any Firefly fans in the class, he's going to be in trouble. Nothing they hate more than a Fox network exec. Same with Babylon 5 fans and TNT network execs.
Oh, and another difference between Jobs and network execs: Jobs had the right response to music piracy. Prefer markets to lawyers.
Love the "dents in the universe" line.
I think Anise wins...
The difference between Steve Jobs and your Average Famous Movie Executive is that Jobs was *ALL* about the "Long Haul" -- making a product that could and would be used for years and develop an intense loyalty to that product's Brand Name. The Average Famous Movie Executive, on the other hand, is about planting some butts in theater seats for a few weeks (and in front of televisions when the DVD is released) and hoping that he can work that "magic" again and again before he fabegf uvf pnerre njnl va n pbpnvar ovatr be trgf neerfgrq sbe orvat pnhtug jvgu gur jebat tvey (be obl) va uvf orq naq orvat sbeprq vagb eruno. Jobs had the right idea, even if he didn't always execute it perfectly. (i.e. Newton.)
Note: ROT 13'd for the protection of certain readers.
Err...Newton came after Jobs was ousted. Jobs killed the Newton when he returned.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5452193/the-story-behind-apples-newton
Okay, thanks for the info. My point still stands. Jobs was a long-range thinker. Your Average Famous Movie Executive usually can't think beyond this week's box office receipts -- except maybe to ask "How can we Sequelize this?"
I was nodding along with your post, but the Newton example stunk. Better examples would have been the hockey puck iMac mouse, or overpriced G4 Cube.
Side note: even though you've expressed a dim view of movie producers, Steve Jobs was a visionary in the movie industry by recognizing and believing in the potential in Pixar (and most importantly, being the moneybags and executive producer for Toy Story).
Well, I probably would have had a much different opinion of Movie Executives ten or fifteen years ago; but the junk that keeps getting sent to theaters these days has pretty much destroyed any faith that I had that Hollywood could still make a decent movie if given the right amount of money and the right directing and acting talent.
Yeah, there are exceptions like "The Hurt Locker", "War Horse" and (maybe) "Red Tails"; but it seems that for every good-to-great movie that we get, we also have to endure three or four "Stuff-goes-BOOM!-for-no-real-reason" movies (or cookie-cutter Rom-Coms) that seem specifically designed to appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator within the American moviegoing public. (Thank Celestia for DVDs! At least with them *I* can choose what I see, and I can even go off the beaten track once in a while.) So, yeah; until those Famous Movie Executives start making *real* movies again instead of "butts-in-the-seat"-bait and sequels, I'm going to be a bit down on them.
(And, yes, Jobs did a wonderful job with Pixar and I can only hope that more studios follow his example...but I'm not going to hold my breath because there are too many FME-types in charge right now and they're making enough money to *not* have to change the way that they do business.)
The sad part is that the Newton was an example of what not to do for a PDA, and Palm (which had a lot of ex-Apple folks) took advantage of that and made a much better product, which survived quite well until the iPhone came along.
If my memory serves me correctly, "Palm" via the Tandy Z (Zoomer) and Newton came out at roughly the same time. Both "failed" due to the limitations of the era which was mainly processor power. This may actually be an oxymoron in the sense that these were the first real PDA's with any real functionality that was sold to a mass market audience. These actually created an industry.
There weren't "a lot of ex-Apple folks" at Palm during it's first iteration. Only Donna Dubinsky was former Apple. You may be thinking of Jon Rubinstein who left Apple to work at Palm.
Wow, sciency conversation going on!
Good going, Anise!
Anise maybe earns a million dollars for each word. That's highway robbery! Call 9-1-1.