When the hype died down, the reaction to the NeXT computer was muted, especially since it was not yet commercially available. 当宣传炒作平息下来后,市场对NeXT电脑的反应平淡,尤其是它还未上市销售。 Bill Joy, the brilli

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Lucasfilm's Computer Division 卢卡斯影业的电脑部门 When Jobs was losing his footing at Apple in the summer of 1985, 1985年夏天,乔布斯在苹果公司正处于失势中。 he went for a walk with Alan Kay, who had been at Xerox PARC a

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After a few potential purchasers balked in the fall of 1985, 1985年秋,在一些潜在买家都踌躇不决时, Catmull and his colleague Alvy Ray Smith decided to seek investors so that they could buy the division themselves. 卡特穆尔和联合

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The chief financial officer at Lucasfilm found Jobs arrogant and prickly, 卢卡斯影业的CFO发现乔布斯傲慢又易怒, so when it came time to hold a meeting of all the players, he told Catmull, We have to establish the right pecking order.

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For a while Jobs let Catmull and Smith run Pixar without much interference. 有那么一段时间,乔布斯没有进行过多干预,让卡特穆尔和史密斯自行掌管皮克斯。 Every month or so they would gather for a board meeting, 每隔一

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Initially the revenue was supposed to come from the hardware side. 最初,皮克斯公司希望硬件能带来收入。 The Pixar Image Computer sold for $125,000. 皮克斯图像电脑售价12.5万美元, The primary customers were animators and

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Jobs wanted to sell Pixar's computers to a mass market, 乔布斯想要把皮克斯的电脑卖给大众市场, so he had the Pixar folks open up sales officesfor which he approved the designin major cities, 于是他让皮克斯的人员在各大城

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Animation 动画 The digital animation business at Pixar--the group that made little animated films--was originally just a sideline, 皮克斯的数字动画业务--制作动画短片的团队--最初只是副业, its main purpose being to show off

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After graduation he took the job for which he was destined: as an animator at Disney Studios. Except it didn't work out. 毕业后,他得到了一份注定要从事的工作--在迪士尼制片厂做动画师。但是拉塞特在迪士尼的工作并

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Jobs and Catmull decided that, in order to show off their hardware and software, 乔布斯和卡特穆尔决定,为了展示皮克斯的硬件和软件, Lasseter should produce another short animated film in 1986 for SIGGRAPH, the annual computer

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There were ten thousand people at the trade show, and Jobs loved it. 展会共有一万人参加,一切都让乔布斯很喜欢。 Artistic creativity energized him, especially when it was connected to technology. 艺术创作激励着他,尤其是

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One day at a board meeting, Jobs started berating Smith and other top Pixar executives 有一次董事会会议上,乔布斯开始训斥史密斯和皮克斯的其他髙管。 for the delay in getting the circuit boards completed for the new versio

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Jobs refused him permission to use some code he had created while at Pixar, which further inflamed their enmity. 乔布斯拒绝史密斯使用他在皮克斯时编写的代码,这又进一步加深了彼此的敌意。 Alvy eventually got what he

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The Pixar team would try to dissuade him by saying that RenderMan was not as easy to use as, say, Excel or Adobe Illustrator. 皮克斯团队试图劝阻他,他们认为RemkrMan并不像Excel或Adobe Illustrator那样易于使用。 Then Jobs would

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When he was working on the NeXT computer, he went to Baez's house in Woodside to show her how well it could produce music. 在NeXT计算机的开发阶段,乔布斯到贝兹在伍德赛德的家,向她展示NeXT强大的音乐功能。 He had it

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Kerwin took Jobs on a walk around the parking lot and begged that the employees be given at least two weeks notice. 克尔温拽着乔布斯在停车场周围散步,请求他至少提前两周告知员工们这一消息。 Okay, he shot back, but t

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Pixar couldn't compete with Adobe, which was making software that was less sophisticated but far less complicated and expensive. 皮克斯无法与Adobe公司竞争,后者做的软件并不像Showplace那样高级,但更简单,也更便宜。 E

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Jobs said he would provide the money. 乔布斯表示自己会提供资金。 I believed in what John was doing, he later said. It was art. He cared, and I cared. I always said yes. 我看好约翰在做的东西,他后来说道,那是艺术,是他

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Lasseter's shorts were really breathtaking both in storytelling and in the use of technology, recalled Katzenberg. 无论是从讲故事还是从技术运用的层面上来看,拉塞特的动画短片真的令人叹为观止,卡曾伯格回忆说,

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Joan Baez 琼贝兹 In 1982, when he was still working on the Macintosh, 1982年乔布斯还在开发麦金塔时, Jobs met the famed folksinger Joan Baez through her sister Mimi Farina, 通过米米法里纳认识了她姐姐--著名的民谣歌手琼

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