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Entertainment execs turn to potty humor only when they're scared. And they are. Technology has made it possible for anyone with minimal geek skills and lots of free time to make his own movies, TV shows, albums, books and even radio programs at the merest fraction of what it cost only a few years ago. It has suddenly become cheap to create your own entertainment--and cheaper still to distribute it online. It's the do-it-yourself dream, and it's seizing the imagination of thousands of auteurs--amateur and professional alike--yearning for a mass-market...
...five cities to project the movie digitally--from hard drive straight to the big screen. That stunt made Avalos and Weiler, who live on a 200-acre sod farm in rural Pennsylvania, the first to project a movie digitally in movie houses. They became instant icons of the film-geek crowd. They also became pretty rich. Through video rentals and sales--and distribution in 20 countries--The Last Broadcast has grossed more than $1 million, making it, percentage-wise, "one of the most profitable movies ever made," Avalos says...
Some people melt over wafer-thin notebook PCs. Others get finger twitches thinking about their next death match in Quake III. But what really brings out the techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...
...common nowadays for a celebrity to come out and proclaim how much of a geek they were in high school. Is it just a trend to soften celebrity, or massive karmic retribution for the popular kids...
...they had been for CVC. Video games, after all, were an established market. Who had ever heard of anyone using a PC, let alone cranking into a copper-wire phone system to talk with other computers? But Case saw at Quantum that the applications that really suckered the geeks (and you had to be a serious geek to own a Commodore 64) were the ones that let them chatter. And as Quantum added customers (and expanded to Apple users), it began to look as much like a communications company as a technology firm. Thousands, then millions of customers began...