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Since founding Dell Computer in his Texas dorm room in 1984, Michael Dell has steadily, inexorably grown his company into the largest PC manufacturer in the world. The firm, based in Austin, Texas, has overtaken the box business's best-known makers-IBM, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard among them-by executing its unorthodox, build-to-order manufacturing formula. Dell Computer isn't known for product innovation. It wins by being efficient, relentlessly so. In the competitive and increasingly commoditized computer industry, Dell's cherub-faced founder and CEO may be the closest thing there is to an irresistible force...
...throbbed out on to the street. Inside, the crowd was as hip, diverse and giddy as the band’s eponymous debut album: slightly ostentatious, but mostly with a self-deprecating sense of humor. As Nakamura’s set finished, Gorillaz cartoonist (and Tank Girl creator) Jamie Hewlett sipped his beer nervously behind his banks of projectors ranged on a platform at the back of the room. Unlike the first couple of shows in Britain, everyone had a pretty good idea what we were going to get: animated performers and images, projected onto a translucent screen through which...
There were some wonderful moments. In place of between-song patter, which most bands make a hash of anyway, Hewlett had cartoon vignettes of the Gorillaz band at play. One segment showed 2-D trying to ramp over the somnolent Russel’s belly on a tiny tricycle, and getting thoroughly pounded for his pains. In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Nakamura said of the cartoon-character front, “It’s easier to present on the web and on video, but it’s a little more work to present live?...
...single, knit together accelerated London cityscape footage to create a background for the band members. Yet in the end, the band reprised both “Clint Eastwood” and “Tomorrow Comes Today,” with slightly different video footage, for their encore, before Hewlett sent us on our way with a final bit of cartoon-video nonsense...
Printing and imaging have long been the jewels in HP's crown, and Fiorina bristles at the suggestion that HP doesn't innovate enough (indeed, the company recently introduced the first photo printer that prints directly from a digital camera's storage card). She slams Hewlett's alternative as a waste of opportunity. Roughly 25% of the profit a combined HP-Compaq would make, in the best-case scenario, would come from printing and imaging. "It would be an easy course if we were focused on the short term," she says. "We're looking 10 years ahead...