Googling his user name and following the subsequent breadcrumb trail revealed that he was in fact not a fan, but a Bioware software engineer.

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The phone in question was a prototype of the iPhone 4G, which had not yet been released, and the guy was a software engineer at Apple who was out celebrating his twenty-seventh birthday.

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Imagine in the future, your phone not only receiving a firmware update for its software, but also its circuits, because an electrical engineer figured out a more efficient way let a component perform its task!

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Second, Ari Rapkin, a computer graphics software engineer at ILM, introduces an amazing paradox: What the special-effects crews are doing is often not emulating physics but tweaking it--because storytelling is better served by showing the audience what it expects, not what would actually happen if a 3-foot-tall creature drew his light saber.

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