Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced last week that the company would be splitting off its DVD rental service into a new business to be called Qwikster.
Netflix首席执行官里德·哈斯廷斯上周宣布,该公司将分拆DVD租赁业务,将其改组为新公司Qwikster。
And while his streaming service would seem to present a similar threat to cable companies, Hastings argues that their real challenge comes from the Internet in general, not just Netflix.
与此同时,他的即时观看服务对有线电视公司造成了同样的威胁。黑斯廷斯认为,其实真正的挑战,来自整个互联网,而不仅仅是Netflix公司。
The procession included a tableau of the Battle of Hastings.
游行队伍中包括黑斯廷斯战役的人物造型。
Speaking to his new hires, Hastings lets slip a rare glimpse of immodesty.
谈到他的新员工,黑斯廷斯滑过一个罕见的不谦虚的一瞥。
Hastings, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy, is one of the world's top experts in using mathematical models (sets of equations) to understand natural systems.
加州大学戴维斯分校环境科学与政策系教授黑斯廷斯,是世界上利用数学模型(方程组)来理解自然系统的顶级专家之一。
You'll never hear Hastings point that out, however. Unlike many in the tech world, he's a quiet disrupter, sabotaging business models silently and irretrievably.
你将永远不会听到黑斯廷斯指出这一点,但是,与科技世界的众人不同,他是一个安静的破坏者,默默地和不可逆转地破坏着商业模式。
Hastings is comfortable creating his own rules for how to run a business; you don't see any management tomes in his office.
黑斯廷斯轻松地创造了自己的怎样经营一个企业的业务规则,在他的办公室你看不到任何有关管理的大部头著作。
Hastings warned the Donner party that the route ahead was more difficult than he had thought. He asked the emigrants to make camp there and wait until he could return to show them a better way.
黑斯廷斯提醒他们,前面的路比他所预想的要难走得多,他让他们在这里扎营,然后等着他回来指点一条更好走的路。
Hastings said the photos will be uploaded to a record of each specimen in the collection's online database, allowing ichthyologists and other researchers to examine internal structures from afar.
黑斯廷斯表示,照片会被上传至在线数据库的标本分类记录中,方便鱼类学家和其他研究者进行远程研究。
It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry.
经过了将近十年的时间,里德·黑斯廷斯终于准备推出了他认为会颠倒娱乐业的设备。
Hastings carries himself with a laconic modesty that contradicts an ambitious and restless mind.
黑斯廷斯带有一种简洁的谦虚,与之相对的是一颗雄心勃勃的和不安骚动的内心。
Its customers were so angry about the change, for which they would need two accounts, that Reed Hastings, Netflix's boss, joked that he "might need a food taster".
消费者对这改变非常生气,因为这意味着他们需要建立两个账户。
Even back when he formed Netflix in 1997, Hastings predicted a day when he would deliver video over the Net rather than through the mail.
甚至早在他于1997年成立Netflix公司时,黑斯廷斯预测,有一天他会通过网络提供视像,而不是通过邮件。
Here's why: Hastings had already clearly identified the next wave's product at Netflix (NFLX) — streaming video over the Internet — but Google has to find a new vision altogether.
原因如下:黑斯廷斯已经明白无误地指出网飞公司(Netflix)的下一代互联网产品是视频流服务,但谷歌必须找到一个全新的愿景。
And Hastings says this is just the beginning: "it's possible that within a few years, nearly all Internet-connected consumer electronics devices will include Netflix."
黑斯廷斯说,这仅仅是一个开始:“这有可能是在几年之内,几乎所有的互联网连接的消费电子产品都将包括Netflix的服务。”
Netflix is a possible candidate, especially given that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings joined the Facebook board just three months ago.
Netflix是一个可能的候选人,尤其是考虑到Netflix的首席执行官里德黑斯廷斯3个月前加入Facebook董事会。
Anne Hastings, Fonkoze's co-chief executive, has become something of an international aid celebrity: she was a high-profile attendee of the Clinton Global Initiative conference this fall in New York.
Fonkoze的联合首席执行官安妮·海斯汀斯(AnneHastings)现在已然成为一位国际援助名人:秋季的时候,她高调出席克林顿在纽约举办的全球倡议大会。
All the way home I was in the clouds, Hastings talking, I not hearing a word.
回家时我一路上像踩着棉花一样,赫斯廷斯说的话,一句都没钻进我耳朵里头去。
From there, however, the emigrants decided to leave the established trail and take a new and supposedly shorter route to California laid out by a unscrupulous trail guide named Lansford Hastings.
从那里开始,他们听信一个不负责任的名叫兰斯福德·黑斯廷斯的路线向导的说法,决定跟着他走另外一条近路。
As CEO and co-founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings has come a long way since he sold vacuum cleaners as a door-to-door salesman before attending Bowdoin College in Maine.
网飞公司总裁兼联合创始人里德•哈斯廷斯在前往缅因州鲍登学院就学前,曾是一名挨家挨户推销真空吸尘器的销售员。自那之后,他的事业大有进展。
Hastings has also set up deal to license content directly from studios, which poses a major threat to cable TV and telecom fiber-to-the-home businesses.
哈斯廷斯也建立了直接处理来自制片厂的授权许可。这对有线电视和电信光纤到户业务构成了威胁。
When the month was up at last, I had a million dollars to my credit in the London and County Bank, and Hastings was fixed in the same way.
终于到了那个月的月底,我在伦敦国民银行的户头上已经有了一百万块钱,赫斯廷斯的钱数也是一样。
But you should have a go, Mr Hastings.
可你该去,黑斯廷斯先生。
Hastings, a trained engineer, helped the company double their revenue each year.
作为一名经过专业培训的工程师,哈斯廷斯帮助公司每年实现收入翻番。
One Saturday night we went to a club in the seafront of Hastings.
一个星期六的晚上,我们去了Hastings海边的一个俱乐部。
Battle: a town of southeast England, site of the Battle of Hastings (1066).
贝特:英国东南的一个城镇,位于哈斯汀的贝特(1066年)。
Battle: a town of southeast England, site of the Battle of Hastings (1066).
贝特:英国东南的一个城镇,位于哈斯汀的贝特(1066年)。
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