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LA Times Examines Silicon Valley

Posted by michael on from the silly-valley dept.

Richard Finney writes "The Los Angeles Times has a special section on Silicon Valley. Most of the stories focus on the 'survivors struggling through the toughest stretch in tech industry history.' There's also a story on Five Reasons to Hope - New technologies that may help Silicon Valley rise again: Biotech, microsensors, nanotechnology, flexible electronics and data mining. We'll see."

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  1. Should be read as by sielwolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Five Reasons to blow you life savings.

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  2. As the saying goes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too many cooks spoil the broth.

    There's way too many IT people nowadays & it's spoiling it for everybody.

    wait a minute...

    If we all became layers... We could wreck that industry too! GO FOR IT!

  3. wth? by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 1, Funny

    i thought i read somewhere that there's a shortage of silicon, but NOW they're saying that there's an entire VALLEY of the stuff??? anyone want to give the final word? this is pissing me off

  4. I know what the missing part in the article is.. by ewhenn · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's duct tape. Silicon valley needs more duct tape. I'm not sure why the people in Silicon Valley did not see this a long time ago! Duct tape will solve all your problems, its even good to bandage up a broken arm.

  5. Re:Nanotech... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe it would have been better had James Bond failed, and Silicon Valley got flooded. Oh well.

  6. Re:Cost of living is still too high by seanadams.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    15 years ago I moved out of the Valley (Saratoga) because it (SV) was turning into a overcrowded cesspool.

    I'll bet you just couldn't make the payments on your $24M two-bedroom home.

  7. Tech Valley is alive and well-Fruit of the "booms" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Now that they are gone (well, most of them at least), the valley will continue to do what it has done for decades."

    Grow fruit?

  8. Ok, we strike back by krokodil · · Score: 2, Funny
    LA Times Examines Silicon Valley

    We will strike back. Next week "SF Chronicle" will examine Hollywood!

  9. Re:peoples opions from the area by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah but now that Buffy has quit the vampires will take over. Oh wait you live in SunnyVale ...

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  10. Re:I know what the missing part in the article is. by panaceaa · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have two rolls of duct tape in my San Jose-located closet, and I still have a job. Coincidence?

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  11. Bushvilles by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Healthy, strong men were living in cardboard shacks in great numbers. (which were called Hoovervilles, as people blamed Hoover for the Depression.

    New start-up idea. Sell boxes to all the umemployed techies in Silicon Valley: Bushvilles. They only need to have one perk: Net access.

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