Inside Google's London Complex

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has some interesting pictures of Google's new London office which is incidentally looking to boost its 200-man headcount. Also, a Doodle 4 Google contest was held in conjunction with the office opening for schoolchildren."

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Datacenter pictures

[this great guy]

We have often read about Google's datacenters on /. but AFAIK we have never seen any picture of their datacenters. So if somebody has something to say/show about this (even insiders :P), please reply to this post.

Re:200-man headcount?

[Anonymous Coward]

would you be upset if it said 200 woman headcount (but of course that would include men as well) ?

Yes, because it would be far from normal english.

From the dictionary.com's usage notes about man:

Traditionally, many writers have used man and words derived from it to designate any or all of the human race regardless of sex. In fact, this is the oldest use of the word. In Old English the principal sense of man was a human, and the words wer and wyf (or wæpman and wifman) were used to refer to a male human and a female human respectively. But in Middle English man displaced wer as the term for a male human, while wyfman (which evolved into present-day woman) was retained for a female human. Despite this change, man continued to carry its original sense of a human as well, resulting in an asymmetrical arrangement that many criticize as sexist. Nonetheless, a majority of the Usage Panel still accepts the generic use of man, although the women members have significantly less enthusiasm for this usage than the men do. For example, the sentence "If early man suffered from a lack of information, modern man is tyrannized by an excess of it" is acceptable to 81 percent of the Panel but a breakdown by sex shows that only 58 percent of the women Panelists accept it, while 92 percent of the men do.

While women are less accepting of the general use, at least according to that information, a majority still is.