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Apple's New Spaceship Campus Gets a Name, Lifts Off In April (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple has been building its giant new "spaceship" campus in the company's hometown of Cupertino, California, since December of 2013, and since then fans have paid obsessive attention to the structure. It gets buzzed by drones constantly, and the most popular YouTube videos of the building in progress have amassed well over half-a-million views apiece. The company announced today that the campus will be open to employees starting in April and that the building and environs now have a name: Apple Park. Apple says that moving the 12,000 employees who will work at the campus will take more than six months, and landscaping and construction on some buildings won't be done until the summer. The new campus mostly replaces the university-style Infinite Loop campus Apple has used since 1993, though Apple has said that it will also be keeping the older buildings. The new campus' cost has been estimated at around $5 billion. Apple will also be naming one space on the new campus after its founder and former CEO -- the Steve Jobs Theater will replace the current Town Hall event space that Apple sometimes uses for company meetings and product announcements, and it will open "later this year." The new space will be much larger (it will seat 1,000, compared to roughly 300 for the Town Hall), and the larger space will presumably allow Apple to launch more of its products on its campus rather than having to rent expensive event space in downtown San Francisco. The company is also moving its Worldwide Developers Conference closer to home this year -- it will return to San Jose after many years at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
I have said it before: the ring is a massive Reality Distortion Field Generator.
Apple needs it more than ever, now that Jobs has been dead for five years.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Isn't sinking 100s of millions into construction of a new corporate headquarters one the Fucked Company(tm) 6 common signs that a company is about to implode?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I have said it before: the ring is a massive Reality Distortion Field Generator.
As per usual Apple is late to market with an inferior product.
Apple Haters have been carrying around a small portable reality distortion generators with them for years that allows them to see Apple's growth as retraction. They appear to have a boundless power source and are so strong no reality is able to break through no matter how discordant the internal view becomes!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When the coming zombie hordes simply slide off the smooth exterior of the walls or flow around it like a pebble in a stream, you will be begging to be let inside the true sanctuary city Jobs has built.
Guess who will be sad *they* didn't spend $40 on IAP that year...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I drive by this thing every day, it's big but not that big (at least how I perceive it). I read it is the size of the Pentagon (haven't researched or RTFA) but some reason the DOD building appears larger, or is it the shape? Also the Apple Saucer is surrounded by parking garages and walls.
mfwright@batnet.com
That's a terrible name for a spaceship. Seriously, "Apple Park"?
They should change it to something better, like "Very Little Gravitas Indeed".
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
No, Apple is not located anywhere near downtown San Francisco.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple Park - did you mean Orchard?
The R&D building is separate and much, much smaller. That does not bode well.
More's the pity.
I want a full-sized Mac Pro tower with two ethernet ports, room for at least four drives and PCI cards. The iPad Pro may be great for people who live entirely in Google docs, but not for the rest of us.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
I was also mulling this over in relation to the movie World War Z where (spoiler) zombies piled up against a wall until they got over the top...
Even against an angled wall that would work after a while I imagine, as you packed in enough tipped over zombies. But against curved and angled wall it seems like it would take much longer to work as most of the mindlessly piling on zombies would slide to the sides, or possibly even the force of new incoming zombies pushing the zombies up against the surface of the curve to either side. It would be really interesting to simulate.
I think you are right hat against Walking Dead zombies, it would tip them over and they wouldn't be able to exert any significant force on the wall. Indeed a pack of them would be helping to hold up a wall canted outward!
A new innovation for Zombie movies could be some kind of "stiction" zombie, that could attach to a surface, chemically bond, then pull instead of mindlessly ramming...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The R&D park is the Donut hole.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Its an annular campus. Think, think...
Ringworld.