I immediately thought about the drag racing electric motorcycle I had read about years back, the KillaCycle. Well, apparently those guys designed the battery packs for the Drayson in TFA, which is pretty neat. It's also the bike that the inventor crashed while trying to do a burnout for some reporters... but whatever, still cool.
oh please. i came to a rural area from NYC. You know what NYC is filled with ? assholes. lots and lots of assholes, just like you.
the subway runs 24 hours - and you can get mugged/robbed/raped for 12 of those hours.
it stinks, its full of filthy poor assholes and like the rest of NYC theyre also RUDE assholes.
it costs too much to live in a shithole shoebox, its full of rats, cockroaches and rotting food on the streets and anyone who lives in a rural area and wants to get to NYC has never been there in their life.
the ONLY reason to locate in NYC is if your customer base is the asshole set who live in NYC and have offices in NYC. in which case you should open a sales office there and main office elsewhere.
Interesting that you use an aggressive, profanity laden, AC post to call me an asshole.:) There are so many wonderful people in this city it makes my head spin, but if your experience was so focused on the negative aspects then I feel bad for you. There are certainly a lot of unpleasant things here in NYC, but there's a lot of EVERYTHING in NYC. It's not the place for everybody, but it is a great place for me.
TFA doesn't even mention 3D Printers.. Although it is true that Makerbot and Shapeways are based in NYC, and there are multitudes of places to go play with a 3D printer if you so desire.
Or you could have to drive, only to find that some idiot cut off some other idiot and caused a massive accident that has the expressway backed up for miles, and you have to wait around for hours until they clear the accident.
I'd say the two biggest things are employees and clients. In NYC, you'll have plenty of options for both. Real estate prices may be high, but I doubt that really factors in very much to most corporate budgets. The thing that's more of a concern would probably be expected salaries- employees cost more than office rentals, unless you only have one or two of them... and people expect to be paid a little more in NYC. But if I were starting a business, I'd want to consider a lot of factors, including how I was going to find people to buy my stuff... And lots of people in NYC have money and like to buy stuff.:)
I may not be fortunate enough to own a big tech company myself, but if I did? NYC would probably be one of the LAST places on my list where I'd consider an expansion or a move.
Real estate is insane, obviously... but you're also dealing with the transportation headaches. Where I work now, we already have some big problems with that, and we don't have NYC's density. (Everyone's pushed and prodded to use public transportation since cars are impractical with high daily parking costs, traffic jams, etc.) But with public transportation, you're really limited in what you can carry. Any kind of office outing requires renting an expensive bus to shuttle everyone to or from the event, too. And if the subway has a problem, you may as well shut the place down until they get things fixed. Additionally, your employees who might otherwise be happy to work late or odd hours to finish some project are constrained by the hours the bus or metro runs. So you lose some potential productivity there too.
You pretty obviously don't live in NYC... Transit runs 24 hours a day 365 days a year, any time they do maintenance there are alternatives routes, if there's no nearby train they will set up shuttle service, and there's an extensive bus network too. Beyond that, the infrastructure for taxis and cars for hire is better than anywhere in the world that I've been. This place does NOT shut down due to transit issues. Even after Sandy came by and completely flooded a bunch of tunnels, service got restored quickly to all the other lines. There was no power in lover Manhattan for weeks, but I could still take the train to work in Queens without problems.
You also have to figure that in many ways, the tech market there is saturated. It's not like all the Wall Street traders don't have any contacts to work with to provide their network bandwidth or computer maintenance. If you move out to NYC, it sounds to me like a tough, uphill battle if you want to establish yourself as a contender?
I'd say that's true anywhere. NYC is pretty unforgiving of mediocrity, so I imagine you'll go out of business faster here if your company sucks, but if you start a sucky business elsewhere it'd just be postponing the inevitable. And who knows? Your sucky business might be made more awesome by the talent pool here and the massive amount of potential clients within walking distance. Sure, maybe Wall Street isn't going to be the place to go if you're a network provider, but pretty much every other business in the city is fair game, and there are A LOT.
If the physical presence makes no difference (software development, for example) -- then you want the CHEAPEST place you can build an office and still be able to hire good talent. I think what many companies would find if they actually thought "outside the box" a bit, is that there's a LOT of great computer talent in the small, rural communities. Kids growing up there don't have as much to do, so many gravitate towards the home computer and the internet, and spend a lot of time with it. The technical minded who don't envision themselves working the family farm like their parents did constitute a good hiring pool that's neglected.
If that's your company's deal, go for it. NYC is filled with young motivated talented charismatic individuals fueled on dreams and starbucks, all fighting to make their mark. Rural communities, from the way you describe them, have a few talented people that would really like to get out of their rural communities... Probably wishing to move to a place like NYC.
Indeed... And now that I've read a couple of TFA's, it sounds like... they might even release an ENTIRE MOVIE devote to Jar Jar, if they felt like it. They're talking about alternating between standalone character-based movies, and episodes of the main plot line. I do, in general, have more faith in Disney than in George Lucas for coming up with a quality film. So, we'll see what happens.....
Are they planning to continue the story after the events of "Return of the Jedi?" If that's the case, hopefully we can safely assume that Jar Jar will remain in the past.
So, the organizers of the conference invited somebody to do a talk about sex.. and also invited a group that was opposed to any talk about sex going on at the conference. Oops.
That would be awesome, but it would also hurt their sales. If somebody keeps playing a game, that means they're playing an old already-purchased game instead of going out and buying something new. So the publishers want to make sure you get bored of your old games and keep buying new ones...
When you're talking about 25,000 LED's, outdoors, in a warm climate, surrounded by salty air, you're bound to lose a lot of them over the course of 2 years. Much longer than that, it would turn into a bit of a maintenance nightmare.
Your response is essentially the same as mine- why didn't they just use the existing products that are designed for exactly this sort of thing? I used the example of eCue, but there's plenty more I could rattle off the top of my head that could handle 25,000 channels. I did however look at this "Light Sculptor's" web page, and it seems that he's been using this custom software for installations for a while now, so I suppose it's probably the most comfortable thing for him. Designers (or lighting directors, what have you) like to work with what they know, and I guess that's what he knows. Maybe there will also be some sort of interactive or procedural element to the work that you couldn't easily do with pre-viz?
eCue does this stuff already and has been used one plenty of large LED installations. This one involved 20,000 channels, for instance. Not that I really have a problem with using custom software, but I get a little curious why it's being done when there are readily available options that are also relatively inexpensive.
And no, I don't work for eCue, but I use their products. There's several other well established control options for this sort of thing as well, I'm just talking about what I know.
She has the mental and physical age of a 1 year old. TFA made it sort of sound like she grew to age 5 and stopped growing, but no, she was like a 1 year old at age 5 and stayed there. So says this article, on the same web site as TFA... and Wikipedia agrees....
Well, in one of the articles that's linked to by TFA, it gives the example that her bones seem to be aging slower than a normal person but faster than her appearance. It's in the paragraph below the video of this article.
In any case, it seems she's had quite a few medical maladies and sometimes has shown remarkable power to recover. I bet the doctors working on her case are just salivating over the journal articles they'll be publishing once they figure anything out.
True, although I liked Doom3 without the patch. It was a cool extra challenge, it enhanced the mood, and it made sure you could see the neat lighting effects made by the various projectiles being thrown at you.
I think the patch for using flashlight and keyboard simultaneously would be something like "headlamp" or "teeth" instead of duct tape, though.:)
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I immediately thought about the drag racing electric motorcycle I had read about years back, the KillaCycle. Well, apparently those guys designed the battery packs for the Drayson in TFA, which is pretty neat. It's also the bike that the inventor crashed while trying to do a burnout for some reporters... but whatever, still cool.
oh please. i came to a rural area from NYC. You know what NYC is filled with ? assholes. lots and lots of assholes, just like you. the subway runs 24 hours - and you can get mugged/robbed/raped for 12 of those hours. it stinks, its full of filthy poor assholes and like the rest of NYC theyre also RUDE assholes. it costs too much to live in a shithole shoebox, its full of rats, cockroaches and rotting food on the streets and anyone who lives in a rural area and wants to get to NYC has never been there in their life. the ONLY reason to locate in NYC is if your customer base is the asshole set who live in NYC and have offices in NYC. in which case you should open a sales office there and main office elsewhere.
Interesting that you use an aggressive, profanity laden, AC post to call me an asshole. :) There are so many wonderful people in this city it makes my head spin, but if your experience was so focused on the negative aspects then I feel bad for you. There are certainly a lot of unpleasant things here in NYC, but there's a lot of EVERYTHING in NYC.
It's not the place for everybody, but it is a great place for me.
TFA doesn't even mention 3D Printers.. Although it is true that Makerbot and Shapeways are based in NYC, and there are multitudes of places to go play with a 3D printer if you so desire.
Or you could have to drive, only to find that some idiot cut off some other idiot and caused a massive accident that has the expressway backed up for miles, and you have to wait around for hours until they clear the accident.
Dumbest post here.
Apparently you haven't been to LA...
I'd say the two biggest things are employees and clients. In NYC, you'll have plenty of options for both. Real estate prices may be high, but I doubt that really factors in very much to most corporate budgets. The thing that's more of a concern would probably be expected salaries- employees cost more than office rentals, unless you only have one or two of them... and people expect to be paid a little more in NYC. But if I were starting a business, I'd want to consider a lot of factors, including how I was going to find people to buy my stuff... And lots of people in NYC have money and like to buy stuff. :)
I may not be fortunate enough to own a big tech company myself, but if I did? NYC would probably be one of the LAST places on my list where I'd consider an expansion or a move.
Real estate is insane, obviously ... but you're also dealing with the transportation headaches. Where I work now, we already have some big problems with that, and we don't have NYC's density. (Everyone's pushed and prodded to use public transportation since cars are impractical with high daily parking costs, traffic jams, etc.) But with public transportation, you're really limited in what you can carry. Any kind of office outing requires renting an expensive bus to shuttle everyone to or from the event, too. And if the subway has a problem, you may as well shut the place down until they get things fixed. Additionally, your employees who might otherwise be happy to work late or odd hours to finish some project are constrained by the hours the bus or metro runs. So you lose some potential productivity there too.
You pretty obviously don't live in NYC...
Transit runs 24 hours a day 365 days a year, any time they do maintenance there are alternatives routes, if there's no nearby train they will set up shuttle service, and there's an extensive bus network too. Beyond that, the infrastructure for taxis and cars for hire is better than anywhere in the world that I've been. This place does NOT shut down due to transit issues. Even after Sandy came by and completely flooded a bunch of tunnels, service got restored quickly to all the other lines. There was no power in lover Manhattan for weeks, but I could still take the train to work in Queens without problems.
You also have to figure that in many ways, the tech market there is saturated. It's not like all the Wall Street traders don't have any contacts to work with to provide their network bandwidth or computer maintenance. If you move out to NYC, it sounds to me like a tough, uphill battle if you want to establish yourself as a contender?
I'd say that's true anywhere. NYC is pretty unforgiving of mediocrity, so I imagine you'll go out of business faster here if your company sucks, but if you start a sucky business elsewhere it'd just be postponing the inevitable. And who knows? Your sucky business might be made more awesome by the talent pool here and the massive amount of potential clients within walking distance. Sure, maybe Wall Street isn't going to be the place to go if you're a network provider, but pretty much every other business in the city is fair game, and there are A LOT.
If the physical presence makes no difference (software development, for example) -- then you want the CHEAPEST place you can build an office and still be able to hire good talent. I think what many companies would find if they actually thought "outside the box" a bit, is that there's a LOT of great computer talent in the small, rural communities. Kids growing up there don't have as much to do, so many gravitate towards the home computer and the internet, and spend a lot of time with it. The technical minded who don't envision themselves working the family farm like their parents did constitute a good hiring pool that's neglected.
If that's your company's deal, go for it. NYC is filled with young motivated talented charismatic individuals fueled on dreams and starbucks, all fighting to make their mark. Rural communities, from the way you describe them, have a few talented people that would really like to get out of their rural communities... Probably wishing to move to a place like NYC.
I would love it if I could say "No, you misunderstood what I meant." But no, that's it exactly.
Indeed... And now that I've read a couple of TFA's, it sounds like... they might even release an ENTIRE MOVIE devote to Jar Jar, if they felt like it. They're talking about alternating between standalone character-based movies, and episodes of the main plot line. I do, in general, have more faith in Disney than in George Lucas for coming up with a quality film. So, we'll see what happens.....
Are they planning to continue the story after the events of "Return of the Jedi?" If that's the case, hopefully we can safely assume that Jar Jar will remain in the past.
If only I had mod points to spend....
Well phrased- I was trying to come up with a response similar to this....
So, the organizers of the conference invited somebody to do a talk about sex.. and also invited a group that was opposed to any talk about sex going on at the conference. Oops.
Cold bags, hot pick. Go tap Stan.
That would be awesome, but it would also hurt their sales. If somebody keeps playing a game, that means they're playing an old already-purchased game instead of going out and buying something new. So the publishers want to make sure you get bored of your old games and keep buying new ones...
When you're talking about 25,000 LED's, outdoors, in a warm climate, surrounded by salty air, you're bound to lose a lot of them over the course of 2 years. Much longer than that, it would turn into a bit of a maintenance nightmare.
Your response is essentially the same as mine- why didn't they just use the existing products that are designed for exactly this sort of thing? I used the example of eCue, but there's plenty more I could rattle off the top of my head that could handle 25,000 channels. I did however look at this "Light Sculptor's" web page, and it seems that he's been using this custom software for installations for a while now, so I suppose it's probably the most comfortable thing for him. Designers (or lighting directors, what have you) like to work with what they know, and I guess that's what he knows. Maybe there will also be some sort of interactive or procedural element to the work that you couldn't easily do with pre-viz?
eCue does this stuff already and has been used one plenty of large LED installations. This one involved 20,000 channels, for instance. Not that I really have a problem with using custom software, but I get a little curious why it's being done when there are readily available options that are also relatively inexpensive.
And no, I don't work for eCue, but I use their products. There's several other well established control options for this sort of thing as well, I'm just talking about what I know.
She has the mental and physical age of a 1 year old. TFA made it sort of sound like she grew to age 5 and stopped growing, but no, she was like a 1 year old at age 5 and stayed there. So says this article, on the same web site as TFA... and Wikipedia agrees....
Well, in one of the articles that's linked to by TFA, it gives the example that her bones seem to be aging slower than a normal person but faster than her appearance. It's in the paragraph below the video of this article.
In any case, it seems she's had quite a few medical maladies and sometimes has shown remarkable power to recover. I bet the doctors working on her case are just salivating over the journal articles they'll be publishing once they figure anything out.
And it is directly a result of this idiot "war on drugs" where 100% of the casualties of war are American citizens.
I think there might be some folks in Mexico that would take issue with that statement. Sure, it's our war, but we've made it international.
As a counterpoint (from your own link) there's this page.....
That's one way to make this story a little bit more "news for nerds" :)
Not that I doubt any of your anecdotes, but.. Citations?
True, although I liked Doom3 without the patch. It was a cool extra challenge, it enhanced the mood, and it made sure you could see the neat lighting effects made by the various projectiles being thrown at you.
:)
I think the patch for using flashlight and keyboard simultaneously would be something like "headlamp" or "teeth" instead of duct tape, though.
Guess a typo in TFA got carried over into TFS. I was trying to search out all these SDK's and google got confused..
So for those interested, it's spelled exactly like the stuff you put on toast. Info here..