Is this really a thing? A service where your voice gets turned into an anonymized URL and posted to a generic twitter handle? Sounds productive... I wish Google would remind people that when phone lines work, maybe call a PERSON and make REAL contact, don't just shout into the void. This twitter obsession is nuts.
There are sockets available for CPU packages that don't have pins.
And how much do they cost?
He is probably snarkedly referring to BGA, the current state of the art in CPU packaging that doesnt actually use pins but the result is the same (the cpu mounts in a socket and can be easily replaced).
While I have never upgraded one without upgrading the other, I do make a decision on which CPU/motherboard I buy.
What if I want a 4-core system, but the motherboard I want is only sold with more expensive 6-core CPUs? Or, vice-versa? Motherboard manufacturers are already selling to a bit of a niche market - will having to further reduce their selection by only pairing certain CPUs with certain motherboards push them over the edge into unprofitability?
Unless competition completely ends for Intel (which is not likely but hey it could happen) this will just serve to make the whole package cheaper. So, that integrated mobo with 6 cores you can't justify spending the money on now, will cost the same as the 4 core non-integrated equivalent does anyway. You can thank me later.
Not only that but CPU sockets usually only work for one CPU family and aren't interchangeable. You can't but AMD's chip into Intels motherboards.
So at best you can normally replace to an equaviant CPU maybe a couple of clock cycles faster but that's it.
If your upgrading you have to replace both
This is it exactly. Hell, the last time I even considered this approach (replacing just the CPU) the cost of a compatible CPU (since they were long past their prime) was more than the cost of a new, faster cpu+mobo. I dropped $40 for some ram (4x of what was in the old rig) and I was on my way. Why anyone but a MHz/GHz chaser would want to replace just a CPU is beyond me (and it's beyond Intel, too; this move is totally understandable and probably was predictable by anyone who really pays attention to such things). I can totally see "Enthusiasts" not really giving a crap about this for the most part; the ones that used to buy CPU after CPU just to stay on top of things are far more likely to just spend their money on GPUs these days, since the CPU wars are all but over.
Not to mention that ARM chips use a different instruction set, so.... you can't go from x86 to ARM. If you're going anywhere you're going to go AMD.
Whoever wrote the summary needs a quick dose of clue-by-four.
Yes, because tinkerers and enthusiasts are famous for their staunch reliance on a single architecture. I can picture them now, refusing to abandon Intel due to their reliance on Office 2007 and the native drivers for their Canon Pixma Pro.
It used to be that every other story on Slashdot was about how Linux would/could run on anything. And then I see comments like this and wonder how many of slashdot's users even remember back that far... Or were even alive then?
I suppose it depends on what you mean by enthusiast... To me it is anyone who has cause for wanting/needing to swap a CPU on a mainboard, and to a greater extent anyone who has a need for a choice of a good variety of different mainboard/cpu combinations to meet their exact needs. Enthusiasm isn't just about always having the fastest CPU, the market channel for that is getting tinier by the day as former "enthusiasts" grow up and realize how much more they can do with less.
And, enter ARM. Fast CPUs, tiny power consumption, and a great set of software tools to support them. If you think the future of "PC" style tinkering with homemade programs and hand-built systems has nothing to do with ARM, you are clueless. The success of the Raspberry Pi is probably sufficient evidence, but you can look further if you feel like it.
Lastly, your assertion that enthusiasts won't turn to ARM has nothing to do with the story itself (maybe the summary a tad bit) since it is a basic report on Intel's roadmap, so take it or leave it, there is no b/s to be had.
Corruption?!? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulation. That's Milton Friedman, and he got a goddamn Nobel prize...
PayPal will take every opportunity to steal your money.
And this is different from other financial institutions... how?
The difference is that "other financial institutions" are regulated as such, and there are fairly significant consequences to stealing money (of course that doesn't mean it won't happen). The process of regulating banks through several boom, exploit, bust cycles has taught the regulators a LOT about what to watch out for. Paypal, on the other hand, just steals indiscriminately and has no regulation at all to answer to. Oh yeah, and they are the "de facto currency" of many businesses, meaning that to participate in the free market it is very difficult to avoid PayPal.
This is a tech demo. Intel doesn't make full out of the box PCs (and might not, ever). This is to inspire hardware makers (cough, HP) who are otherwise totally screwed, to come up with something "new" in the PC realm. This is the form factor that will see growth in the future, the old days of a big box with a bunch of cards you could swap in and out are gone (unless you are a hard-core hobbyist willing to pay a price premium). The desktop systems made today by Dell, HP, etc are way too big for what they do (since they are often on par with laptops) so this kind of re-think is really critical.
It may not stop, but I think in the wake of the absolute ass-kicking the pundits faced at the hands of Nate Silver and other groups of statisticians, their coin has been pretty heavily devalued. This has been utter humiliation for the pundits.
The problem here isn't for the Rush Limbauhghs. They're audience is largely made up of paranoid hysterics, the types that are proof against any kind of logical, statistical analysis of anything. But for the slightly less foaming-at-the-mouth pundits who insisted that the math geeks had it all wrong, that you couldn't predict an election if national polls were too close, it's an utter repudiation of them. They well and truly had no bloody idea what they were talking about, that their intuition meant absolutely nothing.
In light of this exact circumstance, I would bet (on a futures market) that next election cycle there is simply a lot less hay made about polls and combo-polls and statistics and the like. You are right that they had their ass handed to them, the sad thing is there are plenty of other completely baseless things to talk about every election cycle; the way the last one ended will just push the loudmouths to ranting about something else instead. And to those that do remember, there will just be a half-sentence at the end of each article to the effect of "statisticians were highly accurate in predicting 1 of the last 57 presidential elections."
but also provide a tool for quieting partisan blowhards who think the opposing party's candidate is going to drag the country to hell
Baaaahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
You must be new here. Seriously. That's never going to stop, in fact it's only going to get worse. The problem is that there is a market force (to stick with the theme) at work specifically driving these blowhards; the TV/radio talk show circuit. The louder and more partisan they are, the more the ratings go up. No web site prediction/gambling market will change that one bit, only the viewers will (if they manage to turn it off). If there was a bet/product on that site about the likelihood of partisan blowhards losing viewership any time soon, I would place a HUGE position against it.
If Belize is out for his head, why not just GET THE FUCK OUTTA THERE? Why the hell is this idiot still hanging around?
You would think that $25000 would be enough to grease the palms of the Mexican border guards, or hell just pay some drug runners to smuggle him to the US with their next shipment; if he is really being targeted and persecuted in Belize, the risk seems bearable.
And let this be a lesson for ya, it's all fun and games moving with your millions to a Caribbean tax shelter, until the local [cartel,corrupt police,militias, kidnappers, etc] come for you. Why not just keep your millions stateside, pay your taxes like a good boy, and get old and fat without these kinds of worries? Was there not enough suspense in that option?
'Most likely, big industry is going to win because at the end of the day our economy is still in trouble.'
Is "our economy is still in trouble" the new "we are at WAR with terror"? Mr Pickens is accurate and timely but this line just feels a little too canned. Are we going to have to spend the next 5 to 7 years hearing "butbutbut RECESSION!" any time something hard to swallow makes a headline?
Why is this not done already? Between truecrypt and (ack) bitlocker,it s relatively easy. Add in a robust backup system, which any organization should have already, and it is cheap and fairly easy to implement.
"Hello IT support? Yeah i forgot the password to the encryption doohickey you sent me. can you reset it please? I have a few things i need to finish before the next mars rover software update."
Because management is under the impression that anyone on Earth can figure out how to get to the moon; I mean that was so 40 years ago amiright? Why encrypt it when Nasa can't copyright anything anyway?
The problem isnt advertising. The problem is F***ing obnoxious advertising! FLASHFLASHFLASH HEY THING ITS HEY THING! Or, adservers that lag and wont let the site load. And when they do load, see above. So many flash adds that they crash a browser, or make it unworkable. obnoxious, grating, irritating ads.
Id happily unblock adds..Its just when I do, I get ALL THAT again. No matter how long its been. Its like its 2000 still.
Most content managers will counter with "well if you want free content you can come and get it" but at this point people (consumers and content providers) should be able to figure out what it is that readers really want, instead of taking anything that MIGHT generate a stream of eyeballs and ad the crap out of it (and instead of users following links to read the same information over and over). Here is a hint: taking a news article that you swiped from somewhere else (or worse, poorly re-authored with no thought and no English skill) and putting a timed popup ad that smacks me after about 15 seconds is a really good way to make sure I never pay attention to anything from your site ever again.
Were I to listen to my paranoia coprocessor, it would have me believe that every excuse offered that seems to shield the right from some serious soul searching also serves to make it sound like "the next time will be better" to all the mark^H^H^H^Hdonors. And the Romney team was "shellshocked" in the same way Bain Capital is when one of their holdings collapses after assuming mounds of debt to pay Bain Capital.
But for once I will diligently apply Occam's Razor and attribute the whole mess to stupidity.
You're thinking of Hanlon's Razor. Not that Occam isn't totally inapplicable here.
The heart of this issue is whether or not Company A who was effectively paying the employees salary (through a contracting firm Company B) was entitled to have claim to anything said employee created while in tenure, even if it left the premises of Company A and was instead residing at Company B. A contract would remedy this (although there are probably better ways to deal with it from an IT perspective). No, you don't have to worry if you send an email to someone under such a contract, except for the notion that they will certainly inspect and scrutinize said email.
And this, kids, is precisely why you need to plan aggressively for retirement.
(To the original poster, I don't really have any suggestions, but you're making an important point -- work hard, save hard, and "what can I do to find work" when you're 60 isn't a question you'll need to worry about...)
More like, this kids is why you don't stay in the same field doing the same thing for 30 years. After 30 years doing *anything* (unless you are at or near the best in your field) your job is likely to be up for scrapping. This happens with every industry. Either get into management (and build transferable skills) or get into a new part of your field. I can't go ten minutes without seeing someone looking for good Java or dot net programmers. If the only languages you are experienced in are the same ones you started off in 30 years ago, then yeah it's not a real shocker that you are no longer too employable.
Creative programming and creative problem solving. Brian Wilson. Shakespeare, Carl Sagan, Paul McCartney...
Correlation is not causation. Maybe they were just creative people. Period.
Millions of non-creative pot smokers nationwide will back up this hypothesis.
One easy thing to look at is how many of them were heavy drug users *before* achieving fame and success. Get back to me if you find a single one. It just so happens that large amounts of money, free time, and basically a "free pass" from law enforcement leads to, you guessed it, experimenting with drugs. What a shock. Plenty of non-creative hacks do lots of drugs, too, but confirmation bias must be something that gets harder to spot the more you smoke.
Those who do will of course say that it does and will provide anecdotal evidence (although I'm sure most of them have not actually performed any controlled tests to verify that claim). Most studies would indicate that drugs would not aid in many of the mental processes involved in programming, but that won't change anyone's mind, and I definitive statement can't be made until studies are done to specifically test this assertion.
Agreed, I'm comfortable enough with the understood process of "Addict rationalization" that 100% of the anecdotal evidence can be thrown out at face value. Until some start-up in Colorado offers to out-source brilliant programming to an army of potheads (with positive results) I am going to stick with the studies that are already out there.
Come on, Wingtards, figure it out. Is Obama Satan? Is he Marx? Hitler? He's not all of them. Get a god damn consensus.
Back on topic, I don't know what the criteria were for this database. I've never been registered Democrat. I've never donated, time or money. I've never even participated in an exit poll. But fuck me, I was getting 4 robocalls a day from them, a full snail mail box, shit taped to my door...I never even got to tell anyone in person why Obama could fuck off this cycle, but at least I got to jerk off to Eva Longoria's recorded voice. Thanks, Eva.
Solution is easy, get rid of your landline you old coot. The direct mail stuff happens no matter who you are, but for me as someone who "participates" i didnt get a single political phone call all cycle (and havent for years).
What's the issue? "For" in this context means "in honor of". It's a perfectly valid usage. Grammar Nazi fail.
Not to mention the fact that clearly Steve Jobs does *not* have the ability to make building name decisions any more, so it very well could be that they intended to name it according to his wishes, and given the nature of his ego "The Steve Jobs Building" was the most desirable version. "Get back to fucking work, and do it right this time" was a close second, I bet.
At first I thought to myself "I bet it's as ugly as that hideous boat" but after looking at the pictures of the inside and out, it is a very well done building that no doubt has seen a lot of success (Pixar, in case no one was keeping track, has a record of successful moviemaking completely untouchable by any other studio).
This article is worth a read (plus the extra info linked therein), if for no other reason than the fact that so many offices in the US are hideously designed, constructed, and laid out but there is some sort of unwritten rule of corporate management at a lot of companies to the effect of "the uglier the better". This is hindering the evolution of work in the US, and ultimately hindering growth. Steve Jobs deserves credit for at least seeing the right way to do this.
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Is this really a thing? A service where your voice gets turned into an anonymized URL and posted to a generic twitter handle? Sounds productive... I wish Google would remind people that when phone lines work, maybe call a PERSON and make REAL contact, don't just shout into the void. This twitter obsession is nuts.
And how much do they cost?
He is probably snarkedly referring to BGA, the current state of the art in CPU packaging that doesnt actually use pins but the result is the same (the cpu mounts in a socket and can be easily replaced).
While I have never upgraded one without upgrading the other, I do make a decision on which CPU/motherboard I buy.
What if I want a 4-core system, but the motherboard I want is only sold with more expensive 6-core CPUs? Or, vice-versa? Motherboard manufacturers are already selling to a bit of a niche market - will having to further reduce their selection by only pairing certain CPUs with certain motherboards push them over the edge into unprofitability?
Unless competition completely ends for Intel (which is not likely but hey it could happen) this will just serve to make the whole package cheaper. So, that integrated mobo with 6 cores you can't justify spending the money on now, will cost the same as the 4 core non-integrated equivalent does anyway. You can thank me later.
Not only that but CPU sockets usually only work for one CPU family and aren't interchangeable. You can't but AMD's chip into Intels motherboards.
So at best you can normally replace to an equaviant CPU maybe a couple of clock cycles faster but that's it.
If your upgrading you have to replace both
This is it exactly. Hell, the last time I even considered this approach (replacing just the CPU) the cost of a compatible CPU (since they were long past their prime) was more than the cost of a new, faster cpu+mobo. I dropped $40 for some ram (4x of what was in the old rig) and I was on my way. Why anyone but a MHz/GHz chaser would want to replace just a CPU is beyond me (and it's beyond Intel, too; this move is totally understandable and probably was predictable by anyone who really pays attention to such things). I can totally see "Enthusiasts" not really giving a crap about this for the most part; the ones that used to buy CPU after CPU just to stay on top of things are far more likely to just spend their money on GPUs these days, since the CPU wars are all but over.
Not to mention that ARM chips use a different instruction set, so .... you can't go from x86 to ARM. If you're going anywhere you're going to go AMD.
Whoever wrote the summary needs a quick dose of clue-by-four.
Yes, because tinkerers and enthusiasts are famous for their staunch reliance on a single architecture. I can picture them now, refusing to abandon Intel due to their reliance on Office 2007 and the native drivers for their Canon Pixma Pro.
It used to be that every other story on Slashdot was about how Linux would/could run on anything. And then I see comments like this and wonder how many of slashdot's users even remember back that far... Or were even alive then?
I suppose it depends on what you mean by enthusiast... To me it is anyone who has cause for wanting/needing to swap a CPU on a mainboard, and to a greater extent anyone who has a need for a choice of a good variety of different mainboard/cpu combinations to meet their exact needs. Enthusiasm isn't just about always having the fastest CPU, the market channel for that is getting tinier by the day as former "enthusiasts" grow up and realize how much more they can do with less.
And, enter ARM. Fast CPUs, tiny power consumption, and a great set of software tools to support them. If you think the future of "PC" style tinkering with homemade programs and hand-built systems has nothing to do with ARM, you are clueless. The success of the Raspberry Pi is probably sufficient evidence, but you can look further if you feel like it.
Lastly, your assertion that enthusiasts won't turn to ARM has nothing to do with the story itself (maybe the summary a tad bit) since it is a basic report on Intel's roadmap, so take it or leave it, there is no b/s to be had.
Corruption?!? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulation. That's Milton Friedman, and he got a goddamn Nobel prize...
-Syriana
PayPal will take every opportunity to steal your money.
And this is different from other financial institutions... how?
The difference is that "other financial institutions" are regulated as such, and there are fairly significant consequences to stealing money (of course that doesn't mean it won't happen). The process of regulating banks through several boom, exploit, bust cycles has taught the regulators a LOT about what to watch out for. Paypal, on the other hand, just steals indiscriminately and has no regulation at all to answer to. Oh yeah, and they are the "de facto currency" of many businesses, meaning that to participate in the free market it is very difficult to avoid PayPal.
This is a tech demo. Intel doesn't make full out of the box PCs (and might not, ever). This is to inspire hardware makers (cough, HP) who are otherwise totally screwed, to come up with something "new" in the PC realm. This is the form factor that will see growth in the future, the old days of a big box with a bunch of cards you could swap in and out are gone (unless you are a hard-core hobbyist willing to pay a price premium). The desktop systems made today by Dell, HP, etc are way too big for what they do (since they are often on par with laptops) so this kind of re-think is really critical.
It may not stop, but I think in the wake of the absolute ass-kicking the pundits faced at the hands of Nate Silver and other groups of statisticians, their coin has been pretty heavily devalued. This has been utter humiliation for the pundits.
The problem here isn't for the Rush Limbauhghs. They're audience is largely made up of paranoid hysterics, the types that are proof against any kind of logical, statistical analysis of anything. But for the slightly less foaming-at-the-mouth pundits who insisted that the math geeks had it all wrong, that you couldn't predict an election if national polls were too close, it's an utter repudiation of them. They well and truly had no bloody idea what they were talking about, that their intuition meant absolutely nothing.
In light of this exact circumstance, I would bet (on a futures market) that next election cycle there is simply a lot less hay made about polls and combo-polls and statistics and the like. You are right that they had their ass handed to them, the sad thing is there are plenty of other completely baseless things to talk about every election cycle; the way the last one ended will just push the loudmouths to ranting about something else instead. And to those that do remember, there will just be a half-sentence at the end of each article to the effect of "statisticians were highly accurate in predicting 1 of the last 57 presidential elections."
but also provide a tool for quieting partisan blowhards who think the opposing party's candidate is going to drag the country to hell
Baaaahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
You must be new here. Seriously. That's never going to stop, in fact it's only going to get worse. The problem is that there is a market force (to stick with the theme) at work specifically driving these blowhards; the TV/radio talk show circuit. The louder and more partisan they are, the more the ratings go up. No web site prediction/gambling market will change that one bit, only the viewers will (if they manage to turn it off). If there was a bet/product on that site about the likelihood of partisan blowhards losing viewership any time soon, I would place a HUGE position against it.
If Belize is out for his head, why not just GET THE FUCK OUTTA THERE? Why the hell is this idiot still hanging around?
You would think that $25000 would be enough to grease the palms of the Mexican border guards, or hell just pay some drug runners to smuggle him to the US with their next shipment; if he is really being targeted and persecuted in Belize, the risk seems bearable.
And let this be a lesson for ya, it's all fun and games moving with your millions to a Caribbean tax shelter, until the local [cartel,corrupt police,militias, kidnappers, etc] come for you. Why not just keep your millions stateside, pay your taxes like a good boy, and get old and fat without these kinds of worries? Was there not enough suspense in that option?
'Most likely, big industry is going to win because at the end of the day our economy is still in trouble.'
Is "our economy is still in trouble" the new "we are at WAR with terror"? Mr Pickens is accurate and timely but this line just feels a little too canned. Are we going to have to spend the next 5 to 7 years hearing "butbutbut RECESSION!" any time something hard to swallow makes a headline?
Why is this not done already? Between truecrypt and (ack) bitlocker,it s relatively easy. Add in a robust backup system, which any organization should have already, and it is cheap and fairly easy to implement.
"Hello IT support? Yeah i forgot the password to the encryption doohickey you sent me. can you reset it please? I have a few things i need to finish before the next mars rover software update."
Because management is under the impression that anyone on Earth can figure out how to get to the moon; I mean that was so 40 years ago amiright? Why encrypt it when Nasa can't copyright anything anyway?
The problem isnt advertising. The problem is F***ing obnoxious advertising! FLASHFLASHFLASH HEY THING ITS HEY THING!
Or, adservers that lag and wont let the site load. And when they do load, see above. So many flash adds that they crash a browser, or make it unworkable. obnoxious, grating, irritating ads.
Id happily unblock adds..Its just when I do, I get ALL THAT again. No matter how long its been. Its like its 2000 still.
Most content managers will counter with "well if you want free content you can come and get it" but at this point people (consumers and content providers) should be able to figure out what it is that readers really want, instead of taking anything that MIGHT generate a stream of eyeballs and ad the crap out of it (and instead of users following links to read the same information over and over). Here is a hint: taking a news article that you swiped from somewhere else (or worse, poorly re-authored with no thought and no English skill) and putting a timed popup ad that smacks me after about 15 seconds is a really good way to make sure I never pay attention to anything from your site ever again.
Were I to listen to my paranoia coprocessor, it would have me believe that every excuse offered that seems to shield the right from some serious soul searching also serves to make it sound like "the next time will be better" to all the mark^H^H^H^Hdonors. And the Romney team was "shellshocked" in the same way Bain Capital is when one of their holdings collapses after assuming mounds of debt to pay Bain Capital.
But for once I will diligently apply Occam's Razor and attribute the whole mess to stupidity.
You're thinking of Hanlon's Razor. Not that Occam isn't totally inapplicable here.
The heart of this issue is whether or not Company A who was effectively paying the employees salary (through a contracting firm Company B) was entitled to have claim to anything said employee created while in tenure, even if it left the premises of Company A and was instead residing at Company B. A contract would remedy this (although there are probably better ways to deal with it from an IT perspective). No, you don't have to worry if you send an email to someone under such a contract, except for the notion that they will certainly inspect and scrutinize said email.
"unless the business has a contractual right of ownership over the content"
We have this extra piece of paper for you to sign; do it or you're fired. Thanks!
And this, kids, is precisely why you need to plan aggressively for retirement.
(To the original poster, I don't really have any suggestions, but you're making an important point -- work hard, save hard, and "what can I do to find work" when you're 60 isn't a question you'll need to worry about...)
More like, this kids is why you don't stay in the same field doing the same thing for 30 years. After 30 years doing *anything* (unless you are at or near the best in your field) your job is likely to be up for scrapping. This happens with every industry. Either get into management (and build transferable skills) or get into a new part of your field. I can't go ten minutes without seeing someone looking for good Java or dot net programmers. If the only languages you are experienced in are the same ones you started off in 30 years ago, then yeah it's not a real shocker that you are no longer too employable.
Creative programming and creative problem solving. Brian Wilson. Shakespeare, Carl Sagan, Paul McCartney...
Correlation is not causation. Maybe they were just creative people. Period.
Millions of non-creative pot smokers nationwide will back up this hypothesis.
One easy thing to look at is how many of them were heavy drug users *before* achieving fame and success. Get back to me if you find a single one. It just so happens that large amounts of money, free time, and basically a "free pass" from law enforcement leads to, you guessed it, experimenting with drugs. What a shock. Plenty of non-creative hacks do lots of drugs, too, but confirmation bias must be something that gets harder to spot the more you smoke.
Those who do will of course say that it does and will provide anecdotal evidence (although I'm sure most of them have not actually performed any controlled tests to verify that claim). Most studies would indicate that drugs would not aid in many of the mental processes involved in programming, but that won't change anyone's mind, and I definitive statement can't be made until studies are done to specifically test this assertion.
Agreed, I'm comfortable enough with the understood process of "Addict rationalization" that 100% of the anecdotal evidence can be thrown out at face value. Until some start-up in Colorado offers to out-source brilliant programming to an army of potheads (with positive results) I am going to stick with the studies that are already out there.
beelzebub
Come on, Wingtards, figure it out. Is Obama Satan? Is he Marx? Hitler? He's not all of them. Get a god damn consensus.
Back on topic, I don't know what the criteria were for this database. I've never been registered Democrat. I've never donated, time or money. I've never even participated in an exit poll. But fuck me, I was getting 4 robocalls a day from them, a full snail mail box, shit taped to my door...I never even got to tell anyone in person why Obama could fuck off this cycle, but at least I got to jerk off to Eva Longoria's recorded voice. Thanks, Eva.
Solution is easy, get rid of your landline you old coot. The direct mail stuff happens no matter who you are, but for me as someone who "participates" i didnt get a single political phone call all cycle (and havent for years).
What's the issue? "For" in this context means "in honor of". It's a perfectly valid usage. Grammar Nazi fail.
Not to mention the fact that clearly Steve Jobs does *not* have the ability to make building name decisions any more, so it very well could be that they intended to name it according to his wishes, and given the nature of his ego "The Steve Jobs Building" was the most desirable version. "Get back to fucking work, and do it right this time" was a close second, I bet.
At first I thought to myself "I bet it's as ugly as that hideous boat" but after looking at the pictures of the inside and out, it is a very well done building that no doubt has seen a lot of success (Pixar, in case no one was keeping track, has a record of successful moviemaking completely untouchable by any other studio).
This article is worth a read (plus the extra info linked therein), if for no other reason than the fact that so many offices in the US are hideously designed, constructed, and laid out but there is some sort of unwritten rule of corporate management at a lot of companies to the effect of "the uglier the better". This is hindering the evolution of work in the US, and ultimately hindering growth. Steve Jobs deserves credit for at least seeing the right way to do this.