No, the problem with the old building was (is) that is was in a tower that was fairly tall and thin, so lots of stair-climbing was required. The new building is nice and flat (3 fairly large floors) in West Cambridge.
However, as someone pointed out, it isThe William Gates Building. Microsoft Research were going to take the top floor, but have now decided, due to expansion, that they need their own building next door.
The original plans were quite fun, as the MS Research and Computer Lab parts of the building were completely separated by card-only doors...
What I don't understand is how this is not merging Church/State. I mean, it makes sense over here in the UK, where we have an "official" religion (although I suspect that the UK is in fact, quite a bit less religious than the US), but over there, you're supposed to separate the church from the State...
Any USians care to explain?
Wouldn't it just be easier to charge based on bandwidth utilisation? After all, that's where their costs come from (aside from the installation, etc.) constant costs. 1 PC that downloads tons of stuff is worse for them than 10 PC's that are running SETI (to pinch someone else's example).
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No, the problem with the old building was (is) that is was in a tower that was fairly tall and thin, so lots of stair-climbing was required. The new building is nice and flat (3 fairly large floors) in West Cambridge.
However, as someone pointed out, it is The William Gates Building. Microsoft Research were going to take the top floor, but have now decided, due to expansion, that they need their own building next door.
The original plans were quite fun, as the MS Research and Computer Lab parts of the building were completely separated by card-only doors...
What I don't understand is how this is not merging Church/State. I mean, it makes sense over here in the UK, where we have an "official" religion (although I suspect that the UK is in fact, quite a bit less religious than the US), but over there, you're supposed to separate the church from the State... Any USians care to explain?
Movies come out here before in some other countries (say, all of Europe).
But why? This may have made sense when physical film stock was moved around, but I doubt this happens now...Wouldn't it just be easier to charge based on bandwidth utilisation? After all, that's where their costs come from (aside from the installation, etc.) constant costs. 1 PC that downloads tons of stuff is worse for them than 10 PC's that are running SETI (to pinch someone else's example).