The assumption that 28% of people will take public transport is wrong. When there is bad weather, more people take their car. When there are events, more people from outside the company visit the campus. So the number varies a lot and then unless you've catered for the worst case, you run out of parking spots.
The assumption is that 28% of their employees will take public transportation. Where does that number come from? I would assume it's because that's what their employees do now. "Currently, the main Apple campus has a 28 percent transportation demand management rate, which means that 28 percent of employees at that campus use an alternate mode of transportation, other than a single-occupancy vehicle,"
My observation, which you seem to have entirely missed, is that the number of people that take public transport changes from day to day. The limits of that variation is what matters. It's not a fixed number. Few things are.
The assumption that 28% of people will take public transport is wrong. When there is bad weather, more people take their car. When there are events, more people from outside the company visit the campus. So the number varies a lot and then unless you've catered for the worst case, you run out of parking spots.
Apple Park will have 14K employees, 11K parking spots and 28% of employees (~5K) are expected to take public transit. That's leave 1K of parking available for the public to visit the Apple Store and Visitor Center.
All the people who actually "masterminded" that silly pretty building must love when instead the Cult of Personality gives all the credit to the guy who makes colorful icons.
Making stuff ugly for people. Every time I see iOS 7+ or OSX Yosemite and later, I want to vomit. I used to love Apple until they "redesigned" everything. Something finally hit me looking at the pictures: they present something very drab and emotionless and try to add a few highlights to make you think it isn't the same drab, boring thing you've been looking at all along.
You think that's bad? There's this web site called Slashdot, with grim, dark green banners on every posting and rounded corners on all rectangles, straight out of 1984.
>Correlation does not PROVE causation. It can however strongly imply causation
Indeed. We need a properly controlled study of the following form:
A) Cut the heads of all current NFL players and examine their brains. B) Cut the heads of a randomly selected group of people from the general populace and examine their brains. C) See if there's a statistically significant different.
This will both teach us if violent sports cause CTE and free up the airwaves for better quality television than stupid sports.
I suspect, without being able to give details right now, that this is related to the byzantine tax and tariff laws the US has on importing. E.G. the tax on yarn short than 6" is very different to importing yarn that is longer. This is because of some protectionist lobbying in the past by carpet manufacturers. That's only one example. It is very, very complicated. Doing later stage processing in the US , lets you import the goods in a different form. Much like assembling foreign components in the US is for car manufacturers.
True story - We walked into the customs in Chicago, suitably jet lagged, after travelling back from a work+vacation trip to the UK and Ireland. My wife had two large suitcases packed as tightly as possible with nothing but pre-balled yarn (like you would see on a shop shelf) that she got on the trip from manufacturers and was going to try out in some stores to as a precursor to maybe shipping in bulk. This was maybe $5000 of goods. We ticked the "Yes we have goods" box on the customs form and got shuffled over to someone in a room who took a look. It was about 10.30pm. We thought (although it was hard to tell because the laws are badly written) that we owed 6% import tariff. We could both see the gears going off in her head - It's yarn, it's knitting yarn, packaged, sample stock, etc. - and she wanted to get home and didn't want to have to work out the tariff by wading through the rules on all those things, all of which matter. She waved us through. No charge.
It's worth paying an import expert who can fill in the forms and optimize the tariff situation. Like a good accountant, they save more than they cost.
I don't know my way around FCC policies and I didn't comment there. I was showing a counter example of a department with a policy of publishing public comment. In that case the subject matter wasn't a political football and I think most of the contributors have met at the NIST workshops. Publishing the comments is very useful and helps us make progress.
And companies are definitely buying this stuff. We have a bunch at our offices, not MS though but I'd imagine they cost about as much.
In any case, it's just over a hundred jobs so hardly important overall when we just heard that MS is laying off thousands of employees in other areas, in particular sales. Would be interesting to know what motivated the decision anyway though.
This is how US corporations breath. They expand and contract over time, accreting new projects and products and groups. Then the CEO gets a boner for efficiency and all the satellite offices and pet projects and stupid low volume products get axed. Then it starts all over again. Remaining employed in a large US corporation is partly a matter of not being in one of the dispensable limbs when it comes to chopping time.
>NO mater how much robots you put to screw a screw, you robots can't compete on cost with Chinese.
This is wrong. You can't compete with the Chinese on flexibility and responsiveness in manufacturing. Well you could, but you would have to get a lot better at it and have the government on your side. The Chinese chose to be good at manufacturing and in particular contract manufacturing and they have a large infrastructure dedicated to that. Chinese labour costs are lower than the US, but that only counts for labour intensive manufacturing.
Cost is one thing. Dealing with a million other crappy things is also a differentiator. My wife gets yarn manufactured around the world and imports it to be sold in yarn stores. It is substantially easier in terms of red tape, to get it made in China and import it than it is to get it made in Washington state and delivered to an address in Oregon. Also, the best makers of bamboo yarn are in China so it's not question that we would get that made in China. It's work to get them to manufacture to our packaging standards and in configurations that work for US markets, but that's easy compared to dealing with the tax departments of 50 US states. The highest quality yarn maker in the world is in the UK. Their stuff is costly more due to shipping from the UK than from the cost of manufacture. I've seen their factory floor and from processing incoming unprocessed sheared wool, to spinning to coning or balling involved 4 people.
A girlfriend I had when I was living in the UK was Iranian. She and her family left during the revolution. This is because her father worked as a lawyer for the Shah. So the consequences of remaining were death.
Her father both attended and hosted parties which the CIA guys also attended. She would also attend and so she knew their faces.
When the street demonstrations were happening, in the weeks before the revolution, she saw those same CIA faces, dressed as Iranians, leading and organizing the demonstrations.
Which is of course bullshit. I've made public comment to government agencies and it is exactly that - public. Those comments and identifying information including names and emails are right there posted on a government web site for all to see. For example : http://csrc.nist.gov/publicati...
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The assumption that 28% of people will take public transport is wrong. When there is bad weather, more people take their car. When there are events, more people from outside the company visit the campus. So the number varies a lot and then unless you've catered for the worst case, you run out of parking spots.
The assumption is that 28% of their employees will take public transportation. Where does that number come from? I would assume it's because that's what their employees do now.
"Currently, the main Apple campus has a 28 percent transportation demand management rate, which means that 28 percent of employees at that campus use an alternate mode of transportation, other than a single-occupancy vehicle,"
My observation, which you seem to have entirely missed, is that the number of people that take public transport changes from day to day. The limits of that variation is what matters. It's not a fixed number. Few things are.
> In general, you don't want the public to know what goes in to making the sausage because it's kind of disgusting.
I'm quite ok with how sausage is made. If you're disgusted by it, you might want to examine why.
I'm most shocked that my post got an 5:Insightful rating. I was digging for a funny.
The assumption that 28% of people will take public transport is wrong. When there is bad weather, more people take their car. When there are events, more people from outside the company visit the campus. So the number varies a lot and then unless you've catered for the worst case, you run out of parking spots.
Apple Park will have 14K employees, 11K parking spots and 28% of employees (~5K) are expected to take public transit. That's leave 1K of parking available for the public to visit the Apple Store and Visitor Center.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-park-new-campus-more-parking-than-offices-2017-4
Thank you for the link. I've seen this logic applied in several large campuses. It's wrong every time.
All the people who actually "masterminded" that silly pretty building must love when instead the Cult of Personality gives all the credit to the guy who makes colorful icons.
There still won't be enough parking.
Making stuff ugly for people. Every time I see iOS 7+ or OSX Yosemite and later, I want to vomit. I used to love Apple until they "redesigned" everything. Something finally hit me looking at the pictures: they present something very drab and emotionless and try to add a few highlights to make you think it isn't the same drab, boring thing you've been looking at all along.
You think that's bad? There's this web site called Slashdot, with grim, dark green banners on every posting and rounded corners on all rectangles, straight out of 1984.
Let's talk about Drupal instead. Oh wait..
Well no one was letting them into college on academic grounds.
True.
We could round up a random selection of people and force half of them to play in the NFL.
Then chop all their heads off.
>Correlation does not PROVE causation. It can however strongly imply causation
Indeed. We need a properly controlled study of the following form:
A) Cut the heads of all current NFL players and examine their brains.
B) Cut the heads of a randomly selected group of people from the general populace and examine their brains.
C) See if there's a statistically significant different.
This will both teach us if violent sports cause CTE and free up the airwaves for better quality television than stupid sports.
>Why not? Why do you need to keep your brain if you're dead?
Why do you need a brain if you are an NFL player?
Wingnuts like the one above dislike Snopes because it keeps telling the truth that contradicts their lies.
And while too inarticulate to make his point well, I would agree with apps guy's hate for a couch that can only be adjusted by smartphone.
There's an app for that.
Do you hear the fandango?
When it's a $1.00 game, if one in thirty games turns out well, it's a good deal.
I think I'm doing better than one in thirty.
I suspect, without being able to give details right now, that this is related to the byzantine tax and tariff laws the US has on importing. E.G. the tax on yarn short than 6" is very different to importing yarn that is longer. This is because of some protectionist lobbying in the past by carpet manufacturers. That's only one example. It is very, very complicated. Doing later stage processing in the US , lets you import the goods in a different form. Much like assembling foreign components in the US is for car manufacturers.
True story - We walked into the customs in Chicago, suitably jet lagged, after travelling back from a work+vacation trip to the UK and Ireland. My wife had two large suitcases packed as tightly as possible with nothing but pre-balled yarn (like you would see on a shop shelf) that she got on the trip from manufacturers and was going to try out in some stores to as a precursor to maybe shipping in bulk. This was maybe $5000 of goods. We ticked the "Yes we have goods" box on the customs form and got shuffled over to someone in a room who took a look. It was about 10.30pm. We thought (although it was hard to tell because the laws are badly written) that we owed 6% import tariff. We could both see the gears going off in her head - It's yarn, it's knitting yarn, packaged, sample stock, etc. - and she wanted to get home and didn't want to have to work out the tariff by wading through the rules on all those things, all of which matter. She waved us through. No charge.
It's worth paying an import expert who can fill in the forms and optimize the tariff situation. Like a good accountant, they save more than they cost.
Have you tried using the Rust programming language?
Ask your doctor if Rust syntax is right for you.
I'm OK. I can handle it. I can quit Python anytime I choose.
There's always a critic.
I don't know my way around FCC policies and I didn't comment there. I was showing a counter example of a department with a policy of publishing public comment. In that case the subject matter wasn't a political football and I think most of the contributors have met at the NIST workshops. Publishing the comments is very useful and helps us make progress.
it's almost as if the free market didn't care for sentimental bullshit like "made in Oregon"...
And yet the CPUs are made in Oregon.
And companies are definitely buying this stuff. We have a bunch at our offices, not MS though but I'd imagine they cost about as much.
In any case, it's just over a hundred jobs so hardly important overall when we just heard that MS is laying off thousands of employees in other areas, in particular sales. Would be interesting to know what motivated the decision anyway though.
This is how US corporations breath. They expand and contract over time, accreting new projects and products and groups. Then the CEO gets a boner for efficiency and all the satellite offices and pet projects and stupid low volume products get axed. Then it starts all over again. Remaining employed in a large US corporation is partly a matter of not being in one of the dispensable limbs when it comes to chopping time.
>NO mater how much robots you put to screw a screw, you robots can't compete on cost with Chinese.
This is wrong. You can't compete with the Chinese on flexibility and responsiveness in manufacturing. Well you could, but you would have to get a lot better at it and have the government on your side. The Chinese chose to be good at manufacturing and in particular contract manufacturing and they have a large infrastructure dedicated to that. Chinese labour costs are lower than the US, but that only counts for labour intensive manufacturing.
Cost is one thing. Dealing with a million other crappy things is also a differentiator. My wife gets yarn manufactured around the world and imports it to be sold in yarn stores. It is substantially easier in terms of red tape, to get it made in China and import it than it is to get it made in Washington state and delivered to an address in Oregon. Also, the best makers of bamboo yarn are in China so it's not question that we would get that made in China. It's work to get them to manufacture to our packaging standards and in configurations that work for US markets, but that's easy compared to dealing with the tax departments of 50 US states. The highest quality yarn maker in the world is in the UK. Their stuff is costly more due to shipping from the UK than from the cost of manufacture. I've seen their factory floor and from processing incoming unprocessed sheared wool, to spinning to coning or balling involved 4 people.
A fun but true Iran related story...
A girlfriend I had when I was living in the UK was Iranian. She and her family left during the revolution. This is because her father worked as a lawyer for the Shah. So the consequences of remaining were death.
Her father both attended and hosted parties which the CIA guys also attended. She would also attend and so she knew their faces.
When the street demonstrations were happening, in the weeks before the revolution, she saw those same CIA faces, dressed as Iranians, leading and organizing the demonstrations.
To run a script that only pulls the comment on a data set and then zip it?
The FCC is saying that they would have to go through and have staff members redact all personally identifiable information in the comments.
https://transition.fcc.gov/Dai...
Which is of course bullshit. I've made public comment to government agencies and it is exactly that - public. Those comments and identifying information including names and emails are right there posted on a government web site for all to see. For example : http://csrc.nist.gov/publicati...