I'm sorry, but the cost of living there is just outrageous compared to more-reasonable places that are also full of hackers and startups.
If those places become the next SV in terms of startup activity, they will become the next SV in terms of cost of living.
The only hope is that the "geniuses" of the tech industry will figure out how to use their own innovations to free themselves of the idiotic proposition of concentrating themselves into tiny geographic areas.
You may live in a tiny little hose on a tiny little lot, but Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Alameda, Marin and many other counties are rich in huge, open space parks. I should know, I spend half my life in them =).
I thought that in 2008 until McCain picked Palin and I saw (as in I knew personally) die-in-the-wool conservatives actually announce they were supporting Obama this time.
Despite attempts to depict him otherwise (sometimes by himself!), Romney comes across as a moderately competent political moderate, and I suspect his support from centrists is higher than, say, someone like Santorum would have. It's unlikely Romney will pick someone more centrist than himself, the question is whether he'll pick someone all his supporters can live with. McCain picked badly.
I think it's safe to say Mitt will pick someone "Safe" and by that I mean no bizarre characters from out in right field near the foul pole. Palin was and remains a cartoon character, so hard to take seriously, except that she is quite adept at raking in money on her books and speaking tours (what's the saying? It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money?) Mitt won't make that mistake. Whoever it is will be safe, solid, with excellent credentials and have had a thorough background check -- unless Mitt is a damn fool like McCain was.
As for announcing through a phone app, big deal. I'll hear about it via the traditional outlets - the newspapers, who will then inundate us with all sorts of speculations and crap about the choice, like it's some sort of beauty contest (which in reality it is, a political beauty contest.)
oh, there he is, and my, doesn't he look so presidential in his regalia? Ohh, ahh!
For over a decade people keep saying "X" will be the next Silicon Valley. And they then go on and forget they made such ridiculous predictions and nobody every calls them on it.
FYI The next Silicon Valley continues to be Silicon Valley, as it reinvents itself (and replacing itself with something even more inexplicable the next time.)
And yet, all the best games and applications are still being written for OSX, Windows, and iOS. You can keep preaching about how great open software is, but when it's hard to make money off the platform, the best developers are never going to go there. You're preaching idealism. MS and Apple preach profits. We live in a capitalist society - guess who wins?
The gravy train comes with no guarantee you will always remain on it. Apple prospers while those who do business with Apple prosper. When Apple tries too hard to prosper all by themselves they begin to look like that company which nearly died before the second coming of Jobs.
These are the things you get with the lack of openness - in favor of the One True Platform where everything must submit to the One True Experience
And the fun bit(!) -> When so many people have bought Apps developed outside the sandbox and they won't run on the next i(thingy) so people are less likely to upgrade right away <- thus hitting the ol' Wall Street revenue expectations.
Ah, what a tangled web the weave. Where's me popcorn?
All the more reason for Apple to hurt Android as much as they can, including Samsung, maker of wunnerful stuff Android-ish. If your developers flee to the greener pastures of Android, you must somehow poison those pastures so they have nowhere to run.
I guess the squeezing of developers & customers has finally come around to hurt Apple, after such a promising start, too. Couldn't happen to a nicer company.
Now the suits will start flying, and filing suits.
Did I get FP? Golly.
I think the suits that could be filed are largely already moving forward - regarding the fumbling of the IPO and who knew what when.
Once the IPO got past the first week it is the fault of those who bought the stock that they got stung - despite a lot of solid advice to wait and see or simply run away from the offering.
fb may, yet pull out of the tailspin, but their stock as presently approaching a realistic valuation, not that bombastic $38/shr it opened at, let alone wile speculation that fb would be worth more than 80 billion. fb is likely worth a couple billion, not much more though.
"OK, where is the cloud? Is in your pocket? Empty your pockets. Show me your hands. OK, where's the cloud?"
"It's everywhere and nowhere."
"You trying to be funny with me kid?"
"Officer, it's in Seattle and Rotterdam and Sydney and Buenos Aires and Toronto and London and Rome and Moscow.."
"What? How?"
"At the speed of light, odds are, officer, your own personal information on loans, purchases, voice mail, etc. are stored around the world, too and you don't know it."
I've always believed in accounting for mis-communication and / or human mistakes. I mean I really do understand your company's position, but I disagree with it. I could cope with a one warning (permanent written??), and out the door after that, but just out the door seems like it may result in terminations that really were not necessary at times. -nB
Odds are, when you encounter someone exhibiting this behavior it is not the first time. They know what they are saying and doing.
I thought the same think. Arguably, even worse than making a "joke" is the fact that the offender is simply being punished with another form of harassment. Clearly, this sends the wrong message about harassment.
Which would be... those who fail to conform to the morals of a truly civil society, where everyone is an equal, can be punished by a bunch of vengeful people?
Gosh.
I dislike watching the news because I continually watch a world full of people who can't respect each other killing each other or ruling as tyrants. I sure hope we don't ever turn into one of those countries.
We went through a couple sessions, mandated by management. We'll have another one in a few months. Key point to make is that people who do not act approrpiately will be pulled from the team and possibly sacked. Fear works pretty effectively.
Why not re-assign the disrupting factor (the new incoming female employee) to another group where it won't be a problem?
Sounds like the original, all male group was working just fine....why break that up?
At the very least....you put her in, and everyone has to walk on eggshells....she's gonna be pretty much totally isolated from the group dynamic...and the group itself.
Why should the group have to change for one new incommer?
What if "She" happens to be the one person the group will depend upon for success? Do you really want to think that through? Many employers in IT are expecting you to have your act together enough to work with anybody, regardless of gender, regligion, race, sexual orientation, because they hired you to get your work done, not sit around moaning you can't talk like a 'guy' around a female.
Geez, you people are making me feel like I'm part of management or something...
Yes, they probably should do their jobs well. Catering to someone else's arbitrary sensibilities is another matter, though. Stop making a mountain out of a molehill. The fact that you have a job doesn't mean that you become an emotionless robot dedicated to appearing "professional" in someone else's eyes. Quite frankly, it doesn't even matter as long as you're doing your job (or to be more precise: it won't matter as long as you don't have imbeciles willing to fire over it).
Quite frankly it does matter!
You haven't paid much attention to all the people getting in trouble for tweeting or having things on their facebook which reflect poorly upon their employers, for choosing to have such an individual making such statements in their employ, give some impression (yes, I know this can be a bit overblown) the employer condones such activity. If you work for a company accepting any contracts in the public sector then you better pay attention, because your meal ticket can be yanked for violations.
I often hear 'boys will be boys', but that's not getting much slack these days. We had a predator in our workplace and I was witness to it. I did what I had to do and reported it. Had I not done my duty I would be viewed as complicit in such actions. I have learned to take this very seriously. Grow up, be professional. The time for potty mouth and locker room talk ends when you accept employment. Odds are you will sign some document where you accept terms that you may be relieved of your job for certain and sundry reasons.
Really? not even one warning? Seems harsh except in the most egregious cases.
Not one warning. The reason for zero tolerance is the fear of employers being seen to foster inequality and harrassment in the workplace. Ring up the lawyers. Easier to just terminate the offenders and the word gets around.
No wonder men don't care often for working with women. You have to bend to the lowest common denominator as far as 'feelings' go....legally.
Guys can't be guys in the workplace....
Yes, they are expected to be professional, not a bunch of guys with a locker room vocabulary. It's not the 1950's anymore.
I work among many women and to be quite frank they sometimes say things among themselves I don't care to hear, either. Personal stuff is for personal time, not work time.
...It is guaranteed that there will be remarks, double entendres and innuendos with huge potential of getting worse...
So you work with a bunch of unprofessional animals?
You should *already* have a policy that makes such comments and such a work environment unacceptable.
Let them know that this type of childish behavior is not only unacceptable, but will result in being canned.
End of sentence.
Third that. We've been through it.
I've had a role in someone's removal, due to innapropriate behaviour. We have policies in place and managers understand them. What I worried could have been a painful process was handled professionally and calm and order were restored to the workplace, further the feeling it is a safe workplace was reinforced.
You need to understand the laws around sexual harassment, which you clearly do not.
We went through a couple sessions, mandated by management. We'll have another one in a few months. Key point to make is that people who do not act approrpiately will be pulled from the team and possibly sacked. Fear works pretty effectively.
Who will they blame when some nut-job goes postal with one of these illegal shapes?
Will they ban 3D Printers?
It'll just add to the political football match we've had for decades. Nutjobs will still kill people with weapons bought legally, with ammo bought leagally and nothing illegal done until they day they act.
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I'm sorry, but the cost of living there is just outrageous compared to more-reasonable places that are also full of hackers and startups.
If those places become the next SV in terms of startup activity, they will become the next SV in terms of cost of living.
The only hope is that the "geniuses" of the tech industry will figure out how to use their own innovations to free themselves of the idiotic proposition of concentrating themselves into tiny geographic areas.
You may live in a tiny little hose on a tiny little lot, but Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Alameda, Marin and many other counties are rich in huge, open space parks. I should know, I spend half my life in them =).
I thought that in 2008 until McCain picked Palin and I saw (as in I knew personally) die-in-the-wool conservatives actually announce they were supporting Obama this time.
Despite attempts to depict him otherwise (sometimes by himself!), Romney comes across as a moderately competent political moderate, and I suspect his support from centrists is higher than, say, someone like Santorum would have. It's unlikely Romney will pick someone more centrist than himself, the question is whether he'll pick someone all his supporters can live with. McCain picked badly.
I think it's safe to say Mitt will pick someone "Safe" and by that I mean no bizarre characters from out in right field near the foul pole. Palin was and remains a cartoon character, so hard to take seriously, except that she is quite adept at raking in money on her books and speaking tours (what's the saying? It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money?) Mitt won't make that mistake. Whoever it is will be safe, solid, with excellent credentials and have had a thorough background check -- unless Mitt is a damn fool like McCain was.
As for announcing through a phone app, big deal. I'll hear about it via the traditional outlets - the newspapers, who will then inundate us with all sorts of speculations and crap about the choice, like it's some sort of beauty contest (which in reality it is, a political beauty contest.)
oh, there he is, and my, doesn't he look so presidential in his regalia? Ohh, ahh!
For over a decade people keep saying "X" will be the next Silicon Valley. And they then go on and forget they made such ridiculous predictions and nobody every calls them on it.
FYI The next Silicon Valley continues to be Silicon Valley, as it reinvents itself (and replacing itself with something even more inexplicable the next time.)
So now you know. And you can quote me on it.
And yet, all the best games and applications are still being written for OSX, Windows, and iOS. You can keep preaching about how great open software is, but when it's hard to make money off the platform, the best developers are never going to go there. You're preaching idealism. MS and Apple preach profits. We live in a capitalist society - guess who wins?
The gravy train comes with no guarantee you will always remain on it. Apple prospers while those who do business with Apple prosper. When Apple tries too hard to prosper all by themselves they begin to look like that company which nearly died before the second coming of Jobs.
These are the things you get with the lack of openness - in favor of the One True Platform where everything must submit to the One True Experience
And the fun bit(!) -> When so many people have bought Apps developed outside the sandbox and they won't run on the next i(thingy) so people are less likely to upgrade right away <- thus hitting the ol' Wall Street revenue expectations.
Ah, what a tangled web the weave. Where's me popcorn?
Yea, you are right. I was in a hurry so do I still have to turn in my geek card?
Say a couple "I'm am your father"s or "Do or do not. There is no try"s. You might be forgiven.
Better line would have been "The more you tighten your grip, ..., the more ... will slip through your fingers."
All the more reason for Apple to hurt Android as much as they can, including Samsung, maker of wunnerful stuff Android-ish. If your developers flee to the greener pastures of Android, you must somehow poison those pastures so they have nowhere to run.
and it's not even Quezovercoatl
I guess the squeezing of developers & customers has finally come around to hurt Apple, after such a promising start, too. Couldn't happen to a nicer company.
Now the suits will start flying, and filing suits.
Did I get FP? Golly.
I think the suits that could be filed are largely already moving forward - regarding the fumbling of the IPO and who knew what when.
Once the IPO got past the first week it is the fault of those who bought the stock that they got stung - despite a lot of solid advice to wait and see or simply run away from the offering.
fb may, yet pull out of the tailspin, but their stock as presently approaching a realistic valuation, not that bombastic $38/shr it opened at, let alone wile speculation that fb would be worth more than 80 billion. fb is likely worth a couple billion, not much more though.
How is this really news for nerds? Seems like gun stories are here only to spark the inevitable flamewars over gun control.
Cue up the comments that have nothing to do with this story and use it to further their own political agendas.
If your firewall doesn't protect your servers you have to turn to guns.
or lasers on sharks
"OK, where is the cloud? Is in your pocket? Empty your pockets. Show me your hands. OK, where's the cloud?"
"It's everywhere and nowhere."
"You trying to be funny with me kid?"
"Officer, it's in Seattle and Rotterdam and Sydney and Buenos Aires and Toronto and London and Rome and Moscow .."
"What? How?"
"At the speed of light, odds are, officer, your own personal information on loans, purchases, voice mail, etc. are stored around the world, too and you don't know it."
I've always believed in accounting for mis-communication and / or human mistakes.
I mean I really do understand your company's position, but I disagree with it. I could cope with a one warning (permanent written??), and out the door after that, but just out the door seems like it may result in terminations that really were not necessary at times.
-nB
Odds are, when you encounter someone exhibiting this behavior it is not the first time. They know what they are saying and doing.
"Gimme yer phone, punk"
"Where's the memory card?"
"There is no memory card, the video was sent directly to the cloud."
Oops!
I skimmed the article and couldn't find mention of what it's going to be calculating.
It's for figuring out how long it will take for Greece to pay back their Euro loans.
and at the rate Spain is going they'll need to add a few more CPUs.
I'm pretty sure they'll be running them in x64 mode, not x86.
I'm sure modern Intel CPUs with multiple instruction dispatch and SSE for math instead of x87 will give the i860 a run for its money.
But yeah ... some of those old chips were cool (even if they didn't have a proper divide or sqrt instruction :-)
A big thank you to AMD for proving Intel wrong, the we really do need 64 bit processors. =)
No, it just runs hot enough to also work as a BBQ.
Silly you. Everyone knows everything is better with bacon, so it needs to be hot enough to fry BACON!
You insensitive clod!
I thought the same think. Arguably, even worse than making a "joke" is the fact that the offender is simply being punished with another form of harassment. Clearly, this sends the wrong message about harassment.
Which would be ... those who fail to conform to the morals of a truly civil society, where everyone is an equal, can be punished by a bunch of vengeful people?
Gosh.
I dislike watching the news because I continually watch a world full of people who can't respect each other killing each other or ruling as tyrants. I sure hope we don't ever turn into one of those countries.
Why not re-assign the disrupting factor (the new incoming female employee) to another group where it won't be a problem?
Sounds like the original, all male group was working just fine....why break that up?
At the very least....you put her in, and everyone has to walk on eggshells....she's gonna be pretty much totally isolated from the group dynamic...and the group itself.
Why should the group have to change for one new incommer?
What if "She" happens to be the one person the group will depend upon for success? Do you really want to think that through? Many employers in IT are expecting you to have your act together enough to work with anybody, regardless of gender, regligion, race, sexual orientation, because they hired you to get your work done, not sit around moaning you can't talk like a 'guy' around a female.
Geez, you people are making me feel like I'm part of management or something ...
Yes, they are expected to be professional
Yes, they probably should do their jobs well. Catering to someone else's arbitrary sensibilities is another matter, though. Stop making a mountain out of a molehill. The fact that you have a job doesn't mean that you become an emotionless robot dedicated to appearing "professional" in someone else's eyes. Quite frankly, it doesn't even matter as long as you're doing your job (or to be more precise: it won't matter as long as you don't have imbeciles willing to fire over it).
Quite frankly it does matter!
You haven't paid much attention to all the people getting in trouble for tweeting or having things on their facebook which reflect poorly upon their employers, for choosing to have such an individual making such statements in their employ, give some impression (yes, I know this can be a bit overblown) the employer condones such activity. If you work for a company accepting any contracts in the public sector then you better pay attention, because your meal ticket can be yanked for violations.
I often hear 'boys will be boys', but that's not getting much slack these days. We had a predator in our workplace and I was witness to it. I did what I had to do and reported it. Had I not done my duty I would be viewed as complicit in such actions. I have learned to take this very seriously. Grow up, be professional. The time for potty mouth and locker room talk ends when you accept employment. Odds are you will sign some document where you accept terms that you may be relieved of your job for certain and sundry reasons.
Really? not even one warning? Seems harsh except in the most egregious cases.
Not one warning. The reason for zero tolerance is the fear of employers being seen to foster inequality and harrassment in the workplace. Ring up the lawyers. Easier to just terminate the offenders and the word gets around.
No wonder men don't care often for working with women. You have to bend to the lowest common denominator as far as 'feelings' go....legally.
Guys can't be guys in the workplace....
Yes, they are expected to be professional, not a bunch of guys with a locker room vocabulary. It's not the 1950's anymore.
I work among many women and to be quite frank they sometimes say things among themselves I don't care to hear, either. Personal stuff is for personal time, not work time.
...It is guaranteed that there will be remarks, double entendres and innuendos with huge potential of getting worse...
So you work with a bunch of unprofessional animals?
You should *already* have a policy that makes such comments and such a work environment unacceptable.
Let them know that this type of childish behavior is not only unacceptable, but will result in being canned.
End of sentence.
Third that. We've been through it.
I've had a role in someone's removal, due to innapropriate behaviour. We have policies in place and managers understand them. What I worried could have been a painful process was handled professionally and calm and order were restored to the workplace, further the feeling it is a safe workplace was reinforced.
You need to understand the laws around sexual harassment, which you clearly do not.
We went through a couple sessions, mandated by management. We'll have another one in a few months. Key point to make is that people who do not act approrpiately will be pulled from the team and possibly sacked. Fear works pretty effectively.
Who will they blame when some nut-job goes postal with one of these illegal shapes?
Will they ban 3D Printers?
It'll just add to the political football match we've had for decades. Nutjobs will still kill people with weapons bought legally, with ammo bought leagally and nothing illegal done until they day they act.
I'm waiting for the first 3D printed bomb