Boston has been, but we're talking about a specific segment of the economy. And a segment that has only existed for 30 years.
If we were talking about investment banking, saying that Willminton Delaware has banks just like NYC, while may be technically true, is also irrelevant. It doesn't have the critical mass of people.
The client-side code could just as easily be saved to your local drive and loaded from your local drive into your browser as downloaded (or loaded unchanged from cache) every time you visit a page. You local copy could then be altered to better suit your needs, so long as it's still compatible with what the server is doing or is independent of the server. This can be done now, but browsers don't support doing it easily.
Let's say that's true. Even if it was true, it doesn't matter. All the heavy lifting of the application. The stuff that makes the application actually do something, is all server code that is never transmitted. That means, you can make cosmetic changes, but you can never change the core logic. Want to add openid to facebook? Sorry dude. You're SOL.
I'd call Pittsburgh a major city. It has professional teams in three of the four major sports, and is a place people have heard of. Which more than I can say about some of the cities with more population. Mesa, Arizona? Jacksonville, Florida has 800k people?
Good weather? It's not any worse than Boston, but let's face it, Boston is second tier when it comes to tech, and everyplace else is third tier.
If you managed to stem the brain drain, population would go up. Crime? Pfft. Come back when you're East St. Louis.;)
I don't expect them to do anything about the weather.
Oh god Redding. I grew up in the rural midwest. My house was surrounded by corn fields and the closest towns had populations all under 2000 people. When my family went on vacation, we traveled to the deep south.
But when I went to Redding I was shocked. I had never been to a place so "hicky" in my life. When I met up with childhood friend up in Portland, he completely agreed.
Two of the greatest cities in America are found here
San Francisco and.... uh.... um.... Los Gatos? Seriously. What's the other one? It sure as hell isn't the overgrown suburb San Jose. It doesn't even have a decent downtown, let alone an a real airport.
Garages are everywhere, but smart people aren't. Innovation was never by a single guy working in a shed out back in secret. There always was a community of like minded people, trading ideas and competing. SV is biggest place for software, and it's been that way for 30 years.
I'll tell you why Pittsburgh isn't listed. Once you graduate CMU, you leave. If Pittsburgh could hold on to the CMU graduates, they'd have something, but they can't, so they don't.
Paul Graham talked about this very thing, including citing the problems of Pittsburgh-CMU conundrum. He posits that it's the lack of venture capital (or "rich people" as he put it) in Pittsburgh, but I suspect (as he seems to) that there's something more missing.
It was off. I turned it back on just for that comment.;)
"Hate it" would probably win even if the UI was perfect, but don't underestimate the "They provide this for FREE!!!!! You should be GREATFUL!!!! You can't criticize!" crowd.
The thing with the new/. ui is that it's so confusing and awkward. Checkboxes that don't toggle when you put the point of the mouse on them, but only when you put the shaft of the mouse on it. (It's a standard UI element people! You don't have to do anything to it!)
I can't figure out what the colors on articles mean. It's something about scoring, but only the cylon god only knows for sure. Red and green, sure. Even yellow. Purple? What is that? And scoring articles? Isn't that what editors are for? Voting just leads to digg levels of crap and group think.
The sliders layout the page with tons of collapsed comments, regardless to how you slide them.
Modal "dialogs" that have too much text in them you have to scroll. WTF? (Can that lameass web2.0 ui fad please go die in a gutter?)
Switching from the main page to a user's page is completely different in layout. The preferences all have snarky names like "daddypants" I have no idea what any of this means. (FYI: don't do a public beta with codenames on your main site)
I wouldn't feel so bad about it if it wasn't just so damn confusing. I have no idea what any of this means, nor how it works, and I've been on this site for 10 years.
I never bought into the "Baltar couldn't survive the blast" nonsense. He does. He has to, because if he doesn't you don't have the traitor among them. You don't have someone constantly fearing to be uncovered. That's also why you can't have Baltar as a cylon. He's the traitor. He's selfish. He's a dupe. He's arrogant. He's all of humanities failings. If he's a cylon, he's none of these. He's just doing his programming. There's nothing there.
Boomer being a cylon was interesting, because of the dramatic irony. We knew she was going to do something bad. She didn't, and when she did she was scared and confused. She didn't want to be a cylon. She wanted to be Sharon Valleri from Pychon. She even tried to kill herself when she began to suspect the truth. There's none of that with Baltar.
Also, time travel is just god on stilts, but you already knew that.
Also, what happened to all of the basestars that Cavil had under control? Not to mention, the "millions" of cylons on the colonies. Wouldn't they lay out to search for the final five to rebuild resurrection?
Well they know they know that at least one of them is dead, so searching for the 5 may be pointless. But at least rounding up humans to restart the human experiments would be something.
The hokey spiritualism also irritated me, but it seems like said hokey spiritualism is now a prerequisite for most televised SF (cf. Lost, Heroes). The networks seem to think the masses need a healthy serving of God with their spaceships and time travel or else they might change the channel.
I knew there had to be someone out there that also wants a well done sf show without time travel, psychics/telepaths[*], or magic/god(s).
[*] I'll only allow telepaths if they're aliens and they can only use telepathy among their own species. It's biological radios, rather than spirits.
I hated the ending. The unilateral decision to get rid of all technology for everybody was both absurd, short-sighted, and just plain stupid. Why not give people a choice at least?
They did have a choice. They put it to a vote. The lawyer now president remarks, "I wouldn't have thought they would have gone for it." To which Adama replies, "Never underestimate the appeal of a clean slate."
Don't insult someone by saying they're "trying to dislike" something, as if somehow they're opinion and feelings are somehow fraudulent. If they say they dislike it, they dislike it. How do you like it if I say that you're trying to find a reason to like that crappy ending?
No one complains about Tyrol killing Tori. No one dislikes the "people are people" theme as you put it. That's what made the show great. What you're trying defend the overt onscreen presence of the cylon god. That's what is upset people, including myself. It's one thing to communicate through cryptic dreams, and drug induced hallucinations. It's something else entirely to create physical objects out of nothing and then take them back. If you can do that, you can do anything.
While the cylon god manipulating the world was a recurring theme, it was never left as being the only explanation. The prophesies were also the history of the 13th tribe. Even if you do hold that the cylon god was manipulating people from afar in very indirect ways, which I think there's a good case for, Ron Moore went off the tracks when he gave the cylon god screen time. That's my problem with it.
Kara Thrace is an angel? I have to say, I thought they'd pull out the deus ex machina when we saw the crashed viper and the charred corpse. I was hoping it wouldn't happen, but I couldn't come up with another explanation. Head Six and Head Caprica are angels? Frak me.
And don't even get me started with on the whole "Amish hippies have too much technology, we'll do them one better" ending. As one person put it on scifi.com, "Adama had to pile rocks around Rosilyn because he burned up his fraking shovel in the sun!" RDM wanted the "We're cylons" ending, but had no credible way to bring it about. Two Earths? Frak me.
I expected more from the guy that killed off Captain Kirk and started out so strong.
Personally, I kind of like when they found Cylon Earth as the end, which it was going to be if the writer's strike continued a bit longer. A nice downer, like the whole first season.
All this has already happened and will happen again indeed.
True, but it's not just the creationists. Education in this country is being ruined by everyone with an agenda. Look at the history books that refuse to mention Reagan when addressing the cold war. It's the same type of thing, just from a different groups agenda.
Full Disclosure: I own a 17" macbook pro, and an 160gb ipod classic. Prior to that, a 17" powerbook g4. I don't consider myself a mac fanboy, but a unix fanboy. I switched from 14 years of Linux to macs because I got tired of dealing with drivers. That said...
Let's say SteveB is right. Apple charges a premium for its logo. I think he's right to a certain extent. Many pundits have deemed Apple a "luxury brand". Jonathan Ive has defined a look for Apple. It's clean. It's pretty. It looks different. It sets trends. Most importantly, people like it enough to pay for it.
Now the question that SteveB, Alex Bogusky, and the rest of Microsoft, are going to do about it besides whine, because so far that's all they've done.
Of course if they do that, I'd want (but have learned not to expect) that the infrastructure would be carrier neutral, so that any carrier could use it, maintained by a public-private partnership.
Of course this wouldn't happen. Taxpayers are chumps who only exist to funnel money from the plebeians to oligarchs with no say at all in how the money is spent. Afterall, this capitalism at it's best, where buying something lets you say how it's used.
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Of course the collapse of the steel industry has nothing to do with it. Got to love the WSJ, everything fits their orthodoxy.
Boston has been, but we're talking about a specific segment of the economy. And a segment that has only existed for 30 years.
If we were talking about investment banking, saying that Willminton Delaware has banks just like NYC, while may be technically true, is also irrelevant. It doesn't have the critical mass of people.
Let's say that's true. Even if it was true, it doesn't matter. All the heavy lifting of the application. The stuff that makes the application actually do something, is all server code that is never transmitted. That means, you can make cosmetic changes, but you can never change the core logic. Want to add openid to facebook? Sorry dude. You're SOL.
Given 30 years of IT, I doubt it. Also, are those ironic quotes?
I'd call Pittsburgh a major city. It has professional teams in three of the four major sports, and is a place people have heard of. Which more than I can say about some of the cities with more population. Mesa, Arizona? Jacksonville, Florida has 800k people?
Good weather? It's not any worse than Boston, but let's face it, Boston is second tier when it comes to tech, and everyplace else is third tier.
If you managed to stem the brain drain, population would go up. Crime? Pfft. Come back when you're East St. Louis. ;)
Well they won't with that attitude. :)
Oh god Redding. I grew up in the rural midwest. My house was surrounded by corn fields and the closest towns had populations all under 2000 people. When my family went on vacation, we traveled to the deep south.
But when I went to Redding I was shocked. I had never been to a place so "hicky" in my life. When I met up with childhood friend up in Portland, he completely agreed.
Oh yeah, there's totally no Asian or Indian Americans in the Bay Area.
San Francisco and.... uh.... um.... Los Gatos? Seriously. What's the other one? It sure as hell isn't the overgrown suburb San Jose. It doesn't even have a decent downtown, let alone an a real airport.
Garages are everywhere, but smart people aren't. Innovation was never by a single guy working in a shed out back in secret. There always was a community of like minded people, trading ideas and competing. SV is biggest place for software, and it's been that way for 30 years.
I'll tell you why Pittsburgh isn't listed. Once you graduate CMU, you leave. If Pittsburgh could hold on to the CMU graduates, they'd have something, but they can't, so they don't.
Paul Graham talked about this very thing, including citing the problems of Pittsburgh-CMU conundrum. He posits that it's the lack of venture capital (or "rich people" as he put it) in Pittsburgh, but I suspect (as he seems to) that there's something more missing.
Nebraska is a type of corn syrup right?
It was off. I turned it back on just for that comment. ;)
"Hate it" would probably win even if the UI was perfect, but don't underestimate the "They provide this for FREE!!!!! You should be GREATFUL!!!! You can't criticize!" crowd.
The thing with the new /. ui is that it's so confusing and awkward. Checkboxes that don't toggle when you put the point of the mouse on them, but only when you put the shaft of the mouse on it. (It's a standard UI element people! You don't have to do anything to it!)
I can't figure out what the colors on articles mean. It's something about scoring, but only the cylon god only knows for sure. Red and green, sure. Even yellow. Purple? What is that? And scoring articles? Isn't that what editors are for? Voting just leads to digg levels of crap and group think.
The sliders layout the page with tons of collapsed comments, regardless to how you slide them.
Modal "dialogs" that have too much text in them you have to scroll. WTF? (Can that lameass web2.0 ui fad please go die in a gutter?)
Switching from the main page to a user's page is completely different in layout. The preferences all have snarky names like "daddypants" I have no idea what any of this means. (FYI: don't do a public beta with codenames on your main site)
I wouldn't feel so bad about it if it wasn't just so damn confusing. I have no idea what any of this means, nor how it works, and I've been on this site for 10 years.
Pffft. Who doesn't? ... Now.
Because my time isn't.
That logic is why I switched from linux to a mac.
I never bought into the "Baltar couldn't survive the blast" nonsense. He does. He has to, because if he doesn't you don't have the traitor among them. You don't have someone constantly fearing to be uncovered. That's also why you can't have Baltar as a cylon. He's the traitor. He's selfish. He's a dupe. He's arrogant. He's all of humanities failings. If he's a cylon, he's none of these. He's just doing his programming. There's nothing there.
Boomer being a cylon was interesting, because of the dramatic irony. We knew she was going to do something bad. She didn't, and when she did she was scared and confused. She didn't want to be a cylon. She wanted to be Sharon Valleri from Pychon. She even tried to kill herself when she began to suspect the truth. There's none of that with Baltar.
Also, time travel is just god on stilts, but you already knew that.
Well they know they know that at least one of them is dead, so searching for the 5 may be pointless. But at least rounding up humans to restart the human experiments would be something.
I knew there had to be someone out there that also wants a well done sf show without time travel, psychics/telepaths[*], or magic/god(s).
[*] I'll only allow telepaths if they're aliens and they can only use telepathy among their own species. It's biological radios, rather than spirits.
They did have a choice. They put it to a vote. The lawyer now president remarks, "I wouldn't have thought they would have gone for it." To which Adama replies, "Never underestimate the appeal of a clean slate."
That said, it's still dumb.
Killbots want peace too, but programs must complete.
Don't insult someone by saying they're "trying to dislike" something, as if somehow they're opinion and feelings are somehow fraudulent. If they say they dislike it, they dislike it. How do you like it if I say that you're trying to find a reason to like that crappy ending?
No one complains about Tyrol killing Tori. No one dislikes the "people are people" theme as you put it. That's what made the show great. What you're trying defend the overt onscreen presence of the cylon god. That's what is upset people, including myself. It's one thing to communicate through cryptic dreams, and drug induced hallucinations. It's something else entirely to create physical objects out of nothing and then take them back. If you can do that, you can do anything.
While the cylon god manipulating the world was a recurring theme, it was never left as being the only explanation. The prophesies were also the history of the 13th tribe. Even if you do hold that the cylon god was manipulating people from afar in very indirect ways, which I think there's a good case for, Ron Moore went off the tracks when he gave the cylon god screen time. That's my problem with it.
Kara Thrace is an angel? I have to say, I thought they'd pull out the deus ex machina when we saw the crashed viper and the charred corpse. I was hoping it wouldn't happen, but I couldn't come up with another explanation. Head Six and Head Caprica are angels? Frak me.
And don't even get me started with on the whole "Amish hippies have too much technology, we'll do them one better" ending. As one person put it on scifi.com, "Adama had to pile rocks around Rosilyn because he burned up his fraking shovel in the sun!" RDM wanted the "We're cylons" ending, but had no credible way to bring it about. Two Earths? Frak me.
I expected more from the guy that killed off Captain Kirk and started out so strong.
Personally, I kind of like when they found Cylon Earth as the end, which it was going to be if the writer's strike continued a bit longer. A nice downer, like the whole first season.
All this has already happened and will happen again indeed.
Put up or shut up.
Full Disclosure: I own a 17" macbook pro, and an 160gb ipod classic. Prior to that, a 17" powerbook g4. I don't consider myself a mac fanboy, but a unix fanboy. I switched from 14 years of Linux to macs because I got tired of dealing with drivers. That said...
Let's say SteveB is right. Apple charges a premium for its logo. I think he's right to a certain extent. Many pundits have deemed Apple a "luxury brand". Jonathan Ive has defined a look for Apple. It's clean. It's pretty. It looks different. It sets trends. Most importantly, people like it enough to pay for it.
Now the question that SteveB, Alex Bogusky, and the rest of Microsoft, are going to do about it besides whine, because so far that's all they've done.
Of course if they do that, I'd want (but have learned not to expect) that the infrastructure would be carrier neutral, so that any carrier could use it, maintained by a public-private partnership.
Of course this wouldn't happen. Taxpayers are chumps who only exist to funnel money from the plebeians to oligarchs with no say at all in how the money is spent. Afterall, this capitalism at it's best, where buying something lets you say how it's used.