Really hard to turn a profit when real estate prices are so high too. With the average customer spending somewhere around $5, you've got to push a lot of people through in a day to break even.
What is interesting about cafeterias is how much they vary from site to site. The selection is much better in the bay area than the same company's cafeterias in other techie locations (e.g. RTP, Richardson, Boston, DC, Ottawa, etc). Prices are generally better in the Bay Area locations too.
Anyone who has spent much time in and around San Jose understands why so much attention is paid to the cafeterias, there just aren't that many places to go out, those places are generally mobbed at lunch and getting there and back in a reasonable amount of time is tough. Either companies invest in cafeterias or they risk loosing a sizeable portion of their workforce for a couple hours a day.
For example, the Cisco campus stretches for miles down Tasman Drive yet only a couple of very small places and a lone Carls Jr. can be found there. There is a concentration of quick casual and fast food restaurants at McCarthy Ranch but they are filled. The InNOut Burger's drive through often snakes through the parking lot.
Much of the transition to point-to-point type routes if thanks to the speed and efficiency of regional aircraft like Bombardier's CRJ. Cost per seat mile is way down, customer satisfaction is up because these aircraft are just about as comfortable as the big boys and just as fast or faster.
and South Korea, Japan and Canada have a long way to go when it comes to size. It's a lot easier and less expensive to roll out services like broadband when you've got a highly concentrated population. As a whole, the US does not. Wired broadband has only flourished in US metropolitan areas. Wireless technologies have changed that in some smaller places but those are few and far between.
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Sure keeps his roof clean, it's all one color. No frisbees of nothing on there.
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The new satellite photo feature in GoogleMaps comes from their aquisition of Keyhole. Their software has been around for a little while and has quite a following (myself included) of people who find all sorts of interesting things in the photos and share them on the message board Keyhole setup for users.
Attachments can be used to go right to the area using the Keyhole software. Current events are covered (recent posts include the Paris hotel fire, the San Jose Wendy's where a finger was supposedly found in a bowl of chili, the Neverland Ranch, and a detailed mapping of buildings within Vatican City).
Other forums are filled with geeky goodness. Recent posts there have links to show you the 7 wonders of the ancient world, the UNESCO World Heritage list, logos on rooftops, webcam locations, and lots of pointers to filming locations of TV and movies.
The GoDaddy web site is always trying to sell something, actually a hundred things. In my opinion, the GoDaddy web site is arranged to intimidate people who aren't really knowledgeable.
And rebates are arranged for people to forget to send them in. Either way I make out because I send in all my rebates and I politely decline GoDaddy's additional offers for services I dont need.
having an asthmatic child, I've had the misfortune of spending a few hours in an ER and a night on the Peds' floor.
Yes the computers are everywhere but many are very different that what we'd expect. In the ER, patient histories as well as subsequent log entries are taken on a flat panel monitor mounted on a cart that is wheeled right up to the patient's bedsite in each room and curtain. These PCs had on keyboards. They were touch screen. A keyboard pops up for major typing but much of the interface is just answering questions in context. The nurses frequently wipe down the whole monitor and all the flat surfaces of the cart with what look like screen wipes (but probably are a bit more potent).
sales at ICANN members must be declining. What medium to large company isn't going to register.jobs? Those that dont will generate lots of billable hours for their lawyers.
But I'm probably just seeing the glass as half full aren't I?
If these people aren't willing to take a few moments to learn a couple of definitions, then unplug that PC and take it back to Best Buy. Sure there are a plethora of words and phrases to learn but most have their purpose and replacing them all with "bad thing" does a disservice to notice and geek alike.
Of the examples in the article, only "phishing" is word that is really unnecessary and could be replaced by less hip, more descriptive language. The rest (ex: rogue dialer, Trojan, spyware) are descriptive enough to be useful and are could be deciphered by someone with zero computer experience but enough common sense.
Nobody is asking these people to learn MC680X0 assembly, just to recognize a couple of phrases. They seem to think that being able to identify the CPU, keyboard and mouse thanks to their $30 investment in the Time-Life series on computers ends the learning curve and everything else should be so "user friendly" that they'll be hand held though everything.
Complain to the FCC here and then write your Congressional representatives (figure out who your representatives are here. If you cant take the time to figure out how to do this properly, then you must not care that much.
We've been making long distance phone calls via satellite for decades now. True, it's not over VoIP, but the cause of the latency (the long distance to the satellite) is still there, so the latency is there too.
True but the equipment used to transmit and receive phone calls via satellite by the phone companies is a little different. For one, it cant be purchased at your local Best Buy.
You and me both. I've only had to fight on one rebate, with Staples. I got a card in the mail that said sometime to the effect of "Your purchase on 3/1/2001 does not fall within the rebate offer for purchased made within 3/1/2001 and 3/31/2001". After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I called the number, they said there was nothing they could do.
I called the local Staples store and asked the mangager to resolve it. He refused until I asked what he would rather do, solve this problem with me, with the consumer reporter on the local news, or the North Carolina Attorney General's office. I got a call back from Staples corporate HQ the next day and my rebate check via fed a couple days after that.
Rebates are bad when they are simply sales that should be offered in store. When they are deep discounts, I like them because I'm organized enough to actually send them in and keep track of what I've received and what I havent.
This isn't funny, the story on Space Daily about Bush supposedly cancelling the shuttle program isn't funny. None of this garbage is funny.
Why does every news source, especially those online, feel the need to pull a cutsie April Fools prank. The practice makes the web practically useless on this day for any news.
We get enough of this from our local morning drive-time morning zoo wacky radio DJs. Why cant Slashdot be above this?
Apple is the darling of tech industry writers and even of Wall Street lately but I just dont see it. Based on the price earnings ratio, Apple is nearly 3x as expensive as Microsoft.
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Now if Apple had put it out in a shiny white case with a big red slash through a microsoft logo, that would be the ./ trinity!
Really hard to turn a profit when real estate prices are so high too. With the average customer spending somewhere around $5, you've got to push a lot of people through in a day to break even.
What is interesting about cafeterias is how much they vary from site to site. The selection is much better in the bay area than the same company's cafeterias in other techie locations (e.g. RTP, Richardson, Boston, DC, Ottawa, etc).
Prices are generally better in the Bay Area locations too.
Anyone who has spent much time in and around San Jose understands why so much attention is paid to the cafeterias, there just aren't that many places to go out, those places are generally mobbed at lunch and getting there and back in a reasonable amount of time is tough. Either companies invest in cafeterias or they risk loosing a sizeable portion of their workforce for a couple hours a day.
For example, the Cisco campus stretches for miles down Tasman Drive yet only a couple of very small places and a lone Carls Jr. can be found there. There is a concentration of quick casual and fast food restaurants at McCarthy Ranch but they are filled. The InNOut Burger's drive through often snakes through the parking lot.
It's Apple, they bring us pretty things in pale plastic boxes. Dont question Apple.
Much of the transition to point-to-point type routes if thanks to the speed and efficiency of regional aircraft like Bombardier's CRJ. Cost per seat mile is way down, customer satisfaction is up because these aircraft are just about as comfortable as the big boys and just as fast or faster.
for this year's Freshman according to numbers printed in the latest university magazine. I was surprised.
But then again, #1 is "University Studies" aka undecided, which really doesn't surprise me.
from microsoft = feature bloat
from apple =
I fully expect a report from Douglas Adams's butler's cousin's gardener. We mst know who approves and who doesn't approve of this movie.
and South Korea, Japan and Canada have a long way to go when it comes to size. It's a lot easier and less expensive to roll out services like broadband when you've got a highly concentrated population. As a whole, the US does not. Wired broadband has only flourished in US metropolitan areas. Wireless technologies have changed that in some smaller places but those are few and far between.
here Sure keeps his roof clean, it's all one color. No frisbees of nothing on there.
The new satellite photo feature in GoogleMaps comes from their aquisition of Keyhole. Their software has been around for a little while and has quite a following (myself included) of people who find all sorts of interesting things in the photos and share them on the message board Keyhole setup for users.
Attachments can be used to go right to the area using the Keyhole software. Current events are covered (recent posts include the Paris hotel fire, the San Jose Wendy's where a finger was supposedly found in a bowl of chili, the Neverland Ranch, and a detailed mapping of buildings within Vatican City).
Other forums are filled with geeky goodness. Recent posts there have links to show you the 7 wonders of the ancient world, the UNESCO World Heritage list, logos on rooftops, webcam locations, and lots of pointers to filming locations of TV and movies.
The GoDaddy web site is always trying to sell something, actually a hundred things. In my opinion, the GoDaddy web site is arranged to intimidate people who aren't really knowledgeable.
And rebates are arranged for people to forget to send them in. Either way I make out because I send in all my rebates and I politely decline GoDaddy's additional offers for services I dont need.
having an asthmatic child, I've had the misfortune of spending a few hours in an ER and a night on the Peds' floor.
Yes the computers are everywhere but many are very different that what we'd expect. In the ER, patient histories as well as subsequent log entries are taken on a flat panel monitor mounted on a cart that is wheeled right up to the patient's bedsite in each room and curtain. These PCs had on keyboards. They were touch screen. A keyboard pops up for major typing but much of the interface is just answering questions in context. The nurses frequently wipe down the whole monitor and all the flat surfaces of the cart with what look like screen wipes (but probably are a bit more potent).
sales at ICANN members must be declining. What medium to large company isn't going to register .jobs? Those that dont will generate lots of billable hours for their lawyers.
But I'm probably just seeing the glass as half full aren't I?
If these people aren't willing to take a few moments to learn a couple of definitions, then unplug that PC and take it back to Best Buy. Sure there are a plethora of words and phrases to learn but most have their purpose and replacing them all with "bad thing" does a disservice to notice and geek alike.
Of the examples in the article, only "phishing" is word that is really unnecessary and could be replaced by less hip, more descriptive language. The rest (ex: rogue dialer, Trojan, spyware) are descriptive enough to be useful and are could be deciphered by someone with zero computer experience but enough common sense.
Nobody is asking these people to learn MC680X0 assembly, just to recognize a couple of phrases. They seem to think that being able to identify the CPU, keyboard and mouse thanks to their $30 investment in the Time-Life series on computers ends the learning curve and everything else should be so "user friendly" that they'll be hand held though everything.
Complain to the FCC here and then write your Congressional representatives (figure out who your representatives are here. If you cant take the time to figure out how to do this properly, then you must not care that much.
We've been making long distance phone calls via satellite for decades now. True, it's not over VoIP, but the cause of the latency (the long distance to the satellite) is still there, so the latency is there too.
True but the equipment used to transmit and receive phone calls via satellite by the phone companies is a little different. For one, it cant be purchased at your local Best Buy.
You and me both. I've only had to fight on one rebate, with Staples. I got a card in the mail that said sometime to the effect of "Your purchase on 3/1/2001 does not fall within the rebate offer for purchased made within 3/1/2001 and 3/31/2001". After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I called the number, they said there was nothing they could do.
I called the local Staples store and asked the mangager to resolve it. He refused until I asked what he would rather do, solve this problem with me, with the consumer reporter on the local news, or the North Carolina Attorney General's office. I got a call back from Staples corporate HQ the next day and my rebate check via fed a couple days after that.
Rebates are bad when they are simply sales that should be offered in store. When they are deep discounts, I like them because I'm organized enough to actually send them in and keep track of what I've received and what I havent.
This isn't funny, the story on Space Daily about Bush supposedly cancelling the shuttle program isn't funny. None of this garbage is funny.
Why does every news source, especially those online, feel the need to pull a cutsie April Fools prank. The practice makes the web practically useless on this day for any news.
We get enough of this from our local morning drive-time morning zoo wacky radio DJs. Why cant Slashdot be above this?
... the weekly "the Mac is Back" post.
Does this need to be reinforced?
Hasnt he run through everything he made on the Real Networks deal? Certainly his NBA team isn't earning him much. Is this guy investing that well?
Is "smart" going to be the new "e". A word tacked on the front of other words to satisfy writers eager to sound hip?
I too am perplexed.
It's like having 2 PCs without the benefit of having 2 PCs.
Market Cap
Microsoft: $273.86B
Apple: $34.98B
Apple is the darling of tech industry writers and even of Wall Street lately but I just dont see it. Based on the price earnings ratio, Apple is nearly 3x as expensive as Microsoft.
I just bought a 20Gig monochrome iPod for my wife. I would have gladly paid the extra $50 for better battery life and color