San Jose is no longer sprawling outward as it once did since the 1970's. Mixed developments of ground floor stores and four-story apartments are popping up along the light-rail and other transit corridors. Many of the two-story tilt-ups from the 1990's are getting replaced by four- to seven-story office buildings. With much of Silicon Valley under the flightways of several major airports, condo and office skyscrapers are limited to 21-stories or so.
assuming no catastrophic climate change, which I don't
Sea level is expected to rise by two feet in 2050 and four feet in 2100. My apartment complex in Silicon Valley is located on a flood plain that will be under water, assuming that no levees are built to prevent that from happening. The only levee plan I heard about was for the San Francisco Airport. I'm planning to retire to Las Vegas long before that happens.
Now the question becomes just because you can use it, does it mean you should?
My job is 100% Windows. I tried talking the admins into switching to Linux. Oh, hell no. I have to learn PowerShell programming if I want to advance in the company. *sigh*
And they know exactly where the switches and routers are behind the drywall and above the false ceiling since the nineties.
Most network closets have a door. No need to rip open the walls and/or go through the crawlspace to get inside. If you ask the network admin nicely, you could get badge access to the door.
I had the opposite problem. I once had a job interview where I had to demostrate my way around Red Hat Linux. The GUI, not the command line. I didn't know squat about Linux GUI. Never really used it in the last 20 years. My ideal Linux set up is the Blackbox window manager and a half-dozen terminal windows. I didn't get the job.
Whenever a Nerf dart landed in my coworker's cube, he would keep the dart and tell the person who lost the dart to go pound sound. I can see the same thing happening to drones that crash into his backyard. That's a nice drone you lost, too bad you're not getting it back.
CNN ran a spot on a minor earthquake in Los Angeles several years ago with black-and-white video surveillance of a grocery to demonstrate the severe shaking that took place. Nothing moved. Nothing fell off the shelves. The camera didn't even shake. I guess California moved a hair closer to falling into the Pacific Ocean. Oh, well. Maybe next time.
The Dilbert Principle comes into play when someone gets promoted to associate producer in the video game industry. At that point, their role is to be the associate producer's little bitch to fetch coffee.
I worked as a video game tester for six years. A fellow tester would get promoted to assistant lead tester, lead tester, and supervisor. Those who become supervisors think they're the best testers out of the whole bunch. Not exactly. One supervisor became the QA manager and discovered to his PHB chargin that the best testers got 50% raises. None of the supervisors have ever gotten a 50% raise. I've gotten two 50% raises as a tester and made more money than the guy who became the QA manager years earlier even though we got hired at the same time.
I think it was the wealth effect, where people perceived themselves as being richer than they really are. Californians love to brag about their real estate prices, especially when it goes up as it did before the Dot Com Bust (2001) and the Great Recession (2009).
My roomate and I lived in a rented duplex during the real estate run up prior to the Dot Com Bust in Silicon Valley, where we had a bed of dead petunias in the front yard. An elderly woman walking her dog told us that our dead petunias cost her $25,000 on the value of her house. I asked her if she was selling her house. She said she wasn't. I asked her how did she know that she lost $25,000 without an appraisal. She walked off in a huff.
AFAIK, The proposal isn't fully fleshed out yet. He probably reserved space for a school, library, park and shopping mall. That's usually how these developments are packaged to get approval from the local government.
If demand for bus services go up in a particular area, I'm sure the county transit authority will change "infrequent" to "frequent" for that one line and/or add more lines.
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If I'm going to somewhere that is wet, I would go to southern Florida as that part of the state is supposed to be underwater by 2100.
Just transport water via the railroad from the wetter regions of the east coast.
http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/san-francisco-bay-could-lose-marshes-to-sea-level-rise-by-2100-2/
San Jose is no longer sprawling outward as it once did since the 1970's. Mixed developments of ground floor stores and four-story apartments are popping up along the light-rail and other transit corridors. Many of the two-story tilt-ups from the 1990's are getting replaced by four- to seven-story office buildings. With much of Silicon Valley under the flightways of several major airports, condo and office skyscrapers are limited to 21-stories or so.
assuming no catastrophic climate change, which I don't
Sea level is expected to rise by two feet in 2050 and four feet in 2100. My apartment complex in Silicon Valley is located on a flood plain that will be under water, assuming that no levees are built to prevent that from happening. The only levee plan I heard about was for the San Francisco Airport. I'm planning to retire to Las Vegas long before that happens.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Now the question becomes just because you can use it, does it mean you should?
My job is 100% Windows. I tried talking the admins into switching to Linux. Oh, hell no. I have to learn PowerShell programming if I want to advance in the company. *sigh*
And they know exactly where the switches and routers are behind the drywall and above the false ceiling since the nineties.
Most network closets have a door. No need to rip open the walls and/or go through the crawlspace to get inside. If you ask the network admin nicely, you could get badge access to the door.
I had the opposite problem. I once had a job interview where I had to demostrate my way around Red Hat Linux. The GUI, not the command line. I didn't know squat about Linux GUI. Never really used it in the last 20 years. My ideal Linux set up is the Blackbox window manager and a half-dozen terminal windows. I didn't get the job.
Think about 55 lbs, a large part battery, falling 500' on you.
I'm thinking blue ice.
Whenever a Nerf dart landed in my coworker's cube, he would keep the dart and tell the person who lost the dart to go pound sound. I can see the same thing happening to drones that crash into his backyard. That's a nice drone you lost, too bad you're not getting it back.
NASA originally planned for an Apollo flyby of Venus in the 1970's as a practice run for the Mars mission. Alas, the Apollo program got cancelled.
Build a floating city in the upper atmosphere of Venus.
CNN ran a spot on a minor earthquake in Los Angeles several years ago with black-and-white video surveillance of a grocery to demonstrate the severe shaking that took place. Nothing moved. Nothing fell off the shelves. The camera didn't even shake. I guess California moved a hair closer to falling into the Pacific Ocean. Oh, well. Maybe next time.
Breathing is a pyschological illness. That explains all the nut jobs around me.
The Dilbert Principle comes into play when someone gets promoted to associate producer in the video game industry. At that point, their role is to be the associate producer's little bitch to fetch coffee.
I worked as a video game tester for six years. A fellow tester would get promoted to assistant lead tester, lead tester, and supervisor. Those who become supervisors think they're the best testers out of the whole bunch. Not exactly. One supervisor became the QA manager and discovered to his PHB chargin that the best testers got 50% raises. None of the supervisors have ever gotten a 50% raise. I've gotten two 50% raises as a tester and made more money than the guy who became the QA manager years earlier even though we got hired at the same time.
I think it was the wealth effect, where people perceived themselves as being richer than they really are. Californians love to brag about their real estate prices, especially when it goes up as it did before the Dot Com Bust (2001) and the Great Recession (2009).
My roomate and I lived in a rented duplex during the real estate run up prior to the Dot Com Bust in Silicon Valley, where we had a bed of dead petunias in the front yard. An elderly woman walking her dog told us that our dead petunias cost her $25,000 on the value of her house. I asked her if she was selling her house. She said she wasn't. I asked her how did she know that she lost $25,000 without an appraisal. She walked off in a huff.
AFAIK, The proposal isn't fully fleshed out yet. He probably reserved space for a school, library, park and shopping mall. That's usually how these developments are packaged to get approval from the local government.
"[Crap!] There goes the planet!" - Spaceballs
He's a billionaire. Puny millionaires can't touch him.
These are known as capsule hotels in Japan.
If demand for bus services go up in a particular area, I'm sure the county transit authority will change "infrequent" to "frequent" for that one line and/or add more lines.
Where do I signed up for my government-issued iPhone? I heard that the government hands these out like candy.