I've been here for about 7 months now, working for a major internet company and loving most of it. However, most of what people say here is fairly accurate. It's a very cramped and fast-paced area to live in. And it's getting worse -- San Tomas Expressway, my main route to work, has gotten significantly more packed in the short time I've been here.
Property values are through the roof, and rentals are just as bad. To make matters worse, it seems that a majority of the companies here are recruiting like mad. All of this makes me wonder -- this is the place where technology happens, right? This is the epicenter of the Internet revolution. Aren't these companies trying to create an inter-connected world, where the Internet enables people across the country to work together across company lines, or even within them?
I personally find the idea of a traditional city environment a wholly outdated concept for most of the modern world. Why is the technology epicenter falling into the same trap?
Be was (still is?) doing the same thing for their developer's kit/access to their developer's resources. It seems to me absurd for a tiny operating system company to think that developers are customers instead of partners, or in a way, employees. Users will not use an operating system without applications, and it takes more than one company to write enough applications to coerce new users into buying their OS.
I'd have to argue about your "everything from real estate to gasoline" being more expensive comment. Those are the two major things that are more expensive out here, and only real estate is truly overinflated. As a recently transplanted midwesterner, I was indeed shocked at the housing costs, but I was also amazed at the reasonable prices of about everything else. Food, which is most likely the second single biggest expense for residents, is right in line with the rest of the country. Power is cheap, and you don't need much of it due to the mild winters and coolish summers. Phone service is controlled by a hungry monopoly, but where isn't it?
I just wanted to dispute this claim, as I was worried about the same thing when I moved here and was pleasantly suprised to find I was wrong.
How do you intend to prove that 335k offered illegal Metallica material on Napster? After all, you said yourself that concert MP3 trading was fine. How did you determine what was a legal file and what was not? What about mislabeled MP3s, which seem to be rampant on Napster? What if I had a blank file that was labeled as a Metallica song?
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I've been here for about 7 months now, working for a major internet company and loving most of it. However, most of what people say here is fairly accurate. It's a very cramped and fast-paced area to live in. And it's getting worse -- San Tomas Expressway, my main route to work, has gotten significantly more packed in the short time I've been here.
Property values are through the roof, and rentals are just as bad. To make matters worse, it seems that a majority of the companies here are recruiting like mad. All of this makes me wonder -- this is the place where technology happens, right? This is the epicenter of the Internet revolution. Aren't these companies trying to create an inter-connected world, where the Internet enables people across the country to work together across company lines, or even within them?
I personally find the idea of a traditional city environment a wholly outdated concept for most of the modern world. Why is the technology epicenter falling into the same trap?
Be was (still is?) doing the same thing for their developer's kit/access to their developer's resources. It seems to me absurd for a tiny operating system company to think that developers are customers instead of partners, or in a way, employees. Users will not use an operating system without applications, and it takes more than one company to write enough applications to coerce new users into buying their OS.
Josh Woodward
www.fruhead.com
I'd have to argue about your "everything from real estate to gasoline" being more expensive comment. Those are the two major things that are more expensive out here, and only real estate is truly overinflated. As a recently transplanted midwesterner, I was indeed shocked at the housing costs, but I was also amazed at the reasonable prices of about everything else. Food, which is most likely the second single biggest expense for residents, is right in line with the rest of the country. Power is cheap, and you don't need much of it due to the mild winters and coolish summers. Phone service is controlled by a hungry monopoly, but where isn't it?
I just wanted to dispute this claim, as I was worried about the same thing when I moved here and was pleasantly suprised to find I was wrong.
Josh Woodward
www.fruhead.com
How do you intend to prove that 335k offered illegal Metallica material on Napster? After all, you said yourself that concert MP3 trading was fine. How did you determine what was a legal file and what was not? What about mislabeled MP3s, which seem to be rampant on Napster? What if I had a blank file that was labeled as a Metallica song?
..joshw