@bellejay:
Aye, she looked like a million bucks walking down those stairs in that dress. Permanently etched into my mind. Thank you, Luc Besson.
It's called irony.
Personally, I don't think DEMO exhibitors should have to pay a dime, but charging them probably keeps out the worst dilettantes.
I realize that several commenters above claim to have benefited from their DEMO experience, but I personally wonder any technology conference is even relevant these days in terms of debuting new technology that will successfully make it to the marketplace.
If your vision and execution are strong, you are probably going to succeed regardless. Putting it a different way, DEMO is nice resume fodder, but Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison are college dropouts and that really hasn't limited them, has it?
Yup. Back when I worked for a company that offered an ESPP, I always flipped the stock except for one occasion when I had my shares transferred into my brokerage account. I then sold all but one share and had the remaining share issued as a certificate.
Now framed, it serves as an amusing souvenir of a company who filed Chapter 11.
Yahoo employees should consider doing the same. That one share issued as a certificate will probably be worth much more in several years on eBay/Craigslist/whatever.
Being heavily vested in one company is not sound investment behavior. Even if your company's stock is doing well, you are better off diversifying your investments.
In any case, the problem at Yahoo! isn't with the line employees who are flipping their ESPP purchases. The problem lies with senior management.
@sample032:
Perhaps he was referring to the India Times.
Thomas Keller isn't really a celebrity chef in the same way like Rachael Ray, Emeril Lagasse, or Mario Batali.
While he has a few cookbooks, he hasn't really embraced merchandising or the TV show thing.
He's just a fine chef who happens to run a few good restaurants that get in the press occasionally.
"News vital to the Valley!" -Jordan Golson
Yeah, Ricochet was hot back in 1999. Good times, good times.
Abe Vigoda?
Also, there's no indication in the article that this is intended as a data center. The simplest explanation would be that "greenest office building" would be mostly cubicles.
It's the city of Mountain View, not Palo Alto.
Re-read the article, it was written by a Mountain View Voice reporter and specifically says that the plans were submitted to the Mountain View Planning Department.
And when you write "up the road", you really mean "adjacent lot", don't you? Apart from that little park, there's nothing separating the Amphitheater Technology Complex and Charleston East.
@ZimraanHaobo:
Nobody's wasted or is behaving inappropriately.
Yes. So disappointing.
@sample032:
I dunno. I had a BSOD about a month ago on my work computer (Windows XP). My IS guy updated the video card drivers and it hasn't happened since.
Windows Azure = webified version of BSOD
I believe the airfield is located between Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Santa Clara County, yes; city of Santa Clara, no.
Whatever the problem was, it has been fixed. Nothing to see here people, move on.
No, no, as a Google shareholder, I need her to say nice things about her employer.
I hope this one lasts. Jimbo's a good guy and I wish the two of them the best.
No Ark of the Covenant?
Amateurs.
