The most beautiful office I've ever seen is that of ILM in the Presidio... about where Starfleet Academy is supposed to get built. ;) They have a "cafeteria" overlooking the Golden Gate, Bay, forest, etc.
Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay
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Re: Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay
#22The most beautiful office I've ever seen is that of ILM in the Presidio... about where Starfleet Academy is supposed to get built. ;) They have a "cafeteria" overlooking the Golden Gate, Bay, forest, etc.
I was about to correct you and state that Starfleet Academy was (will be?) located in Sausalito north of the Golden Gate Bridge... but I was wrong! Starfleet Academy's HQ was in the Presidio, but the Academy's training facility was in Sausalito.
Re: Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay
#23For a minute I thought they might be revitalizing one of the poorer neighborhoods of SF; but no, 'Bay View' does not reference Bayview.
I was confused and disappointed, too. However, Google already has a (small) SF office, just south of Embarcaderro: https://plus.google.com/116282327849562022127
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#24"As this project progresses, we’ll continue to work closely with NASA, the community and the City of Mountain View." I must be confused, but what does any of this have to do with NASA?
"what does any of this have to do with NASA?"
The singularity does not intend to remain Earthbound?
Re: Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay
#25I can't understand why the big players like Facebook and Google are not building somewhere like South San Francisco. Most of the employees either live in San Francisco or want to, and the difference in real estate pricing could easily be offset by eliminating half the bus fleet.
Re: Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay
#26Looking at the image I see 5 floors. Is counting done differently, the image not right or the headline wrong?
Not sure if it applies in this instance but some customs have it so the ground floor is not counted and the second floor is referred to as the first and so on.
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#27Looking at the image I see 5 floors. Is counting done differently, the image not right or the headline wrong?
Not sure if it applies in this instance but some customs have it so the ground floor is not counted and the second floor is referred to as the first and so on.
Classic off-by-one error.
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#28Does anybody know if the plan is to build atop the Shoreline Preserve in Mountain View? That seems to be the only large parcel of land that is both closer to the bay than Google already is and not currently occupied by other structures. Seems a shame to wipe out a hefty chunk of a nature preserve simply to satisfy a corporation's desire for self-idolatry.
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#29My only fear when I read about these campuses (Apple's 'spaceship' in particular) is the old adage about the 'curse of the new HQ'. See: http://www.businessinsider.com/poorly-timed-headquarters-200... I know it's a bit superstitious, but the basic idea is that when a company starts building temples to itself and its employees, that means their focus has shifted and their eye is getting off the ball. I hope it's not t…
Interesting. Apple is doing 'great' but the stock market (1) disagrees so almost by definition it isn't doing good. Investors see clouds in the horizon and don't want to look at the $50 billion they might make in profit this year. Is Apple going to grow by 10 to 20% a year?
Google reported huge revenue increases and the stock is on fire but not because of new ventures or customers, they just added even more ads to the pages. That's not sustainable and when that happens it has a lot of falling to do. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog . Virtually all their money is still from ads.
Edit: 1. I think all this hype on stocks is a pump-and-dump operation, played by the big investment banks. "They" buy lots of shares, start the fire with $1000 price targets from their own analysts and when the price is high enough, they dump it, leaving some retail investor holding the bag. Google went from mid $500s to $800 in a few months
Re: Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay
#30Looking at the image I see 5 floors. Is counting done differently, the image not right or the headline wrong?
Not sure if it applies in this instance but some customs have it so the ground floor is not counted and the second floor is referred to as the first and so on.
I'm British and that is what we do. But that is the label applied to each floor in the lift (some places omit the 13th floor label) and some have floors below ground. However that doesn't change how many floors a building has.
The article is written by an American residing in the US about a building in the US so using American conventions would seem appropriate.