Not sure, but my first thought is: Have you seen the prices of land downtown? Then you'll figure out what's the first thing companies see on moving out of town. They get their own building at a cheaper price, and they gain in traffic (commute time), if they have/provide their own cafe, then also keep people near the office during lunch time (so they engage in conversations and probably creative talks, and reduce information leaks). Clearly there are more sides to the story.

In any case, if Google offers free food, how are the neighborhood restaurants going to compete against that? (If some local businesses are the issue)

I don't know if people receive background checks when they belong to "elite" airline miles programs. But many first class and other people in those programs for sure can go through the fast line.

I thought the word to describe those individuals was "post-docs". ;-)

Bad analogy also because bricks have a single shape. Now go ahead and give the builder many different shapes that they have to use in a particular order so the wall actually holds together in the best way. Then ask them to put those bricks in such a way that the end result is the one the customer required.

Or maybe, you can just ask your manager to provide you only one line of code you can use and you'd glue the many lines with semicolons. (I guess you can do anything you want with just NAND gates, but it may turn fairly unmanageable rather quickly).

Hey, the last thing is touch, we should be migrating to touch!

Clearly, some ladies will find it awkward at first, when introducing your self to them, but hey... it's the new thing, waaaay better than words!

Oh please don't give them ideas... they may come back with Slashdot Beta in Red.

Permanent Resident and Visa are two different things.

H-1B Visas are tied to a company, and legally you're bound to the company that got it for you. If they fire you, you have about 2 weeks to leave the country as the visa automatically expires. (Which seems in line with the proposed idea, just you'll have the visa not as long as you remain in the company, but rather in the state, however, another company can pick that visa up and renew it and you can move around).

Permanent residency is not actually a visa and it's not bound to a particular company.

Indeed.

I lived for 1.5 years in a place. Since I didn't originally know the length of my stay in that city, I contracted Sprint 4G instead of a wired network provider.

Turned out my connection was very spotty, so I had to tape the usb dongle to the window, use a USB cable extension and use a laptop to share the internet. I still had about 1Mbps, with 100ms+ latencies to Google. I streamed Netflix and hulu without much issues (unless it was heavy raining, or something happened at Sprint).

Not sure what's all the fuzz about this article.

Some people keep thinking about the convenience of parking without plugging. I see it as the future possibility of charging while you're driving (Am I the only one thinking those could be used in some roads? Probably charge your car while in a traffic jam. And even reduce the anxiety that your battery is depleting while stuck in traffic).

Reading the summary, implies that people picked Blue because it was in the company logo. I wonder if the COMPANY picked blue because it's likely a color many people like, and therefore people use it in their passwords. As in "correlation is not causation".

Or you're telling me that Facebook just came up with blue because they had "intel" or "IBM" logos in front of them?

What? You mean you haven't gotten to a desktop computer with the password written on a post-it affixed to the monitor? I think you're among the lucky ones!

Yes, and the pricing problem from dealers is still there with a note

[1] [...] Dealer sets actual price.

If I go to Amazon and get my orders fulfilled by them is the "this is what it costs". Sometime sellers play you with "this is 0.05 dollars, but with $10 shipping", but you're fairly aware of that.

If Amazon doesn't offer the "No BS" pricing, this is just ridiculous.

While I enjoy the joke. I put "some other", because on tropical countries you don't have seasons. You mostly pick your weather depending on Altitude. You want "hot/warm" go to lower altitudes, you want "cooler" go to higher altitudes. You want snow, go very high up (but expect nobody to live there). You want rainier, go to mountain surrounded cities.

In my country, if you want "summer like weather" you just drive 3 hours down the mountains, any time of the year.

I live close to the Ecuadorian line you insensitive clod.
What are those seasons you're talking about?

I don't know. I was trying to measure this "percentage". But how do you measure it?

I have OSS that being useful, I hardly use (HDGraph for example), while I have particular software I use all the time. In your case, if you use Matlab 8 hours a day, but you putty ssh into your server for 1 min a day, how does that count?.

Is it size in bytes? Length of the package name (OSS probably wins with their odd naming conventions)?

In short, the "regularly use" seems like a non-quantifiable value I failed to understand.