Don't forget that the link speed between your phone and the tower doesn't make one single shit of difference if they don't upgrade the backhaul from the tower to the switching office.

Fred Meyer wanted to lease out unused space on their campus to a prospective company looking to open a call center in Southeast Portland (22nd and Powell) and the City wanted them to pay to install a traffic light and rebuild the intersection at 22nd to handle the "increased traffic." However, the anticipated traffic was still going to be less than it was 10 years ago when Fred Meyer was owned by an equity management firm and not a division of Kroger. So, kiss those added jobs and economic development goodbye, because the City didn't want to work with business to put in a damn traffic light - that building is still sitting empty, un-renovated, being used for storage of office furniture.

TriMet loves to run bus routes that deliver terrible service out to places that they have no interest in serving, just so every business within a mile of the route has to pay the TriMet payroll tax. They've been doing this long enough that suburbs are considering opting out of TriMet and starting their own transit agencies in order to save their local businesses money and get better service at the same time. Trimet is now a pension organization that also happens to operate a bus and train service, poorly.

These are two examples that happened in the last 5 years, or are continuing to happen.

Here's a recap of the Columbia situation: http://blog.oregonlive.com/por...

There was a more exhaustive article in Willamette Week a few years back, but their website search sucks.

It's going to take a lot more than a fiber service to help Portland bring in business.

The first step is to fire all the meddling council members that have their own pet agendas and screw any business that wants to locate in the city. See: Columbia Sportswear moving their headquarters from inside Portland to the suburbs after the City jerked them around over a piece of property they wanted to buy right on the river. See: exactly zero Fortune-500 companies headquartered in the City (Nike doesn't count - they're in unincorporated Washington County).

Randy Leonard and Sam Adams being shown the door is a good start - toss the rest of them out, and start being less business-surly (note, you don't have to go all the way to friendly, just stop screwing everyone in every way possible).

The thing that is funny about the old days of Apple, is that people misrepresent what happened back then too. Everyone claims that Apple ripped off Xerox when they started working on GUI with Lisa / Mac, when one of the alumni of Xerox PARC (and a member of the original Macintosh team) says otherwise. Oh, and Lisa and Mac were already specified to be graphical bitmapped systems before Xerox allowed the Apple team to come in not once, but twice, mostly allowed because Xerox had given Apple VC money.

Never mind that there is a massive gulf between research, and product development. Best example from this particular topic: the original Apple mouse. It went from being a tricky, finicky, expensive piece of lab equipment into a cheap, mass produced, reliable, and easy to use piece of equipment that everyone just accepts as always being there under Apple's development. More info including interviews, design sketches, and documentation here.

For some reason, everyone likes to put research of an idea without actually turning it into something useful on a mile-high pedestal, but turning that idea into something that people can actually use to accomplish things doesn't mean shit. Research is important, but so is development of that research into a useful thing.

It's still decaying. Slowly.

Yeah, because every tech rag on the Internet isn't going to be writing articles about the new OS for the next 5 months, and using every trick they know to raise them up in Google PageRank.

The PowerMac G3 results are going to shrink to irrelevance in a matter of days. For example, it's Wednesday morning now, and I just repeated your search: the Wikipedia article is now #9, and next week it will be off the first page.

Then tell them about the bugs: http://radar.apple.com/

1990's?

My Mac 512k had Desk Accessories in 1984.

Get off my lawn.

Yeah, he looks great if you have your head up your ass and only pay attention to SEC filings.

However, since the time that he took over, he sold the future to pay for the 10Q filings of today. Microsoft is now a barely-player in the mobile space that they were in before Apple (sans Newton), Google, or RIM; their operating system that ran the world is now diminishing in importance, and Office isn't even the vehicle for vendor lock-in it used to be. They have a family of game consoles that may have turned a few bucks in profit somewhere after a decade, but I doubt it because of the massive hardware failures and ill-will caused by the RROD fiasco, and their amazingly short-sighted ideas for the current generation. They've tried the connected TV thing about half a dozen times and failed every time. They had the "tablet computer" for 10 years before Apple showed them what they should have been selling, and why they weren't selling.

At the end of Ballmer's tenure, Microsoft is basically the same company it was when he took over - a company that makes all it's money from Windows and Office. He did nothing to change that, and Windows and Office aren't nearly the must-haves they used to be. The Internet now runs on *nix, front to back - Apache serving the pages, Android / iOS consuming them. Not a line of Microsoft code to be found.

Oh, but yeah, he was a great CEO.

You're forgetting that Slashdot now has corporate overlords, and corporate overlords like click-bait. Any time they can entice people to post comments about sweaty monkey-dancing, off-putting chants of "developers developers developers", or chair throwing they are going to.

I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE!!! YEAAAAAAHHHHH!

And this explains Microsoft's "lost decade" perfectly.

And in no way was he making a joke that charged right past your defense.

And somehow, this administration finds these stories and situations to be perfectly fine; but "walling" someone (and leaving them alive) is somehow morally reprehensible.

I find both to be repugnant, but let's get serious: The Obama Justice Department finds killing innocents that happen to be in the same area as a suspected bad guy to be okay, but smacking around known assholes to get information on other known assholes to be a prosecutable offense.

The auction house has been wholesale deleted, and the loot system overhauled to not be a ridiculous farce. 90% of the items that drop have your current character's primary stat on them, and there is a facility to be able to reroll one stat on an item for a handful of junk items and some gold, so you can make that almost-perfect item into a perfect item with enough resources.

The loot system was the reason I stopped playing D3 about 2 weeks after it launched, and the new system is the reason I started remembering the game exists again.