MIT’s Free Creative Learning Class Teaches You How to Learn Almost Anything. Steve/Woz at work. Microsoft garage. Spurring Creativity: Building Remodel Puts Microsoft Tinkerers in The Garage. REDMOND, Wash. – August 19, 2011 – At Microsoft, and also in technology industry lore, The Garage is both a place and a metaphor.
It’s a place where innovative ideas and mega companies – including Hewlett-Packard and Dell – can be hatched and nurtured. The Garage on Microsoft’s Redmond Campus Tinkering in The Garage The Garage gives Microsoft employees an outlet to explore ideas they might normally tinker with in their nights and weekends alone in their own garages, said Quinn Hawkins, community manager for The Garage. Bring Your Bike Inside The new Building 4 has bike racks inside and provides house bikes for anyone to grab and cruise to meetings around campus.
What’s Your Flavor? Darren Fisher, a senior software design engineer for Office Labs, gets a drink at a Coca-Cola Freestyle touch-screen soda fountain featuring more than 100 combinations of soda and flavors. Surprise Visit Employees who work in the revamped Building 4 were treated to a surprise visit by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Sci-Fi, Religion, And Silicon Valley’s Quest For Higher Learning At Singularity University. Community Bike Programs, Bike Libraries, Bicycle Sharing, Bike Coop, Bicycle Collective. This category covers a wide variety of groups, with a wide variety of structures and without well defined boundaries between types of programs.
They all have in common that they are facilitating more bicycling in their communities'. Some are truly free, but others have some revenue generating element to try an make them more stable and increase their longevity. Clearly there is a multiplicity of approaches to this. Activities of a community bicycle program might include; bike library, bicycle sharing, public use bicycles, public bicycle systems, bike coops, bicycle collectives, check-out bikes, tool collective, community bike shop, bicycle recycling group and bike fleets.
If you have bikes to donate, many of the organizations in this directory are willing recipients. (If you have additions or corrections for this directory please let us know. ) Directory of World Community Bike Programs (non-USA or Canada) Directory of Canada Community Bike Programs Directory of USA Community Bike Programs. SOPO. SOPO-shop front. At work. Rules. Parts. Colab. Priceless. Radical thinkers: Alain Badiou's Ethics. 5 Reasons Why You Should Stop What You're Doing And Pledge to Ubuntu Edge. Ubuntu Edge - Canonical’s planned dual-booting smartphone – can only roll off the production line next year if another $20 million is raised in the few days.
Whether or not it makes its goal is down to people like you – those who’ve yet to pledge. In an attempt to give you some thought material on why you might want to get behind the project, here are our 5 top reasons… 1. You Can Make The Future Ubuntu You don’t need to be a soothsayer to know that computing convergence – the idea that one device can be capable of doing the jobs of several – is going to happen. Google are edging closer to a converged OS across phones, tablets, laptops and TVs with Chrome OS and Android.
But none of the above have quite reached the apex of possibility. With enough power inside, one phone could double-up as a desktop PC when connected to a monitor, putting the files and features of a phone on the desktop, and the files & features of a desktop on a phone. Ubuntu Edge doesn’t want to wait. 2. 3. 4. 5. iFixit: The free repair manual.