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...other hand, Romania doesn't seem like much of a step down right now. And with stock crashes, pink slips and power outages ripping through Silicon Valley like Old Testament plagues, anyone would be forgiven for thinking someone up there wants them out or is at least exacting revenge for all the crummy business plans they wrote...
...expect people who work only with electrons to put up with a shortage of them forever. One thing clearly not sacred is the technology industry's attachment to Silicon Valley--especially since it hasn't built any new power facilities since 1972. That was back when people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were still in college. Heck, some of these old geeks have had dates since then...
...endless valley of glass-and-steel towers is pretty much like any other when you live in a wired world, and at some point in a prolonged power crisis, the cost of staying becomes more expensive than the cost of moving. The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, a powerful lobbying coalition that represents all the big names like Apple, Intel and eBay, says the latest outages have already cost its firms tens of millions of dollars. Losing money at that rate is, like...
Group president Carl Guardino even hints that the CEOs he represents are starting to think about relocating if California can't supply the industry with its most indispensable resource. "This is critical; they have to consider all options," he says. Sayonara, Silicon Valley; hello, Seattle or New York. Oh, and the lights are still on in Bucharest. Maybe Guardino's CEOs should sleep...
WEIRD SCIENCE Last week it was revealed that a middle school science textbook used a photo of singer Linda Ronstadt to illustrate a silicon crystal doped with an arsenic impurity. For those who may have failed science, this was a mistake, a simple production error. But a new study from North Carolina State has found hundreds of flaws in more than a dozen texts. Hydrogen appears twice on a periodic table and is described as a nonmetal and an alkali metal. In another book, sound travels faster through warm air on page 422; 12 pages later, it's swifter...