Apples Future Campuses

Let's take a walk around new Apple campus.Cupertino city officials recently gave the green light on Apple's wild new headquarters....Here's one of the first looks we've had inside the building. Note the iPod Nano banners: Apparently, Apple ads are the only art that'll do for Apple Campus 2....Slated for completion sometime in 2016, the new headquarters will inarguably be a stunning place to work. Here: the cavernous cafeteria....Office life will spill into a verdant landscape on both the inside and outside of the ring....The project was helmed by the firm of star architect Norman Foster....Though by Foster's account, Steve Jobs was hands-on from the start....An overhead view of the main building: 2.8 million square feet with room for 13,000 employees....A visitor's entrance....Employees who arrive by bus will enter at the Corporate Transit...

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Bill Gates 11 Rules You Never Learn In School

Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it!Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before...

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