575 karma · joined October 10, 2011
I'm happy because I love the end result, it run greats on iPhone and iPad and quite solid on the latest version of iOS.
Which is kinda lame because giving 250K would be cheaper than buying 1M worth of land to demolish a building and build a 3M building on top of it.
We have a ton of old buildings, privately owned. Mine included, where it's a small building of 4 floors and 4 owners. One appartement per floor. It's so hard to get people into investing money without any monetary return. We fix problems after they happen. We waited for the rain pipe to break to fix it, we waited for the balcony to leak in order to fix it etc..
In Marseille two buildings collapsed right in the center of city. They were decrepit and owned by a company who never invested a dim despite problem reported. People actually died.
I wonder how many time it need to happen until we wake up?
I'm managing my coproperty, and it's so hard to even find what kind of local/governmental help we can get. We would be very happy to redo insulation and building beams if it was possible to co-finance it which public/city money.
But instead the norm seems to let 150 years old building (built with good materials) getting destroyed and build new cheap reinforced concrete one.
Is it really cheaper to pop ton of buildings which will not even last 50 years? What is there no incentive to help privately owned building maintenance?
You know, research money is not coming from nowhere, you have to actually advertise what you're doing in order to get money. I even bet the the bigger the crowd is, the more money you can raise.
You know, if the public opinion is favorable to what you're doing, it get a lot easier to actually do it.
If the design changed radically, it did change radically, I guess we'll again be amazed when it'll be revealed.
Being good at marketing is essential for keeping people interested in space exploration in those dark times.
I'm sometime very tired of the pessimist sentiment here.