Apple Campus 2 Site to Include Preserved Historic Barn

[CFreymarc]

"Under Apple's care, it will be a working barn for the first time in decades, storing sports equipment and landscaping supplies the company will need for the thousands of trees that will shade the campus."

Wait... Why do trees need sports equipment?

Trees don't but employees and guests will need it. Expect all this open space created around the campus hosting different recreational softball games, soccer and other games.

One of the biggest athletic fields in Silicon Valley is at the old National Semiconductor now Texas Instruments campus next to Central Expressway.

 

[IJ Reilly]

We said the same thing with different words. In "function", I mean how they were used be it a historic event or some sort of establishment activity.

These concepts aren't really the same. To be associated with historic events a building has to be representative of a period of time. A ranch, for example, could be significant as an example of the agricultural settlement of an area. Function is a secondary concept, as the interest in historic preservation is in the physical artifacts of human culture. Sorry if I seem to be picky or pedantic about this, but it is my profession, so I am bound to be.

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"Under Apple's care, it will be a working barn for the first time in decades, storing sports equipment and landscaping supplies the company will need for the thousands of trees that will shade the campus."

Wait... Why do trees need sports equipment?

Trees need exercise or their limbs will wither.

 

[CFreymarc]

These concepts aren't really the same. To be associated with historic events a building has to be representative of a period of time. A ranch, for example, could be significant as an example of the agricultural settlement of an area. Function is a secondary concept, as the interest in historic preservation is in the physical artifacts of human culture. Sorry if I seem to be picky or pedantic about this, but it is my profession, so I am bound to be.

No worries. I'll take it as free consulting and I owe you a beer.

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Sweet! Now Apple employees will have a place to hold a "ho-down." Yee-haw!

Don't know if that is sarcasm or not. Some of the hardest parties I have seen are teenage and young adult Amish kids right after the last harvest of the season before winter sets in central Pennsylvania. They put most fraternity houses and urban dance clubs to shame.

While they may look and act pure, lots of good times goes down, the whiskey suddenly shows up and those girls are not wearing much under those long cotton skirts. That's why there are lot of springtime births in Amish country.

 

[KevinC867]

I love that barn!

That's where HP held it's Friday "beer busts" when I worked on that site in my first job in 1979. HP3000 - yeah baby!

It would be fun if Apple would restore the barn to similar duty on the new campus.

 

[dannyyankou]

As far as I'm aware, the only issue (which is a HUGE issue) is the graphics card...which apple does not make.

But good on Apple for the symbolic gesture.

Let's not try to deflect blame from Apple. They test parts and decide to use them in their products.

Anyway, I'm just glad I bought my MacBook in 2012

 

[gnasher729]

"Under Apple's care, it will be a working barn for the first time in decades, storing sports equipment and landscaping supplies the company will need for the thousands of trees that will shade the campus."

Wait... Why do trees need sports equipment?

"Under Apple's care, it will be a working barn for the first time in decades, storing (sports equipment) and (landscaping supplies the company will need for the thousands of trees that will shade the campus)."

Clearer now?

 

[NT1440]

Let's not try to deflect blame from Apple. They test parts and decide to use them in their products.

Anyway, I'm just glad I bought my MacBook in 2012

I'm not sure how an issue that only comes up after the manufacturers projected lifespan (which is unreasonably low in the USA) is Apple's fault, but sure. I always blame GMC when my fuel pump from Delphi fails.

 

[IJ Reilly]

No worries. I'll take it as free consulting and I owe you a beer.

I might just collect on that.

 

[anthorumor]

Sounds like Apple Care has now extended into barn and contents insurance.

 

[wikiverse]

"Under Apple's care, it will be a working barn for the first time in decades, storing (sports equipment) and (landscaping supplies the company will need for the thousands of trees that will shade the campus)."

Clearer now?

Haha. I understood what they meant. It's just one of those cases where a missing comma made it funny.

 

[mazz0]

Well, I suppose "historic" is a subjective term. Objectively all we can say is it's fugly.

 

[Meister]

"Historic" barn from 1916!! News that move the world.

 

[bosnycseven]

Never thought I'd be reading news about barns on MacRumors. They should put Jony's new laboratory in there just to drive him crazy with the real-life skeuomorphism of wood.

hahahaha

 

[michelb76]

So they can now take 'carpool karaoke' behind this barn and shoot it.

 

[Breaking Good]

not exactly, it will be altered even though all the materials will be the same. it's very unlikely each piece would be in the same location, with the same gaps and such between planks.

Moving an object as a whole to another location still means its the same object, but dismantling it and reassembling it is technically not the same.

So if I completely disassembled a car and re-assembled it, it would not be the same car?

If I replace a hard drive i

Thinking the same thing…our house is 100 years older…We must almost be living in a prehistoric house!

The United States has only been in existence for 241 years. The standards for something being considered "old" are quite different from the rest of the world.

The extent of my international travel was to go to London, U.K. for a week on business. It was very interesting to see the difference in what is considered to be "old" by U.K. standards.

I would surmize much of Europe would have a different idea of what they consider to be "old" from a building standpoint.

 

[jeremy h]

So if I completely disassembled a car and re-assembled it, it would not be the same car?

If I replace a hard drive i


The United States has only been in existence for 241 years. The standards for something being considered "old" are quite different from the rest of the world.

The extent of my international travel was to go to London, U.K. for a week on business. It was very interesting to see the difference in what is considered to be "old" by U.K. standards.

I would surmize much of Europe would have a different idea of what they consider to be "old" from a building standpoint.

Around the millennium I took a holiday in Washington State (really nice people, nice place BTW, have a bit of a soft spot for Spokane ever since). While around Seattle somewhere I read a local history info sign and was shocked that my house (nothing remarkable here in the UK, just a suburban house built just before the first world war) according to the sign predated just about everything man made I could see... I guess while one can be amused that 1916 is really old I sometimes think that too much history can weigh heavily on things and not having so much can free everyone somewhat.

As to the disassembly thing ... most of our really old stuff (Stonehenge, Avebury, long barrows etc etc) have been reassembled at some point. However, for fans of UK comedy such as Only Fools and Horses there's the slightly different and long running debate here about Trigger's Broom... is it still his broom or a new one?