...doing anything that involved image editing in Photoshop was basically impossible
Wow..I find that using keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop works AMAZINGLY well and speeds up my editing.
Used in conjunction with a wacom tablet and pen for actual painting/brush type things.....and keyboard shortcuts allows you to really blow through images doing some nightly complex things.
And if you can set up actions for a lot of common things you do....whew.
The Dems will not negotiate at all, if there is no leverage on them.
They will pull what they did with Reagan in the 80's...he signed generous immigration laws and all then, with the understanding that the Dems would then come to the table and work with them on strengthening things, etc.
Once he signed the laws....the Dems disappeared, and we have a massive flow of illegals coming into the US.
And it isn't just Trump shutting down the govt.
It takes all 3 houses agreeing on a budget and items in it. And one of the 3 branches of govt. will not even come to the table with bargaining chips...the same ones that have proven they can't be trusted to "get this done now and we'll come back to talk about your issue".
Well, this is about an US company...so, what you say doesn't apply and doesn't really matter....no offense meant, but if you're in another country than the US on a discussion about US companies and policies, it is best to just sit on the side and watch.
He's made it a one-issue debate and refuses to negotiate on that. That's not an offer, it's a stonewall.
Well, he's asking for like $5B.
Either offer him something lower than than amount....or maybe try to get something MORE that they want....
I mean, c'mon...you've got democrats on record like Shumer, Obama...big time democrats that only a few short years ago were openly supporting wall construction and re-enforcement.
It isn't like they weren't for a wall not that long ago, so, why not give Trump something....for something in return?
And how do you propose obtaining the private email addresses of your coworkers? IT people hardly interact face-to-face these days, and a corporate email: "Hey send me y'all's' personal email address so that we can plot a revolution" would be arguably disallowed.
I believe that burden is upon the organizers.
How did they do it in the past before there were computers and email?
Certainly you know some if not most of the people you work with, and see in person ask them. Or you could even use company email to just ask for private emails, without stipulating what it was for...that wouldn't violate any policy, just say you'd like to converse with them offline from the company about something.
I mean, what about working and coming up with something? Life doesn't owe you the easiest path you know.....show some initiative, where there's a will, there is a way.
I want insurance and healthcare completely disconnected from employment. I don't get my homeowners or car insurance via my employer and neither should health insurance.
I agree whole heartedly on this one.
I also think that they should open it up for medical insurance sales across state lines.
Competition there might help things a good bit.
I'd also like to see the govt. PROMOTE and make it easier to set up individual HSA's (Health Savings Accounts) that people can use to save pre-tax for their routine medical needs....or to even pay for individual insurance, etc. Rather than try to inhibit this as the Obama regime did, it should be opened up and promoted to make it easier for people to do.
HSA's, unlike FSA's are not use it or lose it either, you can put these accounts together to grow over time and even earn interest on them, etc.
It seems more to me that the Democrats forgot how to fscking compromise and negotiate.....
They used to do it under Reagan and Clinton....they need to look back to the past to learn that no one side gets all they want, they are supposed to find middle ground.
It appears to me that Trump has offered to negotiate....the Dems should begin the process on their side.
There are a number of things they could do to make ti better here in the US, but I do NOT want the overreaching, poorly managed Federal Govt in charge of it.
Hell, we can't afford it even if we wanted it...its starting to weigh heavy and fiscally drag things down under its own weight in countries that have it, I hear in Great Britain they're starting to show cracks in that system.
I hate to say it, but I kind of agree with Google on this one.
Hey, if you want to organize protests, etc....do it on your own time, or at the very least, do it on your own private email, etc.
I mean, why should a company essentially pay you to protest them or let you use their facilities and servers to promote things that are against the best interests of the company or it's shareholders (you know, the folks that own the company)?
Sure you have the right to protest me or oppose me, but I shouldn't have to foot the bill for you too should I?
Indeed. A modern military with missiles, bombs, mines, guns, tanks, planes, drones, helicopters, satellites, ships, etc... would make mincemeat out of any rebellion with guns. Guns alone will get you nowhere these days. To overthrow a tyrannical government you need access to heavier weaponry and higher technology.
Hmm...I seem to recall several hot spots in the world, where under armed (but armed) guerrilla groups/armies have held off super power countries for years and years.
And if you consider it happening in your OWN country, you're gonna have defections, at least in the US, as that a lot of the armed services would refuse to take fire and wipe out their own brother citizens.
Its one thing to shoot a foreigner in a war, its a very different thing to shoot your neighbors.
If there were a civil war....armories would be raided (voluntarily or not)...and some of the weaker forces would have tanks, planes, missiles...etc....
I"m guessing if things broke down into anarchy, well, no one would care too much about ATF laws and punishments, and a lot of those rifles (sporting or not) would be quickly converted to full auto.
Guerrilla fighters can do a LOT, especially if they have help from the local populace, which would happen if another civil war occurred.
God forbid it comes to that, but the populace should always have that last ditch option open to them.
One of the last things a tyrannical government does before running roughshod over the people, is to take their arms away.
Liberal means holding a broad worldview and being open to new ideas. It's not about liberty, per se. And that means having your eyes wide open and caring about the freedoms and rights of people other than yourself and not just your own interests.
Hmm..so, it sounds like to you, liberal means having to "be your brother's keeper"....even if it takes holding a gun to your head to force you to, no choice. (ie government enforced).
Well, somehow the Soviet block (E. Europe) seems to have successfully changed their repressive governments without guns
Hey, it can happen occasionally....but it happens faster with guns if it has too....and, having guns helps PREVENT the govt from becoming tyrannical to begin with....
Our US founding fathers knew this, and hence were often quoted, even outside of the constitution, etc.....as saying how important it was for the populace to be armed and stay armed as a last resort protection against the very govt. becoming tyrannical.
And yes, I know there are a lot of memes going around that have been shown to not have been said by the founding fathers, but there are plenty of quotes that are true.
Yep. Meizu has certainly one-upped Apple here. I bet all those people who just bought a new iPhone are feeling pretty sick after reading this announcement.
I do have to admit, Meizu does appears now to be braver than Apple.
Hell, with this phone, they may be bravest of all the companies!!!
I've never used a 'mobile pay' system of any sort, and I don't have any inclination to start.
I do as much of my local purchases as possible with cash.
I like to take out a good bit of cash at the beginning of the week, and make my weekly normal purchases with that. I like that I can see my cash wad going down physically and gives me a purse sense of what I'm spending.
I prefer it over credit cards and all, because those...much like chips in a casino, abstract you from what you are actually spending (or gambling).
Like you, I do not want to give these companies any more data on me, like my spending habits.
I use CC's when I have to...online, or special purchases, etc....but I prefer to even not use those if possible.
I don't do rewards cards either, or if I have some, I've given them false information, and use them with cash.
I'm not sure I get what other folks posting say....to the effect of "I want to leave my wallet at home".
Err....what do they carry their ID in? No drivers license?
No business cards?
What about membership cards like Costco, etc?
Insurance cards?
I mean, I can't see me never having to have a wallet on my person when I go out...what's the problem with adding a credit card or two to the pile?
Hell, I try to go out without carrying my PHONE.....to decrease the tracking, and to be unreachable, which is something nice that I remember from growing up before the proliferated.
Leaving the smart phone at home can at times be quite liberating. Try it some time.
The simple fact is that Texas is around half liberals, not just Austin. You're seriously not even paying attention. El Paso is Mexican, they've come around to liberalism of late as Catholicism begins to lose its hold on them, what with the men in dresses raping children and so on. Austin is Austin. Houston has an international medical community attached to it. Dallas is a college town. Every major city in Texas has some good reason to go blue.
I guess if that's true, then we can ALL kiss goodbye the great things in the US I grew up with....the general culture, etc.
We can also say goodbye to our rights and hello to massive Federal invasion of our lives and business.
The radical left have been taking over the Dems, and if they take all 3 branches, say goodbye to anything resembling what made america a free land, and a great country based on the individual.
The 2nd amendment will be run over....and when that goes, you can bet other constitutional protected things will be cut away too, like the 1st....and 4th...and....
And if you find a feature you do like, the next revision replaces that feature with a "service" to move that feature "into the cloud", so you can be better tracked. And the version after that will make it harder to do it without involving the cloud.
What's the use of having extra storage on your phone for stuff if Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all hell-bent to making you store that stuff on a (for fee) off-device storage service?
Or, is the extra storage to just hang on to the huge links to your content?
Funny.
Neither my iPhone, my iPad nor my MacBook pro have every forced or even cajoled me to move or store anything in the cloud.
I didn't use iCloud for anything until recently, when I decided I did like to connect them just far enough to sync my bookmarks, and my iMessages between all 3 devices.
But no real need other than that, and I operated them just fine without any iCloud connectivity at all, zero, nada, zilch....just fine for most of my years on the platform until maybe just the past 8-9 months.
I'd heard that it was best to avoid the iPhone upgrade to iOS 12,1,2,,,as that it had broken cellular connectivity for quite a number of phones in the US.
One option is to have pay scales, where people doing the same or very similar jobs are all within a range based on their time at the company. They may start higher up the scale based on experience, which is fine as long as it is applied evenly to everyone.
But yes, basically the practice of negotiating salaries needs to be retired and companies offer a fair rate. That's actually good for existing employees too, because if the market rate goes up and the company wants to remain competitive they need to give everyone decent raises, otherwise they won't be able to offer market rate to new hires.
So, you're saying the govt needs to take over for private companies, and dictate and enforce not only hiring practices, but also salaries......
Geez, at that point, you're only a couple of steps by having the govt own and manage private industry and all of us becoming defacto government employees.
Hell, I'm wondering why shareholders are NOT kicking Tim Cook to the curb??
Apple used to have a lock on the educational crowd years back.
Apple used to have a lock on the artistic and creative types years back.
Now?
they seem to have their futures tied up believing everyone needs a brand new smart phone annually and will continue to buy new ones each time.
They keep sinking money into Apple TV...something that really hasn't taken off, compared to others.
They're forgetting one of the important things in the IT industry, GET THEM WHILE THEY"RE YOUNG!!
Seems Apple is just riding the fading energy engine that was left in motion by Jobs upon his passing.
They have a BIG pile of money they are sitting on, sure....but at some point, without new ideas, and keeping folks in your ecosystem (a great way is to raise kids using your OS and products)....at some point, that big pile of money won't matter and it will start vanishing too trying to keep above water at some point.
Ok, but if you move from CA to TX, PLEASE don't bring your liberal politics that reduce rights, and raise taxes...or you'll just be ruining the things in TX that you left CA (the peoples republic of CA).
In the south, we don't need your high taxes, govt intrusion into fscking everything, and oppressive attacks on the 2A.
Try to remember why you left CA, and leave those bad and often failed ideals there please.
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Wow..I find that using keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop works AMAZINGLY well and speeds up my editing.
Used in conjunction with a wacom tablet and pen for actual painting/brush type things.....and keyboard shortcuts allows you to really blow through images doing some nightly complex things.
And if you can set up actions for a lot of common things you do....whew.
The Dems will not negotiate at all, if there is no leverage on them.
They will pull what they did with Reagan in the 80's...he signed generous immigration laws and all then, with the understanding that the Dems would then come to the table and work with them on strengthening things, etc.
Once he signed the laws....the Dems disappeared, and we have a massive flow of illegals coming into the US.
And it isn't just Trump shutting down the govt.
It takes all 3 houses agreeing on a budget and items in it. And one of the 3 branches of govt. will not even come to the table with bargaining chips...the same ones that have proven they can't be trusted to "get this done now and we'll come back to talk about your issue".
Well, this is about an US company...so, what you say doesn't apply and doesn't really matter....no offense meant, but if you're in another country than the US on a discussion about US companies and policies, it is best to just sit on the side and watch.
Why should I have to pay twice?
I"m STILL trying to figure out how a border wall is somehow "immoral".
I especially wonder, when so many democrats, only a few years ago...were for a wall?
Well, I'd come up with the idea of having our military snipers line the border, and they could do target practice....
Or, maybe we lay land mines along the border....
Either of those might make a better deterrent than a wall, but I figured some might consider those to be a bit too extreme.
Well, he's asking for like $5B.
Either offer him something lower than than amount....or maybe try to get something MORE that they want....
I mean, c'mon...you've got democrats on record like Shumer, Obama...big time democrats that only a few short years ago were openly supporting wall construction and re-enforcement.
It isn't like they weren't for a wall not that long ago, so, why not give Trump something....for something in return?
Secure Fence Act of 2006
Schumer sound bites sound like trump...
Ok, I know the last one is from Fox, but try to get by that and just listen to the two of them sounding the same and saying the same things.
For that skip to about 1:45 to see the comparisons start.
I believe that burden is upon the organizers.
How did they do it in the past before there were computers and email?
Certainly you know some if not most of the people you work with, and see in person ask them. Or you could even use company email to just ask for private emails, without stipulating what it was for...that wouldn't violate any policy, just say you'd like to converse with them offline from the company about something.
I mean, what about working and coming up with something? Life doesn't owe you the easiest path you know.....show some initiative, where there's a will, there is a way.
I agree whole heartedly on this one.
I also think that they should open it up for medical insurance sales across state lines.
Competition there might help things a good bit.
I'd also like to see the govt. PROMOTE and make it easier to set up individual HSA's (Health Savings Accounts) that people can use to save pre-tax for their routine medical needs....or to even pay for individual insurance, etc. Rather than try to inhibit this as the Obama regime did, it should be opened up and promoted to make it easier for people to do.
HSA's, unlike FSA's are not use it or lose it either, you can put these accounts together to grow over time and even earn interest on them, etc.
It seems more to me that the Democrats forgot how to fscking compromise and negotiate.....
They used to do it under Reagan and Clinton....they need to look back to the past to learn that no one side gets all they want, they are supposed to find middle ground.
It appears to me that Trump has offered to negotiate....the Dems should begin the process on their side.
IF everyone wanted it...we'd have it.
Personally, I do NOT.
There are a number of things they could do to make ti better here in the US, but I do NOT want the overreaching, poorly managed Federal Govt in charge of it.
Hell, we can't afford it even if we wanted it...its starting to weigh heavy and fiscally drag things down under its own weight in countries that have it, I hear in Great Britain they're starting to show cracks in that system.
Hey, if you want to organize protests, etc....do it on your own time, or at the very least, do it on your own private email, etc.
I mean, why should a company essentially pay you to protest them or let you use their facilities and servers to promote things that are against the best interests of the company or it's shareholders (you know, the folks that own the company)?
Sure you have the right to protest me or oppose me, but I shouldn't have to foot the bill for you too should I?
How, exactly is this touching me in my daily life?
Hmm...I seem to recall several hot spots in the world, where under armed (but armed) guerrilla groups/armies have held off super power countries for years and years.
And if you consider it happening in your OWN country, you're gonna have defections, at least in the US, as that a lot of the armed services would refuse to take fire and wipe out their own brother citizens.
Its one thing to shoot a foreigner in a war, its a very different thing to shoot your neighbors.
If there were a civil war....armories would be raided (voluntarily or not)...and some of the weaker forces would have tanks, planes, missiles...etc....
I"m guessing if things broke down into anarchy, well, no one would care too much about ATF laws and punishments, and a lot of those rifles (sporting or not) would be quickly converted to full auto.
Guerrilla fighters can do a LOT, especially if they have help from the local populace, which would happen if another civil war occurred.
God forbid it comes to that, but the populace should always have that last ditch option open to them.
One of the last things a tyrannical government does before running roughshod over the people, is to take their arms away.
Hmm..so, it sounds like to you, liberal means having to "be your brother's keeper"....even if it takes holding a gun to your head to force you to, no choice. (ie government enforced).
Hey, it can happen occasionally....but it happens faster with guns if it has too....and, having guns helps PREVENT the govt from becoming tyrannical to begin with....
Our US founding fathers knew this, and hence were often quoted, even outside of the constitution, etc.....as saying how important it was for the populace to be armed and stay armed as a last resort protection against the very govt. becoming tyrannical.
And yes, I know there are a lot of memes going around that have been shown to not have been said by the founding fathers, but there are plenty of quotes that are true.
And exactly how would that happen?
They don't allow the populous to have guns over there....
A civil war, or at least one against the tyranny of government doesn't work if the govt has guns, and all you have are "pointy sticks".
I do have to admit, Meizu does appears now to be braver than Apple.
Hell, with this phone, they may be bravest of all the companies!!!
I do as much of my local purchases as possible with cash.
I like to take out a good bit of cash at the beginning of the week, and make my weekly normal purchases with that. I like that I can see my cash wad going down physically and gives me a purse sense of what I'm spending.
I prefer it over credit cards and all, because those...much like chips in a casino, abstract you from what you are actually spending (or gambling).
Like you, I do not want to give these companies any more data on me, like my spending habits.
I use CC's when I have to...online, or special purchases, etc....but I prefer to even not use those if possible.
I don't do rewards cards either, or if I have some, I've given them false information, and use them with cash.
I'm not sure I get what other folks posting say....to the effect of "I want to leave my wallet at home".
Err....what do they carry their ID in? No drivers license?
No business cards?
What about membership cards like Costco, etc?
Insurance cards?
I mean, I can't see me never having to have a wallet on my person when I go out...what's the problem with adding a credit card or two to the pile?
Hell, I try to go out without carrying my PHONE.....to decrease the tracking, and to be unreachable, which is something nice that I remember from growing up before the proliferated.
Leaving the smart phone at home can at times be quite liberating. Try it some time.
I guess if that's true, then we can ALL kiss goodbye the great things in the US I grew up with....the general culture, etc.
We can also say goodbye to our rights and hello to massive Federal invasion of our lives and business.
The radical left have been taking over the Dems, and if they take all 3 branches, say goodbye to anything resembling what made america a free land, and a great country based on the individual.
The 2nd amendment will be run over....and when that goes, you can bet other constitutional protected things will be cut away too, like the 1st....and 4th...and....
Funny.
Neither my iPhone, my iPad nor my MacBook pro have every forced or even cajoled me to move or store anything in the cloud.
I didn't use iCloud for anything until recently, when I decided I did like to connect them just far enough to sync my bookmarks, and my iMessages between all 3 devices.
But no real need other than that, and I operated them just fine without any iCloud connectivity at all, zero, nada, zilch....just fine for most of my years on the platform until maybe just the past 8-9 months.
Anyone heard if they fixed this in 12.1.3?
So, you're saying the govt needs to take over for private companies, and dictate and enforce not only hiring practices, but also salaries......
Geez, at that point, you're only a couple of steps by having the govt own and manage private industry and all of us becoming defacto government employees.
Apple used to have a lock on the educational crowd years back.
Apple used to have a lock on the artistic and creative types years back.
Now?
they seem to have their futures tied up believing everyone needs a brand new smart phone annually and will continue to buy new ones each time.
They keep sinking money into Apple TV...something that really hasn't taken off, compared to others.
They're forgetting one of the important things in the IT industry, GET THEM WHILE THEY"RE YOUNG!!
Seems Apple is just riding the fading energy engine that was left in motion by Jobs upon his passing.
They have a BIG pile of money they are sitting on, sure....but at some point, without new ideas, and keeping folks in your ecosystem (a great way is to raise kids using your OS and products)....at some point, that big pile of money won't matter and it will start vanishing too trying to keep above water at some point.
Ok, but if you move from CA to TX, PLEASE don't bring your liberal politics that reduce rights, and raise taxes...or you'll just be ruining the things in TX that you left CA (the peoples republic of CA).
In the south, we don't need your high taxes, govt intrusion into fscking everything, and oppressive attacks on the 2A.
Try to remember why you left CA, and leave those bad and often failed ideals there please.