They want Gates out of the way because he still has "power" over the company, to a point.
Mostly, the shareholders want him out, similar to the way they wanted Jobs out, so they could
cut cut cut, to prop up the stock price.
I love it when people plunk down thousands of dollars on a dSLR + lenses, and never take the camera setting off
AUTO mode. I've had a dSLR for 3 years, and a "prosumer" before that. With my dSLR, I think it has been on
auto mode maybe a couple times. 99% of the time, I keep mine on manual, and set the shutter & aperture manually,
depending on what I want to capture. Composition is key, to capturing a certain scene, mood or whatever you are trying
to portray. The other thing is after you take the photo. I shoot in RAW mode, and "develop" the photo in photoshop.
It's the post processing that can make a photo "WOW" you. And I'm not talking about those over processed HDR photos.
And for gods sake, stop with the megapixel wars. A super good quality photo, 300dpi, can be had by a 4-8 megapixel
sensor. The only good a 41 megapixel sensor in a pinhole camera is good for, is cropping. In very low light conditions,
without a lot of software noise compression, it's gonna look like someone sprinkled pixie dust in front of the photo.
For most people, those into "snapshots", stick with a superzoom or your cell phone. No sense in wasting your money on
a dSLR & a bag full of equipment.
I carry my camera, the lens on the front, 3 more lenses in the bag along with a flash, bunch of filters, a ring flash, some flash
filters, batteries, charger & tripod. Most people don't want to lug that stuff around when they go out to take photos, but my
9-5 job has me lugging around a 50 pound tool bag, so it isn't a big deal for me.
In my film SLR days, I use to carry around a pad of paper & pencil so I could document how I had the camera set up for each
photo, but with the exif data on digitals, you don't need that. If you really want to get into photography, get a superzoom first,
but take the dial off out auto mode and play around with DOF, the f-stops & shutter speeds.
Anyone that isn't a "professional" gambler, one who does this for a living...
You think those billion dollar casinos got built because you came to Vegas
for a weekend, and were "gonna hit it big"?
Similar to the "that was easy" button, that has the word BULLSH*T stamped on top.
It plays one of four phrases when you press it.
As to FB wanting to do this? BBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZ "that was bullsh*t!"
I see them all the time, SINGLE unit patrol cars, highway patrol etc...yacking away on their phones, using their
radios, punching away on the mobile data terminals. Just because they have a badge, gun and "training" does
that make them any less likely to get into an accident? If they are going to outlaw "citizens" from driving and
texting, the same should go for fire & police if they are in a one man vehicle!
with what he did. How many times have you been at a stoplight, especially those short left turn lights,
and the traffic just SITS there because some idiot is texting away, then notices the light, or someone honks
and as the light turns yellow to red, multiple cars run the light.
If people don't like tickets for texting at a red light, then call your elected official and get the LAW CHANGED.
Just getting mad at an officer for FOLLOWING THE LAW isn't right.
Spend all that money & time trying to figure out what killed off what.
So who cares? If it was found that a giant rock, comet or what not was
going to hit earth in 1 to 5 years, there isn't a d*mn thing humans could
do about it.
I don't have an iphone, never have. NOTHING against it, but for what I do, it did not fill my need
(I have a G Note for the BIG screen).
I know in Android, with the launcher I use, you can disable the animation stuff, which I do. I also use
a black wallpaper. Why? I don't care for fancy this or animated stuff. I feel anything that slows down
the device, I want to turn off.
Can you not disable the animation stuff in iOS? I've never used iOS, so that's why I'm asking.
Yeah, but the damage, to the world is already done. No more CFC's that WORKED without issues.
Remember the Columbia that broke apart? Well, the foam use to be created with freon based components.
Those were scrapped because the "experts" said it caused global warming. Nasa knew the "enviro friendly"
version was prone to breaking off, and it had in the past, and when the Columbia launched, well, you know
what happened. More people have died in the name of "saving the planet" in the name of saving the planet.
Once again proving that man can't destroy the planet if it wanted to.
I'm going to be rebuilding my 4 year old computer later this fall.
I am going to see if I can install a smaller SSD for booting, and a huge spinning drive
for applications/storage. The price is still too high to get a large enough hard drive
to really store anything. In a practical standpoint, I think off storage, which is what I
do for a lot of my photos, is better than leaving them on a drive. DVD/external drives
for critical stuff, and internal for day to day usage is what I do, so an SSD for boot/working
programs would be all I would need. My current HDD's on my computer, have pretty much
been running 24/7, with the occasional off period when a storm hits, power goes off and the
UPS kills the computer.
Most screw ups in the world, and they hardly ever get fired.
When people get a "guarantee" like that, what do they have to fear?
Heck, there are some teachers, due to tenure/unions, get sent to a rubber room, to keep them
out of the classroom, but they cannot fire them!
Yeah, the data will transmit to a central authority, who can transmit "expired" or other crap.
Yeah, and they won't be tracking you either. More of your rights of free travel violated.
And of course, the government will say "but driving isn't a right, it's a privilege granted by your
state, and with that privilege comes restrictions". You can bet most states will jump on board
with this, or, if they don't, the federal government will dangle "free money" in their face to do it,
or, they will demand they do it and without federal highway money if they don't, just as they did
when they forced states to lower or raise the speed limits, or raise the drinking age from some
states, from 18 to 21.
These 10-20-30 year studies on global warming (ooppppssss...climate change) are a bunch of hog wash anyway.
What's 30 years, compared to the age of the earth? A few seconds? Also, with this recent batch of "climate change"
an abandoned mine, was discovered in the Greenland area. Now, if it was WARMER hundreds of years ago, before the
industrial revolution, what caused the "warming" that allowed for a mining camp?? What the anticapitalist/industrialist
don't say, is the earth is a living breathing thing, and the OUTPUT OF THE SUN changes in cycles. We are in the
middle of a cycle now! I remember as a teenager in the 70's, when it was cool in the summer and bitterly cold in the
winter, of how we were entering a new ice age, and then 30 years later, the planet was going to melt all the ice and it was
going to broil in the summer and we wouldn't have any winters. With the low information voters, and the poor quality of
legitimate education in today's schools (USA), it's no wonder so many youth of today, and those in their 20's to 30's believe
all of this so called global warming (I'm sorry, "climate change") garbage.
In the course of the evolution of the homosapien, it's time for a huge asteroid to come wipe us out, and let nature start all over again.
If we really need a phone app, or a computer program on the vehicle, to warn us of the other, then we are screwed!
Yeah, I see people driving during the day, about as attentive as a 2 year old with a toy, thinking that driving is the 3rd or 4th most important
thing they are doing, and, I also see people with their stupid phone, ear buds jammed in the ears 24/7, without a care in the world stepping
out in traffic. Darwin can only fend off so many before he even gets tired of it.
Perhaps its time, to coin a phrase from "War Games" and just give up, and let nature start all over again.
More control, more authority over people. THAT is the stated goal of government.
No such thing as freedom, you are too stupid to take care of yourself. WE will tell you
what to drive, or if you can drive, how far you can drive and how fast you can drive. We'll
tell you where to live, how to live, where to work and what to eat. Good grief people, do
you NOT see what is happening to you?
For over a year. Other than some spotty coverage in the sticks,
I really haven't had that much of an issue. Never had LTE, so I don't "miss"
the speed of LTE. H+, for my usage is good enough, since if I'm doing anything
other than surfing a website, I just use wireless.
I can get "all you can eat" (for me that is around 12-1500 voice, 300 text, 200-300 emails per month usage)
for less than 50 bucks. My contract was over with at&t, and I was spending over 120.00 per month for
the same usage. Saving over 600 bucks a year? That allows me to buy a NEW phone off contract about
once a year if I wanted, but It will be over 2 years when I buy my new phone, that's around 600 extra dollars
in my pocket. Yeah, it's a hit off the bat, if you do off contract, but if you discipline yourself, if you are struggling
financially, it can be done. Until people wake up to the ripoff that the USA carriers do to the public, it won't
change. They throw a bone here and there, but they are still way overcharging, for what you get.
I would clone my HDD a couple days before my trip, keep the backup at your home location.
Carefully pack your laptop, smartphone, ipad whatever...have it FedEx, UPS, DHL or your preferred carrier
to your destination. Yeah, you might be without it a couple days even for overnight delivery, but, for now,
at least the #(*^*@%@@ government types most likely won't get at it. Just wrap it in tin foil or something.
Until the losers they are catch on, at least your data will be somewhat safe. Better than having them
STEAL it from you.
Any job I'm looking to move to, from a current job, I tell them I'm accepting, and as a courtesy to my present employer, I'm giving them two weeks.
Then I ask, if my current employer wants me to leave immediately, may I start tomorrow (or whatever day my present employer tells me to leave).
I think that is the most fair way to do it, plus, you NEVER want to burn a bridge...you never ever know...
Had to read all the way down to the last paragraph, before they blamed "global warming" on what is going on now.
Oh, the big bad boogie man carbon dioxide is going to kill us all! Yeah, keep reducing CO2 and see what happens to all
the plants that DEPEND ON IT to produce O2.
Companies, especially those that are public, answer to shareholders. Shareholders want a return on their investment, as anyone would.
It is the CEO's job to do that, however he has to. As for a CEO's salary, that is between the stockholders, and the board. Sadly, there are
too few CEO's that would feel the pain, along with the rank and file, but, it's no ones business but the stockholders and the board.
Also, with the looming "obamacare" look for many more layoffs, and reduction in hours as more and more employees are being shifted
from a full time 40 hour week, to a part time 29 hour week. In a strange way, decades from now, perhaps we can get away from the
employer provided health care, and put the responsibility back onto the employee to look after their own health care. Health care, paid by
employers, started during WW2, as a way of keeping good employees during WW2, while most were off at the war.
The employee became less and less aware of the cost of health care, because, all they were responsible for was "a copay". When perceived
cost isn't a problem, you watch prices rise. Then, PPO's MMO's and the like, cut down competition because you are "locked" into a particular
group or plan, taking away choice as which doctors you can see. Then, add the technology and so called non profit aspect of a lot of hospitals,
and they end up over spending on things they really don't need. We have 2 big hospitals in my city. The city population is around 200,000, with
a coverage area population of around 500,000. There use to be a thing called "certificate of need" that was required before they could add something, but
it must have been repealed, or just ignored. It's like watching two kids. One gets a toy, the other gets a newer toy to shove in the face of the other.
25 years ago, one got a helicopter, then the other did, but a little more fancy one, so the other one got 2, so the other got 2 also. Then one completely
built a new ER, so the other built a new one even bigger! It's nuts! I know several nurses over the years, working on office equipment at these hospitals.
Some departments can get new machines any time they want, and other departments have to beg. I asked one nurse why and she said that some
departments "make too much money", so they set other departments up, to help the low pay/no pay and they are set up to LOSE money, all to show
their no profit status. Why is an "aspirin" 10 dollars or more on your bill? To help make up the write off for the homeless person that comes to the ER
with a medicade card, that the government doesn't pay as much for, to make up the difference.
Then, you add up all the tests they seem to put you through. Say an EKG shows a slight problem with your heart rhythm. See you in a week while they
run 3,942 tests. Why? Because if they don't, and some 1 in a million event happens, here comes the "if you've ever been injured, you may be entitled
for compensation" lawyers.
So, when you add it all up, why would anyone want to be in business? Between the regulations, red tape, health care nightmare, stockholder issues,
lazy employees or those that only will do a job for 20/hr with NO SKILLS, I'm surprised all jobs haven't moved to Asia.
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Loved the books, some of the movies weren't bad. Still love Red Oct. "What gives you the right to fire on my ship"? LOL, still love that line.
They want Gates out of the way because he still has "power" over the company, to a point. Mostly, the shareholders want him out, similar to the way they wanted Jobs out, so they could cut cut cut, to prop up the stock price.
Perhaps Marvin the Martian took out his trash and dumped it on Titan?
I love it when people plunk down thousands of dollars on a dSLR + lenses, and never take the camera setting off AUTO mode. I've had a dSLR for 3 years, and a "prosumer" before that. With my dSLR, I think it has been on auto mode maybe a couple times. 99% of the time, I keep mine on manual, and set the shutter & aperture manually, depending on what I want to capture. Composition is key, to capturing a certain scene, mood or whatever you are trying to portray. The other thing is after you take the photo. I shoot in RAW mode, and "develop" the photo in photoshop. It's the post processing that can make a photo "WOW" you. And I'm not talking about those over processed HDR photos. And for gods sake, stop with the megapixel wars. A super good quality photo, 300dpi, can be had by a 4-8 megapixel sensor. The only good a 41 megapixel sensor in a pinhole camera is good for, is cropping. In very low light conditions, without a lot of software noise compression, it's gonna look like someone sprinkled pixie dust in front of the photo. For most people, those into "snapshots", stick with a superzoom or your cell phone. No sense in wasting your money on a dSLR & a bag full of equipment. I carry my camera, the lens on the front, 3 more lenses in the bag along with a flash, bunch of filters, a ring flash, some flash filters, batteries, charger & tripod. Most people don't want to lug that stuff around when they go out to take photos, but my 9-5 job has me lugging around a 50 pound tool bag, so it isn't a big deal for me. In my film SLR days, I use to carry around a pad of paper & pencil so I could document how I had the camera set up for each photo, but with the exif data on digitals, you don't need that. If you really want to get into photography, get a superzoom first, but take the dial off out auto mode and play around with DOF, the f-stops & shutter speeds.
Anyone that isn't a "professional" gambler, one who does this for a living... You think those billion dollar casinos got built because you came to Vegas for a weekend, and were "gonna hit it big"?
That more than likely also believe in man made global warming. Sorry...not buying it.
Similar to the "that was easy" button, that has the word BULLSH*T stamped on top. It plays one of four phrases when you press it. As to FB wanting to do this? BBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZ "that was bullsh*t!"
I see them all the time, SINGLE unit patrol cars, highway patrol etc...yacking away on their phones, using their radios, punching away on the mobile data terminals. Just because they have a badge, gun and "training" does that make them any less likely to get into an accident? If they are going to outlaw "citizens" from driving and texting, the same should go for fire & police if they are in a one man vehicle!
with what he did. How many times have you been at a stoplight, especially those short left turn lights, and the traffic just SITS there because some idiot is texting away, then notices the light, or someone honks and as the light turns yellow to red, multiple cars run the light. If people don't like tickets for texting at a red light, then call your elected official and get the LAW CHANGED. Just getting mad at an officer for FOLLOWING THE LAW isn't right.
Spend all that money & time trying to figure out what killed off what. So who cares? If it was found that a giant rock, comet or what not was going to hit earth in 1 to 5 years, there isn't a d*mn thing humans could do about it.
I don't have an iphone, never have. NOTHING against it, but for what I do, it did not fill my need (I have a G Note for the BIG screen). I know in Android, with the launcher I use, you can disable the animation stuff, which I do. I also use a black wallpaper. Why? I don't care for fancy this or animated stuff. I feel anything that slows down the device, I want to turn off. Can you not disable the animation stuff in iOS? I've never used iOS, so that's why I'm asking.
The "global warming" crowd will grasp at anything to keep the myth about MAN made "climate change".
Yeah, but the damage, to the world is already done. No more CFC's that WORKED without issues. Remember the Columbia that broke apart? Well, the foam use to be created with freon based components. Those were scrapped because the "experts" said it caused global warming. Nasa knew the "enviro friendly" version was prone to breaking off, and it had in the past, and when the Columbia launched, well, you know what happened. More people have died in the name of "saving the planet" in the name of saving the planet. Once again proving that man can't destroy the planet if it wanted to.
I'm going to be rebuilding my 4 year old computer later this fall. I am going to see if I can install a smaller SSD for booting, and a huge spinning drive for applications/storage. The price is still too high to get a large enough hard drive to really store anything. In a practical standpoint, I think off storage, which is what I do for a lot of my photos, is better than leaving them on a drive. DVD/external drives for critical stuff, and internal for day to day usage is what I do, so an SSD for boot/working programs would be all I would need. My current HDD's on my computer, have pretty much been running 24/7, with the occasional off period when a storm hits, power goes off and the UPS kills the computer.
Most screw ups in the world, and they hardly ever get fired. When people get a "guarantee" like that, what do they have to fear? Heck, there are some teachers, due to tenure/unions, get sent to a rubber room, to keep them out of the classroom, but they cannot fire them!
Nothing new, nothing jaw-dropping, but the faithful iSheep will be standing in line...
Yeah, the data will transmit to a central authority, who can transmit "expired" or other crap. Yeah, and they won't be tracking you either. More of your rights of free travel violated. And of course, the government will say "but driving isn't a right, it's a privilege granted by your state, and with that privilege comes restrictions". You can bet most states will jump on board with this, or, if they don't, the federal government will dangle "free money" in their face to do it, or, they will demand they do it and without federal highway money if they don't, just as they did when they forced states to lower or raise the speed limits, or raise the drinking age from some states, from 18 to 21.
These 10-20-30 year studies on global warming (ooppppssss...climate change) are a bunch of hog wash anyway. What's 30 years, compared to the age of the earth? A few seconds? Also, with this recent batch of "climate change" an abandoned mine, was discovered in the Greenland area. Now, if it was WARMER hundreds of years ago, before the industrial revolution, what caused the "warming" that allowed for a mining camp?? What the anticapitalist/industrialist don't say, is the earth is a living breathing thing, and the OUTPUT OF THE SUN changes in cycles. We are in the middle of a cycle now! I remember as a teenager in the 70's, when it was cool in the summer and bitterly cold in the winter, of how we were entering a new ice age, and then 30 years later, the planet was going to melt all the ice and it was going to broil in the summer and we wouldn't have any winters. With the low information voters, and the poor quality of legitimate education in today's schools (USA), it's no wonder so many youth of today, and those in their 20's to 30's believe all of this so called global warming (I'm sorry, "climate change") garbage.
In the course of the evolution of the homosapien, it's time for a huge asteroid to come wipe us out, and let nature start all over again. If we really need a phone app, or a computer program on the vehicle, to warn us of the other, then we are screwed! Yeah, I see people driving during the day, about as attentive as a 2 year old with a toy, thinking that driving is the 3rd or 4th most important thing they are doing, and, I also see people with their stupid phone, ear buds jammed in the ears 24/7, without a care in the world stepping out in traffic. Darwin can only fend off so many before he even gets tired of it. Perhaps its time, to coin a phrase from "War Games" and just give up, and let nature start all over again.
More control, more authority over people. THAT is the stated goal of government. No such thing as freedom, you are too stupid to take care of yourself. WE will tell you what to drive, or if you can drive, how far you can drive and how fast you can drive. We'll tell you where to live, how to live, where to work and what to eat. Good grief people, do you NOT see what is happening to you?
For over a year. Other than some spotty coverage in the sticks, I really haven't had that much of an issue. Never had LTE, so I don't "miss" the speed of LTE. H+, for my usage is good enough, since if I'm doing anything other than surfing a website, I just use wireless. I can get "all you can eat" (for me that is around 12-1500 voice, 300 text, 200-300 emails per month usage) for less than 50 bucks. My contract was over with at&t, and I was spending over 120.00 per month for the same usage. Saving over 600 bucks a year? That allows me to buy a NEW phone off contract about once a year if I wanted, but It will be over 2 years when I buy my new phone, that's around 600 extra dollars in my pocket. Yeah, it's a hit off the bat, if you do off contract, but if you discipline yourself, if you are struggling financially, it can be done. Until people wake up to the ripoff that the USA carriers do to the public, it won't change. They throw a bone here and there, but they are still way overcharging, for what you get.
I would clone my HDD a couple days before my trip, keep the backup at your home location. Carefully pack your laptop, smartphone, ipad whatever...have it FedEx, UPS, DHL or your preferred carrier to your destination. Yeah, you might be without it a couple days even for overnight delivery, but, for now, at least the #(*^*@%@@ government types most likely won't get at it. Just wrap it in tin foil or something. Until the losers they are catch on, at least your data will be somewhat safe. Better than having them STEAL it from you.
Any job I'm looking to move to, from a current job, I tell them I'm accepting, and as a courtesy to my present employer, I'm giving them two weeks. Then I ask, if my current employer wants me to leave immediately, may I start tomorrow (or whatever day my present employer tells me to leave). I think that is the most fair way to do it, plus, you NEVER want to burn a bridge...you never ever know...
Had to read all the way down to the last paragraph, before they blamed "global warming" on what is going on now. Oh, the big bad boogie man carbon dioxide is going to kill us all! Yeah, keep reducing CO2 and see what happens to all the plants that DEPEND ON IT to produce O2.
Companies, especially those that are public, answer to shareholders. Shareholders want a return on their investment, as anyone would. It is the CEO's job to do that, however he has to. As for a CEO's salary, that is between the stockholders, and the board. Sadly, there are too few CEO's that would feel the pain, along with the rank and file, but, it's no ones business but the stockholders and the board. Also, with the looming "obamacare" look for many more layoffs, and reduction in hours as more and more employees are being shifted from a full time 40 hour week, to a part time 29 hour week. In a strange way, decades from now, perhaps we can get away from the employer provided health care, and put the responsibility back onto the employee to look after their own health care. Health care, paid by employers, started during WW2, as a way of keeping good employees during WW2, while most were off at the war. The employee became less and less aware of the cost of health care, because, all they were responsible for was "a copay". When perceived cost isn't a problem, you watch prices rise. Then, PPO's MMO's and the like, cut down competition because you are "locked" into a particular group or plan, taking away choice as which doctors you can see. Then, add the technology and so called non profit aspect of a lot of hospitals, and they end up over spending on things they really don't need. We have 2 big hospitals in my city. The city population is around 200,000, with a coverage area population of around 500,000. There use to be a thing called "certificate of need" that was required before they could add something, but it must have been repealed, or just ignored. It's like watching two kids. One gets a toy, the other gets a newer toy to shove in the face of the other. 25 years ago, one got a helicopter, then the other did, but a little more fancy one, so the other one got 2, so the other got 2 also. Then one completely built a new ER, so the other built a new one even bigger! It's nuts! I know several nurses over the years, working on office equipment at these hospitals. Some departments can get new machines any time they want, and other departments have to beg. I asked one nurse why and she said that some departments "make too much money", so they set other departments up, to help the low pay/no pay and they are set up to LOSE money, all to show their no profit status. Why is an "aspirin" 10 dollars or more on your bill? To help make up the write off for the homeless person that comes to the ER with a medicade card, that the government doesn't pay as much for, to make up the difference. Then, you add up all the tests they seem to put you through. Say an EKG shows a slight problem with your heart rhythm. See you in a week while they run 3,942 tests. Why? Because if they don't, and some 1 in a million event happens, here comes the "if you've ever been injured, you may be entitled for compensation" lawyers. So, when you add it all up, why would anyone want to be in business? Between the regulations, red tape, health care nightmare, stockholder issues, lazy employees or those that only will do a job for 20/hr with NO SKILLS, I'm surprised all jobs haven't moved to Asia.