Too damn much light pollution now! I don't live in a "big" city...less than 200,000 but, the only stars you
see at night are Venus & Mars.
My parents live about 125 miles away in a small town of 4,000. Largest city of 50k is 22 miles away.
Once, I took my parents dog after dark, out to do its business and just stared up at the sky. My dad
looked out and came outside and said what are you looking at? I said the stars...you could actually
see the milky way. He said so? I said in a city, you are lucky to see 1 or 2 stars because of light pollution.
https://www.nationalaudiocompa...
Business is BOOMING. Not sure if they are into the mag tape storage/computer stuff, but boy do they
churn out cassette & reel to reel tape.
Someone commented on something on another board...said "to post"?
So being funny I found a photo meme of "a random post". The next day
the response was ??? I don't get it. Then I checked and the person was
from the Scandinavian region of Europe. There, as it is in many places,
"to post" means to stick it in the mail. Here in the states we say "mail it".
Language can be a confusing thing. I know many of the service manuals I
get, are translated from Japanese, to German (the firm that does all the translations),
then, to whatever language is required. The "00" first versions of the manuals
sometimes leave you scratching your head as to what they really mean.
Good! China has too many "poor developing nation" breaks. Level the playing field for a change.
Yeah, the UN (useless nations) will probably flood the airwaves with videos of the poor parts of China,
but won't show you the ghost cities. Cities the corrupt communist government wasted money on building,
then, abandoned them. Monuments to the stupidity of the communist regime.
If China were forced to play on a level playing field, other than their self imposed slave labor of around 1.5 billion
people, you'd see more manufacturers leaving China.
He's going to do, whatever makes him the most money. Unless 100% of their employees WALK OUT
he will continue. Even if they did, he'd just replace them anyway. Wouldn't slow down him a bit.
If the "police" use the tech, it won't impact him, so what does he care?
My boss bought the entire service department the dyna-tac phones to supplement the cell phone since they charged you
by the minute, plus, the battery didn't last long.
MY first owned phone was the motorola flip phone that had the huge piece that flipped open to reveal the keys.
Then I went for the analog Star-Tac, which was SUPER tiny compared to the previous phones, then the digital star-tac,
then the V60 and then graduated to the PDA phones until 2010 when I moved up to the smartphone with the HUGE (at the time)
Dell Streak 5, with a "whopping" 5" screen.
I've been involved with R/C for over 30 years. Always go out of town or a very open field with NO people to
fly my stuff. Now all these lDIOTS that take their quads out of a box, charge them, turn them on and suddenly...
I'm a pilot! They have no idea the danger those spinning blade have, how to operate them, no respect for safety
or anything.
Now, thanks to YOU morons, I'll probably have to get a license, be tested, pay a fee all because of these stupid
toys (not including the pros that fly these things for commercial purposes). I've been a ham operator for about
as long, and back in the "old" FM days, flew a black flag on my transmitter. Those old Futaba transmitters were
pretty good to, nothing like the Spectrum transmitters today, but still for the time pretty good.
THANKS a lot.
The trend continues. The bean counters would rather push something out, saving the r&d times & money on testing, and let the customers report the problems, and fix them with updates.
Granted, no testing can 100% make software bug free, but THIS probably could have been caught with proper testing.
I updated my home PC & laptop, no issues.
I've seen 10 year old kids draw stuff like this.
The only reason it is "valued" so high is because of the stuff shirt, nose in the air morons that pay that much
for this.
Oh well...not my money, really don't give a rip.
I'd rather have the bonuses & stocks
I know many people that in the late 70's went to work for "Wal-Mart" (now Walmart) that got paid squat
for an hourly wage, but went hog wild with stock options and the like, that are now retired and "sitting
pretty" when they cashed in all the stocks & what not.
People today, don't think more than a few months down the road. If you go to work when you are 18-25
and don't get "much" of a salary, but are offered a retirement plan, deferred bonuses, stocks & what not,
some if done right, could "retire" at 50ish and not be concerned about retirement.
This will SAVE Amazon a ton of money in the long run.
About every time there is a government shutdown, they shut down "non essential" people. NON essential?
Then why do we have them in the first place?
44k of "management" I guess means middle managers, along with their "staff"
I stopped rooting, when 4.3 came along...it was "good enough" and, I try to buy phones
outright, NOT from the carrier branded, feature stripped, locked down, bloated garbage
from the carrier stores. My last 4 phones, 3 Huawei Mates & the Essential PH-1 have been
"good enough" they didn't need rooting, and what few apps I didn't want, were easy to install.
I leave my phone alone, and don't jack with it. Install Nova Launcher Prime, the 8-10 apps
that I use other than the defaults and pretty much leave it alone.
The machines we sell, use to come with printed manuals. After 5-6 years on lease, they would come back to us.
70% of the time, the plastic wrap was still on the manual. With the PDF version of the manuals, which come on a
DVD, or downloaded online, they are searchable.
Our repair manuals use to be printed, until the late 90's, then they switched to PDF, which I prefer over the printed one.
I can edit, highlight, and most important, key word search them.
"People are less frequently buying new phones."
Maybe the "trendy" "hip" types have found something else to waste their money on that a new iPhone/Galaxy
smartphone year after year.
It is amazing that a minor upgrade, processor, ram speed, display, warrants prices as high as they do for these
things. Minus ad/R&D a 64% margin between build cost & retail price is something most other retailers would
DREAM of.
It's just "not worth it" wasting that amount of money on a smartphone.
I usually walk a large park on Saturday's and Sundays snapping photos of wildlife, flowers & such, and, it just
amaze me, the amount of people "tuned out" walking around looking for pokemon' stuff or just looking at their
phones, missing out on nature, and how QUIET is is. At least they are outdoors I guess.
Mr. Jobs is dead son...WE the board of directors NOW run Apple. Get use to it.
Now, it is ALL about profit and stock price, NOT producing the best product available.
Is the ONLY automated system I use. Heck, I won't even own automatic transmission, which is becoming
harder to find.
All these "creature comforts" are taking away your attention on the road. Add distracted driving from
eating, messing with a radio/phone and it's a wonder we don't have as many accidents as we do.
I'm still one of those ones that keeps BOTH hands on the wheel, when not shifting gears.
Driving these days, takes MORE attention, not less, and, relying on "technology" can get you
in trouble, ESPECIALLY if you do not know its limitations.
The 20-40 somethings I run into can't keep their heads out of their phones for 30 seconds.
Heck, you go into a convenience store, fast food restaurant, or multiple other businesses
when it isn't super busy, you have to wait for them to put down the phone, before they will
wait on you.
Not only that, a LOT of them I run into on a high school or college campus, can't speak in
clear English, without contractions, or slang.
I won't even get into asking them questions about math, history and the like, or writing something
in cursive to see if they can read it.
All "moral" after selling out for NINETEEN BILLION.
These are the kind of people, once they reach this "status" that: Attend all the high price social events,
travel in private planes, have gated home(s), huge security, have a staff to wipe their butts and on and on
that say that we need to "give this or that" to the citizens bla bla bla.
If he's so worried about anything, donate your money to the IRS to help bring down the debt.
Another rich smug liberal who now thinks he has a moral compass.
Kill off all the mosquitoes, and what happens to the species of animals that eat them?
What will they eat? If they don't eat them, will they survive? I'm not just talking about
frogs either. Purple Martins, and countless other birds feast on those little critters, as
to Praying Mantis, snakes, and other animals.
Yes, Malaria is a bad disease, and it was somewhat controlled until the flood of so called
refugees from Africa/middle east hit the globe, now it is spreading once again.
No, I'm not a eugenics type, but there was a reason the oceans kept some species of humans,
apart from another set of humans.
The world would be better of, IMO, without the likes of twitter, Fakebook, Instagram and the like.
How much false information, from both sides of politics have ignited such hate and discord in
the USA, for one, but around the world?
Now, with them "scrubbing" content THEY deem bad, it's just going to make it worse.
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Too damn much light pollution now! I don't live in a "big" city...less than 200,000 but, the only stars you see at night are Venus & Mars. My parents live about 125 miles away in a small town of 4,000. Largest city of 50k is 22 miles away. Once, I took my parents dog after dark, out to do its business and just stared up at the sky. My dad looked out and came outside and said what are you looking at? I said the stars...you could actually see the milky way. He said so? I said in a city, you are lucky to see 1 or 2 stars because of light pollution.
https://www.nationalaudiocompa... Business is BOOMING. Not sure if they are into the mag tape storage/computer stuff, but boy do they churn out cassette & reel to reel tape.
Someone commented on something on another board...said "to post"? So being funny I found a photo meme of "a random post". The next day the response was ??? I don't get it. Then I checked and the person was from the Scandinavian region of Europe. There, as it is in many places, "to post" means to stick it in the mail. Here in the states we say "mail it". Language can be a confusing thing. I know many of the service manuals I get, are translated from Japanese, to German (the firm that does all the translations), then, to whatever language is required. The "00" first versions of the manuals sometimes leave you scratching your head as to what they really mean.
Good! China has too many "poor developing nation" breaks. Level the playing field for a change. Yeah, the UN (useless nations) will probably flood the airwaves with videos of the poor parts of China, but won't show you the ghost cities. Cities the corrupt communist government wasted money on building, then, abandoned them. Monuments to the stupidity of the communist regime. If China were forced to play on a level playing field, other than their self imposed slave labor of around 1.5 billion people, you'd see more manufacturers leaving China.
Maybe the "new" has worn off, and now some civility can be established on the web.
He's going to do, whatever makes him the most money. Unless 100% of their employees WALK OUT he will continue. Even if they did, he'd just replace them anyway. Wouldn't slow down him a bit. If the "police" use the tech, it won't impact him, so what does he care?
My boss bought the entire service department the dyna-tac phones to supplement the cell phone since they charged you by the minute, plus, the battery didn't last long. MY first owned phone was the motorola flip phone that had the huge piece that flipped open to reveal the keys. Then I went for the analog Star-Tac, which was SUPER tiny compared to the previous phones, then the digital star-tac, then the V60 and then graduated to the PDA phones until 2010 when I moved up to the smartphone with the HUGE (at the time) Dell Streak 5, with a "whopping" 5" screen.
I've been involved with R/C for over 30 years. Always go out of town or a very open field with NO people to fly my stuff. Now all these lDIOTS that take their quads out of a box, charge them, turn them on and suddenly... I'm a pilot! They have no idea the danger those spinning blade have, how to operate them, no respect for safety or anything. Now, thanks to YOU morons, I'll probably have to get a license, be tested, pay a fee all because of these stupid toys (not including the pros that fly these things for commercial purposes). I've been a ham operator for about as long, and back in the "old" FM days, flew a black flag on my transmitter. Those old Futaba transmitters were pretty good to, nothing like the Spectrum transmitters today, but still for the time pretty good. THANKS a lot.
I use it daily. Yes, I've tried gimp and others, but they don't work for me, as well as photoshop.
The trend continues. The bean counters would rather push something out, saving the r&d times & money on testing, and let the customers report the problems, and fix them with updates. Granted, no testing can 100% make software bug free, but THIS probably could have been caught with proper testing. I updated my home PC & laptop, no issues.
I've seen 10 year old kids draw stuff like this. The only reason it is "valued" so high is because of the stuff shirt, nose in the air morons that pay that much for this. Oh well...not my money, really don't give a rip.
I'd rather have the bonuses & stocks I know many people that in the late 70's went to work for "Wal-Mart" (now Walmart) that got paid squat for an hourly wage, but went hog wild with stock options and the like, that are now retired and "sitting pretty" when they cashed in all the stocks & what not. People today, don't think more than a few months down the road. If you go to work when you are 18-25 and don't get "much" of a salary, but are offered a retirement plan, deferred bonuses, stocks & what not, some if done right, could "retire" at 50ish and not be concerned about retirement. This will SAVE Amazon a ton of money in the long run.
About every time there is a government shutdown, they shut down "non essential" people. NON essential? Then why do we have them in the first place? 44k of "management" I guess means middle managers, along with their "staff"
I stopped rooting, when 4.3 came along...it was "good enough" and, I try to buy phones outright, NOT from the carrier branded, feature stripped, locked down, bloated garbage from the carrier stores. My last 4 phones, 3 Huawei Mates & the Essential PH-1 have been "good enough" they didn't need rooting, and what few apps I didn't want, were easy to install. I leave my phone alone, and don't jack with it. Install Nova Launcher Prime, the 8-10 apps that I use other than the defaults and pretty much leave it alone.
The machines we sell, use to come with printed manuals. After 5-6 years on lease, they would come back to us. 70% of the time, the plastic wrap was still on the manual. With the PDF version of the manuals, which come on a DVD, or downloaded online, they are searchable. Our repair manuals use to be printed, until the late 90's, then they switched to PDF, which I prefer over the printed one. I can edit, highlight, and most important, key word search them.
"People are less frequently buying new phones." Maybe the "trendy" "hip" types have found something else to waste their money on that a new iPhone/Galaxy smartphone year after year. It is amazing that a minor upgrade, processor, ram speed, display, warrants prices as high as they do for these things. Minus ad/R&D a 64% margin between build cost & retail price is something most other retailers would DREAM of. It's just "not worth it" wasting that amount of money on a smartphone. I usually walk a large park on Saturday's and Sundays snapping photos of wildlife, flowers & such, and, it just amaze me, the amount of people "tuned out" walking around looking for pokemon' stuff or just looking at their phones, missing out on nature, and how QUIET is is. At least they are outdoors I guess.
Quite frankly, if I can't find it on DDG, I probably don't need it anyway. Not to mention how google ranks crap based on politics.
Mr. Jobs is dead son...WE the board of directors NOW run Apple. Get use to it. Now, it is ALL about profit and stock price, NOT producing the best product available.
they get it to 1.2 jigga-watts!
Is the ONLY automated system I use. Heck, I won't even own automatic transmission, which is becoming harder to find. All these "creature comforts" are taking away your attention on the road. Add distracted driving from eating, messing with a radio/phone and it's a wonder we don't have as many accidents as we do. I'm still one of those ones that keeps BOTH hands on the wheel, when not shifting gears. Driving these days, takes MORE attention, not less, and, relying on "technology" can get you in trouble, ESPECIALLY if you do not know its limitations.
The 20-40 somethings I run into can't keep their heads out of their phones for 30 seconds. Heck, you go into a convenience store, fast food restaurant, or multiple other businesses when it isn't super busy, you have to wait for them to put down the phone, before they will wait on you. Not only that, a LOT of them I run into on a high school or college campus, can't speak in clear English, without contractions, or slang. I won't even get into asking them questions about math, history and the like, or writing something in cursive to see if they can read it.
All "moral" after selling out for NINETEEN BILLION. These are the kind of people, once they reach this "status" that: Attend all the high price social events, travel in private planes, have gated home(s), huge security, have a staff to wipe their butts and on and on that say that we need to "give this or that" to the citizens bla bla bla. If he's so worried about anything, donate your money to the IRS to help bring down the debt. Another rich smug liberal who now thinks he has a moral compass.
In other words, we'll bury it in an obscure setting, mark it as to not be doing something, but will still be doing something LOL.
Kill off all the mosquitoes, and what happens to the species of animals that eat them? What will they eat? If they don't eat them, will they survive? I'm not just talking about frogs either. Purple Martins, and countless other birds feast on those little critters, as to Praying Mantis, snakes, and other animals. Yes, Malaria is a bad disease, and it was somewhat controlled until the flood of so called refugees from Africa/middle east hit the globe, now it is spreading once again. No, I'm not a eugenics type, but there was a reason the oceans kept some species of humans, apart from another set of humans.
The world would be better of, IMO, without the likes of twitter, Fakebook, Instagram and the like. How much false information, from both sides of politics have ignited such hate and discord in the USA, for one, but around the world? Now, with them "scrubbing" content THEY deem bad, it's just going to make it worse.