I'm pretty sure it was layoffs, with a clumsy attempt to make it look like it wasn't.
Yahoo has no choice but to get rid of as many people as they can, as quickly as they can. We can assume from the article that they're doing it as cheaply as they can as well, using a system that other companies have decided is bad business, but why would Yahoo care what the staff think?
They're going to have next to no staff soon anyway, when the Alibaba owning bit is spun off, (which will need very few staff), and the rest is left to die.
Any phone without a micro SD card slot and a removable battery is of no use to me at all, and I will not buy.
The really fortunate thing with the whole Android range is that Microlith, Stormwatch and I can each buy the phone we want, with the features we need, usually at the price we wish to pay as wel..
There are other types of smartphone too, they don't have the same range of different models, but some people seem to like them.
As far as security goes, the manufacturers are hopeless at providing updates, but for the tech-savvy consumer, updates can be installed, with a small amount of messing around and a custom ROM. I know that's not ideal, and to vast majority of people won't be able to do it, but it is an option.
I don't really see how it is better. My question is why would I want to run GIMP in a touch interface.
That's the same confused mistake Microsoft made with Windows 8, is it a touch interface, should I use a mouse, what the hell are these great big tiles for?
I don't care about the whole diversity thing, and apparently neither does my employer, because when they wanted to show us how inclusive they are as an employer, and how they employ people of all races they sent five white middle aged males to tell us.
Oh, how the women and various ethnic groups laughed.
I'm an author, and I have no problem with this. In fact, I encourage it. Why should a generation find a means to profit off my work, changing it, manipulating it, doing whatever they want with it, soon after I pass? What a disgrace that could be. Have you seen how far removed these new Alice and Wonderland movies are? Gawd, completely off the point. Now people think of Lewis Carrol as an author and cartoonist, not the brilliant methmetician he was. There's also the drug/hippie flower-power relationship that was never intended.
Why would you even care? You'll be dead.
Also, if you don't like the current Alice movies you're probably not a child, which is the intended audience, as far as I can see.
I resent the fact that Mick Jagger's children will be living off continued royalties for their entire lives.
Every discovery like this pushes the arrival of humans in various places further and further back in time. Until recently it was thought Australia was settled about 30,000 years ago, but there is evidence now for up to 55,000 ya.
These sorts of finds are wonderful (IMHO) and the more we learn about our distant ancestors, the more they turn out to have been resourceful and clever.
I think I'm going to be having that conversation with my boss soon.
Management trots out all sorts of horse shit about the economy and whatever else they can think of to try to keep wage increases down, but meanwhile profits are up, profit growth is up and the company has something like $14 billion cash reserves.
They're going to have to give me some of it if they want me to stay.
I wondered what would happen if I visited New York State, as I don't live there and so I don't own a phone the New York police would be able to decrypt.
Then I wondered how many other people visit New York State each year, and came up with this
That's potentially millions of people who would be breaking the law just by visiting New York (and yes I know the figures are for New York City, not the State, the point's the same).
The whole idea is a really weird one. Too stupid to even get traction surely?
I assumed that too, as IANAL or even American, but even I can see the unconstitutional bits of any law like this one. I'm going to assume the legislator in question is not a complete idiot.
It depends on what you're interested in. One of the subreddits I browse regularly is a really nice community of like minded people discussing a sport we're all interested in.
Yes, as I said, I have no strong views about Patton, he won battles regularly. Men die in war and it's a general's job to send them to die.
My Dad for instance hated Churchill, because he could have negotiated a treaty with the Nazis in 1940 and Dad would not have spent the best part of 6 years fighting. I think my Dad was wrong about that and Churchill was right, but then I wasn't at El Alamein or Monte Casino and he was.
There's no reasonable argument against solar farms
N.C. State University crop science professor Ron Heiniger warned that the rapid spread of solar farms “may well be one of the most important agricultural issues of our generation.”
Heiniger’s call-to-arms, reproduced in at least one local paper, predicts that solar farms could shift land use to such an extent that “it is highly unlikely this land will ever be farmed again.”
Now, I'm not saying it's a good argument, but it is an argument.
I'm not really sure why anyone would care if a particular piece of land is never farmed again, it's a bit like complaining if a farmer changes from potatoes to millet.
I have no personal view about Patton's ability, but I have read of men who served under him that were appalled by his disregard for the lives of his men.
MacArthur however was treated with barely concealed contempt by the Australians (in particular) because of his grandstanding, and the way he was followed around constantly by camera men.
He also viewed the Australians as second class soldiers, despite their heroism in appalling conditions at Kokoda (for example).
He ended his career by being sacked after going behind the president's back during the Korean War.
That's what we did when we installed the WiFi at my kids' school years ago. We knew there were going to be a bunch of complaints, we even knew who the complaints were going to come from, so we powered them on after the complaints came in.
It did cause some unpleasantness, because some of the complainers were laughed at publicly, but the kids got WiFi.
I assumed it wouldn't work, because the Access Points had lights, and the lights were off with on power to them, but it made no difference to the complainers.
"Again, tell that to the thousands of believers who put Jedi on their census as a way of giving the middle finger to Richard Dawkins' atheist zealotry
I don't think anyone has ever been thinking of Richard Dawkins when they've put Jedi down as their religion. I'm sure that they're doing it as a middle finger to the Church.
I imagine that's what will happen, because if people want to buy these, then someone will sell them. If it's not the current dealers, it'll be someone else.
That means that the appropriate question should be directed to makers of electric cars: What are you doing to make selling electric cars as profitable and painless for your dealers as selling gasoline or diesel vehicles?"
Is the bit of stupid I noticed because that's not how the world works.
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Yahoo has no choice but to get rid of as many people as they can, as quickly as they can. We can assume from the article that they're doing it as cheaply as they can as well, using a system that other companies have decided is bad business, but why would Yahoo care what the staff think?
They're going to have next to no staff soon anyway, when the Alibaba owning bit is spun off, (which will need very few staff), and the rest is left to die.
Any phone without a micro SD card slot and a removable battery is of no use to me at all, and I will not buy.
The really fortunate thing with the whole Android range is that Microlith, Stormwatch and I can each buy the phone we want, with the features we need, usually at the price we wish to pay as wel..
There are other types of smartphone too, they don't have the same range of different models, but some people seem to like them.
As far as security goes, the manufacturers are hopeless at providing updates, but for the tech-savvy consumer, updates can be installed, with a small amount of messing around and a custom ROM. I know that's not ideal, and to vast majority of people won't be able to do it, but it is an option.
Turns out the Chrysler GM300 is made by Chrysler, a FIAT company.
Whoops, still awful experience, would not recommend.
That's the same confused mistake Microsoft made with Windows 8, is it a touch interface, should I use a mouse, what the hell are these great big tiles for?
but the overall trend has been decline since the height of WW2...
Not according to the Washington Post
You're awarethat the US has the world's largest military budget aren't you?
You're wrong.
Also for fighting endless wars.
the more terrorists your drone strikes recruit, the more drones General Atomics and friends get to sell...
This is the "military–industrial complex" Eisenhower warned about in action.
I don't care about the whole diversity thing, and apparently neither does my employer, because when they wanted to show us how inclusive they are as an employer, and how they employ people of all races they sent five white middle aged males to tell us. Oh, how the women and various ethnic groups laughed.
I'm an author, and I have no problem with this. In fact, I encourage it. Why should a generation find a means to profit off my work, changing it, manipulating it, doing whatever they want with it, soon after I pass? What a disgrace that could be. Have you seen how far removed these new Alice and Wonderland movies are? Gawd, completely off the point. Now people think of Lewis Carrol as an author and cartoonist, not the brilliant methmetician he was. There's also the drug/hippie flower-power relationship that was never intended.
Why would you even care? You'll be dead.
Also, if you don't like the current Alice movies you're probably not a child, which is the intended audience, as far as I can see.
I resent the fact that Mick Jagger's children will be living off continued royalties for their entire lives.
These sorts of finds are wonderful (IMHO) and the more we learn about our distant ancestors, the more they turn out to have been resourceful and clever.
Management trots out all sorts of horse shit about the economy and whatever else they can think of to try to keep wage increases down, but meanwhile profits are up, profit growth is up and the company has something like $14 billion cash reserves.
They're going to have to give me some of it if they want me to stay.
Then I wondered how many other people visit New York State each year, and came up with this
That's potentially millions of people who would be breaking the law just by visiting New York (and yes I know the figures are for New York City, not the State, the point's the same).
The whole idea is a really weird one. Too stupid to even get traction surely?
I know, it's a risk.
It depends on what you're interested in. One of the subreddits I browse regularly is a really nice community of like minded people discussing a sport we're all interested in.
Yes, as I said, I have no strong views about Patton, he won battles regularly. Men die in war and it's a general's job to send them to die. My Dad for instance hated Churchill, because he could have negotiated a treaty with the Nazis in 1940 and Dad would not have spent the best part of 6 years fighting. I think my Dad was wrong about that and Churchill was right, but then I wasn't at El Alamein or Monte Casino and he was.
There's no reasonable argument against solar farms
N.C. State University crop science professor Ron Heiniger warned that the rapid spread of solar farms “may well be one of the most important agricultural issues of our generation.”
Heiniger’s call-to-arms, reproduced in at least one local paper, predicts that solar farms could shift land use to such an extent that “it is highly unlikely this land will ever be farmed again.”
Now, I'm not saying it's a good argument, but it is an argument.
I'm not really sure why anyone would care if a particular piece of land is never farmed again, it's a bit like complaining if a farmer changes from potatoes to millet.
2 trillion in deficit spending that we switched from being the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor.
You forgot the corrupt selling of arms to Iran and funding murderous terrorists in Nicaragua.
Reagan was a dreadful President.
MacArthur however was treated with barely concealed contempt by the Australians (in particular) because of his grandstanding, and the way he was followed around constantly by camera men.
He also viewed the Australians as second class soldiers, despite their heroism in appalling conditions at Kokoda (for example). He ended his career by being sacked after going behind the president's back during the Korean War.
Petreus' end speaks for itself.
But until they get proper interfaces for hooking up storage and networking, they won't be of much use to anybody.
I wouldn't even think of using a Raspberry Pi for storage or networking, that's not what they're for, as you've discovered.
As a media player plugged into my TV running Kodi, it works really well however. I have another plugged into a monitor displaying a slideshow.
A desktop or even a laptop is not going to be as good for something like that because they're too big and power hungry.
I'm pretty sure Hilary is in no danger from the FBI, she's too rich and white to ever face court.
That's what we did when we installed the WiFi at my kids' school years ago. We knew there were going to be a bunch of complaints, we even knew who the complaints were going to come from, so we powered them on after the complaints came in. It did cause some unpleasantness, because some of the complainers were laughed at publicly, but the kids got WiFi. I assumed it wouldn't work, because the Access Points had lights, and the lights were off with on power to them, but it made no difference to the complainers.
I don't have any beliefs, but if there's evidence I'll happily look at it.
"Again, tell that to the thousands of believers who put Jedi on their census as a way of giving the middle finger to Richard Dawkins' atheist zealotry
I don't think anyone has ever been thinking of Richard Dawkins when they've put Jedi down as their religion. I'm sure that they're doing it as a middle finger to the Church.
Now I don't need to bother. Thanks dskoll.
That means that the appropriate question should be directed to makers of electric cars: What are you doing to make selling electric cars as profitable and painless for your dealers as selling gasoline or diesel vehicles?"
Is the bit of stupid I noticed because that's not how the world works.