Apple does I'm sure... he is still a full time paid employee of Apple, receiving about $120K a year.
He doesn't actually do anything there, he just gets paid... well, because...
Woz likes to stand in line with everyone else and buy them because it makes him feel normal. He doesn't have Job's ego, and for that, I applaud him.
:) Yea, but MS Office "IS" the standard format... Open Office is not.
It is widely accepted that MS Office is "normal", so if you're not using it, well, the headache is on your end.
Open Office is nice and if you just need a personal set of programs to do some work in, fine.
If you have to then share those files with other people who use MS Office?
Meh, you're just asking for trouble. No matter how hard they try, files created in Open Office, saved, opened in MS Office, edited, then resaved, then reopened in Open Office, way too often no longer look the same.
If you're actually running a business and not just playing with software, those problems are not acceptable.
Office 2003 came out nearly 12 years ago...
It isn't coming back, let it go... it is well past the time to learn the Ribbon, since clearly that is staying at this point...
I honestly don't care about the start menu as much as some people do.
The stuff I run every day is pinned to my Windows 7 task bar.
I have 3 copies of Windows 8, I run none of them. It sucks for so many other reasons than the start menu.
Lets start off with... An OS called "Windows" can't run Metro apps in a window. Someone should be beaten with a stick for that one.
I use 3 monitors, I often have 5-10 programs open at once. I have no interest in a tablet/phone interface on my computer, I just want a simple flat desktop with my programs on my task bar and that's it.
If you take off the start menu, fine... what do I get in return? A full screen box fest? Meh, that isn't an improvement.
The sales of Windows 8, the uptake of upgrades, and the rolling back of the full screen Metro interface would seem to indicate that many people agree with me.
If it were wildly successful, they wouldn't be rolling it back.
Actually, I don't have a problem with the idea of a consumption tax, such as a VAT or sales tax.
Income tax? That is evil, that you would take a large percentage of someone's time and labor and hand it over to the state.
So yes, many of us to believe the Income Tax is evil and morally wrong. If it was within our power, we'd do something about it.
Does a "dumb phone" exist? Wouldn't it be more accurate to call them weak computing devices with few _user_ accessible features?
Yes, and directors have been using tricks and fancy effects for many years to compensate for the slow 24fps.
They should have gone to 60fps many years ago.
He is talking about the fact that you can download, more or less, any video from YouTube using a third party web site...
But those web sites don't always have access to every version of the video on YouTube and in this case, for sure don't have access to the 60fps versions...
So he is watching the 60fps version on the web site and downloading the 30fps version and getting all confused...
the only person who would see it immediately would be perhaps NSA employees entering and egressing
You seem to have forgotten that as modern Americans we have:
1) Cameras.
2) The ability to transmit photos worldwide.
3) Access to the work of reporters who can add textual context to those photos.
Even if the protest was seen by 50k people, what actually matters, is if it gets play on the internet, news papers, and/or television.
Seeing as you neglected to name it, its fair to assume you have a soft roader.
My SUV is a 2015 GMC Yukon XL Denali 4WD
It has a low range gear and locking differentials, so it is a true 4WD. Nice improvement over last year's model when the Denali had AWD only (no low range gearing).
But in this one, I can select 2WD, 4WD (auto), 4WD High, and 4WD Low.
But the point was, an SUV isn't safer than a small hatchback, in fact, it's less safe than a hatch with the same safety features.
Not if my 5,981 pound truck hits your small hatchback it isn't...
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SUVs and trucks in general have gotten a lot better over the past 10 years... What you're saying is all 100% true, 20 years ago... but times have changed...
It is worth pointing out that national statistics may not apply locally.
1 in every 7 pickup trucks that GM sells anywhere in the world... is sold in Texas.
This really is a somewhat unique market, our local roads are overrun by pickup trucks and SUVs.
Your small car might be better off in NYC or SFO, but not in Dallas or Houston it sure isn't, when it is surrounded on all 4 sides by trucks.
They have, they are the cool toy of the month... (or year)...
But the actual numbers are pretty small and will never get big until the price comes down by a whole bunch.
BTW, for those playing along at home...
1. this is a 40 mph change in speed
2. this is a 80 mph change in speed
If both happen in the same amount of time, the latter will hurt far, far more... the very airbags and seatbelts designed to help you may not be effective in that case.
I don't have hypothetical kids, I have three real ones...
It doesn't matter how well designed your 1,800lb car is, all the crumple zones and airbags in the world won't change the fact that 6,000lbs hitting 1,800lbs is just bad for the 1,800lbs.
For all that protection, the violence of the impact would be massive to anyone inside the small car, if they were in a head-on collision, the small car would be violently shoved in the other direction while the large SUV would probably just slow down but continue in its original direction.
What is more likely to hurt you? (assume both vehicles have everyone in seatbelts, both have airbags and crumple zones, etc.)
1. Going from 60 mph to 20 mph very quickly, but still in the same direction as before,
or.
2. Going from 60 mph in one direction to 20 mph in the opposite direction very quickly?
If the answer isn't obvious, you weren't paying attention in school.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
