I worked at one company for 18 years. Throughout that period they gradually changed their rating system. But it generally lumped people into one of five categories. Does not meet Meets most Meets company standards Exceeds expectations Far exceeds  For years I thought that at some point I would get the highest rating. But it never happened. I think the best I ever got was "meets standards". Many years I got "meets most". This rating means, we're not going to fire you this week, but if we come up with a good reason we might. Why would you keep beating your head against that wall for 18 years? Well supposedly I had a fairly high IQ , but unfortunately that doesn't keep you from being stupid .

2Pet.2   [15] Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; [16] But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet .

   

 Google is being a copycat of Apple. Apple never adds SD cards  Apple has no 3.5mm Jack  Apple charges $100 for more memory  (See the pattern?) Apple makes their own processors (Pixel 6) Apple focuses on the coolness Factor. (Pixel 6) Apple has fewer models  Apple sticks to high end expensive phones  Apple is applying theme colors throughout the GUI. Apple thinks they are awesome 😅😎 dude

 My first encounter with any telephone was in junior high. I was 13 and had never touched a phone. Eventually the girl answered her phone and went out with me. It was nerve wracking, all that phone technology, and asking a girl out. Fast forward to my first smart phone, a $50 little 4" LG model. At first it just sat in my pocket, but slowly the browser and camera sucked me in. After about 6 months it was in use about 1 hour a day. That's was a lot. Next came a Samsung Galaxy S3. It changed my life. The camera was decent, and the phone was capable of doing amazing editing tasks with an app called "quick edit". It has regular expressions, which made it a very simple web page development tool. It was my first real smart phone that did almost everything a computer could do. Then came a used Samsung Galaxy S7. It lasted 2 weeks and never actually got the SIM activated. The screen seemed dim, and the processor was faster, but really disappointing. Next was Xiaomi Redmi not...

   

 I currently own a pixel 2 XL. At this point it is a 5-year-old design. It still gets pretty good reviews on the internals even for being so old. Apparently some of the progress has kind of slowed down. Processor improvements and even camera improvements are minimal. It took excellent pictures 5 years ago and it still takes excellent pictures today. Having said that the pixel 3 and pixel 4 are starting to come down in price quite a bit. So let's talk about that. The pixel 3 has some improvements but nothing major. The big thing that everybody points out between the pixel 3 and the pixel 2 is the screen. The pixel 2 screen is somewhat faded looking compared to the typical phone. It's still very sharp the colors are still in color and it works just fine, but really it doesn't look like something that used to cost $950. Still that's what they sold it for. So that alone really doesn't make it worth upgrading to pixel 3. The pixel 3 screen is slightly bigger but the pro...