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AMD Launches New Processor Socket Despite Poor Economy
arcticstoat writes to tell us that despite a poor economic climate, AMD is moving forward with a new processor socket launch, although they are trying to make it as upgrade-friendly as possible. "As you probably already know from the AM3 motherboards that have already been announced, AM3 is AMD's first foray into DDR3 memory support. As Phenom CPUs have integrated memory controllers, it's more accurate to say that it's the new range of Phenom II CPUs (see below) that are DDR3-compatible. However, the new DDR3-compatible Phenom II range is also compatible with DDR2 memory. As the new CPUs and the new AM3 socket are pin-compatible with the current AM2+ socket, you can put a new AM3-compatible CPU into an existing AM2+ motherboard. This means that you can upgrade your CPU now without needing to change your motherboard or buy pricey new DDR3 memory."
Uhm.... no.
You are taking that an 8% unemployment rate equals the actual rate of those who are unemployed. It does not.
First of all that figure does not include retired, children and those who for what ever reason are not interested at all in having a job.
Then you'll wanna figure the people how are willing to work but don't have a job or don't have enough of a job(sorry flipping burgers does not feed a large family).
If you take all the people who don't have a job but would like one you'll need to up that figure to at least one and a half to double or more of what it is now. (Note this is closer to how they measured in the Great Depression, though they also included all "eligible" workers and didn't include women.)
If you add in all the people who are under-employed those who has part-time work that need full time and those who have a job but not enough of one(or two or three in many cases) to fit their needs then you are looking at a figure of at least double that of the reported unemployment rate.
In short the percent of the population that has a job is closer to 60 than it is to 92.