Individual companies will - Tier 1 banks have already shed hundred due to the crunch and mortgage situation - but a nation as a whole?
As larger companies offload contractors, SME's will offload permie staff and bring in contractors - the same happened after the dotcom bubble.
Finding a permie job, as I was back then, was difficult as there were lots more folk chasing the same job, many more experienced, however I was turning down short-term (under 2 month) contracts almost every day as I was naive about the contracting market. In hindsight I could've spent the aftermath of the dotcom bubble in clover rather than on the dole. You live and learn though.
Rates will be different - a T1 bank will pay over £400 a day, your local just-above-a-cowboy web agency won't, more like £200 a day. Still equates to an over £40k annual wage with time off between contracts and holidays
So there'll be a shift in contractors yeah, but we'll be inconvenienced not unemployed.
As for the rates being lower, well that's because IT rates bubbled unsustainably around 2000 - market corrections happen all the time, and as long as you're earning £25 an hour or more you should be grateful, I certainly am.
Some places almost do - the NHS is fair filled with contractors as they're easy to get rid of without having the unions on their back.
A good rule of thumb is the larger the business, the bigger the percentage of staff will be contractors as its much easier then for a company to shape it's staff load to the amount of work available.
I'd be surprised if they start with contractors
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Can't speak for the US, but in the UK we're ideal for economic downturns.
We don't cost holiday, pension, bonuses or sick pay, we don't have loads of employment law red tape and we can be brought in for specific projects and timeframes and tend to come with much shorter notice periods.
Plus the public sector loves us.
We'll see a freeze in rates, maybe even a reduction, but if anything economic downturns signal a bad time for those in permie jobs.
Bob the permie coder might be on half my hourly rate, but if he's only got three months work in a year he's going to cost you more than twice as much as bringing me in for 3 months.
Given some of the crap that gets felched out to the unsuspecting public that they do have confidence in, I'm not really ready to use the studios are arbiters of quality
And really, the best outcome would be a brilliant flop - no chance of anyone pulling out a sequel from their backsides then
Discovering 'Watchmen 2: Rorschach goes Yoda' in production would be about as pleasant as finding a video of the other half getting gangbanged by AIDS infested midgets on youporn.
Thought the trailer looked quite good - although given how iconic the bloody smiley is, I was surprised I didn't see it there, unless I missed it.
Given the complexity and layers of the book, I don't expect it to be slavishly followed by the movie - in fact I hope it doesn't, and neither should any of the books fans as there's no way a movie could successfully manage that.
I want a good Watchmen movie, one that has the themes and idea of the book, one that always has something new to discover in it and one that entertains.
Simply copying the book would be even worse than van Sant's duplication of Psycho. I want the spirit to be kept true to, not the actual pages.
Pre-2000, most MS software could be activated with the universal 1234 1234567 key - I mean, did they have President Skroob on the board or something?
They weren't alone either, Macromedia's entire business model was predicated on piracy. Dreamweaver became the de facto HTML editor, Flash become popular quickly and Fireworks bit out a chunk of Photoshops then-market all because the majority of candidates for web jobs had experience in them, because they were easily to get your mitts on.
Just as home taping never killed music, mass copied Blob CDs filled with software didn't kill software companies, neither will pirating ever kill software companies or music labels. The sooner everyone got around to figuring that out, the quicker everyone can act like adults about it.
Not quite, your email address also gets used as a foreign key between Facebook and it's affiliates.
Fry all your cookies, but if you share an email address between your Facebook account and someone else, say Amazon, they can connect the dots that way.
Thankfully I didn't register my Facebook account with my Hotmail only-for-the-porn account. That could've made for some interesting advertising though...
Windows biggest problem is the amount of crap it gets saddled with in order to try and please everyone.
Just make it modular, fire out the basic OS for free and charge for the units. None of this umpteen crappy editions bullshit.
And do something to stop crap like sticking my 64-bit programs into system32, and my 32-bit programs into wow64. Surely something can be done with virtual directories to deal with legacy hard-coded locations?
There is nothing wrong with the concept of Windows, but the implementation has always left something to be desired, and frankly after almost 20 years of putting up with amateurish launches filled with security issues I'm tired of it. If it wasn't for the fact I'm tied to SQL Server and Visual Studio I'd seriously look into alternatives
The small guys are the ones with the biggest risks of dodgy gear attached. They attract larger sellers, ones who they can foist responsibility for legit goods on, the happier they'll be.
Sure, they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but the way they see it they've got another baby in reserve!
As for competition, if Google allied itself with a physical business with a presence in most communities, then yes. They could do a drop-off system where goods could be checked for legitimacy. The seller can either set up the auction details before dropping it off, or let the drop-off point handle all that for them.
Chances of that ever happening though are minimal.
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Yeah, death penalty's bad - just imagine what a state his family would be if they'd executed him.
Oh wait...
Well now, if that was truly the case the scumbag would sat in death row with his family still alive.
If low-security, open prisons are your definition of 'institutionalized' you've got a real problem with reality there.
Individual companies will - Tier 1 banks have already shed hundred due to the crunch and mortgage situation - but a nation as a whole?
As larger companies offload contractors, SME's will offload permie staff and bring in contractors - the same happened after the dotcom bubble.
Finding a permie job, as I was back then, was difficult as there were lots more folk chasing the same job, many more experienced, however I was turning down short-term (under 2 month) contracts almost every day as I was naive about the contracting market. In hindsight I could've spent the aftermath of the dotcom bubble in clover rather than on the dole. You live and learn though.
Rates will be different - a T1 bank will pay over £400 a day, your local just-above-a-cowboy web agency won't, more like £200 a day. Still equates to an over £40k annual wage with time off between contracts and holidays
So there'll be a shift in contractors yeah, but we'll be inconvenienced not unemployed.
As for the rates being lower, well that's because IT rates bubbled unsustainably around 2000 - market corrections happen all the time, and as long as you're earning £25 an hour or more you should be grateful, I certainly am.
Some places almost do - the NHS is fair filled with contractors as they're easy to get rid of without having the unions on their back.
A good rule of thumb is the larger the business, the bigger the percentage of staff will be contractors as its much easier then for a company to shape it's staff load to the amount of work available.
Can't speak for the US, but in the UK we're ideal for economic downturns.
We don't cost holiday, pension, bonuses or sick pay, we don't have loads of employment law red tape and we can be brought in for specific projects and timeframes and tend to come with much shorter notice periods.
Plus the public sector loves us.
We'll see a freeze in rates, maybe even a reduction, but if anything economic downturns signal a bad time for those in permie jobs.
Bob the permie coder might be on half my hourly rate, but if he's only got three months work in a year he's going to cost you more than twice as much as bringing me in for 3 months.
Given some of the crap that gets felched out to the unsuspecting public that they do have confidence in, I'm not really ready to use the studios are arbiters of quality
And really, the best outcome would be a brilliant flop - no chance of anyone pulling out a sequel from their backsides then
Discovering 'Watchmen 2: Rorschach goes Yoda' in production would be about as pleasant as finding a video of the other half getting gangbanged by AIDS infested midgets on youporn.
Thought the trailer looked quite good - although given how iconic the bloody smiley is, I was surprised I didn't see it there, unless I missed it.
Given the complexity and layers of the book, I don't expect it to be slavishly followed by the movie - in fact I hope it doesn't, and neither should any of the books fans as there's no way a movie could successfully manage that.
I want a good Watchmen movie, one that has the themes and idea of the book, one that always has something new to discover in it and one that entertains.
Simply copying the book would be even worse than van Sant's duplication of Psycho. I want the spirit to be kept true to, not the actual pages.
Pre-2000, most MS software could be activated with the universal 1234 1234567 key - I mean, did they have President Skroob on the board or something?
They weren't alone either, Macromedia's entire business model was predicated on piracy. Dreamweaver became the de facto HTML editor, Flash become popular quickly and Fireworks bit out a chunk of Photoshops then-market all because the majority of candidates for web jobs had experience in them, because they were easily to get your mitts on.
Just as home taping never killed music, mass copied Blob CDs filled with software didn't kill software companies, neither will pirating ever kill software companies or music labels. The sooner everyone got around to figuring that out, the quicker everyone can act like adults about it.
Not quite, your email address also gets used as a foreign key between Facebook and it's affiliates.
Fry all your cookies, but if you share an email address between your Facebook account and someone else, say Amazon, they can connect the dots that way.
Thankfully I didn't register my Facebook account with my Hotmail only-for-the-porn account. That could've made for some interesting advertising though...
Windows biggest problem is the amount of crap it gets saddled with in order to try and please everyone.
Just make it modular, fire out the basic OS for free and charge for the units. None of this umpteen crappy editions bullshit.
And do something to stop crap like sticking my 64-bit programs into system32, and my 32-bit programs into wow64. Surely something can be done with virtual directories to deal with legacy hard-coded locations?
There is nothing wrong with the concept of Windows, but the implementation has always left something to be desired, and frankly after almost 20 years of putting up with amateurish launches filled with security issues I'm tired of it. If it wasn't for the fact I'm tied to SQL Server and Visual Studio I'd seriously look into alternatives
The small guys are the ones with the biggest risks of dodgy gear attached. They attract larger sellers, ones who they can foist responsibility for legit goods on, the happier they'll be.
Sure, they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but the way they see it they've got another baby in reserve!
As for competition, if Google allied itself with a physical business with a presence in most communities, then yes. They could do a drop-off system where goods could be checked for legitimacy. The seller can either set up the auction details before dropping it off, or let the drop-off point handle all that for them.
Chances of that ever happening though are minimal.
Something for the rich and tasteless to sink their cash into, with any expectations of long-term success being relegated to wishful bar talk.
Also, it's a good browse spoiled.