Also, further - i started out on shitty money. I worked my arse off to get skills so that I can do a job that is worth more to an employer. Bitching and whining to be payed more when you are not going to provide any additional benefit to your employer is going to get you nowhere.
OK - please explain why an apple store employee should be paid more when they have a queue of people lining up to do the job?
If the pay isn't good enough, get some skills and make yourself more valuable. Asking for more money "just because" when there is a surplus of people vying for the job is not going to work - especially in a recession.
In a supply/demand environment, resources (eg, people) are only worth more when there is a shortage of them. There is no shortage of them.
Guess what? The jobs market, like any other is ruled by supply and demand. If there are plenty of resources to do the job properly for $X, why should the company pay $Y? Artificially boosted wages with crap like minimum wage, unions, etc just causes INFLATION of wages, which means everything you buy goes up in price to match your new inflated income. You/we all take home more money, but everything costs more, and look - now you're in a new higher tax bracket.
No. He's right. I've been continually employed for the past 16 years, have changed jobs multiple times (i've been head-hunted twice - other companies have approached me whilst i was still employed), and if you make yourself worth money, people pay you money to do stuff.
Life isn't easy. Or are you really implying that your employer should "carry" you, paying you more money for a job that can clearly be done by someone else for less?
The soviets lost the cold war and ran out of money because they were attempting to keep up with the US on nuke/military production without the benefit of having a fiat world reserve currency.
Point is, if you've spent the time and money on.net to learn and purchase books/tools - then of course you'll be pissed if it goes away. Whether or not you CAN learn another toolkit or not.
It works on Windows and Mac, which for non-mobile apps is all anyone in the real world cares about. I'm not saying thats right or fair, but the world in general, isn't.
Now seriously, you're under-estimating the ability of your standard user to install malware. Microsoft peddled or otherwise. The massive success of porn diallers in the 90s, and shit like Mac Defender just recently for the mac would tend to disprove your point.
Furthermore, i'd be careful about what you wish for. The level of debt in the US is so high, that its getting increasingly likely that your population will never be able to repay due to insufficient assets/resources available to repay.
If the solution is to stop giving free hand-outs, don't be surprised if the USA is one of the first on the list as far as the rest of the world is concerned (i.e., we stop taking your monopoly money as payment for real world goods).
That is co2 emissions. The GP was referring to energy and resource production. Last i checked, the US actually produces fuck all apart from shitty cars and treasury bonds (to import all their physical goods with).
This is simply because the fed has inflated your currency into the stratosphere, to enable your government to keep borrowing to fund shit like the war on terror.
I would strongly suggest visiting africa. They have plenty of resources to trade (gold, platinum, etc, etc), but the people are exploited by 1st world governments.
I work for an international mining company. In one evening (whilst visiting a mine in Zambia) I personally drank the equivalent in beer of almost 1 year worth of wages for a local laborer, who does just as much physical labor as a typical miner in a first world country, who is taking home anywhere between $80k and $150k per year for his efforts.
That is criminal - but it is also reality for the local people living there. The disparity in wages between different countries for what is essentially the same work can not continue indefinitely.
Whilst I agree, in reality that will never happen. The 1% have the money and the power to ensre that it doesn't. You're relying on them to voluntarily give up that control/influence at a cost to their own quality of life - which won't happen voluntarily.
And even if the current elite do, it is human nature to be competitive, so the current elite will merely be eventually replaced by the next lot of elite who game whatever system ends up replacing the status quo to bring themselves to the top.
Jobs wants to degrade the computer into a mere appliance. (Exactly what he said.)
Go actually WATCH the keynote, and take it in the context it was presented in. The "downgrade" (demote, actually) was simply in terms of where the source of truth for your content sync is. The source is the cloud, rather than your PC/Mac.
The PC (mac) is "just another device" in terms of pushing content. That was the context, and that's all that has happened with iCloud and Lion. It is still a fully functional machine, ZERO features have been removed, plenty of features NOT IN IOS have been ADDED. ALL of the IOS-isms are OPTIONAL (barring download of the OS from the app store) and can be completely ignored and not used by the user.
Apple copped shit over: removing the floppy drive in favour of cloud storage in the late 90s, the iPod, ditching legacy connectors in favour of USB and a whole raft of other things that have proven to be smart, forward looking decisions.
Steve's track record for predicting future developments and being there to capitalize on them since his return to apple has been pretty fucking impressive, and has $$$ to back it up. How about yourself?
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Also, further - i started out on shitty money. I worked my arse off to get skills so that I can do a job that is worth more to an employer. Bitching and whining to be payed more when you are not going to provide any additional benefit to your employer is going to get you nowhere.
OK - please explain why an apple store employee should be paid more when they have a queue of people lining up to do the job?
If the pay isn't good enough, get some skills and make yourself more valuable. Asking for more money "just because" when there is a surplus of people vying for the job is not going to work - especially in a recession.
In a supply/demand environment, resources (eg, people) are only worth more when there is a shortage of them. There is no shortage of them.
Guess what? The jobs market, like any other is ruled by supply and demand. If there are plenty of resources to do the job properly for $X, why should the company pay $Y? Artificially boosted wages with crap like minimum wage, unions, etc just causes INFLATION of wages, which means everything you buy goes up in price to match your new inflated income. You/we all take home more money, but everything costs more, and look - now you're in a new higher tax bracket.
No. He's right. I've been continually employed for the past 16 years, have changed jobs multiple times (i've been head-hunted twice - other companies have approached me whilst i was still employed), and if you make yourself worth money, people pay you money to do stuff.
Life isn't easy. Or are you really implying that your employer should "carry" you, paying you more money for a job that can clearly be done by someone else for less?
Write it to disk and let the os use its disk cache if ram is available.
Thats my point though. Flash is proprietary as well, but at least with silverlight you get better access to the microsoft .net stuff.
No. Are any significant percentage of internet users on free operating systems? Answer: No, not really.
The soviets lost the cold war and ran out of money because they were attempting to keep up with the US on nuke/military production without the benefit of having a fiat world reserve currency.
You totally missed the point.
Point is, if you've spent the time and money on .net to learn and purchase books/tools - then of course you'll be pissed if it goes away. Whether or not you CAN learn another toolkit or not.
It works on Windows and Mac, which for non-mobile apps is all anyone in the real world cares about. I'm not saying thats right or fair, but the world in general, isn't.
If you are already heavily invested in microsoft technologies, then .net pretty much IS the way to go for virtually everything you'd want to develop.
It is cross-platform. Its available for Windows and Mac, which caters to around 96%+ of non-mobile internet users.
I know thats not what you were meaning by cross-platform, but Java isn't available for the Amiga, either.
Now seriously, you're under-estimating the ability of your standard user to install malware. Microsoft peddled or otherwise. The massive success of porn diallers in the 90s, and shit like Mac Defender just recently for the mac would tend to disprove your point.
Which version? :D
Furthermore, i'd be careful about what you wish for. The level of debt in the US is so high, that its getting increasingly likely that your population will never be able to repay due to insufficient assets/resources available to repay.
If the solution is to stop giving free hand-outs, don't be surprised if the USA is one of the first on the list as far as the rest of the world is concerned (i.e., we stop taking your monopoly money as payment for real world goods).
That is co2 emissions. The GP was referring to energy and resource production. Last i checked, the US actually produces fuck all apart from shitty cars and treasury bonds (to import all their physical goods with).
OK, so 2-3 years ago, what was the alternative? Flash?
This is simply because the fed has inflated your currency into the stratosphere, to enable your government to keep borrowing to fund shit like the war on terror.
Citation needed.
I would strongly suggest visiting africa. They have plenty of resources to trade (gold, platinum, etc, etc), but the people are exploited by 1st world governments.
I work for an international mining company. In one evening (whilst visiting a mine in Zambia) I personally drank the equivalent in beer of almost 1 year worth of wages for a local laborer, who does just as much physical labor as a typical miner in a first world country, who is taking home anywhere between $80k and $150k per year for his efforts.
That is criminal - but it is also reality for the local people living there. The disparity in wages between different countries for what is essentially the same work can not continue indefinitely.
Whilst I agree, in reality that will never happen. The 1% have the money and the power to ensre that it doesn't. You're relying on them to voluntarily give up that control/influence at a cost to their own quality of life - which won't happen voluntarily.
And even if the current elite do, it is human nature to be competitive, so the current elite will merely be eventually replaced by the next lot of elite who game whatever system ends up replacing the status quo to bring themselves to the top.
Go actually WATCH the keynote, and take it in the context it was presented in. The "downgrade" (demote, actually) was simply in terms of where the source of truth for your content sync is. The source is the cloud, rather than your PC/Mac.
The PC (mac) is "just another device" in terms of pushing content. That was the context, and that's all that has happened with iCloud and Lion. It is still a fully functional machine, ZERO features have been removed, plenty of features NOT IN IOS have been ADDED. ALL of the IOS-isms are OPTIONAL (barring download of the OS from the app store) and can be completely ignored and not used by the user.
Apple copped shit over: removing the floppy drive in favour of cloud storage in the late 90s, the iPod, ditching legacy connectors in favour of USB and a whole raft of other things that have proven to be smart, forward looking decisions.
Steve's track record for predicting future developments and being there to capitalize on them since his return to apple has been pretty fucking impressive, and has $$$ to back it up. How about yourself?
Windows NT is over 2 decades old. Its time for something new.