It doesn't matter what a job was "meant" for. In some areas it's the best you got of a lot of unworkable options and no, not everybody can just move to a better place whenever the economy turns.
No, companies do not hire to meet demand. Companies first tell their current workforce they have to work harder, longer for less, or they're moving to China (or insert extremely low wage country of choice here). Then they subcontract out to some job farm to get whatever dregs they can scrape up who'll stick around an entire day despite the low pay, high expectations and no benefits don't ever think you'll ever get hired on permanently we know you're desperate aspect of the job.
Then they announce major layoffs to drive up their stocks and the CEO bails to let the next guy take over while he's in the Bahamas enjoying his golden parachute. And repeat.
...that 39 million to 73 million jobs in the U.S. could be destroyed, but about 20 million of those displaced workers can be shifted fairly easily into similar occupations.
So, anywhere from 19 million to 53 million US jobs will NOT be able to be easily shifted. And US job training programs are just world renowned for.. yeah, can't even fake lie, our training programs are useless feel good projects. I'd say you can always work for Uber but they're automating too. Well, good luck! Hope all those mysterious unknown jobs that the optimists on/. talk about appearing from nowhere are willing to pay a living wage. (More likely you'll get a gig job picking up groceries for some lazy ass who thinks a $1 tip is extravagant and probably detrimental to your work ethic.)
On the flip side of that, every major phone brand, particularly Samsung, Google and Apple, all have photo/email/sms/cloud apps, but moving from one to the other is a pain in the a**, so most people pick a brand and just stick with it. In this case competition looks good on paper but in reality it's vendor lock-in.
I'm gonna guess the Republicans are prepping to find replacements for all those wealthy donors who are threatening to abandon them if they don't get their tax breaks. Just threaten some corporations until they drop some free speech dollars into the right Super-PACs.
If the Army starts flying fixed wing aircraft, the Air Force has no reason to exist. They started as the Army Air Corps and split off as their own service in 1947.
The Army is not allowed to have fixed wing aircraft. That's why the Air Force exists. The Marines can't fly a plane that won't fit on a carrier. So if the Air Force did offer the A-10, they already knew neither service could field the plane anyway.
The Air Force does not scrap a plane for being expensive, as the F-35 demonstrates. The F-22 was shut down over politics and to fund, and justify, the F-35, as were the A-10 and a few other planes.
Take the A-10 Thunderbolt for instance. Preferred dedicated ground support aircraft of the Army. So to help nudge along the F-35, the AF killed the A-10 so they could claim that they needed a replacement ground support craft, and aha! the F-35 could fill the roll. Pay no attention to the facts that the F-35 is not armored like the A-10, probably couldn't handle the weight if they tried, and carries a pitiful amount of ammunition for its pitiful little gun.
I love the geeks who complain about KDE's stability or being bloated.. as if you run a real time system and painfully notice every nanosecond. KDE is a well built, well designed desktop that has been on Linux from the very beginnings. If it weren't for some licensing issues in the early years of Linux, GNOME would never have gotten started.
The fact is, if you have a wonky KDE desktop, it's because the people who maintain your distro are biased towards GNOME and half-ass their KDE builds. If KDE is so bloated and terrible, why is it that it has never been forked (other than Trinity, which is just a continuation of KDE 3), yet there's what, 3? 4? GNOME forks going, most of which were sparked by GNOME being such a clusterf*** to build.
ONE KDE environment is "bizarre and confusing" but 4 GNOME environments are not? Biased much dude?
KDE Neon is your answer. The KDE team put it together on a stable LTR Ubuntu core, likely because they got tired of all the KDE haters who seem to run distros.
Yeah, I don't understand that sentence. Mint has Cinnamon and Mate.. how are they not "bizzare, redundant and confusing"? After all, doesn't Ubuntu have those too?
It's amazing how much some of the community still can't get over how KDE is a better, healthier project than any of their GNOME babies.
Because a lot of Americans fall into the Libertarian "business transactions are between you and the business, not the government" trap, even when it severely disadvantages them.
There IS a reason besides fanboyism that Apple has 95% of the profits, and it's tightly integrated software and hardware solutions that do what they're supposed to, all day every day.
No, the reason is a 30% cut of every sale from the marketplace and doing their utmost best at preventing purchases through anything but the marketplace. It's called a walled garden. Apple could give away it's phones and barely dent its profits.
Also those "gimmicky" Android "toys" as you call them? They're introducing the features the next gen iPhone will sell you at a 300% markup and make you feel like you're an innovator for it.
Try being a little less of an Apple fanboy. They make a decent product, at a massive markup, and do their best to keep you locked into it. They have their downsides too, like changing adapter ports for no discernible reason other than getting to sell you all new accessories every few generations, complete lack of repairability, no SD cards, that smug sense of false superiority that makes it's users so so punchable because they fall for marketing bull.
Yeah.. it's not like Woody Allen makes and stars in movies. They hire Crispin Glover. Kevin James. Seth Rogen. Lots of not so stellar looking guys are movie stars.
Well, some Congressmen pimp slapped them and told them it's not gonna be that easy, which is why they're extending discussions. So maybe, just maybe, they won't get their way.
Considering that conservatives had to invent their own definition of truthiness and rely on alternative facts to create a world view that conforms to their narrative, you really can just shut up.
It's also funny how people on the right repeatedly insist that the only way to encourage diversity is to lower qualifications, almost as if they have internalized that women and other races aren't their equals, in a manor that could be called bigotry.
Except when the lead developer is a brogrammer who thinks giving out nicknames like "Monkey Nuts" builds team cohesion is deciding who has the merit, then i all falls apart.
GNOME was ruined the day they chose a half finished graphics toolkit because they were precious snowflakes and got triggered by KDE using Qt. In other words, on day one.
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It doesn't matter what a job was "meant" for. In some areas it's the best you got of a lot of unworkable options and no, not everybody can just move to a better place whenever the economy turns.
No, companies do not hire to meet demand. Companies first tell their current workforce they have to work harder, longer for less, or they're moving to China (or insert extremely low wage country of choice here). Then they subcontract out to some job farm to get whatever dregs they can scrape up who'll stick around an entire day despite the low pay, high expectations and no benefits don't ever think you'll ever get hired on permanently we know you're desperate aspect of the job.
Then they announce major layoffs to drive up their stocks and the CEO bails to let the next guy take over while he's in the Bahamas enjoying his golden parachute. And repeat.
Don't worry! They've got the us covered...
...that 39 million to 73 million jobs in the U.S. could be destroyed, but about 20 million of those displaced workers can be shifted fairly easily into similar occupations.
So, anywhere from 19 million to 53 million US jobs will NOT be able to be easily shifted. And US job training programs are just world renowned for.. yeah, can't even fake lie, our training programs are useless feel good projects. I'd say you can always work for Uber but they're automating too. Well, good luck! Hope all those mysterious unknown jobs that the optimists on /. talk about appearing from nowhere are willing to pay a living wage. (More likely you'll get a gig job picking up groceries for some lazy ass who thinks a $1 tip is extravagant and probably detrimental to your work ethic.)
Twitter was just moving SMS messaging from phones onto the web for public consumption, with the same character limits.
On the flip side of that, every major phone brand, particularly Samsung, Google and Apple, all have photo/email/sms/cloud apps, but moving from one to the other is a pain in the a**, so most people pick a brand and just stick with it. In this case competition looks good on paper but in reality it's vendor lock-in.
I'm gonna guess the Republicans are prepping to find replacements for all those wealthy donors who are threatening to abandon them if they don't get their tax breaks. Just threaten some corporations until they drop some free speech dollars into the right Super-PACs.
If the Army starts flying fixed wing aircraft, the Air Force has no reason to exist. They started as the Army Air Corps and split off as their own service in 1947.
The Army is not allowed to have fixed wing aircraft. That's why the Air Force exists. The Marines can't fly a plane that won't fit on a carrier. So if the Air Force did offer the A-10, they already knew neither service could field the plane anyway.
The Air Force does not scrap a plane for being expensive, as the F-35 demonstrates. The F-22 was shut down over politics and to fund, and justify, the F-35, as were the A-10 and a few other planes.
Take the A-10 Thunderbolt for instance. Preferred dedicated ground support aircraft of the Army. So to help nudge along the F-35, the AF killed the A-10 so they could claim that they needed a replacement ground support craft, and aha! the F-35 could fill the roll. Pay no attention to the facts that the F-35 is not armored like the A-10, probably couldn't handle the weight if they tried, and carries a pitiful amount of ammunition for its pitiful little gun.
I love the geeks who complain about KDE's stability or being bloated.. as if you run a real time system and painfully notice every nanosecond. KDE is a well built, well designed desktop that has been on Linux from the very beginnings. If it weren't for some licensing issues in the early years of Linux, GNOME would never have gotten started.
The fact is, if you have a wonky KDE desktop, it's because the people who maintain your distro are biased towards GNOME and half-ass their KDE builds. If KDE is so bloated and terrible, why is it that it has never been forked (other than Trinity, which is just a continuation of KDE 3), yet there's what, 3? 4? GNOME forks going, most of which were sparked by GNOME being such a clusterf*** to build.
ONE KDE environment is "bizarre and confusing" but 4 GNOME environments are not? Biased much dude?
KDE Neon is your new friend. Built by KDE on a LTR Ubuntu core.
KDE Neon is your answer. The KDE team put it together on a stable LTR Ubuntu core, likely because they got tired of all the KDE haters who seem to run distros.
Yeah, I don't understand that sentence. Mint has Cinnamon and Mate.. how are they not "bizzare, redundant and confusing"? After all, doesn't Ubuntu have those too?
It's amazing how much some of the community still can't get over how KDE is a better, healthier project than any of their GNOME babies.
Presumably the programmers who work there wrote a patch and applied it?
There is no real difference unless you constrain socialism from escalating into full blown tyranny or communism. Good luck with that
Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway & Belgium all thank you for your good wishes.
Because a lot of Americans fall into the Libertarian "business transactions are between you and the business, not the government" trap, even when it severely disadvantages them.
There IS a reason besides fanboyism that Apple has 95% of the profits, and it's tightly integrated software and hardware solutions that do what they're supposed to, all day every day.
No, the reason is a 30% cut of every sale from the marketplace and doing their utmost best at preventing purchases through anything but the marketplace. It's called a walled garden. Apple could give away it's phones and barely dent its profits.
Also those "gimmicky" Android "toys" as you call them? They're introducing the features the next gen iPhone will sell you at a 300% markup and make you feel like you're an innovator for it.
Try being a little less of an Apple fanboy. They make a decent product, at a massive markup, and do their best to keep you locked into it. They have their downsides too, like changing adapter ports for no discernible reason other than getting to sell you all new accessories every few generations, complete lack of repairability, no SD cards, that smug sense of false superiority that makes it's users so so punchable because they fall for marketing bull.
This is why I love AMD. Intel and nVidia start getting complacent then AMD punches them in the face until they catch up again.
Yeah.. it's not like Woody Allen makes and stars in movies. They hire Crispin Glover. Kevin James. Seth Rogen. Lots of not so stellar looking guys are movie stars.
Well, some Congressmen pimp slapped them and told them it's not gonna be that easy, which is why they're extending discussions. So maybe, just maybe, they won't get their way.
Considering that conservatives had to invent their own definition of truthiness and rely on alternative facts to create a world view that conforms to their narrative, you really can just shut up.
Look, stop bringing reality into the OP's John Galt fantasy.
It's also funny how people on the right repeatedly insist that the only way to encourage diversity is to lower qualifications, almost as if they have internalized that women and other races aren't their equals, in a manor that could be called bigotry.
Coding, however, is a meritocracy.
Except when the lead developer is a brogrammer who thinks giving out nicknames like "Monkey Nuts" builds team cohesion is deciding who has the merit, then i all falls apart.
GNOME was ruined the day they chose a half finished graphics toolkit because they were precious snowflakes and got triggered by KDE using Qt. In other words, on day one.