No one outside of RMS shares this extreme ideology. Most of the 1990s usenet groups for software were warez.
What got Linux to work was AT&T sueing Berkley for those net/2 tapes and directives like FreeBSD off. FreeBSD was already there and working and light years ahead of Linux for a full decade.
I know because I remember BSD and BSDi back in the 1990s in highschool for running BBSes. MkLinux I kind of heard of but didn't know exactly what it was until the late 1990s when Linux was the only OS.
FreeBSD was the new myspace and momentum was on GNU/Linux at this stage. In tech you need to be at the right place at the right time. Linux was there when the world wide web became available to the public and BSD unix came out during hte exact same time.
This is slashdot hairy they will bash anything MS related:-)
There is neowin.net is the anti slashdot for Windows folks.
But what the issue is according to Neowin is slow ring is subscription only. Many who like XP and WIndows 7 do so because it rarely updates. Windows 10 will have even and odd releases where home users will get blasted with updates and eveyr release and businesses can choose just odds or evens for a price.
Windows updates have notorious problems for crappy old enterprise apps. Luckily I have not been hit by one at home but at work I know they break lots which is where the resistance comes from.
Windows 10 should have less problems if developers use the newer.NET codes and apis which are managable with the updates.
Still number 1 and 2 need a filesystem. Yes the newer office tries to save to Ondrive by default but still. Even Joe Public does Turbotax and needs a real PDF saved and not gone tomorrow on his Android phone.
A good keyboard is good too.
PC gaming market is growing believe it or not according to a statistic by maximumpc.com. Basically the newer consoles are gimped with atom like cpus and a growing millennial generation. It is growing too as developers and video users do need real towers.
Also it is nice to have storage options to hook into cameras,phones, and external disks.
This is a fad like the netbooks. Not to say tablets will vanish, but rather they do not constitute a takeover. It is like the truck and SUV phase that started in the 1990s. Remember? Do we not have cars anymore? No we have both.
Pc users do not need to upgrade as much does not mean they do not use pcs anymore. Rather they have matured. Once the laws of physics hit cell phones in the next 5 years. Yes I said 5 YEARS TOP. People will no longer buy phones and tablets as what they have works.
If PC makers made great desktops perhaps I would buy them? Right now PSUs and motherboards have improved but not OEMs so I build my own for now. Yes I do recognize that as nich:-)
But the new pc will be Windows based if you need work done and will go from 9 inch atoms to requiring an external monitors to i7's.
It will and it won't be a tablet or chrome book or netbook that replaces it, it won't even be an iPad.
It'll be your smartphone itself. It'll be your work computer and your home computer all on one device with a bluetooth or some other wifi connection to pass video to a full sized monitor keyboard and mouse.
Aint matching my dual screen monitors and my raid 0 ssd and i7. Yes I am an IT professional, but others who need real work done at home (the original IBM PC users) will keep it run office and a real screen.
No a crappy docking station with the mobile version of office won't suffice. At that price you might as well get the real PC.
However, Windows 8.1 is great on a surface or tablet and Windows 10 can do both and run ported Android and IOS apps. My guess is it won't be phone vs pc. It will be one where a real Desktop and monitor is needed for real work and not a gimped OS with no file system.
What is happening is PC's are for the working people again and professionals and not just those who want to access facebook and browse the internet. Second, as we saw for the first time with WindowsXP refusing to die last year is that pcs are now stable and fast enough for light work use so why upgrade?
Poor people who are not educated who want to twitter with their friends may want a tablet and a nice phablet phone, but my pc is not going anywhere. Of course a fellow IT professional (80% of slashdotters are here so I made an assumption) means I still upgrade.
Windows 10 and 8.1 were attempts to go mobile. I finally got used to Windows 8.1 with a start menu replacement and started using a Surface. MS is adjusting appropriately to be a hybrid.
Once China and India's classes start growing some more you will see more young asian professionals buying their 1st computer. Last, millenials make up a large number of our population and our now buying new computers (the professional ones for college and entry level white collar work)
No one will work or as hard if he or she has no bills due.
Question for you? Who will build your house or apartment? What happens when their is a shortage? If there is no free market then how will new units be built?
What if you want a cup of coffee? Who will pick your beans and ship them?
You are sick and need a doctor? Who will study to become one? Yes some do so from the goodness of their heart. More do so to get paid which creates more doctors.
How do you manage shortages and scarce resources?
It would be paradise if no fear, hunger, poverty, or sickness. But that paper thin house of cards come clashing with reality
Since Windows 7 is not actively developed anymore and is in extended security only support does this mean office 2016 will require an OS designed for tablets?
The money saved in cheaper rents can be used to fly down or them fly up. Some may not like this and demand relocation but not all. In the 21st century this problem is less of an issue.
Detroit is HOT! So is North Dakota, and Austin Texas is trying to do some startups too. Boulder Colorado is another one.
There are very cheap rents, friendly local tax incentives, and with a low cost of living and a revitilized downtown it is a win for the employees and the employer. You can get a trendy bachelor apartment for half the price of a studio in SV and factories too are turning into office spaces that look funky too with bricks on the outside.
The rules of supply and demand will have to come down soon as only the top 4 or 5.com's can afford to stay with money to burn. Not everyone is a facebook or Apple with hundreds of billions in cash lying around.
This is precisely why I won't leave California. I will never sign a non-compete contract. Noncompetes are what made silicon valley exceptional. People moving from company to company is what makes companies great, and it distributes the top talent across all companies so they get what they need done at their most critical stages of development.
Some states are coming around to this way of thinking. Massachuttes, Oregon, and Illinois are considering severely restricting the use of non-competes.
There are 3 areas of reform in United States labor law which need to happen to fully engage employees and to ensure an level playing field:
1. Ban Non-compete contracts at the federal level. Use non-disclosure contracts instead. 2. Ban pre-dispute arbitration clauses. 3. Reform employment-at-will. Move to "just cause" like the rest of the developed world.
While I sound like a jerk here let's turn the tables? You use that silly web 3.0 startup generator on here last week and want to start that insect management cloud software startup? You invest 1 million to some employees to do R&D, research, and develop ex[pertise with the algorithms.
One of them leaves to compete with you and takes half your employees with him. He doesn't have to pay back that expensive line of credit from the bank that you took to develop the product. He undercuts you and goes directly to your customers! How would you feel?
The Non-Disclosure sounds evil, but it is not intended to mess with employees at all. They can leave if they are unhappy and work elsewhere. The point is to protect your IP and investment.
Well Silicon valley was so much cheaper than New Jersey in the 1960s so economics did the reverse.
All the good engineers lived in the northeast. 1960s titans in high tech are GE, Bell Labs, IBM, and some startups in Massachusetts. It was hard to find an engineer in Northern California before Mayfield changed this.
Now you are correct it is time for another correction but for some dumb reason people think the hills and the dirt are somehow magical and that some SV's demand relocation which is odd.
Detroit is a hot spot too. Cheap and a government who are desperate to give you tax breaks too and very affordable office and living space for yourself and employees.
Ultra expensive, employees can leave for another startup, employees demand 2x their national average wage, employees demand partial ownership, highest taxes in nation, lawsuit friendly, non compete clauses not enforceable.
I can do a startup in Texas without these problems for half the cost and low taxes. I can find qualified workers too and not just self-righteous college graduates with no experience demanding 100k a year too! Before I am labeled anti employee assholes I would like to say a 70k job in Austin gets you a nice home. I pay less in taxes on you too and we both win. Try that with 120k in San Francisco?
What made silicon valley was what Texas or North Dakota is today. Cheap land, cheap employees, friendly government, no one leaving for another startup.
In the 1960s Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey was where it was out. Now the reverse is true.
Economics should be encouraging companies to leave. This whole synergy argument is bullshit
There are sites that function without js in 2015?? Please, I do not use no script as it requires a crappy browser and UAC controls the hell out of me to allow. The ads are far less annoying.
You don't actually think they read the resumes do you? That is waaay too much to ask HR. According to that slick salesman from Taleo HR is liberated and can focus on more important things like uh firing people and getting coffee.
You see you need the file in an ancient.doc format which will use an algorithm to check employment dates and delete. After that it looks for grammatical errors which is flawed and will delete perfectly good candidates due to Taleos own bugs! Last use a score like excite and Google uses.
The top 4 scores get interviews.
If the software doesn't work then cry about raising H1Be crises!!
It must be that as Taleo is perfect I tell you?!
Oh it won't with a txt file. The software without formatting will parse wrong section.
I rallied around many unemployed and refused to apply with anyone who uses Taleo. It is insulting to spend hours applying just so the software can reject me. A 15 minute process always gets stretched to over an hour. However, everyone uses it now so my resume is SEO to get the highest score so I can get the job over more qualified applicants
There is. It is called Windows 7 and by the way even that is over half a decade old!
Why is it Microsofts fault that they bought software with IE 6 specific rendering probably purchased 6 or 7 years after IE 6 came out! Poor us we are the victims yada yada.
No sympathy and someone or somebodies need to be fired. Talk about bad management.
Posting AC because, you know... This is going to be unpopular, but It's the trajectory that I see in Tech management in large enterprises.
This isn't shocking. I built my career during the IT and dot-com boom, moved into management, and then into executive positions. I fear this path is no longer available.
Why? Young companies need competent tech workers who can perform, and they need them fast. Once the company scales and competition eats into margins and profitability, they cut cost, that means firing expensive domestic workers and using overseas/contract headcount. Disney is doing the mechanically rational thing for a mature public company.
"Fucking evil management", you say? Well, grow up kiddies. This is what the board, shareholders, and investors demand - increased YoY profitability, which can be achieved, partly, by cutting costs.
This will continue. It will get worse. It's a race to the bottom, so get used to it. The barriers to becoming an IT worker have vanished, and people can work globally. You don't like it? Unionize or advocate trade barriers (which IT will not do), but business will seek the lowest cost option to achieve their business objectives.
Oh, and just wait until AI/automation scales up... My prediction: IT as a profession won't be around in 5 years.
Load of gabage,
A decade ago I believe the scary posts like yours and wife demanded I quit programming as Indians would have these jobs by now. Worse mistake EVER! I would have been rich if I did not major in business. Going back into IT now but man 10 years of experience gone and starting over the past few years sucked.
It is 2015 and we were told by 2010 no IT would exist. Well much of it is coming back as demand is rising due to failed outsourcing attemps and management realizing with IE 6 and XP last year they fucked up by being shoe strung budgets that hampered their basic infrastructures for too long. Programmers today are pulling in $65,000 a year WITH 0 EXPERIENCE!
Perhaps if you could spell dying correctly your skills would be more valued to your employer over an Indian?
Who do you think you are to tell someone else how to run their company?
Let me ask you this? Did you drink Coffee today? Who mows your lawn? Do you eat out at expensive restaurants every lunch? No? Then how are you any different?
You paid someone little wages picking your coffee beans. A Mexican probably mows your lawn. You go to fast food for lunch to save money and pay an immigrant a could portion of the time to spend $7 and not $19 at Chillis etc. Why is this any different? It is tyranny for the government to get involved and if these workers can not compete with a college kid who barely speaks English with no plumbing after years of experience it sounds to me they were overpaid anyway.
With out them we can be replaced by contractors and it's the contract firm that is the one useing the H1B's
Problem with that is you that you would create the Walmart effect. Go Google Walmart closes dozens of stores? Why? Local unions won in 4 states. All of the sudden they mysteriously had to close due to plumbing issues for 4 months at a time in the same areas. Uh how did that happen?
There are so many IT positions available and not enough jobs that unions are not needed. Ask any recruiter and he or she will tell you how hard it is to find someone that can even hold onto a job for more than1 year as everyone is employed. I found the argument BS.
Let's say theoretically you are right? There are not enough jobs. Wages pay about $10 - $15 an hour (since they do not we know IT still has jobs lefts unfilled because of high wages) and we unionize. All of the sudden no IT jobs at all would be here. With telecommunications equipment we would become 100% Indian and would just suffer the productivity losses and business process changes to not pay.
At the end of the day the customer always decides the demand. Not the other way around. In this case the customer is the employer and if he can find a way to find someone just as qualified for cheaper he should be rewarded for this. Are you really saying you do not have the skillsets as someone with no plumbing and language barrier issues who is fresh out of school?? If so the problem is you.
Companies hire Americans because we know more and are right there with better business processes and the employer is willing to pay extra for this. It is capitalism.
Actually I was thinking Edge will still decline due to the icon.
Yes Mom and Grandma will still click on it out of habit, but the millenial generation won't even give it a chance. They will see the E and think of IE 7 at work and go eww and click on Chrome instead etc.
Google already discontinued Chrome for XP didn't they?
Instead of expecting a lot of complaints with Chrome rendering funny since they have an older version I think their computers will die sooner. Capacitors and hard disks only last for so long and after 8 years rapidly start breaking down. It is not like you can install XP on a modern system today anyway. So this means those rapidly dying are from 2008 the last year of Vista.
By next year the 2009 era pcs will start going away in droves and by then Windows 7 would have been the default OS,
Good lord no one should use a OS this old. No do not give me quotes about your mainframes at work as they do not count as an internet enabled device that requires modern programs to be backported to.
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BSD worked. Linux did not in 1991. You needed to load Minux 1st.
No one outside of RMS shares this extreme ideology. Most of the 1990s usenet groups for software were warez.
What got Linux to work was AT&T sueing Berkley for those net/2 tapes and directives like FreeBSD off. FreeBSD was already there and working and light years ahead of Linux for a full decade.
We would probably be using FreeBSD by now.
I know because I remember BSD and BSDi back in the 1990s in highschool for running BBSes. MkLinux I kind of heard of but didn't know exactly what it was until the late 1990s when Linux was the only OS.
FreeBSD was the new myspace and momentum was on GNU/Linux at this stage. In tech you need to be at the right place at the right time. Linux was there when the world wide web became available to the public and BSD unix came out during hte exact same time.
This is slashdot hairy they will bash anything MS related :-)
There is neowin.net is the anti slashdot for Windows folks.
But what the issue is according to Neowin is slow ring is subscription only. Many who like XP and WIndows 7 do so because it rarely updates. Windows 10 will have even and odd releases where home users will get blasted with updates and eveyr release and businesses can choose just odds or evens for a price.
Windows updates have notorious problems for crappy old enterprise apps. Luckily I have not been hit by one at home but at work I know they break lots which is where the resistance comes from.
Windows 10 should have less problems if developers use the newer .NET codes and apis which are managable with the updates.
Still number 1 and 2 need a filesystem. Yes the newer office tries to save to Ondrive by default but still. Even Joe Public does Turbotax and needs a real PDF saved and not gone tomorrow on his Android phone.
A good keyboard is good too.
PC gaming market is growing believe it or not according to a statistic by maximumpc.com. Basically the newer consoles are gimped with atom like cpus and a growing millennial generation. It is growing too as developers and video users do need real towers.
Also it is nice to have storage options to hook into cameras,phones, and external disks.
This is a fad like the netbooks. Not to say tablets will vanish, but rather they do not constitute a takeover. It is like the truck and SUV phase that started in the 1990s. Remember? Do we not have cars anymore? No we have both.
Pc users do not need to upgrade as much does not mean they do not use pcs anymore. Rather they have matured. Once the laws of physics hit cell phones in the next 5 years. Yes I said 5 YEARS TOP. People will no longer buy phones and tablets as what they have works.
If PC makers made great desktops perhaps I would buy them? Right now PSUs and motherboards have improved but not OEMs so I build my own for now. Yes I do recognize that as nich :-)
But the new pc will be Windows based if you need work done and will go from 9 inch atoms to requiring an external monitors to i7's.
The surface is really just a thin PC.
It will and it won't be a tablet or chrome book or netbook that replaces it, it won't even be an iPad.
It'll be your smartphone itself. It'll be your work computer and your home computer all on one device with a bluetooth or some other wifi connection to pass video to a full sized monitor keyboard and mouse.
Aint matching my dual screen monitors and my raid 0 ssd and i7. Yes I am an IT professional, but others who need real work done at home (the original IBM PC users) will keep it run office and a real screen.
No a crappy docking station with the mobile version of office won't suffice. At that price you might as well get the real PC.
However, Windows 8.1 is great on a surface or tablet and Windows 10 can do both and run ported Android and IOS apps. My guess is it won't be phone vs pc. It will be one where a real Desktop and monitor is needed for real work and not a gimped OS with no file system.
Home PC's are going no where.
No my phone is not a real PC.
What is happening is PC's are for the working people again and professionals and not just those who want to access facebook and browse the internet. Second, as we saw for the first time with WindowsXP refusing to die last year is that pcs are now stable and fast enough for light work use so why upgrade?
Poor people who are not educated who want to twitter with their friends may want a tablet and a nice phablet phone, but my pc is not going anywhere. Of course a fellow IT professional (80% of slashdotters are here so I made an assumption) means I still upgrade.
Windows 10 and 8.1 were attempts to go mobile. I finally got used to Windows 8.1 with a start menu replacement and started using a Surface. MS is adjusting appropriately to be a hybrid.
Once China and India's classes start growing some more you will see more young asian professionals buying their 1st computer. Last, millenials make up a large number of our population and our now buying new computers (the professional ones for college and entry level white collar work)
No it does not.
No one will work or as hard if he or she has no bills due.
Question for you? Who will build your house or apartment? What happens when their is a shortage? If there is no free market then how will new units be built?
What if you want a cup of coffee? Who will pick your beans and ship them?
You are sick and need a doctor? Who will study to become one? Yes some do so from the goodness of their heart. More do so to get paid which creates more doctors.
How do you manage shortages and scarce resources?
It would be paradise if no fear, hunger, poverty, or sickness. But that paper thin house of cards come clashing with reality
Since Windows 7 is not actively developed anymore and is in extended security only support does this mean office 2016 will require an OS designed for tablets?
There is this thing called Skype and planes.
The money saved in cheaper rents can be used to fly down or them fly up. Some may not like this and demand relocation but not all. In the 21st century this problem is less of an issue.
Detroit is HOT! So is North Dakota, and Austin Texas is trying to do some startups too. Boulder Colorado is another one.
There are very cheap rents, friendly local tax incentives, and with a low cost of living and a revitilized downtown it is a win for the employees and the employer. You can get a trendy bachelor apartment for half the price of a studio in SV and factories too are turning into office spaces that look funky too with bricks on the outside.
The rules of supply and demand will have to come down soon as only the top 4 or 5 .com's can afford to stay with money to burn. Not everyone is a facebook or Apple with hundreds of billions in cash lying around.
This is precisely why I won't leave California. I will never sign a non-compete contract. Noncompetes are what made silicon valley exceptional. People moving from company to company is what makes companies great, and it distributes the top talent across all companies so they get what they need done at their most
critical stages of development.
Some states are coming around to this way of thinking. Massachuttes, Oregon, and Illinois are considering severely restricting the use of non-competes.
There are 3 areas of reform in United States labor law which need to happen to fully engage employees and to ensure an level playing field:
1. Ban Non-compete contracts at the federal level. Use non-disclosure contracts instead.
2. Ban pre-dispute arbitration clauses.
3. Reform employment-at-will. Move to "just cause" like the rest of the developed world.
While I sound like a jerk here let's turn the tables? You use that silly web 3.0 startup generator on here last week and want to start that insect management cloud software startup? You invest 1 million to some employees to do R&D, research, and develop ex[pertise with the algorithms.
One of them leaves to compete with you and takes half your employees with him. He doesn't have to pay back that expensive line of credit from the bank that you took to develop the product. He undercuts you and goes directly to your customers! How would you feel?
The Non-Disclosure sounds evil, but it is not intended to mess with employees at all. They can leave if they are unhappy and work elsewhere. The point is to protect your IP and investment.
Well Silicon valley was so much cheaper than New Jersey in the 1960s so economics did the reverse.
All the good engineers lived in the northeast. 1960s titans in high tech are GE, Bell Labs, IBM, and some startups in Massachusetts. It was hard to find an engineer in Northern California before Mayfield changed this.
Now you are correct it is time for another correction but for some dumb reason people think the hills and the dirt are somehow magical and that some SV's demand relocation which is odd.
Detroit is a hot spot too. Cheap and a government who are desperate to give you tax breaks too and very affordable office and living space for yourself and employees.
Ultra expensive, employees can leave for another startup, employees demand 2x their national average wage, employees demand partial ownership, highest taxes in nation, lawsuit friendly, non compete clauses not enforceable.
I can do a startup in Texas without these problems for half the cost and low taxes. I can find qualified workers too and not just self-righteous college graduates with no experience demanding 100k a year too! Before I am labeled anti employee assholes I would like to say a 70k job in Austin gets you a nice home. I pay less in taxes on you too and we both win. Try that with 120k in San Francisco?
What made silicon valley was what Texas or North Dakota is today. Cheap land, cheap employees, friendly government, no one leaving for another startup.
In the 1960s Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey was where it was out. Now the reverse is true.
Economics should be encouraging companies to leave. This whole synergy argument is bullshit
Really?
There are sites that function without js in 2015?? Please, I do not use no script as it requires a crappy browser and UAC controls the hell out of me to allow. The ads are far less annoying.
Seems adblockers are the more realistic option
Son
You don't actually think they read the resumes do you? That is waaay too much to ask HR. According to that slick salesman from Taleo HR is liberated and can focus on more important things like uh firing people and getting coffee.
You see you need the file in an ancient .doc format which will use an algorithm to check employment dates and delete. After that it looks for grammatical errors which is flawed and will delete perfectly good candidates due to Taleos own bugs! Last use a score like excite and Google uses.
The top 4 scores get interviews.
If the software doesn't work then cry about raising H1Be crises!!
It must be that as Taleo is perfect I tell you?!
Oh it won't with a txt file. The software without formatting will parse wrong section.
I rallied around many unemployed and refused to apply with anyone who uses Taleo. It is insulting to spend hours applying just so the software can reject me. A 15 minute process always gets stretched to over an hour. However, everyone uses it now so my resume is SEO to get the highest score so I can get the job over more qualified applicants
No thank you!
It most certainly is a fork
Just re branded with node.js replaced with a fork and Chromium as a viewer. Never thought I would see MS use Chrome.
But applause as MS is truly adopting to open source
There is. It is called Windows 7 and by the way even that is over half a decade old!
Why is it Microsofts fault that they bought software with IE 6 specific rendering probably purchased 6 or 7 years after IE 6 came out! Poor us we are the victims yada yada.
No sympathy and someone or somebodies need to be fired. Talk about bad management.
Posting AC because, you know... This is going to be unpopular, but It's the trajectory that I see in Tech management in large enterprises.
This isn't shocking. I built my career during the IT and dot-com boom, moved into management, and then into executive positions. I fear this path is no longer available.
Why? Young companies need competent tech workers who can perform, and they need them fast. Once the company scales and competition eats into margins and profitability, they cut cost, that means firing expensive domestic workers and using overseas/contract headcount. Disney is doing the mechanically rational thing for a mature public company.
"Fucking evil management", you say? Well, grow up kiddies. This is what the board, shareholders, and investors demand - increased YoY profitability, which can be achieved, partly, by cutting costs.
This will continue. It will get worse. It's a race to the bottom, so get used to it. The barriers to becoming an IT worker have vanished, and people can work globally. You don't like it? Unionize or advocate trade barriers (which IT will not do), but business will seek the lowest cost option to achieve their business objectives.
Oh, and just wait until AI/automation scales up... My prediction: IT as a profession won't be around in 5 years.
Load of gabage,
A decade ago I believe the scary posts like yours and wife demanded I quit programming as Indians would have these jobs by now. Worse mistake EVER! I would have been rich if I did not major in business. Going back into IT now but man 10 years of experience gone and starting over the past few years sucked.
It is 2015 and we were told by 2010 no IT would exist. Well much of it is coming back as demand is rising due to failed outsourcing attemps and management realizing with IE 6 and XP last year they fucked up by being shoe strung budgets that hampered their basic infrastructures for too long. Programmers today are pulling in $65,000 a year WITH 0 EXPERIENCE!
Perhaps if you could spell dying correctly your skills would be more valued to your employer over an Indian?
Who do you think you are to tell someone else how to run their company?
Let me ask you this? Did you drink Coffee today? Who mows your lawn? Do you eat out at expensive restaurants every lunch? No? Then how are you any different?
You paid someone little wages picking your coffee beans. A Mexican probably mows your lawn. You go to fast food for lunch to save money and pay an immigrant a could portion of the time to spend $7 and not $19 at Chillis etc. Why is this any different? It is tyranny for the government to get involved and if these workers can not compete with a college kid who barely speaks English with no plumbing after years of experience it sounds to me they were overpaid anyway.
With out them we can be replaced by contractors and it's the contract firm that is the one useing the H1B's
Problem with that is you that you would create the Walmart effect. Go Google Walmart closes dozens of stores? Why? Local unions won in 4 states. All of the sudden they mysteriously had to close due to plumbing issues for 4 months at a time in the same areas. Uh how did that happen?
There are so many IT positions available and not enough jobs that unions are not needed. Ask any recruiter and he or she will tell you how hard it is to find someone that can even hold onto a job for more than1 year as everyone is employed. I found the argument BS.
Let's say theoretically you are right? There are not enough jobs. Wages pay about $10 - $15 an hour (since they do not we know IT still has jobs lefts unfilled because of high wages) and we unionize. All of the sudden no IT jobs at all would be here. With telecommunications equipment we would become 100% Indian and would just suffer the productivity losses and business process changes to not pay.
At the end of the day the customer always decides the demand. Not the other way around. In this case the customer is the employer and if he can find a way to find someone just as qualified for cheaper he should be rewarded for this. Are you really saying you do not have the skillsets as someone with no plumbing and language barrier issues who is fresh out of school?? If so the problem is you.
Companies hire Americans because we know more and are right there with better business processes and the employer is willing to pay extra for this. It is capitalism.
Actually I was thinking Edge will still decline due to the icon.
Yes Mom and Grandma will still click on it out of habit, but the millenial generation won't even give it a chance. They will see the E and think of IE 7 at work and go eww and click on Chrome instead etc.
Google already discontinued Chrome for XP didn't they?
Instead of expecting a lot of complaints with Chrome rendering funny since they have an older version I think their computers will die sooner. Capacitors and hard disks only last for so long and after 8 years rapidly start breaking down. It is not like you can install XP on a modern system today anyway. So this means those rapidly dying are from 2008 the last year of Vista.
By next year the 2009 era pcs will start going away in droves and by then Windows 7 would have been the default OS,
Good lord no one should use a OS this old. No do not give me quotes about your mainframes at work as they do not count as an internet enabled device that requires modern programs to be backported to.