Get the professional version. FYI got to PC Settings->Updates -> Pick a time Window.
By default Windows 10 updates will only install after it finds out when you typically never use the PC. But Windows 10 will not auto reboot. It does so after you ignore updates for 2 days
Is to talk to another person, and be able to hear and understand them. Maybe the smartphone manufacturers could concentrate on the audio quality and intelligibility of phone conversations using their equipment...
Yeah in 1995.
I NEED IT for google maps, finding out if places closed via "Ok. Google when does x close", bluetooth to get directions while I drive, post on slashdot, check in at the airport, text message, and many many things.
A phone is a computer and the new computer for everyone with the exception for work content creators. But you can do light content creation on a phone fine for a tiny task.
Soviet Union failed because there were no incentives to work hard if no reward would come. People who get unemployment checks typically do not work hard getting another job until it is about out according to statistics. Yes some brilliant and passionate individuals would seek. Most would do things that society would not need and resources will go unallocated just like that video above showed.
Karl Marx never even had a job and had an inheritance. He knew little how the real world worked. Also a strong government is needed to enslave and force people to work which is tyranny where the point of communism was lost in the 1st place just to get some productivity up.
Yeah this looks like a paradise? Perhaps if you ask someone from Eastern Europe what they think of Bernie Sanders and those kids wearing CHE Guevara shirts? They shake their heads as they are ignorant. There is a reason Florida Cubans are Republican unlike the rest of the hispanic community.
They lived under Communism and know what hell is like. It all sounds so great in theory but real economists like Milton Friedman proved otherwise
It was less technical reasons and more that they were arguing with IBM over chip pricing/manufacturing quantities and Intel swooped in and made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Steve Jobs did not want Apple to be held under pressure or hostage by anyone neither Microsoft nor IBM/Motorola. Apple for years had an x86 version of MacOS classic and naturally MacOSX as NextStep was native to both platforms from the gecko.
Also Intel had better manufactoring which is how they are beating AMD as with lower NM sized chips and Intel made LWISC computers and risc inside later pentiums. Basically the x86 instructions get converted to RISC internally in a wrapper. So Intel could offer the same performance and give apple more comptability with Windows which in 2005 was very important as less macOSX apps were around 10 years ago.
You must not work for any corporation then. Microsoft licensing the OS (and other software) on a yearly, renewing basis has been around for over a decade. They do want this for the consumer as well and have so far done it with Office and e-mail. They want to go on a subscription basis, only then they'd lose either to piracy or Linux.
No they won't! You are kidding me? The last thing MS wants it another XP which is what 7 is right now. A fragmented user base is a nightmare for support and developers alike. Apple and Google have free upgrades for a good reason. What MS wants is to offer services from WIndows. Hey want a 1 TB of Onedrive storage? Go subscribe to 365 etc.
Also not to sound like a shill but I do use office 365 as I get 5 free versions of Office professional and get free bonuses like extra charts and BI in Excel and extra darker and black themes updated every month that you and other do not have access too as a subscriber. It is more like World of Warcraft. Sure you can play for free but you get some goodies thrown in.
My exwife, gf, and 2 of my computers all have Office 2016 updated regularly for $99 a year and I get mobile versions and 1 TB of shared cloud Onedrive access for all parties. Not too shabby unlike the ripoff of Adobe.
MS has no intention of losing to the competition and yes locking ones computer with a payment screen would cause people to freak and open to lawsuits as that would be akin to ransomware really
it is a little more than just wanting a piece of the store apps. It is a lot more that the aging baby boomers who buy pcs are retiring and are old enough to hate change and never upgrade until it no longer works. The new entrants into the workforce are millennials who LOVE their apps, portable devices, mixing work and play, and want flat UI's and battery saving features so they can take their life with work and play on the go with apps that do everything.
Where does this leave Windows? Where does this leave MS in general? You old kneckbeards can keep your 7 boxes as you do not want to pay them money or want new features while the oldest ones thinking of retirement are clining to XP. Yeah that won't work.
I am typing this on a Surface Pro 3 with WIndows 10. I run Wireshark at work via an ethernet USB dongle for networking work. I do my typing on it in Outlook. I watch Netflix for fun on it while I travel or work. I read ebooks via a night. This thing is very thin and very light and decent battery life. It is the future.
So yes the push to Windows 10 is to remain relevent and crusty old Windows 7 has TERRIBLE battery life. Dismal Skylake support. No USB 3 or thunderbolt type c, NVME either. Ask any pc user afraid of change how well their NVME SSDs are with a 3rd party driver for 7. It is unstable and terrible as 7 is not modular nor tuned to run as a phone/mobile at the kernel level.
Seriously when you need a portable look at an ultra thing tablet convertible like the Lennovo or MS Surface pro tablets? They run Ubuntu too with a signed bootloader (yes you can turn secure boot off too) or run Ubuntu with a signed bootloader. I have the best of both worlds of a tablet, entertainment, and work device.
That is why MS wants to move. Not just store revenue
I owned one. A dirt cheap Nokia 820. I bought my elderly mom a Nokia 640 for Christmas.:-)
I LOVED the OS. For a cheap phone with 1 gig of ram it was very quick. Never froze. Had the best UI. Outlook worked well. The tiles were big and animated to keep me up to date until, I switched to Kitkat a few years later, etc. The big tiles and ease of use is why I bought one for my Mother. BIg easy things to read and it was cheap and ran well on low end hardware.
I own an Android now because I dropped it and saw the writting on the wall with the future of the platform. I do not want Windows 10 mobile as it is very buggy and many features were removed like zune music. It will be a year or two before it was stable. Windows phone 8 and 8.1 were very stable in comparison.
I like competition and wished it had 20% of the market so we can have more apps and innovate the mobile ecosystems. We will see
I have been involved in administrating both *NIX and Windows boxes but powershell isn't really something that provides any added value for me.
???
uh ok. I assume you have not touched Exchange or SQL server then or had to do offline domain joins on server farms or frankly do anything in droves. Powershell desired state configuration is ahead of bash and provides templates.
You can't manage thousands of servers with a mouse. You need Powershell or some expensive 3rd party tool to automate.
MS bought Cynagyn and has some tools in development to make android apps that do not use Google's proprietary AOSP store API.
No middle aged neckbeards Xenix is not the answer.
Rather, who is the market today and tomorrow? There are more millenials who LOVE their apps and portable devices as much as baby boomers and guess which one is entering the workforce and which one is leaving in droves? MS is in trouble and it's premier brand Windows has an identity crises. People do not care about WM's that mimick 20 year old legacy guis with sooo lame and outdated skuemorphic icons with no mobile support or startup daemon designs. They want ultra portable devices with flat UI's, hamburger menus, lots of small apps that are good for one thing (hmm rings a bell here from the past:-) ), and devices that function for both work and play.
I am typing this on a Surface Pro 3. I use it for wiresharking connections for Avaya and CIsco equipment at work with a USB ethernet connection. I use it to watch Netflix movies when I use my pc or traveling. I use it at night as an ebook reader too with my Nook app and I answer emails with Outlook. Yes I loved Windows 8 on it as it was designed for this. Windows 10 not as much but WIndows 10 INK with the anniversary update is perfect.
My point is universal apps for WIndows 10 will run on MS Android too eventually and it is why android emulators and tools are in Visual Studio 2015. No you did not missread that!
IBM changed when it lost. MS is now too to stay relevant. Yes MS has opened sourced.NET as well but they are embracing change and there are growing pains as WIndows 10 mobile does suck hard at the moment. Windows 8 phone I used and liked but left as I saw the writting on the wall. We will see if it is still around in 3 years?
And because AMD is fabless, they might be able to score some time at TSMC's 10nm fab when it opens this year (2016.) Intel will not be able to (unless both TSMC and Intel disregard unofficial industry rules, something Intel would want but TSMC would view as suicide.)
Intel has admitted that it wont have 10nm up and running until next year (2017). and has denied speculation that it wont be until late next year at the earliest. They managed to turn their 2 year lead into at best 6 months behind, and they cant even keep their current fabs running 24/7 these days (leading to 11% layoffs) because GloFlo and TSMC are killing them on everything but desktop cpu's.
Intel is suddenly not in a good position. They better pull a rabbit out of their research divisions ass.
That is the problem AMD did not expect. You are Qualcomm or global foundaries. AMD asks you to make 5 million chips for a cheap profit margin as competition from INtel is so fierce and winning on price for OEM's on their cheapest lines is the only win. Then Apple and Samsung knock on your door and ask to make 50 million chips and will PAY YOU MORE. Hmm which would you chose for your lines?
The answer is to tell AMD to shove it you care only about mobile product lines and until you pay me more and give me more quantities I will simply give my latest.14 nm and 10nm to Apple and Samsung. Bye... oh and I have htis aging obsolete 5 year old plant in China somewhere that is.28nm maybe you can use that etc.
Or rather let the more competent companies like Qualcomm make money for them.
Oddly though, anyone remember PowerPC and RISC from two decades ago? IBM let Motorola and others make chips and it left IBM to die on the micro computer market outside of the Nintendo WII
If that were true why are people willing to work there and for less? True the turnover sucks as the only ones there need it temporarily but if you legally offered $2/hr you won't have anyone show up.
Actually productivity has gone up so much with automation and efficiencies that we have the opposite problem. When one person can do the job of 10, what do we expect he other 9 to do? Population keeps increasing so eventually there will have to be big changes. UIB is probably one of the least impactful ways to deal with an increasing number of people for whom there simply aren't useful jobs to do. They aren't going to peacefully starve to death.
THen why are illegal immigrants taking jobs Americans won't do? A union challenged this and offered Americans to work the fields in Oklahoma. Gee only 3 out of 100 showed up. There are plenty of jobs. It is just a factory worker at DXuPont will not be making $45,000 a year anymore. Robots and $20,000 can get the same work now as competition increases for the remaining jobs.
People consume too. I hear what you are saying but admit no one will do the capital for a massive economies of scale risks and cost if they have to pay 90% of the rest of the population not work! Are eggs free? no. Is air and water free? Yes. Why? Because of supply and demand. There are not enough eggs for unlimited quantities for everyone therefore the scarcity will only increase.
Look at the Soviet Union as an example of an extreme on the other end? Massive shortages of food were common even if it was illegal not to work. Efficiences go up when there is reward and people consume based on both need and cost. You simply can not expect people and equipment makers to produce the same and of course free money means more people will be eleminating the remaining supplies. To cover the taxes and because of all the demand the farmer will simply raise the prices and the cycle repeats
ANd what would these 90% of people would buy? Oh that is right, with no producers you have no product to buy which is the same as poverty.
Why should the farmer wake up and bust his butt at 5am in the morning to get the eggs for your breakfast if he had no financial incentive to do so. You would get less and scarcity would happen... oh that is right the price would have to go up as a result since not everyone can get an egg. We call this inflation.
Intel has to restructure. It's too bad that they couldn't move some of those employees over to the growing parts of the business. Intel's business is kind of a niche one. Where will those laid off employees go? AMD? Motorola? And that's assuming that they need people.
And when Yahoo! starts their fire sale, there will be re-orgs there as well as layoffs and it will flood the market with even more tech people.
There are some bad times coming to Silicon Valley.
Not to sound like a cruel heartless asshole and sorry for the SV folks reading this but I have to ask the following? Do kids fresh out of school need to be pulling 70k a year??! Does someone with a bachelors degree only in computer science and has 5 years experience need to be paid $120,000 a year??!
NO!
What will happen is a price correction to more of $45k a year for college grads coding and 85k a year for senior programmers like it should be compared to other fields. IT is overvalued as financie majors start at onl $15/hr fresh out of college.
What we have is a bubble. I may get an angry response and be modded down by someone who feels they should actually make 6 figures but you can kiss the ass of those who have masters degrees and 5 years experience in other fields and make just 65k a year. Seriously.
Comcast makes money too by serving it's own crappy VOD service. Netflix opens competition with DSL subscribers and they have to pay for connections that bring money to a competitor.
Of course they are going to lobby hard and fight tooth and nail to keep their money any way possible. With Ted Cruz he made it his campaign promise to help the cable industry www.tedcruz.org if you look at his platform? Making competition illegal means something to them as it cost a lot to buy this.
Not really. First it has to increase productivity. IT is a cost center which adds no value.
Virtualization increases costs as people make more virtual machines just like more roads increase traffic jams as more people move further into the suburbs. So productivity is more growth for less costs. Since more vm's are created the costs go up as IT departments do more but the job functions of their employee stay the same.
I feel the recovery here. The difference is Istarted doing these temp jobs to gain experience. HR is very very picky and they do not care about your nieces or grand daughters degree. Taleo app ranks years of experience and college degree is only for a search with a clicked option.
If she had 2 years experience she would be well into a middle class salaries. Gone are the day's where a degree would mean $50,000 a year fresh out of school with an office immediately and a lifetime job for 30 years. HA.
Temp workers start at the beginning and ends of recessions.
Many you see could be because in 2011 you could find 5 guys willing to jump at 13/hr and after 5 years they leave. HR assumes the recession is still in and tries to offer the same rates and have a surprise.
Or a recession could be starting and need to cut costs to keep share price high but still need someone to do the jobs.
If a corporation is a bunch of shareholders pooling their resources to make more money out of a business - then unions are a bunch of small businesses merging to make more money selling their product (labour) in bulk.
And like any other corporation - the labour-selling corporation has a duty and obligation to it's shareholders (who happen to also be the providers of the service it sells to other companies) to maximize profit. That means, for starters, not selling the service for less than it costs to produce.
If the price you can earn for a job is less than the cost of living - then that is, by itself, proof of a market failure. It means that the market is no longer willing to pay for the product more than the minimum cost of producing it. When the product is, coincidentally, the only one that the vast majority of people will ever be able to sell - your entire society just got fucked.
No just like the horse and candle industry it will shut down as society will buy other things instead and these other things will get hte extra money from society it used to spend on the product it no longer produces
Ok, for an intellectual excersize SHOULD everyone have the same bargaining power?
Should someone who worked hard to get professional degrees and worked extra hours to get promoted have the same bargaining power as someone did not? Should a very important job that brings in the most market and economical value and most risk be equalled bargained for just any other job?
Corporations do not set the prices for labor. The market does as it is willing to pay more for different services. Admit it if your daughter was very sick you would be willing to pay a doctor more than if i you are hungry for a hamburger for lunch? If corporations collude people with experience will start businesses to compete.
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Get the professional version. FYI got to PC Settings->Updates -> Pick a time Window.
By default Windows 10 updates will only install after it finds out when you typically never use the PC. But Windows 10 will not auto reboot. It does so after you ignore updates for 2 days
Yo yo kids node.js is sooo out of date man. All the hipsters now use Erlang reborn man
It is the most coolest thing since the invention of the transistor.
Is to talk to another person, and be able to hear and understand them. Maybe the smartphone manufacturers could concentrate on the audio quality and intelligibility of phone conversations using their equipment...
Yeah in 1995.
I NEED IT for google maps, finding out if places closed via "Ok. Google when does x close", bluetooth to get directions while I drive, post on slashdot, check in at the airport, text message, and many many things.
A phone is a computer and the new computer for everyone with the exception for work content creators. But you can do light content creation on a phone fine for a tiny task.
Then you are a communist.
I am not a mindless person influenced by propoganda but can prove what happens if you take away incentive for farmers as an example to produce.
Soviet Union failed because there were no incentives to work hard if no reward would come. People who get unemployment checks typically do not work hard getting another job until it is about out according to statistics. Yes some brilliant and passionate individuals would seek. Most would do things that society would not need and resources will go unallocated just like that video above showed.
Karl Marx never even had a job and had an inheritance. He knew little how the real world worked. Also a strong government is needed to enslave and force people to work which is tyranny where the point of communism was lost in the 1st place just to get some productivity up.
Nope he is right. WHen I made that it was $2500 after taxes and Obamacare taxes. .72 x 45,000 is in that ballpark
Yeah this looks like a paradise? Perhaps if you ask someone from Eastern Europe what they think of Bernie Sanders and those kids wearing CHE Guevara shirts? They shake their heads as they are ignorant. There is a reason Florida Cubans are Republican unlike the rest of the hispanic community.
They lived under Communism and know what hell is like. It all sounds so great in theory but real economists like Milton Friedman proved otherwise
What! No one went hungry??
If communism was so good and a utopia then why weren't farmers making food from the goodness of their hearts?
It was less technical reasons and more that they were arguing with IBM over chip pricing/manufacturing quantities and Intel swooped in and made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Steve Jobs did not want Apple to be held under pressure or hostage by anyone neither Microsoft nor IBM/Motorola. Apple for years had an x86 version of MacOS classic and naturally MacOSX as NextStep was native to both platforms from the gecko.
Also Intel had better manufactoring which is how they are beating AMD as with lower NM sized chips and Intel made LWISC computers and risc inside later pentiums. Basically the x86 instructions get converted to RISC internally in a wrapper. So Intel could offer the same performance and give apple more comptability with Windows which in 2005 was very important as less macOSX apps were around 10 years ago.
You must not work for any corporation then. Microsoft licensing the OS (and other software) on a yearly, renewing basis has been around for over a decade. They do want this for the consumer as well and have so far done it with Office and e-mail. They want to go on a subscription basis, only then they'd lose either to piracy or Linux.
No they won't! You are kidding me? The last thing MS wants it another XP which is what 7 is right now. A fragmented user base is a nightmare for support and developers alike. Apple and Google have free upgrades for a good reason. What MS wants is to offer services from WIndows. Hey want a 1 TB of Onedrive storage? Go subscribe to 365 etc.
Also not to sound like a shill but I do use office 365 as I get 5 free versions of Office professional and get free bonuses like extra charts and BI in Excel and extra darker and black themes updated every month that you and other do not have access too as a subscriber. It is more like World of Warcraft. Sure you can play for free but you get some goodies thrown in.
My exwife, gf, and 2 of my computers all have Office 2016 updated regularly for $99 a year and I get mobile versions and 1 TB of shared cloud Onedrive access for all parties. Not too shabby unlike the ripoff of Adobe.
MS has no intention of losing to the competition and yes locking ones computer with a payment screen would cause people to freak and open to lawsuits as that would be akin to ransomware really
it is a little more than just wanting a piece of the store apps. It is a lot more that the aging baby boomers who buy pcs are retiring and are old enough to hate change and never upgrade until it no longer works. The new entrants into the workforce are millennials who LOVE their apps, portable devices, mixing work and play, and want flat UI's and battery saving features so they can take their life with work and play on the go with apps that do everything.
Where does this leave Windows? Where does this leave MS in general? You old kneckbeards can keep your 7 boxes as you do not want to pay them money or want new features while the oldest ones thinking of retirement are clining to XP. Yeah that won't work.
I am typing this on a Surface Pro 3 with WIndows 10. I run Wireshark at work via an ethernet USB dongle for networking work. I do my typing on it in Outlook. I watch Netflix for fun on it while I travel or work. I read ebooks via a night. This thing is very thin and very light and decent battery life. It is the future.
So yes the push to Windows 10 is to remain relevent and crusty old Windows 7 has TERRIBLE battery life. Dismal Skylake support. No USB 3 or thunderbolt type c, NVME either. Ask any pc user afraid of change how well their NVME SSDs are with a 3rd party driver for 7. It is unstable and terrible as 7 is not modular nor tuned to run as a phone/mobile at the kernel level.
Seriously when you need a portable look at an ultra thing tablet convertible like the Lennovo or MS Surface pro tablets? They run Ubuntu too with a signed bootloader (yes you can turn secure boot off too) or run Ubuntu with a signed bootloader. I have the best of both worlds of a tablet, entertainment, and work device.
That is why MS wants to move. Not just store revenue
I owned one. A dirt cheap Nokia 820. I bought my elderly mom a Nokia 640 for Christmas. :-)
I LOVED the OS. For a cheap phone with 1 gig of ram it was very quick. Never froze. Had the best UI. Outlook worked well. The tiles were big and animated to keep me up to date until, I switched to Kitkat a few years later, etc. The big tiles and ease of use is why I bought one for my Mother. BIg easy things to read and it was cheap and ran well on low end hardware.
I own an Android now because I dropped it and saw the writting on the wall with the future of the platform. I do not want Windows 10 mobile as it is very buggy and many features were removed like zune music. It will be a year or two before it was stable. Windows phone 8 and 8.1 were very stable in comparison.
I like competition and wished it had 20% of the market so we can have more apps and innovate the mobile ecosystems. We will see
I have been involved in administrating both *NIX and Windows boxes but powershell isn't really something that provides any added value for me.
???
uh ok. I assume you have not touched Exchange or SQL server then or had to do offline domain joins on server farms or frankly do anything in droves. Powershell desired state configuration is ahead of bash and provides templates.
You can't manage thousands of servers with a mouse. You need Powershell or some expensive 3rd party tool to automate.
MS bought Cynagyn and has some tools in development to make android apps that do not use Google's proprietary AOSP store API.
No middle aged neckbeards Xenix is not the answer.
Rather, who is the market today and tomorrow? There are more millenials who LOVE their apps and portable devices as much as baby boomers and guess which one is entering the workforce and which one is leaving in droves? MS is in trouble and it's premier brand Windows has an identity crises. People do not care about WM's that mimick 20 year old legacy guis with sooo lame and outdated skuemorphic icons with no mobile support or startup daemon designs. They want ultra portable devices with flat UI's, hamburger menus, lots of small apps that are good for one thing (hmm rings a bell here from the past :-) ), and devices that function for both work and play.
I am typing this on a Surface Pro 3. I use it for wiresharking connections for Avaya and CIsco equipment at work with a USB ethernet connection. I use it to watch Netflix movies when I use my pc or traveling. I use it at night as an ebook reader too with my Nook app and I answer emails with Outlook. Yes I loved Windows 8 on it as it was designed for this. Windows 10 not as much but WIndows 10 INK with the anniversary update is perfect.
My point is universal apps for WIndows 10 will run on MS Android too eventually and it is why android emulators and tools are in Visual Studio 2015. No you did not missread that!
IBM changed when it lost. MS is now too to stay relevant. Yes MS has opened sourced .NET as well but they are embracing change and there are growing pains as WIndows 10 mobile does suck hard at the moment. Windows 8 phone I used and liked but left as I saw the writting on the wall. We will see if it is still around in 3 years?
And because AMD is fabless, they might be able to score some time at TSMC's 10nm fab when it opens this year (2016.) Intel will not be able to (unless both TSMC and Intel disregard unofficial industry rules, something Intel would want but TSMC would view as suicide.)
Intel has admitted that it wont have 10nm up and running until next year (2017). and has denied speculation that it wont be until late next year at the earliest. They managed to turn their 2 year lead into at best 6 months behind, and they cant even keep their current fabs running 24/7 these days (leading to 11% layoffs) because GloFlo and TSMC are killing them on everything but desktop cpu's.
Intel is suddenly not in a good position. They better pull a rabbit out of their research divisions ass.
That is the problem AMD did not expect. You are Qualcomm or global foundaries. AMD asks you to make 5 million chips for a cheap profit margin as competition from INtel is so fierce and winning on price for OEM's on their cheapest lines is the only win. Then Apple and Samsung knock on your door and ask to make 50 million chips and will PAY YOU MORE. Hmm which would you chose for your lines?
The answer is to tell AMD to shove it you care only about mobile product lines and until you pay me more and give me more quantities I will simply give my latest .14 nm and 10nm to Apple and Samsung. Bye ... oh and I have htis aging obsolete 5 year old plant in China somewhere that is .28nm maybe you can use that etc.
Or rather let the more competent companies like Qualcomm make money for them.
Oddly though, anyone remember PowerPC and RISC from two decades ago? IBM let Motorola and others make chips and it left IBM to die on the micro computer market outside of the Nintendo WII
If that were true why are people willing to work there and for less? True the turnover sucks as the only ones there need it temporarily but if you legally offered $2/hr you won't have anyone show up.
Actually productivity has gone up so much with automation and efficiencies that we have the opposite problem. When one person can do the job of 10, what do we expect he other 9 to do? Population keeps increasing so eventually there will have to be big changes. UIB is probably one of the least impactful ways to deal with an increasing number of people for whom there simply aren't useful jobs to do. They aren't going to peacefully starve to death.
THen why are illegal immigrants taking jobs Americans won't do? A union challenged this and offered Americans to work the fields in Oklahoma. Gee only 3 out of 100 showed up. There are plenty of jobs. It is just a factory worker at DXuPont will not be making $45,000 a year anymore. Robots and $20,000 can get the same work now as competition increases for the remaining jobs.
People consume too. I hear what you are saying but admit no one will do the capital for a massive economies of scale risks and cost if they have to pay 90% of the rest of the population not work! Are eggs free? no. Is air and water free? Yes. Why? Because of supply and demand. There are not enough eggs for unlimited quantities for everyone therefore the scarcity will only increase.
Look at the Soviet Union as an example of an extreme on the other end? Massive shortages of food were common even if it was illegal not to work. Efficiences go up when there is reward and people consume based on both need and cost. You simply can not expect people and equipment makers to produce the same and of course free money means more people will be eleminating the remaining supplies. To cover the taxes and because of all the demand the farmer will simply raise the prices and the cycle repeats
ANd what would these 90% of people would buy? Oh that is right, with no producers you have no product to buy which is the same as poverty.
Why should the farmer wake up and bust his butt at 5am in the morning to get the eggs for your breakfast if he had no financial incentive to do so. You would get less and scarcity would happen ... oh that is right the price would have to go up as a result since not everyone can get an egg. We call this inflation.
Debunked
Intel has to restructure. It's too bad that they couldn't move some of those employees over to the growing parts of the business. Intel's business is kind of a niche one. Where will those laid off employees go? AMD? Motorola? And that's assuming that they need people.
And when Yahoo! starts their fire sale, there will be re-orgs there as well as layoffs and it will flood the market with even more tech people.
There are some bad times coming to Silicon Valley.
Not to sound like a cruel heartless asshole and sorry for the SV folks reading this but I have to ask the following? Do kids fresh out of school need to be pulling 70k a year??! Does someone with a bachelors degree only in computer science and has 5 years experience need to be paid $120,000 a year??!
NO!
What will happen is a price correction to more of $45k a year for college grads coding and 85k a year for senior programmers like it should be compared to other fields. IT is overvalued as financie majors start at onl $15/hr fresh out of college.
What we have is a bubble. I may get an angry response and be modded down by someone who feels they should actually make 6 figures but you can kiss the ass of those who have masters degrees and 5 years experience in other fields and make just 65k a year. Seriously.
No man
Comcast makes money too by serving it's own crappy VOD service. Netflix opens competition with DSL subscribers and they have to pay for connections that bring money to a competitor.
Of course they are going to lobby hard and fight tooth and nail to keep their money any way possible. With Ted Cruz he made it his campaign promise to help the cable industry www.tedcruz.org if you look at his platform? Making competition illegal means something to them as it cost a lot to buy this.
Not really. First it has to increase productivity. IT is a cost center which adds no value.
Virtualization increases costs as people make more virtual machines just like more roads increase traffic jams as more people move further into the suburbs. So productivity is more growth for less costs. Since more vm's are created the costs go up as IT departments do more but the job functions of their employee stay the same.
I feel the recovery here. The difference is Istarted doing these temp jobs to gain experience. HR is very very picky and they do not care about your nieces or grand daughters degree. Taleo app ranks years of experience and college degree is only for a search with a clicked option.
If she had 2 years experience she would be well into a middle class salaries. Gone are the day's where a degree would mean $50,000 a year fresh out of school with an office immediately and a lifetime job for 30 years. HA.
Temp workers start at the beginning and ends of recessions.
Many you see could be because in 2011 you could find 5 guys willing to jump at 13/hr and after 5 years they leave. HR assumes the recession is still in and tries to offer the same rates and have a surprise.
Or a recession could be starting and need to cut costs to keep share price high but still need someone to do the jobs.
If a corporation is a bunch of shareholders pooling their resources to make more money out of a business - then unions are a bunch of small businesses merging to make more money selling their product (labour) in bulk.
And like any other corporation - the labour-selling corporation has a duty and obligation to it's shareholders (who happen to also be the providers of the service it sells to other companies) to maximize profit. That means, for starters, not selling the service for less than it costs to produce.
If the price you can earn for a job is less than the cost of living - then that is, by itself, proof of a market failure. It means that the market is no longer willing to pay for the product more than the minimum cost of producing it. When the product is, coincidentally, the only one that the vast majority of people will ever be able to sell - your entire society just got fucked.
No just like the horse and candle industry it will shut down as society will buy other things instead and these other things will get hte extra money from society it used to spend on the product it no longer produces
Ok, for an intellectual excersize SHOULD everyone have the same bargaining power?
Should someone who worked hard to get professional degrees and worked extra hours to get promoted have the same bargaining power as someone did not? Should a very important job that brings in the most market and economical value and most risk be equalled bargained for just any other job?
Corporations do not set the prices for labor. The market does as it is willing to pay more for different services. Admit it if your daughter was very sick you would be willing to pay a doctor more than if i you are hungry for a hamburger for lunch? If corporations collude people with experience will start businesses to compete.