It says it can't happen so these scientists most have a theological agenda and made it up. I prefer truth which is not truth. God must be testing our faith.
We must vote for Trump Asap to put an end to this and through legislation help restore our culture to save people from thinking such dangerous things.
1TB max internal storage is inexcusable for that machine. Yes, in theory, people are supposed to have FC HBAs and such, but the Mac Pro was designed to be a workstation, to handle high end tasks, so desktop RAID would be useful.
The current cylinder Mac Pro needs to be moved to a place as a midrange workstation, and the full tower brought back as the flagship Mac workhorse. I'd pay $4000 for a full tower with upgradable components. I'd pay $2000-$3000 for a non-upgradable canister Mac that has decent video (2016-era GPUs, not 2012/2013 era), a decent Xeon or i7, 32 GB of RAM, and at least one standard M.2 slot, preferably two, so I can have RAID 1.
I won't pay that much for 3+ year tech that cannot be upgraded in any meaningful manner.
Professionals use a SAN and it has 2 1 gig ethernet connections for that reason in the back. The video cards will not crash or give artificats or smudges on making commercials or rendering drawings.
I am not a mac fan boy, but like a server a Xeon is not faster than a i7. However, they are rated for a MDF server room and have huge caches for bandwidth. That is the audience for the mac who needs something reliable. Every 3 years it gets an upgrade.
The Mac Pro is very very high end and sweet system. Yes the cpu xeon is ivory bridge based but per CPU core speed it is not much slower than a skylake. The video card is professional grade and very very fast with large amounts of ECC ram for workloads.
Yes they are upgraded every couple years but these customers need something that can render commercials and 3d rendering reliably that is mature and stable.
I do not own a mac, but what the real thing Apple and everyone fails is why need a high end pc? In 1997 even MS Office you would see a blazing difference between a $5000 and a $1000 pc. A Win95 pc with a pentium1 133 mhz with just 16 megs of ram and a 2 gig drive vs a NT 4.0 with a dual core Pentium pro/pentium II 350 mhz with 64 megs of ram and a 9 gig drive would make EVERYTHING FLY.
So today you do not need a Mac Pro to crop a few images. A value end imac works just as good. So demand for a workstation is down if a normal not high grade pc can get the job done too.
Shoot. I am an IT guy who bought an i7 haswell 4770k because I could and for bragging rights:-)
I can run 8 or 9 vm's at once with 2 domains, 2 dhcp servers, a freebsd based router running pfsense, and other things and the cpu never hits more than 15 to 20% when booted all at once?!
So what does Joe Plumber need a more powerful pc for? Quickbooks, excel and his facebook on IE work very well on an i5 quadcore with 4 gigs of ram and an SSD. Shoot an i3 with a mechanical disk would work for him but boot slower too with Windows 7.
If we all thought and were amazed at XP's longevity with suzie sues refusing to leave her Pentium IV with 1 gig orf ram imagine Windows 7 pcs with i5's and ssds?
Why change for the sake of change? Sad as a techno geek who still upgrades to remain current in skillsets I like progress. But I guess like cars they are mature technology that change little now compared to the early days like the 1990's were.
Why should users care? Not their computers and the IT guys problem.
Most don't do that at home. But the IT guys can take the fall for ransomware for not securing them so why not? Some where I work laugh at us when they unplug and move shit and their supervisor blames us. It's funny.
I believe 80% of users know better but do it anyway if it was from a client or boss... Only at the office of course
Then they would complain their offices ain't working to MS and return their computers for ones that work.
There already is a feature. It is called a warning in a yellow title bar.
If the user is stupid enough that is on them. MS should not get in the way.
However, these same users are careful at home. They are not stupid contrary to what is posted here. It is that they don't give a shit at work since they don't own them.
Notice how the company cars always get trashed but not the workers personal cars?
That's the IT guy's who read Slashdot problem. Not mine etc..
I think the codebase was just not flexible. A LNG time ago I had lunch with one of the engineers at Netscape with the Linux users of New York. IE just was accelerating faster than they could keep up as more bugs kept hitting the rendering engine as features were added. IE 6 being better and less buggy should say alot right there??
So true. My job and the one I am applying for is 75% MS centric and I like office and SWTOR so I run Linux in a few VMS and use Windows as the host.
Just tried Windows 10_yesterday. Holy crap I can't even put on my documents, my pictures, and custom folders with my VMs. I can't adjust height. Pin it means make a freaking big ass tile.
Linux I just type stuff mostly, but this is getting ridiculous! I never thought I would go back to win 8.1 because I use a paid start menu from Stardock that is not compatible with 10. Also XFCE4 is usable but have any how old that is??! It is based on CDE from HPUX via 1995.
I feel like a time warp here as we shouldn't be doing these extremes in 2016 like it is 1989. Hell, even macosx is flat and ugly now! Dumped down too as it's video app apture and others were competitive in 2011. Now dumbed down where no one wants them.
Well MS is getting rid of IE in favor of Edge. Mozilla is creating a new browser after realizing how supperior webkit is for threading and process isolation and app integration compared to Gecko.
Oddly Chrome will then have the most legacy and older code
Let's hope this rumour is right. One less shitty vendor with shitty WLAN chips. Then Apple and Dell have to look elswhere to fsck over their customers with crappy hardware without working (Linux) drivers.
I know Windows 10 gets lots of hate on slashdot, but one of the benefits is if one PC on your subnet updates it can stream the updates to your other pcs saving bandwidth:-)
Nice for home environments.
You may want to just hold your nose and upgrade using Microsoft's free Media Creation tool which will put all the latest 10 bug fixes and updates on a flashdrive for a clean install? Spyware? It just does what Chrome does with telemetry to see what works and what doesn't. It does not spying and the keystroke stuff is for cortana which uses Bing. Really it is not what people on slashdot make it to be.
I still feel uncomfortable with that even, but I use Chrome.
If you must and can' stand the thought of 10 go download GWX Control panel? Run Windows Update and GWX Control panel will prevent 10 notifications and updates. I tried WSUS offline a free FOSS product but it made corruption problems back when I ran 7.
The upgrade is free only for a year and in July i'll make the choice whether to go.
Hence why MS wants to drop support for Skylake. Windows 10 will run much better and so will 8.1 with a start menu replacement. NVME is different and a later linux kernel can help too. Sometimes new hardware on old software is a bad combo unless you get a Dell which does the QA that Intel won't
Put a shitty CEO like that of Nokia in your company and you tell me his work is not more important?
Sorry but we are not all that unless we work for an IT company. That is economic reality. You do not raise the share price. You do not increase sales. You do not make the product your employer sells so why should they pay you? What makes you so special?
The chef at a Chillis brings in millions each year. In comparison you as a sys admin cost money and the only reason you are not paid minimum wage is an outage can be costly. So basically IT is just insurance to make sure other people can be the shiny stars and continue raking in money.
Want to make it? Then go work for an IT company where you are involved in revenue.
You do know IE 11 is still inlcuded by default in the pro and enterprise versions? Reason being is Edge and 10 were not finished.
MS has designed Edge to use webkit extensions from day 1. It was alpha quality so MS disabled it. On my own desktop I will not touch 10. It is Vista quality at the moment and I sure as hell wouldn't dare put this at work for another year or 2.
Modern cpus are not your grandpas cpus which only did math. Modern CPUs have graphics, i/o, Intel Media Management Interface, Intel RST storage raid, USB 3, NVME, pci express bus routing, wifi, etc. Windows 98 wouldn't be able to see the hard disk as the SATA controller is on the CPU. The keyboard won't work as Win 98 doesn't know what USB 3 is.
No the 3000 GPU driver is not backward compatible with an intel 4500 Iris on a skylake so a generic driver is out of the question for all but legacy vga during setup. UEFI will make win98 not boot as it is not bios anymore.
Intel wants to be a cell phone cpu like ARM. Everything is going silicon on a chip SOI so MS can sell tablets etc.
So it is not whether x86 cpu functions will be compatible. It is whether the damn thing can boot, use a keyboard, use graphics, wifi, etc.
If you need to test a website or write a mobile app only a Mac is allowed by VMware to run all the platforms. So get a Mac and virtualize all. Get Windows or Linux and you miss out on IOS and MacOSX.
This will probably be the nail for Visual Studio until someone or MS sues. Remember the patch for VMWare Fusion/ Workstation where they forget to turn off the chock_nonApple()? They quickly patched that
Alot of entry level work is contract now. I left IT for a few years and had to do this to prove myself. Then I got the nice jobs again:-)
Someone who needs a job does a temp agency or odd jobs on craigslist. On demand is nice because they pay better most of the time and there is little risk to the employer compared to hiring and doing hte 3 write ups and a termination procedure for a month and even then potential liability and health insurance.
That and working and playing on demand with mobile is on the rise too. So in essence jobs like Uber are part of the new economy too which I feel is great as new markets are created and opportunity and flexibility for all parties including the worker
A typical fast food restaurant is already full of machines that need to be cleaned, stocked and maintained. This one isn't going to be much worse. The ordering system is just a simple touchscreen, for instance. It only needs to be wiped off once in a while.
Well let's look at the pros of this?
Who here wants to work at a fast food place forever? Please show a raise of hands?
This will enable those who would work these jobs to now do something more productive and learn a new skill. The cost of the product will go down as output increases and competitors try to match. The excess savings of customers means more jobs elsewhere as the dollars will go to something else. More jobs created that are better quality for the workers and society.
Many poor folks get trapped into these sad jobs and can't leave to better themselves because they work 3 part time jobs and have no time to school so they do not have to work 3 part time jobs. A viscous cycle. The same was said before the industrial revolution as machinary eliminated farm hands and increased crop production. But look at the cost of food now? It created more better jobs and helped the poor with cheap food.
Yes, winners and losers are created when change hits and it's effects are un nerving but overall it is for the better long time otherwise we still would all be rich farmers like in 1780 and buy candles and horses etc.
In both cases, the motivation is the same: voters are saying "we don't like seeing people with low incomes / people driving less safe cars, so we're just going to legislate the problem away". But that simply transforms poor working people with cars who could gradually improve their situation into even poorer jobless people without cars who will never be able to get out of poverty.
It is staggering that there are people who look at the race to the bottom of the last few decades, producing stagnant wages, near non-existent job security, accelerating wealth and income gaps, crashing class mobility and an ocean of debt and conclude: "You know what would really help ? More of that !"
I used to be a socialist and very liberal a decade ago. I feel sorry for the poor and disadvantaged to this very day.
Then I took economics in college and even argued with professors about this... last grew up.
Let's look at reality here. Whenever there is a revolution whether it is the invention of fire, wheel, agriculture, industrial, computer, or information there is a huge displacement of jobs initially. Winners and losers are made. As a whole people get better off and jobs are created.
In Asia more people are growing out of poverty and for once have hope in their lives:-) That is only temporary for the ills in the west and sorry but as an American, Canadian or European what makes you so special or better than someone from India or China reading this?
Why should they get held back because you want your SUV when recent grad Raj from India just wants a simple smart car? He worked hard to gain this job. In the west you too can still succeed but not as easy. There are jobs for everyone. Employers are begging for qualified applicants out in the west but people feel they are beneath these jobs. Immigrants have no problem taking them.
What we are just starting to see is Chinese buying American products made here. No you did not misread that. They love Levi's made in USA and hate the ones made their that are cheap just as one example.
Only 3% of Americans work minimum wage jobs. Robots create jobs as the cost goes down and production goes up meaning more widgets = more widgets for people to buy. Basic economics.
As we move to a mobile economy it means more products for cheaper and in the next 30 years these jobs will come back as India and China start consuming like crazy and selling their products and hiring here like my Haweii phone a Nexus 6p.
Fast food never was a job that paid well and IT workers are making more than ever despite outsourcing. What is changing is you need to work harder to get ahead. The top percent is growing like crazy not from cheap labor but because people can buy more things due to cheaper labor and more mobile technology that creates more jobs and wealth.
You do know MS changed their licensing for SQL Server to match Oracle with per core (not cpu) licensing, plus seat licensing, and I would not be surprised if the Linux version of MS SQL Server only works on Azure where you pay a cloud service fee too!
Sure it is available. Maybe free for fun for non commercial or low cost if you rent it out from Azure for just you.
It is not free.
That is fine for an enterprise as you can argue a return on investment where an outage has financial consequences but for us geeks. It is a tool to learn these jobs. Not for a cute little impress your cat webpages and raspberry pies
I do not work for Microsoft nor am I paid to shill their products.
What happened since 2010 when win 7 came out? Windows is going bye bye. Millennials used to their phones like their flat low color UI. They loved portability of tablets too and long battery life of their platforms on mobile operating systems. Desktops are all soo last century and are boring mainframe technology and stuck with XP because their phones were cooler and more important to keep current. They are entering our workforce as you read this in increasing numbers.
Enterprise customers see clouds, offshoring, running VDI virtual machines from anyywhere for crusty apps, and love XP and see no value to upgrade. They prefer to rent a subscription so the share price won't get hit by spikes in spending. Also tax write off is nice. Sales forces and executives want more mobility too and BYOD.
Both Android and Apple are making a killing in profits in apps and worse didn't use visual studio.
So what is MS supposed to do? Sit on their ass and become IBM?
Windows 8.1 with a start menu replacement is a much better OS for a laptop. HUGE battery savings and you can watch Netflix on the road if it is a tablet or hybrid too!
Windows 10 in my opinion was released a year to early and so was 8. After 10.1 or redstone it will be an OS what people want. Runs apps, cloud and touch friendly, more battery saving features, more secure, and yes UWP mean no piracy for developers and cheaper prices for us. MS makes their money and you can still run legacy apps.
You say you don't care about these? Well congratulations we are officially the old farts like the mainframe guys we used to make fun of in our youth.
Touch and a surface is sweet if you ever play with one.
MS is just listening to the market. They want an up to date device which is mobile and has a bunch of tiny apps for all purposes. Not a legacy 7 system out of familiarity.
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It says it can't happen so these scientists most have a theological agenda and made it up. I prefer truth which is not truth. God must be testing our faith.
We must vote for Trump Asap to put an end to this and through legislation help restore our culture to save people from thinking such dangerous things.
1TB max internal storage is inexcusable for that machine. Yes, in theory, people are supposed to have FC HBAs and such, but the Mac Pro was designed to be a workstation, to handle high end tasks, so desktop RAID would be useful.
The current cylinder Mac Pro needs to be moved to a place as a midrange workstation, and the full tower brought back as the flagship Mac workhorse. I'd pay $4000 for a full tower with upgradable components. I'd pay $2000-$3000 for a non-upgradable canister Mac that has decent video (2016-era GPUs, not 2012/2013 era), a decent Xeon or i7, 32 GB of RAM, and at least one standard M.2 slot, preferably two, so I can have RAID 1.
I won't pay that much for 3+ year tech that cannot be upgraded in any meaningful manner.
Professionals use a SAN and it has 2 1 gig ethernet connections for that reason in the back. The video cards will not crash or give artificats or smudges on making commercials or rendering drawings.
I am not a mac fan boy, but like a server a Xeon is not faster than a i7. However, they are rated for a MDF server room and have huge caches for bandwidth. That is the audience for the mac who needs something reliable. Every 3 years it gets an upgrade.
The Mac Pro is very very high end and sweet system. Yes the cpu xeon is ivory bridge based but per CPU core speed it is not much slower than a skylake. The video card is professional grade and very very fast with large amounts of ECC ram for workloads.
Yes they are upgraded every couple years but these customers need something that can render commercials and 3d rendering reliably that is mature and stable.
I do not own a mac, but what the real thing Apple and everyone fails is why need a high end pc? In 1997 even MS Office you would see a blazing difference between a $5000 and a $1000 pc. A Win95 pc with a pentium1 133 mhz with just 16 megs of ram and a 2 gig drive vs a NT 4.0 with a dual core Pentium pro/pentium II 350 mhz with 64 megs of ram and a 9 gig drive would make EVERYTHING FLY.
So today you do not need a Mac Pro to crop a few images. A value end imac works just as good. So demand for a workstation is down if a normal not high grade pc can get the job done too.
Well Moores law caught up.
Shoot. I am an IT guy who bought an i7 haswell 4770k because I could and for bragging rights :-)
I can run 8 or 9 vm's at once with 2 domains, 2 dhcp servers, a freebsd based router running pfsense, and other things and the cpu never hits more than 15 to 20% when booted all at once?!
So what does Joe Plumber need a more powerful pc for? Quickbooks, excel and his facebook on IE work very well on an i5 quadcore with 4 gigs of ram and an SSD. Shoot an i3 with a mechanical disk would work for him but boot slower too with Windows 7.
If we all thought and were amazed at XP's longevity with suzie sues refusing to leave her Pentium IV with 1 gig orf ram imagine Windows 7 pcs with i5's and ssds?
Why change for the sake of change? Sad as a techno geek who still upgrades to remain current in skillsets I like progress. But I guess like cars they are mature technology that change little now compared to the early days like the 1990's were.
Why should users care? Not their computers and the IT guys problem.
Most don't do that at home. But the IT guys can take the fall for ransomware for not securing them so why not? Some where I work laugh at us when they unplug and move shit and their supervisor blames us. It's funny.
I believe 80% of users know better but do it anyway if it was from a client or boss ... Only at the office of course
Then they would complain their offices ain't working to MS and return their computers for ones that work.
There already is a feature. It is called a warning in a yellow title bar.
If the user is stupid enough that is on them. MS should not get in the way.
However, these same users are careful at home. They are not stupid contrary to what is posted here. It is that they don't give a shit at work since they don't own them.
Notice how the company cars always get trashed but not the workers personal cars?
That's the IT guy's who read Slashdot problem. Not mine etc ..
I think the codebase was just not flexible. A LNG time ago I had lunch with one of the engineers at Netscape with the Linux users of New York. IE just was accelerating faster than they could keep up as more bugs kept hitting the rendering engine as features were added. IE 6 being better and less buggy should say alot right there??
A little late now as WebKit is accelerating
So true. My job and the one I am applying for is 75% MS centric and I like office and SWTOR so I run Linux in a few VMS and use Windows as the host.
Just tried Windows 10_yesterday. Holy crap I can't even put on my documents, my pictures, and custom folders with my VMs. I can't adjust height. Pin it means make a freaking big ass tile.
Linux I just type stuff mostly, but this is getting ridiculous! I never thought I would go back to win 8.1 because I use a paid start menu from Stardock that is not compatible with 10. Also XFCE4 is usable but have any how old that is??! It is based on CDE from HPUX via 1995.
I feel like a time warp here as we shouldn't be doing these extremes in 2016 like it is 1989. Hell, even macosx is flat and ugly now! Dumped down too as it's video app apture and others were competitive in 2011. Now dumbed down where no one wants them.
When will this end??
Well MS is getting rid of IE in favor of Edge. Mozilla is creating a new browser after realizing how supperior webkit is for threading and process isolation and app integration compared to Gecko.
Oddly Chrome will then have the most legacy and older code
To see what Firefox has became from what it was 10 years ago
Let's hope this rumour is right. One less shitty vendor with shitty WLAN chips. Then Apple and Dell have to look elswhere to fsck over their customers with crappy hardware without working (Linux) drivers.
You haven't used Realtek have you?
Or fire up hyper-v if you have pro version of 8 or later or download virtualbox and run win98 that way without the hacks. It's 2016 now :-)
I know Windows 10 gets lots of hate on slashdot, but one of the benefits is if one PC on your subnet updates it can stream the updates to your other pcs saving bandwidth :-)
Nice for home environments.
You may want to just hold your nose and upgrade using Microsoft's free Media Creation tool which will put all the latest 10 bug fixes and updates on a flashdrive for a clean install? Spyware? It just does what Chrome does with telemetry to see what works and what doesn't. It does not spying and the keystroke stuff is for cortana which uses Bing. Really it is not what people on slashdot make it to be.
I still feel uncomfortable with that even, but I use Chrome.
If you must and can' stand the thought of 10 go download GWX Control panel? Run Windows Update and GWX Control panel will prevent 10 notifications and updates. I tried WSUS offline a free FOSS product but it made corruption problems back when I ran 7.
The upgrade is free only for a year and in July i'll make the choice whether to go.
Ah Windows 7 NVME is not stable.
Hence why MS wants to drop support for Skylake. Windows 10 will run much better and so will 8.1 with a start menu replacement. NVME is different and a later linux kernel can help too. Sometimes new hardware on old software is a bad combo unless you get a Dell which does the QA that Intel won't
Put a shitty CEO like that of Nokia in your company and you tell me his work is not more important?
Sorry but we are not all that unless we work for an IT company. That is economic reality. You do not raise the share price. You do not increase sales. You do not make the product your employer sells so why should they pay you? What makes you so special?
The chef at a Chillis brings in millions each year. In comparison you as a sys admin cost money and the only reason you are not paid minimum wage is an outage can be costly. So basically IT is just insurance to make sure other people can be the shiny stars and continue raking in money.
Want to make it? Then go work for an IT company where you are involved in revenue.
You do know IE 11 is still inlcuded by default in the pro and enterprise versions? Reason being is Edge and 10 were not finished.
MS has designed Edge to use webkit extensions from day 1. It was alpha quality so MS disabled it. On my own desktop I will not touch 10. It is Vista quality at the moment and I sure as hell wouldn't dare put this at work for another year or 2.
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Modern cpus are not your grandpas cpus which only did math. Modern CPUs have graphics, i/o, Intel Media Management Interface, Intel RST storage raid, USB 3, NVME, pci express bus routing, wifi, etc. Windows 98 wouldn't be able to see the hard disk as the SATA controller is on the CPU. The keyboard won't work as Win 98 doesn't know what USB 3 is.
No the 3000 GPU driver is not backward compatible with an intel 4500 Iris on a skylake so a generic driver is out of the question for all but legacy vga during setup. UEFI will make win98 not boot as it is not bios anymore.
Intel wants to be a cell phone cpu like ARM. Everything is going silicon on a chip SOI so MS can sell tablets etc.
So it is not whether x86 cpu functions will be compatible. It is whether the damn thing can boot, use a keyboard, use graphics, wifi, etc.
Great I am sure that Apple guy would install 2009 MacOSX Snow Leopard on a brand new Mac for her.
After all that is the gripe about switching to a mac right? They support 6 year old software on modern systems?
If you need to test a website or write a mobile app only a Mac is allowed by VMware to run all the platforms. So get a Mac and virtualize all. Get Windows or Linux and you miss out on IOS and MacOSX.
This will probably be the nail for Visual Studio until someone or MS sues. Remember the patch for VMWare Fusion/ Workstation where they forget to turn off the chock_nonApple()? They quickly patched that
Alot of entry level work is contract now. I left IT for a few years and had to do this to prove myself. Then I got the nice jobs again :-)
Someone who needs a job does a temp agency or odd jobs on craigslist. On demand is nice because they pay better most of the time and there is little risk to the employer compared to hiring and doing hte 3 write ups and a termination procedure for a month and even then potential liability and health insurance.
That and working and playing on demand with mobile is on the rise too. So in essence jobs like Uber are part of the new economy too which I feel is great as new markets are created and opportunity and flexibility for all parties including the worker
A typical fast food restaurant is already full of machines that need to be cleaned, stocked and maintained. This one isn't going to be much worse. The ordering system is just a simple touchscreen, for instance. It only needs to be wiped off once in a while.
Well let's look at the pros of this?
Who here wants to work at a fast food place forever? Please show a raise of hands?
This will enable those who would work these jobs to now do something more productive and learn a new skill. The cost of the product will go down as output increases and competitors try to match. The excess savings of customers means more jobs elsewhere as the dollars will go to something else. More jobs created that are better quality for the workers and society.
Many poor folks get trapped into these sad jobs and can't leave to better themselves because they work 3 part time jobs and have no time to school so they do not have to work 3 part time jobs. A viscous cycle. The same was said before the industrial revolution as machinary eliminated farm hands and increased crop production. But look at the cost of food now? It created more better jobs and helped the poor with cheap food.
Yes, winners and losers are created when change hits and it's effects are un nerving but overall it is for the better long time otherwise we still would all be rich farmers like in 1780 and buy candles and horses etc.
In both cases, the motivation is the same: voters are saying "we don't like seeing people with low incomes / people driving less safe cars, so we're just going to legislate the problem away". But that simply transforms poor working people with cars who could gradually improve their situation into even poorer jobless people without cars who will never be able to get out of poverty.
It is staggering that there are people who look at the race to the bottom of the last few decades, producing stagnant wages, near non-existent job security, accelerating wealth and income gaps, crashing class mobility and an ocean of debt and conclude: "You know what would really help ? More of that !"
I used to be a socialist and very liberal a decade ago. I feel sorry for the poor and disadvantaged to this very day.
Then I took economics in college and even argued with professors about this ... last grew up.
Let's look at reality here. Whenever there is a revolution whether it is the invention of fire, wheel, agriculture, industrial, computer, or information there is a huge displacement of jobs initially. Winners and losers are made. As a whole people get better off and jobs are created.
In Asia more people are growing out of poverty and for once have hope in their lives :-) That is only temporary for the ills in the west and sorry but as an American, Canadian or European what makes you so special or better than someone from India or China reading this?
Why should they get held back because you want your SUV when recent grad Raj from India just wants a simple smart car? He worked hard to gain this job. In the west you too can still succeed but not as easy. There are jobs for everyone. Employers are begging for qualified applicants out in the west but people feel they are beneath these jobs. Immigrants have no problem taking them.
What we are just starting to see is Chinese buying American products made here. No you did not misread that. They love Levi's made in USA and hate the ones made their that are cheap just as one example.
Only 3% of Americans work minimum wage jobs. Robots create jobs as the cost goes down and production goes up meaning more widgets = more widgets for people to buy. Basic economics.
As we move to a mobile economy it means more products for cheaper and in the next 30 years these jobs will come back as India and China start consuming like crazy and selling their products and hiring here like my Haweii phone a Nexus 6p.
Fast food never was a job that paid well and IT workers are making more than ever despite outsourcing. What is changing is you need to work harder to get ahead. The top percent is growing like crazy not from cheap labor but because people can buy more things due to cheaper labor and more mobile technology that creates more jobs and wealth.
You do know MS changed their licensing for SQL Server to match Oracle with per core (not cpu) licensing, plus seat licensing, and I would not be surprised if the Linux version of MS SQL Server only works on Azure where you pay a cloud service fee too!
Sure it is available. Maybe free for fun for non commercial or low cost if you rent it out from Azure for just you.
It is not free.
That is fine for an enterprise as you can argue a return on investment where an outage has financial consequences but for us geeks. It is a tool to learn these jobs. Not for a cute little impress your cat webpages and raspberry pies
Wow I know Ford has went down in quality in recent years, but to use Kia is a whole new level
Let's look at this from Microsoft's perspective?
I do not work for Microsoft nor am I paid to shill their products.
What happened since 2010 when win 7 came out? Windows is going bye bye. Millennials used to their phones like their flat low color UI. They loved portability of tablets too and long battery life of their platforms on mobile operating systems. Desktops are all soo last century and are boring mainframe technology and stuck with XP because their phones were cooler and more important to keep current. They are entering our workforce as you read this in increasing numbers.
Enterprise customers see clouds, offshoring, running VDI virtual machines from anyywhere for crusty apps, and love XP and see no value to upgrade. They prefer to rent a subscription so the share price won't get hit by spikes in spending. Also tax write off is nice. Sales forces and executives want more mobility too and BYOD.
Both Android and Apple are making a killing in profits in apps and worse didn't use visual studio.
So what is MS supposed to do? Sit on their ass and become IBM?
Windows 8.1 with a start menu replacement is a much better OS for a laptop. HUGE battery savings and you can watch Netflix on the road if it is a tablet or hybrid too!
Windows 10 in my opinion was released a year to early and so was 8. After 10.1 or redstone it will be an OS what people want. Runs apps, cloud and touch friendly, more battery saving features, more secure, and yes UWP mean no piracy for developers and cheaper prices for us. MS makes their money and you can still run legacy apps.
You say you don't care about these? Well congratulations we are officially the old farts like the mainframe guys we used to make fun of in our youth.
Touch and a surface is sweet if you ever play with one.
MS is just listening to the market. They want an up to date device which is mobile and has a bunch of tiny apps for all purposes. Not a legacy 7 system out of familiarity.