I read somewhere that only 2% of jobs pay a minimum wage. You are hurting those who are above that level by making them now minimum wage and increasing the share
You are such a pompous ass who thinks that users are stupid and incompetent --no wonder Microsoft hired you! Please stop your obvious astroturfing.
Uh yeah.
MS would be sued into an oblivion if they pushed this on PC's. People do not watch what they click. Of course if anyone disagrees they must be a MS employee because everyone views things the exact same way
I can't believe anyone in the tech industry would say and do something like that with a smile. Malware can get on just from viewing a webpage on windows. Windows Update is an essential for any computer that goes on the internet.
I use GWX control panel as I do not want ransomware locking my stuff up
Oh here we go again! Linus wants more money and obsolete perfectly good computers so they can sell more apps on the Gnu appstore. THis is OUTRAGEOUS! We just upgraded from kernel 2.2 from 2001 last year and Linus ends support already?? Kernel 2.6.32 works just fine and is modern and well supported.
I can't believe users put up with this vandalism and forced obsolence. All the icons are in the wrong spot and my users can't handle change so quickly
Yeah I was thinking these laptops are underpowered for all but a web developer... actually still because if you use Adobe Dreamweaver you need a VM of WIndows.
No developer worth his salt doesn't use many VM's requiring 16 to 32 gigs of ram today. You have different linux distros, freebsd, WIndows, and Mac. Not to mention crappy tools like MS Office and Adobe Dreamweaver or Visual Studio for your win32 port and you are taking 5 or 6 2 - 8 gig VM's.
A developer today should only settle for 32 gigs of ram and maybe 16 and an i7 if you compile code. Not to mention some link to databases so you need several cores for your Oracle on CentOS not to mention run and debug on all Linux flavors, Windows, etc.
A desktop is nice because you can add these things and customize. A nice raid 0 SSD and gobs of ram (NOT SOLDERED IN) mean you can customize quite the powerhouse for your app environment.
I haven't used Linux as a desktop in a half decade now but Xorg seriously can't do font scaling and independent bitmap icons yet? WTF. Ubuntu has a mobile OS so I assume this was implemented?
If not it is long time to dump the xfree86 aka xorg turd and go wayland. FOr us oldtimers we experienced X on legacy hardware back in the day and geeks today have no idea how poor it is when you have gigs of ram. Shoot 8 megs of ram were required just to run the thing without apps?! Made emac users switch to VI to save ram because X took up everything with a client server model no one uses anymore.
Shoot I am running 8 vms now. My cpu has not ever gone beyond 20% like ever lol. However, I got the i7 k series which do not support VT-d which means it uses software for disk access without IOMMU by can virtualize everything else with hyper-v. My host Win 8.1 reports a 390MS for disk access. My server 2k12R2 guests report 3250 MS latency.
So a slower i5 with vt-x and vtd on a type 1 hypervisor can perform the best. I could trade my i7k to an i7S but I surprisingly do not need a faster cpu to my astonishment for that insane load.
Virtualbox or vmware workstation might need a beefy i7 as they are type1 and use software
Even California is right to work and majority of all states. If we have Cruz as our next president it will be law of the whole land soon as part of a minimum wage increase bill probably.
Corporations will cut whenever and whomever at will and all levels of government brown nose their asses because they bring in jobs and tax revenue or sometimes no tax revenue at all as a favor. That is just how it works regardless of where a company is located.
Since when did government represent the people?
You can't stop them. Trump is the only candidate who wants to address it with a tax so only senior architects and engineers and doctors get to take American jobs with a 40% tax. All the other candidates are in the pockets of big business who hate IT and view us as cost centers who get in the way of bonuses
It has always been like this. Steal 100$ from a grocery store, you get 10 years in jail. They bank steals 100K from the grocery store by collusion with ATM networks to convert 25 cent transaction fee debit cards to 2% transaction fee creditcards, they walk away scot free!
Company A fires one IT worker and hire a H1B, it is illegal. And the company can be prosecuted. Company fires *all* its workers and outsources the department to Company B, it is legal business decision.
Corporations are people! But all it takes is some 100$ filing fee and you have a brand new people with all the rights and privileges from freedom of thought, expression and religion. It is nearly impossible for an real Indian people to get work permit to work in the USA. All that H1B lottery and paper work, and work permits... But it takes no effort for a corporate Indian people to work in the USA!
So company A creates a not-really-companyA in India and brings real Indian people employed by corporate Indian people to serve corporate American people. Real American people get royally screwed. Real Indian people get some bones. Corporate Indian people get a huge slice of the pie because the profits are parked abroad to skirt taxes. Corporate American people get a slice just big enough to pay the CEOs and the cronies large bonuses and pay.
OK, OK go ahead and vote for more tax cuts for the rich, to vote for more abortion restrictions, vote for unlimited mining on public lands, vote to relax envrionmental laws, and then sit in a corner and wonder why the American government always screws you.
Donald Trump supports a 40% tax on all H1B1 jobs and is a Republican. Just giving a heads up as he is the only one I see who actually cares?! His other stuff... sigh. Yeah that is a problem. But in his plan for a doctor or senior consulting architect the corps still get them from India. But as a cost cutting measure? Hertz would fine it cheaper to keep their employees. True some could still be managed in India but you need physical people there still
Maybe Hertz didn't consider the dangers of outsourcing completely. It's usually ending up in a situation where things takes longer to perform and becomes a lot more expensive.
If employees are working IT then they also fix stuff that aren't on a trouble ticket but just on a passing event. When it's outsourced everything needs a trouble ticket.
I just wait for the day where someone in an organization has put in a dead mans grip that blows the data as soon as there's a hostile outsourcing. "If X hasn't logged in in 30 days then execute script ZZ that will run", and then have an encryption on the backup with no back-up of the key.
They won't care. They got their bonuses for being so smart and eliminating that nasty cost center who provides no business value at the end of the day. Who cares about the company
I bet my last buck its a scumbag PC shop, which all of us that are legit hope DIAF. BTW these type of scumbag shops? Often not only steal from big customers like MSFT they also steal from their customers not only by selling them fake software but even going so far as to steal expensive hardware from their PCs.
You have no idea how many times I opened up a PC that had previously been worked on by a local scumbag shop only to find the specs on the system did not match what was in there because they ripped off the customer. I've seen them steal graphics cards, RAM sticks, one scumbag even went so far as to take the customers (then) very expensive 500Gb HDD and replace it with an 80GB, they are absolute POS scumbags and I see no issue with MSFT (or any company) putting these low rent scumbag shops out of business.
The day my boss sent me to the scumbag shop to buy some RAM sticks only to find the feds there and the scumbag had skipped town? Was a VERY happy day, as I'm sure it'll be a happy day for the shops in that area when "Bob's PC World" is shut down.
I always build my own stuff unless I buy a tablet or portable. Can't trust anyone. Of course I am A+ IT guy who has experience, but man I had to learn the old fashioned way in m youth to do it yourself.
Eventually what is going to happen is as the price of pcs fall people will just buy a new one and stop doing business with you. Now is a great time to invest in business services and certifications and being cloud and ERP providers and partners if I owned a shop. When PC's were $3000 and went obsolete so fast you could make 6 figures back in the 1990s owning a shop just focusing on hardware and nothing else.
It certainly does seem inevitable that once a company gets to a certain size its practices move from human interest to business interest.
Business interest is not necessarily compatible with human interest.
You wouldn't take a job for 6 figures and a golden parachute and a contract? Of course you would.
That is human nature my friend and motivates us to work hard and update your skills so when you and y our employer grab the ball you can have more pull in negotations.
My point is MS got lucky and played their card to the max. It doesn't make sense not too?
So you think Apple, Google, or IBM who are the good guys would be any different?
Oh yeah IBM wasn't this awesome open source Linux friendly company we know today.
It is called a free market. Everyone will be evil given opportunity and everyone will be good saints as soon as competition comes in. Saying a leopard doesn't change it's spot is silly.
Companies are not your friends.
They are actors just like you in a free market. Let me ask you all something? If you had a skillset no one else had would you be a nice guy and only charge 65k a year? Or would you charge the world and force employers to contract millions with 401k, stocks, and golden parachutes if you could?
Of course the later. Competition forces us to be nice
You will see zero benefit when booting pc and running standard programs. What really drives speed is IOPS and cpu (after mechanical disks and value ssds are gone). Tomshardware did a benchmark with raid 0 ssds vs standard ssds back in 2013.
They booted slower than non raid. Game loading speed didn't make a different either. BUT winzip and transfering a large 2 gig files where crazy fast.
So a server would benefit maybe but I doubt most have 10 gbs ethernet to come close. So unless you work on databases (those are IOPS, not bandwidth) but even then an enterprise SSD in raid 5 with several disks would approach the speed for queries even if the bandwidth is not as great. These are niches.
So if I were you unless you make 6 figures I would not invest. I would get a nice Samsung pro 850 SSD or raid 0 them for 1/3 the price. You wouldn't notice the difference at all
Only argument for SQL Server and Oracle is crappy VB written client server apps and middle Ware being tied to it. Our trackit ticketing system at work only works with SQL Server as one example
Nope 8.1 works just fine. Seriously the image from MS had an outdated database for dism/sfc or it came with that bug. It makes it useless for a corporate setting as IT professionals use those to repair corrupted pcs.
It is not hardware. Odd the intel Media Interface driver which update reported failed actually mentioned it started in event viewer?? So WTF pc settings can't even kniow what is installed and which isn't.
You can disable charms. I did on my desktop. I just had very bad luck with bugs in Windows 10 and do not want to ever touch it again. But being in the technology field I am aware it is inevitable eventually.
Does Hyper-V support graphics acceleration for Linux guests yet? That's the only thing keeping me in VMware.
It does not but it is a type 1 hypervisor which means it talks directly to the hardware and has faster i/o. Example is my wifi printer was detected by my guests by default which was very cool and less buggy as no layers exist like a type 2 one.
VMware Workstation is no longer developed either since Dell bought them out. Windows 10 redstone should (if they port server 2016) hyper-v will have nested vms which for me is the only reason I have a copy of vmware workstation left.
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I read somewhere that only 2% of jobs pay a minimum wage. You are hurting those who are above that level by making them now minimum wage and increasing the share
Well you must have agreed previously. That is on you as I do not have this problem
You are such a pompous ass who thinks that users are stupid and incompetent --no wonder Microsoft hired you! Please stop your obvious astroturfing.
Uh yeah.
MS would be sued into an oblivion if they pushed this on PC's. People do not watch what they click. Of course if anyone disagrees they must be a MS employee because everyone views things the exact same way
Which is why I shut off updates completely
Yeah great idea!
I can't believe anyone in the tech industry would say and do something like that with a smile. Malware can get on just from viewing a webpage on windows. Windows Update is an essential for any computer that goes on the internet.
I use GWX control panel as I do not want ransomware locking my stuff up
Enjoy your malware and your ransom. But hey, you don't get Windows 10 right?
For those infected who say they turn off Windows Update with a smile all I can say is told you so!
Oh here we go again! Linus wants more money and obsolete perfectly good computers so they can sell more apps on the Gnu appstore. THis is OUTRAGEOUS! We just upgraded from kernel 2.2 from 2001 last year and Linus ends support already?? Kernel 2.6.32 works just fine and is modern and well supported.
I can't believe users put up with this vandalism and forced obsolence. All the icons are in the wrong spot and my users can't handle change so quickly
But why is it when XP goes EOL and MS is starting it ignore 7 we all SCREAM ANTI CHRIST
Yeah I was thinking these laptops are underpowered for all but a web developer ... actually still because if you use Adobe Dreamweaver you need a VM of WIndows.
No developer worth his salt doesn't use many VM's requiring 16 to 32 gigs of ram today. You have different linux distros, freebsd, WIndows, and Mac. Not to mention crappy tools like MS Office and Adobe Dreamweaver or Visual Studio for your win32 port and you are taking 5 or 6 2 - 8 gig VM's.
A developer today should only settle for 32 gigs of ram and maybe 16 and an i7 if you compile code. Not to mention some link to databases so you need several cores for your Oracle on CentOS not to mention run and debug on all Linux flavors, Windows, etc.
A desktop is nice because you can add these things and customize. A nice raid 0 SSD and gobs of ram (NOT SOLDERED IN) mean you can customize quite the powerhouse for your app environment.
I haven't used Linux as a desktop in a half decade now but Xorg seriously can't do font scaling and independent bitmap icons yet? WTF. Ubuntu has a mobile OS so I assume this was implemented?
If not it is long time to dump the xfree86 aka xorg turd and go wayland. FOr us oldtimers we experienced X on legacy hardware back in the day and geeks today have no idea how poor it is when you have gigs of ram. Shoot 8 megs of ram were required just to run the thing without apps?! Made emac users switch to VI to save ram because X took up everything with a client server model no one uses anymore.
Shoot I am running 8 vms now. My cpu has not ever gone beyond 20% like ever lol. However, I got the i7 k series which do not support VT-d which means it uses software for disk access without IOMMU by can virtualize everything else with hyper-v. My host Win 8.1 reports a 390MS for disk access. My server 2k12R2 guests report 3250 MS latency.
So a slower i5 with vt-x and vtd on a type 1 hypervisor can perform the best. I could trade my i7k to an i7S but I surprisingly do not need a faster cpu to my astonishment for that insane load.
Virtualbox or vmware workstation might need a beefy i7 as they are type1 and use software
Even California is right to work and majority of all states. If we have Cruz as our next president it will be law of the whole land soon as part of a minimum wage increase bill probably.
Corporations will cut whenever and whomever at will and all levels of government brown nose their asses because they bring in jobs and tax revenue or sometimes no tax revenue at all as a favor. That is just how it works regardless of where a company is located.
Since when did government represent the people?
You can't stop them. Trump is the only candidate who wants to address it with a tax so only senior architects and engineers and doctors get to take American jobs with a 40% tax. All the other candidates are in the pockets of big business who hate IT and view us as cost centers who get in the way of bonuses
It has always been like this. Steal 100$ from a grocery store, you get 10 years in jail. They bank steals 100K from the grocery store by collusion with ATM networks to convert 25 cent transaction fee debit cards to 2% transaction fee creditcards, they walk away scot free!
Company A fires one IT worker and hire a H1B, it is illegal. And the company can be prosecuted. Company fires *all* its workers and outsources the department to Company B, it is legal business decision.
Corporations are people! But all it takes is some 100$ filing fee and you have a brand new people with all the rights and privileges from freedom of thought, expression and religion. It is nearly impossible for an real Indian people to get work permit to work in the USA. All that H1B lottery and paper work, and work permits... But it takes no effort for a corporate Indian people to work in the USA!
So company A creates a not-really-companyA in India and brings real Indian people employed by corporate Indian people to serve corporate American people. Real American people get royally screwed. Real Indian people get some bones. Corporate Indian people get a huge slice of the pie because the profits are parked abroad to skirt taxes. Corporate American people get a slice just big enough to pay the CEOs and the cronies large bonuses and pay.
OK, OK go ahead and vote for more tax cuts for the rich, to vote for more abortion restrictions, vote for unlimited mining on public lands, vote to relax envrionmental laws, and then sit in a corner and wonder why the American government always screws you.
Donald Trump supports a 40% tax on all H1B1 jobs and is a Republican. Just giving a heads up as he is the only one I see who actually cares?! His other stuff ... sigh. Yeah that is a problem. But in his plan for a doctor or senior consulting architect the corps still get them from India. But as a cost cutting measure? Hertz would fine it cheaper to keep their employees. True some could still be managed in India but you need physical people there still
Maybe Hertz didn't consider the dangers of outsourcing completely. It's usually ending up in a situation where things takes longer to perform and becomes a lot more expensive.
If employees are working IT then they also fix stuff that aren't on a trouble ticket but just on a passing event. When it's outsourced everything needs a trouble ticket.
I just wait for the day where someone in an organization has put in a dead mans grip that blows the data as soon as there's a hostile outsourcing. "If X hasn't logged in in 30 days then execute script ZZ that will run", and then have an encryption on the backup with no back-up of the key.
They won't care. They got their bonuses for being so smart and eliminating that nasty cost center who provides no business value at the end of the day. Who cares about the company
It sucks it had 0 IT workers at all who were qualified and could do the job whatsoever. Man we need more h1b1 ASAP!
After all it is illegal to use it as a cost cutting measure right?
I bet my last buck its a scumbag PC shop, which all of us that are legit hope DIAF. BTW these type of scumbag shops? Often not only steal from big customers like MSFT they also steal from their customers not only by selling them fake software but even going so far as to steal expensive hardware from their PCs.
You have no idea how many times I opened up a PC that had previously been worked on by a local scumbag shop only to find the specs on the system did not match what was in there because they ripped off the customer. I've seen them steal graphics cards, RAM sticks, one scumbag even went so far as to take the customers (then) very expensive 500Gb HDD and replace it with an 80GB, they are absolute POS scumbags and I see no issue with MSFT (or any company) putting these low rent scumbag shops out of business.
The day my boss sent me to the scumbag shop to buy some RAM sticks only to find the feds there and the scumbag had skipped town? Was a VERY happy day, as I'm sure it'll be a happy day for the shops in that area when "Bob's PC World" is shut down.
I always build my own stuff unless I buy a tablet or portable. Can't trust anyone. Of course I am A+ IT guy who has experience, but man I had to learn the old fashioned way in m youth to do it yourself.
Eventually what is going to happen is as the price of pcs fall people will just buy a new one and stop doing business with you. Now is a great time to invest in business services and certifications and being cloud and ERP providers and partners if I owned a shop. When PC's were $3000 and went obsolete so fast you could make 6 figures back in the 1990s owning a shop just focusing on hardware and nothing else.
Perhaps it is the system that is broken?
It certainly does seem inevitable that once a company gets to a certain size its practices move from human interest to business interest.
Business interest is not necessarily compatible with human interest.
You wouldn't take a job for 6 figures and a golden parachute and a contract? Of course you would.
That is human nature my friend and motivates us to work hard and update your skills so when you and y our employer grab the ball you can have more pull in negotations.
My point is MS got lucky and played their card to the max. It doesn't make sense not too?
So you think Apple, Google, or IBM who are the good guys would be any different?
Oh yeah IBM wasn't this awesome open source Linux friendly company we know today.
It is called a free market. Everyone will be evil given opportunity and everyone will be good saints as soon as competition comes in. Saying a leopard doesn't change it's spot is silly.
Companies are not your friends.
They are actors just like you in a free market. Let me ask you all something? If you had a skillset no one else had would you be a nice guy and only charge 65k a year? Or would you charge the world and force employers to contract millions with 401k, stocks, and golden parachutes if you could?
Of course the later. Competition forces us to be nice
Great so I can run my SQL Server based and .Net written Trackit software on Ubuntu with a postgesql just fine?
You will see zero benefit when booting pc and running standard programs. What really drives speed is IOPS and cpu (after mechanical disks and value ssds are gone). Tomshardware did a benchmark with raid 0 ssds vs standard ssds back in 2013.
They booted slower than non raid. Game loading speed didn't make a different either. BUT winzip and transfering a large 2 gig files where crazy fast.
So a server would benefit maybe but I doubt most have 10 gbs ethernet to come close. So unless you work on databases (those are IOPS, not bandwidth) but even then an enterprise SSD in raid 5 with several disks would approach the speed for queries even if the bandwidth is not as great. These are niches.
So if I were you unless you make 6 figures I would not invest. I would get a nice Samsung pro 850 SSD or raid 0 them for 1/3 the price. You wouldn't notice the difference at all
Only argument for SQL Server and Oracle is crappy VB written client server apps and middle Ware being tied to it. Our trackit ticketing system at work only works with SQL Server as one example
You do know Apple abandoned init a decade ago right with it's own event driven system? I don't see this a big deal on desktops
How is there powershell support in recent builds? Can you automate it with that?
Nope 8.1 works just fine. Seriously the image from MS had an outdated database for dism/sfc or it came with that bug. It makes it useless for a corporate setting as IT professionals use those to repair corrupted pcs.
It is not hardware. Odd the intel Media Interface driver which update reported failed actually mentioned it started in event viewer?? So WTF pc settings can't even kniow what is installed and which isn't.
You can disable charms. I did on my desktop. I just had very bad luck with bugs in Windows 10 and do not want to ever touch it again. But being in the technology field I am aware it is inevitable eventually.
Wasn't poki spyware?
Does Hyper-V support graphics acceleration for Linux guests yet? That's the only thing keeping me in VMware.
It does not but it is a type 1 hypervisor which means it talks directly to the hardware and has faster i/o. Example is my wifi printer was detected by my guests by default which was very cool and less buggy as no layers exist like a type 2 one.
VMware Workstation is no longer developed either since Dell bought them out. Windows 10 redstone should (if they port server 2016) hyper-v will have nested vms which for me is the only reason I have a copy of vmware workstation left.