Some years ago we had a post from a lawyer who had experience with employment related law suits. He told us that his advice to clients was to give up and not file a lawsuit. He said that the reality was that the deck was stacked in favor of the employer and he estimated that maybe 10% of lawsuits against employers were won by the employee. I know that it's the Slashdot way to just assume her case was groundless simply because a jury ruled that way.
Actually, I personally decided that the case was groundless because of one thing. She was having an affair someone above her on the food chain. If she had any kind of proof that she was forced to have an affair with the guy, I'd say she was due every cent plus punitive damages. And if she was being forced to, it seems like a good time to start recording evidence.
But even in her court testimony, her reason for carrying on with the guy was because she heard he had left his wife.
The woman simply had zero credibility. As a victim, she just wasn't a very good one.
I can shut my Mac down and everything will reopen exactly where it was - if I want it to. Just a little checkbox
Does Safari restore open web pages after your Mac restarts, even if your Mac is disconnected from the network after it restarts? If so, I'll add a MacBook Air to my short list.
DIsclaimer - I'm using an iMac
I tried your query, with the exception of disconnecting from the internet, I restarted the computer and checked to "reopen windows" when logging back in. Here's what happened:
Mail and Safarit re-opened, and having some 8 tabs opened, it saved those tabs in my history upon restarting. So I opened them, and there they were.
It was paying attention, because I have it normally set to clear history when I quit Safari.
How's that nihilistic cynicism workin' out for ya?
Typical - conversation doesn't go your way so you sideline into an insult.
Go away now:-)
Nihhilistic cynicism is a description, not an insult. I'm a cynic, but not nihilistic. It is what you are, so why you would take that as an insult, is beyond me
If I called you an asshat, now that would be an insult. But I didn't. And I had no idea that the conversation wasn't going my way.
Yeah because models work universally because of magic secret stuff and aren't at all essentially commodity hardware in a more specific package. Suspend / Resume support is an absolute crapshoot completely independent of price and quality, and the percentage of laptops sold with actually Linux support as claimed by the vendor is in the single digits.
I've worked with a lot of Dell laptops over the years which once they suspend, they won't wake up. You have to reboot them.
But I guess its only a fatal issue when it's a linux laptop?
What the fuck. How does anyone think this is okay?
In the end I had to 'upgrade' to 17, which means you should wipe everything and re-install (this is also totally unacceptable).
Wow you set that one up and beat the shit out of it nicely.
TEll me exactly why you had to wipe your computer to install Linux 17 on it?
Instead I followed a guide to update which involved using sed -i on the command line (again, what the fuck?) and then doing apt-get upgrade and update.
I'm beginning to get a pretty good idea why some folks have so much trouble.
This mostly worked, except that Cinnamon no longer worked until I uninstalled and re-installed fglrx.
Now, really think about what I just wrote.
I have. You read like that guy who purposefully failed a Tesla, then complained about it. Nobody should have to do any of the stuff you write about to update their linux machine.
A new Linux distribution gave me that much shit to install, then update, then upgrade. Does anyone honestly believe it's ready for the 'general' user?
Yeah. My wife, who is the least technical, least patient, computer user I've worked with, managed to update without a hitch. She certainly didn't do it the way you attempted to do it
I'm not talking about the fact that it has bugs / errors either, I'm talking about how it handles them. It never once gave me any indication on how to fix things, or try to fix them itself. It always came down to me googling and using technical tools to fix things. Does nobody else think this is unacceptable?
I think maybe you just shouldn't use linux at all, or ever again. I'm not certain of why you had the issues you did, perhaps trying to force a windows outlook on Unixy systems, but your update process was bizzare to say the least. It's probably no comfort, but your experience isn't anything I've ever found or had to do in working with Linux.
Just a data point, but my Ubuntu laptop suspends and resumes just fine. But my Windows laptop doesn't and frequently has to be rebooted when that happens.
Yeah same here. I've had many more laptops that won't wake from suspend or hibernate on Windows than on Linux. Worst problem I have now is Docky won't resume. A docky problem, not Linux.
When you have an SSD that boots Linux in less than 20 seconds, who the hell *cares* if it doesn't hibernate correctly
People who want their sessions to be restored correctly. Or which web browser will correctly reopen pages that had been opened in tabs, even if the machine is offline when the user logs back in?
Weird. I can shut my Mac down and everything will reopen exactly where it was - if I want it to. Just a little checkbox - Do you mean the superior Windows system cannot do that?
yeah, 'saving state' is such an old and outdated concept. I mean, why would we want to checkpoint the status of lots of open files, open browser windows, edits that are not ready to be commited or saved but you don't want to close the file, either. even the cursor position is important to be saved; its all part of 'state'.
but go ahead an argue that saving your status is worthless. in fact, maybe you like to just be forced to logoff and reboot every few hours? hmmm? sound good to you?
At that point there is nothing left tying me to Windows.
Other than Linux failing to suspend and resume correctly on a laptop.
Other than Microsoft's telemetry reading everything on your computer, other than them forcing updates on you that break things.
I mean seriously, if you are trying to make a reliability of operations argument, don't even use Microsoft as a positive comparison.
I have 10 pro. Despite telling Microsoft to wait on updates, it just barrels right in and updates anyhow. And a whole lot of folks in my arena - emergency comms - are finding that updates break their machines. And only after a couple months it's the same old Microsoft. So it's now like you have to buy the Enterprise version to make certain your computer is protected from them. And I don't even trust that.
And its a real pity, because 10 works very nicely for the most part. But the telemetry and lack of respect for your user settings - even on W10 Pro are real killers. One of these days, they are going to bitch up a huge number of computers.
There's a reason so many are "stuck" using Windows, no matter how onerous Microsoft gets (or OSX, no matter how walled garden Apple is) - some industry standard software simply doesn't run on other systems. Compared to the cost of someone to do the work for you, buying a dedicated Windows machine and the software to run it is less than a single edit session.
Or, as they say, use a clapperboard and do it yourself.
Just one of the big reasons I use OSX. Even iMovie can make a surprisingly professional movie. A lot of times when under insane time pressure, I used it instead of FCP.
And I used a clapboard. Quick and efficient. And it works.
caveat: if I were to be making a long single cut video, I'd find a professional tool to keep everything in sync. But that never happened.
Don't sync to the video, sync to the audio. Your video recorder records the audio "reference" track and you just sync your externally recorded audio to the reference track. Kdenlive has this feature. Other editors may a well.
You can get 1 video frame off accuracy this way. I did the old clapboard method a gazillion times with no discernable sync issue. Keep the clapboard at the images point so that an echo won't give you an issue, but even that is overkill for most applications.
If I was going to get at all fancy with it, I'd build a clapboard with an led on it that would light the moment the clap noise happened, to get a visual reality check. But that's even overkill.
Unless the devices themselves have some kind of common sync like wordclock or the like, they will drift out of sync. So sync the audio at any given point, it'll be out of sync later. That's why studios have all kind of gear to slave everything to a master clock.
Unless it is a rather long edit, they'll stay in sync just fine. The clapboard method isn't automagic, but unless the recording has individual edits that are going to be 20 minutes or longer, its going to be an exercise in wasted money. I've even used background sounds in videos and audios to sync together. Not at all recommended, because its a pain in the ass, but remarkably effective.
So it doesn't matter that the cost goes on forever. It isn't even worth arguing about the fact that in-house costs also go on forever. Because it just doesn't matter.
How's that nihilistic cynicism workin' out for ya?
Depreciation over time vs. cloud being an operating expense which is 100% deductable as you pay it so yes, from that point of view it is also better on the bottom line.
But the expense goes on forever.
I never said it fixes jack shit incidentally - just that CEOs/CFOs are going to go for it because it's cheap.
If there is high demand, it won't be cheap for long. And if the cloud provider goes out of business orloses your data, it's not so cheap. And you are just another customer.
Guess it's just a matter of falling off that bridge when we get to it. It''s just another inhouse vs outsource argument. And outsourcing is always cheaper until it isn't
Classic egg and bacon breakfasts, believe it or not, are a much better option.
That really shows how bad those sugar frosted amphetamine bombs* are. A good idea was taken and then ruined by soaking it in sugar.
It's still an issue. I really love's me some plain oatmeal, or corn flakes for breakfast. But by 10 a.m., I'm ravenous hungry. Distracted hungry. Tummy growling hunger pangs hungry.
Whereas bacon and eggs and toast keeps me satisfied even if I skip lunch and don't eat again until the evening.
Might have something to do with eating a mix of foods proteins and carbs, just like we evolved to eat.
Y'know, a.theonion domain would be really useful: all satire websites could use it, and we could program browsers to add "[THIS IS SATIRE YOU MORON]" whenever my relatives paste a.theonion URL into Facebook.
Which would immediately ruin all the fun when someone gets Onioned.
This is rampant in all industries, but especially smaller companies. Accountants comprise a solid quarter of the employees where I work and they account for roughly half the payroll. They're getting close to the point where they'll run the show like they did at my last company, where it became an ever worsening downward spiral as they consumed more and we couldn't even afford to develop new products.
And there it is - the end product of accounting - failure.
While some accounting is obviously necessary, somewhere along the line, we forgot they produce absolutely nothing, and will consume whatever they are allowed to consume. But accounting has now become the alpha activity.
Slashdot Mirror
Some years ago we had a post from a lawyer who had experience with employment related law suits. He told us that his advice to clients was to give up and not file a lawsuit. He said that the reality was that the deck was stacked in favor of the employer and he estimated that maybe 10% of lawsuits against employers were won by the employee. I know that it's the Slashdot way to just assume her case was groundless simply because a jury ruled that way.
Actually, I personally decided that the case was groundless because of one thing. She was having an affair someone above her on the food chain. If she had any kind of proof that she was forced to have an affair with the guy, I'd say she was due every cent plus punitive damages. And if she was being forced to, it seems like a good time to start recording evidence.
But even in her court testimony, her reason for carrying on with the guy was because she heard he had left his wife.
The woman simply had zero credibility. As a victim, she just wasn't a very good one.
I can shut my Mac down and everything will reopen exactly where it was - if I want it to. Just a little checkbox
Does Safari restore open web pages after your Mac restarts, even if your Mac is disconnected from the network after it restarts? If so, I'll add a MacBook Air to my short list.
DIsclaimer - I'm using an iMac
I tried your query, with the exception of disconnecting from the internet, I restarted the computer and checked to "reopen windows" when logging back in. Here's what happened:
Mail and Safarit re-opened, and having some 8 tabs opened, it saved those tabs in my history upon restarting. So I opened them, and there they were.
It was paying attention, because I have it normally set to clear history when I quit Safari.
Your needs appear to be a tad esoteric.
You can get 1 video frame off accuracy this way.
Why?
Also bear in mind you'll be 1 frame off sync for every 11 metres your clapper is from the camera...
I think this is why humans notice less when sound is delayed than when it is in advance - because that's the normal way of things.
Another autocorrect or keyboard bounce attack 1 video frame of accuracy this way was what I tried to type.
Yes, the speed of sound and pickup placement is important if we are trying to be as accurate as the video will allow us to be.
How's that nihilistic cynicism workin' out for ya?
Typical - conversation doesn't go your way so you sideline into an insult.
Go away now :-)
Nihhilistic cynicism is a description, not an insult. I'm a cynic, but not nihilistic. It is what you are, so why you would take that as an insult, is beyond me
If I called you an asshat, now that would be an insult. But I didn't. And I had no idea that the conversation wasn't going my way.
Yeah because models work universally because of magic secret stuff and aren't at all essentially commodity hardware in a more specific package. Suspend / Resume support is an absolute crapshoot completely independent of price and quality, and the percentage of laptops sold with actually Linux support as claimed by the vendor is in the single digits.
I've worked with a lot of Dell laptops over the years which once they suspend, they won't wake up. You have to reboot them.
But I guess its only a fatal issue when it's a linux laptop?
No, you're using a make and model of laptop on which suspend and resume happen to work in Linux. There exist other models on which they do not work.
And just to make certain. Every laptop that has ever been produced works perfectly on windows suspend/resume.
Right?
What the fuck. How does anyone think this is okay?
In the end I had to 'upgrade' to 17, which means you should wipe everything and re-install (this is also totally unacceptable).
Wow you set that one up and beat the shit out of it nicely.
TEll me exactly why you had to wipe your computer to install Linux 17 on it?
Instead I followed a guide to update which involved using sed -i on the command line (again, what the fuck?) and then doing apt-get upgrade and update.
I'm beginning to get a pretty good idea why some folks have so much trouble.
This mostly worked, except that Cinnamon no longer worked until I uninstalled and re-installed fglrx.
Now, really think about what I just wrote.
I have. You read like that guy who purposefully failed a Tesla, then complained about it. Nobody should have to do any of the stuff you write about to update their linux machine.
A new Linux distribution gave me that much shit to install, then update, then upgrade. Does anyone honestly believe it's ready for the 'general' user?
Yeah. My wife, who is the least technical, least patient, computer user I've worked with, managed to update without a hitch. She certainly didn't do it the way you attempted to do it
I'm not talking about the fact that it has bugs / errors either, I'm talking about how it handles them. It never once gave me any indication on how to fix things, or try to fix them itself. It always came down to me googling and using technical tools to fix things. Does nobody else think this is unacceptable?
I think maybe you just shouldn't use linux at all, or ever again. I'm not certain of why you had the issues you did, perhaps trying to force a windows outlook on Unixy systems, but your update process was bizzare to say the least. It's probably no comfort, but your experience isn't anything I've ever found or had to do in working with Linux.
Other than Linux failing to suspend and resume correctly on a laptop.
YMMV, but I recently switched my Windows netbook to Linux and I can't believe how lightning fast it suspends/awakes now.
The suspend issue is really old news by now. I haven't had it in years. But some folks are still really pissed off about FDR yet.
Just a data point, but my Ubuntu laptop suspends and resumes just fine. But my Windows laptop doesn't and frequently has to be rebooted when that happens.
Yeah same here. I've had many more laptops that won't wake from suspend or hibernate on Windows than on Linux. Worst problem I have now is Docky won't resume. A docky problem, not Linux.
When you have an SSD that boots Linux in less than 20 seconds, who the hell *cares* if it doesn't hibernate correctly
People who want their sessions to be restored correctly. Or which web browser will correctly reopen pages that had been opened in tabs, even if the machine is offline when the user logs back in?
Weird. I can shut my Mac down and everything will reopen exactly where it was - if I want it to. Just a little checkbox - Do you mean the superior Windows system cannot do that?
yeah, 'saving state' is such an old and outdated concept. I mean, why would we want to checkpoint the status of lots of open files, open browser windows, edits that are not ready to be commited or saved but you don't want to close the file, either. even the cursor position is important to be saved; its all part of 'state'.
but go ahead an argue that saving your status is worthless. in fact, maybe you like to just be forced to logoff and reboot every few hours? hmmm? sound good to you?
You seriously work that way?
At that point there is nothing left tying me to Windows.
Other than Linux failing to suspend and resume correctly on a laptop.
Other than Microsoft's telemetry reading everything on your computer, other than them forcing updates on you that break things.
I mean seriously, if you are trying to make a reliability of operations argument, don't even use Microsoft as a positive comparison.
I have 10 pro. Despite telling Microsoft to wait on updates, it just barrels right in and updates anyhow. And a whole lot of folks in my arena - emergency comms - are finding that updates break their machines. And only after a couple months it's the same old Microsoft. So it's now like you have to buy the Enterprise version to make certain your computer is protected from them. And I don't even trust that.
And its a real pity, because 10 works very nicely for the most part. But the telemetry and lack of respect for your user settings - even on W10 Pro are real killers. One of these days, they are going to bitch up a huge number of computers.
There's a reason so many are "stuck" using Windows, no matter how onerous Microsoft gets (or OSX, no matter how walled garden Apple is) - some industry standard software simply doesn't run on other systems. Compared to the cost of someone to do the work for you, buying a dedicated Windows machine and the software to run it is less than a single edit session.
Or, as they say, use a clapperboard and do it yourself.
Just one of the big reasons I use OSX. Even iMovie can make a surprisingly professional movie. A lot of times when under insane time pressure, I used it instead of FCP.
And I used a clapboard. Quick and efficient. And it works.
caveat: if I were to be making a long single cut video, I'd find a professional tool to keep everything in sync. But that never happened.
Don't sync to the video, sync to the audio. Your video recorder records the audio "reference" track and you just sync your externally recorded audio to the reference track. Kdenlive has this feature. Other editors may a well.
You can get 1 video frame off accuracy this way. I did the old clapboard method a gazillion times with no discernable sync issue. Keep the clapboard at the images point so that an echo won't give you an issue, but even that is overkill for most applications.
If I was going to get at all fancy with it, I'd build a clapboard with an led on it that would light the moment the clap noise happened, to get a visual reality check. But that's even overkill.
Unless the devices themselves have some kind of common sync like wordclock or the like, they will drift out of sync. So sync the audio at any given point, it'll be out of sync later. That's why studios have all kind of gear to slave everything to a master clock.
Unless it is a rather long edit, they'll stay in sync just fine. The clapboard method isn't automagic, but unless the recording has individual edits that are going to be 20 minutes or longer, its going to be an exercise in wasted money. I've even used background sounds in videos and audios to sync together. Not at all recommended, because its a pain in the ass, but remarkably effective.
So it doesn't matter that the cost goes on forever. It isn't even worth arguing about the fact that in-house costs also go on forever. Because it just doesn't matter.
How's that nihilistic cynicism workin' out for ya?
Depreciation over time vs. cloud being an operating expense which is 100% deductable as you pay it so yes, from that point of view it is also better on the bottom line.
But the expense goes on forever.
I never said it fixes jack shit incidentally - just that CEOs/CFOs are going to go for it because it's cheap.
If there is high demand, it won't be cheap for long. And if the cloud provider goes out of business orloses your data, it's not so cheap. And you are just another customer.
Guess it's just a matter of falling off that bridge when we get to it. It''s just another inhouse vs outsource argument. And outsourcing is always cheaper until it isn't
I'll agree that that's fine if you'll agree that the difference between fine and healthy is about 25 years life expectancy.
You don't have to agree it's fine, and the idea that eating protein will knock 25 years off your lifespan is bullshit.
So no deal. Vegans don't live longer - it only seems that way.
That really shows how bad those sugar frosted amphetamine bombs* are. A good idea was taken and then ruined by soaking it in sugar.
It's still an issue. I really love's me some plain oatmeal, or corn flakes for breakfast. But by 10 a.m., I'm ravenous hungry. Distracted hungry. Tummy growling hunger pangs hungry.
Whereas bacon and eggs and toast keeps me satisfied even if I skip lunch and don't eat again until the evening.
Might have something to do with eating a mix of foods proteins and carbs, just like we evolved to eat.
Actually I think the health problems are more caused by the wrong advice given by both the FDA and the American Heart Association.
The way I figure it, if eating cholesterol raises your cholesterol levels, then becoming a vegan will turn you into a carrot.
What's so disappointing? What were you hoping for? A crashed alien spaceship? Cthulhu?
I'm not disappointed in the slightest. This is awesome science.
I was kind of hoping for Brown Jenkin myself.
Y'know, a .theonion domain would be really useful: all satire websites could use it, and we could program browsers to add "[THIS IS SATIRE YOU MORON]" whenever my relatives paste a .theonion URL into Facebook.
Which would immediately ruin all the fun when someone gets Onioned.
This is rampant in all industries, but especially smaller companies. Accountants comprise a solid quarter of the employees where I work and they account for roughly half the payroll. They're getting close to the point where they'll run the show like they did at my last company, where it became an ever worsening downward spiral as they consumed more and we couldn't even afford to develop new products.
And there it is - the end product of accounting - failure.
While some accounting is obviously necessary, somewhere along the line, we forgot they produce absolutely nothing, and will consume whatever they are allowed to consume. But accounting has now become the alpha activity.
I block ads for the same reason I don't invite methods into the house.
What about procedures & functions?
Yikes! Gotta turn off that spell check. Or maybe not.
There's no such thing as "Common sense". It's just a myth to oppress those with different opinions.
And if you actually depend on people's common sense for things to work, you're doing it wrong./p.
And when "common sense and "science" are paired together, it's usually codespeak for creationism.