On a second read, that seems to be the case. I had it in my mind that he put a "cache" folder on the external drive. Not set [cache folder]=[video storage folder]. I wouldn't call deleting everything in the folder a bug, more like sloppy programming. No reason for an application to delete files it didn't create.
This made my brain hurt. There wouldn't be anything wrong with the assumption if it wasn't completely incorrect. I'm sorry, but ignorance of technology when your livelihood relies on technology isn't excusable. If those files were truly worth $250,000 that would seem to imply he could have/should have paid a computer nerd company a couple thousand dollars to make sure his rig and workflow are adequate for the task as hand.
When I showed up at my last job they were running on a shitty network. (5-ish clients running through a 10Mb hub) That's not the fault of the company that they bought the hub from. It's the fault of the business owner for not being willing to recognize that networking wasn't in their wheelhouse and paying someone who had a clue.
If this was a home user who lost grandma and grandpas 50th anniversary party video I would have a bit more sympathy. Granted, this is a shitty, nasty bug, but I'd be surprised if he gets Adobe to cough up the cash to compensate him for this files.
Saw a shop in Florida that sold RF-proof undergarments. The only thing it accomplishes is proving that there are too many dumb people with too much money.
Obviously their research showed that people wouldn't care enough about headphone jacks to quit buying their product if they omitted it
88% of Their twitter followers may LIKE a headphone jack, but I can only assume that their actual research showed that people would still buy their phone if it was omitted. Given the choice of "more battery life" and "headphone jack" maybe more people would prefer a bigger battery. I don't know, I don't have access to their research.
"The Year OnePlus Started Ignoring what this one particular small demographic of people think."
Is that better? Don't get me wrong, deleting the headphone jack for me (and likely the majority of people on this site) is a non-starter. I will give you that. But do you honestly think they did it without doing any market research? Obviously their research showed that people wouldn't care enough about headphone jacks to quit buying their product if they omitted it.
I went in to Walmart yesterday to buy a pair of earbuds. There was a three-foot section of pegboard dedicated to them, probably 30 different pairs to choose from. Three, yes I counted, of them were wired. The remaining 20-some of them were bluetooth. Walmart (and Apple) aren't stupid, obviously wireless is something that the general populace wants.
As far as the notch, I haven't heard a good argument about why people are so butthurt over it. But I'm not an Apple user, so maybe it is just terrible and I'm missing out on the travesty because Samsung hasn't gone that route yet.
What's the fucking advantage of having a fucking notch in the fucking display?
Is it really that hard to understand? Look at your phone (Assuming you don't have an Apple... I have a galaxy S8) and note that for non-apple products there is a 1/4" stripe of dead space across the front of the phone that houses all of the forward facing sensors, camera, mic, etc. What's wrong with shrinking that dead-space down as much as possible, and putting usable pixels there?
I mean, I understand the griping about not having a headphone jack, I'll give you that. But why is everyone so butt-hurt about having more usable screen area?
Aaaah, the joys of being isolated. As illustrated by the "I just know the UK police first hand". You know SOME of the UK police, maybe even a lot of them.
I have met a few police officers (some in good situations, some in not-good ones) and in every situation, the officers were calm, collected, mostly professional, and didn't shoot me. Do you know where I have met most of the police officers? In areas with low violence rates. They aren't mentally conditioned to see guns, because for the most part they don't see guns on suspects. Go 15 miles down the road from me (downtown Minneapolis) where 2 people got shot last weekend, do you think the cops down there are more likely to be wary of what someone is carrying in their hand? What about the cop from downtown Chicago, where on average 10 people are shot per day? Whether you like to admit it or not, that is a real threat that officers have to be aware of.
Now, to the point where I agree with you. Police SHOULD be better trained and better paid. The US spends $600b+ on military, and $100b on law enforcement. (And another $80b on incarceration, but that's a different story) I'd much rather see $50b (or $100b) diverted from the military to better pay and training for our law enforcement.
You laugh, but after high school (where I lived in my parent's basement) I moved out for college and my first job was loading UPS trucks. And there are few things as satisfying as a well packed truck.
Are you telling me you've never worked with someone with zero ambition to be promoted and are happy with their current job? I enjoy what I do. The next "logical" step up for me is management. And all I can say, is "no thanks". Trade actually getting to work on cool things, building stuff, helping people do their jobs for managing people, attending planning meetings, and writing reports? Again, no thanks, you can keep it. I guarantee my next position will be a horizontal move into a different type of role.
Unions are not all bad. They gave us the weekend, 40 hour weeks, vacations, holidays, sick leave, got our kids out of the coal mines, gave us worker's comp. Read Upton Sinclair's book. You will appreciate unions again.
And most of those are guaranteed by laws now, not unions. As I said above, I am 100% pro union. But unfortunately, they have rested on their laurels of "this is what we did for you at the beginning of last century" for too long, and the non-union shops are starting to eat their lunch.
I am 100% pro union. My family is at least three-generations deep in the Boilermakers and Electricians trades. I personally didn't join, but ended up managing union projects. Unions currently have their place, and have proven countless times that they are beneficial.
Their place is exactly where you described it. Physically demanding, skilled, and dangerous work that requires significant safety (and skills) training. The part you missed, is transient work. This is where unions are currently proving their benefit. If I have a project that requires 200 (or 1000) skilled people to complete, in somewhere like North Dakota, the unions generally have the ability to provide those workers. And for the most part I know that I'm going to get people who know what they are doing, and can get it done safely. Non-union shops are starting to catch up, but they have a long way to go in this respect
The thing with IT? For the most part, it doesn't check those boxes above. It's not physically demanding, safety training is just about nil, and it's not transient. And in the current market, if you're not happy with your job you can leave and find a new one. I don't want my work life dictated by a union. And I sure as hell don't want to cough up 2% of my salary to pay them to do it.
Why would you listen to bosses on technical implementation details?
I'm sure the conversations are more like:
Boss: We need comms
Underling: Ok, here's one that's encrypted and one that's not.
B: Which ones more expensive?
U: Well, the unencrypted one. But it's less secure.
B: Thanks
Boss' boss: Great buy the cheaper one.
You're talking about way different classes of printers. The cheapest "ecoTank" I saw is around $200, and go WAY up from there. I bought an Epson last year from WalMart because I needed to print a couple of photos in a hurry, it cost me $35. (I was able to print about a dozen letter sized pages of pictures before the ink was cashed. $50 for a replacement set)
and it'd be interesting to know what the underlying cause is.
I'm going to guess it has something to do with us being insulated from how truly shitty of a life some people in this world have. The threshold for having a "shitty day" for most people in the US is generally somewhere between "stuck in traffic" and "lost my job", not "I haven't eaten this week".
Weird how that works, right? That being said, I've personally found that while NPR (and my local, MPR) are generally left leaning, they aren't as "in your face" with their bias as the MSNBCs and Fox News of the world. But I tend to lean slightly left of center, so that's likely why that source appeals to me.
If the original owner preferred digital, the account would be full of games tied to it.
So why not just spend the money on games?
I mean, I'm no economics major, but I'd venture a guess that the account was advertised as having more than the asking price worth of games tied to it.
Come to think of it, it is a struggle to get actual schematics. And if you can get them, they are so densely packed with lines and many unclearly labeled boxes, not very useful.
I used to work at a contract manufacturer, working on production failures for a certain network/security device company. (Not Cisco, one of the other big ones) Even getting detailed schematics, board layouts, signal functions, etc. was a giant pain in the ass. Those types of companies guard that shit like it's gold. What I don't understand, try and find a schematic/repair manual for any modern piece of sound equipment. Can't get them half the time, the other half the time they want to charge you $40 for the PDF. Almost like they don't want you fixing their stuff, and would rather you buy a new one.
I'll have no end of amusement as I confuse the crap out of shitty self-driving cars that can't tell the difference between a human with a stop-sign shirt on, and an actual stop-sign.
Thank you for re-affirming why people in cars don't like to share the road with people on bikes.
I literally just saw a post on here today with someone still claiming that Obama isn't a citizen. Can't bitch about "my team" when "your team" is still bitching about the last guy.
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I can wikipedia too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is a definition for a pound in mass and and a pound in force (weight).
On a second read, that seems to be the case. I had it in my mind that he put a "cache" folder on the external drive. Not set [cache folder]=[video storage folder]. I wouldn't call deleting everything in the folder a bug, more like sloppy programming. No reason for an application to delete files it didn't create.
And there's nothing wrong with that assumption.
This made my brain hurt. There wouldn't be anything wrong with the assumption if it wasn't completely incorrect. I'm sorry, but ignorance of technology when your livelihood relies on technology isn't excusable. If those files were truly worth $250,000 that would seem to imply he could have/should have paid a computer nerd company a couple thousand dollars to make sure his rig and workflow are adequate for the task as hand.
When I showed up at my last job they were running on a shitty network. (5-ish clients running through a 10Mb hub) That's not the fault of the company that they bought the hub from. It's the fault of the business owner for not being willing to recognize that networking wasn't in their wheelhouse and paying someone who had a clue.
If this was a home user who lost grandma and grandpas 50th anniversary party video I would have a bit more sympathy. Granted, this is a shitty, nasty bug, but I'd be surprised if he gets Adobe to cough up the cash to compensate him for this files.
Those rotor blades and aeroplane wings also just simulate themselves.
Well their parents better tell them to knock it off, I hear it will make you go blind.
Saw a shop in Florida that sold RF-proof undergarments. The only thing it accomplishes is proving that there are too many dumb people with too much money.
Twitter poll != market research
Obviously their research showed that people wouldn't care enough about headphone jacks to quit buying their product if they omitted it
88% of Their twitter followers may LIKE a headphone jack, but I can only assume that their actual research showed that people would still buy their phone if it was omitted. Given the choice of "more battery life" and "headphone jack" maybe more people would prefer a bigger battery. I don't know, I don't have access to their research.
"The Year OnePlus Started Ignoring what this one particular small demographic of people think."
Is that better? Don't get me wrong, deleting the headphone jack for me (and likely the majority of people on this site) is a non-starter. I will give you that. But do you honestly think they did it without doing any market research? Obviously their research showed that people wouldn't care enough about headphone jacks to quit buying their product if they omitted it.
I went in to Walmart yesterday to buy a pair of earbuds. There was a three-foot section of pegboard dedicated to them, probably 30 different pairs to choose from. Three, yes I counted, of them were wired. The remaining 20-some of them were bluetooth. Walmart (and Apple) aren't stupid, obviously wireless is something that the general populace wants.
As far as the notch, I haven't heard a good argument about why people are so butthurt over it. But I'm not an Apple user, so maybe it is just terrible and I'm missing out on the travesty because Samsung hasn't gone that route yet.
What's the fucking advantage of having a fucking notch in the fucking display?
Is it really that hard to understand? Look at your phone (Assuming you don't have an Apple... I have a galaxy S8) and note that for non-apple products there is a 1/4" stripe of dead space across the front of the phone that houses all of the forward facing sensors, camera, mic, etc. What's wrong with shrinking that dead-space down as much as possible, and putting usable pixels there?
I mean, I understand the griping about not having a headphone jack, I'll give you that. But why is everyone so butt-hurt about having more usable screen area?
"The Year OnePlus Started Ignoring what this one particular guy told them to do."
There, I went ahead and fixed the headline for you.
I have met a few police officers (some in good situations, some in not-good ones) and in every situation, the officers were calm, collected, mostly professional, and didn't shoot me. Do you know where I have met most of the police officers? In areas with low violence rates. They aren't mentally conditioned to see guns, because for the most part they don't see guns on suspects. Go 15 miles down the road from me (downtown Minneapolis) where 2 people got shot last weekend, do you think the cops down there are more likely to be wary of what someone is carrying in their hand? What about the cop from downtown Chicago, where on average 10 people are shot per day? Whether you like to admit it or not, that is a real threat that officers have to be aware of.
Now, to the point where I agree with you. Police SHOULD be better trained and better paid. The US spends $600b+ on military, and $100b on law enforcement. (And another $80b on incarceration, but that's a different story) I'd much rather see $50b (or $100b) diverted from the military to better pay and training for our law enforcement.
You laugh, but after high school (where I lived in my parent's basement) I moved out for college and my first job was loading UPS trucks. And there are few things as satisfying as a well packed truck.
Their drum brakes failed.
Are you telling me you've never worked with someone with zero ambition to be promoted and are happy with their current job? I enjoy what I do. The next "logical" step up for me is management. And all I can say, is "no thanks". Trade actually getting to work on cool things, building stuff, helping people do their jobs for managing people, attending planning meetings, and writing reports? Again, no thanks, you can keep it. I guarantee my next position will be a horizontal move into a different type of role.
Unions are not all bad. They gave us the weekend, 40 hour weeks, vacations, holidays, sick leave, got our kids out of the coal mines, gave us worker's comp. Read Upton Sinclair's book. You will appreciate unions again.
And most of those are guaranteed by laws now, not unions. As I said above, I am 100% pro union. But unfortunately, they have rested on their laurels of "this is what we did for you at the beginning of last century" for too long, and the non-union shops are starting to eat their lunch.
I am 100% pro union. My family is at least three-generations deep in the Boilermakers and Electricians trades. I personally didn't join, but ended up managing union projects. Unions currently have their place, and have proven countless times that they are beneficial.
Their place is exactly where you described it. Physically demanding, skilled, and dangerous work that requires significant safety (and skills) training. The part you missed, is transient work. This is where unions are currently proving their benefit. If I have a project that requires 200 (or 1000) skilled people to complete, in somewhere like North Dakota, the unions generally have the ability to provide those workers. And for the most part I know that I'm going to get people who know what they are doing, and can get it done safely. Non-union shops are starting to catch up, but they have a long way to go in this respect
The thing with IT? For the most part, it doesn't check those boxes above. It's not physically demanding, safety training is just about nil, and it's not transient. And in the current market, if you're not happy with your job you can leave and find a new one. I don't want my work life dictated by a union. And I sure as hell don't want to cough up 2% of my salary to pay them to do it.
TLDR; Unions have their place, but it's not in IT
Why would you listen to bosses on technical implementation details?
I'm sure the conversations are more like:
Boss: We need comms
Underling: Ok, here's one that's encrypted and one that's not.
B: Which ones more expensive?
U: Well, the unencrypted one. But it's less secure.
B: Thanks
Boss' boss: Great buy the cheaper one.
You're talking about way different classes of printers. The cheapest "ecoTank" I saw is around $200, and go WAY up from there. I bought an Epson last year from WalMart because I needed to print a couple of photos in a hurry, it cost me $35. (I was able to print about a dozen letter sized pages of pictures before the ink was cashed. $50 for a replacement set)
You are blessed, and beloved by God!
Your god seems awfully vindictive and petty if he is willing to let his children die cold, hungry, and alone. Just sayin.
and it'd be interesting to know what the underlying cause is.
I'm going to guess it has something to do with us being insulated from how truly shitty of a life some people in this world have. The threshold for having a "shitty day" for most people in the US is generally somewhere between "stuck in traffic" and "lost my job", not "I haven't eaten this week".
Weird how that works, right? That being said, I've personally found that while NPR (and my local, MPR) are generally left leaning, they aren't as "in your face" with their bias as the MSNBCs and Fox News of the world. But I tend to lean slightly left of center, so that's likely why that source appeals to me.
If the original owner preferred digital, the account would be full of games tied to it.
So why not just spend the money on games?
I mean, I'm no economics major, but I'd venture a guess that the account was advertised as having more than the asking price worth of games tied to it.
I'm a gamer; but i just want to game; not fill out memory banks; change clock speed; & do other tinker-stuff with it.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktops/area-51-threadripper/spd/alienware-area51-r6
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktops/area-51/spd/alienware-area51-r5
Tell me; if i buy that AMD processor; & fill the memory banks; WHERE do i get the warning that that is not a good idea?
https://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/74814-amd-ryzen-7-1800x-performance-review-5.html
From the 2 minutes I've researched, it seems like these issues have largely been fixed by BIOS updates.
Go. Game. Have fun.
Come to think of it, it is a struggle to get actual schematics. And if you can get them, they are so densely packed with lines and many unclearly labeled boxes, not very useful.
I used to work at a contract manufacturer, working on production failures for a certain network/security device company. (Not Cisco, one of the other big ones) Even getting detailed schematics, board layouts, signal functions, etc. was a giant pain in the ass. Those types of companies guard that shit like it's gold. What I don't understand, try and find a schematic/repair manual for any modern piece of sound equipment. Can't get them half the time, the other half the time they want to charge you $40 for the PDF. Almost like they don't want you fixing their stuff, and would rather you buy a new one.
I'll have no end of amusement as I confuse the crap out of shitty self-driving cars that can't tell the difference between a human with a stop-sign shirt on, and an actual stop-sign.
Thank you for re-affirming why people in cars don't like to share the road with people on bikes.
I literally just saw a post on here today with someone still claiming that Obama isn't a citizen. Can't bitch about "my team" when "your team" is still bitching about the last guy.