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lol, good one! 
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I am in the market for a new notebook - for a number of reasons, but mostly because I want to be able to display the video from my XBox360 on my notebook, something that I cannot do because I have given up on using my old solution of a VBox2 Advanced dongle (that used to work), and my current notebook does not have HDMI input (which I could use to display the HDMI output of the XBox360) - and would like to be able to narrow down my choices of which ones have the features I want (with being able to accept HDMI video being the most important), rather than look at an endless list of systems and go through the features for each one. I had thought that TigerDirect had a good system for doing this comparison, but I don't see anything there about selecting for HDMI input.
On this same note, TigerDirect does have a selection for the video system, and thus perhaps I should look at what video systems have HDMI input, and then use that as a "reference &" for having HDMI input, but then I would need to familiarize myself with the plethora of such systems.
Also, I am looking into somehow just playing the XBox360 directly on the notebook via Windows 10 - or through something called "Xenia", although when trying to do this, I got the message that I need "Vulkan" video compatibility, which I am trying to work out with my system by downloading a new driver for my Radeon R5 video, but that seems to have screwed up my system even more as now I am getting this stupid message "Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect" even after I reboot  . There is also the Dolphin emulator that I have yet to try, but I have a feeling that I will get issues with that as well. Any advice here would be helpful as well.
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I took a look at that site and it looks like it _could_ be interesting.
I don't even mind ads. But that site has so many ads you almost cannot even see the actual content.
I even get the idea that they are providing the reviews for free so I might have to view some ads, but that site is over-the-top ridiculous. Thanks though.
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Website improvements I assume. It used to be much more product, and less advertisement, focused.
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Hi All,
Testing a Widget, started to work on Friday with serial (via 485) now testing IP, and the blessed thing won't thing won't talk, person I usually go and see in this situation is off Bird Watching...  so it looks like I might have to play with Python...
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You're going to use the Python to eat the Birds?
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There was an (old?) man who swallowed a fly
I don't know why he swallowed a fly
Perhaps he'll die
There was an (old?) man who swallowed a bird
How absurd to swallow a bird!
He swallowed the bird to catch the fly
...
There was an (old?) man who swallowed a python
What a moron to swallow a python!
He swallowed the python to catch the bird
...
(With apologies to Mother Goose)
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glennPattonWork wrote: I might have to play with Python
fnarr, fnarr. 
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Python and serial go together well, as the python is a serial killer 
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When I first heard of Python, I thought it was a race to see who could eat 26.2 pies. Now, that I know, I still wish that's what it was.
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Know what you mean...
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This came up at work today & I though I'd ask what you guys think...
Generally as with most salaried jobs we don't get paid overtime. But occasionally we're asked to work additional hours for specific tasks, and are paid overtime.
The overtime rate is fixed across the company (more or less, I believe!) and for me equates to somewhat less than my normal hourly rate.
This seems weird!
So I had to come in over the weekend (about 9 hours work all up, plus commuting time) and asked if I could take a day off in lieu.
Rather than the expected 'Of course, thanks for helping out' I got 'well, just this once - and don't tell anyone else or they'll all start wanting time off in lieu'.
I've been working in IT for 40 years - but this company isn't an IT company, so I'm wondering if perhaps this is the norm in some industries?
Thoughts, comments, sympathy and job offers appreciated...
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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By the way your overtime rate sucks. It should be 1.5 times normal rate.
Some firms pay it. some dont, even on salaried wages, it varies.
As for time off, that is normal. You are contracted to work x number of hours, but of course you expect a bit of flexibility, working late a few nights, getting in late a few mornings, but anything beyond this, either way, is abuse.
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At one company, I was given a very nice pay increase as a "thank you!".
Which just happened to move me from the "we pay overtime" salary band to the "you don't get paid overtime any more" band.
As a result I lost about 1/8th of my take home money. I was not a happy bunny.
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I do not know how it is done in real life, but there is a law about 150% for simple overtime. 200% for night-time and weekends...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: 150% for simple overtime. 200% for night-time and weekends
Don't forget that this applies in Israel, and may not apply in other countries.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: for me equates to somewhat less than my normal hourly rate.
Overtime is usually more expensive than normal hours, but it is up to you what you accept and don't accept.
_Maxxx_ wrote: Generally as with most salaried jobs we don't get paid overtime.
Yes, we do. You don't get free labor from me. If you say overtime isn't paid, you are saying there is no overtime. Just "free" time.
_Maxxx_ wrote: So I had to come in over the weekend
Haha, I'm not coming, there's a BBQ here 
You'd need a damn good reason to get me on a saturday, and it better not be bad planning
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If you feel like moving to Israel, we may have a few job openings for you...
From the financial POV:
One of the reasons overtime is paid (by law, in many countries) at a higher rate than normal is to make it less attractive to the employer, the idea being that employees deserve reasonable amounts of time off. Time off in lieu may seem attractive, but you are actually being paid at a rate of 100% when you should be receiving a higher rate.
From the personal POV:
Having an extra day off gives you more time to spend with your family, but may not be that attractive if the rest of the family is still at school, work, etc.
Personally, I'd go for the cash.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: One of the reasons overtime is paid (by law, in many countries) at a higher rate than normal is to make it less attractive to the employer
When you price up the cost of a workers time you take the entire costs of the company; rent, machinery depreciation, electricity, wages, for the year, and divide that up per worker per hour on a 40 hour week.
This works out to say £30. So when you price the goods up your company makes you use this value.
Since overtime is outside normal time, ie outside the 8 hours a day, 40 hour week, this £30 per hour you priced your goods at is NOT used to pay off electricty, rent, etc, it is PURE PROFIT.
This is why a employer can pay 1.5 time, or 2 x time. In fact an employer RAKES it in when hie workfore work over time.
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So if you price a product based on £30.00, and you then have to pay your workers overtime to get it working and shipped to the customer, you make even more profit? You must be an economist.
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Dont you get it?
It is very simple.
Again, on normal time, 40 hours a week, all your fixed business costs are paid for by pricing each NORMAL hour to the customer at say £30.
Over time is OUTSIDE this. Hours worked outside the normal hours do NOT pay for fixed costs. The whole £30 is extra, so the company can afford to pay overtime, and actually makes a lot of extra money itself.
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Exactly how does a company make more profit by paying its workers more money than planned?
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Do I have to say it again?
All the fixed costs of the company are worked out on a 40 hour week to give the cost a company charges its workers out at.
Overtime is beyond 40 hours. Money earnt then does NOT pay fixed costs, it pay overtime rate, and the electricity used that day, and the rest is sheer profit for the boss.
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