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April 9

I need more money?

[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.5.16.41 (talk) 14:43, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Get another job lined up before you ask, because if they took advantage of you once, they'll do it again. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:20, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

[Edit Conflict] If you don't ask, you likely won't get.

Remember that all companies pay as little as they can get away with consistent with getting/keeping the staff they need; they're usually legally obligated to shareholders to do so.

But, remember also that they didn't give you the job as a favour, but because you were the best available candidate: with your in-job experience, they'd much rather keep you than go to the considerable expense of recruiting a replacement who'd be an unknown quantity.

If possible, find out beforehand how your salary compares to others in the same company at a similar level, and whether raises after a 6-month review are usual in the company, or if end-of-calendar or -financial year is their standard practice.

You may find that a raise after a successful review is offered (it's a common practice); if not, raise the question, but take the approach that you are (maybe) worth a raise, not that you're entitled to one.

Consider discreetly applying for other jobs: now you're in employment, you're automatically more attractive to other employers than when you were unemployed.

All the above is advice, which on the Ref Desks we're not supposed to give, but – been there myself several times. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.217.249.244 (talk) 15:23, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a section about Negotiation of salary. Reasons why I won't give the OP advice what to do in that negotiation are: 1. As IP User 90.217.249.244 rightly says the Ref Desks are not here to give it. 2. If "6mth probation review" is terminology used by the employer, that implies a procedure that has probably been followed with other employees with whom the OP should by now have become aquainted enough to know what to expect. 3. How the OP says they classify themself doesn't tell us what the OP should by now have evaluated, namely their qualitative value to the employer's company. 4. Supposing the probation period leads up to a formal meeting about continued employment prospects, the WORST ways to present oneself are not to listen carefully to whatever assessment is given, or to raise the issue of salary without a) having been asked to accept a clear offer, or b) having first brought the discussion to an optimistic acknowledgment of something you can demonstrate that bodes well for what you will contribute in the future. A very critical reviewer might observe you holding a grudge about a decision that you were part of 6 months ago, or that you misspell "fair". But good luck to you. Blooteuth (talk) 22:18, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

We do not offer professional advice.--WaltCip (talk) 17:54, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I have remove the question as a likely copyvio of the above link from 2014. Nil Einne (talk) 09:47, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

DVD vs Blu-ray

What is the difference between DVDs and Blu-rays? 81.145.108.15 (talk) 17:56, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

The discs are both the same size as plain old CDs, but DVD stores more data than CD, and Blue-ray stores more data than plain DVD. The articles that you linked give lots of detail. Dbfirs 18:28, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

See Comparison of high definition optical disc formats. Blooteuth (talk) 21:17, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

I wish that article showed the consumer's view. For example, if I speed up a DVD, I lose audio and the video skips along. If I speed up a BluRay disk, it plays the video faster with audio frequency adjusted so it just sounds like very fast talking. I would consider that a consumer feature of the different formats as it was likely not a design feature. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 19:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps that feature is a design difference in the players, rather than anything to do with the recording format itself. --76.71.6.254 (talk) 19:38, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes there's nothing about codecs used for DVD or Blu-Rays that prevent them being played at higher speed, although the decoder would need to be able to decode at that frame rate. (You can't really just skip frames when decoding efficiently.) And there's nothing stopping you doing Audio time-scale/pitch modification. Some computer program DVD players have been able to do these before Blu-Rays existed. Perhaps because Blu-Ray players tend to have more features of a general purpose computer they're more likely to be able to handle this although I'm not sure there is any requirement that the decoder can handle such a high frame rate. (It does depend on the Blu-Ray itself. For example I'm pretty sure 1080P30 is required so a ~1080P24 Blu-Ray could be played at this speed.) Nil Einne (talk) 09:30, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Blu-ray players also play dvds, but dvd players don't play blu-rays. Martin. 212.178.135.35 (talk) 12:58, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Only because the Blu-ray player is built to be backward compatible with earlier technology. Most are, but they don't have to be. Adding DVD reading and decoding capabilities to a Blu-Ray player is an added expense and Blu-ray players would continue to play Blu-ray discs without this added technology. This article does note that all currently manufactured Blu Ray players also play DVDs and Compact Discs as well, but that a) some early models ONLY played Blu-Rays and b) that there's nothing about the Blu Ray format that requires the players to be backward compatible. The current market forces require both media for the machines to be viable. When a new media format becomes standard, there are times of overlap when both media readers are installed on machines. Combo VHS/DVD machines were also common at one time. Good luck finding one of those. --Jayron32 13:46, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Once I had a stereo that had a built-in cassette player, CD player, and SD card reader. It was an odd combination.--WaltCip (talk) 14:32, 11 April 2017 (UTC)