And how exactly would it be lawfull to prohibit tipping?
Worker protections. When tipping exists, employers can abuse employees by offering criminally low wages. In addition, it's false advertising as it misrepresents the cost of the product/service. If gratuity was made illegal, employers would have to pay their employees better wages, and in addition, prices would reflect the real cost of the product.
but waiters will be human because customers want, and are willing to pay for, human interaction.
The most annoying part of restaurants are the human waiters. Sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone to show up so I can progress with my day sucks. When deciding on a restaurant I always prioritize the least human interaction as possible.
A homeowner here can't sell energy back to the utility.
Given that the utility doesn't want their power grid being messed up by random feedback from consumer panels, is it really a bad thing for them to not be paying for something that they don't want?
This is why one of the "big" features of Windows 8.1 was the ability to close the WinRT based apps. People are so accustomed to thinking that anything which they're not using is eating away at resources, that everyone requested the ability to close them.
It's disappointing that MS doesn't make it a service for developers to buy into.
Haven't you ever seen updates for non-MS software in Windows Update? I know that I do occasionally. It's not uncommon to see on Slashdot, someone complaining about software for device drivers being delivered via Windows Update, and they wish that they had a way to block it. The issue is that Microsoft knows that any updates coming through Windows Update, are attached to their name. So if there's something wrong with the update the average user is going to blame Microsoft, not the company who authored the update. As a result, any update pushed through Windows Update has to pass a gauntlet of tests. Most developers find this to be very annoying, and don't want to deal with it. That and I'm pretty sure there's a cost for every execution of the gauntlet.
You want efficiency standards on consumer items? Publish and enforce them yourself.
Let's say your a small company, doing will in the local scene and want to expand to neighboring states. It's not so fun to learn that they would have different standards which make your product illegal. It works a lot better for common markets to have the same standards.
but it wont make your home worth more when you sell it.
It may or may not; depends on what the housing marking it like when I need to sell. But until you sell you'll be paying more in property tax for having an improved structure.
Open spaces feel like glass ceilings. Closed spaces are reserved for people with potential to succeed. So being in an open office space means that you're never going to move up.
what do we get when Trump gets kicked out? Mike Pence.
Not necessarily. If Trump gets impeached for collusion with an enemy state, there would be grounds for throwing out the entire administration and holding another election.
I don't think anyone in their right mind in the US appreciates the fact that Trump has been actively sabotaging the US economy ever since his inauguration.
The few people that I know, who did vote Trump, did so because they felt that he would shake up Washington. I haven't asked them recently about how they feel about their decision, but given all of the shaking that Trump is doing, I suspect their answer will be "Exceeding expectations."
How does one actually fail-over test things in production in a 24/7 business
You eliminate any distinction between maintenance operations and DR. The redundant systems should behave the same during upgrade/patching of one of the nodes, a disk dying on one of the nodes, a node hosting active client connections has its NIC die, having a rack die, having the WAN cut, having the entire datacenter lose power, etc.
If the underlying redundancy system doesn't significantly differentiate discretionary failover operations from DR failover situations, you can run a 24/7 system.
See Exchange Database Availability Groups as an example.
China has a very easy way: play ball or don't do business here.
Obviously. I was wondering how China would gather evidence about companies complying. Will the government enforce daily scans of every companies entire data store?
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And how exactly would it be lawfull to prohibit tipping?
Worker protections. When tipping exists, employers can abuse employees by offering criminally low wages. In addition, it's false advertising as it misrepresents the cost of the product/service. If gratuity was made illegal, employers would have to pay their employees better wages, and in addition, prices would reflect the real cost of the product.
People who are incapable of getting work are likely to end up less likely to reproduce as they make less attractive mates
No, they're bored more often and have accidents more often as a consequence.
but waiters will be human because customers want, and are willing to pay for, human interaction.
The most annoying part of restaurants are the human waiters. Sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone to show up so I can progress with my day sucks. When deciding on a restaurant I always prioritize the least human interaction as possible.
all the utilities has to do is install batteries for incoming solar generated power, simpler and faster to bring that online when needed.
Again, the customer is creating an unscheduled cost for the utility, that the utility doesn't want.
A homeowner here can't sell energy back to the utility.
Given that the utility doesn't want their power grid being messed up by random feedback from consumer panels, is it really a bad thing for them to not be paying for something that they don't want?
Also, I'm expecting (fearing) that all the data and computing fire-power will be used for surge pricing,
What is there to fear about surge pricing? I have no problem with it.
I suspect that Infowars will hate this, and for some reason think that once Net Neutrality is repealed, this behavior will not be possible.
This is one of the best comments that I've seen on Slashdot, and it's currently marked as -1.
Honestly, I think I'd rather be associated with moronic Trump voters than with the condescending assholes who were vocal Hillary supporters.
Really? This is all just team sports to you? It's not about the decisions begin made, but with whom you may be associated?
The quickest way is to use Windows Key + Print Screen. The Second quickest way is to launch the Snipping Tool that's built into Windows.
This is why one of the "big" features of Windows 8.1 was the ability to close the WinRT based apps. People are so accustomed to thinking that anything which they're not using is eating away at resources, that everyone requested the ability to close them.
It's disappointing that MS doesn't make it a service for developers to buy into.
Haven't you ever seen updates for non-MS software in Windows Update? I know that I do occasionally. It's not uncommon to see on Slashdot, someone complaining about software for device drivers being delivered via Windows Update, and they wish that they had a way to block it. The issue is that Microsoft knows that any updates coming through Windows Update, are attached to their name. So if there's something wrong with the update the average user is going to blame Microsoft, not the company who authored the update. As a result, any update pushed through Windows Update has to pass a gauntlet of tests. Most developers find this to be very annoying, and don't want to deal with it. That and I'm pretty sure there's a cost for every execution of the gauntlet.
even though an often overflowing inbox has been proven to hinder productivity.
Citation needed
Isn't email like a post card that anyone can read in transit?
Most email servers connect to each other via an encrypted channel. So the emails aren't in plain text whilst in transit.
You want efficiency standards on consumer items? Publish and enforce them yourself.
Let's say your a small company, doing will in the local scene and want to expand to neighboring states. It's not so fun to learn that they would have different standards which make your product illegal. It works a lot better for common markets to have the same standards.
but it wont make your home worth more when you sell it.
It may or may not; depends on what the housing marking it like when I need to sell. But until you sell you'll be paying more in property tax for having an improved structure.
Open spaces feel like glass ceilings. Closed spaces are reserved for people with potential to succeed. So being in an open office space means that you're never going to move up.
I want a survey of the major campaign contributors. That's what really drives change.
what do we get when Trump gets kicked out? Mike Pence.
Not necessarily. If Trump gets impeached for collusion with an enemy state, there would be grounds for throwing out the entire administration and holding another election.
I don't think anyone in their right mind in the US appreciates the fact that Trump has been actively sabotaging the US economy ever since his inauguration.
The few people that I know, who did vote Trump, did so because they felt that he would shake up Washington. I haven't asked them recently about how they feel about their decision, but given all of the shaking that Trump is doing, I suspect their answer will be "Exceeding expectations."
How does one actually fail-over test things in production in a 24/7 business
You eliminate any distinction between maintenance operations and DR. The redundant systems should behave the same during upgrade/patching of one of the nodes, a disk dying on one of the nodes, a node hosting active client connections has its NIC die, having a rack die, having the WAN cut, having the entire datacenter lose power, etc.
If the underlying redundancy system doesn't significantly differentiate discretionary failover operations from DR failover situations, you can run a 24/7 system.
See Exchange Database Availability Groups as an example.
A broad base, low rate, progressive tax structure also helps fight inequality.
because under x-ray, an explosive is super-dense, where as book pages are not.
Thank you for your response. I thought that book pages were dense enough for the x-rays.
China has a very easy way: play ball or don't do business here.
Obviously. I was wondering how China would gather evidence about companies complying. Will the government enforce daily scans of every companies entire data store?
I wonder how they're going to enforce that.