I just ignore them. Moving it to another table seems a dumb thing to do, since they are assigned to individual tables, which is why the server moves it back when they notice. Otherwise, when the next table gets occupied later and they do order drinks or something, it could easily end up on your table's bill, causing a headache and wasting time for the server who now gets to straighten out two bills instead of bringing out your food or refilling your drinks. It's not their fault/choice that the restaurant uses the tablets, but upper management's. Punishing the server for it only makes you a dick.
So, there are some methods that came to mind with about 30 seconds of thought. Think that Apple engineers can't come up with a dozen or more methods to accomplish this after a couple of weeks' working on it?
Just keep in mind: being a monopoly is perfectly legal. It's abusing monopolies that can get companies in hot water. (or luke warm, in microsoft's case)
Windows updates are defaulted to a distributed p2p method now, so they'll have a hard time trying to bill MS for it. Most people won't be downloading them straight from Microsoft, but from your grandma's Pc instead.
In parts of California, they wanted to outfit garbage trucks with license plate readers as well:
https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
Even more pervasive, since garbage trucks drive by each and every residential address, every week.
Yeah I guess too; so how much in that decision is politics (distancing themselves from Russia) and how much is practical (latin being easier/faster to read/learn/type, etc...) ?
Cyrillic has a similar size alphabet to Latin, so I doubt there'd be any significant difference in how easy/hard it would be to learn, understand, or type in their native language. However, after the switch it could make it a little easier for Kazakhstan people to learn other languages based on Latin alphabets, since you can skip learning a whole new lettering system at that point. Over time that could make it easier for trading and economic ties with the Western world.
But in the short term, it is bound to be very disruptive: You're going to have a bunch of mostly older people that will flat out refuse to learn because they think it's too difficult, or completely pointless. Meanwhile newspapers, magazines, signage, government communications and such will all be switching over to the new official alphabet before long, leaving potentially millions of newly-illiterate people in its wake which will effectively be sidelined from modern society. You're likely going to see increased political polarization, with vocal groups of people romanticizing and clamoring for 'the good old days', and the destabilizing effects that might bring along.
But in the long run, it only makes sense: supposedly ~36% of the world uses the Latin alphabet, vs ~4% Cyrillic.
I suspect that a major drive for dropping Cyrillic is to visually distance themselves from Russia, lest they too be 'liberated' and 'get to' rejoin the glorious motherland.
They've seen up close what a shared ethnic and cultural heritage brought the Crimea region of Ukraine.
'Nearly half' of the top earners get 10 or more days of vacation, meaning that more than half of them get less than 2 weeks a year off - and it's much worse for low earners.
That's pretty darn embarrassing for a first world county: in Europe even a minimum wage McDonald's drive through worker can expect around 5 weeks of paid vacation in his first year of employment, plus a dozen or so days for national holidays.
Why is the world designed for "morning larks?" We have telecommuting, electric light, etc -- not all jobs need to be done on 18th century farmers' hours. Is this just the human knack for self flagellation?
No, it's because when people get older, their sleep schedule often changes as well, and they tend to rise earlier.
At the same time, most people in management positions tend to be older, and it's management that dictate the working schedule.
What's the answer? We can't legally restrict the press, nor should we
In much of Europe, with few exceptions newspapers typically won't print the names of criminals (whether just accused or actually convicted), but only refer to them by their initials -- less "glory" to go around while they still report what happened. In many cases because they are required to, but because naming & shaming is against their code of conduct.
(Added benefit is that someone who does get convicted and served their time, won't be instantly unhirable in perpetuity, giving them a chance to make an honest living)
Even in the US, most papers have policies of not printing the names of victims involved in sex crimes -- would it be that much of a stretch to do the same to perpetrators of mass shootings and such? Witholding their name denies them a huge chunk of the 'recognition' the so often seem to yearn for, and it's not not knowing the name of some random criminal is going to have a big impact on the average person's day to day life.
Who even says that currency blockchains CANNOT be manipulated? What if the creator(s) of Bitcoin and so forth can pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of the blockchain they have created, but the blockchain appears "intact" when examined?
No need to do that -- Bitcoin mining is progressively more difficult / slower the more bitcoin exist in the system. There's no need for a backdoor for the creators to syphon off coins after fact, they could very easily crank out a ton of coin on 'easy' mode before even releasing it to the world. It's already front-loaded, so why would they even risk adding a backdoor that could be discovered?
There are other assistive technologies other than speech control -- e.g. keyboard with keyguards. Essentially a plastic overlay for the keyboard where you can rest your hands directly on the keyboard itself without accidentally pressing any, but it has holes through which to actually reach individual keys.
Windows itself has accessbility features as well, such as StickyKeys (press modifier keys separately instead of simultaneously) and FilterKeys (ignore rapid succession keypresses)
There's other assistive technologies for people with Parkinson's and/or tremors as well, quick google search shows dozens of different approaches. Don't ignore voice control of course, but don't think it's the only option.
I cant imagine that being able to verbally tell the thermostat to set the temperature one degree higher is going to be worth and additional $269. Especially since my thermostat is in the hall, a good distance from where I usually am.
As long as the thermostat itself is smart and can interface with a smart ecosystem, location doesn't matter.
My Nest thermostat is in the upstairs hallway, but I can easily adjust it simply by asking the Amazon echo in the livingroom.
... Going forward the end user (or whatever malware on their machine) can permanently disable windows updates by setting registry security to prevent such a key from getting created in the first place?
2nd Gen FireTV: https://www.amazon.com/Certifi...
It has more horse power than the 3rd gen. Ethernet, wifi, SD card slot, and a USB port (which can support a 3rd party USB infrared + MCE remote). On top of that, it allows you to easily sideload 3rd party android apps, either by ADB or using the downloader app in their app store.
The Amazon app store has Netflix, Hulu, amazon Prime Video, and many other streaming video providers.
Unfortunately Amazon doesn't appear to manufacture them anymore, but they still sell certified refurbished ones.
(The newer FireTV 3rd gen is similar, but has 2/3 the processing power, no built-in ethernet, no SD card slot, and only supports an Amazon branded external Ethernet adapter in the USB slot, nothing else. It is a little cheaper,though.)
I agree. That's certainly how they'd handle a recall in a "worst case" scenario. They're not going to offer to give you brand new CPUs in exchange for obsolete ones over 5 years old.
"Obsolete" is very subjective.
e.g. I have an intel i7-3930K, 6-core with hyperthreading.
It's from Q4 2011, and now labeled as EOL by Intel.
However, despite the age still performs neck-on-neck with the Intel I7-7700K 4.2GHz, released on Q1 2017.
(cpubenchmark.net Passmark score of the I7-3930K = 12,025, I7-7700K=12,087)
Meltdown:
There are workarounds, but could be very expensive. At the same time, they have two decades of exposed products and much higher volumes than they had before. So the scope of a recall would be way more massive. The workaround results in reduced performance, not incorrect results. If anything were to happen, I'd bet some sort of small rebate or credit for the performance loss, and telling the world to just deal with the performance impact if they care about security.
"way more more massive" doesn't even begin to cover it -- it would include almost every single processor they manufactured over the past 20 years. Even if they wanted to, it would take them longer to manufacturer everyone a replacement processor than the remaining economical lifespan of your computer in the first place... CPU manufacturing plants are insanely expensive, and I seriously doubt that intel has enough spare capacity to 'just' redo their entire production run of the past 5 years on top of their normal day-to-day manufacturing.
Owners of the older chips will likely be told to go pound sand: I'm sure they no longer even have the manufacturing equipment around to recreate those, the production lines will have been retooled for the latest generation chips years ago.
Realistically, I'm sure that in the end the only thing that will come out of this is Intel saying "Oopsies, our bad, here's a $2 discount coupon for your next intel processor", and one or two quarters of good AMD sales
I mean, I get it's not an eyesore as some people claim, if it's offshore, but surely the cost of shipping the items out there and running a hefty cable back to land is astronomical?
Also servicing?
Is there that little free land in the region?
A few things to consider:
- There is indeed little free space the way it is -- the entire country is about twice the size of New Jersey, with similar population density. (16,000 square miles, over 17,000,000 people, 1062 people per square mile). No sky scrapers.
- The Netherlands is *really* flat -- about half is actually below sea level, and probably over 80% at less than 8m / 25 ft above sea level.
- You'll get much higher wind speeds / more energy generation on top of hills (of which there are few), or off-shore in the middle of unobstructed sea.
- The North Sea is relatively shallow (overall mean depth of 300ft/ 90 meters, but much shallower in many areas. Still, I'd expect that they'd use artificial structures similar to oil drill platforms to install the windmills rather than 'true' islands
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I just ignore them. Moving it to another table seems a dumb thing to do, since they are assigned to individual tables, which is why the server moves it back when they notice. Otherwise, when the next table gets occupied later and they do order drinks or something, it could easily end up on your table's bill, causing a headache and wasting time for the server who now gets to straighten out two bills instead of bringing out your food or refilling your drinks. It's not their fault/choice that the restaurant uses the tablets, but upper management's. Punishing the server for it only makes you a dick.
So, there are some methods that came to mind with about 30 seconds of thought. Think that Apple engineers can't come up with a dozen or more methods to accomplish this after a couple of weeks' working on it?
Some phones assign functions to squeezing the bezel itself:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
Just because there isn't an external physical button doesn't mean that you can't hide a pressure-sensitive switch inside the phone.
Just keep in mind: being a monopoly is perfectly legal. It's abusing monopolies that can get companies in hot water. (or luke warm, in microsoft's case)
Windows updates are defaulted to a distributed p2p method now, so they'll have a hard time trying to bill MS for it. Most people won't be downloading them straight from Microsoft, but from your grandma's Pc instead.
It's self-driving just fine - self-stopping, on the other hand...
In parts of California, they wanted to outfit garbage trucks with license plate readers as well: https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
Even more pervasive, since garbage trucks drive by each and every residential address, every week.
Yeah I guess too; so how much in that decision is politics (distancing themselves from Russia) and how much is practical (latin being easier/faster to read/learn/type, etc...) ?
Cyrillic has a similar size alphabet to Latin, so I doubt there'd be any significant difference in how easy/hard it would be to learn, understand, or type in their native language. However, after the switch it could make it a little easier for Kazakhstan people to learn other languages based on Latin alphabets, since you can skip learning a whole new lettering system at that point. Over time that could make it easier for trading and economic ties with the Western world.
But in the short term, it is bound to be very disruptive: You're going to have a bunch of mostly older people that will flat out refuse to learn because they think it's too difficult, or completely pointless. Meanwhile newspapers, magazines, signage, government communications and such will all be switching over to the new official alphabet before long, leaving potentially millions of newly-illiterate people in its wake which will effectively be sidelined from modern society. You're likely going to see increased political polarization, with vocal groups of people romanticizing and clamoring for 'the good old days', and the destabilizing effects that might bring along.
But in the long run, it only makes sense: supposedly ~36% of the world uses the Latin alphabet, vs ~4% Cyrillic.
I suspect that a major drive for dropping Cyrillic is to visually distance themselves from Russia, lest they too be 'liberated' and 'get to' rejoin the glorious motherland.
They've seen up close what a shared ethnic and cultural heritage brought the Crimea region of Ukraine.
I am not sure I've ever heard of such an effort before, anyone else ??
Turkey switched from an Arabic script to a Latin-based one in 1928.
'Nearly half' of the top earners get 10 or more days of vacation, meaning that more than half of them get less than 2 weeks a year off - and it's much worse for low earners.
That's pretty darn embarrassing for a first world county: in Europe even a minimum wage McDonald's drive through worker can expect around 5 weeks of paid vacation in his first year of employment, plus a dozen or so days for national holidays.
Why is the world designed for "morning larks?" We have telecommuting, electric light, etc -- not all jobs need to be done on 18th century farmers' hours. Is this just the human knack for self flagellation?
No, it's because when people get older, their sleep schedule often changes as well, and they tend to rise earlier. At the same time, most people in management positions tend to be older, and it's management that dictate the working schedule.
What's the answer? We can't legally restrict the press, nor should we
In much of Europe, with few exceptions newspapers typically won't print the names of criminals (whether just accused or actually convicted), but only refer to them by their initials -- less "glory" to go around while they still report what happened. In many cases because they are required to, but because naming & shaming is against their code of conduct.
(Added benefit is that someone who does get convicted and served their time, won't be instantly unhirable in perpetuity, giving them a chance to make an honest living)
Even in the US, most papers have policies of not printing the names of victims involved in sex crimes -- would it be that much of a stretch to do the same to perpetrators of mass shootings and such? Witholding their name denies them a huge chunk of the 'recognition' the so often seem to yearn for, and it's not not knowing the name of some random criminal is going to have a big impact on the average person's day to day life.
At the same time there are more people that ever on the internet as well - I mean, what are the odds?
...And who knows what else he has stockpiled elsewhere in his apartment that didn't blow up... yet.
Who even says that currency blockchains CANNOT be manipulated? What if the creator(s) of Bitcoin and so forth can pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of the blockchain they have created, but the blockchain appears "intact" when examined?
No need to do that -- Bitcoin mining is progressively more difficult / slower the more bitcoin exist in the system. There's no need for a backdoor for the creators to syphon off coins after fact, they could very easily crank out a ton of coin on 'easy' mode before even releasing it to the world. It's already front-loaded, so why would they even risk adding a backdoor that could be discovered?
You can still get physical keyboards on many modern phones by using a keyboard case: e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Samsung...
Everybody knows that what they should have done was fake the results like every other company does.
Perhaps they did post fake votes, but underestimated just how many they'd need to swing the results in their favor.
...is why there are a bunch of exceptions in the first place -- people doing similar labor in a different industry would get overtime regardless.
There are other assistive technologies other than speech control -- e.g. keyboard with keyguards. Essentially a plastic overlay for the keyboard where you can rest your hands directly on the keyboard itself without accidentally pressing any, but it has holes through which to actually reach individual keys.
Windows itself has accessbility features as well, such as StickyKeys (press modifier keys separately instead of simultaneously) and FilterKeys (ignore rapid succession keypresses)
There's other assistive technologies for people with Parkinson's and/or tremors as well, quick google search shows dozens of different approaches. Don't ignore voice control of course, but don't think it's the only option.
I cant imagine that being able to verbally tell the thermostat to set the temperature one degree higher is going to be worth and additional $269. Especially since my thermostat is in the hall, a good distance from where I usually am.
As long as the thermostat itself is smart and can interface with a smart ecosystem, location doesn't matter.
My Nest thermostat is in the upstairs hallway, but I can easily adjust it simply by asking the Amazon echo in the livingroom.
... Going forward the end user (or whatever malware on their machine) can permanently disable windows updates by setting registry security to prevent such a key from getting created in the first place?
2nd Gen FireTV: https://www.amazon.com/Certifi...
It has more horse power than the 3rd gen. Ethernet, wifi, SD card slot, and a USB port (which can support a 3rd party USB infrared + MCE remote). On top of that, it allows you to easily sideload 3rd party android apps, either by ADB or using the downloader app in their app store.
The Amazon app store has Netflix, Hulu, amazon Prime Video, and many other streaming video providers.
Unfortunately Amazon doesn't appear to manufacture them anymore, but they still sell certified refurbished ones.
(The newer FireTV 3rd gen is similar, but has 2/3 the processing power, no built-in ethernet, no SD card slot, and only supports an Amazon branded external Ethernet adapter in the USB slot, nothing else. It is a little cheaper,though.)
I agree. That's certainly how they'd handle a recall in a "worst case" scenario. They're not going to offer to give you brand new CPUs in exchange for obsolete ones over 5 years old.
"Obsolete" is very subjective.
e.g. I have an intel i7-3930K, 6-core with hyperthreading. It's from Q4 2011, and now labeled as EOL by Intel.
However, despite the age still performs neck-on-neck with the Intel I7-7700K 4.2GHz, released on Q1 2017. (cpubenchmark.net Passmark score of the I7-3930K = 12,025, I7-7700K=12,087)
Meltdown: There are workarounds, but could be very expensive. At the same time, they have two decades of exposed products and much higher volumes than they had before. So the scope of a recall would be way more massive. The workaround results in reduced performance, not incorrect results. If anything were to happen, I'd bet some sort of small rebate or credit for the performance loss, and telling the world to just deal with the performance impact if they care about security.
"way more more massive" doesn't even begin to cover it -- it would include almost every single processor they manufactured over the past 20 years. Even if they wanted to, it would take them longer to manufacturer everyone a replacement processor than the remaining economical lifespan of your computer in the first place... CPU manufacturing plants are insanely expensive, and I seriously doubt that intel has enough spare capacity to 'just' redo their entire production run of the past 5 years on top of their normal day-to-day manufacturing.
Owners of the older chips will likely be told to go pound sand: I'm sure they no longer even have the manufacturing equipment around to recreate those, the production lines will have been retooled for the latest generation chips years ago.
Realistically, I'm sure that in the end the only thing that will come out of this is Intel saying "Oopsies, our bad, here's a $2 discount coupon for your next intel processor", and one or two quarters of good AMD sales
I mean, I get it's not an eyesore as some people claim, if it's offshore, but surely the cost of shipping the items out there and running a hefty cable back to land is astronomical? Also servicing?
Is there that little free land in the region?
A few things to consider:
- There is indeed little free space the way it is -- the entire country is about twice the size of New Jersey, with similar population density. (16,000 square miles, over 17,000,000 people, 1062 people per square mile). No sky scrapers.
- The Netherlands is *really* flat -- about half is actually below sea level, and probably over 80% at less than 8m / 25 ft above sea level.
- You'll get much higher wind speeds / more energy generation on top of hills (of which there are few), or off-shore in the middle of unobstructed sea.
- The North Sea is relatively shallow (overall mean depth of 300ft/ 90 meters, but much shallower in many areas. Still, I'd expect that they'd use artificial structures similar to oil drill platforms to install the windmills rather than 'true' islands