To disable updates, you could check "Metered Internet" and "Airplane Mode" and keep them checked. This seems to keep updates away from my tablet. But I don't have WiFi enabled much on it otherwise anyway...
"Business cases that make sense" can be loops, feeding themselves. (I'm sure there is a fancy economic-science term for it, but I don't know it.)
If Apple don't make devices that can get hardware upgrades then users will not know about hardware upgrades, so they won't request them. It is like with Windows users: they expect clunky UIs, their systems getting slower over time and full of malware -- because they have not been exposed to anything better!
There are many fan-edits to Star Wars out there, both for restoring the original Star Wars, removing the SE additions, and for making the prequels less cringey. The most famous de-specialisation project has an article on even.
There are also a few groups that have located surviving prints of the original movies, scanned them in 4K and are performing digital restoration on them. See for instance, Team Negative1's work on.
For Disney/Lucasfilm to re-release the original trilogy in good quality would be difficult though. The original negatives were cut apart when making the SE and before the 2004 DVD release, their copy of the SE was scanned only in Full HD (1920), not even 2K (according to Lowry Digital who did it)
Deepfakes is using only existing footage of the actors and of the movie it is inserted in. In your scenario, there would instead be access to a 3D-scan of the original actor's face which could be fixed up and animated based on motion capture dots on the new actor's face. With those, you could produce an even better result.
... Which is exactly what was done to Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher in Rogue One - A Star Wars Story and to Sean Young in Blade Runner 2049. While Peter Cushing is not alive, life-casts of his face remain -- once made for making rubber appliances for make-up effects. The same goes for many actors. As with any old genuine movie props, there are also people who collect nth generation life-casts of famous actors...
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The content delivery network does not seem to be affected. I have a couple videos paused and playing, and those do continue to load ahead.
Cherry has been making keyboard switches since the 1960's. The Cherry MX key switch was introduced in 1983 already.
It would be more fair to say that there has been a revival in mechanical keyboards in the last eight years or so. Back in the '90s and early naughties, Cherry made the switches mostly for special-purpose keyboards such as point-of-sale, military etc.
I don't think it would be even theoretically possible to house 1 trillon, not even 10 billion humans in the entire solar system even with advanced technology. 10 billion is the projected population of Earth within a human lifespan from now.
First, this planet we are living on, which is the best suited for human survival is already a couple times overpopulated with humans. We are in the beginning of an ecosystem collapse right now because of how many of us there are.
Earth has some unique conditions in the solar system. It's location protects it from incoming meteors and comets: most being absorbed by the outer planets and the asteroid fields. It is at a nice distance from the sun. It is geologically stable, with both land and water. A magnetic field prevents the atmosphere from being blown away by solar wind, and the atmosphere and magnetic field protects its inhabitants from radiation. These together have made living conditions very stable compared to other bodies.
Among the other bodies in the solar system, there is only one that is even remotely suitable for advanced human habitation in the long term: Mars. Mars has only the location going for it: being inside the asteroid field. That's it. People would have to live underground or in domed cities. With a surface area a quarter of Earth's, it should go without saying that you won't be able to fit 9'996 billion people there. Note also that a lot of that space would be needed for biosystem services, like on Earth: the oceans and plantlife provide the oxygen needed for breathing.
But first, we would have to survive the current crisis to even start thinking of colonising other planets.
Actually, QWERTY had been developed out of alphabetic order, only that vowels had been separated out onto its own row.
Beta-testers of Sholes very earliest typewriters then asked for several changes to the layout to make it faster and less error-prone when transcribing Morse code -- and this was done mainly by swapping letters so as to be a small change as possible. Then the layout was further changed by Remington so that they could avoid having to pay royalties to Sholes.
QWERTY are two things: A physical layout of keys in rows and a logical mapping of symbols to those keys. Dvorak is only the latter.
There is a movement for changing the physical layout, from rows to a column for each finger, which can improve typing speed and accuracy, as well as being touted as more ergonomic. These are also often separated into a part for each hand. This idea is not new, but almost as old as typewriters themselves. Schools for QWERTY divided the keyboard into columns for use with different fingers. The Blickensderfer typewriter with its "Scientific layout" from the late 1800's and Lilian Malt's Maltron from the 1970's (onwards) changed both physical layout to a columnar and logical mapping to a more logical, and I suspect that it was the unusual logical mappings that prevented adoption of those more than anything. The Kinesis company has made its "contoured" ergonomic keyboards for decades -- with QWERTY or Dvorak, but they are not common. Columnar ergonomic computer keyboards used to be common in Japan in the 1980s, mainly for the NEC PC-8800 computers, but IBM squashed that platform, partly through political pressure.
In the recent decade there has also been a resurgence in keyboards with mechanical switches, partly as a reaction to what I think has been a regression in keyboard design towards having flatter, cheaper keyboards. As animals, we touch and feel. We think spatially. Things are more intuitive when they are things and not abstract concepts. Mechanical keyboards feel more substantial, and often provide better ergonomic shapes and better tactile feedback than the common muck that is usually bundled with a new computer. Mechanical keyboards also have keys and switches as discrete components, which has made development of mech keyboards more accessible to hobbyists.
There are now dozens of different homebrew, custom and kits out there for mechanical keyboards -- with columnar layouts. Split, contoured, "orthonormal" grids, shifted columns, etc. Many of them are Open Hardware. The most famous is the ErgoDox, which is manufactured by multiple companies. It has also got several successors, with different tweaks to the physical layout. While mainstream hardware manufacturers are now making keyboards with mechanical switches (for "gamers"... ) you don't see many "ergonomic" keyboards in the mainstream any more, which is a shame.
Signing one letter at a time is really slow, and therefore it is not in very much use. When a government has tried to impose letter-signing it has therefore been met by much resistance.
Real sign language consists of words, but the "grammar" is usually in facial expressions. In other words, very different from English. I'm generalising here because there are different sign languages in different countries, and not always related to the spoken language in those countries.
Also, sign language interpreters are known to suffer from RSI and other strain-related health issues from signing too long. So I can't see that it would have any real benefit for current typists who know spoken language.
With LCD screens it is less about the physical size and more about the number of pixels that matter, for power consumption.
Many "flagship" smartphones have 500+ PPI, which I think is in excess of what the human eye is capable of, and seems to be more about bragging rights than anything else. I think that if they keep it at a more reasonable 300 PPI or so, which is more than most of Samsung's current tablets (Note excluded), your eyes will not be able to notice the difference and the power consumption should be comparable to a smaller screen.
The name "America" was written over what is modern-day Brazil, and referred to the whole continent: north and south... not to a nation that was going to be formed some 270 years later.
Not to mention that Windows 10 user interface* is actually really badly suited for touch screens. When they brought forward mouse and keyboard after Window 8, the touch interface actually went backwards.
*: That's "user experience" for shills and millenials...
The study does not show that half of the criticism was false (as the summary suggests) but at what extent existing trolls used real fans' dislike of the movie as a weapon for reinforcing their own agenda.
What that does show is that the Star Wars fan community is not composed of nearly as many alt-right anti-feminists as it appears. I find that reassuring.
BTW. Myself, I did not even go and see the movie. The Force Awakens had already killed Star Wars for me... and I used to be a huge fan.
What counts is not how old something is but how much you can yet get out of it.
With multiple USB-A ports and a keyboard that does not suck, I think also I would be more productive and less frustrated with that four-year old Dell than with a MS Surface.
And BTW, the Dell can be upgraded to 16 GB RAM because it takes DDR3 SODIMM's, whereas you can not upgrade four-year old MS Surface which is glued together and has soldered-in RAM.
Having been educated in Swedish academia (my alma mater holds the Nobel lectures), I would like to believe that we have progressed farther than that.
Nobel Prizes are not limited to awarding achievements in the last calendar year. Sometimes the achievements have been made several decades ago. Most laureates are quite old, many having retired from active work. Therefore there is an amount of inertia in the system in the diversity of laureates compared to increased diversity among contemporary scientists.
The Pascal-P system did it with "p-code" back in the 1970's... And Open Software Foundation's ANDF system for Unix programs written in C back in the early '90s.
The "bitcode" is not an Apple invention, but is a file encoding for LLVM-IR, the intermediate representation of programs used internally by the LLVM/clang compiler. LLVM-IR is very much not suitable for program distribution... but Apple's App Store is not really a distributed system either but a funnel through which all "watchOS" apps have to go, so Apple can probably manage it.
"64-bit ARM" (AArch64) is actually a different instruction set architecture: it is more modern and has more potential to run faster. It also supports the "AArch64-ilp32" ABI which restrict its pointers to 32 bits, so that it does need to use a 64-bit address space and waste memory on high bytes of pointers that are never used.
But personally, I think a smart watch should have a slimmed-down extremely power-efficient CPU so that battery life times could start approach that of special-purpose watchbands and older Pebbles. Something that allows a week of battery life at least. Otherwise, it is backwards and suboptimal IMHO.
Real leather could also dry out and, peel, stiffen, split crack and tear if you don't treat it right.
Leather is typically treated with oils/waxes -- but you would not want that on your screen or on anything you touch. Computing equipment is often best cleaned with isopropyl-alcohol -- but that would weaken/remove the leather's own oils and make it crack over time. The cleaning product I know of that is the least compatible with leather is chlorine bleach: With that you could probably produce cracks within a day.
You'd be surprised about how many things you might think are US but which have European origin. Just in the city where I live, we have Spotify, Skype, Mojang, development centres for HTC, Sony and Huawei, and the bulk of Oracle's Java development. MySQL is an hour away.
As to music: A few blocks from where I live is an music studio, operated by Max Martin who produced Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry among others... i.e. the most successful US pop artists of the last decade. Made in Europe.
And yeah, the WWW was developed at CERN. Guess what the E stands for.
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Louis Rossmann's supplier usually covers the Apple logos with a sharpie, but for some reason they did not do that in this case.
To disable updates, you could check "Metered Internet" and "Airplane Mode" and keep them checked.
This seems to keep updates away from my tablet. But I don't have WiFi enabled much on it otherwise anyway...
Yes, wait it out for 50 thousand years until the next ice age starts to happen.
If humanity still exists by then.
Yes, we are heading for certain disaster but the more carbon we continue to emit the worse it is going to be.
Everything counts. Let's not give up.
Active noise-cancellation can only dampen continuous noise such as whirring engines and fans, not transient sounds such as speak.
They are therefore practically not more effective in an open-plan office environment than regular closed headphones or $5 ear muffs.
"Business cases that make sense" can be loops, feeding themselves. (I'm sure there is a fancy economic-science term for it, but I don't know it.)
If Apple don't make devices that can get hardware upgrades then users will not know about hardware upgrades, so they won't request them.
It is like with Windows users: they expect clunky UIs, their systems getting slower over time and full of malware -- because they have not been exposed to anything better!
There are many fan-edits to Star Wars out there, both for restoring the original Star Wars, removing the SE additions, and for making the prequels less cringey. The most famous de-specialisation project has an article on even.
There are also a few groups that have located surviving prints of the original movies, scanned them in 4K and are performing digital restoration on them. See for instance, Team Negative1's work on.
For Disney/Lucasfilm to re-release the original trilogy in good quality would be difficult though. The original negatives were cut apart when making the SE and before the 2004 DVD release, their copy of the SE was scanned only in Full HD (1920), not even 2K (according to Lowry Digital who did it)
Deepfakes is using only existing footage of the actors and of the movie it is inserted in.
In your scenario, there would instead be access to a 3D-scan of the original actor's face which could be fixed up and animated based on motion capture dots on the new actor's face. With those, you could produce an even better result.
While Peter Cushing is not alive, life-casts of his face remain -- once made for making rubber appliances for make-up effects. The same goes for many actors.
As with any old genuine movie props, there are also people who collect nth generation life-casts of famous actors...
The content delivery network does not seem to be affected. I have a couple videos paused and playing, and those do continue to load ahead.
Cherry has been making keyboard switches since the 1960's.
The Cherry MX key switch was introduced in 1983 already.
It would be more fair to say that there has been a revival in mechanical keyboards in the last eight years or so.
Back in the '90s and early naughties, Cherry made the switches mostly for special-purpose keyboards such as point-of-sale, military etc.
I don't think it would be even theoretically possible to house 1 trillon, not even 10 billion humans in the entire solar system even with advanced technology. 10 billion is the projected population of Earth within a human lifespan from now.
First, this planet we are living on, which is the best suited for human survival is already a couple times overpopulated with humans. We are in the beginning of an ecosystem collapse right now because of how many of us there are.
Earth has some unique conditions in the solar system. It's location protects it from incoming meteors and comets: most being absorbed by the outer planets and the asteroid fields. It is at a nice distance from the sun. It is geologically stable, with both land and water. A magnetic field prevents the atmosphere from being blown away by solar wind, and the atmosphere and magnetic field protects its inhabitants from radiation.
These together have made living conditions very stable compared to other bodies.
Among the other bodies in the solar system, there is only one that is even remotely suitable for advanced human habitation in the long term: Mars. Mars has only the location going for it: being inside the asteroid field. That's it. People would have to live underground or in domed cities. With a surface area a quarter of Earth's, it should go without saying that you won't be able to fit 9'996 billion people there.
Note also that a lot of that space would be needed for biosystem services, like on Earth: the oceans and plantlife provide the oxygen needed for breathing.
But first, we would have to survive the current crisis to even start thinking of colonising other planets.
Actually, QWERTY had been developed out of alphabetic order, only that vowels had been separated out onto its own row.
Beta-testers of Sholes very earliest typewriters then asked for several changes to the layout to make it faster and less error-prone when transcribing Morse code -- and this was done mainly by swapping letters so as to be a small change as possible.
Then the layout was further changed by Remington so that they could avoid having to pay royalties to Sholes.
QWERTY are two things: A physical layout of keys in rows and a logical mapping of symbols to those keys. Dvorak is only the latter.
There is a movement for changing the physical layout, from rows to a column for each finger, which can improve typing speed and accuracy, as well as being touted as more ergonomic. These are also often separated into a part for each hand.
This idea is not new, but almost as old as typewriters themselves. Schools for QWERTY divided the keyboard into columns for use with different fingers. The Blickensderfer typewriter with its "Scientific layout" from the late 1800's and Lilian Malt's Maltron from the 1970's (onwards) changed both physical layout to a columnar and logical mapping to a more logical, and I suspect that it was the unusual logical mappings that prevented adoption of those more than anything.
The Kinesis company has made its "contoured" ergonomic keyboards for decades -- with QWERTY or Dvorak, but they are not common.
Columnar ergonomic computer keyboards used to be common in Japan in the 1980s, mainly for the NEC PC-8800 computers, but IBM squashed that platform, partly through political pressure.
In the recent decade there has also been a resurgence in keyboards with mechanical switches, partly as a reaction to what I think has been a regression in keyboard design towards having flatter, cheaper keyboards.
As animals, we touch and feel. We think spatially. Things are more intuitive when they are things and not abstract concepts.
Mechanical keyboards feel more substantial, and often provide better ergonomic shapes and better tactile feedback than the common muck that is usually bundled with a new computer. Mechanical keyboards also have keys and switches as discrete components, which has made development of mech keyboards more accessible to hobbyists.
There are now dozens of different homebrew, custom and kits out there for mechanical keyboards -- with columnar layouts. Split, contoured, "orthonormal" grids, shifted columns, etc. Many of them are Open Hardware. ... ) you don't see many "ergonomic" keyboards in the mainstream any more, which is a shame.
The most famous is the ErgoDox, which is manufactured by multiple companies. It has also got several successors, with different tweaks to the physical layout.
While mainstream hardware manufacturers are now making keyboards with mechanical switches (for "gamers"
Signing one letter at a time is really slow, and therefore it is not in very much use. When a government has tried to impose letter-signing it has therefore been met by much resistance.
Real sign language consists of words, but the "grammar" is usually in facial expressions. In other words, very different from English.
I'm generalising here because there are different sign languages in different countries, and not always related to the spoken language in those countries.
Also, sign language interpreters are known to suffer from RSI and other strain-related health issues from signing too long. So I can't see that it would have any real benefit for current typists who know spoken language.
With LCD screens it is less about the physical size and more about the number of pixels that matter, for power consumption.
Many "flagship" smartphones have 500+ PPI, which I think is in excess of what the human eye is capable of, and seems to be more about bragging rights than anything else.
I think that if they keep it at a more reasonable 300 PPI or so, which is more than most of Samsung's current tablets (Note excluded), your eyes will not be able to notice the difference and the power consumption should be comparable to a smaller screen.
The name "America" was written over what is modern-day Brazil, and referred to the whole continent: north and south ...
not to a nation that was going to be formed some 270 years later.
Not to mention that Windows 10 user interface* is actually really badly suited for touch screens. When they brought forward mouse and keyboard after Window 8, the touch interface actually went backwards.
*: That's "user experience" for shills and millenials ...
The study does not show that half of the criticism was false (as the summary suggests) but at what extent existing trolls used real fans' dislike of the movie as a weapon for reinforcing their own agenda.
What that does show is that the Star Wars fan community is not composed of nearly as many alt-right anti-feminists as it appears. I find that reassuring.
BTW. Myself, I did not even go and see the movie. The Force Awakens had already killed Star Wars for me ... and I used to be a huge fan.
What counts is not how old something is but how much you can yet get out of it.
With multiple USB-A ports and a keyboard that does not suck, I think also I would be more productive and less frustrated with that four-year old Dell than with a MS Surface.
And BTW, the Dell can be upgraded to 16 GB RAM because it takes DDR3 SODIMM's, whereas you can not upgrade four-year old MS Surface which is glued together and has soldered-in RAM.
Having been educated in Swedish academia (my alma mater holds the Nobel lectures), I would like to believe that we have progressed farther than that.
Nobel Prizes are not limited to awarding achievements in the last calendar year. Sometimes the achievements have been made several decades ago. Most laureates are quite old, many having retired from active work.
Therefore there is an amount of inertia in the system in the diversity of laureates compared to increased diversity among contemporary scientists.
The Pascal-P system did it with "p-code" back in the 1970's ...
And Open Software Foundation's ANDF system for Unix programs written in C back in the early '90s.
The "bitcode" is not an Apple invention, but is a file encoding for LLVM-IR, the intermediate representation of programs used internally by the LLVM/clang compiler. ... but Apple's App Store is not really a distributed system either but a funnel through which all "watchOS" apps have to go, so Apple can probably manage it.
LLVM-IR is very much not suitable for program distribution
"64-bit ARM" (AArch64) is actually a different instruction set architecture: it is more modern and has more potential to run faster.
It also supports the "AArch64-ilp32" ABI which restrict its pointers to 32 bits, so that it does need to use a 64-bit address space and waste memory on high bytes of pointers that are never used.
But personally, I think a smart watch should have a slimmed-down extremely power-efficient CPU so that battery life times could start approach that of special-purpose watchbands and older Pebbles. Something that allows a week of battery life at least. Otherwise, it is backwards and suboptimal IMHO.
Ars Technica has more pictures, err. I mean, renders.
It looks like it has cooling vents above the keyboard. They look like they would be closed up when the device is closed or in tablet mode, though.
Real leather could also dry out and, peel, stiffen, split crack and tear if you don't treat it right.
Leather is typically treated with oils/waxes -- but you would not want that on your screen or on anything you touch.
Computing equipment is often best cleaned with isopropyl-alcohol -- but that would weaken/remove the leather's own oils and make it crack over time.
The cleaning product I know of that is the least compatible with leather is chlorine bleach: With that you could probably produce cracks within a day.
You'd be surprised about how many things you might think are US but which have European origin.
Just in the city where I live, we have Spotify, Skype, Mojang, development centres for HTC, Sony and Huawei, and the bulk of Oracle's Java development. MySQL is an hour away.
As to music: A few blocks from where I live is an music studio, operated by Max Martin who produced Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry among others... i.e. the most successful US pop artists of the last decade. Made in Europe.
And yeah, the WWW was developed at CERN. Guess what the E stands for.