It's an emergency pressure suit. It will only pressurize if the capsule depressurizes and then the crew will hardly do anything until they're on the ground again. In other words: Other than a spacesuit which is meant to work in it when it is pressurized these suits are meant to be worn unpressurized, except for keeping the astronauts alive in emergencies.
Your reality obviously is not the reality iOS 12 runs in. If you try the public betas on older hardware you will find that it runs much faster than iOS 11. This at least is my experience. On which device(s) do you run iOS 12?
>"Apple Engineers: Rather than trying to come up with new ways for users to enter text into Macbooks, why don't you accept the input method that has been around for more than a century and come up with a keyboard that fixes the problems that were introduced in 2016? If you don't feel like they can be fixed than either go back to the old mechanicals or come up with new ones."
Or perhaps contact Lenovo and license their designs. They seem to make perfectly good laptop keyboards that last forever, feel good, and are quite functional, all while being thin and nice looking too.
Except that Lenovo makes their $700 Yoga keyboards crappy (they feel like stabbing a bowl of dough) so you relent and buy a $1800 Thinkpad instead while the keyboard as a spare costs $50. Also the Macbook Pro keyboard is a quarter as thick.
About a month ago, I speculated (only half jokingly) that Apple was knowingly and intentionally putting really crappy keyboards into their "Pro" laptops so that they could subsequently move to completely fake keyboards without the users noticing any further degradation in keyboard experience (because basically, at that point, Apple users would already be used to basically drumming their fingers on a piece of metal).
They came with flat chiclet keyboards starting with the late 2008 MacBook exactly for this reason. And it worked, since all keyboards look this way now. The thing is not that Apple has plans, the thing is that Apple's plans WORK.
Just for being precise, the butterfly mechanism isn't the "switch". It's just a clever mechanism to keep the keycap level when you press it. The actual switch sits under this mechanism and other than with basically all other laptop keyboards this isn't a rubber-dome switch, but a mechanical stainless steel micro-switch. That's the reason this keyboard is so loud. Apple did it this way because with a traditional rubber-dome switch and a scissors-mechanism you just can't arrive at the short travel and thinness that Apple wanted.
And yes, you of course you can do the same thing more or less with a pressure-measuring touchscreen and some haptic feedback under it just as Apple already does since several generations with the iPhone home button and the MacBook trackpad. This would reduce the travel to zero, but you'd still get feedback and would have not only to touch but to press the key.
You can hate that or like it, but the thing is that apart from Apple nobody seems to even think of any kind of progress here. All other manufacturers just hesitate and then move after Apple. It was this way with the chiclet keys, it was this way with the notch and it will be the very same with laptop keyboards.
Hate it or like it, but laptops aren't the same as they were 20 years ago and won't be the same in the future. If you hate all of that, just move back to the mechanical typewriter.
A personal computer should serve its user and do whatever they want, not obey its manufacturer to work against that user. And you disagree with that statement? Fine, you disagree, but this is the type of disagreement where I have to say Fuck You. You're the problem and you should be ashamed. Your attitude is why people are considered to be just things. Yes, it's just a PC, but even so, it's anti-humanist and you're a dishonest person if you claim it doesn't matter.
What if you have more than enough "personal computers" to care for and to play with and just want something for carrying in your pocket that for a change somebody else cares for? What if you think that life is too short to hand-hold every bit and every line of code in your life?
Do you knit your own sweaters? All of them? If not, isn't this "anti-humanist and you're a dishonest person if you claim it doesn't matter"? Or what? Do you bake your own bread? Every day? Come on, tell me.
You mean "make them throttle just as much as the competition with the fans being half as loud".
Anyway, this will cut the affiliate spam considerably. Whenever you google for some iOS app or a review or whatever you get endless lists of automatically generated or quickly thrown together app lists that are there just for earning 7% of the app's price by making you click through from that page to the app store.
On the other hand this also will hit smaller developers who at least managed to get a small kickback by directing people from their own website to the store. Apple should definitely continue to allow this.
as long as these great results keep going, Apple isn't going to change their strategy and all you people complaining about connectivity options, the decrease in build quality and increase in buggy software are just ignored.
Just that hardly anyone of those people complaining would buy a Mac anyway. You can't blame Apple for making what the people buy who buy Apple devices instead.
(And I agree that Apple has screwed up quite a bit in the last years, the drop in Mac sales is clearly due to them not offering what people want to buy, like reliable keyboards...)
Urban legend. NASA didn't spent a dime on that, the pen was privately developed (Fisher) and astronauts bought them for $10. Fisher made a profit on the pens over time and is still selling them today. Russia used them later too. Pencils in space are not a good idea anyway, the core contains graphite and broken off pieces that float around can cause shortcuts in equipment.
But as always with these legends they make a good story and seem never to die because people who prefer a wrong good story over true stories are plenty.
If you want to run Android apps (which you can now) having a touchscreen and tablet mode certainly makes sense. If you don't need any of that of course you'd need to be crazy to pay for it.
Come on. Tesla sold and delivered not âzthousands of carsâoe but 100000 cars last year. And Tesla isnâ(TM)t making profits only because it is heavily investing into factories for cars and batteries. They definitely are making profits with the cars they sell.
This does not mean that Tesla is guaranteed to succeed, but it certainly isnâ(TM)t exactly failing yet either.
I tried the keyboard more than once and maybe apart from the noise I liked them and could certainly get used to them just as I got used to the chiclet keyboards. But I can't get used to a keyboard that stops working every two months or so.
Only the MBP with the touchbar has no "real" escape key, but a touchscreen one. If you don't like it go the the keyboard preferences and set your capslock key to be the escape key. Or buy the other which has a real escape key.
The problem with this keyboard is the fact that it is utterly unreliable. Otherwise it's totally fine and people would long have stopped talking about it at all just as they stopped talking about the chiclet keyboard in the older Macbooks. But you can't start to love a keyboard that stops working every three months and has to repaired by exchanging the upper half of the case for $400 (once it is out of warranty). In the contrary you will start to fear and hate every little bit of it.
Apple just screwed up here and then didn't notice or didn't want to double down and fix it. And this is not just a "you're holding it wrong" thing, it's a real, hard, ugly screw-up and it will come to haunt them. Nobody in his right mind should buy a $2000 laptop that is a write-off after the warranty runs out.
If you're writing a lot and/or reading a lot you want vertical space, because long lines are much harder to read than lots of shorter lines. If you're working with video or photos or with complex apps with lots of panes and tools around, a wider screen is better, since you can arrange your tools horizontally and if your tools involve lots of lists of things it's hard to stack them vertically anyway.
Since less and less people read and write a lot and instead consuming video content seems to be what people like the best, screens are getting wider and wider.
Personally I hate that, but it's hard to make your your voice heard in the market if there's only very little choice when it comes to 4:3 or 3:2 or even just 16:10 screens.
They are totally entitled to do that. I just close the tab then and go elsewhere, but I agree that they are free to deal with that this way. No problem. They don't want me to read their content and want me to never return, OK. I mean, they STILL don't earn money with my eyeballs.
What I never do though is disabling my ad blocker for them then.
Where's the difference if the effect is the same? OK, change "hate" for "they don't care for you being able to use whatever server(s) you may like for your email".
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It's an emergency pressure suit. It will only pressurize if the capsule depressurizes and then the crew will hardly do anything until they're on the ground again. In other words: Other than a spacesuit which is meant to work in it when it is pressurized these suits are meant to be worn unpressurized, except for keeping the astronauts alive in emergencies.
Your reality obviously is not the reality iOS 12 runs in. If you try the public betas on older hardware you will find that it runs much faster than iOS 11. This at least is my experience. On which device(s) do you run iOS 12?
Apart from this version: I'm running the iOS 12 public beta on my old iPad mini 3 and it runs considerably faster than iOS 11.
>"Apple Engineers: Rather than trying to come up with new ways for users to enter text into Macbooks, why don't you accept the input method that has been around for more than a century and come up with a keyboard that fixes the problems that were introduced in 2016? If you don't feel like they can be fixed than either go back to the old mechanicals or come up with new ones."
Or perhaps contact Lenovo and license their designs. They seem to make perfectly good laptop keyboards that last forever, feel good, and are quite functional, all while being thin and nice looking too.
Except that Lenovo makes their $700 Yoga keyboards crappy (they feel like stabbing a bowl of dough) so you relent and buy a $1800 Thinkpad instead while the keyboard as a spare costs $50. Also the Macbook Pro keyboard is a quarter as thick.
About a month ago, I speculated (only half jokingly) that Apple was knowingly and intentionally putting really crappy keyboards into their "Pro" laptops so that they could subsequently move to completely fake keyboards without the users noticing any further degradation in keyboard experience (because basically, at that point, Apple users would already be used to basically drumming their fingers on a piece of metal).
They came with flat chiclet keyboards starting with the late 2008 MacBook exactly for this reason. And it worked, since all keyboards look this way now. The thing is not that Apple has plans, the thing is that Apple's plans WORK.
Just for being precise, the butterfly mechanism isn't the "switch". It's just a clever mechanism to keep the keycap level when you press it. The actual switch sits under this mechanism and other than with basically all other laptop keyboards this isn't a rubber-dome switch, but a mechanical stainless steel micro-switch. That's the reason this keyboard is so loud. Apple did it this way because with a traditional rubber-dome switch and a scissors-mechanism you just can't arrive at the short travel and thinness that Apple wanted.
And yes, you of course you can do the same thing more or less with a pressure-measuring touchscreen and some haptic feedback under it just as Apple already does since several generations with the iPhone home button and the MacBook trackpad. This would reduce the travel to zero, but you'd still get feedback and would have not only to touch but to press the key.
You can hate that or like it, but the thing is that apart from Apple nobody seems to even think of any kind of progress here. All other manufacturers just hesitate and then move after Apple. It was this way with the chiclet keys, it was this way with the notch and it will be the very same with laptop keyboards.
Hate it or like it, but laptops aren't the same as they were 20 years ago and won't be the same in the future. If you hate all of that, just move back to the mechanical typewriter.
A personal computer should serve its user and do whatever they want, not obey its manufacturer to work against that user. And you disagree with that statement? Fine, you disagree, but this is the type of disagreement where I have to say Fuck You. You're the problem and you should be ashamed. Your attitude is why people are considered to be just things. Yes, it's just a PC, but even so, it's anti-humanist and you're a dishonest person if you claim it doesn't matter.
What if you have more than enough "personal computers" to care for and to play with and just want something for carrying in your pocket that for a change somebody else cares for? What if you think that life is too short to hand-hold every bit and every line of code in your life?
Do you knit your own sweaters? All of them? If not, isn't this "anti-humanist and you're a dishonest person if you claim it doesn't matter"? Or what? Do you bake your own bread? Every day? Come on, tell me.
You mean "make them throttle just as much as the competition with the fans being half as loud".
Anyway, this will cut the affiliate spam considerably. Whenever you google for some iOS app or a review or whatever you get endless lists of automatically generated or quickly thrown together app lists that are there just for earning 7% of the app's price by making you click through from that page to the app store.
On the other hand this also will hit smaller developers who at least managed to get a small kickback by directing people from their own website to the store. Apple should definitely continue to allow this.
as long as these great results keep going, Apple isn't going to change their strategy and all you people complaining about connectivity options, the decrease in build quality and increase in buggy software are just ignored.
Just that hardly anyone of those people complaining would buy a Mac anyway. You can't blame Apple for making what the people buy who buy Apple devices instead.
(And I agree that Apple has screwed up quite a bit in the last years, the drop in Mac sales is clearly due to them not offering what people want to buy, like reliable keyboards...)
Urban legend. NASA didn't spent a dime on that, the pen was privately developed (Fisher) and astronauts bought them for $10. Fisher made a profit on the pens over time and is still selling them today. Russia used them later too. Pencils in space are not a good idea anyway, the core contains graphite and broken off pieces that float around can cause shortcuts in equipment.
But as always with these legends they make a good story and seem never to die because people who prefer a wrong good story over true stories are plenty.
Well, not THIS payload obviously, the FH doesn't use these (or any other Russian) engines.
If you want to run Android apps (which you can now) having a touchscreen and tablet mode certainly makes sense. If you don't need any of that of course you'd need to be crazy to pay for it.
Come on. Tesla sold and delivered not âzthousands of carsâoe but 100000 cars last year. And Tesla isnâ(TM)t making profits only because it is heavily investing into factories for cars and batteries. They definitely are making profits with the cars they sell.
This does not mean that Tesla is guaranteed to succeed, but it certainly isnâ(TM)t exactly failing yet either.
Well at least the consumer Yoga Thinkpad keyboards are utter crap, they sag like mad in the middle, it's like bathing your fingers in dough.
Well, Apple DOES make quality products, but this keyboard is not one of them.
I tried the keyboard more than once and maybe apart from the noise I liked them and could certainly get used to them just as I got used to the chiclet keyboards. But I can't get used to a keyboard that stops working every two months or so.
What are these people doing with their Macbooks? For some reason people put up with crappy keyboards if they're using them rarely.
No, this problem really is horrible. Do you have one? For how long? Do all keys work? If they do, just wait a bit.
Only the MBP with the touchbar has no "real" escape key, but a touchscreen one. If you don't like it go the the keyboard preferences and set your capslock key to be the escape key. Or buy the other which has a real escape key.
The problem with this keyboard is the fact that it is utterly unreliable. Otherwise it's totally fine and people would long have stopped talking about it at all just as they stopped talking about the chiclet keyboard in the older Macbooks. But you can't start to love a keyboard that stops working every three months and has to repaired by exchanging the upper half of the case for $400 (once it is out of warranty). In the contrary you will start to fear and hate every little bit of it.
Apple just screwed up here and then didn't notice or didn't want to double down and fix it. And this is not just a "you're holding it wrong" thing, it's a real, hard, ugly screw-up and it will come to haunt them. Nobody in his right mind should buy a $2000 laptop that is a write-off after the warranty runs out.
As someone who first used the web with NCSA Mosaic I'm SHOCKED. Although, honestly, the angled tabs look better. Whatever. Slow news day?
If you're writing a lot and/or reading a lot you want vertical space, because long lines are much harder to read than lots of shorter lines. If you're working with video or photos or with complex apps with lots of panes and tools around, a wider screen is better, since you can arrange your tools horizontally and if your tools involve lots of lists of things it's hard to stack them vertically anyway.
Since less and less people read and write a lot and instead consuming video content seems to be what people like the best, screens are getting wider and wider.
Personally I hate that, but it's hard to make your your voice heard in the market if there's only very little choice when it comes to 4:3 or 3:2 or even just 16:10 screens.
They are totally entitled to do that. I just close the tab then and go elsewhere, but I agree that they are free to deal with that this way. No problem. They don't want me to read their content and want me to never return, OK. I mean, they STILL don't earn money with my eyeballs.
What I never do though is disabling my ad blocker for them then.
You're missing the point here: What's alarming is the current rate of change. It's nothing less than catastrophic.
Where's the difference if the effect is the same? OK, change "hate" for "they don't care for you being able to use whatever server(s) you may like for your email".
So you agree?