Funny enough, we don't have the conservation messages. The only conservation messages we got were a few months ago when they asked to conserve natural gas because a pipeline exploded and was only running at 50% capacity.
So north of the border of the Pacific Northwest, we've got electricity. Yes, they've noted that power consumption has gone up (duh, it's cold) but well within system capacity.
Though a bit of an oversimplification, USB4 is basically just a rebranding of Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 already does 40Gbps and has been out now for a few years. I have yet to hear reports of cables spontaneously erupting in flame or whatnot, and though USB 3.x and TB3 cables are stiffer than USB 2 cables, I don't think they're swaddled in insulation to a crazy degree. If you're curious how this will work, look back over the documentation for TB3.
Except Thunderbolt requires active cabling, and always has from the first revisions. The cable ends contain little pre-emphasis and measurement chips to test out the cabling and compensate for various effects. And you can't get longer than about 6 feet or so before you must move to optical cabling (where the signal is converted to optical. Power is still carried by wires alongside the fiber)
Oldschool HDMI was 4.2 Gbit. The newer 2.0 spec is 18 GBit, which are almost certainly the most common now.
But you are correct (in spirit - we're talking Gbit, not GB) that the next gen, 2.1, claims to be 48Gbit, but a) they're not in wide enough use to test this argument (I don't know that any consumer gear has 2.1 yet), and b) you'd need to actually use that bandwidth (e.g. 4K/120, 8K), which again is not going to be common for some time.
It does look like HDMI 2.1 cables are thick enough to have decent shielding.
A few problems though. First, no one makes 48Gbps HDMI stuff. No transmitters, no receivers, heck, the certification tests don't exist yet. (And most of HDMI2.1 tests don't exist). The only tests that do exist are those that can be implemented right now - eARC, VRR (Variable Refresh Rate), etc. (And HDMI org doesn't want people referring to HDMI by revision number, but by feature support, because 48Gbps isn't needed yet while certain features of 2.1 already are (like the aforementioned eARC and VRR).
Second problem is that cable isn't certified - HDMI 2.0 cables are hard enough to make that the HDMI org now puts them under certification tests, and every passing cable puts on a special logo and sticker that shows it with a QR code to verify the results. (This is a good way to see who OEMs cables from whom, because the big players don't re-test, they just slap on the sticker from the company that makes the cables).
Though the label has changed - they added a manufacturer name to the text part of the sticker.
And it's on every cable, not on every shelf of cables or on the peg - every certified cable carries it so you can't cheat by mis-hanging cables or other things.
Cities that face winter use poured slabs for sidewalks because there are no cracks for the water to get into, freeze and then expand and break material. This will never make it past a demo section of pavement in a place near city hall so local officials can get their photos taken.
Actually, poured slabs have the cracking problem. First, concrete cracks. No way around it - concrete will crack, it's to be expected.
Second, the goal is not not resist water, but to shed it. Either by being extremely porous so water just drains through the material (a lot of new asphalt roads are like this - it can be a rainstorm and the road looks like it's dry), or deigned to channel the water to a drain. Water that sits on the surface and freezes will create cracks on the surface.
Nothing wrong with paver style sidewalks - they are exceptionally good at letting water drain down through them. The only problem is their bedding isn't designed to handle the influx of water and washes away, leading to roads that are bumpy. But those problems are also solved because modern asphalt roads do the same thing, and they're beds are deigned to handle the water and drain it away. The roads stay drier so they're safer in rain and draining the water away also keeps ice from forming on the surface.
You should realize that the Swiss watchmaking industry is not very big. The watch industry is not very big, having been destroyed by the cell phone industry. It's an impressive sounding fact, but a number would give more concreteness and clarity.
The Swiss watchmaking industry is actually quite big. People imagine most of the Swiss watches are made with people putting gears in by hand in some cabin, but the low and middle end Omegas and Rolexes and of course Swatch are all mass produced products on automated production lines.
Of course, the bigger news about the Apple Watch would be that Apple has turned what was a joke category of product (smart watches) into something respectable.
Funny, can't find anyone hacking in oldskool Doom online. Not that you need to with the weapons available now days thanks to a still-living mod community.
Maybe the coders of these other games should #learntocode. We got it right in our little community (made up now almost entirely of hackers of some level,) why the fuck can't they get it right in theirs?
Because no one plays oldskool Doom anymore? I'm sure once you add in about a million players, you'll start to see online cheating. And just so you know, there was cheating in Quake back in the day too. From people replacing everyone else's skins with ones that basically glowed, to infamous "cheating drivers" that let you turn walls translucent amongst other things. (And the cheating drivers brought the question to the forefront back in the day - I believe it was a big graphics card maker like Asus or someone similar who released modified drivers with those capabilities).
But unless you have over 100 friends, games like Fortnite require everyone to be on the up and up and there's no way you can do 100 person battle royale if the servers calculated everything - the latency issues would just add up so no one would have a good time. There's a reason why games went from mere 8 player multiplayer (where servers could easily do it all) to 16 or 32 player free for alls, with 100 player gatherings rather supreme.
I don't think your Doom netcode would survive in today's environment - if it got even a bit popular there would be rampant cheating.
And yes, Fortnite is a big deal. Though I'm surprised as to how long it's taken - usually for something this big and important Microsoft gets everyone together in a room to figure it out. Microsoft gets Epic involved who gets the anti-cheat engineers and in a week they figure out the problem. Considering the money on the line, someone's dropping the ball.
Why does what amounts to spyware get preferential treatment?
Because cheating is rampant in online games, and anti-cheats are needed to even have a modicum of fair play online. Unless you're one to believe the only way to play online is consoles only and basically the PC should be discarded as a gaming device.
The solution to this is simple: games shouldn't be loading their own kernel drivers.
Sadly cheats are generally programs that either run the target game in debug mode (with the cheat as the debugger) and thus undetectable to the game, or as a separate executable and hijack network traffic. Kernel drivers are required to break these kind of things.
And for what it's worth, the anti cheat software in question is used by Fortnite, among other games. That's kind of why it's a big deal.
And cheating is so rampant online among PC users that an aspect of PC gaming would be destroyed without anti-cheat software letting people play legitimately. Maybe PC users don't care, but it would be pretty sad if the only way to play online was to pay for Playstation Plus or Xbox Live Gold.
The proper response would have been to ban all Li-Ion batteries from passenger aircraft holds and cargo aircraft. This would have forced manufacturers to air-ship phones and laptops without batteries. With any luck, this would have encouraged the development of standardized, user installable batteries for electronics that would have ground-shipped to brick-and-mortar places and been readily available for sale.
Sadly, no one has the balls to disrupt the disposable device cartels.
Well, for a while in the late 90s, they did standardize on batteries. Problem is, it died out quite rapidly because the batteries were of fixed shape which limited what form factors you could have (basically anything big and clunky - basically a brick).
And because the batteries were often garish and full of shiny stickers, it also meant an internal battery compartment, wasting even more space and giving you an even brick-ier brick.
Though if you really want a standard, the 18650 battery is pretty standard and lots of stuff can be purchased that take those batteries
They tried in the 90s, but fixed format batteries were just too limiting - you couldn't build a thin and light laptop using them because they came in only a couple of formats (and it would defeat the purpose if they came in a half dozen formats). Plus it meant the more powerful laptops had short battery life while the weaker ones had longer life - again fixed format battery meant everyone had to design around a 4 cell battery.
And heck, maybe you'll get your wish if that 18,000mAh Energizer phone gets popular. I don't know why they didn't just include 18650 battery holder with it.
Isn't part of the issue with these device that they are not self-contained products? Their capabilities are tied into remote servers (and services) that the customer does not control. People go to a central website and use apps that route through a corporate mothership mainly to get around the end user being on DHCP internet service and behind consumer networking equipment. Part of that is by design, can't charge a monthly fee for them if they are capable of working without internet access.
I know DDNS is pretty easy and many home routers even offer built-in VPN servers, but that's still a bunch of outside config that is beyond the technical abilities of most of the people these companies want to target.
You can get standalone DVRs that don't require the cloud at all. But then you know what? People misconfigure them and they get exposed all over the internet. Either with default credentials so everyone can spy on what the cameras see, or as typical with these devices, they get exploited and become a part of a massive botnet that DDoS's infrastructure.
Standalone machines also typically don't have as robust auto-update features for software updates so users will typically forget to update.
It stands for Unix File System, it doesn't stand for "Cheap shitty phone-related stupid-shit". Unless it comes per-initialized with UFS, then Samsung, here's a big middle finger for putting more noise and chaos into google searches. Yes, I saw the lower-case "e" in there two. Learn how to create an acronym rather than how to copy Steve Jobs (and even he would know better than to use "UFS").
Sorry, blame JEDEC for that - UFS is the next-generation flash interface, which is what is done at the physical connection level. Flash memory comes in several interfaces, the previous one is eMMC, based on MMC specifications. The current generation is UFS which allows for much faster data transfer. Another interface is NVMe, which is what Apple uses internally to get their crazy fast iPhone flash speeds.
UFS as a hardware interface is established for years now. Heck, does anyone use the Unix File System anymore? Everyone's used ideas from that for form their own filesystems by now.
Didn't we already have this discussion 8 years ago ???
Or over 15 years ago - when the iTunes music store first opened and started selling music for 99 cents.
Like who would pay 99 cents for a music track they could pirate for free? Yet, the convenience of just finding it and clicking buy was much easier than Napster and friends and hoping it wasn't a mislabeled track. Plus the convenience of having it in a minute after purchase.
And the impressive sales of that caused music to go DRM free a few years later, when the music industry was being crushed by Apple and their music store - there was no way for them to get DRM music via any other store, and Apple was too big and powerful, so the music industry let Amazon sell music DRM free just so that they could break the iTunes monopsony.
Microsoft has designed the entire update process under the assumption that it can reboot the computer at will, so strange things can happen when you intentionally delay that reboot. It's gotten to where I just start the troubleshooting process with a reboot.
Doesn't everyone start troubleshooting by just rebooting as the first step? In Windows it usually clears up whatever problem someone has.
That should be the first step - reboot the computer and see if the user's problem has cleared up. Chances are, it has and you can be on your way.
This. It's basically the same reason macs are thought of as being generally better for graphics type stuff. Because macs have set hardware compared to the myriad pc options they crash less. Or at least used to, macs seem just as crash happy nowadays but I suspect that's a different issue.
No, It's because MacOS has support for color correction in the OS itself, so applying all the ICC profiles means applications inherit the color correction automatically.
They've already done Xbox One enhanced versions of early Halo games. The Master Chief Collection received extra enhancements for the Xbox One X.
The MCC has got to be one of the most updated games around on the Xbox - from the days of its early very shaky launch to having a few billion patches between release years ago and today making it one of the few games still updated and maintained today.
I asked the manager why the cheap to license, repetitive music had to be blasting all the time even in an empty gym and he said it's the company policy to make it more attractive to customers and it's hard for you but imagine how it is for me he said, I have to listen to it all day.
I have quit that gym since but left wondering, what was that policy based on? What if customers, occasional and frequent, hate it as much as the manager? Why exactly are we all suffering then?
Recently I heard through another trainer that the manager had also quit.
The stupid thing is really, in the past, you can get music systems that did not repeat for several days. This went all the way back too - the Seeburg 1000 was a record player that could be loaded with 1000 hours of music. Granted the music was not of great quality since the discs were spun slower than normal as well as having a lot of discs, but there was a huge long loop of music.
Even as everything got more modern it was possible to get at least a day's worth of audio off two audio cassettes, again run at half speed and mono (the PA speakers are mono, and not of terribly great quality so you can get by with lower quality music recordings).
The most modern of these systems used DVDs filled with music as well. And again, they lasted several days before they repeated.
And all of course were subscription based so you got a new set of vinyls, tapes, CDs or DVDs every couple of months to keep the music refreshed (as well as replace worn media).
And today's systems are online based - muzak corp offers streaming (and licensed streams from your usual spotify and others streaming services as well) if you cannot or don't want to use their FM/satellite based streaming audio. All fully commercially licensed.
Of course, what really happens these days is people don't want to pay muzak and the like for long play licensed music, and thus stick with whatever they can get cheaply licensed (or freely licensed) and put it on a CD which they repeat day in and day out. And as we all know, a CD only lasts around 80 minutes, at which point the music repeats.
Muzak and company intentionally lowered the audio quality so they could at least get a day's worth of music in without repeats - often with the technology they could get much more music in so even if you listened to the same thing for weeks on end, you'd really only hear it repeat a few times because the play loop was so long. (And longer now due to streaming)
battery life that smartphones (hell even feature phones) can only dream of.
Most pagers I know of still use AA batteries. Why? Rechargables just don't last as long!
They literally will last for months on a single AA battery. A busy pager may last a month (one that's constantly beeping and vibrating). Off a single AA battery.
But one that isn't so busy can probably go up to a year on a single AA battery.
This was my first thought as well. It seems to me extending to the PCIe bus to all kinds of untrusted hot plugged devices has bad idea written all over it.
We already did, twice. First was ExpressCard, which is a card version of a x1 PCIe slot. Second time was Thunderbolt, which I believe the current iteration is up to x4 PCIe.
And yes, I believe there are Thunderbolt RAM attacks though because of the IO controller, it's somewhat mitigated.
That's significantly faster than the speed of sound! Sound travels at about 660 mph at a 787's cruising altitude. Of course, sound travels through the air, so the plane wasn't actually breaking the sound barrier, as the air speed was below that, so it wasn't really hitting Mach 1, but I suppose if the plane were to suddenly dive out of the jet stream into relatively still air, it would have done so; I wonder how well it would have handled the stress?
Except that isn't airspeed, it's ground speed. Airspeed is actually much lower than that. Airliners fly high because the higher you go, the faster the winds are, and if you're lucky, you can catch the jetstream to get you a nice ground speed boost.
Airspeed is the speed the plane goes through the air. Groundspeed is generally the vector addition of airspeed of the plane plus local wind conditions.
Here the plane entered the jetstream which was moving exceptionally fast creating a really fast groundspeed. At worst the passengers felt a little turbulence as the plane entered the jetstream.
At no point in time did the plane exceed the local speed of sound. It is simply impossible for the plane to do so without losing control.
I also understand that a content creator could do NOTHING WRONG, and could still have legitimate videos demonetized through no fault of their own. Simply because some jackass puts up a comment.
Well, that's the current environment advertisers are finding. Remember yesterday when a bunch of advertisers pulled out because of a pedophile ring in the comments?
Guess what? When advertisers pull out, videos get demonetized. So just because some jerkoff manages to jerk off to your video causes advertisers to pull their support and your video gets demonetized.
The only thing YouTube has been doing is making it even more transparent - you can tell when major advertisers are pulling out because of comments in videos that it would be the cause of demonetization.
Whining about it isn't going to fix it - those advertisers discovered the youtube comments section and it offended them.
I'm sure there are some valid uses for the camera. Just not in this case. Here is probably what happened. Some engineer looked down a catalog for a part that he need, in vast quantities he needed. He come across a standard lcd screen and it just happened to have a camera on it. There you go, no conspiracy theory here.
Except avionics generally has a tighter profile - you don't just buy off the shelf screens and use them. EMI envelopes for avionics is much tighter
Plus, the runs are usually custom in size so everything is specified. - every ounce is conserved. Airlines cheap out on everything, and every bit of weight matters over the lifetime of the plane, so even if each camera module adds a tiny nit of weight, it eventually adds up to a huge amount of fuel over the years.
Require an easily replaceable battery and go from there.
And how do you define "easily replaceable"? Because even iPhones are easy to replace the battery with. Granted, not every drooling idiot with a butter knife as a screw driver can replace it, but if you're reasonably competent, you can do it. Given every shopping mall has at least one cellphone repair shop, it doesn't seem like a hard problem either.
And given the drooling idiot's tool of preference, well, it's probably a good thing they're not stabbing batteries to replace them.
But 5G is fast for everyone on the same tower. Really fast all the time. One tower, many users.
Or tons of towers, not so many users. One of the 5G improvements means there literally is a tower at every streetlight. This is because the band used is so high that there isn't much propagation, so you need a ton of base stations.
You're literally going to be surrounded by 5G transmitters as you walk down the street.
Sure, there are lower bands for more "traditional" cell tower usage, but inside an urban jungle, carriers will want to use the high bands and stick cell repeaters on every streetlight. It's the only way to get high speed gigabit data throughput in the city.
This is just stupid. What does the speed of wireless networks have to do with ANY of the other aspects in the story at all? At 4G I am not bandwidth bound. I can stream video at a far higher resolution than needed for a 4" screen. It has no impact on shopping, messaging, banking, etc. Further, what does the network have to do with the apps that communicate over that network? We tried AOL once. It had everything this story talked about in one unified place and interface. It sucked. It went away because that's how our markets work. People use what they want to use, which is typically based on what gives them what they want and the way they want it.
Yes, you are not consuming state sponsored and approved and paid for publicity messages, especially downloading at a rate the government deems necessary. And you see to require a lot more of it, so you need to upgrade 5G where ambient speed exures you're seeing party messaging allt h time.
That people want to run stuff on their iPhones without having to get Apple's approval for it first?
Which since iOS 8 you could and even run a rich assortment of free (Open and Free) software that Apple has never allowed. Emulators are especially popular and I think there's a front end to pick choose and install those apps and install them.
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Funny enough, we don't have the conservation messages. The only conservation messages we got were a few months ago when they asked to conserve natural gas because a pipeline exploded and was only running at 50% capacity.
So north of the border of the Pacific Northwest, we've got electricity. Yes, they've noted that power consumption has gone up (duh, it's cold) but well within system capacity.
Except Thunderbolt requires active cabling, and always has from the first revisions. The cable ends contain little pre-emphasis and measurement chips to test out the cabling and compensate for various effects. And you can't get longer than about 6 feet or so before you must move to optical cabling (where the signal is converted to optical. Power is still carried by wires alongside the fiber)
A few problems though. First, no one makes 48Gbps HDMI stuff. No transmitters, no receivers, heck, the certification tests don't exist yet. (And most of HDMI2.1 tests don't exist). The only tests that do exist are those that can be implemented right now - eARC, VRR (Variable Refresh Rate), etc. (And HDMI org doesn't want people referring to HDMI by revision number, but by feature support, because 48Gbps isn't needed yet while certain features of 2.1 already are (like the aforementioned eARC and VRR).
Second problem is that cable isn't certified - HDMI 2.0 cables are hard enough to make that the HDMI org now puts them under certification tests, and every passing cable puts on a special logo and sticker that shows it with a QR code to verify the results. (This is a good way to see who OEMs cables from whom, because the big players don't re-test, they just slap on the sticker from the company that makes the cables).
More info and example - https://www.hdmi.org/manufactu...
Though the label has changed - they added a manufacturer name to the text part of the sticker.
And it's on every cable, not on every shelf of cables or on the peg - every certified cable carries it so you can't cheat by mis-hanging cables or other things.
iTunes music is DRM free nowadays. Download it, make a copy of it, and play it anywhere. Anything that can play an AAC file can play an iTunes file .
Even if iTunes deletes the file, you still have your backups, and they'll still play because there's no DRM on them.
The only time you're screwed is if you leave your iTunes music "in the cloud" and down't bother downloading it anywhere.
Actually, poured slabs have the cracking problem. First, concrete cracks. No way around it - concrete will crack, it's to be expected.
Second, the goal is not not resist water, but to shed it. Either by being extremely porous so water just drains through the material (a lot of new asphalt roads are like this - it can be a rainstorm and the road looks like it's dry), or deigned to channel the water to a drain. Water that sits on the surface and freezes will create cracks on the surface.
Nothing wrong with paver style sidewalks - they are exceptionally good at letting water drain down through them. The only problem is their bedding isn't designed to handle the influx of water and washes away, leading to roads that are bumpy. But those problems are also solved because modern asphalt roads do the same thing, and they're beds are deigned to handle the water and drain it away. The roads stay drier so they're safer in rain and draining the water away also keeps ice from forming on the surface.
The Swiss watchmaking industry is actually quite big. People imagine most of the Swiss watches are made with people putting gears in by hand in some cabin, but the low and middle end Omegas and Rolexes and of course Swatch are all mass produced products on automated production lines.
Of course, the bigger news about the Apple Watch would be that Apple has turned what was a joke category of product (smart watches) into something respectable.
Because no one plays oldskool Doom anymore? I'm sure once you add in about a million players, you'll start to see online cheating. And just so you know, there was cheating in Quake back in the day too. From people replacing everyone else's skins with ones that basically glowed, to infamous "cheating drivers" that let you turn walls translucent amongst other things. (And the cheating drivers brought the question to the forefront back in the day - I believe it was a big graphics card maker like Asus or someone similar who released modified drivers with those capabilities).
But unless you have over 100 friends, games like Fortnite require everyone to be on the up and up and there's no way you can do 100 person battle royale if the servers calculated everything - the latency issues would just add up so no one would have a good time. There's a reason why games went from mere 8 player multiplayer (where servers could easily do it all) to 16 or 32 player free for alls, with 100 player gatherings rather supreme.
I don't think your Doom netcode would survive in today's environment - if it got even a bit popular there would be rampant cheating.
And yes, Fortnite is a big deal. Though I'm surprised as to how long it's taken - usually for something this big and important Microsoft gets everyone together in a room to figure it out. Microsoft gets Epic involved who gets the anti-cheat engineers and in a week they figure out the problem. Considering the money on the line, someone's dropping the ball.
Because cheating is rampant in online games, and anti-cheats are needed to even have a modicum of fair play online. Unless you're one to believe the only way to play online is consoles only and basically the PC should be discarded as a gaming device.
Sadly cheats are generally programs that either run the target game in debug mode (with the cheat as the debugger) and thus undetectable to the game, or as a separate executable and hijack network traffic. Kernel drivers are required to break these kind of things.
And for what it's worth, the anti cheat software in question is used by Fortnite, among other games. That's kind of why it's a big deal.
And cheating is so rampant online among PC users that an aspect of PC gaming would be destroyed without anti-cheat software letting people play legitimately. Maybe PC users don't care, but it would be pretty sad if the only way to play online was to pay for Playstation Plus or Xbox Live Gold.
Well, for a while in the late 90s, they did standardize on batteries. Problem is, it died out quite rapidly because the batteries were of fixed shape which limited what form factors you could have (basically anything big and clunky - basically a brick).
And because the batteries were often garish and full of shiny stickers, it also meant an internal battery compartment, wasting even more space and giving you an even brick-ier brick.
Though if you really want a standard, the 18650 battery is pretty standard and lots of stuff can be purchased that take those batteries
They tried in the 90s, but fixed format batteries were just too limiting - you couldn't build a thin and light laptop using them because they came in only a couple of formats (and it would defeat the purpose if they came in a half dozen formats). Plus it meant the more powerful laptops had short battery life while the weaker ones had longer life - again fixed format battery meant everyone had to design around a 4 cell battery.
And heck, maybe you'll get your wish if that 18,000mAh Energizer phone gets popular. I don't know why they didn't just include 18650 battery holder with it.
You can get standalone DVRs that don't require the cloud at all. But then you know what? People misconfigure them and they get exposed all over the internet. Either with default credentials so everyone can spy on what the cameras see, or as typical with these devices, they get exploited and become a part of a massive botnet that DDoS's infrastructure.
Standalone machines also typically don't have as robust auto-update features for software updates so users will typically forget to update.
It's really a pick your poison sort of deal.
Sorry, blame JEDEC for that - UFS is the next-generation flash interface, which is what is done at the physical connection level. Flash memory comes in several interfaces, the previous one is eMMC, based on MMC specifications. The current generation is UFS which allows for much faster data transfer. Another interface is NVMe, which is what Apple uses internally to get their crazy fast iPhone flash speeds.
UFS as a hardware interface is established for years now. Heck, does anyone use the Unix File System anymore? Everyone's used ideas from that for form their own filesystems by now.
Or over 15 years ago - when the iTunes music store first opened and started selling music for 99 cents.
Like who would pay 99 cents for a music track they could pirate for free? Yet, the convenience of just finding it and clicking buy was much easier than Napster and friends and hoping it wasn't a mislabeled track. Plus the convenience of having it in a minute after purchase.
And the impressive sales of that caused music to go DRM free a few years later, when the music industry was being crushed by Apple and their music store - there was no way for them to get DRM music via any other store, and Apple was too big and powerful, so the music industry let Amazon sell music DRM free just so that they could break the iTunes monopsony.
Doesn't everyone start troubleshooting by just rebooting as the first step? In Windows it usually clears up whatever problem someone has.
That should be the first step - reboot the computer and see if the user's problem has cleared up. Chances are, it has and you can be on your way.
No, It's because MacOS has support for color correction in the OS itself, so applying all the ICC profiles means applications inherit the color correction automatically.
The MCC has got to be one of the most updated games around on the Xbox - from the days of its early very shaky launch to having a few billion patches between release years ago and today making it one of the few games still updated and maintained today.
The stupid thing is really, in the past, you can get music systems that did not repeat for several days. This went all the way back too - the Seeburg 1000 was a record player that could be loaded with 1000 hours of music. Granted the music was not of great quality since the discs were spun slower than normal as well as having a lot of discs, but there was a huge long loop of music.
Even as everything got more modern it was possible to get at least a day's worth of audio off two audio cassettes, again run at half speed and mono (the PA speakers are mono, and not of terribly great quality so you can get by with lower quality music recordings).
The most modern of these systems used DVDs filled with music as well. And again, they lasted several days before they repeated.
And all of course were subscription based so you got a new set of vinyls, tapes, CDs or DVDs every couple of months to keep the music refreshed (as well as replace worn media).
And today's systems are online based - muzak corp offers streaming (and licensed streams from your usual spotify and others streaming services as well) if you cannot or don't want to use their FM/satellite based streaming audio. All fully commercially licensed.
Of course, what really happens these days is people don't want to pay muzak and the like for long play licensed music, and thus stick with whatever they can get cheaply licensed (or freely licensed) and put it on a CD which they repeat day in and day out. And as we all know, a CD only lasts around 80 minutes, at which point the music repeats.
Muzak and company intentionally lowered the audio quality so they could at least get a day's worth of music in without repeats - often with the technology they could get much more music in so even if you listened to the same thing for weeks on end, you'd really only hear it repeat a few times because the play loop was so long. (And longer now due to streaming)
Most pagers I know of still use AA batteries. Why? Rechargables just don't last as long!
They literally will last for months on a single AA battery. A busy pager may last a month (one that's constantly beeping and vibrating). Off a single AA battery.
But one that isn't so busy can probably go up to a year on a single AA battery.
We already did, twice. First was ExpressCard, which is a card version of a x1 PCIe slot. Second time was Thunderbolt, which I believe the current iteration is up to x4 PCIe.
And yes, I believe there are Thunderbolt RAM attacks though because of the IO controller, it's somewhat mitigated.
Except that isn't airspeed, it's ground speed. Airspeed is actually much lower than that. Airliners fly high because the higher you go, the faster the winds are, and if you're lucky, you can catch the jetstream to get you a nice ground speed boost.
Airspeed is the speed the plane goes through the air. Groundspeed is generally the vector addition of airspeed of the plane plus local wind conditions.
Here the plane entered the jetstream which was moving exceptionally fast creating a really fast groundspeed. At worst the passengers felt a little turbulence as the plane entered the jetstream.
At no point in time did the plane exceed the local speed of sound. It is simply impossible for the plane to do so without losing control.
Well, that's the current environment advertisers are finding. Remember yesterday when a bunch of advertisers pulled out because of a pedophile ring in the comments?
Guess what? When advertisers pull out, videos get demonetized. So just because some jerkoff manages to jerk off to your video causes advertisers to pull their support and your video gets demonetized.
The only thing YouTube has been doing is making it even more transparent - you can tell when major advertisers are pulling out because of comments in videos that it would be the cause of demonetization.
Whining about it isn't going to fix it - those advertisers discovered the youtube comments section and it offended them.
Except avionics generally has a tighter profile - you don't just buy off the shelf screens and use them. EMI envelopes for avionics is much tighter
Plus, the runs are usually custom in size so everything is specified. - every ounce is conserved. Airlines cheap out on everything, and every bit of weight matters over the lifetime of the plane, so even if each camera module adds a tiny nit of weight, it eventually adds up to a huge amount of fuel over the years.
And how do you define "easily replaceable"? Because even iPhones are easy to replace the battery with. Granted, not every drooling idiot with a butter knife as a screw driver can replace it, but if you're reasonably competent, you can do it. Given every shopping mall has at least one cellphone repair shop, it doesn't seem like a hard problem either.
And given the drooling idiot's tool of preference, well, it's probably a good thing they're not stabbing batteries to replace them.
Or tons of towers, not so many users. One of the 5G improvements means there literally is a tower at every streetlight. This is because the band used is so high that there isn't much propagation, so you need a ton of base stations.
You're literally going to be surrounded by 5G transmitters as you walk down the street.
Sure, there are lower bands for more "traditional" cell tower usage, but inside an urban jungle, carriers will want to use the high bands and stick cell repeaters on every streetlight. It's the only way to get high speed gigabit data throughput in the city.
Yes, you are not consuming state sponsored and approved and paid for publicity messages, especially downloading at a rate the government deems necessary. And you see to require a lot more of it, so you need to upgrade 5G where ambient speed exures you're seeing party messaging allt h time.
Which since iOS 8 you could and even run a rich assortment of free (Open and Free) software that Apple has never allowed. Emulators are especially popular and I think there's a front end to pick choose and install those apps and install them.