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Tech Ethics New Year's Resolution: Don't Build Software You Will Regret
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Tech Ethics New Year's Resolution: Don't Build Software You Will Regret
1 Jan 2019 3:00am, by Jennifer Riggins
New years are for resolutions, right? And then February finds them discarded like last season's must-have toy. Resolutions most often fail because people don't make plans, just wishes. With that in mind, this new year, we at The New Stack — with the help of some at the forefront of modern tech ethics — will not only help you resolve to work more ethically, but to offer you the beginnings of a framework with which to achieve it.
After all, we should be working not just to pay the bills, but to make sure we don't create software that we will one day regret.
Buzzword Alert: What Is Tech Ethics, Anyway?
At The New Stack, we talk a lot about avoiding technical debt, but what about the ethical debt? Let's begin by attempting to define just what ethical technical delivery even is. Black Pepper Software's Sam Warner at the Good Tech Conf — a conference which focused on technology for social good — simplified this great university philosophy topic, saying ethical software:
causes no negative social impact
doesn't make the world worse to live in
At Coed Ethics, another conference dedicated to tech ethics that The New Stack covered earlier this year, Doteveryone's Sam Brown echoed Warner, saying "Responsible technology considers the social impact it creates and seeks to understand and minimalize its potential unintended consequences." Doteveryone as an organization is dedicated to supporting responsible technology as a key business driver for positive and inclusive growth, innovation, and trust in technology.
But should those of us building the future's code feel obligated to contribute something toward social good? Warner argues we should go even further than that and contribute to work that benefits the most amount of people in a significant way.
So, if this is our objective, where do we begin?
There's no doubt that privacy is a hot ethics topic and it makes a good tech ethics use case. With increasing data regulations in the European Union and California, plus the constant risk of a very embarrassing public breach, it's important that data processing is at the front of our minds. In fact, someone within a company should be appointed to document and share with the rest of the company how personal data, like mailing addresses and credit information, flow through your company. Everyone within an organization is now responsible for the data being processed through it and everyone must be aware of that data flow.
While we are only beginning to address flows of information within across organizations, it makes for a good starting point to begin to observe your company's tech ethics as well. The questions companies should be considering with data usage could be applied to the entire software lifecycle and user experience, particularly at the design stage.
Beyond foreseeing any obvious negative social impact, we have to constantly ask ourselves the following questions:
What is our code connecting to?
Is it necessary that they connect?
Is it necessary that particular data flow through it?
How long are we storing that data? Why do we need to store it?
Should we be sharing that data with that entity?
Who does this marginalize? Who is not included in this software?
What is the worst possible use case for this code?
In this interconnected world, it's not just about trusting our own team, it's about trusting the ethics of the systems we are connecting to, and it's about documenting our ethical considerations so we enhance customer trust.
Warner said we need to move past discussions of fuzzy terms like good versus bad because "We all make mistakes. And sometimes we don't even realize we are making a mistake before it is too late."
This is especially the case with open source — often considered more honorable than its closed-source counterparts — when you cannot always predict how people are going to use and abuse your code down the line. The first step to any ethical development is to consider your worst-case scenarios.
And then you have to be prepared to learn from your mistakes, often publicly acknowledging them — particularly in customer data breaches — and explaining how you are trying to fix them.
"What is criminal is not learning from your mistakes and trying to move forward with that." Warner continued that "Facebook is a good use case — when Mark Zuckerberg was making Facebook in his dorm room bedroom, he probably wasn't trying to make this dopamine-inducing tool."
The remedies may not always be obvious, but we must work toward them.
Warner said that awareness is important, but also as an industry we need to begin to realize why we even make mistakes in the first place. Medicine has had centuries to learn from its mistakes, but the much less mature software industry has only had about 60 years of study and about 20 with people carrying computers in their pockets.
In short, there's still a lot we have to learn.
Designing Ethically: Should We Even Be Building This?
We now have the opportunity to leverage education and awareness to mitigate against the mistakes we might make. Every major data leak or emissions scandal shouldn't just be a headline, but a learning opportunity for reflection.
A culture of openness is a good start.
Also at Coed Ethics, Container Solutions' Andrea Dobson addressed why people often make these bad decisions in the first place:
They don't know what else can be done
How can we counteract this? It's all about building a culture of psychological safety, Dobson says.
"Not so easy to do, but it mainly comes down to educating people who have roles of perceived power and make them know psychological safety is necessary to grow. You can't learn without making mistakes."
Like the open communication theme driving tech ethics, she continued that this safety comes from, "Speaking to people one on one and asking them questions."
International development agency Aptivate practices and teaches consensus decision-making as a way to actively lose ego, consider every voice, and give shared ownership of any decision made. If individual opinions are valued, someone is more likely to object to ethically risky behavior earlier. Other companies, like BookingGo, Booking's rental car arm based out of the UK, address ethics as part of a volunteer committee, that sees about ten percent of the 1200–person team actively, openly discussing the ethics-based decision-making. Google famously created ethical principles for its artificial intelligence in response to the outrage of four percent of its staff, committing to not continue with Project Maven or any other weaponizing of AI.
Tech companies — and companies in general — can start with brown bag discussions about ethics. Next, perform an ethical audit of internal processes and actively signpost about your commitment to ethical development, sharing good and bad real-life examples.
The Institute of Future and the Tech and Society Solutions Lab together created a collection of PDFs which form an Ethical OS Toolkit which helps tech teams anticipate the future impact of today's technology. For anyone delegated organizational ethical considerations — and, again, everyone should be considering it — this toolkit includes eight zones to help you identify emerging areas of risk and social harm for your software's future:
Truth, disinformation, and propaganda
Addiction and dopamine economy
Economic and asset inequalities
Machine ethics and algorithmic biases
Surveillance state
Data control and monetization
Implicit trust and user understanding
Hateful and criminal actors
Sure, you wouldn't build anything to facilitate any of this, but could someone use what you're building to achieve any of the above anti-goals? Warren argues ethical feasibility should be factored into the design stage of agile and Scrum workflows.
Apply consensus-based design processes, repeatedly allowing anyone to offer responses to:
Should we be building this?
Should we be releasing this? (Just because you've invested time and money into building it doesn't mean you should be launching it onto the world.)
There is also available many activities your team can do to help you determine the ethics of your code, including the Open Data Institute's data ethics canvas.
Ethical UX Is Human-Centric Design
Sometimes ethical software development is as simple as building user-first or designing for humanity, not just your immediate human users. At Good Tech Conf, Fjord Interaction Designer Hollie Lubbock talked about ethical user experience design. She has created her own set of boundaries to determine what she would or not work on, something all of us freelancers and contractors should do.
Why is UX design so important for this? As Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology put it: "Whoever controls the menu, controls the choices."
Or as Lubbock put it, "Design enforces design on other people," offering this tricky example of a Facebook pop-up.
Lubbock says design involves practical ethics.
"Every time we make a design decision, we are actually making a choice with how people interact" with our tools.
She reminds us that tech is "making us as a society lonelier, less satisfied, less productive. Screen time is linked to that loneliness," as automation doesn't make us more productive so much as it removes the boundaries of 9 to 5.
We need to be considering human-centered design at scale. Lubbock says we need to consider these essential questions with each design decision:
What if what we are building is super popular and everyone's using it?
How will it infiltrate people's lives?
Who will be left out?
The problem often is that performance targets, like clicks and signups, see teams manipulating user experience to reach company goals, which in turn inadvertently takes our code into some of those eight risk zones.
Despite top-down influence, Lubbock argues each team should prioritize the following:
Respecting human rights: decentralized, private, open, interoperable, accessible, secure, and sustainable
Respecting human effort: functional, convenient, and reliable
Respecting the human experience: delighting your users
Ethics for Designers offers a moral value map to help designers prioritize enhancing human potential while acknowledging how human-machine interaction is constantly increasing.
Ethical Design Rule No. 1: Design for Transparency — Lubbock said "Tech isn't magic, people can't assume it's behind a curtain and understand what's going. Make sure that people understand how the system works." This can involve simple design cues like Transferwise's no hidden fees or how Netflix offers the percentage their suggestions match your viewing habits.
Ethical Design Rule No. 2: Design Mindfully — despite our rapid release cycles, we must assess the impact of what we're building. We are constantly aiming for frictionless and seamless services, but "by making it as easy as possible, do we do it at the expense of giving them a choice? With gambling tools, perhaps we should get more friction."
Finally, for all sorts of consulting work, Lubbock says we need to take time to pause and think:
Who is the project for? Do you like that brand? Do you believe in the people and mission?
What is the project? Is it for good?
Can you create a positive impact? (Even if the first two questions are a No, maybe the project is still worth it if it yields a positive change.)
A lot about ethics is trusting your gut.
Finally, "Challenge everyone to question every day: Is the world better for me being in it?" ThinkNation's Lizzie Hodgson reminds us "We need to change the narrative around young people and hope and technology."
"We all have silos," Hodgson continued. "I don't think we should be hiding behind our technology and our algorithms, telling contradictions things to next generations: ´Don't trust tech but use it´."
She says "We have a responsibility to those young people to help them understand the world."
But maybe we need to understand it first? In the end, we must remember that this narrative can be written. And so can our code.
Why the Tech Industry Needs to Take Ownership of Ethics (and Soon!)
Finally, on a writer's note, it seems important to mention why it has to be the tech industry that puts tech ethics first.
First, if you've watched the U.S. Congress interrogating the leaders of Facebook and Google recently, it seems like we cannot have confidence that these representatives would ever have enough understanding of technology to regulate it. And in revoking net neutrality, many of us could agree maybe they shouldn't have that ability anyway.
Of course, there's also the motivation not to go to jail. The Volkswagen emissions scandal was a good reminder that we are indeed individually responsible for what we code, no matter who told us to write it.
But also we must remember that taking a combination of collective and individual responsibility for what we are creating is right in line with other cultural transformations going on within the industry nowadays. We are witnessing a continued trend of DevOps and agile software development, which pushes individuals to take greater ownership of what we are creating — from design to testing to releasing and maintaining — while we are also expected to be better connected with company-wide business goals. Tech ethics should follow in suit.
To compound the urgency of everything talked about above, it feels like we are reaching a point in human advancement — from the rapid rise of AI in tech to the onslaught of genetically engineered embryos and dinosaur resurrection — that we really have to stop and think about the future ethical implications of each of our jobs.
So why shouldn't we resolve to build more ethical software in 2019? It is certainly starting to feel like it is now or never.
Feature image via Pixabay.
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Cyril Laurence Fry (1905-1972) was the first son of Sydney Fry and Emilie Mabel. As a young boy Cyril became fascinated by the trains that ran past the rear of their house in Dundrum.
When he was 10 years old, Cyril was sent to boarding school in England, where his passion grew. He even helped start a model railway club at his school. At 17 he became an apprentice and went on to become an engineer with the Inchicore Railway Works in Dublin.
Throughout his working career, Fry spent his spare time building over 350 precision-made models and created an elaborate attic layout on which to display them. This complex layout included signal lights and level crossing barriers, which all worked automatically. He often worked from original plans and drawings from the railway companies to get the exact details and scale. All of the individual details, such as wheels and doors, were made with their own mould, which was then filled with hot metal. Once the pieces had cooled, they were filed into shape on a lathe and then hand-painted with a brush so fine that Fry could add his name to each model.
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A modern working layout inspired by both the original Cyril Fry layout and the Malahide layout has now been created for the Casino.
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If looking for a place to throw some darts or play some pool, there is a great bar that recently opened up in Uruma City, near Camp Courtney, on Route 329. The River-Rock opened in mid-April 2011 by a very friendly Japanese fellow, Ichiro Ohama. These games translate around the world, plus he speaks decent English, making this place very comfortable to hang out for an evening. The atmosphere is low key, and the music is a mix of hits.
There is one large high-end pool table and 2 high-end electronic dart boards. You can rent the table for just $5/hour. Being new, the bar menu is simple with the offerings of pizza and pasta. The draw here is the chill atmosphere and the games without a rowdy crowd. He plans to have pool and dart tourneys in the future. Give it a go.
Directions: 5 minutes from Camp Courtney. Travel north on 329 from Kadena through Uruma city. River Rock is located on 329, on the right side just before Coco's which at the corner of Route 329 & Route 6. If you are coming from Route 58, take Route 6 east until it dead ends into Route 329, there you will see the Coco's on the right. Turn right onto Route 329, River Rock will be almost immediately on your left. Park in front of the building.
Really chill place. I enjoyed it for a night out with my husband. It would be more fun to hang out with a group of people and have fun. I wish more people came and made it more of a loud place. Really nice though, Spread The Word!
Just to let everyone know they took the pool table out so there is no longer a pool table there just darts,slot machines and beer.
Don,nt be surprised if Paul has ever been in there!!.I go there every weekend I have yet to meet a guy named Paul.Of course he can hide behind the interet and change his name,Just the kind of people River Rock does not want.!!
Of course you haven't met me. Why would I go back if I didn't like it?
I also find this a relaxed place to play a game of pool or darts. There is plenty of seating all around the pool table with a low bar around the wall. There are a few tables to the one side near the dart boards. The staff was very chill and the music was good. Most importantly the beer was cold! I am not much of a pool player but I had a great time hanging out.
i actually find the place cool! It's a good place to chill!
lol This place is crap. Two dart boards and one pool table and some slot/pachinko machines. Oh and about 6 seats total. The people are ok, but there are several better places to hang out.


It's probably pretty hard to track all of the food-related recommendations I make on my site, so I set up an Amazon.com store that you can use to easily peruse my favorite cookware, gadgets, ingredients, and cookbooks. I'll be updating it as time goes on, so be sure to check back often – I made a handy little link to the store on the right-hand side of the site.
Keep in mind that while I totally recommend all of the products in my store, you may find better prices for many of the items locally (especially the food items). The cookware, gadgets, and books are priced pretty competitively though.


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At first, it looked like the movie won't engage the audience but now the race has been won, meanwhile, Megastar Chiranjeevi surprised everyone the movie defeated all the sceptics and negative reviews which created a buzz a while ago, hence becoming the number one movie at the box office, both nationally and internationally.
Before the release of the movie, Balakrishna's movie Veera Simha Reddy would be the big blockbuster and Waltair Veerayya has low expectations. However, the action sequence worked against the VSR, as a result, this movie became the audience's first choice. This Sunday Waltair Veerayya had taken a lead over VSR and the movie successfully grossed approximately $1.7 million so far.
Balakrishna's movie Veera Simha Reddy, on the other hand, set a new record for the best opening ever for a Balakrishna film. The film grossed a whopping Rs 23 crore on its first day in the state of Andhra Pradesh and over $700k in the United States. However, the film's box office took just a significant hit which recovered on the third and fourth days. By the end of the first weekend, the film had grossed nearly $1 million (Rs 8 crore) in the United States.
And Both dubbed films, 'Tegimpu' and 'Vaarasudu,' opened well but did not gross as expected at the box office except in Tamil states movie goes well.
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Skincare has never been so important in our daily lives. It's something some of us think about constantly while others don't even consider it, but in reality we all need to start treating our skin better.
Life has never been so stressful. Work is tougher than ever before and sometimes home life can feel even tougher than work! The balance is hard to maintain and a lot of the time our body suffers because of it.
Stress itself can contribute to bad skin quality and wrinkles as well as other issues for our bodies. Lack of sleep is another big factor that can contribute to bad skin. If you aren't getting your full rest, then your skin cells don't have the opportunity to repair themselves before the cycle begins again. Lack of sleep leads to caffeine which, combined with a poor diet, can leave your skin feeling thin and in serious need to perking up.
But let's be honest, it's not all about health. Our faces are seen by more people than any other generation. Selfies, snapchat and Instagram mean that our visage is on show for the world to see. We want to look good all the time and having clear, healthy skin is the way to do it.
Realistically, we're all so busy now and slowing down just isn't an option. We need a better way to protect and repair our skin because the damage we do now will stay with us for the rest of our lives.
There are a lot of treatments available to help with healthier and better-looking skin. These range from off the shelf creams all the way to invasive surgery. For most of us facial creams are by far enough and they offer the solutions we all crave.
Unfortunately, there are a ridiculous number of facial creams out there so it becomes very difficult which ones to choose.
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Elvis Tribute Albums - Part One
If there's one thing that's been consistent over the years of my thrift store shopping, it's been Elvis Presley tribute albums. There's tons of them!
So here's how a tribute album works... A bunch of half-talented studio musicians get together, record a bunch of songs, throw it on an album with deceiving artwork (and sometimes no artwork at all), and use fine print to warn the buyer that they are not buying a real album - and that's if they put fine print on the album at all. Lots of people have been duped into buying tribute albums all the way from the 1960s up to the present day.
Judging from the sheer amount of Elvis tribute albums, it seems to me that at one point EVERYONE wanted to be Elvis. NEWS FLASH: You are not Elvis. I am not Elvis. You don't sound like Elvis. You don't smell like Elvis. However, I'm in favor of you DYING like Elvis.
The Golden Ring - Tribute to Elvis Vol 1 & 2
Believe it or not, these two tribute albums sold incredibly well. I run across them very frequently. My guess is they came out right around the time that Elvis died. Combine that with the real picture of Elvis on the cover and a somewhat successful hole-in-the-ground record label (thanks to Anne Murray) and you've got a hit album. I was duped into buying these when I was around 7 years old, and I've seen at least a hundred copies of them.
The Golden Ring didn't just stick with Elvis tributes though. I have a few albums by them singing songs by other artists, including Glen Campbell. For some reason, bands who try to sound like Elvis also like to try sounding like Glen Campbell which I've proven once before.
So here a song from each volume.
Listen to Jailhouse Rock
What the hell is the drummer doing on this one? He puts lots of extra beats in there. There's also no electric guitar. The guitar was the coolest thing about the original version. Instead, the song has turned into a drunken piano ragtime piece of shit.
Listen to I Just Can't Help Believing
Oh, listen to that crowd applause that's faded in and out! It sounds like there's a concert hall full of people enjoying the balls out of a Golden Ring concert. I personally don't believe that The Golden Ring has ever played a live show, and I don't believe that ANYBODY would ever attend one based on their tribute albums. Thankfully for them, there's a large selection of Sound Effects records out there to help boost their egos and make them sound like they've successfully played in front of hundreds of excited fans. Then they woke up and found their penises cum-glued to their bed sheets.
Ronnie McDowell - The Original Soundtrack from the New Motion Picture: "Elvis"
This is apparently the soundtrack for a NEW movie called "Elvis". When you print the word "new" on your album, you automatically look like an asshole. In this case, 8-tracks haven't been mass produced in about 30 years, so I highly doubt that this is a new movie anymore. It's not even a fucking classic because nobody has ever heard of it. I don't think the movie is even available on DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, CED, Betamax, or 16mm. If by some chance I'm wrong, I'll most certainly have the machine to play it on since I own all of those formats.
However, I need to give Ronnie McDougall credit. He duplicates Elvis Presley VERY well.
Listen to Are You Lonesome Tonight
Various Artists - A Tribute to Elvis Presley
Up until this point, we've focused on releases on the Arc label. Now we move onto one of the most celebrated and shitty tribute album labels on Classical Gas Emissions... Sound Alike Music! The phony sticker says it's performed by various artists, but every single tribute album I have by them (with the exception of the compilations) have each been performed by a single band, whether it be The Chancellors, Phil Shields, or Cabbage.
Sound Alike Music is also notorious for doing paintings of original album covers (with the exception of the Grand Funk one which uses the real artwork). So I searched the net and found the original one here.
This is the worst of the four. Not only does the singer NOT sound like Elvis, the band doesn't even try to duplicate the arrangements to be remotely similar to the originals. Even the arrangements they came up with are stupider than a group of retarded children licking ant hills. Heartbrake Hotel (yes, that's how it's fucking spelled on the album) has too many trumpets, an organ, and a guitar player who thinks he's way cooler than the rest of the band by going off and doing something that isn't even part of the song. Have you ever eaten a microwaved peanut butter and cheese sandwich? That's how well these guys work together, and you're going to taste the fail of an album that should have never reached your ears.
There were so many bad ones to pick from, and Heartbrake Hotel ended up being just a little less bad than Blue Suede Shoes. The band is most obviously made up of deaf musicians who can't hear each other play. Poor fake Elvis has to try and make them look better by calling them "cats" as if they're the coolest backing band an Elvis Impersonator could ask for. After the recording, he went and took a shit because it felt better than the entire recording session. Then he died of a heart attack, realizing that taking a shit was more satisfying than being an Elvis Impersonator working at Sound Alike Music.
Listen to Blue Suede Shoes
And that's it for the first installment. I have at least four more Elvis tribute albums to tackle, and I'll most likely own more than that when I finally get around to reviewing them.
Speaking of which, I'm going to be featured on Amateur Hour again by Kent Davies. If you live in Winnipeg, that's 95.9 FM. The show is on August 21 at 5:00 pm. I'll be featuring some stuff that I've previously posted along with stuff that I've haven't got around to posting as of yet. It will be enjoyable for everybody!
Labels: Album Reviews, Bad Albums
lol wow those are just awful!! keep up the good work, this is one of my fav sites on the net.
Here's a link to my favourite Elvis (non-Elvis) tribute - "Antony Villa - Superstar From The Far East Sings a Special Tribute to Elvis". It was recorded in Vancouver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys9HdUa6Aqo
The best part? No Elvis songs on the whole album. I think it was released shortly after the man's death so he was probably trying to sell more copies.
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Ben Century said...
Bwahahahaha!!!! Thanks for posting that link!
Tatum said...
I have that Ronnie McDowell LP as well, I need to get around to reviewing it!


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Title: Suika (Japanese Drama)
Also Known As: すいか / Watermelon
Broadcast Date: June, 2003
Casts: Kobayashi Satomi, Koizumi Kyoko , Tomosaka Rie
34-year-old Motoko, an employee at a credit union, is stunned when she learns her best friend and co-worker, Mariko, has embezzled 300 million yen and disappeared. Motoko, still un-married, lives at home with her parents and has no future plans or goals. Tired of her monotonous, mundane lifestyle, she decides to move out and live on her own. She happens upon a beautiful old geshuku, or lodging house, called "Happiness Sancha." The building is surrounded by lush vegetable and flower gardens, and is nestled right on the riverbank. There are only 2 remaining tenants; Natsuko, a college professor who has lived there since she herself was in college, and Kizuna, an erotic manga artist whose work doesn't sell much. The manager, Yuka, is desperate to take on more boarders, which is perfect timing for Motoko. This simple drama examines the life of four totally different women brought together under one roof, and follows them on their own searches for happiness at "Happiness Sancha."
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Foundations and Trends® in Databases > Vol 5 > Issue 3
The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems
By Daniel Abadi, Yale University, USA, dna@cs.yale.edu | Peter Boncz, CWI, The Netherlands, P.Boncz@cwi.nl | Stavros Harizopoulos, Amiato, Inc., USA, stavros@amiato.com | Stratos Idreos, Harvard University, USA, stratos@seas.harvard.edu | Samuel Madden, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA, madden@csail.mit.edu
Daniel Abadi, Peter Boncz, Stavros Harizopoulos, Stratos Idreos and Samuel Madden (2013), "The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems", Foundations and Trends® in Databases: Vol. 5: No. 3, pp 197-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1900000024
© 2013 D. Abadi, P. Boncz, S. Harizopoulos, S. Idreos, and S. Madden
Storage, Access Methods, and Indexing, Query Processing and Optimization, Database Design and Tuning
2. History, Trends, and Performance Tradeoffs
3. Column-store Architectures
4. Column-store Internals and Advanced Techniques
5. Discussion, Conclusions, and Future Directions
In this article, we survey recent research on column-oriented database systems, or column-stores, where each attribute of a table is stored in a separate file or region on storage. Such databases have seen a resurgence in recent years with a rise in interest in analytic queries that perform scans and aggregates over large portions of a few columns of a table. The main advantage of a column-store is that it can access just the columns needed to answer such queries. We specifically focus on three influential research prototypes, MonetDB [46], MonetDB/X100 [18], and C-Store [86]. These systems have formed the basis for several well-known commercial column-store implementations. We describe their similarities and differences and discuss their specific architectural features for compression, late materialization, join processing, vectorization and adaptive indexing (database cracking).
Database system performance is directly related to the efficiency of the system at storing data on primary storage (for example, disk) and moving it into CPU registers for processing. For this reason, there is a long history in the database community of research exploring physical storage alternatives, including sophisticated indexing, materialized views, and vertical and horizontal partitioning. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in so-called column-oriented systems, sometimes also called column-stores. Column-store systems completely vertically partition a database into a collection of individual columns that are stored separately. By storing each column separately on disk, these column-based systems enable queries to readjust the attributes they need, rather than having to read entire rows from disk and discard unneeded attributes once they are in memory.
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Accurate determination of low-symmetry Bravais unit cells by EBSD
Ming Han, Guangming Zhao, Ye Zhu
Department of Applied Physics
Unit cells lack of symmetry are difficult to determine accurately, compared to high-symmetry unit cells with many constraints. The electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was considered inadequate for this task because of the highly defective band detections. We develop a new method for the Kikuchi-band detections, which can improve the accuracy of the EBSD technique in determining the lattice constants of totally unknown Bravais unit cells with low symmetry. The results show that, under ideal conditions (i.e., low-noise EBSD patterns and known projection center), the relative error of the unit-cell constants (a, b, c) is less than 0.3%, and that of the axial ratios (a/b, b/c, c/a) is less than 0.5%. The absolute errors of the inter-axial angles (α β γ) and crystal orientations are about 0.1°. Our method is perhaps not as accurate as the classical techniques such as X-ray diffraction, but is demonstrated as a practical tool for crystallographic characterization especially on low-fraction phases, and could be easily incorporated into an SEM to make the most of the SEM in the area of microanalysis.
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The Order of Things (with all due respect to Michel Foucault)	April 17, 2021
"Ramadān Mubarak, Blessed Ramadān!" to anyone who is observing the month of Ramadan. Many blessings, also, to those celebrating Chaitra Navaratri.
"The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed. The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed."
– Brother Juniper in The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder, born in Madison, Wisconsin, today in 1897, wrote a lot of biographies. I mean… a lot of biographies. Granted, he mostly wrote biographies about fictional people, but that didn't stop him from creating (and then recreating) the layers and layers of these people's lives – and, in doing so, highlighting cause and effect. In fact, that process of deep diving into someone's personal history in order to better understand the end result of their history is Brother Juniper's primary motivation in The Bridge of San Luis Rey (for which Mr. Wilder won his first Pulitzer Prize).
Ten years after winning that first Pulitzer Prize (in Fiction), Thornton Wilder won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Our Town, a play that not only highlights cause and effect, it includes a scene where a woman (Emily Webb) gets to playback a portion of her life. He would win his third Pulitzer Prize (also in Drama) in 1943, for The Skin of Our Teeth – a play that is notable for being out of sync and full of things that are out of time. In addition to his three Pulitzers and numerous other awards, Mr. Wilder won the 1968 National Book Award for Fiction for The Eighth Day, a multi-family biography disguised as a murder mystery. Or, maybe it's a murder mystery disguised as a biography of two families. Either way, it highlights a sequence of events and how they are connected.
"This is a history.
But there is only one history. It began with the creation of man and will come to an end when the last human consciousness is extinguished. All other beginnings and endings are arbitrary conventions – makeshifts parading as self-sufficient entireties, diffusing petty comfort or petty despair. The cumbrous shears of the historian cut out a few figures and brief passage of time from that enormous tapestry. Above and below the laceration, to the right and left of it, the severed threads protest against the injustice, against the imposture.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
– quoted from The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
What we find, in just about every work by Thornton Wilder, is that there is always a time and a place, but our understanding of the time (and the place) – as well as our understanding of ourselves – changes based on where we start and how the story unfolds… or, more specifically, how the story is told.
As a writer, Mr. Wilder decided who knew what when for his characters and also for his readers. According to Patanjali, our brains are like the author: showing us different things at different times and, also, not showing us things that other people see/understand with clarity. Additionally, things play out in a certain sequence. Yet that sequence is not always the sequence we (individually and/or collectively) experience or understand.
It can all get quite confusing, which is why (on Monday) I asked the question "Where to begin?" – because where we begin establishes a sequence of events that is paramount to our understanding of cause and effect. Remember, as Edward Norton Lorenz established with chaos theory, changing the beginning of the sequence can change the end results.
Yoga Sūtra 3.13: etena bhūta-indriyaşu dharma lakşaņa-avasthā- pariņāmah vyākhyātāh
– "In this [one-pointed] state, [the mind] passes beyond the three kinds of changes which take place in subtle and gross matter, and in the organs: change of form, change of time and change of condition."
Yoga Sūtra 3.14: śānta-udita-avyapadeśya-dharma-anupātī dharmī
– "A compound object, containing the attributes, and is subject to change, either past, present or yet to be manifested."
Yoga Sūtra 3.15: krama-anyatvam pariņāmah-anyatve hetuh
– "Change in the sequence of the characteristics is the cause for the different appearances of results, consequences, or effects."
Swami Vivekananda illustrated Yoga Sūtra 3.13 by describing the changes in form, time, and condition of a lump of gold. For a moment, let's apply the same thread to water. Water can be in the form of liquid, solid, or gas and it can be pure or sullied or in the process of running clear or becoming muddy. Additionally, water can take the form or shape of its container – whether that is a shoreline or a mug – and can also absorb vibrations in a way that changes its form. All of this happens through spans of time and, under certain conditions, includes a decrease or increase in the volume of water. When we apply this same line of thinking to our thoughts and the fluctuations of our mind, we begin to see how meditation works.
Of course, for the process of meditation to "work," we must practice in stages and be willing to let go of previous layers of thought, sensation, and understanding. We must, as Thornton Wilder indicates, move around and view the landscape from different vantage points – which we can only truly do if we practice non-attachment and are willing to see everything (including ourselves) from all sides. This requires a bit of that same suspension of disbelief that we engage when we read a book or watch a movie; it requires us to focus and be fully engaged in the present moment as it fluctuates between the past and future moments.
"'My friends,' continued Chrysis, turning her eyes slowly from face to face….
'Suddenly the hero saw that the living too are dead and that we can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasure; for our hearts are not strong enough to love every moment. And not an hour had gone by before the hero who was both watching life and living it called on Zeus to release him from so terrible a dream.'"
– quoted from The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder
"EMILY: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it…every, every minute?
STAGE MANAGER: No. [Pause.]The saints and poets maybe – they do some."
– quoted from Our Town by Thornton Wilder
One of the side effects (some would say "benefits," others would say "disadvantages") of this type of practice is the awareness that things are the way they are and work the way they work, because of a very specific sequence of events. If the sequence of events changes, the outcome changes; however, to change the sequence (in order to change the outcome) we have to know where to begin.
Yes, yes, we are back to that – and back to the butterfly effect. Of course, since we cannot go back and change what has happened in the past, we can only move forward. Moving forward with awareness – awareness of how and why things are the way they are and work the way they work – requires understanding cause and effect.
In The Essence of Chaos, Edward Norton Lorenz emphatically argued for believing in free will and wrote, "Before proceeding further, we need to consider the question of free will of human beings, and perhaps of other animate creatures. Most of us presumably believe that the manner in which we will respond to a given set of circumstances has not been predetermined, and that we are free to make a choice…. Our behavior is then a form of randomness in the broader sense; more than one thing is possible next." However, according to Eastern philosophies like Yoga (and current events), we are conditioned to "respond to a given set of circumstances" based on our previous circumstances and our understanding of those circumstances (i.e., our samskaras, layers of mental impressions). Therefore, while I agree with his basic premise and overall idealization of free will, our behavior might be better described as a form of "random chaos" – in that there are multiple outcomes, but those outcomes are limited by our ability to see the choices within a given situation and the possible outcomes… and our ability to see clearly is limited by the situation and by our previous experiences.
"STAGE MANAGER: Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense…."
"ANTROBUS: …. Oh, I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it's a field, or a home, or a country. All I ask is the chance to build new worlds and God has always given us that second chance, and has given us [opening the book] voices to guide us; and the memory of our mistakes to warn us. Maggie, you and I must remember in peace time all those resolves that were clear to us in the days of war. Maggie, we've come a long ways. We've learned. We're learning. And the steps of our journey are marked for us here."
– quoted from The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Please join me for a 90-minute virtual yoga practice on Zoom today (Saturday, April 17th) at 12:00 PM, for an experience. Use the link from the "Class Schedules" calendar if you run into any problems checking into the class. You can request an audio recording of this practice via a comment below or by emailing myra (at) ajoyfulpractice.com.
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"Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Some say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God."
– quoted from The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
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Q: Limit of $d\rightarrow 4$ of a function in Peskin & Schroeder In Peskin & Schroeder section 12.1 equation 12.15 we compute the function
$$
\frac{-3\lambda^2}{(4\pi)^{d/2} \Gamma(\frac{d}{2})}\frac{(1-b^{d-4})}{d-4}\Lambda^{d-4}
$$
Now when we take the limit $d\rightarrow 4$, they arrive at the function
$$
-\frac{3\lambda^2}{16\pi^2}\log{\frac{1}{b}}
$$
I can't seem to be able to derive the limit. I get the correct prefactor but I don't see how the logarithmic function comes about.

A: As other terms are trivial, I will calculate $\displaystyle \lim_{d \to 4}\frac{1-b^{d-4}}{d-4}$ only. Let $x:=d-4$, then lim becomes
$\displaystyle \lim_{x \to 0}\frac{1-b^x}{x-0}=-\frac{db^x}{dx}|_{x=0}=-\frac{de^{x \ln b}}{dx}|_{x=0}=-e^{x}|_{x=0}\ln b = \ln\frac{1}{b}$
Actually it is more a calculus, rather than the physics.

A: I will write the coefficient seperately. For $d\rightarrow 4$ we have
$$
\frac{-3\lambda^2}{(4\pi)^{d/2} \Gamma(d/2)}\rightarrow\frac{-3\lambda^2}{16\pi^2}
$$
then $\Lambda^{d-4}\rightarrow 1$ and finally the important part
$$
\frac{(1-b^{d-4})}{d-4} = \frac{1-e^{\log(b^{d-4})}}{d-4}=\frac{1-e^{(d-4)\log b}}{d-4}
$$
Now using L'Hospital
$$
\frac{1-e^{(d-4)\log b}}{d-4}\rightarrow \frac{ -\;e^{d-4}\log b}{1}\rightarrow -\log b = \log{\frac{1}{b}}
$$

A: Define $d=4-\epsilon$, then
$$b^{d-4} = e^{-\epsilon \log b}\approx1-\epsilon\log b$$

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1. If preparing rice or side vegetables, start cooking it first.
2. Heat oil over medium heat in a large skillet.
3. Season fish with half the herbs, salt and pepper and place in skillet season side down. Let sear for 3 minutes.
4. While fish cooks, rinse mango. Slice mango off with skin toward the center to score into small squares and place in a small bowl. Repeat with all four sides.
5. Season second side of fish and flip before lowering heat. Add fresh orange juice and half of lemon juice around fish. (Do not pour on top or you could remove seasoning and sear).
6. Cut avocado in half, score into small squares then scoop out into the bowl with mango. Turn off fish and remove from heat.
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Metafiction is the twice-told lie. Much of the novel's aesthetic power rests in its paradoxical nature. The novel posits itself as a vibrant fiction driven by a convincing verisimilitude; it is in blurring the line between reality and fiction that the novel really takes form. Metafiction is simply the logical extension of the novel's initial goal: a fiction that would be so convincing it would fool us into accepting it as reality.
We fall in love with the fictional construct of the lie before we claim that fictional construct as a truth. This is a fundamental aspect of all metaficiton. Malraux: "An old story goes that Cimabue was struck with admiration when he saw the shepherd boy, Giotto, sketching sheep. But, according to the true biographies, it is never the sheep that inspire a Giotto with the love of painting: but, rather, his first sight of the paintings of such a man as Cimabue." Metaphysicians, whether they were the guise of artist or theologian, always attach more importance to those things they know to be false than the world those fictions represent.
We are never betrayed by reality. We are only betrayed by the lies that we have constructed around that reality. This is another of metafiction's truths.
Metafiction treats language as the utmost sacred object, but such notions rest on the paradox that there is nothing truly sacred left but fiction. Fiction is the last sacred language act we have. Metafiction seeks to construct sacred books for an age that neither wants nor needs such texts.
Joan Didion stated that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Metaficion posits a slight addendum to such a statement. We tell ourselves lies in order to live. The difference is subtle, but a necessary one, I think. We capture the fiction behind the lie, we may, at first, even be aggravated by such a fact, but we still belong to it, and are grateful it is there.
Metafiction does not posit an arrogant form of human exceptionalism. The Word is flesh not because it has fallen from the heavens but rather because it exists in us. Language possesses a materiality and corporeality not frequently considered.
Toni Morrison: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." These are the only two human realities we truly know, death and life, and when faced with the abyss of either path we only have language.
We are living in a historical moment lifted straight out of a Borges's essay: "Why does it disturb us that Don Quixote be a reader of the Quixote and Hamlet a spectator of 'Hamlet'? I believe I have found the reason: these inversions suggest that if the characters of fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictitious." I would like to amend this a little. Metafiction acts from a center of certainty regarding our own uncertainty as real constructs. We readers and spectators are fictitious, not simply open to such a possibility. Of such notions, there is little doubt of metafiction's certainty.


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Equipment and Design
Like the fourth-age Apple TV, the new fifth-age Apple TV 4K is a basic, unpretentious black box that is about the extent of the palm of your hand. There's an Apple TV logo at the best, and beside that, the Apple TV is dark on all sides and mixes well with any home stylistic layout. It's sufficiently little that it fits on any rack or TV unit, taking up almost no space.
At the back of the Apple TV 4K, there's a HDMI 2.0a port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and a port for the power line. Contrasted with the past age Apple TV, the new Apple TV picks up the Gigabit Ethernet port (rather than 10/100) and loses a USB-C port that used to be accessible for things like downloading engineer betas and taking Apple TV screen captures.
The Apple TV 4K measures in at 3.9 creeps on every one of its four sides, and it is 1.4 inches tall. It weighs simply under a pound at 15 ounces. Inside, there's another replaceable fan and a sum of eight fumes ports to help the enhanced processor.
PROCESSOR AND INTERNALS
Inside the Apple TV, there's an A10X Fusion chip, which is a similar chip utilized as a part of the 2017 iPad Pro models. The A10X Fusion is a significantly quicker chip than the chip that was accessible in the fourth-age Apple TV, with 2x the CPU execution and 4x the GPU execution. The Apple TV likewise has 3GB RAM to help 4K.
With the new chip, the Apple TV 4K can run substantially more framework serious recreations and applications, taking into consideration diversions that can exploit the 4K show.
For putting away recreations and downloaded content, the Apple TV is accessible in either 32 or 64GB limits. A great many people needn't bother with more than 32GB of capacity, however the individuals who intend to download numerous applications or recreations might need to run with 64GB.
For availability, the Apple TV 4K underpins concurrent double band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) 802.11ac Wi-Fi with MIMO and Bluetooth 5.0.
Sold close by the Apple TV as an information technique, the rectangular Siri Remote highlights an inherent touch surface utilized as a general "select" catch and contact cushion, a Menu catch, a Home catch, a Siri catch for initiating Siri, play/delay catches, and standard volume controls. The Siri Remote interfaces with the Apple TV utilizing a Bluetooth 4.0 association, and can likewise control components of a TV set like Bluetooth utilizing an IR transmitter.
The touch surface on the remote is utilized as a touch-based route strategy, enabling clients to swipe through the App Store, the Home screen, and substance inside applications, and also quick forward, rewind, and perform other TV control signals. It takes up around 33% of the remote.
At the point when held down, the Siri catch on the remote initiates Siri, and Siri on Apple TV works much like Siri on iPhone. There are two receivers incorporated with the remote so Siri orders can be heard, with Siri handing-off data back on the TV screen.
In 2017, the Siri Remote has been somewhat upgraded. There's another white edge around the Home catch, which makes it less demanding to figure out which end of the remote is in your grasp without expecting to look down at it.
At the base of the Siri Remote, there's a Lightning port that is utilized for accusing of a standard Lightning link. The Siri Remote should be revived at regular intervals.
Since there's an accelerometer and a whirligig incorporated with the Siri Remote, it can be utilized as a controller for some Apple TV diversions.
The Siri Remote is just accessible in a bunch of nations: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the United States. In different nations, there is no worked in Siri bolster, and the remote is called "Apple TV Remote." Instead of raising Siri, the mouthpiece catch on these remotes raises an on-screen look application.
Alongside the physical Siri Remote, the Apple TV can be controlled utilizing a Remote application that is accessible in the App Store for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The Remote application has a format that is like the Siri Remote, offering virtual controls for exploring the Apple TV interface, getting to Siri, and controlling volume. On the iPad, insights about what's playing are likewise appeared in the application.
The Apple TV likewise underpins outsider Bluetooth gaming controllers that can be utilized as a part of lieu of the Siri Remote when playing an amusement from the tvOS App Store, and a Bluetooth console can be associated.
4K and HDR
4K conveys four times a larger number of pixels than standard HD (3840 x 2160 versus 1920 x 1080) and matched with HDR bolster, the Apple TV 4K offers brighter, more practical hues alongside substantially more prominent detail. Both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are bolstered, with the last being the favored HDR standard since it offers a more extensive scope of hues.
HDR and 4K are both discernible redesigns more than 1080p top notch, particularly so with regards to HDR. 4K (additionally called ultra high determination) offers more pixels and with HDR, you get further reds, more distinctive greens, brighter blues, clearer yellows, and more difference and shading range in scenes with both light and dim components.
4K on left, 4K HDR on right
The Apple TV 4K requires a good 4K TV to legitimately show content at a 4K determination, and you likewise need to supply a HDMI link for associating the TV to the Apple TV. Apple prescribes a link perfect with HDMI and Dolby Vision, and all the more particularly, a HDMI link that has a Compatible Dolby Vision stamp.
For the best understanding, a TV that backings 4K and HDR at 60Hz (50Hz in Europe) is required, however it works with 4K Standard Dynamic Range, 4K High Dynamic Range, and 4K Dolby Vision.
The Apple TV 4K additionally works with a TV that has a 30Hz HDR invigorate rate (25Hz in Europe) however bring down revive rates can bring about rough video, so Apple's suggestion for TVs that don't bolster HDR at 60Hz is to bring down determination to 1080p at 60Hz and letting the TV upscale to 4K.
To stream content in 4K from iTunes, Netflix, or another source, Apple prescribes that clients have a base association speed of 25Mb/s. On the off chance that a web association isn't sufficiently quick to transfer 4K content, Apple downscales the video quality.
Apple does not enable clients to download 4K content from iTunes, with 4K content constrained to gushing.
Upheld AUDIO FORMATS
Upheld sound configurations incorporate HE-AAC, AAC (320Kb/s max), ensured AAC, MP3 (320Kb/s max), MP3 VBR, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, Dolby Digital 5.1, and Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 encompass sound. Later on, Apple may include bolster for Dolby Atmos.
Perfect CONTENT
The Apple TV 4K can play 4K content from a scope of sources. Apple has made manages motion picture studios to offer a wide determination of 4K film titles in iTunes, which are accessible at an indistinguishable cost from HD motion pictures.
Applications like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video (discharged in late 2017) likewise offer substance that can be spilled in 4K.
YouTube offers 4K content yet it isn't perfect with the 4K Apple TV right now as Apple does not bolster the VP9 organize YouTube utilizes for 4K.
The Apple TV 4K is intended for 4K content and the photo looks the best when spilling or playing 4K determination TV and films, yet non 4K HDR content is good. With non-HDR and lower determination films and TV appears, the Apple TV upscales the substance.
Notwithstanding your setup and the substance you're watching, Apple TV 4K dependably picks the settings that will give you the best picture.
Apple TV as a Cable Box Replacement
Apple has been working with some link suppliers to offer the Apple TV as a swap for a conventional link box. CANAL+ in France, Salt in Switzerland, and DirecTV in the US all enable clients to supplant their link boxes with Apple TV, increasing the majority of a similar usefulness through devoted applications. In the fall of 2018, Charter Communications in the US will likewise start offering Apple TV 4K to its clients, with Charter clients ready to get to the greater part of their live channels and on-request programs through an up and coming Spectrum TV application on Apple TV 4K, iPhone, and iPad.
The fourth and fifth-age Apple TVs run a working framework called tvOS, which was developed to offer a basic, simple to-explore TV watching knowledge.
tvOS puts content up front with an application driven plan that incorporates an App Store, Siri joining, a committed TV application for featuring content from a scope of various applications, HomeKit support, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
For additional on tvOS, make a point to look at our committed tvOS roundup, which incorporates subtle elements on the most recent rendition of the working framework.
Apple's Content Ambitions
Apple has been attempting to improve the TV watching background for a long time, however has battled on numerous occasions achieving manages link organizations, film studios, and other substance suppliers.
Content suppliers have persistently opposed Apple's endeavors to make a link package or an arrangement of independent station bundles since it would disturb the broadcast business and miracle existing income streams. Apple has additionally declined to agree to not as much as a perfect affair, making it hard to arrange.
Apple needed to influence its own gushing TV to benefit, offering a heap of channels for around $30 to $40 every month, but since it was not able set up the vital arrangements, Apple surrendered that arrangement.
Rather, Apple has moved concentration to the tvOS App Store, forming it into a stage that gives media organizations the instruments to offer substance specifically to clients while enabling Apple to control the TV watching background and UI.
Apple is likewise following in the strides of Amazon and Netflix is seeking after unique substance.
Unique CONTENT EFFORTS
Apple initially dug into unique substance as an approach to advance its Apple Music benefit, however with over twelve TV programs now underway, Apple's unique substance endeavors have developed into something more genuine.
Apple is making a profound push into unique programming, with the organization seeking after high gauge demonstrates like "More odd Things" and "Westworld." Apple is meaning to put over $1 billion in unique programming in 2017 and 2018.
The organization's first unique network show, "Planet of the Apps," appeared in June of 2017. Utilizing a "Shark Tank"- style arrange, "Planet of the Apps" matched application designers with financial specialists and afterward let the engineers endeavor to induce the speculators to make a venture.
Apple's second unique network show, "Carpool Karaoke: The Series," appeared in August of 2017. The TV demonstrate depends on the exceedingly prevalent "Carpool Karaoke" section from "The Late Show With James Corden," blending VIPs and performers together to chime in auto rides. Both of these two shows are accessible by means of Apple Music and are utilized to advance the Apple Music benefit. Apple recharged "Carpool Karaoke" for a second season, and in May of 2018, made the show accessible for nothing through the TV application.
To head up the organization's more extensive push into unique video programming, Apple procured previous Sony Pictures TV officials Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg. The two lead Apple's video endeavors on an overall scale, revealing straightforwardly to Apple iTunes boss Eddy Cue. Erlicht and Van Amburg have helped create indicates like "Better Call Saul," "The Crown," "Slippery Pete," and that's just the beginning.
Previous Amazon Studios official Morgan Wandell joined Apple's video content group in October of 2017. Wandell fills in as global innovative improvement for overall video at Apple. Apple has additionally enlisted Channel 4 alum Jay Hunt as inventive chief for Europe.
Different contracts incorporate Michelle Lee, an imaginative official under Matt Cherniss, and Philip Matthys and Jennifer Wang Grazier, who handles business issues for the video group. Tara Sorensen heads up kids programming, Tara Pietri handles legitimate undertakings, and Carina Walker is a universal imaginative official. Every one of the three are previous Amazon workers.
Apple iTunes boss Eddy Cue said in February of 2018 that Apple is "totally all in" on unique substance. As per Cue, Apple has no plans to purchase an organization like Netflix or Disney in light of the fact that the concentration is quality, not amount. "You need an incredible story," he said. He likewise affirmed Apple is "making huge ventures" and that "cash isn't an issue."
Apple is said to intend to create TV programs with expansive interest that are likewise sufficiently agreeable to be appeared in an Apple Store. The organization needs to maintain a strategic distance from content that incorporates bareness, crude dialect, and viciousness. It has turned down pitches that incorporate edgier topics, and it has additionally had a debate with "Stunning Stories" showrunner Bryan Fuller over its longing to deliver family well disposed substance.
The first of Apple's TV programs could make a big appearance when March of 2019.
Apple's unique TV shows could be circulated through another video gushing administration, which could likewise be packaged with an Apple Music membership and a computerized magazine and news membership.
Apple is reputed to consider this single membership benefit that would offer clients access to unique TV appears, Apple Music, and computerized magazines (through its Texture obtaining), yet these administrations will likewise supposedly be accessible on an independent premise.
APPLE'S UPCOMING ORIGINAL TV SHOWS
Apple initially dug into unique TV programming in 2017 with the arrival of "Planet of the Apps" and "Carpool Karaoke," however under the authority of Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, the organization has been inking bargains for different unique TV programs.
Apple has in excess of twelve unique arrangement in progress, yet discharge dates are as yet far away so we don't have the foggiest idea about a considerable measure about every one right now. Each show and its commence is plot beneath.
Stunning Stories
Macintosh is collaborating with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and Comcast's NBC Universal TV generation unit to make new scenes of science fiction arrangement "Astounding Stories." "Stunning Stories" is a sci-fi and ghastliness arrangement made by Spielberg that initially kept running on NBC from 1985 to 1987. Apple will make 10 new scenes of "Stunning Stories" nearby Amblin and NBC Universal, with plans to spend more than $5 million for each scene, its first prominent undertaking. Spielberg is probably going to be an official maker for the new form of the show.
"Quite a long time ago" co-makers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis will fill in as official makers and showrunners on the arrangement.
Morning Show Drama
Apple's second prominent show will be a morning television show dramatization featuring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston. The show is depicted as an "inside take a gander at the lives of the general population who enable America to get up toward the beginning of the day." Apple has inked an arrangement for two periods of the show, which is untitled starting at yet.
Witherspoon and Aniston will star and official create, and each will gain $1.25 million for each scene for the show. "Bates Motel" co-maker Kerry Ehrin is set to fill in as showrunner.
Space Drama
Apple in December submitted a straight-to-arrangement request for an untitled space show created by Ronald D. Moore, who is best known for making the 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica. Apple's new show "investigates what might have happened if the worldwide space race had never finished."
Apple has requested 10 scenes of a dramatization called "Are You Sleeping," in view of a novel by Kathleen Barber and it centers around a digital broadcast that revives a murder case, like the well known "Serial" webcast.
The novel the show depends on investigates how the reviving of the murder case impacts the casualty's little girl and disturbs her life. Sarah Koenig, who made and delivered the "Serial" digital recording, will counsel on the arrangement.
The arrangement will star Octavia Spencer, known for her parts in "Concealed Figures" and "The Shape of Water" as Poppy Parnell, a journalist planning to reveal reality behind a decades old murder through her digital recording.
Aaron Paul from "Breaking Bad" will play kill Warren Cave, whose blame is being referred to, with Lizzy Caplan, Ron Cephas Jones (This is Us), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds), Mekhi Phifer (ER), Michael Beach (Sons of Anarchy), Tracie Thoms (UnREAL), and Haneefah Wood (Nurse Jackie) likewise set to star in the show.
"Home," Apple's first docuseries, will over an at no other time seen glimpse within the most exceptional homes on the planet, diving into the creative impulses of the visionaries who imagined them up and manufactured them. In view of the show's depiction, it sounds somewhat like MTV's "Dens" however with to a greater degree a plan and engineering center.
Apple has requested 10 one-hour scenes of the "Home" docuseries, which is created by Matt Tynauer and Corey Reese of Altimeter Films.
"See" is an epic world-building dramatization that is set later on, yet other than that, little is thought about the show up until this point.
It was composed by Steven Knight, known for "Peaky Blinders" and Francis Lawrence, known for this work on three motion pictures from "The Hunger Games" establishment.
"See" will star Jason Momoa in the number one spot part of Baba Voss, a courageous warrior, pioneer, and gatekeeper.
You Think It, I'll Say It Comedy
Apple has requested 10 scenes of a half-hour satire indicate in light of the "You Think It, I'll Say It" short story accumulation by Curtis Sittenfeld, which "overturns presumptions about class, connections, and sexual orientation parts in a country that feels both hapless and instinctively separated."
The arrangement was initially set to star Kristen Wiig, however she needed to drop out in the wake of booking clashes with "Ponder Woman 1984," where she plays lowlife Cheetah.
Untitled show from Damien Chazelle
Apple marked a straight-to-arrangement arrange for a show arrangement from "Fantasy world" maker Damien Chazelle. Little is thought about the arrangement as of now, as Apple has declined to share points of interest.
Chazelle, who won various honors for both "Fantasy world" and "Whiplash," will compose and coordinate each scene of the arrangement.
Little America depends on a progression of genuine stories includes in Epic Magazine that paint a representation of America's migrants. The show will take a gander at "the entertaining, sentimental, genuine, moving, and surprising existences of settlers in America."
The arrangement is being composed by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, known for their honor winning film "The Big Sick," and Lee Eisenberg, known for his work on "The Office." Nanjiani and Gordon will likewise official deliver, close by Alan Yang, "Ace of None" co-maker, and Eisenberg.
Apple formally requested scenes of "Little America" in June.
"Swagger" is a show arrangement in view of the early life and profession of NBA star and Golden State Warriors player Kevin Durant. The show was enlivened by Durant's encounters as an adolescent playing ball, and it will feature the universe of Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) b-ball, investigating the lives of players, their families, and mentors.
Envision Television, drove by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, will deliver close by Kevin Durant's Thirty Five Media. Both Durant and Grazer will fill in as official makers, while Reggie Rock Bythewood will compose and coordinate. Bythewood is known for his work on "Famous," a motion picture that common the tale of Notorious B.I.G., and TV arrangement "Shots Fired."
M. Night Shyamalan Thriller
Apple has requested a spine chiller composed by Tony Basgallop and delivered by M. Night Shyamalan, known for films like "Signs," "Intuition," "Unbreakable," "The Village," and "Split."
The primary scene of the arrangement will be coordinated by Shyamalan. Past the detail that it's a spine chiller, little else is thought about the arrangement as of now. Apple has requested 10 scenes, and every one will be a half hour long.
Focal Park
"Focal Park" is Apple's initially enlivened TV arrangement, created by Loren Bouchard, surely understood for mainstream toon "Bounce's Burgers."
The arrangement is a melodic parody, which was composed by Bouchard, Josh Gad, and Nora Smith. It recounts the tale of a group of overseers who live in Central Park and wind up sparing both the recreation center and the world.
Apple has requested 26 scenes of the show altogether, split into two 13-scene seasons. "Focal Park" is delivered by twentieth Century Fox and stars Josh Gad, Leslie Odom Jr., Titus Burgess, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Daveed Diggs, and Kathryn Hahn.
Isaac Asimov's "Establishment"
Apple is taking a shot at a TV arrangement adjustment of the prevalent science fiction arrangement Foundation composed by surely understood science fiction creator Isaac Asimov.
Establishment takes after psychohistory master and mathematician Hari Seldon who can foresee what's to come. Seldon makes a gathering called the Foundation to save humankind's aggregate information in front of the approaching fall of the Galactic Empire.
Emily Dickinson Series
Apple has given a straight-to-arrangement arrange for a show about the life of well known American artist Emily Dickinson, who is set to be played by Hailee Steinfeld.
The show has been portrayed as a comedic investigate Dickinson's reality investigating the requirements of society, sex, and family from the point of view of a sprouting essayist who doesn't fit into her own opportunity.
Little Voices
"Little Voices" is a half-hour dramedy from official makers J.J. Abrams and Sara Bareilles, which has been portrayed as an adoration letter to "the differing musicality of New York."
The show will investigate the lives of a few characters in their 20s as they battle to locate their "bona fide voice." The principal season will comprise of 10 scenes, which will highlight unique tunes made by Bareilles.
Apple is taking a shot at a TV adjustment of Gregory David Roberts' 2003 novel "Shantaram." Shantaram is an anecdotal novel that spotlights on a character named Lin, who is a convict that escapes an Australian jail and after that vanishes into the city of Bombay.
"American Hustle" screenwriter Eric Warren Singer will fill in as showrunner and official maker. Artist took a shot at "Just the Brave" and composed the content for the up and coming continuation "Top Gun: Maverick."
Hilde Lysiak dramatization
Apple requested 10 scenes of a dramatization arrangement about Hilde Lysiak, a kid writer who distributes a daily paper called the Orange Street News in the place where she grew up of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
The show will take after a young lady who moves from Brooklyn to the little lakeside town her dad is from, where she uncovers a chilly case that every other person in the town had endeavored to cover. The story depends alone endeavors to provide details regarding a murder in Selinsgrove, where she was the primary individual to uncover it.
Apple has requested an English-dialect adjustment of French arrangement "Calls," which started airing in France in 2017. "Calls" is a short-shape arrangement that recounts stories in view of bits of sound taken from genuine circumstances with negligible utilization of visuals.
A considerable lot of the "Calls" scenes fall into the awfulness/secret sort, with Apple anticipated that would utilize the general organization of the arrangement in its adjustment.
OPRAH PARTNERSHIP
Apple reported a multi-year creation association with Oprah Winfrey in May 2018. Apple says it is collaborating with Oprah to make unique projects that "grasp her exceptional capacity to interface with groups of onlookers around the globe.
SESAME WORKSHOP PARTNERSHIP
Apple is banding together with Sesame Workshop to make a few distinctive network shows for kids.
Sesame Workshop is a non-benefit association that creates instructive kids' projects, for example, Sesame Street.
Under the terms of the arrangement, Sesame Workshop will grow live-activity and vivified appears, in addition to an Apple-selective manikin arrangement. Content made for Apple will be unique and wo exclude "Sesame Street," which pretense on PBS and HBO.
Motion picture RUMORS
Apple is said to be near inking an arrangement with Cartoon Saloon for a vivified motion picture, which would stamp the Cupertino organization's first wander into film.
Toon Saloon has not yet built up the motion picture, but rather Apple is intending to anchor conveyance rights for the United States and different nations. Toon Saloon has beforehand created Academy Award-named enlivened movies including "The Secret of Kells," "The Song of the Sea," and "The Breadwinner."
The Apple TV of the Future
For quite a while, there were a large number of bits of gossip recommending Apple intended to make a big appearance a full top notch TV, impelled by Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs life story, which proposed Jobs needed to upset the media business much like he changed PCs, music players, and telephones. "I at last split it," Jobs was cited as saying.
Bits of gossip achieved a fever pitch throughout the following couple of years, and in 2012, news hit recommending various TV models were in trying. A great many rumors proceeded until the point that 2015, with some notwithstanding extending into the fantastical, yet no TV at any point showed up.
Incidentally, Apple's trying did not bring about an item worth assembling, and starting at 2014, Apple had stopped its work on building up an all out high-determination TV, putting the undertaking on ice.
"I'd jump at the chance to make an incorporated TV that is totally simple to utilize," [Jobs] let me know. "It would be flawlessly matched up with the greater part of your gadgets and with iCloud."..."It will have the easiest UI you could envision. I at long last broke it."
Apple was purportedly unfit to think of a list of capabilities sufficiently convincing to warrant passage into the profoundly aggressive TV showcase, in spite of long stretches of research. It isn't clear if Apple will return to its TV venture later on, yet it is constantly conceivable Apple will rethink its designs as innovation moves forward.
For time being, however, Apple is concentrating its assets on enhancing the Apple TV set-top box and the tvOS App Store, reforming TV through the reconciliation of substance and interface without developing a genuine TV and enter a fiercely aggressive market.
More seasoned Apple TV Models
While the Apple TV roundup relates to the fourth and fifth-age Apple TVs that have been accessible since 2015, a few people keep on using more seasoned renditions of the Apple TV.
In the first place, second, and third-age Apple TVs run an alternate working framework and don't approach a committed App Store with amusements, excitement, and different applications. Rather, these Apple TVs utilize distinctive channels offered by different substance suppliers, alongside a few Apple applications like iTunes.
More seasoned Apple TVs keep on functioning, however are not refreshed as frequently as the fourth and fifth-age Apple TV models, and don't have a similar scope of substance accessible.
As of May 25, 2018, security changes keep the original Apple TV from getting to the iTunes Store. Second-age Apple TV models and later keep on working with the iTunes Store.
What's Next for Apple TV
Preceding the new Apple TV 4K presented in 2017, the set-top box went two years without an update following the October 2015 arrival of the fourth-age Apple TV.
The Apple TV isn't an item that Apple invigorates each year, so it might be another couple of years until the following refresh. With respect to what that refresh may incorporate, we haven't heard any gossipy tidbits starting at yet.
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