![]() ![]() If you’re in a fight do you use your speed to dodge blows? Take the blow and then counter? Or try to get a blow in first? It’s an interesting and organic way to develop a character and if you don’t like the outcome then you get the chance to just choose from a menu after, with the game merely suggesting what it believes you should be from your answers. Before you fully awake you can choose your starting class, though it is not through a simple menu, you remember scenes, possibly from your past, and how you respond to these will mould you character. You get to choose whether you wish to be male or female but you don’t have any control over your physical appearance. The Sorrow has one mission, to restore balance by granting death to the Changing God – and his castoffs. You don’t remember anything of your previous life however but are quickly found by The Sorrow, an ancient being who has awakened thanks to the Changing God’s meddling. ![]() Every time the Changing God transfers his consciousness the previous body doesn’t die, a new consciousness is born within and you encounter many of your ‘brothers and sisters’ throughout the game. You’re not a baby however, you are the most recent body to be discarded by The Changing God. You play as the Last Castoff, who is only born at the very beginning of the game. This basically makes him immortal as he creates bodies that are stronger, better, faster. One billion years in Earth’s future a man, looking to make his mark on the world, discovers ancient technology which enables him to transfer his consciousness to another body of his making. Planescape is revered for its story and characters but does Torment: Tides of Numenera do it justice? Februin PS4 tagged choices / crpg / planescape: torment / Torment: Tides of Numenera by Garethįirst funded on Kickstarter almost four years ago, this spiritual sequel to the classic CRPG Planescape: Torment has finally arrived. ![]()
0 Comments
A hidden life9/21/2023 ![]() You can easily guess what happens to him as the film doesn't really make it past 1943, so the tragedy and travesty of his situation should come as no surprise to any casual purveyors of history. Set in the first half of WWII, the film is based on the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who defied his conscription to the Third Reich and was imprisoned as a conscientious objector and traitor. ![]() I think it's still safe to say that if you couldn't stand THE TREE OF LIFE, you'll be having difficulties accessing A HIDDEN LIFE as well, but if you're like me and like to immerse yourself in three hours of majestic emotional grandeur this might just be your long, slow cup of joe. TO THE WONDER, KNIGHT OF CUPS, and SONG TO SONG sure did look good, but they didn't add up to what most folks would consider a satisfying cinematic experience - more like a triathlon in tedium without much of a discernible plot and a lot, I mean a metric crap-ton of people mumbling and/or spinning around. Despite many opportunities to sign the oath of allegiance, Jägerstätter continues to stand up for his beliefs and is executed by the Third Reich in August 1943, while his wife and three daughters survive.Devotees of famed art house director Terrence Malick will find a renewed faith in the filmmaker's often touted genius after three feature-length meditative marathons on the beauty and ennui of rich, white people amidst decadent problems. He is found guilty and sentenced to death. ![]() After months of brutal incarceration, his case goes to trial. Fani and their daughters are victims of growing hostility in the village over her husband's decision not to fight. During his time in prison, he and Fani write letters to one another and give each other strength. Jägerstätter is taken to prison, first in Enns, then in Berlin and waits months for his trial. Wrestling with the knowledge that his decision will mean arrest and even death, Jägerstätter finds strength in Fani's love and support. Despite the pleas of his neighbors, Jägerstätter refuses. Their first requirement is to swear an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler and the 3rd Reich. As the war goes on, Jägerstätter and the other able-bodied men in the village are called up to fight. With his mother and sister-in-law Resi, he and his wife farm the land and raise their children amid the mountains and valleys of upper Austria. Eventually, when France surrenders and it seems the war might end soon, he is sent back from training. Franz is called up to basic training and is away from his beloved wife and children for months. They live a simple life with the passing years marked by the arrival of the couple's three girls. Married to Franziska (Fani) (Valerie Pachner), the couple are important members of the tight-knit rural community. Radegund, Jägerstätter is working his land when war breaks out. Born and bred in the small village of St. HuggoĪ Hidden Life follows the real-life story of Austrian peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl) who refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Beyond what he is to do, the further associated question becomes if there is a breaking point for him in the pressure placed by those around him and by the Nazis. With Fani by his side, Franz has to decide what to do, his continuing objections which they know could lead to him being imprisoned or possibly executed for treason. This stance places not only him but his family at greater odds with those in the community, each person objecting not always for the same reason, and thus leads to them being increasingly ostracized and isolated. The problem now is that the Austrian military members must swear loyalty to Adolf Hitler, something that he in good conscience cannot or is unwilling to do. But in 1941 as the war continues, Franz is called back into military service. Along with his colleagues, Franz was sent home from basic training early in the conflict when it looked the war might be over with France's surrender to Germany. Hard-working husband and wife farmers Franz and Fani Jägerstätter, parents to three infant daughters, are part of the tight-knit rural community, which includes extended family members, of St. ![]() Modem to network optical isolator9/21/2023 ![]() ![]()
Civic collaboratory9/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ABOUT THE COLLABORATORY: The Collaboratory is where Daytons dreamers and doers gather. She is at work on a new project that will map patterns of citizenship and governance across cities and neighborhoods called the Faces of American Democracy using an innovative technology that creates digital ‘wormholes’ called Portals ( ). We work with civic and community leaders and collaborate on projects. We build partnerships to promote civil discussion and cooperative problem solving for the betterment of society. She has served on the Harvard/NIJ Executive Session on Community Corrections, the APSA Presidential Taskforce on Racial Inequality in the Americas, and the Center for Community Change’s Good Jobs for All initiative and has written in the New York Times, Boston Review, Marshall Project, and Slate. Civic Collaboratory The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute civic discourse laboratory gathers stakeholders concerning issues or topics to explore solutions. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Brookings Institution. Weaver is also the co-author of Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America (with J. Authoring the first article in nearly two decades on the topic of punishment to be published in her discipline’s top journal, she shortly thereafter published an award-winning book with Amy Lerman, Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control, the first large-scale empirical study of what the tectonic shifts in incarceration and policing meant for political and civic life in communities where it was concentrated. Despite being advised that punishment was not a core concern of political science during her early years as a graduate student, Weaver argued that punishment and surveillance was central to American citizenship in the modern era, played a major role in the post-war expansion of state institutions, was a key aspect of how mostly disadvantaged citizens interact with government, and was a political “frontlash” to make an end-run around civil rights advances. Community-Based Learning Community-Engaged Research and Publications Faculty Resources Eco-Corridor Courses East End Cemetery Collaboratory Courses Student. ![]() She has contributed to scholarly debates around the persistence of racial inequality, colorism in the United States, the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in prisons, and the consequences of rising economic polarization. Vesla Mae Weaver (Ph.D., Harvard, Government, and Social Policy) is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and a 2016-17 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. ![]() Deus ex human revolution tvtropes9/21/2023 ![]() ![]() They are battle-tested and know how to handle a crowd.” Players not aiming at a pacifist play through will shed few tears over shedding much blood during the martial law portion of the game. If you have the slightest doubt, treat the individual in front of you as a threat,” and “ are exactly the kinds of officers you want for the task at hand. Meanwhile, the local and state police in Prague are all – with the single exception of one incompetent detective mere months from retirement – such unapologetic assholes that one encounter with them would have Dick Wolf rapping “F-k the Police.” Among the official orders these cops eagerly carry out, included are “…it’s better to be decisive than hesitant. ![]() All Augs are perfect pacifists the only terrorists actually among their ranks prove part of a plot by the Illuminati. For all its layers of intrigue and conspiracies, Mankind Divided is more black and white. Gold was the dominant color visually in Human Revolution, but grey was the dominant color thematically, every decision put before Jensen individually and the world at large lacking a clear cut answer. Moreover, it is far more willing to delineate for the player which viewpoints are virtuous and which are villainous. It utilizes the fiction of Deus Ex and the tropes of the cyberpunk genre not to continue the themes and narrative of Human Revolution so much as to comment on the grievance culture and identity politics which have dominated the discourse of the last three years. The few who speak in opposition to forcibly rounding up and deporting Augs to a veritable concentration camp are labelled Social Justice Warriors.Īs should be obvious from the above, Mankind Divided wears its politics on its sleeve. Every “Natural” human is at best biased against Augs and at worst openly discriminatory of or predatory upon the Augmented. I was surprised not to find separate bathrooms and water fountains to boot. Augs are segregated from the rest of the population, forced to live in ghettos, sit at the back of the train, and at some locales enter the building through a separate entrance. “Augs Lives Matter” is among the first works of graffiti that Adam Jensen comes across as he makes his way throughout Prague. Having discussed exactly this issue at my Futurology Society, my Philosophical Society, and other similar venues, I’ve heard the same breadth of opinions expressed in real life as in Human Revolution.Ĭontra Mankind Divided, which casts “Augs” not actually as individuals with advanced prosthetics, but as a thin allegory for various minorities. ![]() Hugh Darrow and others like him were in the minority for demonizing self-directed human evolution via augmentations as evil in itself, but nevertheless represented an opinion many individuals would genuinely hold. Others, such as William Taggart, tempered society’s optimism for technological salvation with calls for caution, arguing for government regulation to keep pace with the technological innovation. It posited that some like David Sarif would promote cybernetics as a step -forward for human evolution, one which the species as a whole should eagerly embrace. It anticipated which technologies would be emerging in the immediate future, and imagined the broad spectrum of reactions society would have to such upheavals. Like those predecessors which inspired it, the Deus Ex franchise presents a world in which multinational mega-corporations wield greater influence than governments over global events and individual lives alike a world where technology has advanced in areas of artificial intelligence and cybernetics even as society has correspondingly declined in areas of economic security and civil liberties a world in which only a hardboiled detective straight out of film noir is the closest society has to a knight in shining armor, coming not to save the day but rather only to survive the night.Īnd yet, despite sharing all the tropes of this same subgenre, it is with respect to their top level genre that Human Revolution and Mankind Divided fully diverge. Both fit squarely in the sub-genre of cyberpunk, inheriting all of the trapping of classic works like Blade Runner, Robocop, Ghost in the Shell, and Shadowrun. ![]() Html cleanup9/21/2023 ![]() ![]() > Update silently.Ĭommands and Screenshots of NppExec + Prettier.
Djay pro 2 serato timecode9/21/2023 ![]() We can look up 001 in the table above and see that these bits encode position 1 (cycles 3-6). Let's assume you seek to a random position in the track (by picking up the needle and dropping it somewhere) and theĭo you know what position or cycle number we are at? Unfortunately, this approach has a major problem. The first 3 cycles encode position 0, the next 3 cycles encode position 1, and so on. The corresponding signal would look like this: In reality, we want to encode a lot more different positions, which means the resulting binary number will be longer, meaning we need more bits and therefore cycles per position we want to encode. Of course, that is just a toy example, but even if we only had 8 different positions, we need use 3 bits (= 3 cycles) to represent each position. Since we're working with bits, we could simply express these decimal numbers in the base-2 (binary) numeral system, like this: Position the first position is 0, the second position is 1, the third position is 2, etc. The intuitive approach is to encode positions as a sequence of ascending numbers, e.g. Or rather: How did the engineers that created the timecode format encode the positions as bits? Encoding strategies Simple Base-2 Encoding Now it's clear how the analog timecode signal can be converted to a stream of bits.īut how can these bits be interpreted as positions? This is very convenient, because that way we don't have to lose any sleep over how to detect the peaks in the left channel, we just detect if there was a positive-to-negative zero crossing in the right channel, then take the current value of the left one and check if it's a 0 or 1 by comparing it with a threshold. If we look closely, we notice that the peaks occur every time the right channel crosses zero and the signal value goes from the positive part of the signal to negative part. The right channel is just a phase-shifted version of the left one, so we only need to look at the positive peaks of the left channel. To restore the counted number, a periodical position information is required.įor Serato timecode, this information is added to the sine wave by amplitude modulation (AM) representing the position as a series of low and high amplitudes, digital bits, where 1 is a relatively high peak, and 0 is a relatively low peak. The counted number becomes void after such an event. Unfortunately this is error prone due to crackling or a skipped groove. One can imagine to count cycles of the wave from the beginning of the control track. Getting the position out of the analog signalįrom a steady sine waveform alone, it is hard to determine in which groove the needle is and at which rotation degree the platter is moving. This is why the timecode signal also contains information that can be used to detect the needle position on the record. If you just use the pitch information, it will likely be too inaccurate to make this work, and track position and sticker position drift apart (hence the name).īoth of these problems can be solved by throwing position information into the mix. This means that if you put a sticker on the vinyl record as visual aid and then scratch the record back and forth so that the sticker is in the same position it had before the scratch, the track should also be at the same position. The basic relative-mode implementation will likely suffer from so-called sticker drift.Seeking inside a track by picking up the needle from the record and dropping it somewhere else will not work.In the last post, I explained how a basic relative-mode Digital Vinyl System (DVS) works.īut there are two problems that are still left to solve: ![]() ![]() Wed 22 December 2021 Jan Holthuis serato, How Does Timecode Vinyl Actually Work? (Pt. ![]() Cloud printer not showing up9/20/2023 ![]() Verify that the printer is a Local Printer. Check that it works correctly by printing using a local server application. If the printer is missing from the list, set it up on the print server as Local Printer (for example, on Windows, Devices > Printers ). Universal Print drivers are included as a standard feature in Windows 10, so there is no need to install printer drivers for each computer. Under your Account Dashboard, click Solutions, and then click Print Anywhere. Verify that the printer is listed and published. You can specify the printer as default for you only or for all users. ![]() Set a printer as a default printer for all print jobs Through the Printer Management page you set up a printer as a default printer for all print jobs. For more information, see Printer Setup and Management. Sign in to your account if prompted, and then click Manage HP Account. Cloud printers are typically set up by an admin. Open the HP Smart app, and then click the Account icon or the icon with your initials. I'm looking for advise for finding remote English speaking IT work in Europe.If you know of any job notice board that specialise in remote work what are they?And any other bits of advice. For more information, go to HP+ printer setup (HP Smart app). Finding remote IT work in Europe IT & Tech Careers.What's the best procedure to do this and what's a good management platform to use to mange theses devices? There are no errors associated with this issue as the printers are actually connected for the user they are just not visible to the user via Control Panel. If the desired printer doesn't show up in the list, select Search for printers in my organization or Search Universal Print for printers. I started with a new company and they want to bring their IT Infrastructure back in house from the MSP they are using. Select Settings > Devices > Printers & scanners. Change a printer's status to 'online' Related topics Find out how to install a printer in Windows. Clear and reset the print spooler Step 6. Install the latest driver for your printer Step 5. Uninstall and reinstall your printer Step 4. ![]() ![]() Bringing IT Infrastructure back in house Best Practices & General IT Check cables or wireless connection Step 3.Snap! - Brain Video, Mosquito-proof Cloth, Sound-Induced Torpor, Nugget Tetris Spiceworks Originalsįlashback: May 26, 1949: Howard Cunningham was born, the American programmer who developed the first wiki (Read more HERE.)īonus Flashback: May 26, 1969: Apollo 10 returns to e.3 Steps total Step 1: While signed in as a Cloud Print manager, click the printer to highlight it, then click 'Share. O365 Emails Issue? Cloud Computing & SaaSĬlient in question has 18 O365 email users/mailboxes with MS Business Standard license.In the last 2 to 3 weeks a few users that are using certain business website where they login to these website are having issues creating new logins or resetting the pw. In Chrome's Cloud Print management pages, the printer is showing up as offline and its name is ghosted. ![]() Push new files to github9/20/2023 ![]() Thank you All!!! Hope you find this useful. It is always a good practice to pull the code first and then make your changes to avoid losing the code changes made by your team members. If you have the changes in the GitHub repo which are not available in the local repo, you can make a pull request first and then make your changes on top of it. You will see the success message, when it is pushed to remote repo. When you click Commit All, the commit will be created locally, now click on Push arrow button to push it to GitHub repo. You can also Commit and Push at the same time, we do have an option for that in the dropdown. We will not stage it, we will directly Commit All with a commit message to be provided in the box. This will move your file under Stashes with an unique reference ID. If you want to stage them, select the Commit All dropdown and click “Stash All and Keep Staged”. You find the files, you made changes to in the Changes(n) category.Įither you can directly commit all, or Stage them before commit. This tells us that, there are unstaged changes. When you make any changes, you will see a red tick mark in front of the file. Now, try making changes in the code, what do you see against the file you just made the change to. Till now, we have pushed the complete code to the GitHub repo. Now we will see, how to commit and push new changes. If you don’t find it, don’t worry, Visual Studio will show you a prompt to download it when you try to access the Team Explorer. On the latest version, this process has become very easy with the help of Git plugin in the Visual Studio. If present, give a commit message and Click on Commit All and Push. Also you can check in the Changes tab if no files is present there. ![]() This time, you will be shown the connected GitHub repo link. If not pushed, come back on Home screen of Team Explorer, again click on Sync. Your code will be pushed to the GitHub repo. You can check the checkbox to make it private. Repository name will be auto populated with the same name as Project. In Team Explorer, you see many options as below.Ĭlick on Sync and you will find 3 options to choose from – > GitHub, Azure DevOps and Remote Repository. If not shown, Click on View -> Team Explorer. On each file and folder, you will see a blue lock symbol.įor older version of Visual Studio, after you click on Add Solution to Source Control, you come to Team Explorer tab. You can verify going to the GitHub whether your code is pushed or not. Rest everything will be taken care by Visual Studio. Now, you just have to click Create and Push. Also, it will show you the new URL created for your GitHub repo. Once you sign in, your GitHub username will be populated in Owner and Account field. You will have to sign in to GitHub and give a name of the repository. For latest visual studio, a Git popup will be shown asking to create a Git repository. If you are using older version of Visual Studio, you will see that, as soon as you click, an empty git repo is created locally and a blue lock symbol comes in front of every file and folder. On the older version of Visual Studio, it will be “Add Solution to source control”. Right click on the solution file and click Create Git Repository. The only change will be, here we will be following it visually with User Interface. If you have read my post on Pushing the Code to GitHub using Command Line, you might be knowing that here also we will be following the same approach. You will have similar project like this with a Solution and under the solution one or more projects. I hope you have the project or code changes ready in the Visual Studio to be pushed to GitHub. ![]() Visual Studio download link can be found in downloads page. Check out my previous post where we saw How to Create GitHub Repository? Pre-requisites In this post we will push our code to the created repository in GitHub using the Visual Studio. It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere. GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. Keeping a track of your changes and its history is very important for a developer. ![]() Old school photos search9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() We held on to our old equipment as long as we could, making changes only when necessary and as I could afford them. Our transition followed the trajectory of the film processing industry at the time. When analogue photo labs started going out of business, how did your lab manage the transition to the hybrid workflow (chemical development + digital scanning/printing)? Rollei RPX and Lomography Color Negative Film F²/400. The hybrid workflow at Photosmith~Old School Film Lab. The newest systems in place, Photo-therm Super Sidekick, and the Fuji Frontier digital system. Dave left the company a few years later, but it has continued on, the mission unchanged: process film and make pictures. Both of us had worked for large wholesale photo labs in the past, but desired something smaller that we could control and serve the customer directly. We could afford only old equipment that larger labs had utilized and then cast off as something better/faster came along. This was before the popularity of one-hour photo labs hit, and we were not set up as a "mini-lab". Our only mission was to process film and make pictures. We did not sell "stuff" like camera equipment. His vision came to fruition more than 36 years ago as a walk-in photo lab here in Dover, New Hampshire. The “Photosmith” was the dream of my former partner, Dave Olson. “Photosmith”? “Old School Film Lab”? What came first? When did you start the business and what led you to it? ![]() Interview with Steve Frank, owner of Photosmith~Old School Film Lab at Dover, New Hampshire Remember when a film lab used to look like this? “Lab rat” Becky at the front of Photosmith, and all that film… Lomography Color Negative Film F²/400. Then I discovered the lab’s account on Instagram, where some creatures called the “lab rats” posted images of the rolls of film we customers sent in, surrounded by piles and piles of candy from all over the world. I contacted them, got a hilarious but oh so warm response from owner Steve Frank, and we have been bantering cross-country ever since. Lo and behold, after HolgaWeek 2016, I got an email from HolgaJen stating that I had received an honorable mention and it came with a prize of 4-for-the-price-of-2 development at Old Film Lab School, and to go ahead and contact them to arrange to “collect” my prize. Lomo writes: Last year, like I do every year, I entered Jennifer Hendrickson’s HolgaWeek contest, a yearly celebration of the funky Holga where you submit some shots taken during that HolgaWeek (usually the 3rd week of July) and then, once everyone has posted, you spend a few hours going through all the entries going: “Aaaah… neat!” And maybe even noting what film somebody used to get a really fabulous image. Steve and the Lab Rats are my go-to people for anything photographic. Fast forward to 2017: I now own 50 analogue cameras and Photosmith has developed thousands of shots for me. They knew all the terms I was learning about at Lomography and were able to develop anything that I brought them. I found Photosmith, located just a short drive from my home. I turned to my desktop and did a search of film processing labs. Stop! Where the hell would I get my film developed? I tried our local Rite Aid Pharmacy, but they could not do black and white and they had no clue when I asked for cross process. I dug out my old Pentax K1000 from the attic and I was off and running. I was hooked again after 25 years of not shooting a single frame. Lomography Color Negative Film writes: I got back into film photography in 2011 when I received an LC-A+ for Christmas. The storefront of Photosmith (also known as Old School Film Lab online) in Dover, NH. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |