7/9/2023 0 Comments Supreme commander 2 reviewsSo, while I am not the most avid RTS player, the campaign should be pretty easy for an average gamer. It worked wondrously in all but 2, both the last mission and the one before that I focused on my defense while I built my army, until my base was overrun, so in a desperate attempt I swarmed the opposing base with everything I had, found the commander and destroyed them before mine bit the proverbial dust. Yes, I honestly used those 2 very unimaginative (and slightly pathetic) strategies throughout the 18 mission campaign mode. If that seems too easy to you, you can just max out the 250 unit limit with basic units and send the swarm into the enemy's base and laugh as your army of ants topples a kingdom. Though, these advantages can be negated relatively quickly against the normal AI as you can outtech them easily, and throw down some of the games experimentals and crush your opposition like a tomato can. The three factions are pretty well balanced, with UEF being a little more armored, the Cybran being less armored but more powerful, and the Illuminate right in the middle. But for those who are still stumped, here's a hint: It rhymes with key. From that brief back story, it's easy to tell how many campaigns there are. You'll know who you're fighting, but for what reasons are usually left out, or so confusing it doesn't even make sense. Regardless, the plot takes a backseat to the strategy that is employed throughout the campaign. The three forces of the Coalition The United Earth Federation, the Illuminate, and the Cybran Nation, all blame each other and prepare for war. The story takes place 25 years after the end of the Infinite War, with the galaxy reeling from the recent assassination of the newly elected president of the Colonial Defense Coalition. But it works in Supreme Commander 2, so you can worry about setting up an excellent flanking attack on the enemy's base instead of working on your uber micro. A typical thing to do is select a large section of mixed units from your forces, and move them elsewhere and not worry about it, in other RTS games that's the equivalent of donating all your units to their respective Gods. Supreme Commander 2 takes a more standard approach, with less micromanaging than most other RTS'. The Daily Star splashes on Seamus the Irish wolfhound who will star in the Mall parade tomorrow at the King's coronation.While the original Supreme Commander took a bold new direction with various changes to the RTS rulebook. The King is in a "battle" to secure the monarchy's future, the i paper says, and also notes the disastrous day for the Tories. The Guardian has splashed on a "crushing result for Tories" in the local elections, with a picture of Sir Keir Starmer holding a baby - a classic of the election genre. The Sun splashes on an exclusive report that Prince Harry will be seated three rows back at the coronation ceremony in the same line as his cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. The Daily Express also splashes entirely on the King's coronation. The Daily Telegraph relegates the disastrous Tory election results to a NIB at the bottom of the front page. King Charles III will fulfil his destiny when he becomes the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned at Westminster Abbey, The Times writes. The Financial Times is one of the few papers whose splash reflects the "crushing" losses suffered by the Conservative Party in the local elections. The Daily Mail leads with an image of the King at his investiture as the Prince of Wales aged 20 in 1969. He will not only wear the crown he will bear the weight of history and the hopes of the nation, that's the Daily Mirror's take on the King's coronation tomorrow. The coronation was scheduled for just two days after the local elections, meaning that King Charles III bumps a disastrous day for the Tories off (most of) the front pages. It's been a huge day in politics, and you'd think that that would dominate the front pages, but it does not. We'll be back on Sunday morning to assess the results in full, and get all the reaction ahead of MPs returning to Westminster next week in the wake of these results. Thanks so much for staying with us for the local elections. With just two councils left to declare, here's where things stand at 11pm: Meanwhile, Labour and the Lib Dems both made huge gains across the country, while the Green Party also surged with some big wins, and majority control of one council. The Tories suffered results worse than their worst case scenario, losing control of councils across the country and losing more than 1,000 seats. It's been a huge day in politics today, with voters across much of England having their say at the ballot box after the chaos in national government in 2022.
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7/9/2023 0 Comments Roger waters the wallI really don't know how you don't see it.Īnd yes, maybe this new tour emphasizes this a bit more than the original, but that's because in this time in the world it's an important issue and one that needs to be discussed, not ignored just because it was written a few decades ago. It's about the system that is supposed to breed you to be whatever they want. Maybe you should watch the original looking for that aspect of it, because it's absolutely there. It's about the unseen consequences of war and how the government doesn't care, but just wants to push their own ideals, whatever the cost in lives and in broken families. Yes, the Wall has a very important theme of alienation, but I don't know how you couldn't see the political side of it as well. While we welcome feedback, if you pop into modmail being a stick, you are less likely to be taken seriously or with actual concern, so please take that into consideration. 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The resource I've got this from is 'Motorcycle Handling and Chassis Design the Art and Science' by Tony Foale, it has a diagram for better understanding(Fig 9.10), I've tried to convey the same the best I could as the reason I didn't directly quote or share the info is due to uncertainty regarding copyright. Only difference is the net effect, as the force center(point of intersection of line from direction of pull(chain), direction of movement(wheel), direction of slant(swing-arm)), is behind the wheel in the event of Squat resulting in front wheel lift and in front of it in the event of Anti-Squat which counters front wheel lift, a third case is that even on a motorcycle with anti-squat under extreme suspension travel(compression) the force center still remains in front of the rear wheel i.e there is reduction of anti-squat but no lift of front wheel, but yes this would momentarily make the motorcycle unstable. The direction of pull remains the same in both cases as illustrated in both diagrams shared in my earlier post, no doubt about that. The force direction remains the same in both cases just that there is a greater reaction provided by swing arm pivot in the second case. The force resolution you have tried to explain is not correct though I feel. Plus we've all seen videos on social media of several instances of the CT100 popping an unsolicited wheelie with a pillion on board, a few examples So what I've done on my CT100B is change the rear suspension to one that is taller and stiffer than stock to promote anti-squat under load which would prevent the front end from becoming lighter on an already rear end biased(weight) motorcycle, this in effect has returned favorable results. I've drawn some lines to make it more obvious, also do note the placement of the front sprocket, it is slightly above the swing arm bolt to accentuate anti-squat geometry. This is something that is incorporated in sports bikes This is the opposite of Squat as the name implies, in this case your rear axle bolt should be lower than your swing arm bolt, as a result the pull from the chain results in your rear suspension expanding forcing the front end down, and ensuring that you're in control when accelerating out of a corner. This is when your motorcycle's rear axle bolt is higher than your swing arm bolt, this results in Squat as the pull from the chain results in the rear suspension compressing and making the front end go up, the same is what sends you wide when accelerating out of a corner. Now it is already obvious that changing the height of your rear suspension can affect weight transfer as well as your wheelbase as your swing arm is fixed at a pivot on the chassis.īut what we do not realize is that the angle at which the the rear wheel axle sits from the swing arm pivot determines how your suspension would react when you accelerate. Having confirmed beyond doubt that the issue has been sorted, I did want to know if the feeling I'd had about raising the rear was really what resulted in solving the case or if it was merely me overgearing the motorcycle(Bigger Front Sprocket), so I did spend some time and came across wonderful but scarce resources regarding the same and thought it best to share what I've learnt as I believe there is an information gap regarding how the rear suspension impacts weight transfer under acceleration. I'm contemplating raising the rear by an inch or two by going for a different set of shocks hoping it would make the motorcycle more front biased as at times even when climbing aggressive inclines on tarmac with a pillion the front tends to come off the ground. A major challenge I face with the CT100B is that at times the front end is too eager to lift off the ground when encountering rocky uphill terrain and before the motorcycle does a 12:00 I chop the throttle and lay the motorcycle down most of the time. 7/8/2023 0 Comments Signal bandwidthThis research project aims to push the boundaries of wireless transmitter key capabilities that enable future communication technologies. Clearly, there is a lack of an essential measurement capability that does not allow the use of inherently nonlinear transmitters in the presence of wideband signals. This high speed measurement capability does not exist and state of the art (December 2015) instrumentation claims 2GHz observation bandwidth only. In this example, 5GHz sampling speed is required to fully analyse the output signal. For example, in millimetre wave application, more than 1GHz is likely to be common place as the minimum bandwidth for input signals, hence, the output signal will exhibit 5GHz of bandwidth. This procedure consists of driving the transmitter with an input signal that has a given bandwidth, and measuring the output signal at a sampling frequency five times the input signal bandwidth. This is where the measurement procedure called “vector signal analysis” can be performed. It is possible to compensate for this nonlinear behaviour if the transmitter nonlinearities are identified. In the presence of wideband signals the nonlinear behaviour of the transmitter corrupts the signal to be transmitted which results in unwanted corrupted transmitted data and extended frequency occupation. Therefore it is vital to develop wireless transceiver architecture that is linear, efficient and over wider bandwidths than today, otherwise the deployment of future wireless communication systems is going to face massive sustainability and even feasibility problems. Moreover, reducing the power consumption of wireless communication infrastructure goes far beyond the reduction of the deployment and running costs of wireless networks since small cell architecture deployment will massively increase the number of transceiver modules and hence the amount of energy they consume. Therefore, linear transmission and reception of signals is essential for reliable communications to occur. In the presence of wideband signals, nonlinear behaviour is exhibited by these semiconductor components which results in corruption of the data and an increase of up to five times in the signal bandwidth. This hardware consists of transmission and reception architectures based on semiconductor components. The hardware required to deliver this amount of data transfer has to handle signals that exhibit more than 1GHz bandwidth. The deployment of small cells solutions working with signals in the millimetre wave frequency domain is a strong candidate and significant funding and research work is currently taking place. For example, 5G is aiming to deliver 1Gb/s data transfer speed (more for local radio networks), 10 times more than current 4G wireless communication systems. The development of future wireless communication standards is aiming to offer an increased data transfer capabilities. 7/8/2023 0 Comments Smart wall socketEnergy monitoring bumps that up a bit, tracking kilowatt-hours, a measure of power consumption (and a detail that could help you determine how much a device, such as a TV or an air conditioner, is actually costing you each month).Īt 4.3 by 1.5 by 3.2 inches, the EP40 is slightly smaller than its predecessor (and our former outdoor pick), the KP400. Device monitoring allows you to track how much you’re using a device in hours and minutes, and it is becoming a more common feature on smart plugs. Additional features: Some smart plugs have other interesting features, such as device and energy monitoring.That’s less of an issue if they support Apple HomeKit, in which case you can control them when you’re away from the house if you have a HomeKit gateway (an Apple TV, a HomePod Mini, or a stay-at-home iPad). That means they may not work if you aren’t relatively nearby. Bluetooth-based smart outlets, by contrast, require you to be within Bluetooth range to control them-often a few tens of feet away or less, depending on how your home is built.
7/8/2023 0 Comments Dxo photolab 3 elite editionUnlike images and logos, which you need to create outside of DxO PhotoLab, DxO PhotoLab lets you enter your text directly thanks to the pre-installed fonts of your operating system. Text is the easiest way to mark your photos with your name or your company name if you are a professional, for example. ** Make sure your image file is of a size and resolution high enough to avoid edge potential cropping and degradation of its appearance. Use the Opacity slider to play with the transparency of the watermark and thus its presence in your photo.7 blending modes are available (see section on Blending modes below). The Blending Mode menu lets you select how the embedded image will blend into the photo.Adjust the image size** with the Scale slider, between 1 and 100 (default value: 15).The Rotate watermark button, to the left of the positioning grid, allows you to rotate your image in 90° increments with each click.These sliders (set to 0 by default) allow you to position your image exactly where you want it in the photo. When you select a position other than the center, margin sliders activate in the palette: for example, Left margin for the left position, or Left margin + Top margin for the top left position, etc.The checkerboard lets you position the image in the center, top, bottom, left, right or corners of your photo click on one of the 9 blocks to place it where you want it.The name of the file is displayed below the preview window. The watermark image will appear in the Preview window as well as in your photo, depending on the selected position.A system dialog box allows you to locate and select your image. In the Preview window, click on Browse.In the Watermark sub-palette, select the image mode by clicking the Image button.Display your photo in Fit to Screen mode so you can check the size, proportions, and appearance of the watermark in real time.* Watermarks will not be applied to images exported using the Export to DNG option (denoising & optical corrections only). Although the look of the watermark can be undone - in other words, you can change or replace it at any time - its application will be permanent in exported images.* When you apply a watermark to an image, it will always be visible, both in the Viewer and in the image browser thumbnail. Inactive by default, it is activated as soon as you click on one of the modes (Image or Text) the tools displayed depend on your choice. The Watermark palette is located at the very bottom of the right pane of the Customize tab (DxO Advanced workspace) or as a sub-palette at the bottom of the Basic Tools palette. DxO PhotoLab does not let you create logos and other graphic elements.Ī watermark is not a substitute for the author and copyright information in the image metadata we encourage you to continue to fill in these fields, particularly the Metadata palette. If you choose an Image watermark, you will need to create it first in an image editing or graphic design program. On the other hand, an overly conspicuous watermark can also alter and even discourage others from viewing your images. The text or image, if embedded judiciously (avoiding placement too close to the edges), will discourage theft, reuse, or unauthorized republication of your images. Sign your images - for example, for an exhibition or publication in a web gallery.Mark your images as belonging to you, as an author, a company, or more generally as the owner of the work.Then it is up to you to decide whether or not to add the watermark to your exported images. The DxO Instant Watermarking tool offers the advantage of a live preview of the watermark in the image, during creation and alteration. Light | Dark Adding watermarks Purpose and usefulness of watermarksĭxO PhotoLab lets you add a watermark to your images in the form of text, graphics, or both. |