![]() ![]() In Rolling Stone, Davitt Sigerson wrote that, "Comparisons with Thriller are unimportant, except this one: even without a milestone recording like 'Billie Jean,' Bad is a better record." And USA Today's Edna Gundersen argued that Bad was Jackson's "most polished effort to date." But after having the luxury of 25 years to re-evaluate the impact and enduring power of Bad in relation to his previous two LPs, I'd argue the album is more Wachowskis than Lucas. While common wisdom in 1987 said that outshining Thriller would be nearly impossible, Bad, to a lot of ears, lived up to the task. If we compare the three albums Quincy Jones produced for Michael Jackson to the standard Hollywood movie trilogy, how should we view Jackson's 1987 LP, Bad-reissued this week with a deluxe 25th anniversary commemorative packaging? With it following the spectacular, record-breaking success of Thriller, did Bad rise to occasion like Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith, the two grand finales in George Lucas's respective Star Wars trilogy and prequel? Or did Jackson's final collaboration with Jones fail to meet high expectations, like the Wachowskis' The Matrix Revolutions? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Longbowmen are archers with higher attack and range than every other archer in the game, even outranging castles and Towers later in the game. Their unique unit is the Longbowman, from their historical use of the Welsh Longbow in their campaigns. The Britons are a Western European civilization appearing in the Age of Kings. Monks +5 Hit Points for each Monastery Technology researched.All Military units are created 15% faster.Start with Eagle Warrior, not Scout Cavalry.Unique Technology: Garland Wars (+4 Infantry attack).Unique Unit: Jaguar Warrior (Anti-infantry infantry).They start with an Eagle Warrior, a fast light infantry that they share with the Mayans, instead of a Scout Cavalry. They completely lack Stables and cannons. The Aztecs did not have horses or gunpowder, and the Age of Empires II Aztecs are no different. They were famous for their bloody and ardent faith, with their relics generating extra gold and their Monks receiving extra HP per Monastery technology researched, allowing their Monks to join other soldiers on the battlefield. Being a highly military civilization, the Aztecs also have a general creation bonus across the board for all their units. The Aztecs were also known as a hard working and innovative civilization, and their villagers' carry more resources and get the Loom technology free. Their unique technology, Garland Wars, references the "flower wars" which the Aztecs organized amongst their allies in order to provide more sacrifices. The Jaguar Warrior is thus a heavy infantry unit who is strong against other infantry units. Their unique unit is the Jaguar Warrior, the highest rank of warrior in the Aztec army, wielding a wooden club studded with obsidian shards sharp enough to decapitate men and horses. The Aztecs are a Mesoamerican civilization appearing in The Conquerors Expansion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, you can choose measurement in pounds/ounces or kilograms/grams.Īuto-zero, tare, auto-off functions and warning indications With a capacity of 22lb/10kg, you can weigh a variety of items with ease. This digital scale is engineered for highly accurate weighing in precise graduations of 0.05oz/1g. Take it and you will be surprised at the convenience it brings. With the stylish ultra thin design, it’s pretty, durable and attractive. This high-precision and large capacity Etekcity digital scale can meet your personal and commercial needs – great for homes, kitchens, offices, mailrooms, etc. Last remember pay attention to safety for outdoor fire. ![]() The only way to ensure that in any environment can play a role. That is, should windproof, waterproof, temperature, pressure insensitive. Can make as lightweight and easy to carry equipment directly related to the operation of quality. Choice for extreme environments is adventure.Ī person has limited load capacity, limited backpack volume. More can be repaired themselves in the event of failure. Taking into account the number of large-scale expeditions often require long-distance transport and general transport fuels are not allowed, we should choose for easy to carry, it can be disassembled and folded. These sometimes in harsh environments, exhausted people who are inoperable. Strong firepower is the most important factor for stoves, and sometimes even fast food and water heating can save a person’s life.Īs far as possible simple operation process is very important for the field principle, when using traditional gas lamps need to add fuel, compression, and preheating, open flame ignited. Specially designed for outdoor activities stove and lighting is like this:Įteckity portable outdoor picnic backpacking stove at Amazon: Picnic, bonfire have fun, but for people who stay in the field for a long time, eat three meals a day is to guarantee the most basic of outdoor living quality and health. If you have experienced field activities, probably have a deep impression on the fire to cook in the field. ![]() ![]() ![]() They outline the Vocaloid-specific commands that are being sent. The EventList section, and the following ID# sections, are the most important parts of the VSQ file. Set to 1 if all tracks (except this and other tracks that have Solo# set to 1) should be muted. The # is the zero-based index of the track on which to apply the panning.
![]() ![]() ![]() With 1,200+ Lumion materials, you can add beauty, texture, and realism to your design. Lumion LiveSync allows you to render your model in real-time. Why use Lumion for SketchUp?Ĭreate high-quality renderings instantly at any stage of the process. So you can always view your model in Lumion’s beautiful environments while developing it in SketchUp, complete with photorealistic climate conditions and natural lighting, interior and exterior furnishings from the Lumion content library, and cutting-edge effects for a cinematic and emotional rendering style. ![]() Lumion and SketchUp have comprehensive compatibility and real-time rendering, making it simple to construct a modeling-to-rendering process that is quick, productive, and stress-free. Lumion was created with architects in mind who require a dependable solution to bring their SketchUp models to life. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’d definitely be nice to be able to use encrypted drives between Mac and iPad, but the current state is already a giant step forward. I have no idea how much work is necessary to add any sort of FileVault support and it might be just too late to make it into this year’s version of Apples operating systems for iPad and iPhone. For example APFS was added in beta 2, so there’s a little bit of hope that at least read support for NTFS and maybe even encrypted APFS/Mac OS Extended volumes might get added in upcoming betas. This list might still change in future iOS/iPadOS 13 betas. □ APFS Encrypted, Case-sensitive (GUID): silently fails, not detected □ APFS Encrypted (GUID): silently fails, not detected □ Mac OS Extended Encrypted, Case-sensitive, Journaled (GUID): you get an error message □ Mac OS Extended Encrypted, Journaled (GUID): you get an error message These filesystems aren’t recognized, some of them don’t even result in an error and just silently fail as if there’s nothing connected: ![]() □ MS-DOS FAT (MBR/GUID): read/write works □ APFS Case-sensitive (GUID): read/write works and properly supports case sensitive filenames □ Mac OS Extended Case-sensitive, Journaled (MBR/GUID): read/write works and properly supports case sensitive filenames □ Mac OS Extended Journaled (MBR/GUID): read/write works These filesystems are recognized as of iPadOS 13 developer beta 2: After Teymur asked what filesystems were supported on iPadOS/iOS 13, I decided to test some variations on 12.9″ iPad Pro (2018) with a SanDisk Ultra 64 GB Dual Drive running developer beta do you know if I need to use a specific fileformat for external ssds like a t5 on ipados? You might have to use a powered USB dongle* to use the Lightning port on older iPads. With iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 Apple has added the ability to natively support external storage such as thumbdrives or SSDs on iPhone and iPad in Files.app. ![]() ![]() ![]() Play legendary PlayStation 2 games like Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy X, God of War, Onimusha, Disgaea, and many more on your Android device with the full featured emulator DamonPS2. It provides the fastest performance for Android gaming, supports most of the popular apps and games. Even so, tons of PS2 Games run perfectly on the free version. MuMu Player is a free Android emulator to play mobile games on PC with mouse and keyboard. The free version also doesn't allow you to save to a memory card (although you can save from the emulator itself), and has fewer graphic options. The free version of DamonPS2 a few obvious differences when compared to the paid version, the most noticeable being that the free version has ads. This is very important, because if you don't get a BIOS, you won't be able to play anything, no matter how many ISOs you have on your device. ![]() Like almost all emulators, you'll have to download the BIOS yourself. Not only that, all those games run very well on this emulator. ![]() On paper, it can emulate 90% of the PS2 catalog. DamonPS2 is a PlayStation 2 emulator for android with remarkably good performance on a wide variety of android devices, as well as loads of games. ![]() ![]() If a UEFI ESP partition already exists, the installing OS will typically give you a choice to overwrite, or modify boot loaders in the ESP with the option of creating a ‘dual boot’ installation. ![]() There’s only fly in the ointment, and that is that during most ‘normal’ operating system (OS) installations - the OS being installed expects to either create, or find just one master boot record (MBR) or just one Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) system partition (ESP). ![]() So clearly in terms of storage and bandwidth, there’s nothing here that would interfere with comfortable boot times and data transfer rates for any modern OS. Regular SATA-based external SSDs will deliver transfer rates of around 500MB/s, while new M.2 NVMe to SATA bridge enclosures will top out at around 1GB/s (that’s one gigabyte per second, not gigabits). With USB 3.0 to 3.1 Gen 2 supporting transfer speeds that now range from 5Gbits/s to 10Gbits/s - things are a bit different. At the time, USB 2.0, Firewire or even e-SATA meant that this wasn’t really practical. At first I thought I’d simply use the spare drive for backups or ad hoc storage, but then I recalled that ages ago I’d explored the idea of being able to simply plug the operating system of my choice into the USB port of a computer or laptop, and boot whatever flavor of OS I cared to. I recently upgraded the SSD in my main desktop computer and found myself with a spare 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD. Original Post: So this turned out to be fun, and productive - on several levels. Update: 07-02-2021 - C.S.Cameron posted this to - Although I've not tested this yet - it's a great post and appears to support both UEFI and older BIOS/MBR configurations. (Note that I'm not in anyway affiliated with TDBT, nor do I have an affiliate link with Amazon.) The cables that came with the TDBT enclosure work fine. The only caveat so far is that a Belkin USB-C cable I have here refused to recognize the TDBT device. The enclosure, installation instructions, parts, are all top quality and the heat sink works. I've since switched to the TDBT M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure (using the JMicron JMS583 controller), which is working great. ![]() I was having difficulty removing all partitions from the drive under Ubuntu using GParted - with GParted freezing on device re-scan. I was using a the 'Plugable Tool-Free NVMe' enclosure, but started to have difficulties with the Realtek RTL9210 controller and/or their USB cables. ![]() Update: 17-08-2020 - a few people have asked which NVMe external enclosure I'm using in the photo above. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is that your Mac has a fresh new look, with all the power and simplicity you know and love. And we built great new capabilities into the interface that put need-to-know information at your fingertips. To do that, we looked at the entire system and refined it app by app. With OS X Yosemite, we set out to elevate the experience of using a Mac. Fixes an issue that may cause Bluetooth devices to disconnect.Improves compatibility with captive Wi-Fi network environments.Improves WiFi performance and connectivity in various usage scenarios.Improves stability and security in Safari.Prevents Safari from saving website favicon URLs used in Private Browsing.This update also includes the following improvements: To learn more about Photos, please visit: It's easy to upgrade your iPhoto library to Photos - just launch the app to get started. Purchase prints in new square and panoramic sizes. ![]() Create professional-quality photo books with simplified bookmaking tools, new Apple-designed themes, and new square book formats.Perfect your photos with powerful and easy-to-use editing tools that optimize with a single click or slider, or allow precise adjustments with detailed controls.Access your photos and videos stored in iCloud Photo Library from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or with any web browser.Store all of your photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library in their original format and in full resolution.Navigate your library using convenient Photos, Shared, Albums, and Projects tabs.Browse your photos by time and location in Moments, Collections, and Years views.Fixes an issue in QuickTime Player that prevented playback of Windows Media files.Fixes an issue in Photos that prevented importing videos from GoPro cameras.Improves compatibility with certain email servers when using Mail. ![]() ![]() ![]() Below is a copy of my latest system crash report. At this point I have the external hard drives connected to the USB ports with NTFS For Mac disabled and have not experienced any system crashes. One factor that I can verify without a doubt - as soon as NTFS For Mac is disabled through System Preferences, the system crashes stop. ![]() I’ve conducted several tests using two different brand 1TB external hard drives connected to two different side-by-side USB ports (which, by the way caused no problems whatsoever until my recent upgrade to Paragon NTFS For Mac Version 14.2.359. It’s taken awhile to track down the cause of these crashes but I finally found what appears to be the culprit - Paragon’s NTFS For Mac Version 14.2.359. I’ve been experiencing a somewhat regular series of system crash events for the past few months. Software Application: Paragon NTFS For Mac Version 14.2.359 Operating System: Mac OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB ![]() |
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